Opinion

Dear Editor, Transport and Harbors Department is paid annually nearly $30,000,000 by the speedboat owners whose boats provide the daily commuter service between Vreed-en-Hoop and Stabroek Market.

Dear Editor, There seems to be a misconception among some people as to how the Cheddi Jagan Research Centre, popularly known as the ‘Red House’ derived its name.

Dear Editor, I thank Ms Janice Hall for the invitation “to make recommendations for participation in the 50th independence anniversary celebration committee” (‘The NY 50th Anniversary committee seeks diversity,’ SN, Feb 14).

Dear Editor, The Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) wishes to bring to your attention an error contained in an article published in the February 17, 2016 edition of the Stabroek News captioned ‘Three customs workers held, baggage handler wanted over cocaine found on Dynamic flight.’

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Figures released by the Guyana Human Rights Association (GHRA) last week reveal that a staggering 75% of the girls who were sent to the New Opportunity Corps (NOC) last year were sent there for wandering.

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Dear Editor, On the days in question last week, it seems that President David Granger and Attorney General Basil Williams did their utmost to avoid receiving the Walter Rodney Commission of Inquiry (CoI) report, and made yet another attempt to impugn the Commissioners.

Dear Editor, Most likely, the ministerial portfolio that most puzzled the public at the time of its announcement was that of Social Cohesion.

Dear Editor, As the global outpouring of felicitation continues to inundate the West Indies U-19 team, for its unprecedented and recent triumph at the World Cup, I would like to join in extending congratulatory words as well.

Dear Editor, I enjoyed your editorial titled, ‘Yellow and green’ (SN, Feb 15), which is yet another labour of love on your part to encourage the ruling coalition to practise inclusiveness.

Dear Editor, I would be grateful if the relevant authorities can intervene to save the education system in Region 10.

Those following the contest for the American presidency, as it proceeds with its first stage of party choices of candidates, can recognize that the process is less institutionalized and, we might say, less constricted than that with which we and other Caricom countries are familiar.

Dear Editor, Kudos to President Granger for sticking to his guns on the issue of banning vehicles older than 8 years from coming into the country as well as used tyres.

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Dear Editor, As the Zika epidemic is spreading explosively around the world, and city officials particularly in towns and cities in the Americas have been implementing all sorts of methods to control it, including traditional mosquito control techniques such as spraying pesticides and emptying standing water receptacles where mosquitoes breed, etc.

Dear Editor, Bartica will officially become a town on April 23, and it is imperative that we take a look in our rearview mirror to see how far we have come as a village, what some of our major challenges and successes were, and what best practices we can emulate as we forge a brighter future.

Dear Editor, President David Granger seems to be finding himself in some very precarious positions as he seeks to unite this divided country.

Dear Editor, In an interview with the Guyana Times on Monday, January 25, Minister of Education, Dr Rupert Roopnaraine had indicated that most aspects of the Central Counselling Body had been finalized and all was to be implemented within 10 days.

Dear Editor, Congratulations to the Under-19 West Indies team, whose victory is all the sweeter for me because it was at the expense of the biggest of the so-called Big Three, who have hijacked the game to which the West Indies contributed more high quality cricketers in the second half of the twentieth century than any other country.