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Minister of Amerindian Affairs Carolyn Rodrigues has voiced concerns about Amerindian men working in the logging and other areas not being given remuneration.

Reports coming from Kuru Kururu indicate that farmer Mark Ritchie who was robbed and murdered there two Tuesdays ago knew the men who attacked him while he and his family were sleeping.

A group of aggrieved and visibly upset fishermen yesterday met with Home Affairs Minister Clement Rohee over escalating piracy in the Corentyne River and complained that the police were not doing enough to address their woes.

Students from St. Roses High School and Christ Church Secondary yesterday kicked off the first round of the impromptu speech competition sponsored by the Guyana Bank for Trade and Industry (GBTI) Regent Street Branch.

Residents of Huntley, Mahaicony yesterday discovered the body of 19-year-old Praboo Ramotar called ‘Suresh” of the same village floating in the river.

The Barbados Nation newspaper has condemned the withdrawal of ministry advertisements from Stabroek News (SN) and has called on the Guyana Government to review its position.

The United States census of 1870 contains an entry for a 33-year-old slave named Constant Tine.

Eighteen months after a trial date was set for the Customs House $10 million heist, the prosecution yesterday brought its first witness to testify.

Justice Rishi Persaud yesterday sentenced Ray Castello called “Tony” to ten years in jail after he was found guilty of raping and sodomising a 12-year-old girl between April 11 and 14, 2005.

Barbados captain Ryan Hinds grabbed three wickets in four balls late yesterday afternoon to restrict Guyana to 285 all out in the last over of the first day’s play of their fifth round Carib Beer Series match played at the Georgetown Cricket Club’s Bourda ground yesterday.

Two brazen gun-toting bandits yesterday afternoon forced the driver of a Wieting & Richter Ltd vehicle to crash into another vehicle, after firing a shot at the vehicle, and then grabbed an undisclosed sum of money belonging to the company, at the corner of Lamaha and Parade streets.

Dear Editor, Ms Parvati Persaud-Edwards, in her letter captioned “Religion and race should not be the bases for protesting an appointment” (SN, Feb 1), misunderstands me and the problem of race.

Dear Editor, Guyana is not the only Caricom country reeling from crime.

Dear Editor, It was good to see Mr Vishnu Bisram, a regular and insightful correspondent to your columns, comment on GINA’s remonstration against journalist Rickey Singh’s opposition to the Guyana Government’s policy regarding its advertisements for Stabroek News.

Dear Editor, I read Freddie Kissoon’s column dealing with Shri Prakash Gossai, captioned ‘Will Shri Gossai become gossamery’.

Dear Editor, I am responding to Mrs Amanda Murray’s letter captioned “There were secondary schools in these regions long before this government got into power (07.02.03).

Dear Editor, Is this really what it has come down to?

Dear Editor, I write regarding the notice placed in the newspapers by the GRA that Transfer of Rights will no longer be allowed by that organization.

Dear Editor, It would be more than a coincidence for us to believe that the recent police presence at the Doodnauth family to take a statement since the death in Nov,06 was not prompted by your publication of the letter from her husband.

Dear Editor, The pattern the media seem to be forming by using their voices to expose the injustices to them and society is highly commended.