Opinion

Dear Editor, The world has lost a great freedom fighter and statesman with the death of South Africa’s first black President, Nelson Mandela.

Dear Editor, On behalf of citizens, councillors, staff of our capital, my wife Jennifer, family and myself, I express condolences to Mr Mandela’s family, his colleagues, and the people of South Africa, on the loss of their revered son and a great soul.

Dear Editor, Reference is made to Mr Mike Persaud’s letter captioned, ‘Ramkarran and Nagamootoo not going back to PPP’ (SN, Nov 30). 

It is hard to read tributes to Nelson Mandela without recalling how strenuously the governments that now hymn his praises sought to marginalize the jailed “terrorist” leader who threatened their interests while apartheid South Africa was still a valuable Cold War ally.

Dear Editor, The female who calls the winning numbers of the ‘Draw de line’, ‘Lucky 3’, ‘Daily Mills’ and ‘Supa 6’, does so in a soft tone and numbers cannot be heard clearly, especially during the noise caused by the balls being juggled or mixed.

Dear Editor, A very disturbing incident happened on Tuesday night, December 3, 2013 on the National Cultural Centre tarmac.

Dear Editor, The regional administration and the Anna Regina Town Council should be held accountable for the flooding of the township, Anna Regina Multilateral School, businesses, people’s properties and public buildings, including the Anna Regina Police Station and the Guyana Revenue Authority compound.

Dear Editor, There was an irony of all ironies when on Wednesday in the midst of a forum for Mayors of the Americas and the Caribbean, I received the news that the Ministry of Local Government had appointed the least qualified and experienced of the applicants to the substantive position of Town Clerk.

Dear Editor, I write to salute and applaud the Barbados government for the rare honor granted to Prof Bishnodat Persaud (SN, Dec 2).

Dear Editor, AA Fenty in his ‘Frankly Speaking’ discourse, ‘A visa, a coffin before twenty-five’ (SN, November 22) was smack on target.

During a trade mission to China in October, British Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne noted in a BBC interview that China’s leaders were “a lot more market orientated than the British Labour Party.”

Dear Editor, I refer to the article captioned ‘GuySuCo bringing Indian experts to rescue corporation.’

Dear Editor, For a very long time now we have watched mainly four types of response from government spokespersons to recurrent crises plaguing Guyana; these are arrogance, silence, sophistry as response, or assigning blame to others.

Dear Editor, World AIDS Day this year was commemorated with a Ministry of Health commitment to get to zero discrimination, amongst other things.

Dear Editor, In 1926 when the Father of Trade Unionism, Hubert Nathaniel Critchlow, started the fight for one man one vote, a measure to protect the inalienable right to self-determination, he expected his successors and descendants (ie, citizens/ workers/trade unions) to secure and deepen it, not erode or trample on it.

If the statistics produced by the United Nations are taken at face value, the world should give itself a pat on the shoulder for meeting part of the first target of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) five years ahead of the deadline.