Dear Editor,
The Guyana Revenue Authority has recently demonstrated its extreme backwardness in its tax collecting operations by rejecting a cheque for property and income taxes because the taxpayer did not have a Tax Identification Number (TIN).
Dear Editor,
The Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) has appealed to the media to allow the multi-agency task force to carry out its investigations into the alleged fraud involving the GRA and Fidelity Investment in a professional manner and without bias.
Dear Editor,
I have to ask the question: How determined are the authorities to capture the local terrorists that have this nation petrified?
Dear Editor,
The matter of Ranvanlee Chan, the 10-year-old boy from Sisters Village, East Bank Berbice, who was alleged to have been brutally beaten by members of the Guyana Police Force on January 1, 2008, is not to be put to rest because the administrators connected to this incident have been contacted by me in the hope that little Ranvanlee would be given a chance to overcome his ordeal.
Dear Editor,
As my family mourn the passing of our gardener who touched the lives of all seven of us, I cannot help but note how in our society, obituaries seem reserved for the rich, the powerful and the famous.
Dear Editor,
Vidyaratha Kissoon wrote about the term ‘napumsak’ in a letter to the newspapers (‘Minister Rohee made no reference to homophobic lyrics’ SN, 1.5.08).
Dear Editor,
I wish to refer to Mr. Baldeo Persaud’s letter titled ‘Africa suffers from poor leaders’ (SN, 5.5.08).
Dear Editor,
The brutal killings in Lusignan and Bartica, and now the murder of Farouk Kalamadeen are an exemplification of the lawlessness that has pervaded Guyana for the last decade under PPP leadership.
Dear Editor,
In Berbice, the annual journey to Highbury on the East Bank of the Berbice River had been done on the holiday (May 5) itself.
Dear Editor,
A few months ago, a friend of mine returned home for a holiday after an absence of many years.
Dear Editor,
I will never forget all the new Indigenous brothers and sisters I had the honour to meet at the recently concluded United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues at UN headquarters in New York City, USA.
Dear Editor,
While I am sure that many people would agree with Baldeo Persaud that ‘Africa suffers from poor leaders’ as he highlighted in his letter (SN, 5.5.08) I would like to point out that Africa has done as well as China and India on the economic front.
Dear Editor,
It was reported that the Prime Minister was chased from a GTUC Labour Day rally by some workers, after being invited by union officials, who seemed to have done nothing.
Dear Editor,
Ms Kanhai’s letter in the Guyana Chronicle ‘Our diversity is the beauty of Guyana’ (30.4.08) is timely but its contents are unsettling!
Dear Editor,
The Guyana Revenue Authority has recently demonstrated its extreme backwardness in its tax collecting operations by rejecting a cheque for property and income taxes because the taxpayer did not have a Tax Identification Number (TIN).
Dear Editor,
In two articles in KN the Guyana Forestry Commission (GFC) has been protesting about being taken to court by Toolsie Persaud Ltd (TPL) over activities in forest logging concession TSA 04/1985 which expired and should have been closed in December 2007 (‘TPL fined $80.2M for timber breaches’ (1.5.08), and ‘Forestry monitoring – Guyana turning to Brazil for help in
using satellite imagery,’ (3.5.08).
Dear Editor,
The Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) has appealed to the media to allow the multi-agency task force to carry out its investigations into the alleged fraud involving the GRA and Fidelity Investment in a professional manner and without bias.
Dear Editor,
I was arrested and incarcerated at the Suddie Police Station for the full 72 hours during investigations that I was alleged to have stolen some crushed stone belonging to a wealthy businessman (name provided) while it was on a heap by the Riverstown creek some time ago.
Dear Editor,
We need a national conversation on the state of literacy in Guyana.
Dear Editor,
I have to ask the question: How determined are the authorities to capture the local terrorists that have this nation petrified?