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A 17-year-old boy accused of using forged money to purchase shoes and then escaping from the police station lockups was remanded to prison when he appeared at the Vreed-en-Hoop Magistrate’s Court yesterday.

From the Bookmakers’ standpoint – the WICB will, I trust, forgive the utterance of the word Bookmaker at this sensitive time – the West Indies are probably the least fancied of the major cricketing nations to lift the 2007 Cricket World Cup.

The Guyana Table Tennis Association (GTTA) has added three more players to Guyana’s table tennis lineup that will contest the LIEBHERR 2007 World Table Tennis Championships in Zagreb, Croatia in May.

Dear Editor, The year 2007 is the year of the African Renaissance and fittingly, in March, we will commemorate the 200th anniversary of the abolition of the British and American Slave Trade.

Dear Editor, Now state-owned Guysuco and GPL withdraw their ads from Guyana’s most independent newspaper, supposedly without the knowledge of their Chairman!

Dear Editor, I am aware that Mr. Vishnu Bisram already briefly addressed in a letter the President meeting Mr.

Dear Editor, I’m not so much responding to this Sunday’s Kaieteur News Ravi Dev column (Mash and Republic Day) as I am instead offering comment on aspects for issues relevant to Republic Day and the Mashramani Festival which he raised therein.

Dear Editor, I write with specific reference to the article headlined “Rusal to mull hydropower” (07.02.08) where it was stated in part by Mr.

Dear Editor, I have been following with close interest what has been developing in the press between the Government News Agency and Stabroek News.

Dear Editor, On a recent cruise, we took organised bus tours around a few Caribbean islands, including Barbados, Trinidad and Grenada.

Dear Editor, I refer to an Article in KN dated 25th.

Dear Editor, It angered me to read about the death of the motorcyclist on the Harbour Bridge, and the injury to his pregnant girlfriend.

Dear Editor, Mr. Roy Paul’s letter captioned “Early payment of electricity bills will prejudice pensioners” (SN 2/2/07) suggests that some of our customers are labouring under a great deal of misconception regarding their electricity bills and payment.

If you love classic films then this is right up your street.

Dear Editor, Further to your office’s request for a response to a letter captioned “Guyanese in the USA inconvenienced by lack of passport books” (07.02.06) purportedly signed by an Andrew Marques, kindly be informed as follows: 1) No passport application has been received by our Embassy from any Andrew Marques between June 2006 to the present time.

Hi Everyone, Valentine’s Day is fast approaching and we all know that romance is often spelled f-o-o-d: from the heart-shaped box of chocolates to the candlelight dinner for two in a fancy restaurant.

The Guyana Local Organizing Committee (LOC) of the Cricket World Cup (CWC) 2007 is extending an invitation to members of these communities Greenfield Park, Providence, Republic Park, Nandy Park, and Bagotstown to attend a meeting at the stadium today.

Discipline vs. Punishment Punishment The literal meaning of punishment is “to cause to undergo pain”.

The National Sport Commission’s (NSC) cycling coach Hassan Mohamed will be hosting two Mashramani cycling programmes.

Break-ups happen everyday yet something about them never grows old. So when your girlfriend turns up and says she is through with a guy or that he has dumped her you find yourself in that position some of us know so well: dying to know what happened.