Opinion

Dear Editor, I congratulate the hardworking management, staff and illustrious editorial team of the Stabroek News for the professional manner in which numerous issues of national importance have been reported over the past several months.

Dear Editor, While I understand Brother Eusi Kwayana’s argument that “The right to peaceful protest should not be denied” (08.02.05), , I wonder if he gave any thought to the ramifications of such a protest on the PPP and its government?

The Caricom-EU Economic Partnership Agree-ment negotiations have come to a de facto end, though not without a certain amount of disputation in the Region about its potential advantages and disadvantages.

Dear Editor, Last night I happen to come across an article written about the genesis of Stabroek News, and the obstacles you had to overcome in the effort to establish this newspaper.

Dear Editor, I, like all other straight-thinking Guyanese, am deeply saddened by the recent savagery in Lusignan.

Dear Editor, It is disappointing that none of the political parties has responded positively to the editorial on “Massacre of the 11,” published in SN, January 28.

Dear Editor, Rondell Rawlins is on the run, in hiding or has left the country with the help of his friends.

Dear Mr President, A few years ago on your visit to New York, I participated in a picketing exercise; the issue was ” Security”!

Dear Editor, I had to do a double take. No this was just the wrong channel.

Dear Editor, I refer to the letter by Mr. Vincent Alexander captioned “We must try to understand how our society has produced ruthless killers” (08.02.02).

Dear Editor, I see everyone, including the newspapers are shrill in their criticism of President Jagdeo.

Dear Editor, Some in their grief and agony after the horrible carnage at Lusignan called for the return of Roger Khan and Ronald Gajraj.

While the two-and-a-half-year trial of Mr Omprakash ‘Buddy’ Shivraj plodded on ever so ponderously before magistrate Priya Sewnarine-Beharry at the Providence court, it was surprising to learn that the chief witness, Mr Joseph O’Lall, had been removed from his post as chief executive officer of the Guyana Energy Agency with effect from December 31 2007.

Dear Editor, We seem to be back at the days when Dayclean used to complain that “no procession other than a funeral procession” could be held without permission under the Public Order Act.

Dear Editor, In a recent press release, the ruling People’s Progressive Party expressed strong disapproval at the Kaieteur News coverage of the Lusignan incident and hinted that they may register a complaint with the Guyana Press Association.

Dear Editor, The President and PPP/C government has to my mind had to make some of the toughest decisions ever in their fifteen years in office, so far.

Dear Editor, I write with respect to my letter which you published and titled ” Mr Ramson is a hard core supporter of the PPP and I am not happy with his appointment as an Appeal Court Judge” (08.02.03).

Dear Editor, We, as concerned Guyanese, realize that it is our duty to speak out unequivocally, against the recent atrocities carried out in Lusignan particularly the slaughter of innocent children in their beds where they lay and the reign of terror that has since descended.

Dear Editor, I am dismayed! I continue to be less than impressed by the attempts of the GPF to apprehend crime, given their simplistic approach and the paucity of firm and intelligent action on their part.

Dear Editor, In his letter captioned “Clinton has 232 delegates, Obama 152,” Mr Vishnu Bisram disputed my claim that Obama has amassed more delegates from the four contests (Iowa, New Hamsphere, Nevada, and South Carolina).