Opinion

Dear Editor, I have seen advertisements in the daily newspapers requesting buses for a bus service between Guyana and Brazil.

Dear Editor, The III Summit of South American and Arab Countries (ASPA) will be held in Lima, Peru on October 1-2, 2012 and will bring together leaders of the Union of South American Nations (UNASUR) and the Arab League, including 12 and 22 countries respectively.

Dear Editor, The views expressed in a letter to the editor of the Guyana Chronicle dated September 1, regarding the treatment of women in the media generally, but more specifically the very distasteful piece in a recent column of ‘Dem Boys Seh’ carried in Kaieteur News dated July 21, is fully supported.

Dear Editor, Whenever resolutions, declarations and such things are made and adopted at conventions and conferences on the international stage we sign on to them and follow suit as a matter of formality – not that we truly believe in them, recognizing what they say.

Dear Editor, Mr Wesley Kirton is simply wrong in stating that the PNC was “Not an illegal government” (SN Sep 10).

To the surprise of many ordinary Colombians, President Juan Manuel Santos has opted to engage the so-called Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia – People’s Army, a guerilla group popularly known as FARC – in talks aimed at bringing the hemisphere’s longest running armed conflict involving a government and an insurgent military force to an end.

Dear Editor, What a slap in the face to students. The University of Guyana Turkeyen announces “improvements” in new academic year.

Dear Editor, I seek to respond to a letter (‘Jagdeo observed the ten-year condition attached to the transport for Pradoville I land to the letter‘) written by the learned Minister of Legal Affairs, Mr Anil Nandlall, and published by the Stabroek News on September 7, in response to my missive titled ‘The evidence shows that former President Jagdeo got preferential treatment for Pradoville II land,’ published by the Stabroek News on September 4.

Dear Editor, The growing number of road fatalities should be of concern not only to road users but to all who care about life.

Dear Editor, It was impossible to obtain statistical data on the premier Essequibo batsmen of yesteryear.

Dear Editor, I have read Vishnu Bisram’s letter in Thursday’s edition of your newspaper regarding my response (SN, Sept 2) to his initial letter (SN, Aug 31) on the upcoming US election. 

Shrouding the contretemps between the government and Fedders-Lloyd over the contract for the specialty hospital is the stark fact that the infrastructure for the most rigorous examination of complaints by bidders – the Public Procurement Commission (PPC) – is still not in existence, more than a decade after it was catered for in groundbreaking constitutional reform.

Politikles

Dear Editor, One would believe that with the advent of electronic gadgets in the developed world, books would have become unpopular as a social pastime.

     Dear Editor, When in 2010 I first raised the question of the fate of the country’s parliamentary records it attracted little attention.

Dear Editor, I refer to my previous letter on the abovementioned subject which was published in your newspaper on Sunday August 5, 2012 (‘Guyana has ratified the UN Convention…’) in which I brought to the attention of your readers that, Guyana like other Caricom states, having ratified the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, without making any reservations to the Convention, is under a legal obligation under international law to give legal effect to the Convention at the national level.

Dear Editor, Mr Henry Greene, former Commissioner of Police and President of the Guyana Table Tennis Association died in the early morning of Friday, September 7 on the Harlem Public Road, West Coast Demerara. 

Dear Editor, Please permit me to comment on the headline for the SN September 8 article ‘Kwakwani election could set a bad precedent, says Whittaker.’