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In agreeing with President Jagdeo’s assessment of the 19th Summit of the Rio Group as a “success” and in offering congratulations to the President and his team, in our most recent editorial on the Summit, we were of necessity looking at the big picture.

Defence counsel representing Swiss House boss and his beauty queen wife yesterday objected to two additional statements which the prosecution intended to serve.

Five men were yesterday charged with being involved in the recent armed attack on homes at Black Bush Polder and were refused bail by Acting Chief Magistrate Cecil Sullivan.

Dear Editor, I congratulate President Bharrat Jagdeo for having the guts to stand up and denounce the United States of America.

Dear Editor, The authorities at all levels, national government and municipality, ought to be commended for the effort that is currently being made to clean up the city and its environs and fix the roads.

Dear Editor, I share the Minister of Education’s concerns regarding indiscipline and violence in our schools but would urge some restraint with respect to the banning of cell phones in schools.

Dear Editor, My elderly uncle, who lives in Queenstown, was just told by the city council that he has to remove a few bricks he put on the parapet to prevent big trucks from destroying the grass.

The Ministry of Human Services and Social Security has begun a campaign aimed at getting children off the streets, reuniting them with their families where possible and working with parents and guardians to ensure that the children have a good home environment.

Dear Editor, Mr. Mohamed Khan’s letter captioned “Government has seen land distribution as vital” (07.03.11) dealt with the legal side of land distribution and allocation through government’s policies but failed to point out a consistent land-use and development or settlement programme for agricultural or other use of new lands.

Now accused of being a primary supplier of cocaine to Trinidad, Barbados, St Maarten and Canada, Guyanese businessman Peter Morgan, who US drug enforcement officials held at Piarco airport on Friday, was refused bail yesterday pending an extradition hearing.

Dear Editor, I refer to a letter captioned “I signed a Letter of Intent with BMW since December 2005 to establish Prestige Motors” (07.023.11) in which it was stated that Prestige Motors, Inc.

Dear Editor, The President now speaks of ‘a newly emerging private sector’.

Dear Editor, Mr. Ramdass’s letter captioned “GT&T should have introduced per second billing before ” (07.03.11) echoed the thoughts of all Guyanese when he said GTG&T should have instituted per second billing a long time ago.

Dear Editor, I refer to the article captioned “Press body slams President’s verbal assault on media” (SN, March 11, 2007).

Dear Editor, A few weeks ago in a letter to your newspaper I alluded to comments made by two late presidents of Guyana about the United States and expressed the hope that our current president would be more restrained than his predecessors in his public comments about the world’s only superpower.

Dear Editor, In a response to a letter writer in the Sunday edition of Stabroek News (03/11/07), GT&T has acknowledged that with its per second billing system in use, it has observed an increase in the number of persons using its cell phones on the network thereby causing congestion.

Dear Editor, It is always refreshing to read ‘Ian On Sunday’ and his column of Sunday 11-03-2007 is one to behold.

Dear Editor, I refer to Mrs. Volda Lawrence’s letter captioned “There is a proper forum for party matters to be dealt with” (07.02.09).

Dear Editor, Please permit me another opportunity to lecture to my former lecturer, Mr Vincent Alexander, in his capacity as ‘Leader-in-Waiting’ of the main opposition People’s National Congress Reform (PNCR).

Dear Editor, Misses Amna Ally and Volda Lawrence have rushed to the defence of PNCR Leader, Mr.