Opinion

Dear Editor, I once heard someone refer to these high-tech multi-feature cell phones as the book of good and evil.

Dear Editor, Mr Freddie Kissoon writes, “I have seen some pretty inept ‒ or to be kind to Henry Jeffrey ‒ naïve political analyses, one of which was too shocking for me, and I thought my objection should be published so when historians write they could make use of it; thus I replied.

Dear Editor, Mayor Hamilton Green’s letter published in the Kaieteur News on March 8, captioned ‘Hamilton Green gives his take on Rodney’s politics and death’ and in Stabroek News on March 10 titled ‘Rodney’s death was a terrible accident’ was not new.

Dear Editor, To say that local government elections are long overdue is an understatement, but despite the pronouncements by the various stakeholders, myself and scores of residents in the Eccles Housing Scheme around the First Avenue and Fourth Street area are extremely concerned about an incident which occurred on Friday, 11th March.

Dear Editor, I read in your Sunday edition (March 13) the letter by Senior Counsel Bryn Pollard about the announced preference of Prime Minister Moses Nagamootoo to issue additional radio licences rather than revoke those issued by former President Jagdeo (‘PM has taken wise approach in relation to broadcast licences’).

Politikles

Dear Editor, The overwhelming majority of responses to and comments on the media coverage of the Walter Rodney CoI report have been relatively balanced.

Those Guyanese who were not afforded the opportunity of being present to witness at least some of the hearings of the Commission of Inquiry into the Public Service would have been denied an important opportunity to arrive at a helpful understanding of the condition of the public service including, particularly, some of the reasons why it is the way it is in the first place.

Dear Editor, On Monday, January 18, Minister of Agriculture Noel Holder announced the closure of the Wales Sugar Estate with effect from the end of the second crop of 2016.

Dear Editor, The construction of the new and bigger Aurora school building is welcome news, for which the Education Ministry and by extension the coalition government must be commended.

Dear Editor, Having contributed to NIS for over 24 years, I decided to obtain a record of my contributions when I visited Guyana in 2011.

Dear Editor, I must commend the Granger administration for establishing a precise date for Local Government Elections (LGE) and equally congratulate GECOM for the organization and hosting of LGE on March 18.

Dear Editor, I just got back from a conference on the Grenadian Revolution sponsored by the University of the West Indies Open Campus in Grenada.

Dear Editor, I have seen some pretty inept ‒ or to be kind to Henry Jeffrey ‒ naïve political analyses, one of which was too shocking for me, and I thought my objection should be published so when historians write they could make use of it; thus I replied.

Dear Editor, On March 3, 2016 I went to the Mackenzie hospital in Linden after returning to Guyana to have surgery done here on the recommendation of my sister.

Dear Editor, The travails and troubles which would face many of the ratepayers from LBI to Better Hope on the East Coast of Demerara at the upcoming local government elections cause one to ask whether they should bother to make the effort to go out and vote!

In its meteoric transformation after decades-long decrepitude, the Kitty Market can be seen as a metaphor for Friday’s historic local government elections (LGE) while at the same time raising troubling questions about the impositions of central government on the lower tiers of governance.

Dear Editor, I refer to the article ‘PM favours more broadcast licences over rescinding those wrongly given out’ in your Stabroek News’ edition of 12th March.

Save for the 1994 poll, this country has not really been acquainted with local government elections for two generations.