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Dear Editor, I wish to laud you for your editorial dated Tuesday February 6, 2007, and captioned “Constantine’s Tale”.

Dear Editor, I have noticed that the Stabroek News is now carrying a daily statement on its front page, denouncing government for its decision to withdraw advertisements from the paper.

Dear Editor, I still want to believe that we live in a country where freedom of speech and choice is our fundamental right.

Dear Editor, While we are all proud and happy to know that we finally have a supposedly state of the art stadium, one was hoping that all other infrastructure would be of a similar standard.

Dear Editor, Some months ago, I was in the Suddie court room when the presiding magistrate fixed ten thousand dollars bail for a well known character whose name and address were provided on a charge of rape.

Dear Editor, Every year Guyana observes World Women’s Day, a day set aside to highlight achievements, progress and problems women face in Guyana.

Dear Editor, I cannot help the deep feeling that the Jagdeo regime seems so intent on giving our country, Guyana, and the government, a bad name.

Dear Editor, Some years ago, during the revision of the jurors list before a magistrate in the Suddie Court room my name was deleted having attained the age of 60 which brings about an automatic disqualification.

Dear Editor, I totally agree with Dr Ramsammy’s intention to regulate the health profession.

The six-member board of inquiry that was set up to investigate the January 12 escape of nine prisoners from the Mazaruni jail yesterday handed over their report to Home Affairs Minister Clement Rohee.

Dear Editor, The prisoners who escaped from the Mazaruni prison stated that they carried out the act because of the conditions in the prison, particularly the food issue.

The exhuming of the body of a north west woman has led to claims that she had been buried alive while heavily pregnant.

Dear Editor, Thanks for bringing to my attention the letter of Deodat Loaknauth which appeared in your newspaper of the 18th instant under the caption “My son was killed in a traffic accident nine months ago, I still don’t know what the Police intend to do”.

Russian bauxite giant RUSAL will be considering the feasibility of a hydropower plant in the Upper Mazaruni area and this was one of three items covered in a Letter of Intent (LOI) signed during President Bharrat Jagdeo’s lightning visit to Moscow last week.

Barbados came roaring back from dropping first innings points to inflict a five-wicket defeat on Guyana fifty five minutes after tea on the third day of their fifth round Carib Beer encounter at the Georgetown Cricket Club ground, Bourda Ground yesterday.

Dear Editor, American President George Bush has not learnt anything from the defeat in the mid-term Congressional elections last November or the ongoing defeat in the war in Iraq.

Prospective organisers wishing to host social events during the Cricket World Cup 2007 Super Eight matches here in Guyana are asked to register with the Local Organising Committee (LOC) at its office at 91 Middle Street, Georgetown, no later than February 15.

Dear Editor, The recent actions by the Government of Guyana in and out of Parliament definitely endorses my long stated contention that essentially we, the Guyanese people, are in the clutches of a communist regime.

Rose Hall Town Pepsi recorded a thrilling two-run victory to edge Young Achievers in the final of the Carpens Plumbing and Spready’s Bakery under-19 cricket tournament at the Albion Community Development Centre ground recently.

One of two accidents on the Demerara Harbour Bridge on Tuesday night resulted in the death of a young man and injuries to his pregnant fianc