Opinion

Dear Editor, The scenes from India’s triumph in the World Cup final were a spectacle to behold.

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Beyond the diplomatic rapprochement sealed by the summit meeting between Colombia’s new President, Juan Manuel Santos, and President Hugo Chávez of Venezuela last weekend in the Colombian city of Cartagena de Indias, there were signs that another festering sore in Latin American relations might soon be healed.

Dear Editor, With reference to the information from the press conference held by Minister Robert Persaud on April 12 about VHPI and reported variously in all three daily newspapers on April 13, perhaps you could jog the memory of Minister Robert Persaud about the wording of the National Forest Policy and the procedures of the Guyana Forestry Commission for handling applications for logging concessions? 

Dear Editor, Unhappily the statutory meeting of the Mayor and City Council on April 11 ended in disorder.

Dear Editor, In a letter in SN dated April 13 and captioned, ‘Consensus represents an ideal state,’ Mr Hydar Ally praised the PPP leadership as being very democratic and speaks of persons being able to subordinate their aspirations for the collective good of the organization – mind you not the good of the members, the supporters or the people of Guyana.

Dear Editor, Guyana’s public sector monthly minimum wage at the end of 2010 was $33,207 per month or $398,484 per year.

Dear Editor, The County meetings of the PPP which are being held to endorse the selection of Mr Donald Ramotar as the PPP presidential candidate by that party’s Central Committee have become the occasion  for President Bharrat Jagdeo to once again spew venom against Mr David Granger, the elected presidential candidate of the People’s National Congress Reform.

Dear Editor, I wish to thank Janette Bulkan for her well researched letter in the SN, ‘Is the Vaitarna forest concession another Asian scam like Barama?’

It was supposed to be the answer to the city’s garbage woes, foremost of which was the expired Le Repentir landfill that had so long polluted the lives of so many.

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Dear Editor, April 12 marked the 50th anniversary of Yuri Gagarin’s flight into outer space, the first human to enter God’s universe.

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With a date for elections still yet to be announced, JOPP (the Joint Opposition Political Parties) may have already landed itself in political BOP.

Like a good, old-fashioned communist party the PPP has managed to put to rest the drama and controversy that surrounded the choice of a presidential candidate.

Dear Editor, Guyana is in dire need of a proper National Gallery of Art, although no one seems cognizant of this fact.

Dear Editor, Your editorial (Sunday, April 10) under the caption ‘Consensus’ demonstrated a clear bias against the PPP and its internal democratic processes with particular reference to the manner in which the party has identified its presidential candidate.

Dear Editor, The Bartica Football Association would like to respond to various erroneous statements, that have been printed by sport reporters and in the letter columns of the daily newspapers, accusing the Bartica Football Association of being inactive and not carrying out its mandate as it relates to organizing football competitions at all levels; inefficient financial management; and the non-holding of mandatory meetings.

Dear Editor, There is a war on in Guyana and it is against our children. 

Dear Editor, It is interesting how much in common we have with our Caricom neighbours; things such as food, dress a colonial past and of course cricket.