Opinion

Dear Editor, When Agriculture Minister Mr. Robert Persaud held his press conference on April 12, 2011 to defend the permit/agreement over 1.82 million acres granted to the Indian company Vaitarna Holdings Private Inc.,

Dear Editor, The Honourable Prime Minister Samuel Hinds has given us, in a rare intervention of its kind, the benefit of his views on the call for shared governance and the Afro-Guyanese situation (SN letter of April 27 “So long as rigged elections ….by

Dear Editor, A letter on, among other things the PNC rigging (SN April 27), signed by Prime Minister Sam Hinds, was published by your newspaper on the same day as one written by myself on the same subject.

Dear Editor, The letter by Dominic Gaskin is the usual nonsense which the AFC letter writers, and there’s a batch of them, are trying to peddle to the citizens of Guyana; they might complain that I write many letters but every day, one of them is peddling AFC nonsense in the letter writing section of KN and SN.

Dear Editor, I was blown away to read in last Sunday’s newspaper that one Guyanese-owned airline has more than 15 aircraft, operates four hangars and that there are as many as five pilots in one family!

Dear Editor, Please allow me space to thank Mr. Yog Mahadeo and the management of GT&T for reducing the none “E-magine” 256kbs DSL from $ 9,980 to $7,000.

Thursday Cartoon

Got to improve

According to World Bank estimates more than $1 trillion are paid in bribes each year out of an annual world economy of $30 trillion.

Dear Editor, To my mind the increase in the training of teachers will not decrease the ultimate problem with regard to rectifying this plight in our society.

Dear Editor, We must vehemently reject Tacuma Ogunseye’s threats and his calls for identification with race as the answer to the problems of Guyana, as perceived by him. 

Dear Editor, The West Indies selectors came up with a squad for the current series against Pakistan and their three most senior batsmen couldn’t find a place in the team.

Miserable Performance

Dear Editor, None, we are told, is more touching than a sinner in the travails of his repentance.

Hopes that the presidential and parliamentary elections in the Federal Republic of Nigeria would have passed off relatively peacefully, were dashed almost immediately after the announcement of the results in favour of incumbent President Goodluck Jonathan of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP).

Dear Editor, The now public disclosure of the 2011 budgetary allocation by the National Assembly to the Ministry of Culture, Youth and Sport has sent shock waves throughout the artist community.

Dear Editor, Another Labour Day when the triumphs and travails of the workers are brought to the attention of the nation by way of celebrations and demonstrations is on the horizon.

Dear Editor,I am writing about something that is worrying me.

Dear Editor, I think the Department of Education in Berbice needs to employ better procedures when dealing with the records of teachers that are submitted to the department.

Dear Editor, During this holy week one should give some thought to man’s feelings toward animals.