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Magistrate Brassington Reynolds on Thursday freed Shawn Richardson called ‘Jungle Commando’ following the Preliminary Inquiry (PI) into the 2003 murder of Enterprise taxi driver, Vivekanand Nandalall.

Bill likes to quote great philosophers. Voltaire provided much intellectual backbone for the French Revo-lution; that formed modern Europe and its liberal freedoms.

England, buoyed by an 82-ball 90 from Paul Collingwood which was good enough to earn him the Man-of-the-Match award, beat Ireland by 48 runs to win their first “Super 8” match at the Providence Stadium yesterday.

In the wee hours of Monday morning, a crime was committed so shocking in terms of bizarreness and cruelty that it can perhaps be termed a hate crime, particularly as it was perpetrated against members of a minority group-the indigenous people.

Sri Lanka’s captain, Mahela Jayawardene says his team might not have deserved to win the battle against South Africa but they were looking forward to any opposition that the West Indies would present.

The Farfan and Mendes Easter team tournament continued Thursday evening at the Georgetown Club court with both the leading teams in the competition experiencing their first defeat.

The University of Guyana presented the first lecture of the 2007 Walter Chair Lectures delivered by Professor of history Winston McGowan at the National Library Auditorium on Tuesday.

International Cricket Cou-ncil’s (ICC) Chief Executive, Malcolm Speed has congratulated Guyana for delivering its part of the International Cricket Council’s 2007 Cricket World Cup (CWC) competition.

Any number of factors can be pinpointed for the latest West Indies World Cup defeat, but the reality is that the home team is suddenly playing as if it is in another competition.

Drawing every molten note out of the steel, Ken ‘Professor’ Philmore had the kettle boiling with a high pitched whistle that ruffled the pores and entered the blood stream sending cells infected with the wailing notes rushing to the brain pounding the emotions and leaving no heart in the house untouched.

Despite suffering a 48-run loss to England in their Super Eight round match at the Providence Stadium yesterday, the Irish cricket team came in for high praise from England’s captain Michael Vaughan.

Dear Editor, The vendors of Region Three are now experiencing a taste of the fate suffered by the Stabroek Market vendors recently.

Dear Editor, Thank you for sending me a copy of the letter from Mr Mark Vasconcellos captioned “NCN’s radio coverage of the activities commemorating the abolition of the slave trade was inadequate” (07.03.28).

Dear Editor, I must congratulate Stabroek News’ Saturday supplement The Scene for running the series on Challeng-ing Corporal Punishment and for offering alternatives to this dreadful practice.

Dear Editor, As an educator and a disciplinarian, but moreso an ardent reader of your newspaper since it started, I would like to congratulate the Minister of Education, Mr Shaik Baksh MP concerning the banning of cell phones in schools.

Dear Editor, I am not at all surprised that Mr Vishnu Bisram has finally come under attack for his dual role of pollster and political commentator/analyst.

Dear Editor, As I was sitting, awaiting my turn in a Guyana Power & Light commercial office, something struck me.

Dear Editor, Mark Forde’s letter captioned “A new leader must be found to replace Corbin” (07.03.22) seems to be nothing more than an ill-informed planned attack against Mr Robert Corbin.

Dear Editor, Tucked away on page 3 of Stabroek News dated March 16, 2007 was the news item “T&T drops VAT on food”, Trinidad being the wealthiest country in the Caribbean.

Dear Editor, Like others – we hope very many others – we were outraged to read in the Stabroek News about the atrocity inflicted on a family outside a nightclub on Sheriff Street.