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This month of March 2007 is the tenth-year milestone since Cheddi Jagan died in a country he had his initial political grounding in but which he was understandably ambivalent about.

Since opening for business on December 18 last year the City Mall has become both a popular haunt for urban dwellers as well as a favoured venue for shoppers.

All modern wars have their iconic images. For many Americans the Vietnam war was an abstract moral problem until they saw a haunting photograph of girl fleeing her village after it had been bombed with napalm.

Magistrate Geeta Chandan yesterday remanded to prison a West Coast Berbice man who is accused of indecently assaulting a 17-year-old-girl when he appeared to answer to charges at the Fort Wellington Court.

Hold the Front page! Bill eats his words. In spades. Guyana pulled it off.

Thanks to those who felt that I did provoke thought with my last Friday’s offering on “European trafficking in Africans”.

Outgoing President of the Georgetown Chamber of Commerce (GCC) Captain Gerry Gouveia has told Stabroek Business that the business community cannot hope to proceed with its entrepreneurial pursuits in ‘splendid isolation’ from the currents in the wider society since the social and political developments that occur in Guyana impact directly on the welfare of the business sector.

A total of 2710 women received maternity benefits and grants from the National Insurance Scheme (NIS) totaling more than $86m between January and December last year, according to information released by the Scheme recently.

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All countries have taken note of the potentially significant contribution that ICTs can make in their development process and in the eradication of poverty.

It is my hope that our visitors in Guyana for World-Cup cricket take some time to look at our country from an investment perspective.

The Bed and Breakfast (B&B) programme launched by the Local Organizing Committee (LOC) of Cricket World Cup was a response to what was felt to be a likely shortfall in hotel and guest house accommodation given the anticipated number of visitors to Guyana for the games scheduled to be played at the Providence Stadium.

Notes 1 – Interim results 2 – Prospective EPS: earnings per share for 12 months period to the date the latest financials have been prepared.

Eleanor Hamilton-English, Carol-Ann Hamilton and Deslyn Hamilton are among the many enterprising examples of emerging Guyanese who are embracing business challenges in a local private sector that is becoming increasingly dominated by small and medium-sized businesses.

After bursting upon the international cricket scene by bouncing highly vaunted Pakistan out of the Cricket World Cup the Ireland World Cup cricket team is excited to be in Guyana for three “Super 8” matches the first of which gets underway today against England.

England’s captain, Michael Vaughan said that the focus of his team ahead of today’s Super Eight contest against minnows, Ireland would be the certainty of the two points they can pick from winning the match.

Ireland’s captain, Trent Johnston admitted yesterday that the Irish team was the underdog team for today’s match against England at the Providence National Stadium, but said that they will focus on doing the basics right with a 120 percent effort.

The Hand-in-Hand Group of Companies Tuesday evening launched Cricket at Bourda a wonderful book written by Ian McDonald and Paul Chan-A-Sue at the Georgetown Cricket Club, Bourda.

Mark Vieira will lead a star-studded team to represent the Guyana Motor Racing and Sports Club (GMR&SC) in Jamaica for the first leg of the 2007 Caribbean Championship on April 8.

Unless the West Indies team can somehow shake themselves out of the inexplicable lethargy that has typified their cricket over the past three days, the remaining month of the World Cup will be more misery for their host of long-suffering supporters.