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Dear Editor, I regard your editorial of January 25, 07 captioned, “The Turkeyen Tragedy” as filled with subjectivities and misleading statements.

Dear Editor, I offer my sincere condolences to the relatives and friends of former magistrate, Mr.

The Commonwealth Writers Prize for the Canada and the Caribbean Region has released the shortlist of books from which the 2007 regional prizes will be selected.

There is a plant in my garden which has been in full flower for weeks and weeks and which shows no sign of ending its remarkable display.

In this encounter, the 19-year–old chess wizard Teimour Radjabov clashes with former world champion Veselin Topalov.

My son welds and got arc eye recently. Is this dangerous?

Over the past few weeks we have been discussing intestinal worms in some detail.

The house stands forlorn, gutted: no gate, no roof, no glass patio door, no fancy brickwork, no guttering.

As a founder member of the Theatre Guild (TG) in 1959 and a signatory to its Memorandum and Articles of Association of 1961, I welcome the messages that indicate that a rebirth of Theatre Guild is planned.

George Clarence Fung-On, former Minister of the Public Service and Chairman of the Public Service Commission, died on February 16, aged 85.

A multi-million dollar fraud has been discovered at Clico Life Insurance Company; the police have been called in and a number of employees detained.

A 30-year-old fisherman was on Mashramani Day beaten to death by four men, who afterwards reported to the police that he had assaulted them.

A five-star hotel under the franchised Marriott Hotels brand could soon be established in Kingston, George-town, in direct competition with the 250-room Buddy’s International Hotel and Resort and the well-established Le Meridien Pegasus.

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Angry inmates of the ‘capital’ dormitory of the Camp Street prison ripped out a cell wall and staged a nearly three-hour protest on Thursday night after officers switched off the television they were watching.

The bipartisan task force for local government reform has hit another roadblock.

The governance report recently accepted by Caricom heads at their St Vincent meeting sees shared sovereignty in “agreed areas,” the funding of institutions on the basis of GNP and a single act in all member countries which would allow a long-envisaged Caricom Commission to expedite decision-making.

Minister of Home Affairs Clement Rohee has terminated the contract of a Peruvian who was hired in July last year as technical adviser to former Minister of Home Affairs Gail Teixeira.

Jamaican dancehall group T.O.K has come in for more condemnation for its performance at the recent Digicel Experience concert.

It is the ultimate showdown in local football. Two evenly-matched teams will go at each other for 90 minutes tomorrow to decide who will win the 2007 Mayor’s Cup football tournament which carries as first prize a whopping $500,000.