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Sheriff Night Club owner Rajpattie Bacchus is denying reports that a family of four was robbed and assaulted outside the nightspot early Monday morning but the victims are standing by their story.

A gang of men with “drug dealers’ connections” on Monday afternoon abducted a young man just outside of his Lama Avenue, Bel Air work place and later forced him to call two of his friends who are businessmen, from whom they demanded money.

A Guyanese woman is questioning why Barbados immigration authorities had her and three others locked up at the airport for six days before they were deported, although they had their tickets to travel back to Guyana.

A company which will import Polar beer legally was launched yesterday with plans to establish a US$15 million beer plant at Ruimzeigt, West Coast Demerara (WCD) for both local consumption and for export.

The United States (US) Embassy says the navy ship the USS Carney (DDG 64) will be operating in the eastern Caribbean Sea for several weeks and might lend support to anti-narcotics and other missions.

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The amelioration of social services in British Guiana was achieved in two phases.

Bill’s coffee cup runneth over. So much to report, so little space.

Dear Editor, I thank you for the opportunity to respond to the letter captioned “The state media have not done enough to promote the preparation for Cricket World cup” (07.03.28) by Alicia Gonsalves.

There were wins for teams A, E and F on Tuesday evening at the Georgetown Club courts as the Guyana Squash Association’s Farfan and Mendes Easter team tournament got off to a flying start.

The Chico Sweets/Smalta/Giftland Office Max Inter-Secondary School Futsal tournament will continue tonight with the quarter-final matches at the National Gymnasium from 6:30 pm.

The touring United Petrotrin Football Club of South Trinidad will take on Pele Football Club this afternoon from 4 pm at the Conquerors Football ground.

South Africa’s captain Graeme Smith said yesterday that his team dominated 95 percent of the Super Eight match against Sri Lanka at the Providence Stadium.

Thinking of going to World Cup cricket at the Guyana National Stadium at Providence?

Sri Lankan right-arm fast bowler Separamadu Lasith Malinga overcame a man- of-the -match controversy yesterday to declare to the local and international media that he was happy with his record-breaking feat at the post-match press conference at the Providence stadium.

The hungrier team won yesterday. Aussie ruthlessness overcame West Indies submissiveness in a telling display of authority over the last two days in Antigua.

The West Indies, yet again, came face-to-face with unavoidable reality in their first Super Eight match at the Sir Vivian Richards stadium over the past two days.

South Africa eked out a one wicket victory over Sri Lanka despite a sensational bowling performance from Sri Lankan fast bowler Lasith Malinga who created history by becoming the first bowler to take four wickets in four balls in international cricket in the first “Super Eight” match at the spankingly new Provi-dence Stadium yesterday.

A recent Financial Times brief on the political situation in Venezuela reported that “the final vestiges of resistance to Hugo Ch

Magistrate Oneidge Walrond-Allicock yesterday committed Marcel La Cruz, the woman accused of stealing a teenaged girl’s baby, to stand trial in the High Court.