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Workers of the now disbanded BWIA have all been paid a severance package plus gratuity and about 60% of them have been re-employed.

Guyana’s ambassador to Venezuela Dr Odeen Ishmael has dismissed as “totally untrue” an allegation in the Venezuelan media he had been summoned by the Venezuelan Foreign Ministry to a meeting following the publication of an interview and an opinion piece, or that he had been involved in clandestine negotiations with the Venezuelan Foreign Minister on the Guyana-Venezuela border controversy.

A Non Pareil man was reported to have been shot several times during a robbery in the East Coast Demerara village yesterday.

More than three months after President Bharrat Jagdeo met with representatives of opposition parliamentary political parties to discuss the furthering of a framework for enhanced political cooperation, the representatives are disappointed that there has been no further discussion.

A single parent and her two children who had made the streets their home may soon have a better future following the intervention of the Minister of Human Services and the efforts of citizens.

A 44-year-old man was on Thursday released on $30,000 bail on a break and enter charge after telling the court that he was beaten unconscious by persons who accused him of stealing over $362,000 worth of articles from a motorcycle store.

The Guyana Table Tennis Association (GTTA) has added three more players to Guyana’s table tennis lineup that will contest the LIEBHERR 2007 World Table Tennis Championships in Zagreb, Croatia in May.

A new president of the Guyana Boxing Board of Control (GBBC) will be elected tomorrow when that body holds its Annual General Meeting at the Lions Den, Bel Air Park, beginning at 10am.

The Providence Stadium will get its first test of competitive cricket on February 16 when 2006 Shapoorji Pallonji Twenty/20 Cricket champions Young Warriors tackle GCC in a friendly affair that has been organized to test the readiness of the Local Organising Committee’s ability to host the CWC Super Eight matches scheduled to commence on March 28.

Guyana and West Indies batting star Shivnarine Chanderpaul returns to add depth and experience to the Guyana team in their crucial KFC fifth round match against Barbados at the Georgetown Cricket Club (GCC) ground Bourda, today.

Little is known in Guyana about microbicides or the research that has been ongoing with them.

A 27-year-old West Bank hire car driver who reportedly caused the death of a seven-year-old girl by driving in a dangerous manner was released on bail when he appeared at the Vreed-en-Hoop Magistrate’s Court yesterday.

A 17-year-old boy accused of using forged money to purchase shoes and then escaping from the police station lockups was remanded to prison when he appeared at the Vreed-en-Hoop Magistrate’s Court yesterday.

From the Bookmakers’ standpoint – the WICB will, I trust, forgive the utterance of the word Bookmaker at this sensitive time – the West Indies are probably the least fancied of the major cricketing nations to lift the 2007 Cricket World Cup.

Dear Editor, Now that two passengers using the back track route to go to Suriname have lost their lives the authorities will do something to enforce safety in the crossing of the Corentyne river; also probably when two small children trying to get transportation to go home after school on Lombard street during the sitting of parliament are crushed to death, something will be done to stop the chaos that takes place on Lombard Street in the vicinity of Leopold and Schumaker Street on parliament day.

Dear Editor, The year 2007 is the year of the African Renaissance and fittingly, in March, we will commemorate the 200th anniversary of the abolition of the British and American Slave Trade.

Dear Editor, Now state-owned Guysuco and GPL withdraw their ads from Guyana’s most independent newspaper, supposedly without the knowledge of their Chairman!

Dear Editor, I am aware that Mr. Vishnu Bisram already briefly addressed in a letter the President meeting Mr.

Dear Editor, I’m not so much responding to this Sunday’s Kaieteur News Ravi Dev column (Mash and Republic Day) as I am instead offering comment on aspects for issues relevant to Republic Day and the Mashramani Festival which he raised therein.

Dear Editor, I write with specific reference to the article headlined “Rusal to mull hydropower” (07.02.08) where it was stated in part by Mr.