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Politikles

Dear Editor, There appears a missive in your letter columns of Friday April 22, 2011 titled, `It was Mr Rohan Singh who achieved much of the change being credited to Mr Ramjattan’.

Few people who are familiar with the Guyanese political culture would have attached any substantive significance to the recent announcement that Messrs.

Dear Editor, In an article which appeared in KN on April 21 on the above captioned subject, Dr.

Dear Editor, One ought to judge Donald Ramotar and his Team on their words, their public commitment and their proven track record. 

Dear Editor, For a reason I find it hard to define, the coming elections appear as crucial as any we have experienced since independence.

Dear Editor, A 1971 Pan American Health Organisation survey found 38% of the Guyana population living below the poverty line.

Dear Editor, In a Stabroek News article last Monday, “Board cannot be blamed for sugar woes – Ramotar,” PPP presidential candidate, Mr.

Dear Editor, I attended the entire meeting held by ACDA in Beterverwagting on Saturday, April 16.

Dear Editor,I didn’t go to the rodeo this year. I won’t go again until the unnecessary cruelty to the horses and bulls stops.

Politikles

A report by the Times of India earlier this month that an Indian company, Vaitarna Holdings, controlled 1.82M acres of Guyanese forest deservedly captured media scrutiny here.

Dear Editor, I confess to an inability to discern whether Mr.

Dear Editor, Allow me to use your column to alert GPL and the public of the low-hanging electrical wires directly outside my office in Quamina St, the third building from the corner of Main St.

Dear Editor, Having read the latest of Cheddi Jagan Jnr.’s  increasingly frequent contributions to your letter columns (published Wed 20th April), I was reminded of Ronald Regan’s simple rebuttal to a lengthy criticism from Walter Mondale back in 1984.

Dear Editor, With regards to your news item, as carried by the New York Times, on the difficulties Guyanese (Indo-Caribbean) Hindus face and the problems they present in worshipping at the Rockaway Bay area (Guyanese Hindu Rituals Lead to Clash …SN Apr 22), this has been an ongoing problem for over two decades with Hindu leaders not actively pursuing a practical solution or educating worshippers about environmental concerns. 

Dear Editor, I am a widow and I am trying to contact Mr David Fennell, former President of Golden Star Resources Ltd, High Street, Georgetown (closed down) and now executive chairman of the Manganese Company, Matthews Ridge, Region 1, to ask him why the company failed to pay my National Insurance Scheme contributions, even though NIS was deducted from my salary from January, 1991 to April, 1995 as a security guard.

In our editorial of Monday, March 14, we had drawn attention to the fact that the Education Television Broadcasting Service was being set up in breach of the understanding reached during the dialogue between President Jagdeo and the late Mr Hoyte, and the continuation of that dialogue with the latter’s successor, Mr Robert Corbin.

Kite Tangled

Dear Editor, I wish to respond to your article in the Stabroek News dated 21st April 2011 captioned, `Canada refugee couple should have reported threats to police’.