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Dear Editor, It’s good for cell phone subscribers that Digicel is finally here.

Dear Editor, I would like to refer to a letter printed in the Friday 9th 2007 edition of your paper titled “The Company that got the contract to import the BMWs is part-owned by Mr Reepu Daman Persaud’s son”.

Campbellville `A’ and Sophia `B’ will clash in the lone encounter of the Guyana Football, Federation/Camptown Super Six Inter-Block Football Tournament which continues today from 4pm at the Camptown ground.

Harrinarine Chattergoon continued his good run of form with an unbeaten century to lead his team in the first of two scheduled 50-over under-15 trial matches at the Demerara Cricket Club (DCC) ground yesterday.

Fourteen-year-old Christopher Holder persisted against other determined wheelers and in a late surge he again captured the winner’s trophy in the feature event at the R&R International 11-race cycle meet yesterday.

A Bajan invasion is expected in Guyana early April but it will have little to do with Cricket World Cup.

Ronald Burch-Smith was unanimously re-elected president of the Guyana Squash Association (GSA) when that body held its Annual General Meeting held at the Georgetown Club recently.

Revenge will be at the back of Dennis Horatio’s mind today at the Enmore ground when he faces nemesis from the Rupununi, Cletius James in the under-20 boys 5,000 metre race in the national youth and junior championships.

The National Communications Network (NCN) kicks off its coverage of the Cricket World Cup (CWC) 2007 tomorrow with live coverage of the opening ceremony in Jamaica from 6 pm.

The hotel housing four of the teams in Port-of-Spain had to be cleared because of a teargas attack, an embarrassing breach for the combined law enforcement services in-volved.

Not quite everything associated with the Rio summit was good news, although one of the items of not-so-good news had nothing to do with the government.

Dear Editor, President Jagdeo said at the annual officers’ conference of the GDF: “I would help the new emerging private sector, not the fossils who grew up in the past and want to live off government patronage.

Dear Editor, We refer to the letter captioned “Region two rice farmers will not lose their crop” (07.03.06) by Rajendra Prabhulall who states that according to the Vice Chairman Region 2 rice farmers will not lose their crop.

Continued from last week King Hiranya Kayshapu possessed a boon from the gods which made him virtually invincible, but he was also consumed by the tragic flaw of overweening pride.

Picking up from where we left off last Sunday, what follows is the treatment and prevention of hypertension.

On behalf of the Guyanese overseas diaspora, I extend our heartiest congratulations to the homeland, on achieving 37 years of Republician status.

A historian once wrote that a great society is not measured by the number of its lawyers or accountants, but by its artists.

Dear Editor, The PPP/C Government has always placed high importance on land distribution and allocation to the population.

Dear Editor, I had the opportunity to view the PNCR’s programme, Nation Watch on HBTV Channel 9 on Sunday March 4, 2007, which highlighted its recent sponsored symposium to commemorate the 85th birth anniversary of the late Founder Leader of the PNC and Guyana’s first Executive President, Mr.

Dear Editor, A few months ago Mr. James Reece informed the nation that a large sum of US dollars was stolen from a drawer in Mr.