Opinion

Dear Editor, The Minister of Finance Dr Ashni Singh is reported in the Guyana Chronicle of July 12, 2011 as saying at a recent press conference that the administration will spare no effort in ensuring that the perpetrators of the recent pension fraud and their accomplices face the full extent of the applicable laws and that the strongest available penalties are brought to bear against them, including assets forfeiture.

Dear Editor, I am pleased to read in your paper (SN, Jul 19) that the Elections Commission has decided to reopen registration of voters with elections due by December.

Dear Editor, I refer to the letter written by Robert Seemangal about drivers being at the mercy of traffic police (‘Drivers at the mercy of traffic police,’ SN, July 18).

Take Care

Jagdeo and Janet

Dear Editor, I am very perturbed about Region Two councillors asking for an increase in rates and taxes within the NDCs and the municipality and for a new valuation for properties.

Road rage is the term used to describe a violent incident, which results from stress caused by an accident (mainly minor) or other road incident, where a driver expresses aggressive behaviour.

Dear Editor, The Guyana Constitution lays down somewhere that elections shall be independently supervised by the Elections Commission.

Dear  Editor, The English philosopher, Jeremy Bentham, once uttered the famous and insightful statement that “publicity is the soul of justice.”

Dear Editor, Regrettably there seems to be a credibility deficiency at the Ministry of Housing.

Dear Editor, From all appearances, the indigenous people of this country have become the subjects of the ruling party.

Dear Editor, I write to offer prayers and sympathy to the families of the victims who perished in the fatal accident on Monday in Georgetown.

Dear Editor, I live at Crown and Irving streets, Queenstown. I have called Guyana Water Inc on two occasions recently about, firstly, a pipe that is running freely and unstopped from under the road after a GWI crew disconnected the pipe that leads to a vacant lot at the corner.

Dear Editor, The PPP has a history of carefully selecting its leadership for the presidency.

Dear Editor, Growing up as a child and a loyal citizen to the Linden community, I’ve shared a common interest in the welfare of my fellow citizens.

The apparently serious illness of President Hugo Chávez has taken observers by surprise, as it has, from all accounts, taken the President himself.

GECOM

Dear Editor, Editor, the day before yesterday was a gut-wrenching day for me, as I paid a visit to several villages along the west coast of the Berbice River.

It has taken Patrick Yarde the better part of twenty years or so to discover that the Guyana Public Service Union is facing a leadership crisis.

Dear Editor, A few weeks ago, the Daily Gleaner in Jamaica published a letter from me lamenting the latest squabbles and conflicts between Caribbean countries, specifically Barbados and Jamaica.