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In a little over ten days time, ministers from the Caribbean will meet in Bonn with their counterparts from across Europe and the ACP.

I have seen the claim made that the recent Caricom summit was the most successful ever.

I don’t ever remember reading about any of the great names in the history that I was taught as a boy suffering agonizing toothache.

Last week we documented that the heartworms live mostly in the right side heart chambers.

In the 1964 Disney musical film Mary Poppins, Winifred Banks, the mother of the children whom the nanny Mary Poppins is engaged to care for, is a valiant and fervent feminist.

My eyes water when I’m in the sun and sometimes burn.

Wilson Harris, The Ghost of Memory (London : Faber and Faber, 2006.

A US Grand Jury in New York has slapped Guyanese drug accused Raphael Christopher Douglas with six charges relating to trafficking in narcotics in that country.

Venezuela Foreign Minister Nicolas Maduro yesterday suggested bilateral discussions on the Guyana-Venezuela border controversy.

A move to make possible the operation of a casino was one of the terms agreed to by the government for the establishment of the Buddy’s International Hotel and Resort.

Introduction Last Sunday (February 25) Guyana Bank for Trade and Industry (BTI) published the summary of its financial statements as required by the Financial Institutions Act; the annual report was also recently mailed out to shareholders.

Today’s column continues the discussion of the relation of interior/forestry roads to development within the context of the third cause singled out by the PRSP as contributory to endemic poverty: the absence of non-complementing growth-oriented infrastructure (PRSP 2001, p.

The Guyana Hindu Dharmic Sabha said Holi is a time to share in the spirit of sewa, to replace hate with love and to take steps to reconcile differences in order to construct a unified society.

Guyanese are being called upon to use the festival of Phagwah to build permanent bonds of friendship and unity to bestow greater stature on Guyana.

Another gold miner is dead and one other injured after the truck they were travelling in, from a mining site called ‘Frenchman’ lost control and crashed into a curb.

President of the Dominican Republic Dr Leonel Fernandez Reyna said that the Rio Group has to be revitalised and new programmes of cooperation have to be identified, objectives he intends to pursue as incoming chairman.

The leader of the Justice For All Party, CN Sharma has extended joyous Holi greetings to the entire Guyanese nation.

The Guyana Agricultural and General Workers Union (GAWU) calls on citizens to celebrate the colours, splendour, and liveliness of Spring that the Phagwah festival brings.

Two former government ministers have been appointed to the board of directors of the Caricom General Insurance Com-pany Inc, the former Guyana Fire, Life and General Insurance Com-pany (GuyFlag) Inc.

President Bharrat Jagdeo is pleased that the recommendations of two studies commissioned during Guyana’s chairmanship of the Rio Group have been accepted by the group and there are plans to deal with their implementation.