Opinion

Dear Editor, Thanks to Mr Peter Ramotar, REO of Region 7 for his prompt response to my letter (SN, October 16) concerning the payment of allowances to hinterland scholarship students.

Dear Editor, A few days ago we made a site visit to the Hope Canal Project to assess construction progress.

Dear Editor, With respect to the National Insurance Scheme Actuarial Review that was recently performed and published, based on my profession, which involves insurance and investments practice, I can clearly see the reason for great concern by Mr Derek Osborne, the Chief Actuary of Horizonow consultants Ltd.

Dear Editor, I note that the highly promoted ‘Guinness Greatest in the Streets’ football competition is on in earnest.

Dear Editor, In the space of one week you have devoted two editorials exclusively to local government issues and made reference to it in a third (SN, Nov 25).

Dear Editor, According to SN (Dec 1) it is reported that thieves have stolen 70 bars of gold estimated to be worth US$11.5 million ($2.3 billion) from a fishing boat moored in Curaçao.

Dear Editor, A few weeks ago a letter from me appeared in both the Stabroek News and Kaieteur News in which I commented on the good quality of rip-rap sea defence work executed at Johanna section Aurora Village coast by Mr Samaroo.

The statement by the Chinese Association seemingly in response to an article in another section of the media regarding the presence of Chinese entrepreneurs in Guyana is, in several respects, an interesting one.

Dear Editor, At a time when man is free and society liberal, the focus is on women’s rights, gender equity and the Domestic Violence Act, one would have expected a decrease in violence against women; instead the opposite is true.

Dear Editor, Tears came to my eyes after reading the letter, ‘Money from Kwakwani bauxite machines sold as scrap should be used on projects for the community’s benefit,’ by the very exemplary Kwakwani resident Jocelyn Morian.

Dear Editor, For those unaware, let me inform them that Berbice is picking up the signals of its first FM broadcasts.

Dear Editor, Mr Nazar Mohamed is quite right about the state of affairs of the city of Georgetown (‘The M&CC and the local government ministry should clean the city; businesspeople and others should join the call for local government elections‘ SN, December 1).

Dear Editor, I read recently of the Swami’s views on the chutney culture and fully agree with what he said.

Dear Editor, Cricket enthusiast, the Minister of Sport Dr Anthony has made his government’s position pellucidly clear in the Stabroek News of December 1.

Dear Editor, The SN edition of Nov 22, 2012 published the names of the four gentlemen short-listed for the prestigious position of Vice-Chancellor of the University of Guyana.

Dear Editor, Natural raw talent was displayed by athletes from all ten administrative regions of Guyana at the just concluded 52nd National Schools Championships, 2012.

Politikles

Why Guyana – with all of its problems and urgent needs – would have required a National Intelligence Centre (NIC) is quite a mystery which neither the government nor the NIC has explained to the public.

Dear Editor, It was distressing reading the papers of Saturday, December 1, with their description of the cruel and demeaning squalor in which the country lives.

Dear Editor, I looked into the pitiful eyes of the scrawny brown puppy and a silent rage flowed through my being.