Opinion

As Ambassador Irwin LaRocque, Caricom’s new secretary general, assumes office next Monday, he could do no worse than read, if he has not done so already, Sir Shridath Ramphal’s magisterial lecture, delivered at the Bank of Jamaica, on July 22 last.

Dear Editor, GWI wishes to express gratitude to your publication for highlighting the statements made by residents of Dazzell Housing Scheme, August 9, 2011 (‘Why can’t GWI accept ID cards and proof of address as the basis for connecting Scheme residents to the water system?’).

Dear Editor, Most of the world’s leaders, including Caricom prime ministers, will be making their way to the United Nations building in September to tackle one of the most difficult challenges our world faces: how to save the lives of 52 million people who are expected by 2030 to die each year of non-communicable diseases.

Dear Editor, There is a lot of confusion at the BV bus park at around 4pm for passengers to get transportation home.

Dear Editor, Mr Ravi Dev, as his fellow columnist Mr Kissoon declares, is a person of many resources.

Dear Editor, Unbranded and unmarked cows, with calves and young cows roam the road day and night.

Dear Editor, The PPP hangs its hat on infrastructure. In 19 years, the PPP has no real claim to any aspect of economic development except for perhaps, infrastructure.

Handing a sort of indefinable victory to women in what may yet prove to be a major skirmish in the age-old battle for gender equity, recent research has proven that companies with women directors tend to do better than those with executive teams made up entirely of men.

Politikles

Dear Editor, I thank you for carrying my letter which was in response to Mr Hydar Ally’s letter dealing with the widening chasm between the rich and the poor (‘Is this Cheddi Jagan’s vision?’

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Dear Editor, This last week I visited our national zoo and was impressed by the entrance gate and that’s about it.

Dear Editor, I wish to thank Mr Sultan Mohamed for his kind words.

Dear Editor, On August 5, my family and I were on our way home, coming from the late Tarawih prayers  around 8.25pm.

Dear Editor, It was amusing to read a letter by one Mr Malcolm Harripaul in your newspaper (August 8) claiming that President Bharrat Jagdeo sent a memo to our organization requesting an invitation to attend this year’s India Day Parade scheduled for August 21 on Madison Ave (‘Jagdeo sought invitation to Manhattan parade of Indian-Americans’).

Dear Editor, I just finished reading Rahul Bhattacharya’s debut novel The sly company of people who care. 

Dear Editor, I am the artistic director of the Buxton Fusion School of Music.

Dear Editor, Malcolm Harripaul’s missive ‘Jagdeo sought invitation to Manhattan parade of Indian-Americans’ (SN, August 8) is absolutely false.

Dear Editor, It has been brought to my attention that the Guyana Chronicle published an article captioned ‘Controversial accountant’s sons threaten to hack PPP websites’ dated July 31, 2011, where my brother Ravendra Ram has been wrongfully accused of being an orchestrator in hacking government websites.

Dear Editor, It is welcome news that after three decades, the crash landing of Caribbean Airlines (CAL) 523 will push all stakeholders at CJIA to use force to remove squatters who have encircled Guyana’s international airport at Timehri.