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Jagdeo Third Term… Out of the question-Corbin

Aug 06, 2008 knews News Comments Off on Jagdeo Third Term… Out of the question-Corbin

A suggestion by the People’s Progressive Party’s member, Reepu Daman Persaud to seek to have the Constitution of Guyana amended to have President Bharrat Jagdeo serve a third term in office...

Six charged with Lusignan murder

Aug 06, 2008 knews News Comments Off on Six charged with Lusignan murder

Six men, including three brothers and their father, were remanded to prison when they appeared before Magistrate Yohanseh Cave at the Sparendaam Magistrate’s Court charged with the murder of...

Little Diamond tragedy… Alcohol, speeding blamed for fiery deaths

Aug 06, 2008 knews News Comments Off on Little Diamond tragedy… Alcohol, speeding blamed for fiery deaths

Relatives of Sachin Singh and Wajeed Shaw were yesterday still unable to accept the fact that the two young friends had died in the horrific pre-dawn crash at Little Diamond, East Bank Demerara. But...

Non-receipt of EPA permit delays Marriott

Aug 06, 2008 knews News Comments Off on Non-receipt of EPA permit delays Marriott

…environmental study to be completed in one month’s time Adam Development/Urbahn Associates, LTD (ADUA), in a statement yesterday, announced that the sod-turning ceremony to mark the start of...

Nude body found in Skeldon backlands

Aug 06, 2008 knews News Comments Off on Nude body found in Skeldon backlands

– victim may have been sodomised The nude decomposed body of a man suspected to be of East Indian ancestry was discovered yesterday in the Number 69 Village, Corentyne backlands about half mile...

PPP accuses media of being in opposition mode

Aug 06, 2008 knews News Comments Off on PPP accuses media of being in opposition mode

There seems to be attempts in some sections of the media ‘to go out of their way’ to either support or be part of the opposition party, looking at the government’s achievements only in a...

Army considers overseas treatment for burnt soldier

Aug 06, 2008 knews News Comments Off on Army considers overseas treatment for burnt soldier

The Guyana Defence Force is exploring the possibility of overseas treatment for one of its ranks, who was severely burnt following an explosion aboard the GDFS Barracuda last Saturday. The army said...

Psychiatric ward murder… GPHC breaks silence on the murder of Vieira

Aug 06, 2008 knews News Comments Off on Psychiatric ward murder… GPHC breaks silence on the murder of Vieira

As an official report is still to be released on the cause of death of 21-year-old Natasha Vieira, the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) in a press release yesterday stated that the...

City Hall halts cleaning Stabroek Car Park

Aug 06, 2008 knews News Comments Off on City Hall halts cleaning Stabroek Car Park

– as vendors voice concern over seizure of facility The decision by the government to remove the Stabroek Car Park from the control of City Hall has also resulted in the municipality...

Reversing HIV depends on integration of programmes

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– Global Health Council Reversing HIV/AIDS cannot be achieved unless related programmes are linked to other disease responses and general health care services. The Global Health Council is...

Go Clement, Go Clement…

Aug 06, 2008 knews Features / Columnists Comments Off on Go Clement, Go Clement…

The Parrot recently read some encouraging news as it relates to noise nuisance, noise pollution and vulgarity through noise which emanates from the road bullies and killer machines: minibuses. Well...

Did Moses Nagamootoo top the list?

Aug 06, 2008 knews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on Did Moses Nagamootoo top the list?

The election of the PPP’s central committee appears confusing and that is putting it mildly. There seems to be no logic underpinning the voting. An attempt to bring clarity may lead one to conclude...

The party congress has spoken

Aug 06, 2008 knews Features / Columnists Comments Off on The party congress has spoken

In the days and weeks before the 29th Congress of the party, the People’s Progressive Party, there was a lot of criticisms of the government and these criticisms ranged from the government at its...

ONE DAY AT A TIME

Aug 06, 2008 knews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on ONE DAY AT A TIME

Guyana has serious problems. I am asking all Guyanese to understand what is happening in their country. I am asking them not to be diverted by those who want them to feel that it is the free press in...

GPTA plans seminar on awareness

Aug 06, 2008 knews News Comments Off on GPTA plans seminar on awareness

By Rustom Seegopaul President of the Guyana Public Transportation Association (GPTA), Nicholas Nnami, yesterday unveiled the plans of the GPTA to hold a seminar on awareness and training for the...

That we are occupying the land of others must be removed from the annals of Guyana’s history

Aug 06, 2008 knews Letters Comments Off on That we are occupying the land of others must be removed from the annals of Guyana’s history

Dear Editor, I find it interesting that a letter purportedly written by one Mike Rahman and published in the Kaieteur News on 8/5/08 asks the question as to “where is the evidence that we should be...

Security lacking at GPHC

Aug 06, 2008 knews News Comments Off on Security lacking at GPHC

The public would like to think that the Georgetown Public Hospital would be a place of peace and quite but that is the total opposite. There is an alarming amount of dangerous patients that go...

New dates for Group B matches in DCC

Aug 06, 2008 knews Sports Comments Off on New dates for Group B matches in DCC

All games set for Stadium under lights Digicel, proud sponsor of Caribbean football, yesterday announced new match dates for the Group B games of the Digicel Caribbean Championships (DCC) involving...

GWI will continue to strive to offer a better service

Aug 06, 2008 knews Letters Comments Off on GWI will continue to strive to offer a better service

Dear Editor, It is with great reluctance that GWI replies to an inauthentic defamatory letter which was published in the Monday 28 July, 2008, issue of the Kaieteur newspaper. What is imperative to...

GFF has no hope – Mendonca

Aug 06, 2008 knews Sports Comments Off on GFF has no hope – Mendonca

By Edison Jefford The Georgetown Football Association’s (GFA) searing temperature over the management of local football during the past 20 years was enough to shatter the already waning Guyana...

Shooting death in B’dos may be work of Guyanese

Aug 06, 2008 knews News Comments Off on Shooting death in B’dos may be work of Guyanese

Reports coming out of Barbados have suggested that a Guyanese was involved in the fatal shooting of his countryman, Christopher Griffith, and the wounding of bar owner Seelochanie Samuels, a little...

Slap lands Essequibo man in court

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Wesley Persaud, 42, of Better Success, Essequibo Coast, who dealt a young woman two slaps while on a boat cruise, was placed on $20,000 bail by Magistrate Faith Mc Gusty, yesterday. Mr. Persaud...

East Coast youths benefit from MCY&S football camp

Aug 06, 2008 knews Sports Comments Off on East Coast youths benefit from MCY&S football camp

Several youths in the Mahaicony area are benefiting from a junior football camp being run by the Ministry of Culture, Youth and Sport in conjunction with Abu Huriarah. National Sports Commission...

A note of advice

Aug 06, 2008 knews Letters Comments Off on A note of advice

Dear Editor, Years ago, in Rose Hall Town, there was an old man whom everyone used to call “Uncle Byra.” I thought it was just his call name. Later I learned that Uncle Byra was hard of hearing...

Agriculture attracts 268M in drainage works

Aug 06, 2008 knews News Comments Off on Agriculture attracts 268M in drainage works

National Drainage and Irrigation contracts to the sum of $268M were yesterday signed off by Minister of Agriculture, Robert Persaud, for the commencement of drainage and irrigation works countrywide....

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A false panacea for electoral integrity

…Peeping Tom kaieteur News – Advocates for fingerprint verification in Guyana’s elections herald it as... more