Opinion

Dear Editor, I am prouder to be a Guyanese upon reading that the UWI St.

Dear Editor, Earlier this year, President Bharrat Jagdeo shocked the nation when he announced his government was going to dip into public funds and loan 168 million dollars to Buddy and amounts to other private business persons to expedite the completion of their construction projects related to Guyana’s hosting of CWC 2007.

Dear Editor, Cashier: “Good Afternoon KFC can I help you ?”

Dear Editor, Is this the same mysterious JdF whom you once claimed was holed up in Queens or Long Island.

Dear Editor, Tuesday, October 2, was the birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi and United Nations, in commemorating Gandhi’s contribution to our understanding and practice of non-violence or ahimsa, declared October 2 as world non-violence day.

Dear Editor, I refer to a letter by Mr Al Creighton captioned “Like universities generally UG has never had a formal statutory evaluation system for its top officers” (07.10.04).

Dear Editor, Where have all the sirs gone? The depletion of male teachers in the education system is now a worldwide phenomenon.

Dear Editor, I remember wondering as a boy, why newspaper stories of monsoons in India that killed 200 people took only a few lines while other stories where maybe one person died or perhaps a dog fell down a well, were given disproportionate prominence in the same newspaper.

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Let us pick up where our editorials of last Friday and Sunday left off in their discussion of the warm glow caused by the maritime award and the way forward with respect to our foreign policy in general and more specifically, the management of the border controversy with our western neighbour.

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Dear Editor, Mr P Singh, in his letter about the absurdity of making ‘Jonestown’ in the interior a site for ‘dark tourism’, is absolutely right.

Dear Editor, It had not been our intention to offer any response to a recent letter from Mrs Bernadette Persaud in which she commented on the Guyana Prize for Literature and its Awards Ceremony, partly because it is not our policy to entertain discussion about the Judges’ decisions.

Dear Editor, The supreme gift of multi-ethnicity adds spice to flavour and in no ordinary way was this divine phenomenon more perfectly blended into a complete oneness than in Washington DC, on Saturday last, when Guyanese met, greeted, embraced and again endorsed the true sprit of our national motto of one people, one nation, and one destiny.

Dear Editor, Reference to the article in the Stabroek News dated Wednesday October 3rd 2007 titled “Barama formulated MOU on use of roads by miners”.

Dear Editor, I write to support the letter sent to you with information that the students living at the Annai Dormitories are experiencing a food shortage which led to your investigation and report.

Dear Editor, With reference to your published solicitation of the views of a number of PPP persons as to their choice of the PPP’s presidential candidate for 2011, it was interesting to hear what came out of their mouths.

Dear Editor, On a brighter note, it was the local craft exhibitors who to my mind stole the show namely Jah Works and Burrowes School of Art graduate from a few years ago, Stonewall Michael who specialised in ceramics craft.

Dear Editor, It has been brought to my attention that in a press release issued by the PNCR it has been alleged that the Freedom of Information Bill tabled by me in the National Assembly was in effect a bill that was to be tabled by the PNCR, which in effect I took away with me to the AFC.

Dear Editor, The Guyana Labour Union (GLU) is scheduled to hold its Conference on October 21-23.