Opinion

Dear Editor, Having heard that there was to be a big celebration over the river at Joe Vieira Park in honour of Indian Arrival I decided to have a look.

Dear Editor, I wish to compliment Mr Anthony Johnson and the officers from the Guyana Power and Light Inc compensation section, for the courteous and efficient way in which they accepted a report I made to them on Monday, May 31, concerning an electrical mishap in the Bel Air Promenade area, which resulted in my television being burnt due to the fluctuation of current.

Dear Editor, We the cricket fans have to ‘sponsor’ cricket on the Bartica TV station, Channel 5 before we can see it.

Dear Editor: Reading your news item, ‘Synergy chosen for road building through public tender – Jagdeo stresses,’ (June 1), I felt an urgency to respond because the President continues to demonstrate that he either lacks tact in framing impromptu responses to questions or he just says whatever comes to his mind and hopes it sounds right or makes sense when the media report it.

Dear Editor, Trinidad’s oldest political party, the Peoples National Movement which was founded over 50 years ago by, among others, the late Dr Eric Williams, is expected to have a new interim political leader this week until a convention in June chooses a regular leader.

Dear Editor, In this incident where the Israelis killed several peace activists that were on a ship taking domestic consumer goods to Gaza, one thing is quite clear: the Israelis went purposely to kill.

Late last month, as preparations for the observance of World No Tobacco Day heightened, the UK’s Daily Mail newspaper ran a feature—complete with photographs—on a two-year-old Indonesian boy, who smokes 40 cigarettes a day.

Dear Editor, I refer to your letter dated May 20, 2010 and addressed to me (with letter to editor attached: ‘Why can’t an Essequibo civil case be heard in the High Court in Suddie?’

Dear Editor, One of the fundamental issues in good governance is a periodic change at the helm, notwithstanding how good or committed the incumbent is.

Dear Editor, I was deeply shocked, and all Guyana should be, to read of the horrific, wicked and indecent attack on Mr Freddie Kissoon.

Dear Editor, It was a dream that one day the Demerara and Berbice Rivers would be bridged. 

Dear Editor, All the citizens of Guyana should say in one voice, “Congrats to the people of Trinidad and Tobago,” for an election which brought change and a sense of unity which we sorely need in this country.

Dear Editor, I was standing in line at the GPO to collect my princely sum of sixty-six hundred dollars when I saw an old woman trying to get in line to draw hers.

Dear Editor, A week after the obscene Kissoon matter the stench grows stronger. 

Dear Editor, Emile Mervin in a letter in SN dated May 26, captioned ‘How can a country develop without its most precious resource: people?’

Dear Editor, There is nothing that would give anyone more of a blast-out laugh than seeing two athletes battling it out with maximum speed at the end of a race because they did not want to come last.

The return of the United National Congress, as the core of the People’s Partnership (PP) coalition, to power in Trinidad and Tobago must naturally give rise to the question of the extent of continuity that there is likely to be in the country’s relationships and policies towards first, the Caricom sub-region itself and then to the wider Caribbean Basin and Latin American arenas.

Dear Editor, In Saturday’s SN (May 29th) a photograph showed dead fish floating in the Lamaha Canal which supplies raw water from the Conservancy to the Shelter Belt treatment facilities which process it to provide potable water for much of Georgetown and its suburbs.

Dear Editor, There is no getting away from it. The argument about the constitution that is now being joined in earnest is not about dull technicalities.