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Hi Everyone,One comes in a brown paper bag but none are tied up with string, nevertheless, let me share with you this week, a few of my favourite Bajan-food things.

“We are ready for cricket” is what Chief Executive Officer of the Local Organizing Committee for Cricket World Cup 2007 Karan Singh said at the LOC’s weekly media briefing yesterday at the National Stadium at Providence, yesterday.

We heard the drums; we saw the dances; we heard the singing all of which combined to usher in the biggest sporting event in Guyana: Cricket World Cup!

Defending champions AINLIM/NMSL will clash with Geddes Grant in the annual Neal and Massy inter-company 25-over tapeball cricket final today at the Guyana Softball Cricket Association ground.

Colin Simpson has never had a record deal, sparse crowds have heard him sing a few times and just about three persons knows he has lyrical skills, yet when he walked into Stabroek News on Monday and casually sat on a stool outside, people thought otherwise.

Dear Editor, I refer to Seelochan Behary’s letter captioned “How is it Barama made no profit?”

Dear Editor, Black Americans should be pushed to vote for Barack Obama by these stirring words “Hands that once picked cotton can now pick a President” – the Reverend Jesse Jackson, US Presidential candidate 1984.

Dear Editor, The President’s description of the media as “lazy” is in my opinion a warranted criticism.

Dear Editor, Mr Ivan David in his letter to KN on March 5, 2007 mentioned that Mr Robert Corbin should leave the party.

Two Saturdays ago, in full force and clad in the universal colour of ‘the dark art of music’ black, mostly youths and a smattering of elders, who clearly live for rock, came out to hang and bang heads at a jamming party bringing the venue alive with pounding instruments.

This week we feature the last three Miss Region Four Fantasy Pageant delegates.

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United Kingdom High Com-missioner Fraser Wheeler says organized crime is probably the greatest threat facing Guyana.

The Inter-American Develop-ment Bank (IDB) yesterday announced its approval of 100% debt relief for Guyana on loan balances outstanding as of December 31, 2004 from its Fund for Special Opera-tions (FSO) to the value of US$467 million.

(Part 2 cont’d) We continue from last week, looking at children’s stages of development, as a way of understanding their behaviour to help in avoiding confrontations that result in the need for punishment.

The leatherback turtle is the largest of all sea turtles, reaching an average length of 1.6 m.

The Sidewalk Film Club continues its series next Tuesday with Yesterday, the story of a woman who battles with HIV, which she contracted from her husband.

The Umana Yana is going to be lit up with the aroma, colour and splendour of Guyanese foods and cultural offerings during the period of the local leg of the ICC Cricket World Cup courtesy of Cacique Promotions.

The new $400M runway and terminal of the Ogle Airport were officially opened yesterday bringing significant development in Guyana’s air transport infrastructure and the facility is now ready to host smaller regional airline operators.

A 21-year-old US-based Guyanese died hours after her throat was slit as she stepped out of her New York apartment early Thursday morning.