Opinion

Dear Editor, I wish to comment on a recent article in the Kaieteur News titled ‘Wismar residents offended by D&I workers’ dated Thursday, January 13, 2010.

Dear Editor,There is no political will simply because there is no political mandate and I have previously alluded to this basic deficiency affecting any meaningful programme in Caricom.

Dear Editor, It is difficult for the interested ‘sugar’ observer not to detect the communication (wiki) gaps in an organisation bereft of motivation and so patently lacking in team spirit.

Dear Editor, PNCR and Opposition Leader Robert Corbin, who excoriated Mr Harry Gill and me for separate letters we wrote that addressed him, demanded I “produce evidence of the lucrative retirement package that I alleged has been prepared” for him, or  shut up.

Dear Editor, I refer to the article entitled ‘Guyana recognizes Palestine’ (SN, January 14).

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The Arizona shootings which claimed six lives and left a member of Congress seriously wounded have provoked a heated debate in America about the consequences of intemperate political rhetoric.

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Dear Editor, Without taking away from the recognition granted to Mr Ashok Ramsaran by the Government of India (Gov’t of India honours… SN, Jan 10), I wish to note that there are several prominent Guyanese Americans who are far more deserving of the Pravasi Award based on their long-standing service to the Guyanese, Caribbean and Indian diasporas as well as building relations with their ancestral homeland of India.

What may well be the first campaign advertisement to appear in the print media was published recently.

Dear Editor, Our city is fast becoming a ‘boom’ town – not like the old west of the United States when they struck oil.

Dear Editor, The Stabroek News editorials are among the best I read for a newspaper anywhere in the world. 

Dear Editor, This is my third letter re the dangerous hole in McDougall Street, Kitty, and I am sure by now that you are fed up with me.

Dear Editor, We, the parents of Sheema Mangar, are thankful to be given this public opportunity to share with you our feelings, concerns and perspectives on the brutal slaying of our daughter on September 14, 2010, at the hands of a callous criminal – just for the sake of her cell phone.

Dear Editor, Bish Panday ought to be elected as the President of the Guyana Cricket Board at the end of this month.

Dear Editor, I don’t trust them, I don’t like them and I couldn’t care less about them, but you must give credit where and when credit’s due.

Dear Editor, At last the Leader of the PNCR has finally plucked up the courage to respond to one of my letters using his name (‘Political objective was to serve notice to President Jagdeo and PPP that PNCR was aware of their plans’ SN, January 12). 

Dear Editor, Firstly, I thank Claude Raphael for his forthright views on the candidates for the upcoming elections as it is not often that people would publicly provide such candid views, particularly when he may be close ‘buddies’ with them all (‘Bissoondyal Singh is the best person to succeed Chetram Singh as President of the Guyana Cricket Board’ SN, January 10).

“All politics is local,” said former US Speaker of the House, Tip O’Neill, but a recent excess of rhetoric in Barbados prompted by domestic politicking is making waves across the region.

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