Opinion

Dear Editor, I had the great privilege of reading the ‘Appreciation’ magazine, ‘Forged By Fire: The Jagdeo Presidency.‘ 

Dear Editor, On reading the Guyana Chronicle’s news story (September 20) featuring Sir Shridath Surendranath ‘Sonny’ Ramphal’s tribute to President Bharrat Jagdeo at the President’s appreciation ceremony last Friday,  I couldn’t help asking myself how did I miss it in both Stabroek News and Kaieteur News.

Dear Editor, On Monday, September 12, a heavy wind took off the Bartica Regatta pavilion roof.

Dear Editor, By the time this letter is published Troy Davis probably would have been executed in Atlanta, USA by lethal injection for being convicted some 21 years ago of killing a policeman.

Dear Editor, Now that the pantomime to the great leader has come and gone and we are no better off it is time for the Bishop and his merry band to give the nation a financial report highlighting the major donors, so that we will be convinced that no funds came from the over-burdened taxpayers.

Dear Editor, I would like to say thanks to all those who sponsor athletics, but ask them to please stop disrespecting the elders – I mean those aged 50 to 55.

Dear Editor, The Hindu youths of Tain Settlement, Port Mourant, celebrated fifty years as an organization at a ceremony in Jamaica, New York. 

Politikles

On the evening of September 6, 15-year-old Renard ‘Rene’ Fernandes had gasoline poured on his body which was then set alight by a workmate on the fishing boat where he was working.

Dear Editor, It’s funny how with the passing years events, stories and experiences that were puzzling and somewhat nebulous and were accepted without examination, become clearer and brighter when looked back upon with a more critical and thoughtful eye.

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Dear Editor, What do our visitors to Guyana think of our taxi drivers and many motor vehicle drivers, who exhibit the minimum of road courtesy, when it comes to the use of their horns?

Dear Editor, I have been following for some time now the discourse among politicians and members of the public on the progress, or lack thereof, Guyana has made over the past 19 years under the PPP/C administration.

Dear Editor, It would be remiss of me not to express my appreciation to the Guyana Power and Light linesmen and crew which finally restored power to residents in the Anna Regina area.

Dear Editor, Mr Persaud makes a number of erroneous assumptions about me and my intentions for writing to criticise the way the US conducts foreign policy and how it processes visa applications in Guyana (The US Embassy is fair with applicants’ SN, September 20). 

Dear Editor, The US Embassy cable of June 2007 is a humdinger, a big one.

Nearly sixteen months since the People’s Partnership (PP) swept the polls in Trinidad & Tobago with a majority of 29 seats to 12 over the People‘s National Movement (PNM), there is still much discussion in the country as to whether Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar’s government has settled to smoothly running the country.

Dear Editor, Contrary to what the PPP/C would like the Guyanese people to believe about their performance at the upcoming elections as seen in their bogus polls, the likelihood of them being voted out of office this year is a real possibility.

Dear Editor, Recently, I would have seen in one of the dailies that the Ministry of Works and IDB are conducting a feasibility study on the Linden-Lethem road.

Dear Editor, Two months ago, the residents of Kwakwani were invited to an historic event, being the signing of a contract valued $83M to upgrade their water treatment plant and pipe network.