Letters to the Editor

Dear Editor, Mr. Clement Rohee’s rambling letter to the press exposes his preoccupation with the functions of the Leader of the Opposition, rather than carrying out his constitutional responsibility of ensuring the security of Guyanese citizens, at a time when the fragile internal security situation demands his undivided attention.

Dear Editor, The community of Bartica continues to consensually express their dissatisfaction with the current state of unreliable electrical power supply which has damaged electrical household appliances, affecting business activity negatively and now, in the aftermath of Sunday February 17, 2008 massacre here where twelve innocent industrious persons tragically perished, it only adds more to the current psychological after effects on residents, particularly where security is concerned.

Dear Editor, Bartica was known as a peaceful and loving community.

Dear Editor, While I was a student of the university of Guyana, a regular occurrence would be for our classes to be interrupted by screeching tyres, loud music and cursing by drunken individuals, particularly on Friday evenings when you could look forward like clockwork to your classes in the GWLT being disturbed by these persons, many of whom are not students and are on a raucous campus lime (not organized university events) disturbing those of us who are there for the serious business of study.

Dear Editor: Friday, February 15, 2008 was designated Open/Career Day of the University of Guyana (UG).

Dear Editor, I read in another newspaper that the Jamaican artiste Movado ( who is famous for his hit “Gangster for life”)will be headlining the Linden Town Day activities.

Dear Editor, I think the representatives of civil society were right to accept the invitation from President Bharrat Jagdeo to meet with him on the crime situation following the Bartica massacre.

Dear Editor, It is pleasing to see that government has once again placed emphasis on the security sector in its annual budget through the allocation for the acquisition of much needed equipment to increase the police force’s efficiency to capture criminals.

Dear Editor, I read the recommendations of Dr David Singh of Conservation International in a recent lecture to the Georgetown Chamber of Commerce .

Dear Editor, The recent response of the Trinidad and Tobago state and political directorate to the horrendous killings of peaceful, unarmed citizens at Bartica is what one would expect from a Caricom member state that is a signatory to COHSOD Agreements as well as the Regional Strategic Security Plan (RSSP).

Dear Editor, Like Guyanese all over the world, I was devastated by the recrudescence of violence in Guyana.

Dear Editor, A lot has been said about Afro Guyanese being marginalized by this present administration and one influential gentleman even spoke about economic genocide.

Dear Editor, I was dismayed at the headline in Sunday February 24 Kaieteur News “Police release photos of Buxton gang members”; here we go again, linking Buxton to any and every serious criminal activity.

Dear Editor, The news that a young man age nineteen was charged with the massacre of 11 innocent Guyanese in Lusignan on January 26, 2008 drew my interest.

Dear Editor, I have read some comments about the subvention for Critchlow Labour College (CLC), which has been withheld by operatives of the Government of Guyana (GOG), apparently in an effort to punish the TUC for its failure to have trade union unity in the face of machinations from other actors in the industrial relations arena.

Dear Editor, I want back my Bartica with seven avenues and nine streets and roads that lead to Caribiese, Byderabo and the “Line”.

Dear Editor, When I turned on my computer, accessed the independent dailies and read that the mindless violence that had plagued our nation over the past five years had wended its way to Bartica, my hopes for my country just withered and died.

Dear Editor, My heart goes out to all those Guyanese who have died so tragically in the horrors of Lusignan and Bartica.

Dear Editor, The Canadian Government has budgeted to admit 215,475 new immigrants in the Skilled Workers category for the year 2008.

Dear Editor, GT&T has changed its calling rates in Turkeyen claiming it’s not in Georgetown when for the past few years I have been using the service under the ‘Georgetown’ rate.