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Mrs Janet Jagan, the matriarch of the People’s Pro-gressive Party, has called for a reversal of the decision to withdraw government advertisements from the Stabroek News.

BioCapital, Brazil’s second largest producer of bio-diesel, is currently awaiting word from the Guyana government on a proposal to invest US$300 million to acquire lands and establish a distillery for the production of ethanol for local consumption and for export.

Last week’s column examined the first two causes of poverty according to the PRSP in relation to the forestry sector, namely (i) poor economic policies, and (ii) poor governance.

Roy Dookun and I were honoured the other night to receive awards from the Guyana Olympic Association for our contribution in the past to the sport of lawn tennis.

The Guyana Water Incorporated (GWI) said the well which supplies Mocha is functioning as normal and there would be no disruptions.

In the obituary for Cecil Griffith which appeared on page 11A in last week’s Sunday Stabroek, we gave his date of birth as October 29, 1928.

Guyana and Brazil are working towards having a single motor vehicle insurance policy that could be used not only between the two countries but in all Mercosur (Southern Common Market) states in keeping with Brazil’s membership of Mercosur.

A 44-year-old man was on Thursday released on $30,000 bail on a break and enter charge after telling the court that he was beaten unconscious by persons who accused him of stealing over $362,000 worth of articles from a motorcycle store.

From the Bookmakers’ standpoint – the WICB will, I trust, forgive the utterance of the word Bookmaker at this sensitive time – the West Indies are probably the least fancied of the major cricketing nations to lift the 2007 Cricket World Cup.

The Guyana Table Tennis Association (GTTA) has added three more players to Guyana’s table tennis lineup that will contest the LIEBHERR 2007 World Table Tennis Championships in Zagreb, Croatia in May.

A new president of the Guyana Boxing Board of Control (GBBC) will be elected tomorrow when that body holds its Annual General Meeting at the Lions Den, Bel Air Park, beginning at 10am.

The Providence Stadium will get its first test of competitive cricket on February 16 when 2006 Shapoorji Pallonji Twenty/20 Cricket champions Young Warriors tackle GCC in a friendly affair that has been organized to test the readiness of the Local Organising Committee’s ability to host the CWC Super Eight matches scheduled to commence on March 28.

Guyana and West Indies batting star Shivnarine Chanderpaul returns to add depth and experience to the Guyana team in their crucial KFC fifth round match against Barbados at the Georgetown Cricket Club (GCC) ground Bourda, today.

Little is known in Guyana about microbicides or the research that has been ongoing with them.

A 27-year-old West Bank hire car driver who reportedly caused the death of a seven-year-old girl by driving in a dangerous manner was released on bail when he appeared at the Vreed-en-Hoop Magistrate’s Court yesterday.

A 17-year-old boy accused of using forged money to purchase shoes and then escaping from the police station lockups was remanded to prison when he appeared at the Vreed-en-Hoop Magistrate’s Court yesterday.

If you love classic films then this is right up your street.

Dear Editor, Further to your office’s request for a response to a letter captioned “Guyanese in the USA inconvenienced by lack of passport books” (07.02.06) purportedly signed by an Andrew Marques, kindly be informed as follows: 1) No passport application has been received by our Embassy from any Andrew Marques between June 2006 to the present time.

Hi Everyone, Valentine’s Day is fast approaching and we all know that romance is often spelled f-o-o-d: from the heart-shaped box of chocolates to the candlelight dinner for two in a fancy restaurant.

The Guyana Local Organizing Committee (LOC) of the Cricket World Cup (CWC) 2007 is extending an invitation to members of these communities Greenfield Park, Providence, Republic Park, Nandy Park, and Bagotstown to attend a meeting at the stadium today.