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Dear Editor, Congratulations to Mrs. Doreen de Caires on receiving the US Secretary of State’s Award for International Women of Courage.

Dear Editor, Congratulations to the West Indies for winning their first world cup match against Pakistan in the WI.

Dear Editor, A recent letter in the Guyana Chronicle of 2007-03-08, congratulating the Women’s Army Corps on their 40th Anniversary, advised them to be “Our Helens of Troy”.

Dear Editor, It has been almost a year since I last wrote about our continued butchery of the English language.

Dear Editor, I looked forward with great enthusiasm to the anticipated colourful opening ceremony for the ICC World Cup 2007.

The Guyana Hockey Board of Control (GHBC), in an effort to secure a Pan American ranking, is expected to send senior male and female teams to the Caribbean Champion-ships in Trinidad and Tobago in June.

Ascension Community High School of Georgetown defeated West Demerara’s L’aventure Secondary School by 22 runs in a semi-final encounter of the Ministry of Education/Guyana Cricket Board/National Sports Commission secondary schools cricket competition on Wednesday at the Demerara Cricket Club ground.

Second-half goals from Sherwin Bailey and Orin Squires within 13 minutes piloted Kitty `A’ to a 2-0 win against their counterparts from Sophia when the Camptown Football Club/Guyana Telephone and Telegraph Company’s Super 6 inter-block tournament continued on Wednesday at the Campbellville Community Centre ground.

Georgetown trounced East Bank by a whopping 153 runs in the third round of the Diamond Fire and General Insurance inter-association under-19 limited overs cricket competition at the Diamond Community Centre ground yesterday.

Chief instructor in Canada and Guyana, 7th Dan Black Belt Frank Woon-A-Tai is to meet with President Bharrat Jagdeo to discuss the construction of a local karate college.

Maintenance work on the Georgetown seawall from Vlissengen Road to Fort Groyne in Kingston by the Sea Defence Board has already given the area a clean, new look but the project faces the challenge of keeping the area free from vagrants and garbage.

Following closely on the heels of the establishment of a branch at Lethem, the Guyana Bank for Trade and Industry (GBTI) has set up its eighth branch at Providence in the Buddy’s International Hotel building.

The Guyana Defence Force (GDF) has disowned the AK 47 rifle unearthed during a search of a house at 190 Church Street on Wednesday.

Armed bandits on Wednesday evening robbed Trinidad beverage giant, Ansa McAl Trading of some $5M cash and relieved a security guard of his weapon during a daring attack at the company’s Public Road, La Penitence main office.

Police in Berbice were up to press time last night searching for three prisoners who cut a lock on a moving van and jumped out onto the Canje Bridge while being escorted from court to the New Amsterdam Prison.

Dear Editor, Tacuma Ogunseye’s opinions on the PNC Symposium on Mr.

Dear Editor, There exists among us, it would seem, an attitude of what can only be calmly described as an ‘unconcern’ for the prospect, the possibility of our dear land of Guyana being reduced in size, conceding a few hundred square miles of coastland territory to the Atlantic Ocean and destroying our capital.

Local authorities may have had no idea that Guyanese businessman and popular motor racer Peter Morgan was on the United States’ wanted list since for Guyana, access to such information is provided on a need-to-know basis, Cabinet Secretary Dr Roger Luncheon said yesterday.

Drug companies’ targeting of hapless consumers whose only concern is getting well was the main topic of discussion at a one-day symposium convened yesterday under the theme, ‘Unethical Drug Promotion’.

The National Assembly yesterday passed three bills to enable security assistance to Guyana during the Cricket World Cup (CWC) 2007.