Opinion

Dear Editor, I am shocked by the report in your newspaper about the government’s decision to withdraw all the advertising of the ministries from your publication.

Dear Editor, The report that police have detained an 78 year old man for living with a 13 year old girl is certainly welcome news in the battle against “sexual abuse” of our children.

Dear Editor, I refer to a letter captioned “Illegal logging is lower in Guyana than in many other countries” (07.01.15) by Paul Taylor.

The world grew a little colder, and larger, last July when the BBC revealed that “‘six degrees of separation’ may be the academic equivalent of an urban myth.”

Dear Editor, I am seriously troubled by the perceived direction of this country’s foreign policy in relation to Guyana’s dealings with India.

Dear Editor, Kidnapping is big business in Trinidad. That is right, it is organized as a business with various criminal gangs involved in different aspects of the operation – planning, actual kidnapping, transporting, holding and protecting the victim, contacting the family’s victim, negotiating the ransom, collecting the fee, and releasing the victim.

Dear Editor, It is possible to remain silent while governments blunder or act as though lacking in simple commonsense.

Dear Editor, It is not the Guyana Revenue Authority’s (GRA) intention to get involved in any political debate.

Dear Editor, Your news item on Tuesday explaining the government’s decision to curtail awarding commercial advertisements to Stabroek News does not come as a surprise to many, including me.

Dear Editor, I was attracted to the caption given to the letter addressed to you by the Public Relations Officer, M&CC in Stabroek News of January 08, 2007 namely “Mayor Green’s advertisement was not seen by the Town Clerk or the Council”.

Dear Editor, In February 2006, the Guyana Forestry Commission and the Forest Products Association issued a glossy brochure which claimed “Guyana is probably the only country in the world with a complete national log tracking system.

More of a quaint, 19th century, Victorian heritage site than a national maximum security penitentiary, the Mazaruni Prison has once again become the scene of an escape of some of its desperate inmates.

Dear Editor, A happy, beautiful and productive 2007 to you and all at Stabroek News.

Dear Editor, I was in Guyana for the holidays and one of my relatives took me to the GTM Office at Skeldon Berbice to renew his insurance.

Dear Editor, I observed that the Commissioner General of the Guyana Revenue Authority Mr Khurshid Sattaur seems to be responding to all the critics.

Dear Editor, I wish to empathise with Ronald Morgan and all those persons who are incapacitated and confined to their wheelchairs, beds and other dismal domiciles.

Dear Editor, We the members of the Forest Products Association, refute a statement in Freddie Kissoon’s column in the Kaieteur News of Friday.

Dear Editor, I refer to the article headlined “Union leaders trade jabs over unity” which appears in SN, Friday January 12th 2007, and would like to direct a few questions to Mr.

Dear Editor, The recent prison breakout at Mazaruni Prison should not come as a surprise to the powers that be as they were fully aware that the prison service does not have the capacity, lacks the human and financial resources to prevent such occurrences.

Dear Editor, Discipline, to my mind, is the forerunner to any form of punishment that is a penalty for disregarding a rule of conduct prescribed by a state.