Opinion

Dear Editor, It should be brought to the public’s attention and by extension that of Mr Abdul Jabar, Registrar of Friendly Societies, that the Guyana Football Federation’s (GFF) Annual General Meeting scheduled for Saturday, April 16, 2011, at the Ocean View Hotel Convention Centre, should be declared null and void and illegal.

Dear Editor, My letter dated April 6, captioned ‘Ramotar will not make a good president’ drew widespread agreement, but did not find favour with the current Speaker of Parliament, Mr Ralph Ramkarran, who was himself a prime candidate in the PPP selection process.

Dear Editor, Now that the storm in a teacup in relation to the reported dispute between Freddie Kissoon and the publisher of the Kaieteur News has passed, I wish to make a few pertinent observations on this brief episode.

Dear Editor, I have just returned home after studying abroad and was pleased to see the housing and commercial development taking place on the East Bank.

Dear Editor, I think minibuses are given a route to work in an area. 

Dear Editor, I want to encourage voters at home to strongly demand that each candidate and party bring something tangible to the table for voters to chew on, now that we have three confirmed 2011 presidential candidates – AFC’s Khemraj Ramjattan, PNC’s David Granger and PPP’s Donald Ramotar.

Dear Editor, I would like to say “hear, hear,” to the letter by Mr Lincoln Lewis on April 7 in which he mentioned liberation theology and discussed the Trotman-Jagdeo episode at the National Park (‘Saturday night’s encounter should have encouraged Jagdeo, Trotman to walk the talk’).

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Two weeks ago on a theatre stage in Brussels, as part of a cultural project called Shahrazad – Stories for Life – the Iraqi poet and essayist Manal Al-Skeikh (born in Nineveh, now resident in Norway) read the following passage from a lyrical ‘Letter to Europe’: “My experience of the Tunisian and Egyptian revolutions taught me the following lesson: if people are determined to live, destiny will respond.

Dear Editor, With the fiasco at the Guyana Cricket Board (GCB) in Georgetown, I think none of the members should seek re-election; let past cricketers take over the positions.

Dear Editor, As reported by SN, the bids have now been opened for construction of the major structures for the Hope Canal Project and hopefully after the documents have been analyzed contracts will be awarded to the lowest evaluated bidders.

Dear Editor,Policewoman Neebert Isaacs lived to protect people, but got no protection for herself. 

Dear Editor, After seeing today’s (April 6,) letter about garbage collection ceasing by S&H Contracting on the WBD, I would like to add that for the last year, we’ve been having on and off collection by the same company, for Pigeon Island and Chateau Margot, ECD also (‘Garbage collection at Westminster, WCD has ceased’).

Dear Editor, Some time ago, I carried out a very rudimentary experiment and offered my conclusion in a letter to you. 

Dear Editor, I want to personally congratulate Mr David Granger and Mr Donald Ramotar on their elevation as the respective candidates of the PNC and PPP. 

Dear Editor, Some months ago I was in my yard when there was another blackout and was highly displeased at what I witnessed: the meter was still recording consumption and at a quick pace when everything should have been at a dead halt. 

Dear Editor, I would like to draw your attention to your sport section, where you used to have a column on thoroughbred horse-racing written by Jeffrey Ross. 

Dear Editor, As an ex-member of the army, I always remember that safety and security is the business of every citizen of Guyana, and I don’t think that anyone in their right senses is going to instruct a magistrate to travel in a speedboat to conduct state business in the interior (Bartica), an area where innocent citizens lost their lives in a massacre.

Dear Editor, President Jagdeo who holds such high office should be ashamed of himself for making the speech he did at Babu John. 

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