Opinion

Dear Editor, “Pre-paid bills not a good idea” contends a letter writer in Stabroek News on Monday 10/12/2007.

Dear Editor, It is nice to know that the Kashif and Shanghai football tournament will be on after some uncertainty.

Dear Editor, At his presentation at the university of Guyana in the early 1990s, Minister Louis Farrakhan advised Afro Guyanese to master mathematics and learn from Asians skills of economic empowerment, as a basis to be or remain competitive in the society and the world.

Dear Editor, Cheddi Jagan international airport is the gateway to Guyana for almost 90% of tourists arriving by air.

Dear Editor, The hold up in my response to Mr. Skinner’s letter captioned “African Guyanese are not engaging their energies on the right issues” (07.12.02) was the result of my desire to include in my response the central argument of my letter captioned, “Breaking into the East Indian bloc is difficult because of their greater cultural cohesion,” (07.11.27).

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With the Iowa caucus barely a fortnight away, the current front-runners in this year’s US presidential campaigns make an unlikely pair.

Dear Editor, A letter from Mr Reginald Forde captioned “I have the skills and equipment to service BMWs” (07.12.12) suggests that the gentleman’s efforts as an investor in Guyana are being frustrated because of governmental ‘red tape’.

Dear Editor, I refer to the report headlined ‘ Carnal knowledge accused granted $200,000 bail – ordered not to go within 300 yards of VC’ (Stabroek News, Tuesday, December 4, 2007) Magistrate Geeta Chandan should not give bail at all to a 30-year-old man accused of having carnal knowledge of a 13-year-old girl.

Dear Editor, With reference to your letter of 2007-09-20 which was addressed to Commander ‘G’ Division, enclosing a letter from Mr Mohamed Khan captioned “Noise nuisance has been fully investigated”, I wish to advise that the police mounted an investigation into the complaint by Mohamed Khan.

Dear Editor, I would like to recommend to members of Regional Development Councils and their counterparts in Local Government Councils that henceforth, in meetings with the individual responsible for that ministry they follow the following suggestions: (1) Always wear your bullet-proof jacket (2) Say or do nothing to cause him to get angry (3) Stay as close as possible to the quickest areas of escape just in case things don’t go right (4) Never forget that whatever he does, he will not be disciplined by the top brass or the enforcers of the law.

Dear Editor, A senior PPP/C party supervisor and M.P. of Region 2 is another trigger happy cowboy.

Dear Editor, The executive members of the GTUC are soon to meet and decide whether to appoint a new general secretary or approve Lincoln Lewis’s request for a 4 year leave of absence.

Dear Editor, I read an article in your newspaper dated 07-12-04 about a cop sent on self bail on a cycle theft charge.

Dear Editor, Permit me to wish Doreen de Caires a thousand hopes for success as she rides off into the opulent sunset of her career.

Dear Editor, The Camp Street Prison was built to accommodate just around five hundred human beings, today it has almost thirteen hundred of them.

Dear Editor, I acknowledge Mr Bert Carter’s eloquent reply (DC 07.12.11) to my letter in the Kaieteur News in which I outlined my points of concern regarding the Berbice River Bridge.

Dear Editor, In another reported incident of Islamic extremism, a Toronto newspaper on Tuesday says that a Canadian Muslim teenager was killed by her father over her refusal to wear a hijab, the traditional Muslim head cover.

Dear Editor, I wish to extend words of congratulations to Mr Ernest Elliot and Mr Mervin Williams on their election to the office of PNCR Regional Chairmen Region Four (4) and Three (3) respectively.

Dear Editor, Everyone that I have spoken to about trigger happy Minister Kellawan Lall says the same thing: at his age, Minister Lall should be a happily married family man instead of a gray-haired paramour fighting a teenager in a rum shop over a woman.