Opinion

Six months after disputed elections returned President Nkurunziza to a constitutionally questionable third term, Burundi has entered a crisis eerily similar to the situation before the 1994 genocide in Rwanda.

Dear Editor,   In an article which appeared in the news media on November 9, Bharrat Jagdeo, ex-President of the PPP government and now Opposition Leader continues to plug the dubious claim that development of the Amaila Falls Hydropower Project (AFHP) on the Potaro River will provide the best chance Guyanese will ever have to access affordable and reliable electricity.

In a letter published in our edition of Wednesday, November 11 captioned ‘The Hindu College was preceded by the East Coast High School’ by Mr Nowrang Persaud, a name was incorrectly rendered.

Dear Editor, I refer to your Sunday editorial of November 8 titled, ‘Anti-democratic defence’ in the fifth paragraph, second sentence, “According to the PPP, Attorney General Basil Williams asked to meet the management committee of Red House on the matter, but apparently did not send anything in writing first from AG’s Chambers, which is surely not acceptable.”

Dear Editor, As counsel for Aeshwar Deonarine, Deputy Chief Executive Officer GPL, I shall be grateful if you can publish the following which is in connection with the article in your last Sunday Stabroek at page 10 under the caption ‘Deputy GPL CEO should face charge over $27.8M transfer, Ramjattan says.’

Dear Editor, Further to your article on page 3 of the Tuesday, November 10 edition, where the suggestion of an antidote to accidental or deliberate poisoning should be made known, is one that I had thought about.

Dear Editor,   Many years ago I read the book Daughter of Destiny: An Autobiography by Benazir Bhutto, a former and late Prime Minister of Pakistan.

Dear Editor, I read an interesting letter written by Joyce Sinclair under the caption, ‘Let us help in any small way we can.

Dear Editor,   I have trouble understanding the last letter by Dr Baytoram Ramharack (‘When does ethnicity transform into nationality?’

Politikles

“May you live in interesting times” is thought to be an ancient Chinese curse although no textual evidence exists to support this.

Dear Editor   Over the years, Toshaos and village councils have come and gone.

Dear Editor, As I understand it one of the government’s main arguments for outlawing the opening of night clubs after 2am is that the longer revellers consume alcohol drunkenness increases and the likelihood of accidents on our roads rises.

Dear Editor,   We the residents of Castello Housing Scheme (La Penitence) would like to voice our frustration and disappointment over the sluggish movement of the Mayor and City Council’s officials in relation to a petition which was submitted on Saturday, August 29th, 2015 calling for the removal of the physical structure which once housed the Albouystown Skills Training Centre from our community.

Dear Editor, Former President Ramotar’s statement as reported under the caption ‘Ramotar says he doesn’t regret proroguing Parliament’ in the Stabroek News, November 9, should not be taken seriously.

Dear Editor, In an interview appearing in the news Mr Sydney Allicock announced urgent plans for minimal reformation of the Amerindian Act 2006.

Dear Editor, Issues of industrial relations are not about how one feels, but about a body of rules and applications that guide the discipline.

Dear Editor, One final gasp, please. Some persons have been referring to the English calendars where the final phase of the moon has been listed for the 10th November.

Dear Editor, Given the plethora of information and research on suicide made publicly available over the last two years, it is quite an enigma that misinformation continues to be peddled from the top of the socio-political structure.

Eight months after this newspaper first reported on the rundown and unsafe conditions under which four senior citizens were living at the Chase’s Indigent Home in Robb Street, Georgetown, two of them are still struggling to manage as their situation worsens daily.