Dear Editor,
As part of its anti-suicide campaign, the Caribbean Voice, through its social activism programme ‘Arise’, has identified billboards as vehicles to get the message out there. Guyana has 65 local government districts and we strongly believe that a minimum of one billboard per district would be a very significant anti-suicide strategy.
Now everyone knows that government probably does not have the money for billboards. But every local government district has a number of small businesses and professionals. Thus, if these individuals can come together and donate a few dollars, the cost of the billboards would be easily covered. Every district also has carpenters and painters and these individuals can be approached to donate their services to construct and paint the billboards....
Lifestyle
Dear Accounting Professional:
Why won't you make it easy for me to do business with you?
I am a small businessman who needs some help growing my business. I work 12 hours a day and I need someone who can step in and help me get control of my life again and steer my business in the right direction.
Please understand that I really WANT to do business with you. I'm looking for the right phrases, emotions, or actions that subtly confirms for me my overwhelming desire to HIRE YOUR FIRM. I'm looking for reasons to say "YES" to you, not "no." I don't want to spend my time selecting a CPA. But you're not making it easy.
You sell accounting services everyday. I buy accounting services once in a blue moon. Help guide me through the process. Is my business too small for your firm? Do you...
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Debbie Ward,
Chief Executive’s Office
County Hall
Colliton Park
Dorchester
Dorset
DT1 1XJ
Dear Mrs Ward,
Businesses in the Bridport and Beaminster areas are being severely affected by the closure of the Beaminster Tunnel.
Being in a southern coastal location, we are extremely reliant on visitors from the North - those visitors from the East and West having far more coastal visiting options. The area's retail and tourism businesses suffered an extremely bad 2012 season due to recession, flooding, aversion publicity surrounding the Olympics and being cut-off from the North by the Beaminster Tunnel landslide.
With the A3066 being such an important transport artery for all north-south bound traffic to and from Bridport, it was very surprising that it took four months after...
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Dear DeeDee.
I was utterly dismayed to learn that the Republican Business...
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Hi Fred,
Was one of your 2015 resolutions to stir the pot a bit with your tweets? Because we’re only 21 days into the new year and you’re doing a pretty good job.
I don’t follow you on Twitter, but couldn’t go past your latest 140-character rant. In case you’ve forgotten, you wrote, “Stay-at-home parenting is superior to 'day orphanages' (childcare). We need to reform our tax/welfare system to support parenting. #teamnile”
I am a former day orphan. I was in full-time childcare from the age of three months old. And, you know what? Surprisingly I’m doing OK. In fact, I remember nothing of my abandonment –perhaps I’ve suppressed it? What I do remember is bubble painting and Play-Doh … sounds horrible, I know.
I’ve never felt held back by my parents’ decision to leave me at the ‘day...
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Dear Lord Mayor,
Writing recently on the matter of Inclusive Capitalism You have said:
"If too many people remain or become marginalised, they are less likely to be enfranchised, empowered and effective as workers and citizens, rendering them unable to make an economic contribution at best, and resulting in civil unrest at worst. Everything a firm does from the very top to the very bottom should demonstrate on a daily basis our desire to see a stronger, better evolution of capitalism. "
You have asked "Who will challenge traditional thinking, if we only have people like us in our teams? "
Today, we live in an age of information where ideas are exchanged freely by many of those pursuing social change. One source of this exchange is Wikipedia where you will find 'Inclusive...
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Dear Messrs Bulbulia and Joosub
For many years we've been working to provide South Africans with a modern communications infrastructure. Today, we stand at a crossroads – you can hide behind regulations to protect profits, or we can all continue to expand access and lower costs.
We have been following your public statements very closely, and believe your recent actions fall short of what we can do to move the country forward. Here are some facts:
1. In 1994, mobile termination rates were introduced as a way for Telkom to subsidise MTN and Vodacom to build your networks. To achieve this, Telkom had to pay MTN and Vodacom significantly more than you paid us for the same service.
2. The extent of the Telkom subsidy to MTN and Vodacom has amounted to over R50 billion, which results from...
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Dear People with Good Intentions,
Brendan Rigby
Brendan Rigby
Hello! My name is Brendan Rigby and I, like you, have a sense of social justice, compassion and kindness. I’m motivated by the inequality and poverty I see in the world. I’m moved to do something. To do something inherently good. I know where you are coming from, and I empathise with your sense of powerlessness and sense of injustice in the world.
But that is where our similarities end. I’m a member of a community that, when coming across a charity like yours, either:
Snort in disbelief
Laugh
Cry
All of the above
Why? It is a valid and appropriate question. We are privileged to a certain insider knowledge; a discourse of expertise. We are global development professionals and aid workers. We have an accumulation...
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Dear Mr. Joly, I know you are working hard to turn Best Buy around, and I hope you succeed. I’m a technology enthusiast and in the past have spent many hours and much money at Best Buy. But, as you well know, there is a lot that needs to change. I just got back from my local Best Buy, having attempted to buy a white 16GB iPad Mini as a Christmas gift. Not surprisingly, I found they are out of stock. That’s not Best Buy’s fault; they’re in short supply, including Apple’s retail and online stores. The Blue Shirt I spoke with said he could order it for me, and I would have it “before Christmas,” a “date” I found a little unsettling. Nonetheless, I agreed, and we sat down to place the order. It was then that things fell apart for reasons I think you should know. While he sat there putting...
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Dear Commissioners:
By now you may know that the Mackinac Center for Public Policy has filed a lawsuit against the Michigan Liquor Control Commission over illegal costs associated with a Freedom of Information Act request I submitted. The suit arose out of my investigations into your so-called “post and hold ” rules for distributors and wholesalers of alcoholic beverages. Previous empirical research has shown these rules may artificially raise prices paid by consumers between 6.4 to 30 percent, depending on the product.
You will recall that in testimony before the commission last June I recommended these rules be repealed because they hurt consumers and only benefit a handful of beer and wine wholesalers. This amounts to government-enabled industry price collusion.
It is...
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