Opinion

Dear Editor, I refer to an article by Mr George Barclay in the Chronicle of Saturday, January 19, 2008 under the caption “Dataram extradition case

Dear Editor, The call from an injured Chris Gayle was loud and clear: “Get Ramnaresh Sarwan here now!”

Dear Editor, As I wrote (08.01.19) Hillary Clinton should not be underestimated in the US Democratic presidential campaign which is being held to choose a nominee for the Fall election.

Dear Editor, I refer to a letter by Ms Samantha Ali captioned “All the union leaders must recommit themselves” (08.01.18), in which it is said the “TUC is not a trade union.”

Dear Editor, I wish to commend Mr Sherwood Clarke in his letter captioned “A welcome union tribute from Prime Minister Spencer” (08.01.19) for calling for legislation to deal with the agency shop issue.

Dear Editor, A state that recognizes the full human rights of its most innocent citizens – children – and its worst citizens – criminals – can be expected to deal as fairly and as humanely with the rest of us bracketed in the middle.

Dear Editor, It is very easy, I suppose, to rewrite history, when the writer cares only to put forward points that support that individual’s agenda.

Dear Editor, And his assertion that race is the primary factor in the support Obama is getting from African American voters perhaps is probably more of Bisram transferring his selectoral operants as the motivating factors behind the electoral choices of African Americans.

Thursday’s lockout of the media from the annual officer’s conference of the Guyana Defence Force (GDF) was another in a series of ominous signs for the fourth estate epitomized by the government’s assault on press freedom via the withdrawal of state advertisements from this newspaper.

Dear Editor, On behalf of the Association of Guyanese Writers and Artists, I wish to congratulate Professor David Dabydeen for winning the “Caribbean Nobel Prize”, ANSA/Sabga Award for Excellence in Arts and Letters, which earned him a Gold Medal and TT$500,000.

Dear Editor, I note, with some surprise, a letter headlined: `Too many acting appointment in schools’ that appeared on page 9 of the Sunday Stabroek of January 20 without any indication that it had been sent or was being sent to the Teaching Service Commission for a comment.

Dear Editor, I ask the Minister of Finance Dr Ashni Kumar Singh to remember the 35,000 pensioners in his Budget 2008.

Dear Editor, I write on behalf of the New York/New Jersey Chapter of the AFC.

Dear Editor, Ranks that work with the special constabulary are not properly paid.

Dear Editor, There is one thing the newspapers do and that is to allow Tom and Dick and Harrylall to state their complaints.

Dear Editor, All complaints regarding serious charges of torture, corruption and other illegal actions involving government authorities should be conducted by independent investigators assigned to an equally independent oversight body.

Dear Editor, GNBS moves to regularise testing in the rice industry is welcome news for rice farmers because some rice millers are ripping off the farmers with moisture and dockage for a bag of padi.

Dear Editor, Since the PPP/C took office in 1992 the only thing they can say is “

Dear Editor, I have been an employee with the power company for over twenty years.

Dear Editor, I am very much concerned with what the power company GPL has embarked upon under the disguise of restructuring.