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The African Cultural & Development Association (ACDA) will be hosting a number of public meetings as part of its activities to mark African History Month this month.

Residents of the Sophia embankment who had their order to vacate by January month end extended to the end of February have still not been allocated house lots.

Residents of Fourth Field, South Cummings Lodge, East Coast Demerara are concerned about a plot of land with bush more than five feet high which they say poses a threat to their safety, particularly at nights.

The Barbados Nation newspaper has condemned the withdrawal of ministry advertisements from Stabroek News (SN) and has called on the Guyana Government to review its position.

The inside information on the West Indies’ brief series in India that Bennett King provided for his fellow selectors in Barbados yesterday would hardly have varied much from other recent campaigns in the lead-up to the World Cup.

In our edition of December 31 we reported on the fact that ten bills passed by the National Assembly had not been assented to by President Jagdeo, and today on page 3, we have a follow-up to that story.

Dear Editor, Region 10 has 62 schools of which only 30 are in Linden.

Dear Editor, My business, operating under the name Reno and Sons Super store at Lot 1, Public Road, Suddie, Essequibo Coast is the largest within the neighbourhood there.

The red carpet was rolled out Friday night when the Guyana Olympic Association (GOA) hosted its annual appreciation and award ceremony at the Georgetown Club on Camp Street.

Defending Mayor’s Cup Champions, Fruta Conquerors began their consecutive title hunt on Friday with an impressive 4-0 win over West Demerara’s Uitvlugt at the Georgetown Football Club (GFC) ground.

The Guyana Football Federation (GFF) Guyflag senior inter – association tournament will continue today at the Wales Community Centre ground with West Demerara taking on Georgetown in a feature encounter.

A decision has been taken by the Guyana Amateur Basketball Federation (GABF) to allow the Next Level Entertainment (NLE) nationwide first division basketball tournament to commence ahead of the GABF inter-association tournament.

Claudius Butts, one of the four Guyanese who will make up the core of the West Indian attack in the International Rugby Board (IRB) World Sevens Series tournament in San Diego, USA from February 10, has said that the four Guyanese in the team will have to take on the brunt of the work in the competition but they are more than ready for the challenge.

Continued from last week Fischer’s IQ was in the range of 180 – genius level.

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Cecil Alweyn Griffith, AA, former President of the Guyana Press Association and Chief News Editor of the Guyana Broadcasting Corporation, died on January 29, aged 78.

(Poui, Number 7, December 2005, J.Bryce, H.Simmons-McDonald, M. McWatt (eds.); Dept.

Part 2 Prevention and treatment Guyana has one of the highest incidences of cervical cancer in the world.

Dear Editor, I said this before and I will say it again, even at the expense of this letter finding the waste basket as others of similar tone seem to have done.

Dear Editor, I don’t know how many Guyanese citizens at home and abroad, realize the seriousness, significance or motive behind the ICC CWC ticket brochure, which has been referred to before, one which talked about Guyana’s distinctive Indian Heritage and proceeded to remark about the fusion of West Indian and Indian culture in Guyana.