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Tuesday afternoon’s shooting to death of four people by an unhinged man who subsequently also died by way of a bullet was not something that one ever imagined would have been associated with Guyana.

Dear Editor, I have served my adopted country for nearly 30 years of my life.

Dear Editor, I write about no small matter.  Your headline, ‘No time-frame for 24-hour power supply to Mabaruma – Hinds’ (SN, November 11), has been read by everyone as a quote from me, which it is not;  and I fear that it propagates an altogether different message from what I did actually write. 

Dear Editor, I refer to Mr Veetal Rajkumar’s letter published in the November 7, 2013 edition of Stabroek News entitled ‘No basis for presuming higher deforestation is due to widespread illegal mining.’

Dear Editor, For five Saturdays now, the Admissions Divisions staff at the University of Guyana Turkeyen Campus has been unable to process my student ID.

Dear Editor, By way of your newspaper I am taking the opportunity to speak to my fellow Guyana Public Service Credit Union (GPSCU) members on the issue of ‘elections’ perception’ and more so, developing a culture of running elections that are perceived to be fair.

Dear Editor, Now that the 2014 budget is in the process of being crafted, it is time to take a serious look at the minimum rate of the pensions being doled out to retired government workers.

Dear Editor, Sunday Stabroek recently took the irresponsible step of publishing an article on teen drug use in which the reporter and editors took absolutely no measures to check facts offered by a supposed expert or give opposing viewpoints.

Dear Editor, Reference is made to Mr Ralph Ramkarran’s article ‘No statesman-like discourse is heard above the din’ (Sunday Stabroek, November 10).

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Dear Editor, If we hold it to be true that newspapers are the mirrors of societies then the photograph of the large accumulations of garbage in the city on the front page of your Stabroek News issue of November 11, 2013, really captured the enormous challenge faced by the Mayor and City Council, and supplied an image of a struggling municipality and an unhealthy environment.

During the last few weeks, the attention of the Jamaican population has been riveted on a contest for the leadership of the Jamaica Labour Party, brought on by the decision of Deputy Leader and former Minister of Finance, Audley Shaw, to challenge the incumbent Political Leader and Leader of the Opposition, Andrew Holness.

Dear Editor, Many persons have written on the blockage of the trenches in Ruimveldt which causes flooding when there is rain.

Dear Editor, Please arrange for a reporter to talk to some of the elected representatives of Kwakwani to respond to an article which was recently published.

Dear Editor, Mr Paul Atkinson, in the November 8 edition of Stabroek News in a letter titled ‘Hopefully there will be an Inter-Zones swimming championship in Region One’ states that I “sought to pacify him and failed miserably.”

Dear Editor, I refer to the recent disappearance of international registered airmail letters being sent to three different addressees at three different addresses in Guyana.

Dear Editor, Within recent times this society has been terrorized by the loud explosions of firecrackers.

Dear Editor, I find it rather strange that a person can constantly over time be harping on the same note, making some daring allegations and statements for no reason when they have no evidence to substantiate them. 

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