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Minister of Culture, Youth and Sport Dr. Frank Anthony is expected to declare open the 6th Annual Linwest Games slated for the Mackenzie Sports Club ground on March 18, beginning at 10am.

Courts Pacesetters’ championship trio: Royston Siland, Stephon Gillis and Naylon Loncke will spearhead a well-balanced and talented Georgetown line-up in the upcoming inter-association best-of-three basketball tour-nament.

An email alleging mistreatment by a Judge of an Amerindian woman in her court fight for her son will see Minister of Amerindian Affairs, Carolyn Rodrigues being summoned to state whether or not she was the author of the electronic missive.

Law enforcement abuses remain at the top of the country’s human rights violations.

The bloated body suspected to be that of the fisherman missing in last Friday’s trawler mishap was yesterday discovered at Den Amstel, West Coast Demerara.

Commissioner Hema Khan of the Value Added Tax (VAT) and Excise Tax Department, in a press release yesterday, extended the VAT return deadline for January to Friday, waiving some penalties up to Friday but not all.

Top cricketers are to feature in a series of public service announcements (PSA) highlighting the plight of children and young people living with and affected by HIV.

The police have detained three drivers said to be involved in Monday night’s accident on the East Bank Public Road at Diamond, which claimed the life of ten-year-old Trevor Alstrom.

The Canadian government yesterday presented to Guyana an Itemiser 111, and is hosting sessions to train Customs Anti-Narcotics Unit (CANU) officers and those from other law enforcement agencies on how to use the equipment.

Director of Go-Invest Geoffrey Da Silva yesterday reiterated in a Government Information Agency (GINA) press release that to date no licence has been granted by government for casino gambling at Buddy’s International Hotel.

Castellani House is commemorating International Women’s Day with a screening of Indian-Canadian filmmaker, Deepa Mehta’s Water.

Even a penalty shoot-out could not decide the better team in the Rastafari Patriarchs vs ‘Baldhead’ Masters over-40 football grudge-match at the Georgetown Football Club (GFC) ground Sunday night.

Berbice fought back to attain a slight advantage at the end of the first day of the Castrol inter-county under-15 two-day cricket competition at the Police Sports Complex ground yesterday after being dismissed for a paltry first innings score.

Courts Pacesetters became Guyana’s number-one team when they dethroned Kashif and Shanghai Kings at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall Sunday night to win the Next Level Entertainment nation- wide first division basketball competition.

This year, the Administration allocated $9.3 billion to the security sector compared to $4.6B in 2006.

A New York-based group has embarked on a project aimed at providing healthcare information to diabetics and cancer sufferers through a resource centre.

Dear Editor, In a letter captioned “Irrigation a major problem for farmers on the Essequibo Coast” (07.03.01) rice farmers on the Essequibo Coast have reported that due to a shortage of irrigation water they face the risk of losing their crops.

Guyana and Chile are eyeing areas of commonality where the two countries would focus on ways of dealing with special problems facing each other and to secure funding for programmes in this regard, Chilean President Michelle Bachelet has said.

The stage is set for the Camptown Football Club grassroots, four-team tournament which kicks off Saturday at the Camptown ground.

The Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) has ordered the exhumation of the body of a man who died at the New Amsterdam (NA) hospital six hours after he was allegedly beaten.