Opinion

Dear Editor, My name is Sabitri Prashad nee Jaikarran, and I currently live in Virginia.

Dear Editor, First I want to add my condolences to the family and friends of Cpl Williams and those of the other eleven persons killed in the massacre in Lusignan.

The aftermath of Lusignan has exposed beyond all doubt that the administration really has no answers to the entrenched problems of this society, which is not to say that it is now prepared to entertain ideas from any other quarter.

Dear Editor, The decision to clear farmlands aback Buxton/Friendship, and as far as Enmore to the east and Triumph/BV to the west for security reasons, with an offer of some compensation to affected farmers, should have caused the Ministry of Agriculture to be the vanguard of such an operation.

Dear Editor, Professor Clive Thomas, in the most recent of several articles on the recently concluded Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) between CARIFORUM (CARICOM plus the Dominican Republic) and the European Union (SN, February 3, 2008 “Guyana and the Wider World – Establishing SIDS and sabotaging it: Casualty of the EPA!”),

Dear Editor, I attended a meeting called by Minister Robert Persaud at the Friendship Community High School, on Thursday at 10 am.

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Not surprisingly, the much-hyped compensation meeting between the government and the Buxton backland farmers degenerated into chaos over Minister of Agriculture Robert Persaud’s choice of words.

Dear Editor, The Forest Products Association (FPA) wishes to respond to a letter from Mr James Singh, Commissioner of Forests, published in the Guyana Chronicle of January 31, 2008, which makes a number of assertions with regard to the performance of the forestry sector in 2007 and in regard to the granting of licences to foresters for 2008.

Dear Editor, Deryck Bernard was one of the more liked politicians by both sides of the House of Parliament.

Dear Editor, The death of Mr. Deryck Bernard who returned from Trinidad and Tobago two weeks ago for the funeral of his mother came to me as a great shock.

Dear Editor, Several times when I have reached the convent/Old Folks Home at Thomas and East Streets, I hear a great straining and heaving.

Dear Editor, The Guyana Government seem to be taking one step forward and two steps backwards in trying to move the country forward.

Dear Editor, Observing the recent criminal activities in Guyana, I wish to offer my sincere sympathy to all who have died.

Dear Editor, It is imperative that our politicians stop their petty wrangling and finger pointing and realize that they are walking on egg shells.

Dear Editor, Why is there so much strident and unreasonable opposition and criticism to the obviously necessary action to level and clear the dense vegetation at the back of some villages along the lower East Coast?

Dear Editor, Everyone has been clamoring for the government to be more effective in combating the crimewave emanating from Buxton.

Dear Editor, This is my first comment on the brutal killings that took place at Lusignan when eleven persons, including five children, lost their lives under the most tragic of circumstances.

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US President Harry Truman famously had a plaque on his desk that said “The Buck Stops Here” and he meant it.