Letters
There are parallels between the election of Chicago’s first African-American mayor and Obama
By Staff | Monday, September 8, 2008 | 0 CommentsDear Editor, Some rather interesting parallels can be drawn between the election of Chicago’s first African-American mayor in 1983 and the current candidacy of Senator Barack Obama to become the first US president of African-American (or multi-racial)... Read more »
There needs to a breathing space to produce a national industrial strategy for development
By Staff | Monday, September 8, 2008 | 0 CommentsDear Editor, So our President has out of thin air conceded that Guyana will be willing to sign a goods-only EPA (SN Sep 7, 2008). However, any goods-only EPA must include asymmetric provisions. Guyanese goods just cannot compete under an agreement... Read more »
Police did not respond
By Staff | Monday, September 8, 2008 | 0 CommentsDear Editor, On Friday, September 5, 2008, at 12.15 am I was approaching my home on the East Bank of Demerara and as I got into the yard I heard a funny sound coming from inside my house. I decided to get a closer look and to my surprise I saw three shadows... Read more »
There should be no latrines in schools
By Staff | Monday, September 8, 2008 | 0 CommentsDear Editor, It is sad that in this day and age we still have latrines in the school system. We’re asking children to be health conscious and to practise safe sex and we can’t even provide them with a proper toilet? The Ministries of Education and... Read more »
Letter was not a ‘dig’ at Obama
By Staff | Monday, September 8, 2008 | 2 CommentsDear Editor, Mr Robin Williams in a letter captioned ‘The relationship between the Obama and Clinton camps is a symbiotic one’ (SN September 1) unfairly and inaccurately characterized my analysis of the Democratic convention as being anti-Obama. Mr... Read more »
Wrong choices
By Staff | Monday, September 8, 2008 | 0 CommentsDear Editor, The deaths of Rondell Rawlins, aka ‘Fineman’ and Jermaine Charles aka ‘Skinny’ are yet more examples of young people in our society making the wrong choices. Since the beginning of this year we have seen a reign of terror at the hands... Read more »
The stadium should be used for the purpose for which it was built, not for noisy, maniacal concerts
By Staff | Sunday, September 7, 2008 | 8 CommentsDear Editor, Now that a re-energized Private Sector Commission has thrown down the gauntlet against inconsiderate and indiscriminate garbage dumping by the commercial business sector, (Stabroek Business September 4) perhaps they may consider scrutinizing... Read more »
We need a vision and programmes for young people
By Staff | Saturday, September 6, 2008 | 10 CommentsDear Editor, Today, like many other days, I sit alone contemplating the situation that is Guyana. As I pan through the news my fears mingle with the desperation I feel for every parent who outlives a child fallen to the ignorance of crime. I am only... Read more »
NIS record-keeping is defective
By Staff | Saturday, September 6, 2008 | 1 CommentDear Editor, Recently an employee of a well-known establishment for which I work approached the NIS for a spectacles voucher only to be told that they have thirty contributions. This member of staff has been in our employ for nearly two years, contributions... Read more »
Carifesta was memorable
By Staff | Saturday, September 6, 2008 | 0 CommentsDear Editor, Carifesta was a tremendous success as far as the writers were concerned. I vouch for my friends, Derek Walcott, Austin Clarke and Earl Lovelace, when I say that we thoroughly enjoyed our stay. We were very impressed by the scale of events... Read more »
By Staff | Saturday, September 6, 2008 | 4 Comments
Dear Editor, Mr Oliver Hinckson has again been denied bail, and continues to be moved from one location to the next. This sixty-four year old man with a known medical problem is continuously subjected to being shackled and taken into court in a most undignified... Read more »
A school of agriculture is welcome in Region Two
By Staff | Saturday, September 6, 2008 | 0 CommentsDear Editor, Through agricultural, industrial and technical development the pragmatic objectives must continue to be to feed ourselves. This objective must form the core from which all other benefits which constitute the good life should spring. The pursuit... Read more »
Release of video footage is not enough
By Staff | Saturday, September 6, 2008 | 1 CommentDear Editor, Recently, the Chairman of the AFC, Mr Khemraj Ramjattan, called on the government to release video footage of supposedly “political figures” that went into Buxton and mingled with the late ‘Fineman’ Rawlins and other gunmen. The PPP... Read more »
Poll says Trinidad ruling party has slipped in popularity
By Staff | Saturday, September 6, 2008 | 1 CommentDear Editor, An opinion poll conducted by NACTA in Trinidad has found that the ruling party has slipped in popularity since the election of November 2007. A large majority of voters said they are dissatisfied with the way T&T is being governed. ... Read more »
Dirty water coming through Stevedore taps
By Staff | Friday, September 5, 2008 | 2 CommentsDear Editor, We, the mothers, grandmothers and aunts of Stevedore Housing Scheme demand that Guyana Water Inc take urgent steps to provide us with clean water. For about four months, we have been enduring the following conditions: The water coming through... Read more »
The UG administration is right to have air quality tests conducted
By Staff | Friday, September 5, 2008 | 1 CommentDear Editor, I feel compelled to write this letter, because I found the news item, which attracted my attention, nothing short of incredible, if not surreal. On the evening, of Mon-day September 1, 2008, I was watching the NCN news and, having heard what... Read more »
The torture report must not be pushed under the carpet
By Staff | Friday, September 5, 2008 | 3 CommentsDear Editor, Allow me to extend my congratulations to the Disciplined Forces for finally bringing to an end the unimaginably cruel instincts of Guyana’s most dangerous duo. The struggle to capture Fineman was becoming more and more of a concern to every... Read more »
Those sixty and over who have no NIS pension should not have to pay PAYE
By Staff | Friday, September 5, 2008 | 0 CommentsDear Editor, I would like the public to know that when you have reached the age of sixty and over the government will not allow you to donate blood or pay an NIS contribution. But if you are not getting an NIS pension or any pension other than the old... Read more »
Why no details?
By Staff | Friday, September 5, 2008 | 5 CommentsDear Editor, According to your Thursday news article, captioned ‘First witness cross-examined in Hinckson terrorist act PI,’ one Trevor Reid of the CID’s Serious Crimes Investigation Unit was the first witness to be cross-examined, but as per your... Read more »
The Russians have done a Kosovo in the Caucasus
By Staff | Friday, September 5, 2008 | 7 CommentsDear Editor, Much has been carried in your newspaper about the situation in Georgia in the Caucasus. Almost all the reports and even letters to the editor, have put forward the American and European Union’s viewpoint. That is, that the action and the... Read more »
Rawlins’ group was engaged in a political struggle
By Staff | Friday, September 5, 2008 | 26 CommentsDear Editor, The Sunday Stabroek (SN) editorial of August 31, 2008, captioned ‘Rawlins’ gang’ has reopened the debate on whether the so-called Fineman gang was engaged in political struggle or crime. The question that comes to mind is whether Rawling... Read more »
Police bike patrols have become popular in almost every city in the developed world
By Staff | Thursday, September 4, 2008 | 2 CommentsDear Editor, As a Guyanese back home on vacation for Carifesta, I am particularly delighted to see that the City of Georgetown has opted to establish a Police Bike Patrol Unit. This type of policing has become enormously popular in an almost every city... Read more »
Other towns should follow Georgetown’s example and have constabulary bicycle patrols
By Staff | Thursday, September 4, 2008 | 6 CommentsDear Editor, I have always advocated that a country’s citizens should make constructive criticisms when they see things going wrong in their land, but should also be willing to give praise when and where it is due. I have observed that the Constabulary... Read more »
Despite the killing of ‘Fineman’ some unanswered questions remain
By Staff | Thursday, September 4, 2008 | 12 CommentsDear Editor, The security forces have managed to end the criminal career of Guyana’s most wanted, Rondell ‘Fineman’ Rawlins, and at the same time have dealt a blow to the criminal enterprise operating in our society. However, I am always concerned... Read more »
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