Opinion

Dear Editor, I thank Mr Frank Fyffe and Stabroek News for respectively writing and publishing the wonderful nostalgic piece ‘Recalling “Deslyn’s Parliament” in Linden’ which appeared in the letters column on Monday, February 13.

Dear Editor, The claims made by Mr Ramotar whereby he accused the opposition of “criminal behaviour” are outrageous.

Dear Editor, Regarding my recent letter to Stabroek News, dated January 21 and captioned,‘Fort Wellington police should lay charges against those creating a noise nuisance in Hopetown,’ I would like to inform you that to this very day, nothing has changed.

Dear Editor, A mere two months after being sworn in as the first minority President in the history of our country, Donald Ramotar asked Bharrat Jagdeo, Guyana’s immediate past president, to stand in his place and represent Guyana at the 2012 Sustainable Development Summit in India.

Dear Editor, Texting in a competition is not fair. Competitions need a panel of experienced judges to determine the outcome.

Dear Editor, As a spectator I watch the Guyana scenario and have come to my own conclusion as to why there is so much crime, domestic violence and outright murder, especially of women.

Dear Editor, A relative who has been living in the US for no less than 20 years returned recently and asked me why I am so against America and if I didn’t know how many people Ahmadinejad killed.

Angelo Dundee, the man who worked with some of the greatest names in boxing, died at the beginning of the month, at the age of 90.

Dear Editor, I blessed the day I was introduced to the book The Sly Company of People Who Care by Rahul Bhattacharya by a letter in SN from Ryhaan Shah.

Dear Editor, I write to voice my full support for the recent sit-in and protests by lecturers and students of the University of Guyana. 

Dear Editor, Some may see the claim made by President Ramotar that the APNU and AFC have manipulated the results of the November 2011 elections thereby denying the PPP the “minimum of 53 percent of the votes” as ludicrous or clutching at dry grass.

Dear Editor, Pensioners of the National Insurance Scheme who have to visit the NIS office for one reason or the other are placed in a position of pressure when they have to climb those winding stairs both at Bent and Camp Streets, and at Brickdam.

Dear Editor, The Stabroek News headline, dated February 13 and captioned ‘Cabinet will have to discuss if any disciplinary action against Top Cop -Nandlall,’ is another unfortunate story.

Dear Editor, During the busy Christmas season, I visited the Republic Bank on the Essequibo Coast to transact some business; I was there with a friend.

Dear Editor, Sunday’s January 29 publication of the Vacancy Notice 2012 by the Teaching Service Commission makes interesting reading.

Dear Editor, I write to applaud Queens Borough President Helen Marshall, a Guyanese American, for a stirring speech she delivered recently on the state of Queens, her support for a development project in Richmond Hill, and the recognition she received from politicians in the city.

Put them on the back foot

Before Ms Simona Broomes and her colleagues launched the Guyana Women’s Miners Association, the average Guyanese would only have known about a few women miners, one of them being Ms Cyrilda DeJesus, who for years had been the face of women miners in Guyana.

Minority Government

Minister of Home Affairs Clement James Rohee has upped and moved himself to Eve Leary and it appears that the move has created an outbreak of “the jitters” among the Police Force’s Top Brass.