Letters to the Editor

Minibus fares are never reduced

Dear Editor, The minibus association has once again threatened to go on strike to raise their fares, a regular tactic which they use to hold the commuting public to ransom.

It is prudent to form greater ties with India

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”.

Our people already have their own forms of gambling

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.

There was no separate struggle here for the franchise for women

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.”

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