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Dear Editor, As the late President Mr Nelson Mandela said,“If I cannot change when circumstances demand, how can I expect others to?”

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Dear Editor, Please allow me to respond to the letter ‘NIS Appeal Board has not been meeting in Region 2’ which appeared in Stabroek News dated November 29, 2013 and in the Guyana Chronicle under the caption ‘Region 2 National Insurance Appeal Board out of existence for the past two years.’

Dear Editor, Why do we insist on perpetuating the most glaring form of discrimination against the local engineering expertise who are all familiar with GuySuCo’s factory technology right across the industry, by repeated invitations to foreign engineers.

Dear Editor, Reflecting on the present situation on the appointment of a Town Clerk to the Mayor and City Council, I have decided to pen my displeasure since the situation in its present state requires no less.

Dear Editor, Reference is made to the letter, ‘Are private schools providing real benefits to society?’

Dear Editor, Nobel-prize winning economists Joseph Stiglitz and Amartya Sen have admitted that GDP does not capture the human condition and urged the creation of different tools to gauge the well-being of nations.

Dear Editor, There are times when it is exceedingly difficult for me to find the right words to convey the depth of my feelings.

Dear Editor, I write with reference to Mr Bisram’s letter titled, ‘Putting someone from another ethnic group as leader of an ethnic party does not necessarily bring votes’ (SN, Dec.

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Once in a while, little events occur which suddenly assume greater proportions leading to unanticipated publicity, including the intervention of persons in high positions.

Dear Editor, All it requires to halt the decline in this country is will and self-respect. 

Dear Editor, The Guyana Water Inc has not been able to get its billing system to any acceptable standard and this deficiency is causing its customers to have a very difficult task of being up-to-date with the payment of their accounts. 

Dear Editor, Nelson Mandela’s name and my own became linked because of a song.

Dear Editor, Since coming to office in 1992 we have seen very undemocratic and unprofessional persons running the affairs of this country; we have experienced witch hunting, square pegs in round holes, and disrespect for the rule of law among other things.

Dear Editor, Mr Anthony Pantlitz in the Stabroek News of November 20 under the heading ‘Dreams can come true’ and employing the words of Martin Luther King’s ‘I have a dream’ speech wrote: “I have a dream that one day Guyana will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: ‘One People, One Nation, One Destiny,’” and then went on dreaming many other things he hopes we will one day realize.

Dear Editor, In his message on the passing of Nelson Mandela, Guyana’s Presi-dent Donald Ramotar noted of the great man that: “…it was not only the struggle, but the manner in which it was conducted which will always remain an example and an inspiration for others working for social and economic justice everywhere.”

It is doubtful that any political accomplishment by a single figure during the twentieth century quite matches what Nelson Mandela accomplished in South Africa.

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