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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.

Hi Everyone, I say bake, you say float. I say muffin, you say fried dumpling.

Being poor is something many people in Guyana could probably relate to given that a considerable number of them struggle to make ends meet, and find it extremely hard to pay their bills and eat properly in the same month.

Come April 7 Guyanese are promised a pageant with a difference, which would move away from the event just being a night of competition among young women to the audience being be treated to a fashion show in addition to the delegates modelling fantasy costumes in the form of a swimsuit.

The World Cup Cricket is around the bend and along with it the fever and hype-up in anticipation of the excitement and other lucrative gains.

Three young people have come together to be the voices and creative talent behind a song and video that form a major part of an HIV and AIDS campaign that champions abstinence and faithfulness to one’s married partner.

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Who will be the next Face of Shabeau? The Caribbean magazine is scouting for a face to grace its cover and be the official face of Shabeau for one year.

A minibus driver last evening suffered at the hands of angry Albouystown residents after he lost control of the vehicle and it ripped away the front of one house, the entire eastern side of another and seriously injured a four-year- old child.

In a dramatic swoop, US drug agents working with Trinidad authorities yesterday afternoon seized Guyanese businessman Peter Morgan at Piarco International Airport, just days after an indictment was unsealed in a New York court charging him with three counts of drug conspiracy.

Marine turtles spend their lives migrating great distances. They are born on sandy beaches, but whilst they are still quite young, they begin a long journey in search of a suitable place to feed and grow.

Last week we began looking at children’s stages of development, as a way of understanding their behaviour to help in avoiding confrontations that result in the need for punishment.

Caricom and the Organization of American States (OAS) at their fourth meeting in Georgetown last week hailed the stronger working relationship between them and underscored the contributions that both have made towards institutional strengthening in Haiti.

The Guyana Public Service Union (GPSU) paid tribute on Thursday to women on the occasion of International Women’s Day and lamented that women vendors at a local market are being prevented from earning a living.

Education Minister Shaik Baksh said he has noted with concern the recent upsurge of intolerable behaviour in schools and will soon implement several new measures to curb it including a ban on all cellular phones among the student population countrywide.

Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) Chairman Dr Steve Surujbally says work is ongoing to develop plans for national registration and local government elections.

A gunman yesterday shot and injured a clerk of the Beacon Foundation at its Quamina and Carmichael streets location.

Police yesterday said that some of the spent shells found in the wake of the brutal assault by gunmen on four households at Lesbeholden, Black Bush Polder on Monday matched those retrieved in a similar assault at Bel West, Canal #2 Polder, West Bank Demerara last year.