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Dear Editor, Guyana observed its 37th. anniversary as a republic last week.

Dear Editor, I would be grateful if you would publish this letter to make it clear to all and sundry that I am not the author of the letter captioned “Caste is almost absent from the consciousness of Indians in Guyana” signed R.

The East Ruimveldt man who was allegedly shot dead by a policeman outside a nightspot took four gunshots including one to his head, a post-mortem report yesterday revealed.

By Dianne Gonsalves An Essequibo man was shot dead on Tuesday night, reportedly by a Mazaruni Prison escapee who has managed to run rings around police and prison officers since December last year.

Four heavily armed and masked bandits yesterday broke into a Canje home and robbed a family of an undisclosed amount of cash and jewellery.

The Guyana Government and the European Commission (EC) delegation yesterday signed a financing agreement for 5.6 million euros ($1.45B) to support the national sugar action plan.

Sharda Veeren-Chand has been appointed as marketing director for the DDL group.

In the aftermath of a fire, which has left a woman and her daughter homeless, a resident whose home was threatened believes the damage could have been far less if there had been ready access to water.

Region Ten Regional Executive Officer Henry Rodney says rehabilitative works at the Mackenzie High School are expected to be completed within ten days to allow classes to reconvene.

A National Oversight Committee for Chronic Non Communicable Diseases (CNCD) was recently launched to combat diseases that account for more than 80% of the mortality rate in developing countries.

The United States Embassy says the visa inquiries telephone services at its Consular Section will be operating for limited hours until further notice.

The United States Embassy is inviting the public to a presentation ‘Celebrating 20 Years of Smithsonian Work in Guyana’ at the Hotel Tower.

A Tuschen cane-cutter was on Monday struck down by a sand truck and later died at the West Demerara Regional Hospital.

Some 80% of the 2,100 businesses registered for VAT filed their returns on time and 32.8% of those filing returns have claimed refunds; the Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) plans to examine these.

A quick response by the Guyana Fire Service yesterday averted what could have been a major fire at the upper end of Robb Street, a few doors away from Nigel’s Supermarket.

A man accused of shipping 13 kilos of cocaine stashed in corilla on a Caribbean Air-lines flight bound for Canada, which was discovered in Trinidad, was yesterday refused bail at the George-town Magistrate’s Court.

Armed bandits operating with a speedboat robbed the Esso service station main terminal at Providence, East Bank Demerara on Tuesday afternoon.

Calabash Gift Shoppe, the official licensee of Cricket World Cup souvenirs and memorabilia, moved to the High Court last week against two local stores allegedly caught selling counterfeit CWC items and was granted an injunction.

A 30-year-old bartender appeared at the Leonora Magistrate’s Court yesterday charged with attempted murder and was remanded to prison.

Pele Football Club took the `lion’s share’ of prizes in the just-concluded Mayor’s Cup knockout football tournament coordinated by Lennox Arthur.