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Jul 09, 2008 knews News Comments Off on Reducing VAT rate will not ease cost of living
Minister of Finance, Dr Ashni Singh says that reducing the 16 per cent rate of the Value Added Tax will not in any way reduce the escalating cost of living. Dr Singh made the announcement during a...Jul 09, 2008 knews Sports Comments Off on Strong Guyana contingent leaves for Caribbean Squash Championships
Defending Caribbean champions Alexander Arjoon, Ashley Khalil and Victoria Arjoon are among a strong squad that departed Guyana yesterday morning for the Junior Caribbean Squash Championships in...Jul 09, 2008 knews News Comments Off on GECOM to register prison inmates
Home Affairs Minister Clement Rohee has given the go ahead for the Guyana Elections Commission to commence the registration of prisoners in all the country’s penal institutions. Yesterday the...Jul 09, 2008 knews Sports Comments Off on TCL Group three-day U-19 cricket (2nd round)…Guyanese aiming for improved batting against Windward Islands
By Sean Devers in Barbados In association with Digicel, TCL, Pepsi, Smalta, Demerara Power Company & Lifetime Realty Guyana is aiming for an improved batting performance when they battle the...Jul 09, 2008 knews News Comments Off on Newly appointed BIT faces uphill struggle
The newly appointed Board of Industrial Training (BIT) yesterday met for the fist time under the chairmanship of former Minister of Education, Dr Dale Bisnauth at the conference room of the Ministry...Jul 09, 2008 knews Sports Comments Off on Intense Cellink Plus Premier League 2nd round beckons
By Franklin Wilson Last years championship saw the winners (Alpha United) being decided on the last evening of the second and final round of competition and this year the rivalry between the top city...Jul 09, 2008 knews Sports Comments Off on National Volleyball team leave for Barbados
– Adams to lead squad Young Achievers Captain Randy Adams has been chosen to lead a strong 13-man national team which leaves today for a friendly tour of Barbados. The tour organised by the...Jul 09, 2008 knews News Comments Off on Guyanese spread Carifesta fever in Brazil
Brazilians were given a sneak preview of the excitement in Guyana during Carifesta X, when a small delegation of Guyanese performed at that country’s ‘Festa Junina’, in the neighbouring...Jul 09, 2008 knews Sports Comments Off on Pepsi National Schools’ Basketball Festival…Defending champs Kwakwani trample ‘Roses’
By Edison Jefford Defending Pepsi schools’ basketball champions, Kwakwani Secondary, trampled St. Roses High School in their opening game of the 2008 instalment of the tournament yesterday at the...Jul 09, 2008 knews News Comments Off on Police probe fisherman’s death
The police are investigating the circumstances surrounding the death of 57-year-old fisherman, Mehabood Alli, who died at the Woodlands Hospital yesterday. A police press release stated that initial...Jul 09, 2008 knews Sports Comments Off on Collins places 7th in Heat 5 at World Junior C/ships
Guyana’s Oslyn Collins placed seventh in Heat 5 of the women’s 400m yesterday when the 12th International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) World Junior Championships got underway in...Jul 09, 2008 knews News Comments Off on Speedboat operators call for fare increase
Speedboat operators plying the Georgetown and Vreed-en-Hoop stellings are pushing for a fare increase due to the current price for fuel and the high cost of living. The fare was scheduled to be...Jul 09, 2008 knews Sports Comments Off on Republic Bank soundly thrashed by IPA in 20/20 cricket fixture
The International Pharmaceutical Agency have proclaimed that they are the best ‘Company Cricket Team” in town, with a sound 88-run trashing of Republic Bank in a feature 20/20 fixture last...Jul 09, 2008 knews News Comments Off on House-to-house registration: GECOM captures less people than anticipated
The Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) has registered a total of 430,000 persons during the house-to-house registration, which came to an end on July 4, last. GECOM was hoping to register some...Jul 09, 2008 knews News Comments Off on Bus fare increases… GMBA’s unilateralism ‘surprises’ Commerce Ministry
The Ministry of Tourism, Industry and Commerce in a statement last evening expressed surprise at the unilateralism by the Guyana Mini Bus Association in imposing fare increases on the public at this...Jul 09, 2008 knews Letters Comments Off on The PPP’s presidency is not limited to Ramotar and Persaud
Dear Editor, In two recent articles, Peeping Tom has promoted Donald Ramotar as the most suitable presidential candidate for the PPP. The articles are very timely, as they occur on the eve of the...Jul 09, 2008 knews Sports Comments Off on Caricom Day Open Scrabble Tournament…Orlando Michael maintains form
Orlando Michael, originally not part of the Guyana national team chosen to compete at this year’s Caribbean Scrabble Championships in Barbados next month, but was a late entry after James Krakowsky...Jul 09, 2008 knews News Comments Off on Digicel appoints new CEO for Guyana
Digicel yesterday announced the appointments of Gregory Dean to the role of Chief Executive Officer of Digicel Guyana, and Mark Linehan to the post of CEO of Digicel Jamaica. A release from the...Jul 09, 2008 knews Letters Comments Off on New evidence for the retention of corporal punishment in a range of disciplinary measures
Dear Editor, Quite apart from the astonishingly immature and naive outbursts from Mr. Hackett in the local press recently, we had recalled the astonishing details offered by Wittrock (1979) …...Jul 09, 2008 knews News Comments Off on City Hall commences internal audit
— to scrutinise documents beyond 2007 In order to determine the extent of City Hall’s financial discrepancies, an internal audit process has commenced. It will see financial documents for a...Jul 09, 2008 knews Sports Comments Off on Fernandes pleased with progress
Former World #27 Nicolette Fernandes in an interview with Kaieteur Sport after returning from St. Lucia where she won the Suburu Open Squash Tournament said that her success was just another positive...Jul 09, 2008 knews Letters Comments Off on Potential traffic hazard by Bosai’s Linden operations
Dear Editor, It is common knowledge that the people of Linden welcome the investment by Bosai Minerals Group in the Bauxite Industry and hope for their success in attempting to revitalize this...Jul 09, 2008 knews Letters Comments Off on It’s never too late to pursue an education
Dear Editor, I write to congratulate Guyanese adults and senior citizens who undertook training in computer literacy in Richmond Hill and to encourage them to take advantage of the free classes so...Jul 09, 2008 knews News Comments Off on Fuel price up, travelling allowances still down, says GPSU
The Guyana Public Service Union (GPSU) yesterday wrote a letter to Bharrat Jagdeo, President of Guyana, lashing out against the low travel allowances and the Armstrong Award which still has not yet...
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(Cricinfo) – Jahzara Claxton’s three-for, followed by Eboni Brathwaite’s rapid half-century, sealed a dominant eight-wicket win for West Indies in Harare, which gave them an...Oct 06, 2026
(Kaieteur News) – There is something ominous about a rape allegation. The word itself can become a verdict long before it reaches a courtroom. The letter “R” is sometimes enough to transform suspicion into certainty. It can turn an accusation into guilt; it can overnight cast a human being...Oct 04, 2026
By Sir Ronald Sanders (Kaieteur News) – The Caribbean did not start, or participate in, the war involving the United States, Israel and Iran, nor the other continuing conflicts in the Middle East. Yet millions of Caribbean people are paying a price for them every day. They pay it at petrol...Oct 06, 2026
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