Letters to the Editor

Dear Editor, With reference to the confusion surrounding the sale of Buddy’s – the interest in this property comes from the possibility that it will get a casino licence.

Dear Editor, SASOD joins with other organisations and countries (including Cuba and Costa Rica) around the world to commemorate May 17 as International Day Against Homophobia.

Dear Editor, Thank you very much for the piece in SN May, 13, 2008, ‘More questions than answers over ice factory construction.’

Dear Editor,Thanks for the news item, ‘State land leads to windfall for Shivraj,’ (SN, 14.5.08), that exposed some more of this unsettling arrangement between the government and Buddy’s hotel.

Dear Editor,In December of 2007 (before the start of the first Primary) and in the letter column of your newspaper, I predicted that Barack Obama would be the Democratic Presidential nominee and that he would go on to become President of the United States.

Dear Editor, I must commend the Guyanese press for highlighting the anticipated change of ownership of Guyana’s leading international hotel at Providence, although I sensed a veiled grudge against Buddy Shivraj. 

Dear Editor, I offer a suggestion.  I have no doubt that Mr Sharma would like to be of help to ordinary people, but if he is to work for justice for the people, he could perhaps do so in a responsible manner. 

Dear Editor, I am thoroughly confused. A few weeks ago cane harvesters in Berbice protested the rise in the cost of living, and were advised by the Prime Minister (not the Minister of Agriculture) that nothing could be done specifically for cane harvesters.

Dear Editor,I was looking at the news tonight with Mr Karran purporting that Guyana Water Inc (GWI) supplies treated water to the citizens of Guyana and was prompted to write this letter.

Dear Editor, With reference to the recent poll commissioned by your newspaper, I would like to take this opportunity to make a few comments.

Dear Editor, I would like to ask Mr Edward Persaud who wrote a letter to your newspaper which was printed in your issue of Monday, April 28, 2008 under the caption ‘Some big contractors take advantage of the workers’ to contact me at the Ministry of Labour, 82 Brickdam, Georgetown, telephone no 225-7302.

Dear Editor, I am writing this letter with disgust because I am fed up complaining to GWI concerning the sewerage system overflow in the Stevedore Scheme area.

Dear Editor,I am gratified to learn  of  the introduction of lie detectors as a means of weeding out undesirables from important public service departments.

Dear Editor, The debate about the poll in the SN, (for example ‘Further questions about Bisram poll’ by Dr Anand Parsaud (13.5.08), can only be a healthy development for Guyana. 

Dear Editor,Dr Anand Persaud is more sober but still confrontational in his second commentary about my poll in a letter captioned, ‘Further questions about Bisram’s poll’ (SN, 13.5.08)) than in his first attack on the poll (SN, 10.5.08). 

Dear Editor, I would like to thank Mr Mohamed Khan (former trade unionist) for his short but informative letter ‘This year’s May Day was a disgrace to the founder of the local movement’ (SN, 3.5.08).

Dear Editor, Corrupt GRA officers need to face the most harsh penalty since they are robbing the state of taxes when some of us have absolutely no choice but to pay a substantial amount of our meagre earnings in taxes.

Dear Editor, Recently, two incidents brought home forcibly to me the mistaken attitudes adopted by certain people, that nothing good has come out of Albouystown, or, in contradiction, that those from this community who have made good are likely to be ashamed of their roots. 

Dear Editor, The death of a woman in my village recently prompts me to highlight the plight of the widows, poor and now increasingly the middle class which is joining the poor, since the introduction of the unconscionably high Value Added Tax (VAT), and the recent incredible increase in rice prices.

Dear Editor, The blow-up over the possible misappropriation of funds is an indication of the backwardness, mixed with corruption and deceit in the electoral process.