Opinion

Dear Editor, There would appear to be some curiosities attending the revelations of irregularities (administrative and financial) reported of identified officials of the M&CC Georgetown.

Dear Editor, August 17, 2012 will mark one year since I was assaulted by a senior police officer [name given].

Dear Editor, The issue of violence in its various forms (criminal, domestic, police brutality, school), has again, within past weeks attracted a significant amount of discussion.  

Dear Editor, When Mr Eusi Kwayana can explain how the trunk or tail can wag an elephant he would be more than welcome to calm the sea in conformity with his lofty proclamation that “The days when the preamble of a constitution could be ignored or brushed aside are over.”

Dear Editor, Through this letter, I wish to express my full support for your recent editorial that was headlined ‘How many more?’

Guyana’s Tier 2 status with regard to human trafficking remains unchanged for the second year running, according to the US State Department’s Trafficking in Persons (TIP) report for 2012.

Dear Editor, I was intrigued by the closing paragraph of Prime Minister Samuel Hinds’ letter, ‘The PPP/C government embarked on a programme to refashion the bauxite sector so it would become profitable again’ in your edition of Sunday, May 20, 2012, which reads as follows: “Truth is that nothing is forever; every situation has its time of birth and growth and glory days, but the world steadily moves on; things change. 

Dear Editor, In April 2012, Prime Minister Hinds pronounced that hydroelectricity will be available on the national grid in 2016.

Dear Editor, In a previous letter which you kindly carried in your newspaper, I suggested that because of the bitter competition that took place at the last two congresses of the PNCR which I gather have left lingering divisions and enmities within the party, at this year’s congress, the party’s membership should agree on a consensus candidate in order to avoid past divisiveness.

Dear Editor, A contractor from the Drainage and Irrigation Department of the Region 2 administration is employed to weed trenches here, but instead of doing that along a 200-odd metre stretch alongside my farm by the canal dam area at Onderneeming, this portion is only being sprayed to kill the grass.

Dear Editor, Like so many of us, my respected friend David Hinds is clearly a fan of West Indies cricket.

It is a sign of the continuing political and psychological distance between the English-speaking countries of the Caribbean and other states in the region, that there should have been so little commentary on the presidential election that has recently taken place in the Dominican Republic, a member-state of the EU-Caribbean Forum countries that are party to the Economic Partnership Agreement  signed in 2007.

Dear Editor, I am compelled to respond to a letter published in the Stabroek News captioned ‘Six months on and still no changes at UG,’ penned by two known opposition writers, namely, Asquith Rose and Sasenarine Singh.

Dear Editor, I do not live in Linden or in any other community within Region 10.

Dear Editor, The death of a baby at childbirth is always devastating for the parents and other relatives.

Dear Editor, I am a light-duty driver attached to a timber and logging company located on the Upper Demerara River.

Dear Editor, Last Tuesday at the National Park, the General Manager Ms Yolanda Vasconcellos was subjected to a thorough tongue-lashing by Permanent Secretary Joslyn McKenzie of the Ministry of Natural Resources and the Environment before being suspended for three days.