Letters to the Editor

Dear Editor, The unearthing of the corruption at the Customs department recently is nothing new to Guyanese, what was alarming though is the amount, the level and the size of the well oiled machinery involved.

Dear Editor,We refer to a letter captioned “City Hall Officials should be replaced” (GC 08.04.17) by M.

Dear Editor, I write with reference to a featured article by Mr.

Dear Editor,Albeit from a layman’s point of view, I completely agree with the opinions expressed by Khushi Kumar in his letter captioned, “In the context did these words really constitute a threat to the President” (08.04.18).

Dear Editor, On the Guyanese-run blog, GUYANA FRIENDS, I came across a post on April 17 that showed an article written by Sharief Khan of the Guyana Chronicle, with the headline: “Corruption law to cover officers in revenue agencies.”

Dear Editor, With reference to the article “Ituni on bumpy road backwards” in the Sunday Stabroek, dated April 13, 2008, we would be grateful if you could publish this letter in the Sunday Stabroek so that someone from the Ituni Library could contact the University of Guyana Library by calling 222-4931 or 222-6006, ext.

Dear Editor, I applied to GT & T in February 2007 for an “uninterupted transfer” (this is where you continue to pay for the service while the transfer is being processed) of my landline service 220 -3268 from lot 29 Happy Acres to Lot 5 Happy Acres, ECD.

Dear Editor, Over the past several months there was an increase of 15% in electricity tariff making the cost per KWH paid for electricity in Guyana one of the world’s most expensive.

Dear Editor, On Easter Sunday at about 8.25 hrs, while walking south along Cummings Street, Alberttown, Georgetown, my life changed forever.

Dear Editor, I would like to add some reflective notes on your editorial for Stabroek Business captioned “The Customs racket: No one is protected” (08.04.14) and Mr.

Dear Editor, The four months suspension of NCN Channel Six by the President of Guyana, Mr.

Dear Editor, The exchange on Afro-Guyanese “marginalisation” is of a particular interest at this time if only because it is one of the macabre shadows given new life in the wake of the multiple killings at Lusignan and Bartica.

Dear Editor, More than five months ago the University of Guyana community had great difficulties with actions taken by its Council, the highest decision-making body of the institution. 

Dear Editor,   It was good that the Chief of Staff of the GDF held a Press Conference to give the nation the perspective of the GDF on the two recently acquired helicopters.

Dear Editor,   The current  hullabaloo at Customs  seems to have started with the Fidelity Polar beer court issue.

Dear Editor, “At the end of the small hours”. The phrase that is reiterated many times in Aime Cesaire’s “Notebook on a return to my native land” served as the departure point for some of the greatest lyrical and revolutionary verse ever to be written.

Dear Editor, In 2005 when the licence of CN Sharma’s television CNS TV6 was suspended at the time of the flood disaster by the Prime Minister, who was then the Minister responsible for telecommunications, for what appeared to be a deliberate attempt to make the President appear contemptuous of the conditions of the flood victims, I wrote at some length endeavouring to provide information and explain what we should expect of a licensed broadcaster.

Dear Editor, The news reports coming out of Guyana with regard to the smuggling/tax evasion/bribery and overall crimes against the people of Guyana in the Polar beer scam do not surprise most observers.

Dear Editor, Permit me to respond to Minister of Home Affairs, Clement Rohee’s  letter captioned  “Strange advice from Mr Ogunseye” (08.04.15) . 

Dear Editor, Today the world is witnessing an unprecedented decline in the production of food to feed a starving human population; instead food is being produced to feed machines.