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ELMINA, Ghana (Reuters) – Two hundred years after Britain’s abolition of the slave trade, Africans marked the anniversary yesterday with a sombre ceremony recalling the suffering of their ancestors and the lasting scars of slavery.

A cargo vessel that was busted early last week off the coast of Panama with over 43,000 pounds of cocaine making it the biggest maritime cocaine bust in history was in Guyana a few weeks ago, a report in the Associated Press has said.

More than three years after 11-year-old Nordex Wilkin-son went missing family members are still waiting for closure, since even though they are almost sure she is dead they want confirmation of this so they can move on with their lives.

Guyana joined the rest of the region yesterday in observing the 200th anniversary of the abolition of the trans-Atlantic slave trade, marking the occasion with a one-minute’s silence for those who died in the Middle Passage and in the resistance to slavery.

Armed bandits targeted gas stations over the weekend, robbing one on the West Bank of Demerara of a large sum of cash on Saturday and another on Sheriff Street in Georgetown early yesterday morning of cash and gasoline.

Chief Executive Officer of the Guyana Telephone and Telegraph Company (GT&T), Major General Retired, Joseph Singh is anticipating a win-win situation when the parent company ATN and the government set the ball rolling in discussions to iron out the differences which have plagued their relationship.

Dear Editor, The Inter-American Develop-ment Bank (IDB) is lending Guyana US$52 million for Competitiveness and Justice Sector Modernisation programmes.

Dear Editor, For some time I have observed letters in the press criticizing the leadership of the PNC and in some cases the leader himself.

Dear Editor, In this week of the Abolition of the Slave Trade let us remember some of our great leaders who have given so much for us.

Dear Editor, First I must say, hats off to the Guyana government in attempting to host one of the largest sporting events in the world, also in trying to spruce up Guyana for this event.

Neither the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) nor the Mayor and City Council (M&CC) has a programme in place for recycling plastic waste dumped in the city and other parts of the country and the impediment to finding workable solutions may lie in the lack of financial viability for everything proposed so far.

After suffering millions of dollars in losses when her fishing vessel was hijacked several nights ago, a businesswoman is calling on the Minister of Home Affairs and the police to deal with the problem of piracy.

Commissioner-General of the Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) Khurshid Sattaur has said that moving to the court for redress of any infringement of the Value-Added Tax (VAT) Act by VAT registrants will be one of the final courses of action by the GRA.

The People’s Progressive Party has joined with the international community in the observance today of the bicentenary of the abolition by Britain of the trans-Atlantic trade in captive Africans, executed by an Act of Parliament on March 25, 1807.

A special double issue of The Arts Journal will be released shortly providing new perspectives on the abolition of the trans-Atlantic slave trade in its bicentennial year.

There is much more to be done and many adversities to overcome, the Guyana Trades Union Congress (GTUC) stated in a message to mark the 200th anniversary of the abolition of the trans-Atlantic slave trade.

Pirates last Thursday fired gunshots while robbing a five-man crew of fishermen of outboard engines and other articles at the mouth of the Pomeroon River in the Atlantic Ocean.

Tolon Mon is a house about two miles from Christiansborg Castle at Osu in Accra.

I recently got my eyes examined and the optometrist says I have astigmatism.

Several countries across the globe have agreed to dedicate the year 2007 to an extended series of events, programmes and projects designed to observe the 200th anniversary of the abolition of the infamous institution known as the slave trade.