Opinion

Dear Editor, I have noted in the local media and social networks, reference being made to my employment and salary at the Office of the President.

Dear Editor, I wish to share a recent experience that shocked and saddened. 

Dear Editor, The Linden killings came on the heel of the following actions by the PPP since the November 2011 election: (1) the PPP accused the PNC of rigging the election when the PPP controlled the election machinery; (2) the PPP’s mouthpiece, the Guyana Chronicle, published a racist editorial which enraged Africans throughout Guyana; (3) the PPP bigwigs never apologized for the editorial; (4) some PPP persons sought to defend it as factual; (4) the PPP did not have heavily armed forces at a sugar workers’ protest in Albion that started before Linden, but it did so for Linden; (5) a top PPP leader stated before the election that no Africans were qualified for ambassadorial posts; (6) the PPP failed to listen to Lindeners on the tariff issue; (7) the PPP’s press release shortly after the Linden killings was boorish, inappropriate and uncaring; and (8) the PPP knew the protests were planned for only five days and that a restrained approach was preferable.

Dear Editor, The Linden killings came on the heel of the following actions by the PPP since the November 2011 election: (1) the PPP accused the PNC of rigging the election when the PPP controlled the election machinery; (2) the PPP’s mouthpiece, the Guyana Chronicle, published a racist editorial which enraged Africans throughout Guyana; (3) the PPP bigwigs never apologized for the editorial; (4) some PPP persons sought to defend it as factual; (4) the PPP did not have heavily armed forces at a sugar workers’ protest in Albion that started before Linden, but it did so for Linden; (5) a top PPP leader stated before the election that no Africans were qualified for ambassadorial posts; (6) the PPP failed to listen to Lindeners on the tariff issue; (7) the PPP’s press release shortly after the Linden killings was boorish, inappropriate and uncaring; and (8) the PPP knew the protests were planned for only five days and that a restrained approach was preferable.

Dear Editor, At the end of his inglorious and disastrous period as leader of the People’s National Congress Robert Corbin needs to cover up and camouflage his failed leadership of the party by scape-goating me and others.

Dear Editor, I endorse the view expressed in letter by Quado Vancooten ‘We need a new bridge across the Demerara River‘ (SN Jul 26).

As seems to have become almost normal now, the approach of the American elections has produced a necessity for candidates to demonstrate their loyalty to the cause of Israel in the continuing encounters with which that country is faced, or has involved itself, in the Middle East.

Dear Editor, I read with some astonishment the editorial of the Sunday Stabroek of July 29 titled ‘UG Council.’

Dear Editor, The ongoing battle between Digicel and GT&T over the latter’s monopoly on international calls is much more than a telecommunications war.

Dear Editor, In relation to a previous letter, one of the blogs asked me to evaluate President Ramotar’s eight months in office, and I would like to respond by stating that I attached myself to the PPP/Civic in the last elections with the proviso, made clear to the public and to Mr Ramotar, that I was following the principles of my father, President Cheddi, when he invented the term “critical support” during some of  his years in opposition.

Dear Editor, Please allow me to use your column to highlight a dangerous piece of mischief circulated this past Sunday on the internet (Facebook) by someone using the name Tamara Deokumarie.

Dear Editor Emancipation, and the accretion and extension of the ideas and practice of human rights that it helped release, must be placed in its global historical context.

Dear Editor, My conversations with people all over the country over the last two weeks reveal rising political apathy. 

Dear Editor, I would like to express my appreciation to Medi-Care for the good customer service that I received from the Prescription Department.

Robert Corbin’s successor as Leader of the People’s National Congress/Reform (PNCR) is about to embark on an assignment that will either make or break his political career.

Dear Editor, As the situation in Lethem worsens due to the acute shortage of critical supplies, such as rations and fuel, as a consequence of the protest action in Linden, residents of this community are wondering if we are collateral damage in this ongoing saga and whether our needs are not considered important enough for those so called freedom activists, leaders and politicians to encourage the protestors to allow at least fuel and rations to pass through en route to Lethem and other outlying communities which are presently being affected by this protest.

Dear Editor, After reading and re-reading Mr Anand Goolsarran’s carefully crafted letter to SN, Sunday, July 22, one feels compelled to make some observations, even though they relate to what may be regarded as (minor) details.

Dear Editor, I feel sorry for President Ramotar. Though the bulk of my sympathy is usually reserved for the suffering masses, there is still some left for the man.