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Businesses whose Value Added Tax (VAT) returns claim a refund can uplift the refund application forms from the VAT and Excise Tax building at Albert and Charlotte streets.

Investigations are continuing into the suspected murder of a Zeelugt fisherman and his reputed wife is still in custody while detectives are said to have made a breakthrough in the case.

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message for International Women’s Day, observed on 8 March: I am happy and honoured to send you my warmest wishes on International Women’s Day – my first one as Secretary-General of the United Nations.

No one works more hours than grassroots women. In a survey of women’s time use in 2004-2005, grassroots women in Red Thread followed the workdays of over 100 other grassroots Indo-Guyanese, Afro-Guyanese, Indigenous and mixed race women.

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Though the Spanish were the first to sail and chart the Guiana Coast it is the Dutch who are credited with establishing the first permanent settlements in Guyana.

The Women’s Progressive Organisation salutes all Guyanese women on the occasion of International Women’s Day.

Purple, green and white are the official international women’s colours. The colours originated from the Women’s Social and Political Union (WSPU), in the UK in 1908.

No matter where a girl is born, she should live free of discrimination and violence.

President of Camptown Football Club, (CFC) Troy Mendonca, yesterday received a donation of $150,000 from Renatta Exeter, a representative of the Guyana Telephone and Telegraph (GT&T) company, in aid of the club’s inter-street football tournament.

The Guyana Amateur Weightlifting Assoc-iation (GAWA) will commence their season with a National Novices Championship on March 25 at Blue Note Club.

National Sports Commission’s cycle coach Hassan Mohamed will conduct the Annual R&R International Limited 11-race cycle programme on Saturday in the National Park.

Seven schools registered victories when play in the National Inter-Secondary Schools Futsal Tournament continued on Tuesday evening at the National Gymnasium.

Embattled president of the West Demerara Cricket Association (WDCA) Vishnu Shradananda is claiming that he was not invited to any Ordinary General Meeting (OGM) called by executives of the association and the meeting was an illegal one.

Demerara will attempt to dethrone defending cha-mpions Berbice in the rubber match of the Cas-trol inter-county under- 15 two-day cricket competition at the Police Sports Complex today.

The year 1789 is not usually thought of as a turning point in English politics, certainly not when you compare it with what was taking place across the Channel, but it is arguable that the abolition of the slave trade two hundred years ago could not have happened when it did without a speech made by William Wilberforce in May of that revolutionary year.

A Linden man who allegedly had over five kilos of cannabis when he was searched by police at a roadblock on the Soesdyke-Linden Highway was yesterday refused bail by Acting Chief Magistrate Cecil Sullivan.

Dear Editor, We, octogenarians, rapidly approaching the status of ‘nonagenarianism’, are agonised over the condition of other seniors who dwell in established homes provided for them in our homeland Guyana.

Dear Editor, I refer to the letter captioned “Irrigation a major problem for farmers on the Essequibo Coast” (07.03.01) by S.

Essequibo police are still on high alert as they try to recapture a prison escapee who is now suspected of murder.