Opinion

Dear Editor, Imagine that you’re a Guyana Police Officer and you were killed in the line of duty.

Dear Editor, October 2, 2013 marked the 144th birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi. 

Dear Editor, I refer to a comment made by Mr Ramesh Dookhoo on Demerara Waves in which he stated that, “We didn’t ask for our debts to be written off.

Dear Editor, I was in the audience (as a scribe reporting for community publications) last Friday evening at the Queens public meeting where President Donald Ramotar updated the diaspora on the state of affairs in their homeland and fielded questions.

Dear Editor, After reading Mr Mohabir Anil Nandlall’s letter ‘The President has untrammelled freedom to assent to and to withhold assent from Bills’ (Stabroek News September 30), I could not help but wonder whether Mr Nandlall was trying to be smart in a context where the opposition is either very lazy or incompetent or both, with a civil society that is practically non-existent, or was it a case of pure contempt for the populace?

Politikles

On September 17, 2013, the Minister in the Minis-try of Local Government, Mr Norman Whittaker wrote to Mr Orrin Gordon, the Chairman of the Interim Management Committee (IMC) of Linden notifying him that the government had revoked the Kara Kara road toll.

Dear Editor, After a careful examination of the spate of armed robberies and murders that are occurring daily in Guyana, we think that it is time for Minister of Home Affairs Clement Rohee to resign. 

Dear Editor, Nearly thirty years ago I asked a hinterland villager, who had sold me some handicraft but had not received the payment I had sent through an agent, “What do Amerindian people do to someone they find out has been stealing from them?”

Dear Editor, To my mind, the usefulness of court action in the NICIL/Marriott case is that it could, the law allowing, permit that certain critical information be subpoenaed and hence exposed to public examination.

Dear Editor, Some encounters over recent weeks have proved enlightening. To my surprise I discovered different generations of our citizenry were totally unaware of the most influential institution in the societal culture in which too many of us continue to subsist.

Dear Editor, The letter captioned ‘Cheddi Jagan was not present at the UG’s inauguration in 1963’ written by Harry Hergash and published in the Stabroek News on October  4 is incorrect.

Dear Editor, Please allow me a space in your newspaper to air my extreme dissatisfaction as a letter writer.

Everyone believes we are in election mode. The vilification is there; the vulgarity is there; and the rallies up and down the country for the 5th October 1992 anniversary are there. 

Dear Editor, That lawyers and other professionals should pay their share of lawful taxes is not a matter in dispute.

Dear Editor, In a SN article of Sept 28, it was reported that the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Guyana Power and Light Inc (GPL) has confirmed that BK International (BKI) was issued the contract for the construction of the wharf and fuel delivery facility for GPL’s new power plant at Vreed-en-Hoop.

Dear Editor, Home Affairs Minister Mr Clement Rohee must be commended for maintaining calmness and composure in the face of relentless and sustained attacks by opposition elements with obvious political agendas.

Dear Editor, The sudden rise of crime all across Guyana has been of great concern to all Guyanese citizens fearing for their lives at the hands of criminal elements and bandits.

Dear Editor, There are two extremely dangerous traffic situations that exist in the Mahaica area.