Opinion

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.

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Politikles

Dear Editor, I have retrieved the 3-page draft Code of Conduct for all ministers of government, etc, which was published on November 6 for public input from the website www.motp.gov.gy<http://www.motp.gov.gy>.

Dear Editor, I write this letter about Hindu College with hesitation, because there is history and revisionist history as well as varying accounts spoken and written from individual perspectives.

Dear Editor, Mr Charandass Persaud, MP for the ruling alliance government, found that the recently organized Diwali motorcade by the Dharmic Sabha in the Rose Hall Canje area was politicized (‘East Canje Motorcade was politicised’ SN, November 10).

Dear Editor, I am sure that Mr Cameron, who has a huge ego and would like to be as well known as any political leader, but without the guts to run for political office, will begin the defence of the WICB by saying that if bowlers cannot bowl good line and length at critical times and try to hit sixes when fours can be almost as effective and much safer, and cannot run out batsmen when three wickets are staring at them, the quality of governance makes no difference.

Dear Editor, It is always interesting when a government announces it is getting rid of red tape, only to be tied up with other colours of tape.

Dear Editor, New York City officially celebrates Diwali on Wednesday (November 11) with the suspension of parking rules and an excused absence for those public school students and staff who take the day off – no dispute among Hindu leaders on the date for city recognition.

The occurrence of two events in recent times requires our attention, far away from them as we may be.

Dear Editor, I agree: State properties must be utilised for national purposes.

Dear Editor, What’s in a name? A lot apparently, if the name happens to be Correia and the majority of operators at Ogle Airport are to be believed.

Dear Editor, I have listened to what purports to be a debate on the date of Diwali, and remained silent because I am not one who can read and understand the ‘Patra’.

Dear Editor, The recent suicides at the seawall appear to be a very sad story.

Dear Editor, During the protests of the People’s Parliament myself, my friend Freddie Kissoon and others were discussing two mysterious seawall killings in a short period.

Dear Editor, I am grateful that we are in an epoch whereby prophylactic measures can be taken prior to an intractable situation developing.

Dear Editor, I do not know if Guyana’s Parliament celebrates Diwali.

Those of us (or at least some of us) who either live in Georgetown or, for various reasons, frequent the capital, would have experienced the ‘feel good’ sensation that derives from the effort in the past few months to change the appearance of parts of the capital city that had been left to degenerate and decay over time.