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Dear Editor, I am hoping that the National Democratic Councils go into action as quickly as possible to carry out their duties.

Dear Editor, The Certificate of Election issued by a Returning Officer of the Guyana Elections Commission (Gecom) in Region Six to Ms Gumattie Kumar, elected councillor of the Ordnance/Fort Lands #38 NDC in Cumberland, Canje which has been stamped and signed by the officer, contains spelling and punctuation errors (copy provided).

Dear Editor, I write this letter with some trepidation. I’m extremely disappointed with the current government.

As was made clear in Wednesday’s editorial, President Barack Obama’s visits last week to Cuba and Argentina could be said to have had as their overriding objective the “normalization of relations” between the USA and those two countries.

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Dear Editor, Over the last weeks to months I have been disturbed and pained by the unjust smearing of the GEA and its CEO in the false so-called revelations in the media, featuring apparently selected leaks from the commissioned forensic audit of the GEA, so-called revelations of apparent scandals uncovered and of mismanagement and corruption at the GEA.

Dear Editor, When The APNU+AFC came to government they began a series of Forensic Audits of many government entities.

Dear Editor, I welcome Mr Sherwood Lowe’s contribution to the discourse on the local government system (‘The Local Government Commission was set up to remove the minister…’ SN, March 30).

Dear Editor, We the undersigned call on the Presi-dent, the Ministers of Public Security, the Sexual Violence Unit of the Ministry of Social Protection, the Attorney General & Minister of Legal Affairs, the Chancellor of the Judiciary, the Commissioner of Police, the Director of Public Prosecutions and the Director of the Childcare & Protection Agency to ensure that in addressing the huge backlog of court cases priority is given to the large number of children and adolescent survivors of sexual offences who frequently spend up to 7 years awaiting trial of the perpetrators.

Dear Editor, Thank you for publishing my letter on March 29, which you titled ‘The coalition’s reputation needs protecting in Lethem’.

Dear Editor, The very small cattle, sheep and goat farmers of Kilcoy, Chesney and Fyrish Village are being put out of business by the selfishness of an extremely large poultry farmer in the area.

Dear Editor, I write with respect to the recent tragedy at the Georgetown Prison where seventeen prisoners died and several others were injured.

Dear Editor, Gail Teixeira wants the government to remove me as Chair of the Guyana Reparations Committee because I revealed an inconvenient truth about three Amerindian nations who have already received part of the 13.8 per cent of Guyana through the Guyana government.

The Commission of Inquiry (CoI) notwithstanding, the pervasiveness of drugs in Guyana’s prisons point to a deterioration in the running of penal institutions that will be extremely difficult to remedy.

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Dear Editor, Once again, Chair of the Guyana Reparations Committee Eric Phillips, has used the public media to convey erroneous information on the history of Guyanese.

Dear Editor, It is contradictory for Guyana to have been a signatory to the December 2015 Paris Agreement on climate change, yet pushing the development of the oil industry.

Dear Editor, Mr Clinton Urling fiercely rejects the idea of the Local Government Commission (‘The Local Government Commission is an insult to the local government electoral process’ SN, March 29).

Dear Editor, Your article, ‘AFC members accuse APNU of hogging LGE seats,’ dampened my entire Easter Monday.