Letters to the Editor

Dear Editor, I refer to a letter captioned “Illegal logging is lower in Guyana than in many other countries” (07.01.15) by Paul Taylor.

Dear Editor, The argument for educational dictators to be given authority to inflict pain and suffering on those members of our society whose cognitive growth has not yet crossed the threshold of concrete perceptions is essentially that discipline is essential.

Dear Editor, The front page picture in the Guyana Chronicle (11.01.07 of the horse that ran into a drain in its desperate attempt to escape the unbearable load of its cart and the whip of the cart driver, captures the kind of punishment animals are subjected to daily at the hands of cart drivers whose greed and lack of compassion lead them to these acts of brutality.

Dear Editor, I am seriously troubled by the perceived direction of this country’s foreign policy in relation to Guyana’s dealings with India.

Dear Editor, Kidnapping is big business in Trinidad. That is right, it is organized as a business with various criminal gangs involved in different aspects of the operation – planning, actual kidnapping, transporting, holding and protecting the victim, contacting the family’s victim, negotiating the ransom, collecting the fee, and releasing the victim.

Dear Editor, It is possible to remain silent while governments blunder or act as though lacking in simple commonsense.

Dear Editor, It is not the Guyana Revenue Authority’s (GRA) intention to get involved in any political debate.

Dear Editor, Your news item on Tuesday explaining the government’s decision to curtail awarding commercial advertisements to Stabroek News does not come as a surprise to many, including me.

Dear Editor, I was attracted to the caption given to the letter addressed to you by the Public Relations Officer, M&CC in Stabroek News of January 08, 2007 namely “Mayor Green’s advertisement was not seen by the Town Clerk or the Council”.

Dear Editor, In February 2006, the Guyana Forestry Commission and the Forest Products Association issued a glossy brochure which claimed “Guyana is probably the only country in the world with a complete national log tracking system.

Dear Editor, I observed that the Commissioner General of the Guyana Revenue Authority Mr Khurshid Sattaur seems to be responding to all the critics.

Dear Editor, I wish to empathise with Ronald Morgan and all those persons who are incapacitated and confined to their wheelchairs, beds and other dismal domiciles.

Dear Editor, We the members of the Forest Products Association, refute a statement in Freddie Kissoon’s column in the Kaieteur News of Friday.

Dear Editor, I refer to the article headlined “Union leaders trade jabs over unity” which appears in SN, Friday January 12th 2007, and would like to direct a few questions to Mr.

Dear Editor, The recent prison breakout at Mazaruni Prison should not come as a surprise to the powers that be as they were fully aware that the prison service does not have the capacity, lacks the human and financial resources to prevent such occurrences.

Dear Editor, Discipline, to my mind, is the forerunner to any form of punishment that is a penalty for disregarding a rule of conduct prescribed by a state.

Dear Editor, The Kaieteur News article captioned “Govt MP blasts church on opposition to ‘casino’ legislation” (Jan.,

Dear Editor, A happy, beautiful and productive 2007 to you and all at Stabroek News.

Dear Editor, I was in Guyana for the holidays and one of my relatives took me to the GTM Office at Skeldon Berbice to renew his insurance.

Dear Editor, Is Dr. John Fredericks saying that the controversy in the primitive church surrounding the Divinity of Christ was settled by a majority vote?