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The Georgetown Cricket Club inflicted a nine-wicket trouncing of home team Lusignan on Saturday as the Neal Massy 40-over first division cricket began.

Rose Hall Town Courts demoralised Skeldon to join Albion in the semi-finals of the Berbice zone of the 2007 Neal and Massay first-division limited overs cricket competition recently.

President of Guyana Amateur Boxing Association (GABA) Affeeze Khan is appealing to the public for assistance to send boxers to the Pan American trials on April 21st- 29th in Trinidad.

Albion Community Centre cricket team made light work of West Berbice on their home ground to earn a place in the final of the 2006 Isaac Bissoon first-division three-day competition in Berbice last-weekend.

Dear Editor, Very often in our collective conscience we encounter events that are probably significant, or at the very least noteworthy for the insight that we should gain from them.

Dear Editor, Pandit Sri Prakash Gossai was sworn-in as a Justice of the Peace and Commissioner of Oaths to Affidavits by two actors, Acting Chancellor Carl Singh and Acting Chief Magistrate, Cecil Sullivan.

Dear Editor, I am grateful to the many writers who have brought the improper exploitation of Guyana’s forestry resources to the notice of the public.

Dear Editor, On Sunday March 11, 2007 in Jamaica, the CWC opening ceremony at the newly built stadium saw a spectacular presentation of the culture the Caribbean has to offer in many different forms.

Emergency repairs were affected to the Three Friends Sea Sluice door on the Essequibo Coast yesterday morning after it was damaged by a fishing boat and the current spring tide in the area.

Dear Editor, Reading enables one to gain personal self development among other things and to the young generation who have to accept the baton sooner or later, grab this opportunity and support the book sale that is now on by the Georgetown Reading and Research Centre (GRRC) and The Guyana Book Found-ation at their respective venues.

The traffic lights at the Vreed-en-Hoop Junction, West Coast Demerara were finally activated yesterday after being installed earlier this year.

Dear Editor, Because I am a health care worker, I have developed a propensity for extracting any article in the newspaper that pertains to HIV/AIDS.

Secretary-General of Caricom Edwin Carrington is urging all member states to implement activities to commemorate the 200th anniversary of the Proclamation of the Abolition of the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade.

Minister of Agriculture Robert Persaud has assured Pomeroon River fishermen that government is working to address the piracy problems in the industry and encouraged them to form themselves into groups, like the community police do, to tackle the problem.

Barama Company Limited has lashed out at the Akawini Village Council for its criticism of an agreement it has with one of Barama’s sub-contractors in Region Two, Interior Wood Products Inc (IWPI), but is willing to discuss options with the village.

The Worldwide Moravian Church this month celebrated 550 years of ministry around the world and to commemorate the event the Moravian Church in Guyana held a special service of Thanksgiving on March 11.

The owner of a Chinese restaurant was shot last night in what appeared to be a failed robbery bid and he was reported to be in a stable condition at the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH).

A five-year-old student of Yakusari Nursery School in Black Bush Polder fell some 20 feet down from a section of the corridor that had some of its rails missing during last week and suffered “damaged tissue.”

A Guyanese man who was deported from the US after being convicted of rape in that country, and had returned illegally, was arrested in January when he went to file a complaint in the Queens District Attorney’s (DA) office.

Gunmen stuck up employees of Wireless Rush, a branch of Gizmos and Gadgets cell phone store located at upper Robb Street last evening carting away several expensive handsets and an undisclosed sum of cash.