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A man who claimed that frustration made him repeatedly attack his wife and forced him to escape from police custody was yesterday sentenced to two years, six months in prison by Acting Chief Magistrate Cecil Sullivan.

Shawn Smith who was on trial for killing SIMAP employee Lennox Stuart three years ago at Duncan Street, Campbellville was freed in the High Court yesterday after the judge upheld no-case submissions.

The games are more than a week away but the bragging has already begun!

The Athletics Associa-tion of Guyana (AAG) met on Monday with affiliated clubs and schools at ‘Olympic House’, Queenstown to discuss a number of issues namely the poor number of entries for this week’s National Youth and Junior Championships slated for the Enmore Community Centre Ground tomorrow, registration and affiliation, drug testing and the International As-sociation of Athletics Federation’s (IAAF), new Coaches’ Str-ucture.

Director of Sport Neil Kumar is offering to find sponsorship so the Guyana Table Tennis Association (GTTA) can stage the annual national championships.

Kitty `A’ and Campbellville `B’ will clash today in the opening encounter of the Camptown Football Club’s super-six round robin/knockout inter-block tournament.

Nine schools copped victories when play in the Chico Sweets/Smalta inter-secondary schools futsal tournament continued Thursday night at the National Gymnasium.

Approximately 20 of the country’s top golfers are participating in the Suriname Open Golf tournament known as the RBTT (Suriname) N.V.

The Guyana Cricket Board yesterday called up 26 players to participate in two trial matches today and tomorrow at the Demerara Cricket Club ground in preparation for the regional competition.

Dear Editor, March is another memorable month for Africans. March 25th 1807 (200 years ago) the British Government abolished the slave trade in its empire.

Charles `Kassa’ Hope copped first place when the Critchlow Labour College held its Mashramani table tennis teachers’ knockout tournament last Thursday while another Hope, Kajel won the students’ category.

Dear Editor, The latest American opinion poll out over the weekend shows former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani ahead of his rivals for the Republican nomination as well as ahead of his Democratic rivals to win the Presidency.

Neil Reis ruled the roost when the Flying Ace Cycle Club staged its Annual 20-mile Mountain Bike and six-mile BMX Road Races for cyclists in Berbice recently.

Dear Editor, Is the Vishnu Bisram who wrote that letter titled “Have we been better off as a republic?”

Dear Editor, In his letter captioned “Burnham did not satisfy the criteria of a dictator,” (07.03.08), Mr.

Dear Editor, Now that International Women’s Day has come and gone, I now submit my two bits.

Dear Editor, Of all the letters that Mr. Eusi Kwayana has ever written in these columns, letters which stand out from the mass of mediocrity to which we are often subjected, his letter, “Pandit Gossai is involved in court proceedings concerning the affairs of a Florida Mandir,” (SN, 6/3/2007) constitutes a precipitous descent into vindictiveness and cheap sensationalism, unworthy of this revered veteran.

Dear Editor, I applaud Vincent Alexander’s attempt to defend the ‘name’ of President Forbes Burnham through constructive debate, rather than through diatribe.

Dear Editor, It was reported in the newspaper that the Water Users Associations (WUAs) have, in the main, failed to function as expected and many of the secondary channels are now completely clogged with aquatic weeds and silt and can neither irrigate nor drain rice fields.

Dear Editor, I like to welcome Digicel to Guyana and wish them all success.