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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.

Five years ago Maureen Mohabir noticed that her stomach had started to swell for no apparent reason; not long after her feet also started to swell.

Stabroek News has been reliably informed that the state-owned Guyana Sugar Corporation (Guysuco) and the Guyana Power and Light (GPL) have joined the government ministries in the withdrawal of advertisements from the Stabroek News.

Two persons who allegedly conned a woman out of $60,000 by telling her that they could secure a genuine passport for her, appeared yesterday in the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court.

The body of a nine-year-old boy was yesterday recovered from the Demerara River where he had apparently drowned on Sunday after he had attempted to disembark the boat he was in by jumping onto another boat, but hit his head and fell into the water instead.

The body of Cheryl Peters, who had missing since last Friday after the ‘backtrack’ boat in which she was travelling capsized, was found floating in the vicinity of Number 74 Village yesterday morning.

Jane Ivy Thompson, who died in an accident last week Sunday, had told her son-in-law to “take it easy” on the road and while he obeyed her, an apparently reckless driver overtook another vehicle on the busy East Bank roadway and slammed into their car.

Trainee rangers and environmentalists from the North West began a one-month training exercise last weekend, as tour guide operators at the Iwokrama International Centre for Rainforest Conservation and Development.

Little is known locally about the specific mental issues people living with HIV and AIDS (PLWHA) face, but depression and isolation are reported to be among them.

The development of a housing scheme area at Amelia’s Ward, is proving to be a boon to government as residents, expecting to benefit from the predicted economic growth, relocate to the Region Ten community.

The PPP is maintaining its view that the Deputy Speaker erred in preventing the Prime Minister from responding to a motion that called for the stoppage of work on the construction of the Berbice River bridge.

One of the leading figures in British public life, Trevor Phillips last Thursday delivered the Inaugural Coventry Cathedral lecture on ‘The Media and Morality’ to an audience of some 400.

Banks DIH Chairman and Managing Director Clifford Reis said the social and business climate which has prevailed in Guyana over recent times has tested the faith and resolve of every Guyanese and business entity.

Caricom delegates at the Twentieth Special Meeting of the Caricom Council for Trade and Economic Development (COTED) agreed that the region must make a direct response to the trade challenges it faces.

The government is also seeking “an amicable and honourable solution” to the proposed sale by IAMGOLD of its 70% stake in Omai Bauxite Mining Inc (OBMI) and Omai Services Inc (OSI), a press release from the Office of the Prime Minister said yesterday.

Two men yesterday robbed businesswoman Zabeeda Azeez of $12,000 in cash and jewellery at Lot 55 Stanleytown New Amsterdam Berbice and shot her son in the process.

As part of the measures to improve the quality of the streets of Guyana the Police Traffic Department has implemented four compulsory lectures which persons writing the theoretical examinations are required to take.