Dear Editor,
The prevalence of domestic violence in our country has long ago reached alarming proportions and it would appear that hands are tied or the know-how to deal with and eliminate this scourge is absent.
Dear Editor,
I refer to a report in Stabroek News’ online edition of January 1, 2014, captioned ‘Focus on training teachers as ministry zeroes in on quality of education.’
Dear Editor,
The dialectic approach adopted by A A Fenty in reaching a questionable conclusion on the matter of sovereignty has nothing to with his false claim regarding the merit of the position adopted by Dr Roger Luncheon in criticising US ambassador Brent Hardt for what can only be described as an audacious assault on the authority of the cabinet of this country.
The announcement on Saturday by Muri Brasil Ventures Inc (MBVI) that it would no longer pursue its controversial Permission for Geographical and Geophysical Survey (PGGS) in the New River Triangle in southeastern Guyana has to be seen as a positive result for society’s struggle for openness and accountability in governance.
Dear Editor,
On the rainy night of Saturday, December 28, 2013 a horse was hit down and lay dying on the Railway Embankment Road near Prince William Street in Plaisance.
Dear Editor,
The response from Ms Whyte, PRO of the Guyana Post Office Corporation to the letter by Ms Cynthia Nelson gives the impression that this practice of opening mail has only occurred in relation to mail arriving in Barbados from Guyana (‘GPOC has not received any report from Barbados Post Office of Guyana’s mail being cut open and taped,’ SN, January 4).
Dear Editor,
Thirty-three years after his violent and uninvestigated removal from this planet and from the company of his family, friends, students, and compatriots, his comrades and the world community that embraced him, Walter Rodney continues to make history.
Dear Editor,
The Guyana Post Office Corporation (GPOC) wishes to acknowledge your publication’s January 1, 2014, letter captioned, ‘Envelopes received from Guyana had been cut open and retaped.’
Dear Editor,
It is amazing how the Minister of Agriculture refuses to be reconciled to the fact that he knows less than he professes about the sugar industry, and in the most recent instance very little about cane farming.
Dear Editor,
Can you imagine, Editor, that we procure 80 per cent of the medical supplies of this nation from one person to the tune of some $4 billion?
Four days ago the temperature in Winnipeg fell to -31°C (with a mind-numbing -48°C wind chill), the city’s coldest day in 80 years and colder than surface temperatures at the North Pole and on Mars, according to the Manitoba Museum.
Dear Editor,
Please afford me some space in your letters column to express my wishes for peace and prosperity to my fellow men at the dawn of this New Year, and ask all of them to join with me in this expression.