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Two cousins who admitted that they broke into the home of another man and stole items were remanded to prison yesterday at the Leonora Magistrate’s Court pending sentencing.

The case against Navin Prashad who is charged with causing the death of a University of Guyana student on Carifesta Avenue was put off until next month.

I’ll quite understand if I am considered as being “too late”; coming in only now “after the fact”.

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With the start of Cricket World Cup 2007 now a matter of days away stores in Georgetown are reporting brisk sales of official CWC souvenirs.

It used to be one of Georgetown’s most popular hotels and “hang out joints” during the ’60s and ’70s and come March 15 the Penthouse Hotel will be making a “comeback.”

Twenty wickets fell on the first day as Berbice passed Demerara’s paltry first innings score of 80, then crumbled for 101 in the final round match of the Castrol inter-county under-15 two-day cricket competition at the Police Sports Complex ground yesterday.

Ronald Bulkhan returned a gross 92 to end with a net 66 from a 26 handicap to win the Daewoo Farm Supplies Ltd golf tournament last weekend at the Lusignan Golf Club.

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

The Forest Producers Association (FPA) is claiming that some of its members have been required to pay millions of dollars to the Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) based on the incorrect levying of VAT charges.

The Caribbean Media Corporation (CMC) has issued a CMC widescreen rights licensing checklist for persons planning to show cricket matches in 2007, including Cricket World Cup matches.

The Guyana Bank for Trade and Industry Limited (GBTI) made a profit after tax for the year 2006 of $506m making 2006 one of the most profitable years for the Bank.

I served in the United States Air Force for over 16 years including a stint in the first Iraq war and when I had to give briefings on leadership to younger officers, I often used one of our phrases in the Air Force, “level flight – rising terrain” If you were flying an aircraft at a level flight and there was rising terrain, obviously you will crash.

Now that there are several new and renovated hotels and guest houses in Georgetown and its environs the problem of the scarcity of the skills necessary to enable these institutions to provide a high standard of service is staring us even more squarely in the face.

Dear Editor, Since my letter on the 12th December 2006 concerning the condition of the roads in Kara Kara and Rainbow City, some amount of work has been done to some of the roads but I really cannot understand what sort of plan was used to carry out this project.

Dear Editor, In your article on GPL disconnections, March 8, you quoted GPL officials as saying that disconnections are being carried out for arrears up to December 2006.

A police inspector testifying in the trial of Swiss House boss, Farouk Razac and his beauty queen wife said that during the raid at the businessman’s house, Razac said that he was keeping the weapon that was found to combat wanted man Rondell ‘Fineman’ Rawlins if he should attack.

The Guyana Football Federation (GFF) will hold its annual awards and presentation ceremony tomorrow at the Georgetown Club, beginning at 7pm.

President Bharrat Jagdeo yesterday told the top brass of the Guyana Defence Force not to allow criminals and drug lords to take over the country and launched a broadside against the US on a number of fronts.

The Neal and Massy National First Division 40-over cricket competition will continue this weekend with 10 second and third round matches for teams in Berbice.