Opinion

Dear Editor, An interesting development is taking place in the United States which is downplayed by the mainstream media.

Testimony by Head of the Presidential Secretariat, Dr Luncheon in the libel matter brought by President Jagdeo has cast revealing light on the Pradoville 2 Scheme and the levels of contract between the directorates of political parties, in this case the ruling PPP/C and the PNCR.

Politikles

Dear Editor, Since the electoral season heat started, President Jagdeo and Mr Donald Ramotar have been begging older PPP supporters to do something any right-thinking PPP supporter would consider abominable: to revive and resuscitate the PNC.

Dear Editor, In early February, 2010, eighteen months ago, there was delivered to the office of the Minister of Legal Affairs a letter by Mr Leon Rockcliffe, an Attorney-at-Law seeking the Minister’s attention to many of the deficiencies in the operations of the Deeds Registry, a government department under that Minster’s charge. 

Dear Editor, The pull of emigration and the search for a better life in the greener pastures of North America and the Caribbean have wrought significant changes in the political demography of Guyana.

Dear Editor, An article in the Guyana Chronicle under the caption, ‘No basis for negative reactions, allegations over Sharma ban‘ refers.

This is a very strange election season. It lacks any kind of fizz.

Boycott

Dear Editor, This is yet another appeal for the child welfare authorities in Region 2 and Georgetown to demonstrate some serious, no-nonsense interest in the circumstances of the begging boys of Cotton Field.

Dear Editor, Please permit the Guyana Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (GSPCA) to comment on a letter written by Ms Syeada Manbodh that appeared in the Stabroek News of September 28 and Kaieteur News of October 1. 

Dear Editor, I refer to the press release dated October 6, 2011 by the Pan African Movement (PAM) Guyana Branch, in which they objected to the installation of public conveniences east of the 1763 Monument, Square of the Revolution.

Dear Editor, There is a serious case of cattle nuisance in Happy Acres, a residential community on the East Coast of Demerara. 

Dear Editor, As a youngster, I remember Ramleela plays being staged around this time of the year in the villages on the Corentyne. 

Dear Editor, Closing down Mr Sharma‘s TV station Channel 6 shows clearly the disposition of the PPP/C government.

Dear Editor, I was very surprised to read that an old man like Mr Adolphus James who was 91, was employed as a security guard.

Dear Editor, In the good old days when the PPP was in opposition and comrades were genuine comrades, one of the lessons taught at the famous Accabre College was the laws of dialectics.

Dear Editor, In reading your article ‘Pradoville 2 needs commission of inquiry’ in Sunday Stabroek of October 2, the AFC presidential candidate Mr Khemraj Ramjattan was quoted as stating, “…the ordinary person would have had to go through a vigorous process to get a [house] lot including proving that they have children.”

Dear Editor, Steve Jobs was no doubt an icon in the computer world and his passing would be greatly felt.

The citation for this year’s Nobel Peace Prize – awarded simultaneously to the activists Leymah Gbowee (Liberia)  Tawakkul Karman (Yemen) and the Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, the President of Liberia – notes that  “[w]e cannot achieve democracy and lasting peace in the world unless women obtain the same opportunities as men to influence developments at all levels of society.”