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In the wake of President Bharrat Jagdeo’s stinging attack on local journalists, the Guyana Press Association calls on him to take the necessary steps to salvage his rapidly deteriorating relationship with the media that threatens to rattle the bedrock of Guyana’s evolving democracy.

The new security regulations in place for the cricket world cup led to the detention of Guyanese businessman Peter Morgan.

Head of the Customs Anti-Narcotics Unit (CANU), Orvil Nedd, said that the agency is in possession of information pointing to a drugs for weapons trade prosecuted by smugglers operating across Guyana’s borders.

Castellani House will screen actor-producer Aamir Khan’s Lagaan in its Classic Tuesdays programme.

A Mahaica truck driver died yesterday after his vehicle ran off the road at Supply, East Bank Demerara.

The reputed wife of a fisherman who was discovered dead on his kitchen floor was yesterday charged with his murder and refused bail by Acting Chief Magistrate Cecil Sullivan.

A contractor who allegedly duped two persons into believing he had plots of land at Kitty to sell and obtained $1.5 million from them was yesterday refused bail by Acting Chief Magistrate Cecil Sullivan.

The prosecutor was unable to provide police statements to defence counsel representing Swiss House boss Farouk Razac and his wife Carolan Lynch and so the arms trial case was put off until Monday.

Justice BS Roy handed down a million dollar judgment at a recent sitting of the Commercial Court.

Berbice retained their title with a four-wicket win against Demerara in the Castrol final round, inter-county under-15 cricket match at the Police Sports Complex ground yesterday.

A Guyana Human Rights Association (GHRA) study on sexual violence released this week, titled ‘Getting Serious: Detecting & Protecting Against Crimes of Sexual Violence in Guyana’, reveals that sexual violence against girls is most prevalent among under 16s and that young Amerindian girls between the ages of 12 and 16 years old are the most vulnerable in the country.

A man who claimed that frustration made him repeatedly attack his wife and forced him to escape from police custody was yesterday sentenced to two years, six months in prison by Acting Chief Magistrate Cecil Sullivan.

Shawn Smith who was on trial for killing SIMAP employee Lennox Stuart three years ago at Duncan Street, Campbellville was freed in the High Court yesterday after the judge upheld no-case submissions.

The games are more than a week away but the bragging has already begun!

The Athletics Associa-tion of Guyana (AAG) met on Monday with affiliated clubs and schools at ‘Olympic House’, Queenstown to discuss a number of issues namely the poor number of entries for this week’s National Youth and Junior Championships slated for the Enmore Community Centre Ground tomorrow, registration and affiliation, drug testing and the International As-sociation of Athletics Federation’s (IAAF), new Coaches’ Str-ucture.

Director of Sport Neil Kumar is offering to find sponsorship so the Guyana Table Tennis Association (GTTA) can stage the annual national championships.

The Guyana Cricket Board yesterday called up 26 players to participate in two trial matches today and tomorrow at the Demerara Cricket Club ground in preparation for the regional competition.

Dear Editor, March is another memorable month for Africans. March 25th 1807 (200 years ago) the British Government abolished the slave trade in its empire.

Charles `Kassa’ Hope copped first place when the Critchlow Labour College held its Mashramani table tennis teachers’ knockout tournament last Thursday while another Hope, Kajel won the students’ category.

Dear Editor, The latest American opinion poll out over the weekend shows former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani ahead of his rivals for the Republican nomination as well as ahead of his Democratic rivals to win the Presidency.