Opinion

Dear Editor, The media have reported that those in authority are acting with urgency on planning for an unimpeded, acceptable flow of traffic linking our capital with the West Bank over the Demerara River.

Dear Editor, I must let you know that the current ubiquitous advertisement war on the air-waves between Digicel and GT&T, is, maybe, just too much for some listeners.

Dear Editor, I need to bring to the public’s attention the utter deception in the reply of the Minister of Education (‘Sunday editorial failed to publish pertinent facts,‘ SN, July 31) to the editorial of the Sunday Stabroek of July 29 that dealt with the new composition of the UG Council as chosen by Minister Manickchand.

Dear Editor, Recently, it was reported that Mr Raj Singh is the Chairman of GuySuCo and travels to Guyana on a monthly basis with all expenses paid. 

Dear Editor, There are perhaps about four thousand licensed  civilian firearm holders in Guyana and I will wager that no more than 90% are very familiar with their weapons and/or practice shooting fairly regularly.

President Ramotar’s admonition to contractors that penalty clauses in their contracts and blacklisting would be imposed if they produce substandard work is an important statement even if only to evaluate the intent and seriousness of the government.

Dear Editor, Mr. Verwayne Adams (`Only a commission of inquiry can establish the facts:’ SN: 05/08/12), referring to a position I took in Future Notes (SN: 01/08/12), argued that “when Henry Jeffrey prefaced his thoughts by writing “the police action at Linden… killed three innocent protestors,“ he is stating as a fact something that the independent inquiry will have to establish.”

Dear Editor, Please entertain a response to the article, ‘The economics of Linden and electricity rates,’ by Christopher Ram, in the ‘Business Page’ of Sunday Stabroek, dated July 29, 2012.

Dear Editor, I refer to the notice published in your newspaper recently by the Ministry of Education informing members of the public of the appointment of the task force with the mandate to have consultations with the public on the matter of the abolition or retention of corporal punishment as a disciplinary measure in schools under the control and management of the government.

The Minister of Local Government is a very busy man. There he sits, ensconced behind his capacious official desk positively snowed under by a blizzard of petitions from all over the country (especially opposition areas), complaining about non-functioning Neighbourhood Democratic Councils.

Dear Editor, My colleague and I, like many others who have always respected his persona, were relieved at the clarification offered by Major General (rtd) Joseph Singh of his relationship with the Office of the President, which at the same time represented him more as an adviser than as an assistant (‘Forgoing monthly salary at OP’ SN, August 1).

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With track and field just getting underway, many spectators may feel that the best is yet to come at the London Olympics, but the first week of these games has already produced enough competitive drama to silence rumours that the city was not ready for an event of this magnitude.

Dear Editor In 2006 the Government of Guyana, with funds from the Caribbean Development Bank (CDB) initiated a project described as the Community Services Enhancement Project, designed to specifically prepare the communities of Bartica, Charity, Parika and Supenaam for their upgrading into municipalities.

Dear Editor, The submerging of the Demerara Harbour Bridge leaves a lot of unanswered questions.

Dear Editor, Every nation has periods in its history where a singular event or series of events, inevitably leads to profound changes hitherto unimaginable.

Dear Editor, I was at the Square of the Revolution on August 1, and part of the motorcade to Linden, staying throughout the ceremony until night fell to say farewell to the Linden shooting victims.

Dear Editor, On Wednesday, August 1, I saw a column in the Stabroek News  headed ‘Minister Rohee and the Becket syndrome’ by Henry Jeffrey.

Dear Editor, One would have thought that following Nigel Hughes’ response to then President Bharrat Jagdeo following the latter’s attack on him during the last elections campaign, the administration would have recognized that to attack Hughes is an endeavour best avoided.