Letters to the Editor

Dear Editor, I always have to pose myself the question whether to reply or not.

Dear Editor, In the latter part of 2007, Dr. Ramsammy boldly announced that Guyanese were consuming alcohol in epidemic proportions and vowed to take steps to curb the crisis.

Dear Editor, In relation to the pending negotiations between the Government of Guyana (GOG) and GT&T over the terms of GT&T’s future operations in Guyana it should be noted that cellular service can be used to help increase telephone penetration in Guyana, especially in those interior areas where population is sparse and where running wired telephone lines is very expensive on a per capita basis.

Dear Editor, It was extremely refreshing to hear the Prime Minister of Antigua and Barbuda, the Honourable Baldwin Spencer in opening the 5th Triennial Delegates Conference, paying a well earned tribute to the Guyana Labour Union.

Dear Editor, I refer to your story published on Wednesday, January 16, 2008, concerning the transition of ‘Merundoi’ into an NGO[http://www.stabroeknews.com/index.pl/article_general_news?id=56537063].

Dear Editor, Why is it that we are so often our worst enemy?

Dear Editor, On Friday September 21, 2007 my son Delwin Dexter Mc Queen of Lot 58 Howes Street Charlestown, aged fourteen now deceased was dressed in white and green, the uniform of South Ruimveldt Secondary.

Dear Editor, Something about Dr. Prem Misir’s letter captioned “These funds for scrutineers were not appropriated through Parliament” (08.10.15) helped to crystallise my thoughts on a matter.

Dear Editor, It’s a brand- new year but press conferences coming out of the President’s Office are still coming into our homes in the same old way.

Dear Editor, I am most horrified by the barbaric treatment that the child was subjected to in your story.

Dear Editor, Tears came to my eyes when I read the story “Berbice police trying to “settle” child beating case-lawyer” in your edition of January 16, 2008.

Dear Editor, I refer to articles published in the Con-sumer’s Corner of the Sunday Stabroek of January 6 and 13, 2008 which articles purported to inform on the World Day of Prayer.

Dear Editor, Mr. Martin Roberts in his letter captioned ” I still say Ms.

Dear Editor, It appears from recent polling data that the Democratic Party may very well choose its first African-American for its candidate for the November Presidential contest.

Dear Editor, In his letter of January 15, captioned “There is a brotherhood in the media

Dear Editor, I refer to a news item on page 19 of your edition of January 9, 2008, headed “Parliament staff tasting way through prospective caterers.”

Dear Editor, On the morning of January 15, 2008 I was looking at the Good Morning Show on ABC, when a feature was aired on a man with the name Brad Williams, who has what is termed, ‘superior memory.’

Dear Editor, With regards to comments on the distribution of funds for scrutineers of the voter registration process, fair play dictates that the small opposition parties should receive a “fair share” of the $50 million appropriated to the combined opposition.

Dear Editor, Before we can make a charge of cruelty to an animal as the Cullen-Bess photograph of the January 13, 2008 issue of the Guyana Chronicle claims to depict, we must know the mass of the horse and the load it was hauling.

Dear Editor, The passengers who were travelling during the Christmas holiday season from Kumaka Region 1 to Georgetown with the MV Kimbia experienced the time of their lives, when heavy seas caught up with them.