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The Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) is calling on the Private Sector Commis-sion (PSC) to condemn the indiscriminate pricing by some businesses, a GRA press release said.

Putin: Dobry den! Comrade Bharrat Ilyich Ulyanov Jagdeo! I have heard great things about you.

The Providence Stadium has been given the thumbs up to host the Cricket World Cup 2007 Super Eight matches by the International Cricket Council/Cricket World Cup (CWC) Inspection team, but there are still some minor works to be completed to make the Providence facility 100 percent ready for the gala event.

The tragic incident in which two Guyanese women – Ashrani Hardat, whose lifeless body was found floating in the Corentyne River and Cheryl Peters, whose body is still missing – died after the boat in which they were travelling from Guyana to Suriname capsized in the Corentyne River, is not just another river mishap.

The Preliminary Inquiry (PI) into the burning to death of a woman last year commenced yesterday at the Leonora Magistrate’s Court before Magistrate Fazil Azeez.

Lakeram McKenzie’s overseas-based relatives are offering a reward for information leading to the apprehension of persons involved in his murder in December during a robbery, though the case has not progressed since the advertisement was published.

A 28-year-old University of Guyana (UG) student accused of raping a nine-year-old girl last year was released on bail when he appeared at the Leonora Magistrate’s Court yesterday.

Roger Khan’s US lawyer Robert Simels on Monday wrote to New York Judge, Dora Irizarry complaining about the drug accused businessman’s transfer from the Nassau County jail to the Special Housing Unit (SHU), a cell designated specifically for terrorists at the Metropolitan Correctional Centre (MCC) located in Manhattan, New York.

Dear Editor, Having a passion for politics and things political is one thing.

Dear Editor, An article by Vishnu Bisram published on Thursday,February 1, 2007 headlined “Guyanese in Richmond Hill charge police with profiling abuse” contained complaints by Guy-anese living there.

Dear Editor, According to a report in the New York Post, Guyana’s president Bharrat Jagdeo and former NYC Police Commis-sioner, Bernard Kerik, met over lunch in Manhattan to discuss Kerik’s new appointment as advisor to the Guyana government on fighting crime.

Dear Editor, I remember going to school and miss would ask “what does the Amerindian word Guyana mean?”,

Dear Editor, The recent and not so recent events in Linden that have occasioned attendance by students from our secondary, and even primary schools, while commendable, have left a very distasteful feeling in the minds of parents, and especially the mothers resident in this community.

Dear Editor, On a trip to Corentyne at the start of the year I observed a billboard that read: ‘GT&T: relax we’ve got you covered’.

Dear Editor, From time to time, in interviews here and there, I’ve taken time to make the point that whatever I am as an artist I owe largely to Guyana, and that, despite the truly daunting problems the country faces, the crucible that is Guyana has forged qualities in its sons and daughters that underpin their successes all over the world.

Despite flooring a number of chances and being without regular skipper Ramnaresh Sarwan for the entire day, Guyana held on to secure first innings points from Barbados after a spirited battle between the two teams on the second day of their Carib Beer Series encounter at Georgetown Cricket Club (GCC) Bourda ground yesterday.

General Secretary of the Guyana Table Tennis Association (GTTA), Godfrey Munroe, has outlined several factors which he said were taken into consideration when selecting the four-man team to attend the LIEBHERR 2007 World Table Tennis Championships in Zagreb, Croatia from May 21-27.

While one manufacturer on the Essequibo Coast has cut production to cope with slumping sales, other businesses are hoping that the rice harvest will fuel a shopping spree.

Not since “Iron” Mike Tyson initially made his massive, tremendously destructive mark in the late 1980s, when he kayoed boxers such as Trevor Berbick in quick order had I seen similar, unrelenting aggression and purpose from the winner, and plain fear, horror and disbelief from the loser, as I saw when Serena Williams absolutely destroyed the youth, myth and supposedly silky tennis of the Russian wonder-kid, Maria Sharapova.

The Austria-based International Press Institute (IPI) says that the withdrawal of advertisements from Stabroek News by two state-owned companies is “an indication that the government (of Guyana) has decided to increase its pressure” on the newspaper.