Opinion

Dear Editor, I have been watching the new channel CCTV quite regularly since it began broadcasting a short while ago in Guyana, and I have to say that I am highly impressed with the quality and objectivity of the coverage of international events.

Dear Editor, During the past six weeks several letters by Mr Hydar Ally give the impression that the contributor is very concerned about social issues, and has great compassion for the oppressed and the working poor.

Dear Editor, I seriously do not know which world Lincoln Lewis lives in (‘The House has to be guided by laws, standard practices and an agenda…’ SN, February 16).

Dear Editor, Perhaps Usain Bolt will never head the Jamaica Athletics Association or Carl Lewis the American equivalent or Pete Sampras the Tennis Federation, yet they are great, celebrated athletes as is the legendary Clive Hubert Lloyd in cricket.

During the last few weeks an unusual quarrel between a Cambridge Classics professor and her anonymous online critics has highlighted the shortcomings of debate in a digital public sphere.

Dear Editor, I was just reading about our President, Mr Donald Ramotar,  and Foreign Minister Rodrigues-Birkett meeting with the Vice-President of Surinam Airways, Clyde Cairo, in Haiti.

Dear Editor, I refer to the letter in Stabroek News, dated Monday, February 18, 2013, captioned ‘No public library on the Essequibo Coast in twenty years’ and would like to inform the writer that there is a National Library Centre at Anna Regina, situated in the compound of C V Nunes Primary School.

Dear Editor, Mr Vishnu Bisram claimed that “In his letter … Dr Henry Jeffrey is deceiving readers by insinuating the current constitution is a PPP one simply because the PPP has not taken measures to amend or replace it.” 

Dear Editor, We the farmers of the Hope/Dochfour area support the farmers in Cotton Tree Village, Region Five, and feel they should be compensated for loss of their crops due to flooding.

Dear Editor, Microscopist Philbert Mitchell Pierre Jr died under suspicious circumstances on the night of Wednesday, January 23, 2013 in the Koberimo Creek Barima-Waini, Region No 1.

Dear Editor, The Minister of Home Affairs, Mr Clement Rohee, loomed large as a figure in the July crisis of 2012 in Linden, Guyana.

Dear Editor, Regarding the publication of a rather confusing letter (‘Chinese anti-corruption measures’ SN, Feb 20) written by a diehard PPPite, Mr Hydar Ally, I thought for a moment it had been written as a comedy script for the next upcoming show at the National Cultural Centre.

Dear Editor, The BBC News Business dated 20 February 2013, carried the following report:- “The Zambian government has taken over the running of a Chinese-owned coal mine after revoking its licence because of safety lapses.

Dear Editor, A casual glance of the Guyana press these days portrays a dismal landscape beset with all manner of unbelievable scenarios.

Those with an eye for coincidence and irony might have observed that, just as we were warning in last Friday’s editorial, that “a high academic title alone is no guarantee of personal achievement or, indeed, integrity” and that we should not “take anyone’s curriculum vitae at face value,” a mini-drama involving the appointment of Dr Naresh Singh to the post of Caricom Deputy Secretary-General was beginning to unfold.

Dear Editor, From the banks of the Berbice River − Bai Shan Lin Investments, stretching across to the Potaro-Kuribrong Rivers − the Amaila Hydroelectric project, going on to Corriverton − Skeldon Sugar factory to the streets of Georgetown − commercial stores and Chinese products − and I can go on and on − Chinese influence can be felt everywhere.

Dear Editor, “Every single radio station, licensed radio station, approved broadcasting… They all have to make an application accompanied by those supporting documents” (Ms Bibi Shadick, Chairperson, Board of the Guyana National Broadcast Authority (Demerara Waves, November 21, 2012)).

Dear Editor, On Tuesday, February 19, I was at Parika with a car to travel with the 11pm roll-on/roll-off ferry to Supenaam, Essequibo.