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Dear Editor, I refer to the recent speed boat accident on the Corentyne River, which occurred on Friday February 2, 2007 and resulted in one person being dead and another missing.

Dear Editor, Pardon this long letter – in response to Mr.

Dear Editor, In extending congratulations to the patriotic Guyanese living the “Diaspora syndrome”, referred to in the letter by Dave Martins captioned “I’m lucky I was born Guyanese” (07.02.07) I would like to add my similar sentiments.

Dear Editor, I refer to the letter by Mohamed Fazloor Yasin in the Stabroek News captioned “The Environmental Protec-tion Agency seems ineffective” and also in the Kaieteur News of Friday, February 02, 2007 and wish to present the following response on behalf of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

The Iwokrama International Centre for Rainforest Con-servation and Development is partnering with Tigerwood Guyana Inc.

In yesterday’s edition of the Stabroek News under the headline `First Lady hands over eye surgery microscope for Suddie Hospital’ it was incorrectly reported that 123 children would be going abroad for treatment.

Agricola resident Richard ‘Chucky’ Daniels, wanted in connection with the assassination of Agriculture Minister Satyadeow `Sash’ Sawh, is believed to have been arrested in Suriname last week along with another Guyanese, Acting Police Commissioner, Henry Greene has said.

Bai Shan Lin International Forest Development Inc, a new company with funding from China, plans to invest approximately US$100M dollars over the next three years for value added processing as well as timber harvesting and hopes to have an annual production capacity of 300,00 to 500,000 cubic metres, the company said at a press conference held yesterday.

Launching a local line of coconut and pineapple products, Agriculture Minister Robert Persaud yesterday said there is a hope that importing Caribbean territories would be more considerate with regard to the standards imposed on goods entering Guyana.

The chief executive officer of Caribbean Airline yesterday assured President Bharrat Jagdeo that the new carrier is taking steps to ensure that passengers get value for their money.

Over the next five years a strong focus will be placed on institutional strengthening and physical reconstruction in the health sector through a US$25.5 million project co-financed by the Inter-American Development Bank and government.

Work on the Takutu Bridge on the Guyana-Brazil border is set to start on February 15 with the objective of completing the project by yearend, Brazilian Ambassador to Guyana, Arthur Meyer said.

The Guyana National Bureau of Standards (GNBS) says its certification programme for clinical laboratories will see ten new laboratories certified this year.

The mystery surrounding the disappearance of a cannon from the compound of the Ministry of Public Works may have been partially solved, though police are continuing with investigations.

Agriculture Minister Robert Persaud declared Guyana ready for poultry exports, following plant visits with Jarrette Narine, the Trinidad & Tobago Minister of Agriculture, Land and Marine Resources yesterday Minister Narine visited the processing plant of Didco Trading Company at Friendship and its Rising Sun Farm on the Linden Highway, along with Bounty Farm Ltd.

The road works recently undertaken in Region One will allow easy travel to and from communities in order to market farm produce and other activities that can generate income for hinterland areas.

Chetram Singh, the Herstelling man who police were pursuing in connection with the murder of his wife Eileen Lall on Tuesday, was yesterday apprehended and is now in police custody.

Health officials yesterday said that Carol John, the pregnant North West woman whom relatives believe was buried alive, was in fact dead at the time of her burial and the male foetus that was also discovered in the coffin was expelled from her body as a result of the gas produced by the decaying corpse.

Two Kwakwani, Berbice women were electrocuted on Wednesday afternoon while in conversation as they held on to opposite sides of a fence.

A mini-bus conductor says that he got the shock of his life when six persons including four boys dressed in school uniform attacked and robbed him.