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The Guyana Amateur Boxing Association (GABA) is in need of financial assistance to send a team of boxers to the third Pan American Games box-off billed for April 20-28 in Trinidad and Tobago.

Dear Editor, I have listened to budget presentations and debates on a number of occasions, but have never quite paid keen attention, or had the patience to listen out the three/four hour presentation.

The semi-finals of the Guyana Football Federation/Guyflag senior inter-association tournament will be played on March 11 at the GFC ground instead of tomorrow as scheduled.

Dear Editor, Almost unnoticed, a little article headlined “Stabroek News to take over Guyana Review” (07.02.01) announced to the world the new publisher of the very prestigious monthly.

Marketing Assistant of Demerara Distillers Limited (DDL) Dexter Seaton on Thursday handed over the trophy to President of the Kennard’s Memorial Turf Club (KMTF) Justice Cecil Kennard for the feature race carded on Monday.

The Kiprich and Movado show presented at the Guyana Football Club ground on Friday last was maybe as good as fans could expect from two young headlining artistes only one half of who locally really has a big tune to his name.

Understanding children’s stages of development can be helpful in avoiding confrontations that result in the need for punishment.

Mashramani 2007 might have been big and exciting but somehow it paled in comparison to previous years.

The “Queen of the Band” is the Queen of the Road!

Today’s column considers the relation of interior/forestryroads to development within the context of the third cause singled out by the PRSP as contributory to endemic poverty: the absence of noncomplementing growth-oriented infrastructure (PRSP 2001, p.

Dear Editor, Regional Chairman of Region Six Zulfikar Mustapha, at a recent visit to the #43 Fish Complex on the Corentyne disclosed that Region Six would soon become the “economic powerhouse of Guyana”.

Dear Editor, It is a great honour for Guyana to host the Rio summit.

Dear Editor, Great leaders are born, they are not made, and we are seeing the evidence of this in our country today.

Oscar-nominee, Will Smith’s film The Pursuit of Happyness will be screened at the Sidewalk Caf

Marine turtles are long-lived reptiles. This means that they are believed to live for 100 years and more!

On February 23, Cellink’s Blue Power mash band had the largest number of revellers on the road, an unrivalled dynamism and endless support as it moved through the streets of Georgetown on the way to the National Park but all that, aside the costumes were the real attraction.

Following up on the success achieved in 2006, Michelle Cole and Trevor Rose of Facts n’ Roses (FnR) created the right balance to capture the prestigious prize of best full large costumed band in this year’s Mashramani.

Hi Everyone, Living in a multi-cultural society is exciting. Those of us living side by side with people from different races and religions gain insights that some people go a lifetime without glimpsing.

The head of the Argentine mission here for the Rio Group Meeting says that support should be given to Haiti in its struggle for democracy, and he called for the region’s backing for a resolution to Argentina’s age-old dispute with the United Kingdom over Islas Malvinas – the Falkland Islands.

President Bharrat Jagdeo yesterday challenged the Rio Group to broaden its outlook and take on the mantle of regional development and improving the quality of life for its citizens.