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Kings and Berbice All-Stars recorded walkover victories Friday night to advance to the quarterfinals of the 2007 Next Level Entertainment (NLE) nationwide first division tournament at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall.

(The Arts Journal, Vol 2, No.2, March 2006, Guest Editor Gemma Robinson, (General Editor, Ameena Gafoor), Georgetown : The Arts Forum, 142p) The two most recent issues of The Arts Journal, together, make an emphatic statement about the motivating ambitions of this literary periodical and where it is today.

Today, we will conclude the tapeworm saga. You have been tuning in, same time/same newspaper, to the many episodes of this true-life drama.

I was fortunate to work at the Public Buildings for four years, and as part of my Nostalgia series to preserve my memories of my beautiful Guyana, I am compelled to share this insight of the workings of the government during the period of our evolution towards independence.

I read that I should check my child’s eyes yearly. She sees everything clearly.

Veselin Topalov, Levon Aronian and Teimour Radjabov finished in a three-way tie for first place in the CORUS Chess Tournament which took place in Wijk aan Zee, Netherlands, from January 13-28, 2007.

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Introduction Guyana is a poor country. Average GDP capita is less than US$1,000.

Sugar has always been an intensely political commodity. Financial fortunes and the fate of governments have been determined by its rise or fall.

Prenatal care is the care that is given to you while you are pregnant.

I find it blisteringly hot at present and almost too hot to finish this piece of writing, but thankfully the discipline of it prevents me dozing off.

A Lethem businesswoman was on Friday evening robbed of money and over $300,000 in jewellery by three armed men who are believed to be Brazilians and a photograph left behind by one of the men has been positively identified by Brazilian police as that of a known criminal who is wanted for a series of murders and armed robberies in that country.

Two student gangs connected to the Wisburg Secondary School, Linden, are engaging in acts of violence which are causing teachers and parents considerable anxiety.

Mrs Janet Jagan, the matriarch of the People’s Pro-gressive Party, has called for a reversal of the decision to withdraw government advertisements from the Stabroek News.

BioCapital, Brazil’s second largest producer of bio-diesel, is currently awaiting word from the Guyana government on a proposal to invest US$300 million to acquire lands and establish a distillery for the production of ethanol for local consumption and for export.

Last week’s column examined the first two causes of poverty according to the PRSP in relation to the forestry sector, namely (i) poor economic policies, and (ii) poor governance.

Roy Dookun and I were honoured the other night to receive awards from the Guyana Olympic Association for our contribution in the past to the sport of lawn tennis.

The Guyana Water Incorporated (GWI) said the well which supplies Mocha is functioning as normal and there would be no disruptions.

In the obituary for Cecil Griffith which appeared on page 11A in last week’s Sunday Stabroek, we gave his date of birth as October 29, 1928.

Guyana and Brazil are working towards having a single motor vehicle insurance policy that could be used not only between the two countries but in all Mercosur (Southern Common Market) states in keeping with Brazil’s membership of Mercosur.