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Under this year’s budgetary allocation for Region Seven (Cuyuni/Mazaruni) about $103M will be spent to sustain and execute several ongoing projects in the region’s various sectors.

The Guyana Defence Force has been called upon to remove the shells of three Soviet-manufactured helicopters from their Air Corps Base at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport (CJIA), Timehri.

Classes have resumed at St. Gabriel’s Primary following what has been described as productive talks between staff members and officials of the Ministry of Education.

Passengers who used the Rosignol to New Amsterdam (NA) ferry service at around 5:30 am yesterday complained that they were delayed for some time after the MV Torani drifted away from the stelling.

The relatives of Yonette Mc Donald, who was involved in an accident on Friday night that took the lives of her reputed husband and another man, fear that she too may succumb as she is still unconscious and hooked up to a life-support machine in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) of the Georgetown Public Hospital.

Vendors outside the Stabroek Market who have been given marching orders yesterday took their case to court and the controversy also graced the chambers of Parliament and City Hall where there was confusion over how the decision was made.

The six Republic Bank employees, allegedly implicated in an $8 million ABM theft, were yesterday released on $20,000 bail each.

Rice farmers operating within that Paradise/Evergreen Neighbourhood Democratic Council (NDC) owe over $50 million in arrears for rates and taxes.

This is the question which cricket fans in Guyana and elsewhere in the Caribbean are asking as the region prepares to host, for the first time ever, the world’s premier limited-over cricket competition.

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In his lecture as the recipient of the Alfred Nobel Memorial Prize in Econo-mic Science, Douglass North (1994, p.

The First Issues Collectors Club (2006) website lists British Guiana as the nineteenth country in the world to begin issuing its own postage stamps, just ten years after Great Britain issued the world’s first adhesive postage stamp in May 1840.

The introduction of the Caribbean Secondary Schools (CSEC) examination in Guyana and the rest of the Caribbean has brought with it accompanying innovations in the education system including the School Based Assessment (SBA) and profile-based reporting on the performance of candidates in the various subject areas.

In approximately two months time the Caribbean and the wider world will know whether or not we have demonstrated a capacity to host a global event – to “world class standards” – so to speak.

In a sense the origin of the Rio Group can be located in the crisis which Central America faced in the 1980s.

The International Cricket Council’s (ICC) Cricket World Cup 2007 (CWC 2007) is now well and truly upon us.

Chainsaw logging in Guyana – in the commercial sense that is – is considered to have had its origins in the depressed bauxite communities during the early 1980s when the demise of mining left hundreds of people jobless (circa 1980-83).

Egbert Martin, who published under the pen name ‘Leo,’ (1) was the most accomplished and prolific of Guyanese writers in the nineteenth-century, highly praised by his contemporaries.

If the business sector can take advantage of the economic opportunities that Cricket World Cup 2007 (CWC 2007) is likely to bring to Guyana the longer term benefits could be worth billions of dollars.

Clem Seecharan left his home village in Berbice, Guyana with a yearning to understand his country and his people.