Opinion

Dear Editor, Having read my brother David Hind’s (any Walter Rodney companeiro is my brother) letter (‘Ramdin’s action is a manifestation of how far we’ve strayed in our quest for freedom’ SN, June 12) in the Guyanese press on the latest shenanigans enveloping Caribbean cricket, I’m reminded of the great Black Jazz Saxophonist Oliver Nelson’s1961 album Blues and the Abstract Truth.

Dear Editor, It is indeed a fact that Essequibo remains the safest place in Guyana according to the crime data reported by the Kaieteur News on June12.

Why have people in the Caribbean got so hot under the collar about Denesh Ramdin’s message – “Yea, Viv, talk nah” – to West Indies cricket legend turned commentator, Sir Vivian Richards?

Politikles

Dear Editor, I was lambasted for my remarks in a letter carried in your newspaper on Tuesday, June 12, captioned ‘There needs to be strong leadership in the area of policing.’

Dear Editor, Reference is made to your correspondence dated June 9, 2012 pertaining to a letter that was published by the Stabroek News on June 8, 2012 under the caption, ‘There should not be two mothers and their babies to a bed in the Georgetown Hospital.’

Dear Editor, I went to the New Amsterdam hospital this morning to make some enquiries concerning the death of Charran Danai, a 15-year-old boy from the Corentyne, who died at the Skeldon Hospital a few days ago.

Dear Editor, I refer to two letters published in the Stabroek News dated June, 8 and June, 12, 2012 respectively, and I would like to highlight my own dilemma with regards to my DSL internet connection provided by GT&T.

Dear Editor, Notwithstanding four letters published by SN  during the preceding month regarding a large, smelly (95ft x 20ft approx) chicken pen, and the concomitant nuisance of swarms of disgusting, annoying flies and disease-carrying rodents, the  unflinching owners of that illegal establishment continue to defy all benign and legal means, to cease their illegal unhealthy unsanitary operation of rearing chickens in Chateau Margot, which is legally recognized residential community.

Dear Editor, A constitution is dead at its heart unless it is activated by the people.

Dear Editor, I refer to a letter which was published in the Stabroek News on May 18, captioned ‘Traffic ranks should be stationed at each end of the approaches to the Berbice River Bridge.’ 

Dear Editor, I am not a politician but I did made contribution to the process in the 2011 election that helped to create a parliament in which the ‘win-only’ attitude of the ruling party came to an end.

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It is time for a serious enquiry into what passes for medical care at the public hospitals in Guyana, but more urgently there is need for an in-depth investigation into what is happening at the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH), particularly in terms of maternal and neo-natal health.

Dear Editor, On Sunday, June 10, I took my two children, aged 16 and 14, to be registered at GECOM’s Registration Centre at Diamond, EBD. 

Dear Editor, Now that the Amerindian Village Council elections are completed, I propose that the National Toshaos Council (NTC) of Guyana be quickly reconstituted and allowed to play a leading role in the execution of LCDS/GRIF projects for Indigenous development.

Dear Editor, Your report, ‘Demerara River residents risk lives to keep ships at bay’ on May 25, followed by your editorial ‘Stand-off in the Demarara’ on May 28, about the excessive speed of ships which also sail too close to the river banks en route to the Bosai Plant were commended by residents. 

Dear Editor, What may very well prove to be the undoing of the PPP is the fact that some of its opponents, like Khemraj Ramjattan and Moses Nagamootoo, seem entirely familiar with the psychology of the party and of its supporters. This

Dear Editor, I recently had cause to visit the Lethem Public Hospital and was impressed by its modern appearance and facilities.