Opinion

Dear Editor. I deliberately held off writing on the issues being raised in this letter due to my sense of political responsibility and my desire to be objective and fair in my criticisms of the political and social forces in the society.

Dear Editor, The recent letter by Romel Roopnarine in which he defends the presidential package of Mr Jagdeo, former president of Guyana, is so ridiculous and riddled with holes, that one cannot help but laugh and cry at the same time – laugh at his comparisons with US presidential retirement packages which make no sense at all, and cry because Mr Roopnarine is supposed to be an upcoming ‘leader’ in the PPP and yet can hold an opinion which is so flawed, one wonders what real future this country really has.

Dear Editor, I agree with Dr Joey Jagan that ‘President Barack Obama will win in November’ (SN, Sep 12) but for different reasons than those he offered (although I don’t disagree with his reasons). 

In 1988, when Salman Rushdie’s Booker-shortlisted novel The Satanic Verses earned a fatwa from Ayatollah Khomeini and triggered violent protests in several countries, many Westerners were puzzled at the furore.

Dear Editor, A few years ago, when I started off in the tenuous business of editorial consultancy, one of my flagship medium term projects was the production of a specific type of textbook intended for secondary schools across the Caribbean. 

Dear Editor, I have had cause in the past to observe that Mr Frederick Kissoon in his numerous public utterances gets away with multiple forms of offence to others, misrepresentations, and false and inaccurate statements. 

Dear Editor, The public is hereby advised that Shaquille Grant of Agricola, East Bank Demerara, who was shot and killed by member of the Guyana Police Force on September 11, 2012, was not a member of the ‘A’ Division Community Policing Group, as was stated in Stabroek News on September 12, 2012.

Dear Editor, I often wonder how Dr Roger Luncheon deals with his conscience when in his quiet moments he recalls all the untruths and half truths that he spews out in defence of a government whose only use for him is to put him out there in the line of fire to try to confuse citizens with empty words while ministers of the government and other government officials shelter in the safety of their offices.

Dear Editor, I refer to Thomas Hobbes’ thesis of a Hobbesian state.

Dear Editor, The Guyana Police Force is responding to articles published in the Kaieteur News, Stabroek News and Guyana Chronicle on Wednesday September 12, 2012, in relation to the arrest of three men and the recovery of stolen articles following an operation mounted during investigations by the police into recent reports of piracy in the Pomeroon area.

Dear Editor, The Alliance For Change is apparently in full damage control mode after being exposed on the nationally televised corruption debates.

Dear Editor, Is there anything in the training at Felix Austin or otherwise that suggests any group of Afrikans in the streets is a bunch of criminals?

Dear Editor, I wish to distance myself from the Kaieteur News article of September 11, 2012 ‘Moleson Creek School saga: what is the truth?’ 

Dear Editor, The West Indies will commence the 2012 20/20 World Cup event in Sri Lanka as the favourites in a major cricket tournament for the first time since 1979, when the Clive Lloyd-led team defended their 50 Overs World Cup title against England.

A few months ago, it was announced that a sub-atomic particle called the Higgs Boson may have been discovered at the Large Hadron Collider atom smashing machine near Geneva.

Dear Editor, I recently came across Wild Coast: Travels on South America’s Untamed Edge by Gimlette and Knopf. 

Dear Editor, What must the public do? I have been having problems with GT&T ever since I signed up for the DSL service.

Dear Editor, I am happy to see that the Mayor and City Council is considering establishing a debt recovery unit to address its dilemma of unpaid taxes and other revenues.