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IntroductionOn Wednesday George-town experienced something of a revolution as the marketing machinery of Digicel and GT&T kicked into high gear.

Setting deadlines makes sense. It is good practice. It sharpens the mind, providing a target against which delivery can be measured.

This week’s column resumes the discussion of employment in the forestry sector against the fourth cause singled out by Guyana’s Poverty Reduc-tion Strategy Programme (PRSP) as responsible for persistent poverty: “deterioration in the quantum and quality of social services” (PRSP 2001, p.

A local chess player, passionate about, and dedicated to popularizing the ancient game in Guyana, has imported and donated ten analogue chess clocks towards the development of the sport.

I am always receiving new plants during the year, many of which can’t thrive in this climate.

The Guyana Power and Light Inc has been warned that unless it reduces its line losses the Inter-American Development Bank will discontinue its support.

Gavin Bonston Kennard, CCH, CBE, former Minister of Agriculture and High Commissioner to Canada, died on February 12, aged 86.

We have belaboured this worm issue for several weeks. We analysed all the aspects of intestinal worm burden, prevention and cure.

Mashramani, like other kindred national festivals such as Barbados’ Crop Over and the Jamaica Festival, was created to cement and celebrate nationhood through an exhibition of the carnivalesque, to bring the populace together in a spirit of cooperation and oneness as well as to showcase to itself and the world, a definition of the nation’s cultural character and traditions.

If the children’s Mashramani float parade is an indication of what to expect on February 23 then the country is in for a big celebration.

An inmate of the New Amsterdam Prison was yesterday morning discovered by prison officials hanging from the ceiling of his cell.

With substantial work still to be completed on the multi-million dollar Casique hotel, it looks unlikely that it would be ready to accommodate the teams, officials, media and sponsors (TOMS) for the upcoming Cricket World Cup matches to be played in Guyana.

Log exporters and makers of value-added timber products yesterday took a step closer to unanimity, arriving at a “general consensus” on one of the recommendations put forward by the Guyana Forestry Commission (GFC), this newspaper has learned.

Three families are in chaos following an accident on Friday night, which took the lives of two persons and has left another is critical condition in the Intensive Care Unit of the Georgetown Hospital.

“To the left, to the left//everything you own is in the box to the left.

Yesterday’s Twenty20 cricket match at the National Stadium at Providence arranged to test the pitch, outfield and the rest of the facility took a back seat to the observation of the operation of the facility.

The feverish attempts to get everything in order for Cricket World Cup are evidence of a significant flaw in successive governments running this country: the lack of attention paid to maintaining things.

Six juveniles accused of robbing a woman at gunpoint of her cell phone and boxes of food several days ago, appeared yesterday in the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court and were each released on $10,000 bail by Acting Chief Magistrate Cecil Sullivan.

A homeless man who allegedly stole a man’s leather bag containing a quantity of local and foreign currency, a bankcard and other articles was remanded to prison by Acting Chief Magistrate Cecil Sullivan.

A 22-year-old labourer accused of raping an 11-year-old girl was remanded to prison when he appeared at the Vreed-en-Hoop Magis-trate’s Court yesterday.