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REGIONAL NOTES Group to mark revolution

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ST GEORGE’S – A group of professionals who were youths when the People’s Revolutionary Government was in power have formed a committee for the purpose of celebrating the 40th anniversary of the March 13, 1979 Grenada Revolution – the first in the Eastern Caribbean.

The activities are scheduled to start on March 1 and conclude on May 29, the 75th anniversary of the birth date of slain revolutionary leader Maurice Bishop. ( CMC)

GEORGETOWN – Members of the Guyana Defence Force late Monday rescued the pilot of the singleengine Cessna plane that crashed earlier that day as it headed to Georgetown from the town of Mabaruma.

The Guyana Civil Aviation Authority said the plane, which belongs to a US medical missionary group, was on a mission to recover the corpse of an American missionary, who died while climbing a mountain. The body was left at the crash site. ( CMC)

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