Dear Editor, The Guyana Prize for Litera-ture has had cause to reschedule its timetable this year, and will not announce the shortlist until after Carifesta XII, mainly because of the scheduling of the regional festival itself.
Dear Editor, Reference is made to a letter, signed by Norman Whittaker, captioned, ‘There must be adequate preparations for local government elections’ (SN, August 7), in which Mr Whittaker attempted to make a case for the further delay in the holding of local government elections (LGE).
Dear Editor, My pursuits since the 2015 elections campaign have taken me on a different course and thus I do not pay much attention to verbal emissions from Freedom House or in particular the pedantic nonsense associated with their leader Bharrat Jagdeo.
It is clear that there needs to be a parliamentary committee set up in relation to the Venezuela border controversy as soon as possible.
Dear Editor, It is encouraging to learn that the new government, as articulated by Minister Raphael Trotman, is listening; that it is prepared to make ‘adjustments’ to the state boards, as recently constructed; and that alarms over pay increases should be stilled.
Dear Editor It is good news to learn that Guyana will receive royalties on each barrel of oil produced from the Stabroek block.
Dear Editor, Please tell me that the page 19 story in your August 5 edition captioned ‘UG students get community service after multi-million dollar store hold up’ was a mistake, misprint, mis-something of some kind.
Dear Editor, I’m a regular visitor to my homeland and this is my first since the change of government.
Dear Editor, The APNU+AFC coalition government, through the Minister of Finance, has commissioned a number of forensic audits of the accounting systems and operations of a number of ministries, government departments and state agencies.
Dear Editor, The two recent photographs of PM Kamla Persad-Bissessar of Trinidad and President Granger are indeed of great importance to all Guyanese who believe in the concept ‘You are my brother’s keeper’; in the concept of racial and ethnic unity and in the concept of Caribbean unity.
Few actual journalists would have deserved the sendoff given to Jon Stewart as he took leave of the fake news show he has made into a staple of late-night television over the last 16 years.
Politikles
Dear Editor, On August 9th the Cuffy250 committee will be hosting its third Annual State of Black African Guyanese forum at Critchlow Labour College.
Dear Editor, I note that Ms Yvonne Sam calls for the death penalty to be implemented in Guyana (SN, August 5).
Dear Editor, Nowhere in the Amerindian community of Capoey, can anyone be found who will declare unequivocally that the July 28, 2015 election was free or that the results represented the will of the people.
Dear Editor, Your columnist Mr Rawle Lucas wrote an interesting piece in his column of Sunday August 2, 2015 in which he published Bank of Guyana figures on public and private expenditure.
Dear Editor, We as a nation seem lacking in a proactive approach and instead react when something horrible happens.
Dear Editor, I must congratulate Digicel Guyana for taking the initiative to sponsor the Secondary Schools Championship tournament which looks to demonstrate the talent and skills of Guyana’s youth.
Dear Editor, There is a potential epidemic simmering like a volcano waiting to consume the residents of Linden.
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