Opinion

Dear Editor, The government never wanted the Anti-Money Laundering and Countering the Financing of Terrorism (Amendment) Bill (AML/CFT) passed.

 Dear Editor, In response to my letter in Stabroek News on Oct 31, Mr Harry Hergash argues that a monument remembering the Lusignan massacre is more important than an official Commission of Inquiry into the East Coast crimes (SN Nov 2, 2013).

Every West Indian who visits Toronto should make the time to observe the marvel of self-imposed order that emerges each afternoon among the GO train commuters at Union Station.

Dear Editor, The highly touted arrival of the FIFA World Cup for a historical first time in many Caribbean countries, with our own native land Guyana included, occurred on Wednesday, October 30, 2013 at the CJ – International Airport, Timehri, around 09:00hrs.

Dear Editor,   The seizure and sacrifices of our Capital City, Georgetown continue unabated- all with a clear, narrow, harmful, political objective.

Dear Editor,   The increase of vehicles in and around the city will continue and also the traffic congestion if we do not fix the problem.

Dear Editor, My attention has been directed to a report in the newspapers over the week-end that the National Road Safety Council organized the National Road Safety Month emphasizing the importance of education and vigorous campaigning toward the reduction of road accidents in the country. 

Dear Editor, I live in the Forshaw Street, Queenstown area within the boundaries of New Garden and Oronoque streets and was subjected to an onslaught of squibs from Saturday evening November 2nd and again on Sunday, November 3rd from 5 pm to 12 midnight non-stop.

Dear Editor, Mr. Andrew Campbell in Wednesday’s edition of your newspaper `All the Region One swimmers can’t be drawn from Moruca’ sought to pacify me and failed miserably.

Just over a year ago, our interest was piqued by  the peace process initiated by Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos with his country’s revolutionary Marxist-Leninist guerrillas, the FARC, in which Cuba and Norway were playing key mediating roles (October 26, 2012, Colombia and the FARC).

Dear Editor, Further to the publication of several comments and articles on Guyana’s Third National Report indicating an elevated deforestation rate, I wish to dispel any misinterpretations of the report.

Dear Editor,   I would be pleased to have an opportunity to present, to a wider audience, views and attitudes which I had sought to engender in the address that I gave at       last Thursday’s (2013-10-31) “National Best Performers Ceremony”, hosted annually by our Ministry of Education – views and attitudes which I had sought to capture in the title of my address, but which seemed to have been missed by our reporters in their reporting.

Dear Editor, It has been indicated that Cevons Waste Management/Dartmouth Skips Rental is being paid 38 million dollars for the moving of garbage from the Stabroek Market and we would be happy to clear the air.

Dear Editor,   Ms. Melinda Janki, chief architect of the Amerindian Act of 2006, rushed to the defence of her creation in a letter to your newspaper (`Amerindians currently have fundamental rights and freedoms equally with other Guyanese’, SN Oct 29, 2013), in response to my observations of the status quo.

Dear Editor,   I had in fact sought to limit my input to the letter columns to offer analysis of national issues, GuySuCo and the Broadcast Authority etc.

The pattern of a preponderance of girls among the hi-flyers at the National Grade Six Assessment along with the Caribbean Examination Council’s Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate (CSEC) and Caribbean Advanced Proficiency Examination (CAPE) as well as the 3,000-odd annual graduates of the University of Guyana is a possible indication of the balance of the sexes in Guyana.

Dear Editor,   Diwali was once my favourite festival when there was a halo of devotion to it.