Opinion

Dear Editor, Before the Harbour Bridge was built for the Georgetown‒Vreed-en-Hoop crossing, there was a ferry crossing which stopped after 8-9 pm sometimes, and on Saturdays at 12 midnight.

Dear Editor, The Guyana Sugar Corporation (GuySuCo) Inc wishes to furnish a further response to Mr Seepaul Narine’s letter that was published in the Stabroek News on March 24 titled ‘Injustices to sugar workers are being perpetrated anew’.

Dear Editor, Since 2009 instructions were given to speedboat owners providing a passenger service at various locations throughout Guyana that sheds should be on their boats before they would be permitted to operate.

Dear Editor, I am very sad to learn of the passing of Ms Carmen Jarvis under whose chairmanship I served as a member of the Commit-tee of the National Library.

Dear Editor, The expectation that sugar workers would organize protest action equivalent to the magnitude and sustainability of the parking meter protest response is very doubtful (‘PPC/C will support,  but not lead sugar workers ‘ protest  -Jagdeo’ SN, March 30).

Dear Editor, The Carter Center must be commended for the convening of a Symposium on constitutional reform at the Turkeyen campus.

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Dear Editor, The move to ban the importation of used tyres is wrong.

Dear Editor, Your front page photograph in your Saturday edition of a ‘section’ of the audience at Friday evening’s symposium on the constitutional reform process, showed only a small ‘section’ of the audience and almost all of the few empty seats.

Dear Editor, The Russian Foreign Ministry posted on its Facebook page for April Fools’ Day the following farcical Russian Embassy answering machine message: “You have reached the Russian Embassy.

Dear Editor, At different times during any day, and in many places, I observe a tableau unfold in slow motion. 

On Friday, Stabroek News printed the full text of a letter sent by Justice Franklin Holder to Chief Justice (ag) Yonette Cummings-Edwards, giving an account of the behaviour of Attorney General and Minister of Legal Affairs Basil Williams in his court on March 23.

Dear Editor, Your article of March 25, 2017 captioned ‘BOG prepared to inject foreign currency into market’ includes the following sentences: “He added that a retention account is not a right, ‘it’s a privilege granted at the behest of the Central Bank; we have net earners of foreign exchange also trying to play the market.’ 

Dear Editor, I respond to an article in the Sunday Stabroek dated March 26, 2017 on pages 10 and 23.

Dear Editor, An independent judiciary is the sine qua non of a democratic society.

Dear Editor, I am a constitutional post holder having been appointed chairman of the Public Service Commission, member of the Police and Judicial Service Commissions and the Commissioning Board of the Guyana Defence Force (GDF).

Dear Editor, The Guyana Agricultural and General Workers Union (GAWU) wishes to respond to a letter from the Guyana Sugar Corporation (GuySuCo) appearing in the March 30, Stabroek News written by the company’s Senior Communications Officer, Ms Audreyanna Thomas.

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