Letters to the Editor

Dear Editor, It was heart wrenching to read the terrifying ordeal the families of Lusignan have had to go through in what is now being dubbed the `Lusignan massacre’.

Dear Editor, First of all, Stabroek News, as much as you are the vanguard of the free press and as much as you are in the forefront of the fight against police and military brutality (as you should be), I think that pretty soon there would be no one left in Guyana to fight for.

Dear Editor, As the entire Guyana shares in the pain and the horror of the community of Lusignan, one is left shocked by the lack of positive reaction from the Government in attempting to apprehend the criminals who perpetrated this heinous act against innocent victims.

Dear Editor, I am amazed that after such a brutal attack on innocent women and children in which 11 lives were flushed out Mafia style, our President is asking residents to form Community Policing Groups to protect themselves.

Dear Editor, I read Mr Bisram’s recent letter about Barack Obama’s presidential candidacy.

Dear Editor, I refer to the article in your issue of 24.

Dear Editor, SASOD extends its condolences to the families and loved ones of the six children and five adults killed in Lusignan on Saturday morning.

Dear Editor, Born in Lusignan and grown in Buxton, I state publicly my sympathy with those people on the East Coast of Demerara who have suffered at the hands of lawless gunmen or official security forces, trained to secure officials only.

Dear Editor, I write to categorically condemn this vicious, cowardly act of murder of 11 innocent Guyanese, including children, carried out no doubt by deranged and demented gunmen.

Dear Editor, Since Christmas week, we the members St Barnabas church, have been encountering piles and piles of garbage at the entrance of the church from the parapet on Regent Street leading up to the gate.

Dear Editor, The EU, UK, US and Canadian Heads of Mission advised that, “there should be some level of confidence in the country’s security forces”.

Dear Editor, Cry me a river. The statements by President Jagdeo are exactly the same statements he put out after the Sash Sawh assassination, the same after the Nathoo bar massacre, the same after the Agricola massacre, the same after the Rose Hall attack, the same after the Tain uprising, the same after the Albion attacks.

Dear Editor, With impunity, a gang of demented individuals went on a murderous rampage, slaughtering eleven innocent individuals; how can the nation comprehend the murder of children while they sleep?

Dear Editor, In a previous letter I cautioned against ethnic finger pointing as it relates to the Lusignan massacre since the actions of a few should not be used to taint an entire group.

Dear President Jagdeo, I have recently returned to a country gripped by the race hatred and race fear that I came to accept as a normal thing as a child growing up, while you were still a babe in arms, in the sixties: Mainly working class Africans and Indians slaughtering each other while an Anglicized ‘raceless’ middle class shook their heads in various shades of horror, sadness, disbelief and impotence.

Dear Editor, On November 24, 2007, my wife and I travelled from New York to Guyana for a two month vacation.

Dear Editor, After the tragic incident in Lusignan , I have decided to share some essential home defence ideas.

Kenya is aflame after a presidential election on December 27 widely believed to have been rigged to secure the re-election of Mwai Kibaki.

Dear Editor, With the deepening financial woes of the Georgetown Municipality, it comes as no surprise that the City Council has ordered an audit probe into the operations of its Finance Department.

Dear Editor, I refer to the letter by Mr Vic Puran captioned “The point raised by the DPP of want of jurisdiction was not raised by the Attorney General in any of the Dataram case” (08.01.27) and wish to clear the misrepresentations of the law and facts as stated therein.