Opinion

Dear Editor, The Guyana Post Office Corporation (GPOC) wishes to the address the concerns raised by Rev Gideon Cecil in his letter to the Stabroek News on December 2, 2015, captioned, ‘Overseas mail is always opened.’

Dear Editor,   The reported move by Ivy league universities, Harvard and Princeton, to discontinue use of the title ‘Master’ as in ‘Master of the Residential College,’ instead of ‘Head of the College,’ on the grounds that terms like ‘Master’ are too poignant reminders of the distasteful history of slavery, is quite interesting.

Dear Editor,   Here’s an interesting piece: A recently elected Prime Minister is coming under fire for using public money to pay for nannies to look after his children.

Dear Editor, In his letter in the Stabroek News of November 16, Pandit Haresh Tewari is correct in pointing out that I was wrong to describe the Ramayan as a myth, and I apologize for that.

Dear Editor, It is amazing how the birth of a child can trigger global attention.

Dear Editor, Reference is made to Mr Abu Bakr’s letter ‘Has been looking at suicide phenomenon for years’ (SN, Nov 26) wherein he incorrectly concludes that Vishnu Bisram stated “[Bakr has] no right to explore the implications of the call by Dr [Baytoram] Ramharack for more activism by more Indian intellectuals.”

Dear Editor, We claim to be free from colonialism and that we are an independent country, but every day and in every way, we still demonstrate the politics and economics of colonial influences.

Politikles

Dear Editor,   Two developments caught my attention recently. Both brought a chuckle on the way things are in Guyana.

Wednesday’s editorial (The choice of Commonwealth Secretary-General) provided a rather good explanation and some useful insights into the machinations behind the campaign for the top job in the Commonwealth and the eventual election of Dominica’s nominee, Baroness Patricia Scotland of Asthal (a village in the county of Oxfordshire in the United Kingdom), at the recent Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting in Malta.

Dear Editor, I refer to Mr Anil Nandlall’s letter (‘The government cannot avoid the provisions of the Procurement Act’ SN, December 1)) in which he sets out in extenso the provisions of the Procurement Act in order to “prove” that I was wrong in defending the government’s action by signing an MOU with Fedders Lloyd without another tender process, and asserting that such a process was to Guyana’s disadvantage.

Dear Editor, In recently saw a picture in the Guyana Chronicle which shows sand weighing around 1800 lbs per square foot that has been dumped by the owners of Celina Atlantic over the existing sea defences below, to continue their illegal expansion of the resort.

Dear Editor, I read Narissa Deokarran’s letter complaining about severe pollution fumes (‘NDC will not deal with health hazard of air pollution’ SN, Nov 30) and saw your follow-up report in ‘Lusignan resident seeking relief from neighbour’s fireside fumes’ (SN, Dec 2).

Dear Editor, That Carifesta X would come up for an enquiry is no surprise.

Dear Editor, Sectarian violence is more pronounced in the Central African Republic where there are deadly clashes between Christians and Muslims.

Dear Editor, Over a year ago (November 12, 2014), you were kind enough to publish my letter relating to the over payment of my income tax through the PAYE system.

Dear Editor, GTT is providing free wifi to churches, and other places will soon get that service.

Dear Editor, Santa Claus came early to Guyana this year. He came in October to play special host to two prized political children: one had laboured in vain and the other dissipated scarce natural resources.

One month ago today, a one-hour-old baby born to Akiem Balgobin and Phoulmattie Ramjattan at the Georgetown Public Hospital, fell, reportedly off of a cot, at the hospital while under the care of a nurse or nurses in the hospital’s Maternity Unit.

Dear Editor,   Advance payments should not be asked for from ExxonMobil, and are unlikely to be obtained in an environment of battered oil prices, which the recent International Energy Agency (IEA) forecast claims will stay low for quite some time.