Opinion

Dear Editor, The recent statement by Dr David Hinds on ‘Plain Talk’ giving the APNU coalition building process and activity in parliament an ‘F’ grade might well rattle the nerves of formal political structures, but should actually be viewed as a positive indicator of a developing political culture in Guyana. 

Dear Editor, I have been following the discussion between Swami Aksharananda and Messrs ul Haq, Bakr and Ally regarding the issue of rape with much interest.

Dear Editor, I am writing to address the possible promotion of dangerous activities through the very pages of your newspaper, of which you and your readers may be unaware.

Dear Editor, Demerara has just won the recently concluded Inter County limited over cricket tournament.

Dear Editor, According to Mr Anatram Balram, General Manager (ag) of the Guyana Gold Board, “It is the policy of the Ministry of Natural Resources and the Environment and all relevant agencies to report accurate and responsible information for public consumption” (‘The Minister of Natural Resources will only make pronouncements…‘ SN, January 9).

Dear Editor, I’m a vacationer in Guyana and on this, my third visit, I developed a medical condition which I sought help for at Woodlands Hospital.

In the movie, The Life of Pi, when the protagonist’s father seeks to reinforce his argument for the family’s move to Canada, he proudly declaims, “We will sail like Columbus!”

Dear Editor, Recently I had cause to go to the Caribbean Heart Institute for an angiogram.

Dear Editor, In an SN letter of Jan 6 on solid waste disposal in Georgetown, Mr Royston King, Mayor and City Council (MCC) Public Relations Officer, expressed the view that increasing the number of garbage collection vehicles in the already crowded city streets and setting up a collection/holding centre were viable options to solve the solid waste disposal problems of Georgetown (‘The city needs a transfer station to manage solid waste’).

Dear Editor, Guyana Water Incorporated (GWI), the nation’s supplier of water and sanitation services, wishes to address the concerns of Mr Christopher Samuels, printed in the Tuesday January 8, 2013 edition of Stabroek News, captioned ‘Number 53 Village needs potable water.’

Dear Editor, I do not think that rational Guyanese would, for one moment, deny the need for urgent reform of the Guyana Police Service (GPS), but I would suggest that Mr Rohee has succumbed to a flawed strategy in his anxiety to prove his critics wrong.

Dear Editor, A few hours after having sent off my second letter on the Ashley Anthony/ Caribbean Press fiasco, I received a telephone call from a Ministry of Culture official inquiring about my home address. 

Dear Editor, This morning (January 8) was the opening of the assizes.

Dear Editor, I am wholly disheartened by the several crimes being perpetrated against women and children in Guyana ending without the conviction of the accused.

Dear Editor, I wish to raise in the public domain an issue which can be sorted out to the satisfaction of customers.

Dear Editor, It increasingly seems as though the constitutional battles of the land live and die in the lower level courts.

There have been at least 5 cases in the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court alone for this year already, involving the battering of women by their husbands or partners.