Opinion

Last Saturday, President Nicolás Maduro of Venezuela arrived here on a one-day state visit, following in the footsteps of President Carlos Andrés Pérez in 1978, and President Hugo Chávez in 2004.

Dear Editor, I should like to comment on an interview ostensibly on the Amaila Hydroelectric Project and related matters with the Georgetown Chamber of Commerce and Industry (GCCI) President, Mr Clinton Urling, carried in the KN of August 26.

Dear Editor, I thought it is very appropriate during Amerindian Heritage Month, to share my findings on the term ‘Guyana.’

Dear Editor, In Guyana there is an absence of restrooms, which term we borrow from the Americans but which are simply referred to locally as toilets.

Dear Editor, Your readers included, I read with interest the editorial titled ‘Who are we?’

Dear Editor, Shaun Samaroo’s ‘Being a cause for solutions’ (SN, August 29), is a novel variation on the theme ‘Yes we can’ that characterized President Obama’s 2008 campaign.  

Dear Editor, Each day you open the newspaper, it is always about the Amaila Hydro Project.

Dear Editor, There is a situation in Guyana that has long gone out of control, namely the use of illegal firearms.

Dear Editor, Australia holds elections on September 7 with opinion polls suggesting that the incumbent Labour Party led by Kevin Rudd (since June), in coalition with the Greens, will be defeated by the opposition Coalition led by Tony Abbott of the Liberal Party.

Two months ago, while addressing the National Assembly at a biannual conference, President Raul Castro surprised his audience by focusing at length on the “social indiscipline” that could no longer be tolerated within Cuba.

Dear Editor, Your article entitled ‘Group teaching Linden youth to be servant leaders,’ [sic] published on August 29, 2013, discussed a very important issue, namely the initiatives being taken by the group Youth Vision in relation to Guyanese youth.

Dear Editor, Kindly permit me space to respond to a letter published in the Friday August 30, 2013 edition of the Stabroek News under the caption, ‘Protracted process, high charges to retrieve package at GPO.’

Dear Editor, We acknowledge receipt of your letter dated September 2013 regarding a letter of complaint published in your newspaper (‘Soot problem in Diamond,’ August 30).

Dear Editor, The letter published in the September 4 edition of your newspaper, captioned ‘Nitpicking’ signed by Messrs Asquith Rose and Harish S Singh, purports to be a response to one written by myself, but touches very briefly on the only two issues I raised. 

Dear Editor, There are some issues concerning the Guyana Prize for Literature that need to be addressed, and I will articulate them. 

Dear Editor, I thank John Mair for acknowledging the placement of my collection of doggerel on this year’s Guyana Prize, Best Book of Fiction shortlist. 

Dear Editor, With reference to the immediate dismissal of UG’s Bursar and Chief Accountant, the Secretary of the University of Guyana Students’ Society (UGSS) made a comment which can be read online.

Dear Editor, With reference to the letter captioned ‘Public servants are grossly underpaid’ (SN, September 5), I visited Guyana in the summers of 2009 and 2010, and had matters to take care of with several ministries (pensions, NIS benefits, local government matters, etc), and several times I was asked by civil servants for lunch or taxi-fare money.