Dear Editor,
One of the attributes of someone engaged in teaching, as I have been at various times, is the constant and necessary effort to put things over in a manner that facilitates comprehension by students.
As Georgetowners sloshed around in the water last Wednesday, they must have wondered whether it might be worth investing in a wooden boat and paddles, rather than a Toyota or a Hyundai, given that flooding is becoming such a regular feature of existence.
Dear Editor,
As the nation approaches the 100-day mark with a new government, the customary evaluation must focus on both the executive and legislative branches, since the management of each is in different hands.
Dear Editor,
The freedoms enshrined in our various laws and statutes, somehow do not allow most of us to access information concerning the range of developmental initiatives agreed with donor agencies, and the ensuing contracts for implementation.
Dear Editor,
They say in life you only get one golden opportunity to give someone a great first impression about yourself, your education, house, business, etc.
Dear Editor,
After considering my responsibilities to my fellow citizens, I am left with no option but to write to you to identify several cases where engineers are failing or have failed to provide minimum standards of service typical to the engineering profession.
Dear Editor,
I really don’t believe everything I read in the newspapers or hear in the electronic media, so if I was not present I would have been hard pressed to reconcile President Ramotar’s remark that where the rule of law is concerned there are no sacred cows, with the recent revelation that some $90M which was allocated for meals during the 2011 elections was not spent on that line item.
Dear Editor,
It is some time now since a teenager died as a result of an abortion, yet my mind is still reeling at the thought of what she must have suffered.
Dear Editor,
This University of Guyana/Kissoon matter has reminded me once again of an exchange between a former Guyana Chronicle columnist and Moses Nagamootoo at a conference held at the NAAC1E building in Kingston some years ago.
Dear Editor,
I refer to Mr Chris Ram’s epistle, ‘Ramkarran has disregarded essential facts in his comments on the 1961 and 2003 finance Acts‘ (SN, Feb 29).
At the beginning of the week, the news from Havana was that Cuban surgeons had completely removed a lesion from Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez and that he was in good physical condition and in direct contact with his government in Caracas.