Opinion

Dear Editor, You hop off a plane and the first person you come face-to-face with is an immigration officer.

Dear Editor, In 1960 when I started to attend concerts at the Town Hall, I found it very entertaining and relaxing.

Dear Editor, It seems as though the PPP and its Region 3 Members of Parliament have all passed on.

Dear Editor, It was with deep disgust that I read a letter on August 16 in SN, under the headline ‘Upper Corentyne Cricket Association has been unable to find out the mandate of the IMC.‘

Dear Editor, My letter in the Stabroek News dated August 22, highlighting the achievements of Essequibians Ricardo Adams and Ransford Beaton in the field of cricket (‘Adams, Beaton have placed Essequibo on the cricketing map’) unintentionally omitted the name of Rayon Thomas.

Dear Editor, We refer to a letter by Mr M Maxwell which in appeared in the SN of August 23 under the caption ‘The opposition is indolent.’

The US elections may seem safely distant to outsiders but many American pundits are confidently predicting a struggle for Obama to survive the disappointed hopes and lack of change in his first term.

Politikles

Dear Editor, Stabroek News and Kaieteur News on August 22, 2012, together carried five articles on corruption in other countries: ‘Liberia president suspends son in assets investigation‘; ‘Former Cuban officials get prison terms for corruption‘; ‘Guatemala sentences ex-police chief for war crimes‘; ‘Prominent Jamaica trio to face perversion of justice charge‘; and ‘Brazil’s largest-ever corruption  trial‘ (of 38 former and current government officials).

Dear Editor, We wholeheartedly agree with the GHRA in its opinion of the Chief Justice’s ruling on Sexual Offences Act (SOA) paper committals (press release: ‘Justice Chang’s judgement another blow to access to justice for victims of sexual offences,‘ reported in Stabroek News of August 18 (‘Chief Justice’s paper committal ruling “flawed”‘).

Dear Editor, As a matter of principle, I do not waste my busy time with people who are more interested in negative thinking than in working to make a positive difference.

Dear Editor, Since Guyanese seems to be waxing in the mode of national conversation on what to many are considered critical topics, my personal opinion is there is need for the urgent inclusion of the magistracy and its sentencing policy.

Dear Editor, I wish to thank Dr Ian McDonald for his Sunday columns, which I started reading only a few weeks ago. 

Dear Editor, Residents in East Canje are perturbed and baffled as to the reason the recapping and remedial work done to the road is a step backwards rather than an improvement as its width has been constricted in its entirety from the Sheet Anchor turn to Gangaram – about five miles.

Dear Editor, I write in relation to two articles appearing on August 19 and 20 in the sports section of the Guyana Times covering the 18th Goodwill Swim Meet, entitled ‘Van Lange propels Guyana to relay gold’ and ‘Guyana end on high note.’

Julian Assange, the founder of the controversial website WikiLeaks, is wanted in Sweden for alleged sexual crimes.

Dear Editor, It should of great interest to track the future careers over the next 15, or 20 years of the 175 CSEC high-flyers (8 CSEC or more creditable passes), to see how many are resident in Guyana contributing to the development of Guyana, the country of their birth and which in some measure contributed to their academic successes.

Dear Editor, The Guyana Police Force is responding to an article published in the Stabroek News on Wednesday July 18, 2012, under the caption ‘Surinamese man says he was harassed by corrupt Guyanese cops.‘

Dear Editor, I am the licensed owner of a liquor restaurant and bar at Lot 7 Maria’s Lodge, Essequibo Coast. 

Dear Editor, I would like to congratulate the Guyana Amateur Powerlifting Federation (GAPF) on their recent success at the South American Powerlifting Championships in Cali, Colombia.