Opinion

Dear Editor, “Mimic men” (SN 07-11-03) or whatever one might want to call it but the reality is that the increasing popularity of American cultural traditions like Halloween and Thanksgiving in Guyana can be attributed to the fact that the world is indeed “flattening” and is becoming smaller.

Dear Editor, We shall be most grateful if you will facilitate an enquiry of the Agencies listed below regarding a building which is being constructed in Garnette Street, Lamaha Gardens, immediately west of Aromata Place.

Dear Editor, I find it pertinent to open this letter by relating a recent encounter I had with one of my neighbours.

Dear Editor, Funny how one assumes, perhaps illogically, that former British colonies still adopt and follow English law.

Dear Editor, I read with interest Abu Bakr’s letter on VS Naipaul captioned “Naipaul has re-invented himself as an upper class and unpredictably eccentric Englishman” (07.11.02).

Dear Editor, Having lived through the 1900s as General Secretary of the People’s National Congress, I found the Stabroek News Editorial of October 24, 2007 titled, “Ashes of the Past”, a well written article, obviously done by someone possessing high professional competence and journalistic integrity.

Dear Editor, I refer to the letter by Mr. Donald Ramotar entitled, “The PPP held Arthur Abraham in high esteem” (07.11.01).

Dear Editor, Presidential appointments of key scientific positions in most countries are an accepted norm.

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It is welcome news that the Ministry of Health recognizes the disease that is alcoholism as a national public health issue and is planning strategies to address it.

Dear Editor, As we now enter the month designated as Tourism Awareness Month, it gives me great pleasure to acknowledge someone who to my mind was an ambassador both locally and internationally in promoting, and showcasing Guyana’s Eco Tourism regionally and globally.

Dear Editor, Coming off “our” recent celebration of Halloween “we” should start preparing ourselves for our next celebration, “Thanksgiving”.

Dear Editor, As expected there has been much hullabaloo about what in substance is very little in the ‘action’ unannounced by the Police Department to curb the much publicised carnage on our roadways.

Dear Editor, On Saturday October 7, 2007, the Police Traffic Department in Region 2 started a traffic campaign which resulted in about 120 vehicles being impounded for various traffic offences, some of them minor.

Dear Editor, I read Ms Sheila Holder’s letter in response to Dennis Wiggins about the need for the Alliance For Change (AFC) to be more of an activist party in between elections if it wants to be seen as serious about changing the political landscape.

Dear Editor, I read with some degree of empathy the concerns of residents regarding their safety when the Joint Services engage bandits in the Buxton/Friendship area.

Dear Editor, On the evening of October 24, 2007, BBC radio had on its weekly programme ‘Health Check’ a discussion among three Professors of Medicine of Universities in the UK and the USA, respectively.

Dear Editor, The author of Tuesday’s (Oct 30) editorial “A Grouse for Mr.

Dear Editor, The New Amsterdam Multilateral Senior Secondary School, in fine style, held its 20th Graduation and Prize-Giving Exercise on Thursday, November 1, 2007, in the school’s multi- purpose hall.

Dear Editor, The political circus now engaging the attention of Guyanese with the PPP Government reportedly coming yet again to the rescue of the Georgetown City Council deserves to be bulldozed into one of the rubbish heaps in the city and carted off to a waste site for degeneration.