Opinion

Dear Editor, Imagine the ruling Party People’s Progressive Party is advocating setting up a unit to monitor (read control and suppress) the private media in Guyana because it feels its views are not being aired enough or accurately enough. 

Dear Editor, A few days ago the PPP/C government celebrated the 21st anniversary of the election responsible for catapulting the party into the position of being the administrators of our country.

Dear Editor, Earlier in 2013 there was extensive public outcry about the declared financial predicament of the NIS, including from organised stakeholder consultations, consistent with similar cross-country interactions some years ago.

Dear Editor, I wish to express my appreciation for the expedition shown in publishing my complaint against Digicel.

 Dear Editor, In his very long letter of October 8, Mr Anand Boodram argued that Guyana’s politics is reflective and the survival of African and Indian Guyanese is the name of the game.

Dear Editor, The idea of ‘Ethnic Security Dilemma,’ has been wrongly attributed to Ravi Dev and, recently, by Tarron Khemraj, to the British Guiana East Indian Association: Neither of these are the origins of the formulation ‘Ethnic Security Dilemma.’

Dear Editor, Imagine you’re a mother and you’re watching your son brutally beating a child to death, what would you do?

Dear Editor, Reference is made to an article in SN (October 2) captioned ‘Kashif and Shangai can have any date once they comply with the rules – says Christopher Matthias.’

Dear Editor, The National Community Policing Executive (NCPE) and the Community Policing Organizations of Guyana wish to congratulate Mr Leroy Fitzpatrick Brumell on his appointment to the post of Commissioner of Police for the Guyana Police Force.

Even as a high-level dialogue among states and governments on the issue of international migration began at the United Nations Headquarters in New York last Thursday, October 3, the media were reporting that more than 100 African migrants had perished (now believed to be more than 300) when their boat capsized and sank in the Mediterranean off the southern Italian island of Lampedusa.

Dear Editor, I read your editorial of October 7 (‘The Kara Kara road toll’) and concurred with its poignancy in relation to development of or stifling of local government in Guyana.

Dear Editor, I would like to share a few observations about GuyExpo 2013.

 Dear Editor, It is now five consecutive days that the Cummings Lodge area has been suffering from acute low voltage for many hours on a daily basis.

Dear Editor, I write to protest the deplorable and what I regard as essentially illegal behaviour by Digicel.

Dear Editor, Some time ago I had pointed out in the press that I was very concerned about the continuous absence of road lights on the East Coast highway, between Turkeyen and Atlanticville, and all reports seem to have fallen on deaf ears.

Dear Editor, Mr Boodram’s letter in SN of October 8 was virulent (‘Politics in Guyana is reactive…’) Accused of “intellectual dishonesty” I am called upon to admit that the PNC is responsible for the genesis of “suicide/alcoholism.

Dear Editor, The confirmation of Leroy Brummel as Commissioner of Police (COP) is noted.

Dear Editor, On Friday 4th October 2013, I called the booking clerk, Mr Albert, of Supenaam stelling, informing him that I have a monthly appointment with my private doctor for medical check-ups following an accident in 2004 which injured my spine, and asked him to book my car since I live at Anna Regina, Essequibo Coast.

Dear Editor, Permit me to raise a query with Dr Tarron Khemraj regarding his last letter to SN of Monday September 30 (‘The Ethnic Security Dilemmas thesis needs to be upgraded’).