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Dear Editor, An article in your January 13, 2007 edition reported that stray dogs have been killing my goats at Hubu EB.

Dear Editor, On March 1st, the state owned Guyana Chronicle carried an editorial, “Investors’ confidence,” highlighting a shortlist of projects in which local and foreign investors have ploughed their monies over the past few months.

Dear Editor, Region Two Vice Chair-man Mr. Vishnu Samaroo says rice farmers will not lose their crop.

Dear Editor, Officials have been criticizing letter writers for inventing the nature of Pandit Gossai’s supposed appointment in the Office of the President.

Caricom has signed a cooperation agreement on International Humanitarian Law with the International Committee for the Red Cross (ICRC) that will facilitate the promotion and development of humanitarian laws and principles within the Community.

Berbicians got their share of the Mashramani celebrations yesterday with band and revellers displaying floats and costumes along Main Street, New Amsterdam and ending at the Esplanade Park.

The Guyana Agricultural and General Workers Union (GAWU) said March brings bittersweet memories as it remembers late president Dr Cheddi Jagan, and Kowsilla who was mowed down by a tractor while protesting at the Leonora Sugar Estate 43 years ago.

Up to late yesterday afternoon there was still no sign of Rudy Fernandes, who went missing over the weekend when the fishing boat he was on along with four others capsized in the Atlantic Ocean about three miles from land.

Guyana may again soon get a national flag carrier, as President Bharrat Jagdeo yesterday met representatives of an aircraft construction company to discuss the establishment or such an airline next year, a release from the Government Information Agency (GINA) said.

The Centre for Caribbean Studies at the University of Warwick, under the directorship of Professor David Dabydeen, will be hosting the Cheddi Jagan Memorial Lecture today, to mark the tenth anniversary of Dr.

This is what the man/woman in the street had to say when we asked them which team they thought would win Cricket World Cup 2007.

Justice Yonette Cummings-Edwards has begun hearing the case of a South Ruimveldt man who is accused of killing a SIMAP employee three years ago.

Dear Editor, While many animal lovers are sickened by the cruelty being inflicted on animals, there needs to be a form of control whereby, only lovers of animals, caring and friendly human-kind can be allowed to have and to keep pets.

Dear Editor, I recently visited the zoo with my family and was disgusted and disappointed to see the zoo in such an impoverished and degenerate state.

Dear Editor, With just days to go before the third most auspicious sporting event in the world graces the Caribbean, cricket fans are doing nothing to conceal their anxieties about what might be the likely outcome of the competition.

Dear Editor, I am heartened that there are collaborations with the faith-based community and NGOs to combat HIV/AIDS in Guyana.

Essequibo cricketers were on the receiving end of yet another defeat on Saturday when they went under to Demerara by an innings and 33 runs as the first round of the Castrol inter-county, under-15, two-day cricket competition ended at the Georgetown Cricket Club Bourda ground.

Former West Indies’ leg-spinner Mahendra Nagamootoo and Guyanese wicket-keeper Derwin Christian have been drafted in by the Moosai’s Sports Club for the remainder of the Trinidad and Tobago Cricket Board local domestic season.

Darius Ali and Asharnica Persaud ran out winners of the boys and girls’ Under-11 categories of the Igloo Ice-Cream sponsored badminton tournament which climaxed Saturday at the Queen’s College courts.

A new star was born on Saturday night when Alex Arjoon defeated arch-rival Peter de Groot to win category `A’ of the Guyana Squash Association/Toucan Indus-tries sponsored junior squash tournament at the George-town Club.