Opinion

Dear Editor, I would like to thank the management of GT&T for fulfilment of a long overdue promise despite the frustration and inconvenience caused over the years from the lack of a vital service within our home, a landline phone, in our community Novar to Little Abary.

Dear Editor, After reading the minister’s budget presentation and the windfall collected over and above the projections (about 76%) I am still convinced that the value added tax is being wrongly administered here.

Dear Editor, It was Eusi Kwayana who said this confounded nonsense must stop!

Dear Editor, Civil society occupies a critical space/function/responsibility within the relationship between the state and the people.

Dear Editor, My attention was captured by the Stabroek News (18.03.08) front page headline: “Region lagging on child care – UNICEF Regional Director” and the accompanying page 8 story.

Soon after the Speaker of the National Assembly Mr Hari Narayen ‘Ralph’ Ramkarran called for “a high degree of national unity in order to bring criminals to justice,” and after pointing out that poverty was one of the main root causes of crime, he was roundly contradicted by his colleagues in the People’s Progressive Party-Civic.

The People’s Progressive Party (PPP) has extended best wishes and greetings to all Muslims, Hindus and Christians in Guyana on the occasion of Youman-Nabi, Phagwah and Easter.

Dear Editor, The issue of denial of state ads to Stabroek News is back in the news not only in Guyana but around the Caribbean region as well.

Dear Editor, I just read a report in your newspaper that a woman assaulted a cop in the station compound.

Dear Editor, I refer to a letter by Mr Ivelaw Whittaker, Public Relations and Press Officer of the Guyana Police Force captioned “The actions taken by the police are not linked to any political direction or control” (08.03.16).

Dear Editor, I have listened to various statements about rising food prices both internationally and locally and I believe that the Government now needs to issue licences for more persons to import flour especially.

Dear Editor, A dramatic increase in the price of local commodities in Region #2 which stretches from Pomeroon to Supenaam is making it hard for the residents to cope with the escalation in the cost of living.

Dear Editor, I recently visited the Lethem Immigration Office to have my passport renewed.

Dear Editor, The letter columns of the Guyana Chronicle are usually infested with letters defending the Government and in the edition of 18/3/2008 there were two in relation to VAT which show how little the defenders really know.

Dear Editor, Dr. Luncheon’s statement is a welcome assurance to our citizens that they can vote using their old ID cards.

A huge rock concert on the Colombia-Venezuela border has signaled the end of the apparent threat of military conflict which seemed to overshadow the relations between the three countries over the last few weeks.

Dear Editor, Today I was shown an invitation card to the Good Friday Exercise by “the Christian Community”.

Dear Editor, I congratulate the Dalai Lama for his “peaceful” condemnation of China’s communist government and its efforts to suppress religious autonomy.

Dear Editor, I always wonder if Frank Fyffe is the only person in Linden who has eyes and a pen to see and observe what’s happening in our community and let the various authorities come out of the dark and wake up and do their work.