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Dear Editor, We have seen that despite all the extremely generous benefits, tax/duty exemptions, concessions, political connections, winning of awards, etc.,

Football stars of yesteryear will attempt to roll back the years when the Thomas United Masters Association stages a four-team invitational tournament at the Georgetown Football Club ground from 5pm today.

Dear Editor, I refer to Mr Robin Williams’s letter captioned “The most positive thing we could do is to become conscious of our predicament” (07.01.12).

Dear Editor, I find your editorial, “The other Iran,” (February 22), rather enlightening and stimulating, but especially the strong insinuation that the Bush administration, despite repeated denials, plans to launch a pre-emptive strike against Iran.

From the age of 15 years old, Chutney king Harresh Singh says, he was an entertainer.

Having convinced Guyanese that he was serious and had come out to engage them with an energetic and impulsive performance resulting in him enjoying the spoils of the soca war, Malo says nothing has changed.

Hi Everyone, Two things can come to a person’s mind when you invite them to your home – “I wonder what wonderful things we will eat” or “I hope that she is not making (Fill in the blank) again”.

We are happy that Nicole Osbourne neither won nor made it into the top five of the recently concluded Carib Soca Monarch competition.

A 17-year-old technical institute student was struck down and killed on the Corentyne highway on Thursday night while on his way home from church.

A mother is in grief after her two-year-old daughter yesterday afternoon fell overboard and drowned while going to a Strathspey, East Coast Demerara (ECD) shop to purchase a pack of biscuits.

(Trinidad Guardian) Law enforcement officers assigned to the Organised Crime, Narcotics and Firearms Bureau (OCNFB) who reportedly seized cocaine valued $5.3 million, believe they have made a major dent in a drug smuggling operation between T&T, Guyana and Canada.

Students preparing to write the National Grade Six Assessment for the first time this year, now have an extra week to prepare as the Education Ministry has taken a decision to postpone the examination in the face of the Cricket World Cup (CWC).

Guyana hosts important nesting sites for at least three of the five endangered marine turtle species in the Atlantic.

Do you feel bad after hitting a child in your care?

A colourful spring celebration which runs into Phagwah on March 4 kicks off today at the Guyana Hindu Dharmic Sabha with the Annual Pre-Phagwah Mela and Bazaar at the Dharmic Sanskritik Kendra in Prashad Nagar.

Chaos at the end marred this year’s Mashramani float parade, with a stampede towards on Irving Street late yesterday afternoon, in which some people might have been hurt.

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Amputee Yonette McDonald, 37, who was the lone survivor of an accident on Mandela Avenue that killed two others, two Fridays ago died at the Georgetown Hospital on Thursday.