Opinion

Dear Editor, On December 21 at 09:30hrs, I was at the Parika Stelling in a speedboat destined for Supenaam waiting while it was being loaded. 

Dear Editor, A secret ballot is the bedrock of democracy and is used all over the globe in choosing a party’s candidate for office. 

Dear Editor, It is with pleasure that I inform you that primary and secondary school teachers in Berbice who participated in the National Remediation Programme 2010 with low achievers in English and Mathematics during the summer holidays have been paid.

We apologise for the fact that the letter by Mr Omadatt Chandan, which appeared in our edition yesterday, was not reproduced in full owing to a technical error.

For many Guyanese who followed his career from the mid-1950s to the mid-1970s, he was the closest thing we had to a non-political national hero.

Dear Editor, I am responding to regional news item ‘T&T PM outlines three steps to fight crime’ (SN, Dec 23).

Politikles

Dear Editor, I am not surprised about recent comments made by Mr Charles Sohan in a letter titled ‘Bewildering that Hope Canal excavation has been halted because of weather,’ dated Monday, December 20 in the Stabroek News and an article in the Kaieteur News titled ‘Technical sound, feasible Hope Canal project delayed until mid-January’ dated Tuesday, December 21 which contains a number of inaccuracies.

Dear Editor, It was pleasing to read the letter from Michael De Freitas ‘Why has E-networks been allowed to extend its signal but others have not?’

Dear Editor, One would hope that the whole point of laying a synthetic athletic track is to ensure that the timings achieved will earn international recognition.

Dear Editor, It doesn’t appear to me that the strategists, revisionists, technocrats, directors and even the experts that are daily involved in the direction of West Indies cricket have properly considered the rationale in preparing the West Indies team for prestigious international tournaments, such as the World Cup.

Dear Editor, Dr Cheddi Jagan acted and spoke the way he did because he was the son of a sugar worker.

Dear Editor, There is absolutely no way that GuySuCo under the PPP will ever de-recognize GAWU.

In three days, the holiday most celebrated universally will have come and gone.

Dear Editor, The Christmas season is one of expectancy among the large Guyanese population in various parts of America. 

Politikles

Dear Editor, The article ‘Cuba’s Economic Paradigm Shift: A Work in Progress’ (‘In the Diaspora’ SN, December 20) was an interesting take on developments in Cuba; we wait to see how it all pans out.

Dear Editor, It was instructive to see from SN’s December 18 edition, the management of the Linden Hospital Complex speaking up in relation to its referrals to the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation.

Dear Editor, I am accompanied by a radio all day long and get really mad when the reception is bad, nonsense is played for songs, programmes that do not interest me are aired or the station is down, as is the case now for a number of hours.

Dear Editor, I wish to refer to an article in the Stabroek News under the caption ‘Arau wants land settled before low carbon decision –Toshao’ in its issue of Thursday, November 18, 2010.