Opinion

Dear Editor, It is easy to be angry at the villagers who had heard about the men who killed Leonard Archibald.

Dear Editor, The Public Procurement Commission (the Commission) has noted several inaccurate and misleading statements about the work of the commission published in the media recently, particularly the article in the Stabroek News of Monday, September 18, 2017.

In a letter which appeared in our edition yesterday captioned ‘PPC commissioners worked collectively on drugs procurement matter and all were fully aware of contents of final report’, the name Fonseca Peters appeared as the signatory on behalf of the Public Procurement Commission.

Dear Editor, Please allow me to respond to Mr Lincoln Lewis’ letter in SN , Sepember 24 in which he argues the presenters at the recent constitutional symposium at University of Guyana, Tain, should first understand the 1980 Burnham Constitution before trying to critique it or ask for its reform.

Dear Editor, I have noted with increasing concern your publication on the front page of ‘Weekend Magazine’ of 3rd and 10th September, 2017, photographs of outboard boats driven at speed by young drivers who are not wearing life jackets, and it appears without using engine cut-out safety cords.

Dear Editor, In a letter published on September 19, 2017, titled ‘Jagdeo was no Lee Kwan Yew’, I wrote that the  administration of former President Bharrat Jagdeo had squandered the “proceeds from the commodities price surge as well as the roughly US$1 billion aid package from the European Union granted in compensation for the impending 36 per cent cut in the preferential price for Guyana sugar heading to the bloc.”

Dear Editor, I hope performers from the Cricket Guyana Inc Jaguars three-day Franchise League are duly rewarded for their performances.

Dear Editor, The seemingly unending blasts from one natural disaster after another stirred some thoughts. 

Dear Editor, For some repatriates to readjust to Guyana after being gone 15, 25, 35 years is a very daunting task.

Dear Editor, The bins remain where they were placed Thursday night for a 5.30am pick-up Friday morning on the eastern side of Duncan Street, Campbellville, with no indication from City Hall through any media about when they would be cleared.

Dear Editor, After reading Mosa Telford’s column, ‘The single parent problem’ (SN, September 9) and Henry Jeffrey’s ‘Repositioning a not so ‘noble idea’ (SN, September 13) I found myself asking if there is a solution to ending (or reducing) intergenerational poverty.

Dear Editor, The PNC will be observing in the month of October its 60th anniversary as a political party.

Once you decide to pursue a career in teaching in Guyana, moreso in the state school system, you automatically forfeit any chance of material fulfilment at the end of that career, except you simultaneously pursue some other more lucrative moonlighting option.

Dear Editor, A couple of days after Minister of Public Security Khemraj Ramjattan said some kind words to the media about Crime Chief Wendell Blanhum, the Prime Minister-controlled, state-owned Guyana Chronicle sought to discredit the Crime Chief.

Dear Editor, Reference is made to your article titled `Forde calls on stakeholders to put football first” (SN, September 24). 

Dear Editor, Please permit me to respond to a letter authored by Mr.

Dear Editor, As auditor of Sleep-In International Hotel and Casino Inc, I read nonplussed and with great remorse, the letter dated August 3, 2017 signed by the Gaming Authority Chairman, Mr Roysdale Forde, addressed to that hotel, and also a letter dated August 21, 2017, again signed by the non-executive Gaming Authority Chairman, requesting information that included requests for seven years of individual income tax returns from the directors and shareholders.

Dear Editor, Congratulations and deep appreciation are extended to the South Rupununi District Council.

Dear Editor, Suddenly constitutional reform is, to listen to the local oracles of sagaciousness, not of such vital importance anymore.