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If Barack Obama becomes the next President of the United States, he should remember his enemies kindly.

Dear Editor, For several weeks now I am witnessing the whining and crying of Stabroek News, implying the Government of Guyana is “misusing taxpayers funds in an effort to suppress [their] newspaper.”

Dear Editor, As the story develops about the alleged attack on press freedom as claimed by the Stabroek News, because they say that government advertisements were withdrawn from them through an alleged political directive, we keep being told different things as time goes by.

Dear Editor, It was with great interest I read the Stabroek News article titled, ‘Severn Trent water contract to be terminated’ published on February 10, 2007.

Dear Editor, Most people expect that now that the Mirror and Mrs Jagan have spoken, the government will correct its excess regarding newspaper advertising, revise its new-found advertising cost benefit theory and come to order.

Dear Editor, That we must protect and show appreciation for our rich natural heritage was a view supported by Mr Gavin Kennard (1920-2007).

The Camptown Football Club (CFC) will be holding its Annual General Meeting (AGM) today at the Campbellville Community Centre from 19:00 hrs.

The annual Mayor’s Cup quarter-finals will kick off tomorrow at the Georgetown Football Club (GFC) ground with two mouth-watering clashes as what is widely believed to be the best eight teams in the country vie for the first prize of $500,000.

National Sport Commission cycle coach Hassan Mohamed will run off the annual R&R International Limited 40-mile cycle road race on Sunday on the West Bank of Demerara.

The Guyana Badminton Association (GBA) will be batting off with a Mashramani Open Singles & Doubles Tournament on February 19 at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall.

The Guyana Football Federation (GFF) has received a football kit from Kit AID of Three Valleys Water in the United Kingdom.

Tony Affonso and Ravindra Karim were awarded for outstanding performances by the Flying Ace Cycle Club of Berbice.

Darren Haynes and Latoya Hope were the winners of the male and female categories respectively when the National Sport Commission (NSC) held its Mashramani novices table tennis tournament on Saturday at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall.

Defending champions Ceramic Merry Boys Sports crashed out of the Carib Sunday League Limited Overs competition when they were beaten by FCB Clarke Road Guyanese Homchand Pooran starred in the quarterfinal fixture, at the Wilson Road recreation ground in Penal.

Guyana all-rounder Neil McGarrell has said it looks as if it’s the end of the road, as far as his career with the national team is concerned.

Dear Editor, I wish to respond to the guest editorial (SN, 3.2.07) ‘The PNC at 50.’

Nets stepped closer to a national title bid Tuesday night at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall with an emphatic 23 points win over Maccabees in the last first round game of the Next Level nationwide first division tournament.

The Caricom Secretariat says Caribbean countries hosting the Cricket World Cup (CWC) will get security assistance from a number of states and the region already has about 400 “roving” security officials for the matches.

Opposition Parliamentarian Basil Williams in his presentation on the budget told the National Assembly on Mon-day that a living wage for public service workers re-mains an illusion according to the estimates presented this year.

Teachers at St. Gabriel’s Primary School have dispatched a letter to the Ministry of Education calling for an immediate security boost at the school following Tuesday’s incident when a cutlass-wielding man stormed the Oronoque Street school in search of a male teacher.