Dear Editor,
I read with great sadness of the passing away of my dear Comrade Premchand Dass and would like to share some of my thoughts of this man, because the good is ‘oft interred with the bones.‘
What the Guyana Chronicle editorial of July 2nd, has wittingly or unwittingly succeeded in achieving is to focus attention again and perhaps conclusively on the need to end the abuse of the state media by ruling parties and their coterie of elites.
Dear Editor,
Minister of Transport, Robeson Benn stated recently that after taking all options into consideration he considered the Cheddi Jagan International Airport (CJIA) the most feasible option available to upgrade and provide a modern airport for Guyana.
Dear Editor,
With reference to Mr Lloyd Davidson’s letter dated Wednesday, June 27, 2012, captioned ‘A census allows a government to plan for its people,’ as Mr Davidson indicated, census-taking goes as far back as Biblical times.
A week last Friday Mr David Granger, the Leader of the Opposition, gave the inaugural lecture in the National Assembly’s Governance and Democracy series.
Dear Editor,
The Minister of Works Robeson Benn has claimed that the design/build tender by the Chinese contractor for the new Timehri Airport was above board, and that the final price was arrived at after serious negotiations between the contractor and himself ably supported by the ministry’s engineers.
Dear Editor,
I wish to respectfully submit that the notion that the leadership of APNU, however derived, should not be dissolved into the leadership of the PNCR.
Dear Editor,
Please allow me to echo the sentiments of my cousin Nicholas Fraser in his letter titled ‘Swimming coaches should be selected on the basis of established criteria’ which was printed in the Stabroek News dated July 10.
Dear Editor,
The grim reports of alleged irregularities in relation to major projects as well as procurement have cost these projects legitimacy with great sections of the populace.
Dear Editor,
I read Anthea Spencer’s letter ‘GWI needs to do more to stop the wastage of water’ yesterday in your letters to the editor section, and thought of letting Guyana Water Inc know through this medium that information was given several times to its officials at Melanie on the East Coast of Demerara that there is water wastage from a burst or broken water main on the East Coast, at LBI.
Dear Editor,
WPA wishes to record its strong disappointment at Kaieteur News’ report on the picketing exercise held in solidarity with the people of Linden in front of the Office of the President on Thursday July 12, 2012.
The somewhat underwhelming return to power of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), with less than 40% of the vote in Mexico’s recent elections, is one measure of the jostling and competitive political culture that has emerged since the party lost its seventy-year lock on government in the 2000 elections.
Dear Editor,
The Guyana Chronicle should reprimand the person(s) responsible for the offensive editorial ‘Opposition rampages to sow disunity in the country’ which appeared in that newspaper on July 2.