Opinion

Dear Editor, When we sit back and think about tourism we imagine ourselves on the beach of a tropical island sipping a pina colada in our beach wear and straw hat, and breathing the fresh Atlantic air.

Dear Editor, I had thought that, with my (third) letter in the Sunday Stabroek of February 19, 2012, I had drawn attention to most of the major infelicities that I had noticed in the original TSC Vacancy Notice, 2012, and its (correcting) Addendum that had been published in Stabroek News of Wednesday, February 15, 2012.

Dear Editor, A writer comes to Guyana. He does not stray far from the country’s underbelly and he writes a book about the characters and situations he encounters there.

Dear Editor, I wish to remind Dr Prem Misir (and the few “misguided others”), of a basic tenet of natural law: ‘Justice delayed, is justice denied.’  

Politikles

Dear Editor, Just about two years ago the music world lost an icon in the form of Michael Jackson, and recently another one, Whitney Houston, has “Gone Too Soon.”

Relatively few people read the Annual Report of the Auditor General.

On the surface at least President Ramotar appears to have thrown a spanner into the political works by accusing APNU and the AFC of manipulating the general elections results at Linden, thus denying the PPP/C the few percentage points that they needed to take them into the parliamentary promised land.

Dear Editor, Reference is made to the letter ‘UG unions should reconsider their plans for continued stoppages’ written by Dr Prem Misir in his capacity as Pro-Chancellor of the University of Guyana (Stabroek News, February 19). 

Dear Editor, Our people voted for strict financial and democratic accountability in the November 28 general elections. 

Dear Editor, Stabroek News recently carried an article (February 13), an editorial (February 14) and a letter (February 14) relating to the Hope Canal and the East Demerara Water Conservancy (EDWC).

Dear Editor, On December 3, 2011, Donald Ramotar was sworn in as President of Guyana.

Dear Editor, One would thinks that in this age of enlightenment, the major political leaders (eg, PNC and PPP) of Guyana like the populace would embrace higher education and the benefits which accrue from such endeavours.

It was the Irish philosopher Edmund Burke who said: “Those who have been once intoxicated with power, and have derived any kind of emolument from it, even though but for one year, never can willingly abandon it.

I was born in an office of APNU

Dear Editor, It is a well known fact that Berbicians do not have many avenues for recreation and leisure, and  that is one of the main reasons for the high rate of alcoholism and suicide in Region Six. 

Sunday’s Cartoon

Dear Editor, When a sugar factory runs out of cane the factory operations don’t just stop, notwithstanding the fact that no more cane is being ground, and therefore no more bagasse is being produced.

Dear Editor, I was very disappointed to read Dr Roger Luncheon as saying that embattled Commissioner of Police Mr Henry Greene has “reached the retirement age of 55, but he agreed to stay on under an agreement [with the government] that he will not serve beyond 60.”

Dear Editor, I note in SN of February 15, 2012, an advertisement by the Teaching Service Commission that is an Addendum to the Teaching Service Commission Vacancy Notice 2012.