Opinion

Dear Editor, Please allow me to express my heartfelt condolences to the relatives and friends of the Lindo Creek victims.

Dear Editor, A recent writer called for a multi-dimensional approach to our unemployment problems including a new national service focusing on vocational/skills training, especially in agriculture.

Dear Editor, I am moved by Vishnu Bisram’s tribute to Yesu Persaud (‘Public rebuke does not motivate people to do positive things,’ SN 21.6.08) to comment on the recent outburst by President Jagdeo toward this outstanding son of the soil who has made such a significant contribution to Guyana.

Born in Barbados to a Guyanese father (economist, Dr Vishnu Persaud) and a Trinidadian mother (novelist, Lakshmi Persaud), educated in the United Kingdom, where he has distinguished himself as a practising psychiatrist, academic and media star, Dr Raj Persaud has achieved more than most of us could ever dream of attaining in his 45 years.

Dear Editor, I have read with interest the responses to the Indian Arrival Committee’s condemnation of a cartoon that appeared in the Sunday Stabroek of  June 15, 2008, and the subsequent responses to its response.

Dear Editor, I refer to the articles (KN June 25, 2008) and (SN June 22, 2008) captioned, ‘Countries not studying Physics are condemned to poverty’ and ‘Physics falling off time-tables,’ respectively.

Dear Editor, On a Walter Rodney Groundings programme which was aired on HBTV CH 9 on February 26, 2008, nearly four months ago, the undersigned on behalf of the Working People’s Alliance (WPA) had first raised the spectre of the entry into criminal activity of a large number of young people who came of age under the PPP/C regime or who were born after 1992.

Anyone who has followed the vicissitudes of democracy in the developing world will find the chaos surrounding Zimbabwe’s latest elections all too familiar.

Dear Editor, My family have known the Arokiums for a number of years and we  also grieve with them and the other families who have lost loved ones in this dark period.

Dear Editor, Pit Bulls were dogs originally bred to fight in pits.

Dear Editor, I have been hauled over the coals, and my cartoon labelled “racist” and anti-social by indignant individuals (Sunday Stabroek 15.6.08).

Dear Editor, Like electricity, water is an expensive and important resource, costly but necessary.

Dear Editor, Messrs Campbell and Kwayana should be commended for their article captioned ‘Progressives and Pan-Africanists: Our collective duty to Zimbabwe’ in the features section of Stabroek News of June 23, 2008.

Dear Editor, I am impressed by the forthright and forceful letter by K Juman-Yassin, attorney-at-law, published in Stabroek News on June 18, 2008, dealing primarily with the functioning of the High Court.

Dear Editor, More than ever, women are being treated very inhumanly.

The visit of a Taiwanese delegation to Beijing over the last fortnight suggests a determination of both the People’s Republic of China (PRC) and the new government of Taiwan to begin a process of normalization of relations – though without an as yet clear indication as to what form this will eventually take.

Dear Editor, It was expected that a large section of the Guyanese population would have been outraged or deeply concerned with the views expressed in the Sunday Stabroek editorial of May 18, 2008 captioned ‘Normality.’

Dear Editor, I read in KN last Sunday (22.6.08) an article by Adam Harris captioned ‘When fathers condemn their sons to criminality,’ and while I agree with his main point about fathers abandoning their responsibility to their children, I reflected that these children also spend about 8-10 hours at school, Monday to Friday, so we must ask about that forming environment and whether it is one for good or evil.