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Foreign Minister Rudy Insanally is understandably upbeat about the 24th Summit of the Rio Group which opens in Georgetown today.

A remand prisoner who allegedly escap-ed from the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court lockups last week was yesterday refused bail by Acting Chief Magistrate Cecil Sullivan.

Acting Chief Magistrate Cecil Sullivan yesterday remanded to prison a man and his girlfriend after they pleaded not guilty to robbing a woman of a large sum of money and other items.

Dear Editor, With portions of the proceedings in the National Assembly being televised, members of the public are now afforded the opportunity to observe and evaluate the performance of their parliamentary representatives.

Dear Editor, Our Community – Kwakwani is still trying to regain its composure after the terrible tragedy that claimed the lives of two women on February 7th 2007, one an elderly great grandmother who was caring for her blind husband and the other a single parent working to maintain her three children.

Dear Editor, I would like to congratulate two entrepreneurial Guyanese from New York whose initiative and unity in working together has brought about what could be described as an outstanding collaboration in hosting cricket fans at an international calendar of events during Cricket World Cup in Georgetown, in March, and April.

La Ventura Secondary school held on to beat St John’s Community High school by 16 runs in an exciting encounter at the Versailles ground, West Demerara, yesterday.

East Bank romped to a comfortable 58-run victory over East Coast in the Diamond Fire and General Insurance inter-association limited overs cricket competition at the Lusignan Community Centre ground yesterday.

Recently there have been conflicting reports about the factors responsible for Guyana’s poor performance in the just concluded regional four-day and one-day tournaments.

The Caribbean is bustling with action, one week before the ICC Cricket World Cup 2007 bowls off with its warm-up.

Republic Bank (Guyana) Ltd yesterday joined the growing group of billion-dollar developers with the turning of the sod for its $1.3 billion bank at Camp and Robb streets.

Dear Editor, It is said that seeing is believing but in this case after witnessing many trials in my twenty seven years of watching cricket at all levels in this cricket loving nation of ours, I am again shocked and am now convinced that the reason for the decline in our cricket is our selectors at our under 19 and under 15 levels, especially in Georgetown.

Dear Editor, It is true, as Mr. Dev says, in his article on “Mental Slavery,” (KN.

The battle for supremacy in the 2007 Annual National Sports Commission (NSC) table tennis championships continues today at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall with play in the doubles competition.

Dear Editor, As a youth leader with over twenty five years of experience I hereby make an urgent appeal to the Ministry of Education to review their current practice of allowing school children especially young females to attend regional cricket matches, Mash competition and other events.

The Rasta football unit will have their opportunity to exact revenge on the `Bald Head’ side when the two clash in an over-40 fixture Sunday at the Georgetown Football Club (GFC) ground from 7pm.

Dear Editor, Some months ago I wrote about the word “Oxymoron” with reference to “Holy Wars”.

Dear Editor, I have refrained from commenting on the allegations of attacks on the free media in Guyana.

Dear Editor, It is again conceded that the job of an editor is to

Dear Editor, Raising the question of the absence of class politics as a medium of political mobilization in Guyana was intended to begin a discussion on the subject.