Opinion

Dear Editor, I have read Mr Anil Nandlall’s response to my letter and wish only to state that apart from its ad hominem, and very characteristic, attack on my learning, it is devoid of substance (‘The Bill did not pass the House’ SN, March 2).

Dear Editor, The main aim of this letter is to show the history of legislation for the introduction of the electoral system of proportional representation in this country and how that history might assist us to interpret existing laws.

Dear Editor, I am responding to a letter written by someone claiming to be Anthony Nedd, titled ‘The GTU has made preposterous demands to the Ministry of Education’ SN, February 27).

Dear Editor, To those who might have been monitoring the volumes of the annual publication over the years the first curiosity about the 2016 Budget must be the recurrence of agencies whose titles would have changed in 2015.

Dear Editor, I was reading the Citizens Report of February 29, 2016 when I came across a patch of nonsense attributed to a quote of the PPP General Secretary.

Dear Editor, Over the past few days I have observed work being executed along the shoulders of the Liliendaal-Turkeyen public road.

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Dear Editor, It was on 29th February 1956, the Roman Catholic Church in Guyana was elevated to the degree of Diocese, naming it as the Diocese of Georgetown.

Politikles

Initiatives expected to be undertaken during this year as announced by Commissioner of Police Seelall Persaud at the opening of the Police Officers’ Annual Conference last week while not revolutionary, will certainly bring the Guyana Police Force (GPF) in line with modern policing if they can be executed well.

Dear Editor, This week, the University of Guyana in response to a report of rape has responded by saying that according to its investigations no rape occurred.

Dear Editor, I refer to a letter written by Minister of Natural Resources Raphael G C Trotman, published on March 1 in the Stabroek News (There was no likelihood that the bill would have been defeated’).

Dear Editor, Help & Shelter has noted the headline report in the Guyana Chronicle of February 28 of a female student who was reportedly gang raped on the UG campus and the report in Stabroek News of February 29 that UG has said that its investigation has revealed no basis to conclude that the student was sexually assaulted.

Dear Editor, Kaieteur News of February 29 carried an Oscar Ramjeet letter captioned ‘That document should not have been leaked’.

Dear Editor, I started to blog, or rather, follow up on Harry Hergash’s letter in the February 29 edition of SN entitled, ‘We have to address the negative impact of Burnham, not just the positive if we are to be honest to history’, but the response began to involve lengthy quotes from the writing of my former political science lecturer.

Dear Editor, When one read the words “I dare say” in the last paragraph of the challenge proffered in my colleague Nowrang Persaud’s letter published in Stabroek News of February 27, it was easy to detect that the author had made a soft landing.

Dear Editor, The things I have heard said by people belonging to one ethnic body about another as I move around bodes no good.

Dear Editor, Please refer to a letter in the Tuesday, March 1 edition of the Stabroek News captioned ‘Misuse of name.’

Dear Editor, The constitution is the supreme law of our country.

With the opposition Jamaica Labour Party gaining 33 of the 63 parliamentary seats in the preliminary count of last Thursday’s general elections in Jamaica, the rejoicing of its supporters will have been substantially stifled as the recount of the vote took place.