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With just 50 days completed for this year so far, at least 13 people have died as a result of traffic accidents on the country’s roadways with a similar number injured.

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Dear Editor, My lament for the state of the capital city of Georgetown has grown in intensity since my published letters of December 6, 2013 and December 11, 2013.

Dear Editor, I have been following the variety of opinions expressed in the press consequent on the final decision of the acting Chief Justice Ian Chang concerning the autonomy of the National Assembly in relation to the budget debates. 

Dear Editor, To practise law in England and Wales one must belong to one of the four Inns operating in England, In 1988 Sukul was made a member of Lincoln’s Inn.

Dear Editor, I wish to just to say that although I agree with the views expressed by Mr Christopher Ram it is important to point out that the Constitution of Guyana does not empower the President to appoint anyone to enquire into the decision of the Judicial Service Commission in respect of the appointment of Mr Sukul to the Court of Appeal.

Dear Editor, Laurence Clairmonte Clarke, one of Queen’s College’s greatest scholar-athletes and loyal lifetime member of the African Cultural & Development Association (ACDA) passed away in his adopted continent of Africa.

Dear Editor, I wish to highlight a disturbing situation in my neighbourhood (No 53 Village, Corentyne, Berbice) that has been continuing for a number of years.

Dear Editor, I saw a letter in the SN of January 28, 2014.

Dear Editor, Allow me a chance to congratulate the Guyana Olympic Association and the Guyana Amateur Boxing Association for providing the Guyanese public with boxing that reminded me of the good old days.

Much anxiety seemed to pervade comment in the major countries of the Western world as Russia approached the opening of the Winter Olympics in Sochi.

Politikles

Dear Editor, Your editorial of Monday 17 February, 2014, refers. It bears the caption “The sale of Lot 142 Durbana Square”, referring to a plot of land in Lamaha Gardens, Greater Georgetown.

Dear Editor, We hold the position that all violence against children – including the violence of parents and other unwaged caregivers – is wrong and should be outlawed. 

Opposition to President Nicolás Maduro’s administration in Venezuela has escalated into sustained street violence and, in the past week or so, loss of life. 

Dear Editor, On February 15, President Ramotar opened the road bridge across the proposed Hope Canal, one of four major components comprising the Hope Canal Project (HCP) which should have been completed in 2013 but delays were experienced in project completion because of poor construction management and incompetence by the contractors as well as lax project oversight and shoddy construction performance (canal and sluice gates) by the Ministry of Agriculture (MoA) through its executing agency the National Drainage & Irrigation Authority (NDIA), despite the President’s assurance that the project is being completed in a timely fashion.

Dear Editor, About two weeks ago the wife of an acquaintance of mine was robbed of two million dollars after she had withdrawn the money from a bank.

Dear Editor, Yesterday, the University of Guyana Department of Law paused in recognition of the defining journey travelled by the Honourable Madam Justice Desiree Bernard.

Dear Editor, Will statesmanship emerge in Guyana? Everywhere politics is a battle for power.