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A two-member labour mission is currently in Guyana at the request of local trade union bodies to assist them with their unification efforts.

Again, pardon me for not discussing herein such “significant issues” as the Value-Added Tax.

Ryszard Kapuscinski, one of the most distinguished foreign correspondents of the last half-century, died last week at the age of 74.

The Preliminary Inquiry (PI) into the rape of a woman committed by a notorious and now dead wanted man for which his father is also charged commenced yesterday at the Wales Magistrate’s Court before Magistrate Hazel Octive-Hamilton.

Examining the government website of a country provides a good insight into its state of e-readiness and how far it has progressed along the road of improving the delivery of government services to citizens by the application of technology.

Think about what happens most often when we decide to make a major change in the way our company does things.

You are probably not likely to meet too many young Guyanese businessmen with the self-belief of Jermaine London.

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No West Indian novel has chronicled the tribulations of the poor and the downtrodden more poignantly than the Jamaican writer Orlando Patterson’s The Children of Sisyphus.

The Guyana Youth Business Trust (GYBT) last year disbursed 266 loans valued at $41.13m to young entrepreneurs compared with 409 loans totalling $45m in 2005.

Clerk of Markets Schulder Griffith has told Stabroek Business that the revenue collected from stallholders and vendors is sufficient to meet the cost of maintaining Georgetown’s five municipal markets and wants the City Council to “plough back” those funds directly into providing services for the facilities.

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Roy Beepat and Monica Satrohan-Beepat belong to a younger generation of an older business class that has greased the wheels of commercial life in the city for several decades.

Stabroek Market stallholders are calling for a review by the Police Traffic Department of the traffic management arrangements that apply in the Stabroek area during sittings of the National Assembly in order to allow them to conduct business without undue hindrance resulting from traffic restrictions.

Dear Editor I refer to your article “VAT returns may be filed from today, GRA”, SN February 1, 2007.

Dear Editor, It is quite exciting to see the new archive taking shape on Homestretch Avenue; the responsible authorities should be commended for their initiatives and we wish a successful completion of this structure.

The Georgetown Cricket Association has scheduled 14 Under-19 matches this week-end starting today.

Altaf Habibulla has been named captain and Carlos LaRose vice-captain of the Georgetown team for the upcoming under-15 Inter-Association competition which will oppose East Bank at Diamond on Saturday in the opening game.

Some 20 people connected to drug accused businessman Roger Khan have given statements to Khan’s New York lawyer Robert Simels who was here for two days and the US is to introduce as evidence a ledger of a slain boutique owner which contained the names of alleged drug dealers.

Basketball players in Guyana will shortly be faced with a dilemma.