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The National Elections in August last year has been blamed for the lateness of the Auditor General’s report, which is now to be presented to the Speaker of the National Assembly in March.

A three-member Guyanese delegation is participating in the first India-Latin America Conclave: Project Partnerships 2007, being organized by the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) in New Delhi.

The department of education in Region 10 is investigating the vandalizing of the head teacher’s office and some vital equipment belonging to the Linden Foundation Secondary School.

Citing data from a study put together by the World Bank, Alliance for Change MP Khemraj Ramjattan in parliament on Friday sought to highlight a number of aspects of the country’s development which he argued were not dealt with in the budget.

The People’s National Con-gress Reform-One Guyana (PNCR-1G) yesterday joined calls for a complete overhaul of the National Insurance Scheme (NIS) and said that the organisation was now being looked at as a burden to workers.

Several shortcomings and in one instance inaccurate information were discovered in the early stages of the implementation of the US President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) in Guyana, according to an audit done in 2005.

The Guyana Hindu Dharmic Sabha encourages devotees to attend celebrations for this year’s Maha Shivaratri.

Gunmen on Monday robbed the proprietor of a jewellery shop and his customer of more than $400,000 in cash and jewels.

Point guard Steffon ‘Penny’ Henry and centre Horace Hodges came into Courts Pacesetters’ starting lineup Sunday night to help the Georgetown number one seeded team get past East Coast at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall.

They are the defending KFC Cup One-day champions. They also won the inaugural Stanford Twenty20 cricket competition beating none other than Trinidad and Tobago in the finals last year.

Black History Month-which used to mean little more than patronising publicity about Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King-has taken on new life in America this year.

Robbery under arms accused Shawn Barrow will face another trial at the next sitting of the High Court in Demerara after a jury last week failed to reach a verdict.

Nearly two years after his ex-wife’s burnt body was found in a cemetery behind their Mocha home Lloyd McCleoud is on trial in the High Court for murder.

Royston Alfred who was on trial in the High Court for killing his partner three years ago on D’Urban Street was convicted of murder last week and sentenced to death by Justice Claudette La Bennett.

Justice James Bovell-Drakes last week set a man free after a jury found him not guilty of manslaughter at a High Court trial.

Dear Editor, Thanks for reprinting the article by Tony Best of the Barbados Nation in our embattled newspaper.

Dear Editor, (We were previously mistaken in thinking that the Digicel ‘Experience’ concert is part of Mashramani celebrations) The Society Against Sexual Orientation Discrim-ination calls on Digicel to ensure that the homophobia of the Jamaican group T.O.K

Dear Editor, I believe it is imperative that the public be aware of the frustrations encountered by importers of zero-rated items.

Dear Editor, Not so long ago the Government of Guyana, at the behest of donor agencies, passed the Fiscal and Financial Management Accountability Act, the aim of which was to foster and sustain accountability and transparency in the use of government funds.

After years of working under poor conditions and numerous letters to the authorities regarding the situation, students, their parents and staff of the L’Aventure Secondary School located on the West Bank Demerara yesterday locked the gates of the school to protest its deplorable state.