Opinion

Dear Editor, The reaction to the SN Editorial on the Dress Code is really interesting in this 21st century Guyanese society.

Dear Editor, I am enclosing a bill from a supermarket to highlight how businessmen are devising ways and means to take advantage of the many misinformed consumers concerning VAT.

Dear Editor, A headmaster whips a 13 year-old child to discipline her and we yell ” stop, in the name of love”.

Dear Editor, The introduction of VAT or Value-Added Tax came like a sudden tsunami upon our nation.

Dear Editor, Mr Trevor Atkinson in his letter captioned “Barama came in at a time when investment was badly needed and has been in the vanguard of sustainable forest management” (06.12.16) sought to justify the deal with and presence of Barama, by also citing the ‘good deeds’ or ‘fringe benefits’ of the company to the local community.

Dear Ms. Chantalle Smith, I read your column in KN (7th January, 2007).

Dear Editor, At the special forum in New Delhi for People of Indian Origin, the Indian government has responded positively to requests made by the Guyanese contingent and other PIOs.

Dear Editor, Wasn’t the site at Chateau Margot where the chimney is located supposed to be an historical site?

Dear Editor, I see with the implementation of VAT, the business community is coming out to say that the GRA was misleading us about 30 percent C-Tax items only.

Dear Editor, The year seems to have started in confusion since this VAT has descended upon us.

Dear Editor, Our government has an-nounced its plan to legalise casino gambling ahead of the much-anticipated 2007 Cricket World Cup.

Dear Editor, The Minister of Agriculture Mr Robert Persaud must ensure that rice farmers on the Essequibo Coast receive their long awaited land titles.

The current issue of Time magazine flatters its readers with the conceit that 2006 was the year of the Ordinary Person.

Dear Editor, When reading the list of zero-rated food items in the papers, you wonder what was going on in the Ministry of Finance and in the government generally as they come up with it.

Dear Editor, Twenty-one-year-old Rodney Beckles, son of the principal of the University of the West Indies Cave Hill campus, was yesterday charged with the murder of 28-year-old Khalil Campbell.

Dear Editor, I empathise with Heather Martin’s letter captioned “I was charged $56 extra on a tub of butter, the supermarket said it had already paid consumption tax of 30%” (07.01.04).

Dear Editor, I support Mr. Christopher Ram who has given some highlights of the global scourge of casino gambling in his letter captioned “Casinos are widely favoured by drug interests as laundries” (07.01.06).

Dear Editor, I read the ‘Consumer Concerns’ article in Sunday Stabroek, 7th January, about drugs and their ‘use-by’ dates.

Dear Editor, Thank you for raising the questions that most people and the relevant agencies should be asking about the situation of Shevonne Green.

Dear Editor, I refer to your editorial captioned “A real tragedy” dealing with the kidnapping of a baby from a l3 year-old girl.