Opinion

Dear Editor, The Stabroek News published the most bizarre headline in the newspaper of September 22, 2012. 

Dear Editor, All across the world persons with disabilities are the poorest in the society.

Dear Editor, On September 6, an employee from Toolsie Persaud‘s bond on Lombard Street came to my gate and told me about a dog lying next to a gutter for several days.

Dear Editor, I am very perturbed about the management of the City of Georgetown and wonder when it will return to the state of being the Garden City.

Dear Editor, Objective investigation requires the finding of facts as the first approach to understanding the issues that matter in any set of circumstances.

Dear Editor, I write with reference to Mr Brynmor Pollard’s letter in SN of September 23 urging government to abolish corporal punishment.

Dear Editor, Guyana does not  have diplomatic ties with significant African countries.

Without a doubt, the following rhetorical question by the Head of the Presidential Secretariat, Dr Luncheon at a press conference on September 12 will go down in the record of this government as the clearest self-admission of the criminalization of the state.

Politikles

Dear Editor, I am yet again availing myself of the facility afforded by your newspaper to comment further on the following current issues of national interest:- (a) The abolition of corporal punishment in the school system in Guyana In a previous publication of your newspaper, I had stated for the information of your readers that Guyana, like other Caricom states, has ratified, without reservations, the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child which prohibits the inflicting of corporal punishment as a disciplinary measure in schools under the control and management of the state.

Dear Editor, If the lower price paid for ‘pirated’ textbooks is the main criterion on which the decision was made to break all intellectual property laws to have school books printed, then I submit that this is a good case of being penny wise and pound foolish.

Dear Editor, There is something fascinatingly and frighteningly cultish about the political administration that has run this country for the past two decades, an asinine intellectual obstinacy that has found its own soft patch of ‘logical’ grounding where it grazes contentedly, oblivious to the reality that it is in fact ruminating in a quagmire of absurdity and unreason.

Dear Editor, As an ardent crusader for the environment, I have penned several letters on that subject; my last was about the mighty Pomeroon River dying.

Dear Editor, The letter by Al Creighton ‘Kissoon’s account of Academic Board meeting inaccurate‘ (SN, September 14) refers.

The authorities do not have much of a record in terms of catching major drug barons or having an impact on local narco-trafficking activities, but my goodness, their ability to draft National Drug Strategy Master Plans is nothing short of sensational.

Dear Editor, In response to the caption carried in your letters column of September 18, 2012, captioned ‘Utility bills are delivered late in some parts of WCD,’ the Guyana Post Office Corporation would like to thank the customer for the complaint.

Dear Editor, As we continue to face the ugly realities of 2012 Guyana, I could not help but notice very prominent advertisements from the New Guyana School asking for staff.

Dear Editor, The PPP likes to parade economic growth as if it contributes to it in any significant way when it doesn’t.

Dear Editor, I bought a piece of land in Grove, Section A Block Y, New Housing Scheme on the East Bank Demerara valued at five hundred thousand dollars and the size of land given to me was 50 x 80 from the Ministry of Housing in 2006.