Opinion

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.

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, 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.

Dear Editor, The Kaieteur News article captioned “Govt MP blasts church on opposition to ‘casino’ legislation” (Jan.,

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, I refer to Karen Bacchus’s letter captioned “How many items attracted a higher consumption tax than 16%?”

Dear Editor, Barama is claiming that it is not a profitable company and therefore does not have to pay the measly tax.

Dear Mr. President, We welcome the statement you made on Saturday, January 13 that Government has been reviewing VAT and will probably make some adjustments this week.

Friday afternoon’s escape of nine inmates from the Mazaruni penal facility and the shooting of four members of the joint services is just another manifestation of the precarious state of the nation’s security.

Dear Editor, Is Dr. John Fredericks saying that the controversy in the primitive church surrounding the Divinity of Christ was settled by a majority vote?

Dear Editor, What is this I have been reading that Mr.

Dear Editor, VAT has been supported by all Guyanese, except some businesses and now it looks like the PNCR is joining the bandwagon with C.N