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In the wee hours of Sunday morning this week, amid heavy rain and high winds, an Ite Palm tree fell on Buffer Dam, North-East La Penitence smashing a small one-bedroom home, killing a five-year-old girl and bringing untold grief to her family and relatives.

Having waited an eternity – and, frankly, we are still waiting – for Donald Ramotar to step out from behind Mr.

Dear Editor, It came to my attention recently that acquiring a mortgage in Guyana is not as easy as has been advertised.

Dear Editor, As a nation we cannot change the past but we certainly can influence the future.

Dear Editor, Vishnu Bisram claims he conducted a poll in late October 2011.

Dear Editor, GWI wishes to express gratitude to your publication for highlighting the complaint made by an Alberttown resident regarding a sewage overflow in the Tuesday November 1, 2011 edition of your publication.

Dear Editor, An evaluation of the nature and forms of farmers’ representation in Guyana over the decades would lead to the conclusion that there has been no recognizable policy and programme in place to stop the exploitation of rice farmers.

Dear Editor, Take it from me, Guyana has nowhere to go until the crime situation is brought well under control.

Dear Editor, In SN, Sunday, October 30, there is a picture of a young boy standing next to a sluice, presumably fishing.

Dear Editor, In preparing my speech for Houston, I decided to review the PPP 2006 and 2011 manifestos and compare them with the AFC 2011 Action Plan. 

Dear Editor, We wish to bring to the attention of the Regional Chairman, Region Six, the deplorable state of our street, which appears to have been overlooked in the ongoing road rehabilitation project.

Dear Editor, Digicel came to Guyana in 2007; this service was in the Caribbean before for many years.

Dear Editor, The National Communications Network (NCN) in New Amsterdam on at least two occasions aired a replay of Moses Nagamootoo’s speech when he condemned Khemraj Ramjattan and the Alliance for Change (AFC) during the 2006 election campaign. 

Dear Editor, Editor, the November 28 general elections are now ahead.

Politikles

With a finesse not uncharacteristic of Jamaican politics at its higher levels, the country has seen a new, and unprecedentedly young (38), Prime Minister sworn in following Bruce Golding’s resignation.

Dear Editor, I take this opportunity to express profound gratitude and appreciation to our Minister of Foreign Affairs Carolyn Rodrigues-Birkett for initiating and facilitating the bilateral agreement between the Government of Guyana and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia for immigration officials from the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia to visit Georgetown, Guyana during October, 2011 to issue Hajj visas for all Guyanese who will be performing the obligatory Islamic rituals of Hajj in Mecca, Saudi Arabia during November, 2011.

We crunch the numbers during every elections season. Crunching numbers is important.

Dear Editor, I listened to President Bharrat Jagdeo at the Lusignan Rally on Sunday, October 23.