Opinion

Dear Editor, Is there another country on planet earth where the mere sight of a Guyana Power and Light bill (GPL Bill) increases hypertension, diarrhoea, heart attacks and other unpleasant response except Guyana, the land of many waters that should have been generating electricity at the minimum rate.

Dear Editor, Being an avid user of the internet and a web developer, I feel a compulsion to write on the subject.

Dear Editor, As perhaps expected, the nay-sayers and doomsayers are at it again, this time about the Health Facilities Licensing Bill 2006, by those who seem determined to criticize any and everything that the government does or is about to do.

Dear Editor, I refer to the letter by Colin Bascom of the Executive Committee of The Campaign for Justice in Guyana (JIG UK) captioned “Our relations with India should not be at the expense of our core values as a nation” (07.01.17).

Dear Editor, I am deeply concerned about the views being expressed in the written media outlets about the denial of ads to Stabroek News.

Dear Editor, We refer to the article concerning the Hubu goat farmer on the 13th January 2007 with a picture of a dog on a piece of land.

Dear Editor, Thank you for the publication of my letter captioned “The members of this Water Users Association were not democratically elected” (07.01.03).

Dear Editor, The Anna Regina Multilateral School held its termly PTA meeting on Sunday, January 14th 2007.

Dear Editor, According to your note to my letter you did not receive two letters I e-mailed recently.

Dear Editor, Other Red Thread members are in the process of responding to the VAT-related points made in the letter by Commissioner-General Sattaur published in the Chronicle on Tuesday, January 16 and in the Stabroek News on Wednesday, January 17.

Dear Editor, On Dec 30 2006, the Kuru Kururu neighborhood was assaulted by loud and annoying music coming from a party in the village.

Dear Editor, It was my first experience of Linden in the night, and more importantly of Christmas Eve night.

Dear Editor, I strongly believe that it is incumbent upon me to reveal a suicidally depressing situation in which my brother was embroiled.

The recent controversy concerning the President’s appointment of ministers of the new Cabinet before they were declared elected as members of parliament has given rise to considerable speculation.

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.

Dear Editor, The argument for educational dictators to be given authority to inflict pain and suffering on those members of our society whose cognitive growth has not yet crossed the threshold of concrete perceptions is essentially that discipline is essential.

Dear Editor, The front page picture in the Guyana Chronicle (11.01.07 of the horse that ran into a drain in its desperate attempt to escape the unbearable load of its cart and the whip of the cart driver, captures the kind of punishment animals are subjected to daily at the hands of cart drivers whose greed and lack of compassion lead them to these acts of brutality.

Dear Editor It was only a few days ago that I read an interesting but very sad letter by Mr Ainsworth Wong, which attended to the issues of democracy and government threatening freedom of expression and press freedom.