Opinion

Dear Editor, I would like to thank Leon Suseran for his letter captioned “Government should extend the subsidy for trips to Kaieteur into the New Year.”

Dear Editor, I refer to the GINA press release on ‘attempts to improve the Mash Celebrations on the Road on Mash Day 2008’ .

Dear Editor, I am writing with reference to the letter titled “Songs can be written in English with the Indian beat”.

Dear Editor, I applied for TIN via the form to be submitted.

Dear Editor, I read on a daily basis about political parties, letter writers and columnists calling for a reduction in the vat @ 16% or removal, a rise in the personal income tax threshold to G$50,000 per month, a reduction in the personal income tax rate of 33.33% and a reduction in corporation tax of 35/40%.

Dear Editor, As I was about to pen a letter in response to Mr David De Groot’s letter, “Government has considerably improved the electricity situation it inherited” (08.01.07), my area was hit by a blackout at 6:25 pm Having only a small UPS back-up and no private power plant, solar-power charged batteries or wind-powered generator, as the elites of our society possess – courtesy of the tax-payers, and straining my eyes in the dark to see the keyboard (I am not a touch typist), I had to shut down my computer at 6:32 pm to conserve the UPS battery and await the return of GPL power

Dear Editor, Many can identify with Martin Roberts’ letter captioned “What are the new TUC President’s plans to deal with the many problems confronting the workers?”

Dear Editor, In your news story, “Torture claims by soldiers – PPP would support independent probe,” (SN, January 9), one has to wonder whether there truly is a cavity between what the Jagdeo administration is actually doing and what the PPP knows the administration is doing?

Dear Editor, Congratulations are in order for Hillary Clinton who lives to fight another day having edged out Senator Barack Obama in the New Hampshire (NH) Primary, the first in the nation that allows members of the parties to choose their nominee rather than having party officials choose the nominee for them as happens in countries like Guyana.

Dear Editor, Kaieteur News’ editorial of January 6, 2008 captioned “Illiteracy is the blight of Guyana” is spot on.

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What is really going on in Camp Ayanganna nowadays? Is the Guyana Defence Force running some sort of military Gulag?

Dear Editor, Early last year I brought to your attention the fact that in all my years in the food business I had never seen such drastic price increases as those in the immediate post-VAT period.

Dear Editor, I do not intend to engage in polemics with E.

Dear Editor, The embassy would like to respond to a letter of Ms Hema Persaud, published in the Stabroek News under the caption “This store gives no bill, refused a refund” which you forwarded to the embassy.

Dear Editor, The residents of Kersaint Park, LBI, East Coast Damerara are calling on the NDC responsible to urgently repair the part of the main access road to the community that is causing major problems for vehicle owners and pedestrians.

Dear Editor, The unjustified and puerile attack directed at Honourable Justice Jainaraine Singh, and by extension the whole Judiciary, by President Jagdeo constitutes an outrage which must be denounced as such.

Dear Editor, I recently had an inexcusable experience at the Certifying Office at the Brickdam Police Station.

Dear Editor, Unless his recent remarks regarding the High Court order issued to GECOM were made in his capacity as a private citizen, President Jagdeo must be confusing himself with a Third World dictator.

Dear Editor, I am 62 and live at Bess Village, West Bank Demerara.