Opinion

Dear Editor, It is a widely held belief that the main pre-requisite to nation-building is a sound knowledge of your country’s past, especially in a multi-racial setting.

Dear Editor, A clarification is required of the Sunday editor’s note attached to my letter (SN, Nov 21) regarding comments about my polling credential and academic achievements (‘Bisram did not get it wrong’).

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It is bad enough that for more than two decades, residents of and visitors to Georgetown, the capital of Guyana, have had their senses assaulted by the sight and smell of garbage.

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Dear Editor, Permit me to respond to a letter penned by E B John titled ‘Does the private sector believe it has an obligation to contribute to the transformational process which is urgently needed?‘

Dear Editor, As we open the daily newspapers what we notice is the constant maternal and child deaths that have been taking place not only in central Georgetown but also in other areas like Linden, New Amsterdam and Port Mourant.

Dear Editor, By 12.30 Sunday afternoon at the Back centre, Corriverton, it appeared that all was not well.

Dear Editor, I tend to support Mr Raschid Osman in his observation, “The how to behave advisory at the NCC is terribly annoying“ (Sunday Chronicle, December 2).

Dear Editor, This nation, but in particular, our students and truly concerned citizens, owe the Stabroek News a debt of gratitude for its informative and incisive editorial of Sunday, December 9 titled, ‘1823 Monument.’

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Over the last three weeks, Kamla Persad Bissessar’s People’s Partnership Government of Trinidad and Tobago experienced something approximating to a political trauma.

Dear Editor, The Stabroek News of Wednesday 5, carried an advertisement from GPL about disconnections, where it was stated that the consumer who is disconnected will have to pay the reconnection fee and an increased security deposit equivalent to six times the average of his or her monthly bill.

Dear Editor, Attorney General Anil Nandlall has joined the attack on Transparency International (TI) on the publication of its 2012 Corruption Perceptions Index.

Dear Editor, Harry Parmesar‘s bold statement to the media that he is willing to serve the Interim Management Committee (IMC) until its term expires is a just a cover for his ineptitude.

Dear Editor, It is instructive that at this juncture the local private sector as a whole, conflicted as it is about what its respective relationships should be with its clients, civil society and particularly the young generations of our citizenry, does not espouse the same urgent sense of corporate social responsibility as publicly and consistently articulated by, for example, the Trinidad & Tobago Chamber of Commerce & Industry.

Dear Editor, The recent observations by Messrs Charles Sohan and Malcolm Alli as published in the Stabroek News and Kaieteur News have forced the Joint Venture of CEMCO and SRKN’gineering to respond to the assertions expressed in the newspaper releases.

Dear Editor, Gas rationing is officially over in New York City and what a relief it has been for the Guyanese community in Queens, Bronx and Brooklyn, indeed all over the city, to have unrestricted amounts of fuel so they can carry on with their business.

The end of protracted political regimes under the control of powerful, strong-willed rulers and driven by cults of personality are almost always attended by succession struggles.

Dear Editor, Just recently, while waiting for my vehicle to be washed, I witnessed a few persons (Chinese nationals, based on language and appearance), disposing of empty plastic bottles in the nearby canal.