Letters to the Editor

This was not a budget for poor people

Dear Editor, Twenty-four mainly grassroots women activists, Afro-Guyanese, Indo-Guyanese and Mixed participated in a spirited and focused workshop on economic issues organized by Red Thread to mark International Women’s Day, 2008.

The police must deal with citizens decently

Dear Editor, I refer to the letter of K.A. Juman-Yassin, Attorney-at-Law captioned “Police cannot arrest or detain a person merely to obtain information, there must be a reasonable suspicion” (08.03.11) and wish to commend him on his edifying comments, to wit ” Our police are by-and-large not respected as they should be and one of the reasons is because of the manner in which the public and even criminals are treated.

Please restore the siren/horn at Linden

Dear Editor, In every country there are communities with a thing or things that are indelibly etched within and have become part of the psyche of those communities serving and distinguishing each in a particular way.

The Jamaican experience shows that corporal punishment does not work

Dear Editor, It was reported in the Jamaica Observer of 6 March, 2008 that Jamaican Minister of Education Andrew Holness announced to a gathering of young people that Jamaica must create a new culture with respect to disciplining children and that it cannot be one that includes the resort to violence: “We have done that for many years, and do you know what that passes to the students?

The PNCR has taken a powerless posture

Dear Editor, Stabroek News’s editorial of March 10, 2008 captioned “The ads boycott 16 months on,” calling on the PNCR to ensure equity in advertisement distribution from Region 4 RDC, that it controls, may be directing its appeal in the wrong direction.

Senator Clinton’s biggest mistake, perhaps a combination of arrogance and ignorance, was to believe she had a birthright to the nomination

Dear Editor, In his letter, “Hillary Clinton has an ace up her sleeve,” (08.03.10), Mr Robin Williams cited Senator Clinton’s seemingly smart decision to keep her name on ballots in Florida and Michigan, in the event that the Democratic National Committee (DNC) reverses itself on an earlier ruling and allows delegates from the two states to be both counted and seated at the party’s August convention in Denver, Colorado.

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