Opinion

Dear Editor, Mrs Maribeth Singh of Nappi Village is the Head Teacher of Konashen Primary School of the Wai Wai Village of Massakinyeri in the upper Essequibo river; a location that takes as much as fourteen days to reach by paddling.

Dear Editor, For over 75 years the Ministry of Public Works (MPW) with its Transport and Harbours Division has been responsible for the ferries and facilities that accommodate them to meet river transportation needs along coastal Guyana.

Dear Editor, The Georgetown Public Hospital Corpora-tion is responding to a letter written to the Editor in the Friday, May 14, 2010 edition of the Stabroek News captioned, ‘Old age pensioners are suffering because they are now denied free eye medication at the GPH’.

Dear Editor, Parents are concerned when their children at school face a constant change of teachers owing to them being transferred.

Dear Editor, Civil disobedience is the active refusal to obey certain laws, demands and commands of a government or of an occupying international power, using no form of violence.

Dear Editor, President Jagdeo visited the island of Wakenaam last week where he sought to justify the building of an airstrip by reference to the need for airlift during a medical emergency.

Dear Editor, In the early morning of February 6, 2010 animal-lover Gloria was sitting by her window having morning coffee looking out on the East Bank Road.

Dear Editor, I refer to your article in the Sunday Stabroek, May 16th `Guyana Times received 22% of state ads in April’ in which you referred to the Kaieteur News’ endorsement of the Government’s ban on state advertising to the Stabroek News in 2007.

Dear Editor, The only thing that can save the trade union movement from dying is if the members of each union campaign for a term limit for the presidency of the respective unions especially the Guyana Public Service Union.

 Dear Editor, A letter by a faculty member of the Turkeyen Campus of the University of Guyana was published in Thursday’s editions of the daily newspapers.

Last week’s forum – “In Harm’s Way: Girls in Settings of Endemic Armed Violence” – that was organized to observe the ‘Global Week of Action Against Gun Violence’ by the International Action Network against Small Arms was cause for both controversy and concern.

There would likely have been many cake shop owners and patrons who would have been bemused and taken some offence at President Jagdeo’s recent description of reportage on the controversial Amaila Falls deal as cake shop journalism.

Dear Editor, I have looked at the various photos in the newspapers of the ramp and drawbridge for the Supenaam stelling and in my opinion as a chartered civil and structural engineer the beam supporting the back wheel load of the truck at the junction of the ramp and the drawbridge would have failed regardless of whether the drawbridge came off the ferry or not, since the main supporting beam appears to be both poorly sized and of poor construction.

Dear Editor, The Guyana Police Force wishes to put on record its concern over the Editorial published in the Guyana Times on Saturday May 15, 2010, which is obviously timed to fall in conjunction with the statement made by the Director of Public Prosecutions that police investigators need more supervision, which is captioned on the front page with a subsequent story inside.

Dear Editor, Presidential Advisor Lumumba admitted that he received twenty thousand acres of land at Manarabisi and Akawini during his tenure as a comrade of the PNC and there is no reason to doubt him. 

Dear Editor, The submissions made by the United Kingdom and United States to the UN Universal Periodic Review for Guyana about the discrimination and degeneracy in society are welcome.

Dear Editor, I am absolutely amazed at the arrogance of the leader of our country.

Dear Editor, Mr McKenzie, former PNC Minister of Agriculture, does not recall 10,000 acres at Manarabisi going to Mr Lumumba in 1992.

Dear Editor, In early January this year, Stabroek News reported on a Wall Street Journal/Heritage Foundation 2009 Index of Economic Freedom.

Dear Editor, It is with frustration and disgust that I am writing this letter, highlighting the poor service at the Republic Bank at Rosignol, West Berbice.