Opinion

Dear Editor, Finally there is a government minister with enough gumption to make a strong decision in the interest of the people, irrespective of the high amount of crticism being levelled at him.

Dear Editor, With reference to the confusion surrounding the sale of Buddy’s – the interest in this property comes from the possibility that it will get a casino licence.

The outcome of the daycare worker murder case on Wednesday is reminiscent of another similar matter less than a year ago, as well as several others, which seems to point to a pattern of undue leniency in the court system in matters involving the violent deaths of women and perhaps lethargy by public prosecutors, who, it appears, do anything but prosecute.

Dear Editor, SASOD joins with other organisations and countries (including Cuba and Costa Rica) around the world to commemorate May 17 as International Day Against Homophobia.

Dear Editor, Thank you very much for the piece in SN May, 13, 2008, ‘More questions than answers over ice factory construction.’

This newspaper continues to advocate that the investigation into the Customs/Fidelity fraud be allowed to run its course, guided unerringly by the commitment given by the President that the investigation will be thorough, that it will “dig deep,” that there will be no immunity for people who might wish to activate their political connections, that the architects of the fraud will get their just deserts and that the investigation will extend beyond the Fidelity fraud.

Dear Editor,Thanks for the news item, ‘State land leads to windfall for Shivraj,’ (SN, 14.5.08), that exposed some more of this unsettling arrangement between the government and Buddy’s hotel.

Dear Editor,In December of 2007 (before the start of the first Primary) and in the letter column of your newspaper, I predicted that Barack Obama would be the Democratic Presidential nominee and that he would go on to become President of the United States.

Dear Editor, I must commend the Guyanese press for highlighting the anticipated change of ownership of Guyana’s leading international hotel at Providence, although I sensed a veiled grudge against Buddy Shivraj. 

Dear Editor, I offer a suggestion.  I have no doubt that Mr Sharma would like to be of help to ordinary people, but if he is to work for justice for the people, he could perhaps do so in a responsible manner. 

Dear Editor, I am thoroughly confused. A few weeks ago cane harvesters in Berbice protested the rise in the cost of living, and were advised by the Prime Minister (not the Minister of Agriculture) that nothing could be done specifically for cane harvesters.

Dear Editor,I was looking at the news tonight with Mr Karran purporting that Guyana Water Inc (GWI) supplies treated water to the citizens of Guyana and was prompted to write this letter.

Dear Editor, With reference to the recent poll commissioned by your newspaper, I would like to take this opportunity to make a few comments.

Many years ago, when Hugo Chávez was a rookie President, he was wont to say that the region’s leaders were going from summit to summit while their people went from abyss to abyss.

Dear Editor, I would like to ask Mr Edward Persaud who wrote a letter to your newspaper which was printed in your issue of Monday, April 28, 2008 under the caption ‘Some big contractors take advantage of the workers’ to contact me at the Ministry of Labour, 82 Brickdam, Georgetown, telephone no 225-7302.

Dear Editor, I am writing this letter with disgust because I am fed up complaining to GWI concerning the sewerage system overflow in the Stevedore Scheme area.

Dear Editor,I am gratified to learn  of  the introduction of lie detectors as a means of weeding out undesirables from important public service departments.

Dear Editor, The debate about the poll in the SN, (for example ‘Further questions about Bisram poll’ by Dr Anand Parsaud (13.5.08), can only be a healthy development for Guyana. 

Dear Editor,Dr Anand Persaud is more sober but still confrontational in his second commentary about my poll in a letter captioned, ‘Further questions about Bisram’s poll’ (SN, 13.5.08)) than in his first attack on the poll (SN, 10.5.08).