Opinion

Dear Editor, Please allocate me, temporarily, a plot of space in your letter pages to seek from the Honourable Minister of Legal Affairs, Mr.

Shortly before the start of last month’s Sixteenth Summit of Heads of Non Aligned countries in Tehran, Canadian Foreign Minister John Baird issued a robust statement urging United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon to turn down the invitation to attend the meeting in the Iranian capital.

Dear Editor, Your news item `Man dies on CAL flight’ (SN Aug 28) is heart wrenching.

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Dear Editor, On BW 527 from New York to Guyana on August 16 there were no blankets on board the flight which departed after an hour‘s delay.

Dear Editor, The last I checked, I couldn’t locate a web page for the Athletics Association of Guyana (AAG).

Dear Editor, In one of my articles some time ago, I mentioned that I found in my clippings‘ file two articles on home gardening. 

Dear Editor, Regarding the matter of the Timehri North Developmental Council (TNDC), a group representing the 2,364 residents who have been asked to remove from their homes near the Cheddi Jagan International Airport, we wish to share with your readers that several dozen people have over the years in the same manner occupied a strip of reserved land along the sideline dam at Chateau Margot on the East Coast of Demerara, to the inconvenience of the bona fide landowners resident there.

Dear Editor, It is a norm for Guyanese in the diaspora especially in New York, London, Barbados and Toronto to celebrate our country’s independence (in late May) and attract overseas-based nationals from other Caribbean states.

On the heels of Mining Week this year, the Chairman of the Guyana Geology and Mines Commission, Major General (rtd) Joe Singh resigned from his position citing a motion of no confidence that had been moved against him by the Guyana Gold and Diamond Miners Association (GGDMA) at one of their meetings. 

Dear Editor, I refer to articles in your publication of August 31, 2012 captioned ‘Ex-narcotic agent reprimanded over assault of airport immigration officer’ and wish to emphatically confirm that at no time in the history of the Customs Anti Narcotic Unit (CANU) was there an employee by the name of Jitindra Persaud.

Dear Editor, In January 2010, I stated in SN that Barack Obama would be one-term president, and that he would be denied a second term by the jobs issue.

Dear Editor, Rashleigh Jackson, in response to a question posed by a reporter at a press conference at the United Nations some years ago gave this response: “If your information was accurate and your analysis sound then I would agree with your conclusion.

Dear Editor, I’ve heard quite a number of times persons saying that writing is a waste of time – “Yuh writing and nobody K.”

The fog surrounding the Cheddi Jagan expansion project is like the mist which periodically envelops Timehri in the early hours of the morning, shrouding familiar features and obscuring detail.

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Dear Editor, In the opinion of the International Committee in Continuing Defence of Linden, the statement of the Guyana Government through its Ambassador to the Organisation of American States (OAS)  delivered on August 22, 2012, instead of reciting the sequence of events, went out of its way to accuse the government’s critics of incitement to racial disaffection.

Dear Editor, In his book, The Wild Coast, the author, John Gimlette, refers to his brief interview with me (conducted in a public place at the Pegasus Poolside) and then proceeds without my knowledge or sanction to embellish the scenarios, using his author’s licence.

Dear Editor, Guyanese Americans have to be applauded for the interest shown in the just concluded Republican Convention, and I hope the same will be displayed this coming week during the Democratic convention, deepening the group’s interest and involvement in American politics.