Letters to the Editor

Dear Editor; At the 84th meeting of the Sixty-first session of the UN General Assembly held in December 2006, member states voted on a draft resolution on the situation of human rights in Myanmar (document A/61/443/Add.3).

Dear Editor, Guyana was once a wonderful country to live and die in.

Dear Editor, Guyanese born Ashook Ramsaran, current Secretary General of the Global Organization of People of Indian Origin (GOPIO), who headed a business delegation to the recent diaspora summit in Delhi, met with India’s President Dr.

Dear Editor, I wish to express my deep concern as a parent over the death of little Basmatti Seecharan of Parika, East Bank, Essequibo who was raped, beaten in the head and strangled to death.

Dear Editor, Guyana Power and Light’s (GPL) imminent outsourcing of transmission and distribution major maintenance is of great concern to employees of the transmission and distribution department.

Dear Editor, The Anna Regina Town Council collects revenue equal to $1,000 for every corpse that is buried there, but nothing is being done to maintain the cemetery.

Dear Editor, Permit me to congratulate the Better Hope Community Policing Group for apprehending a bandit who had robbed a shop in the community.

Dear Editor, I am responding to Brother Eusi Kwayana’s letter captioned “I strongly object to the appointment of Shri Gossai as an adviser on ethnic relations and culture” (02.01.17) as it relates to comments attributed to me.

Dear Editor, After reading Colin Bascom’s letter, “Our relations with India should not be at the expense of our core values as a nation” (SN 17-01-07), I had to re-check the meaning of the word “justice”.

Dear Editor, One “too early to sleep” night on a cruise ship, my wife and I decided to play the “slot machines”- those things that you put in your coins, pull the lever or press a button, there is a fun noise and if you win, out comes a whole bunch of coins so pleasing to the ears and the heart.

Dear Editor, I had the misfortune of travelling to Georgetown on a school day using the regular East Coast Highway.

Dear Editor, Is it just me or has the Regional Administration of Region Six been in the media, especially television, lately?

Dear Mr Sattaur, In your letter to the editor published in the Guyana Chronicle on January 16, 2007 and the next day in Stabroek News you accused us of being biased.

Dear Editor, I am a Presbyterian clergyman and must, therefore, disqualify myself from pronouncing publicly on the issue of the rebuilding of the Sacred Heart Church that used to be on Main Street, Georgetown.

Dear Editor, While I make no attempt to defend the policies of the Government of Guyana, I take very strong exception to the views espoused by Colin Bascom on behalf of the executive of JIG-UK (Stabroek News Jan 17th 2007).

Dear Editor, Is President Jagdeo afraid of the free press? Why?

Dear Editor, Reference is made to a letter captioned “The Bible does not ban gambling” (07.01.16) by M.

Dear Editor, I refer to Ms Cecelia McAlmont’s article captioned “The struggle for women’s suffrage” (SN 2/11/06) and her conclusion: “The struggle for women’s suffrage had been long and sometimes brutal, and the way in which Guyanese women have used that hard won right will be the subject of another article.”

Dear Editor, It was a dreadful topic and perhaps that is why my friend sought to ease the tension.

Dear Editor, Miranda La Rose’s report headlined “GHRA, Reporters Without Borders slam ads cut-off-Squalid practices such as these are ominous reminders to an older generation of the worst features of the Burnham era’ – human rights body,” (07.01.17) reveals a dismal attempt by the Guyana Human Rights Association (GHRA) to take pot shots at Mr.