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SLEEPING IS A THING OF BEAUTY

Oct 28, 2008 knews Peeping Tom Comments Off on SLEEPING IS A THING OF BEAUTY

Word is out that if you fall asleep on the job, Kaieteur News will publish your photograph on the front page. Ever since this newspaper published on its front page a photograph of senior operative of...

Victim of acid attack loses eye but glad to be alive

Oct 28, 2008 knews News Comments Off on Victim of acid attack loses eye but glad to be alive

Colin Benjamin, 44, is counting his lucky stars after he survived an acid attack some two weeks ago. According to Benjamin, he was out partying with friends at Demico House on the evening of the...

Linden clean sweep Georgetown

Oct 28, 2008 knews Sports Comments Off on Linden clean sweep Georgetown

-Trinidadian Lewis voted MVP By Rawle Welch Even one of the biggest crowds to descend at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall for sometime could not rally a visibly rusty and uninspiring Georgetown senior...

Outdated court rules partly responsible for backlog

Oct 28, 2008 knews News Comments Off on Outdated court rules partly responsible for backlog

Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) representative Marco Nicola has said that the justice sector is a key factor in Guyana’s competitiveness programme. He contends that the independence of the...

MSC Carib Sixes 1st division cricket

Oct 28, 2008 knews Sports Comments Off on MSC Carib Sixes 1st division cricket

Party-like atmosphere anticipated at Malteenoes today A party-like atmosphere for the entire family is anticipated today as most of Guyana’s top cricketers aim to light up the Malteenoes ground on...

Diwali Scrabble tourney to be contested today

Oct 28, 2008 knews Sports Comments Off on Diwali Scrabble tourney to be contested today

A keen contest is anticipated when the country’s top scrabble players converge this morning at the Court’s Sports Club, Main Street, Georgetown for the Open Diwali Competition, sponsored by the...

Women rob clothes vendor

Oct 28, 2008 knews News Comments Off on Women rob clothes vendor

– make off with cash, jewellery and bank card Sharda Gobin, of Lot 8 Riverview, Ruimveldt, wept hysterically when she related that two women robbed her of cash, a bank card and a gold ring on...

Guyana men and women crowned Caribbean Sevens champions

Oct 28, 2008 knews Sports Comments Off on Guyana men and women crowned Caribbean Sevens champions

– fails to make it to World Cup finals in Dubai Guyana men and women were crowned Caribbean Sevens Rugby Champions at the Winton Park Rugby ground in Nassau, Bahamas. This is the third year in...

Water wastage continues…

Oct 28, 2008 knews News Comments Off on Water wastage continues…

‘I don’t know where we are heading with this’ – Karan Singh Chief Executive Officer of the Guyana Water Incorporated (GWI), Karan Singh, has said that Guyanese continue to predominantly waste...

Ansa Mc Al Trading RHTY&SC ten/10 cricket

Oct 28, 2008 knews Sports Comments Off on Ansa Mc Al Trading RHTY&SC ten/10 cricket

Rose Hall Town Windies Sports Bar advance to final, Albion beat Bermine Rose Hall Town Windies Sports Bar (RHTWSB) overcame early jitters to arrest Police by 26 runs to secure a place in the finals...

GTM contributes to Malika’s surgery

Oct 28, 2008 knews News Comments Off on GTM contributes to Malika’s surgery

The Guyana and Trinidad Mutual Fire and Life Insurance Group of Companies [GTM], in keeping with its policy of assisting the less fortunate, has made another financial donation. This time, the...

Cancer patient commits suicide at GPHC

Oct 28, 2008 knews News Comments Off on Cancer patient commits suicide at GPHC

Pandemonium broke out at the Georgetown Public Hospital in the wee hours of yesterday when a patient of the institution stabbed himself in the neck four times, shortly after 02:00 hours. Reports are...

Reflecting on the past

Oct 28, 2008 knews Letters Comments Off on Reflecting on the past

Dear Editor„ The melody from the theme song for CARIFESTA 2008 sung by our youthful Lisa Punch, is excellent. It was played incessantly, and rightly so, before and during the festival; and it still...

Weightlifter Cozier cops three bronze in Puerto Rico Games

Oct 28, 2008 knews Sports Comments Off on Weightlifter Cozier cops three bronze in Puerto Rico Games

Following a superb display of raw power and determination, national weightlifter, Sean Cozier, competing in the 94kg class, lifted a total of 265kgs to capture three bronze medals in the Criolla Cup...

It is high time the CARIFESTA Secretariat pays for services rendered

Oct 28, 2008 knews Letters Comments Off on It is high time the CARIFESTA Secretariat pays for services rendered

Dear Editor, This is a most shameful and outrageous act by the Ministry of Culture and the CARIFESTA Secretariat to withhold payments for services rendered for the CARIFESTA X events. At a time when...

Mackeson Senior League

Oct 28, 2008 knews Sports Comments Off on Mackeson Senior League

Ann’s Grove maul Black Stallion, Victoria Kings edge Plaisance Ann’s Grove mauled Black Stallion 4-0, while Victoria Kings edged Plaisance by the odd goal in three when rivalry in the Mackeson /...

Gunmen hit lumber yard

Oct 28, 2008 knews News Comments Off on Gunmen hit lumber yard

Two bandits yesterday carted off $1million in cash and an $85,000 cheque from Jettoo’s Lumber yard, as two of that entity’s staff were about to make their way to a city bank. Ramsunder Bisnauth,...

Vreed-en-Hoop NDC clears drains but creates another problem

Oct 28, 2008 knews News Comments Off on Vreed-en-Hoop NDC clears drains but creates another problem

The Neighbourhood Democratic Council (NDC) of Best/Klien Pouderoyen, West Coast Demerara has continued with its exercises of cleaning and maintaining the drains along the public road, and has...

Is there a Guyanese Hindu hypocrisy?

Oct 28, 2008 knews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on Is there a Guyanese Hindu hypocrisy?

I have been fortunate to have been a student of history. I still am. All of us who first entered a university to study history never completed our job; we are still studying the past to see what...

NBS Second division cricket

Oct 28, 2008 knews Sports Comments Off on NBS Second division cricket

RHT Bakewell ‘B’ upset Sand Reef Rose Hall Town Bakewell ‘B’ team created a huge upset when they crushed Sand Reef by 8 wickets as play in the New Building Society second division cricket...

More teachers gaining entry into CPCE

Oct 28, 2008 knews News Comments Off on More teachers gaining entry into CPCE

The Cyril Potter College of Education (CPCE) has extended its training programme to persons who are desirous of joining the teaching profession. Speaking to Kaieteur News on Saturday, Principal of...

Wortmanville Sports Committee host fun day

Oct 28, 2008 knews Sports Comments Off on Wortmanville Sports Committee host fun day

Residents in the Wortmanville area will be locked in friendly rivalry today when the area Sports Committee in association with Rainbow Promotions brings off a fun day at the Ministry of Health Play...

GPL rationalization exercise…

Oct 28, 2008 knews News Comments Off on GPL rationalization exercise…

More workers face imminent separation As the Guyana Power and Light continues its rationalisation process, the company’s Chief Executive Officer, Bharat Dindyal, has said that the separation of the...

Are there different strokes for different folks in Guyana?

Oct 28, 2008 knews Letters Comments Off on Are there different strokes for different folks in Guyana?

Dear Editor, With reference to the letter by Lomarsh Roopnaraine captioned “Berbice Should Secede”, I await with eager anticipation to see how a state that deemed the utterances of Oliver...

The Diaspora must not be underestimated

Oct 28, 2008 knews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on The Diaspora must not be underestimated

Like Ravi Dev, I too had harboured illusions of the role that the Guyanese Diaspora can play in investment in Guyana. Unlike Dev though, I have since revised my opinion of the Diaspora and am now...

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Guyana’s silence represents a shocking neglect of its national interest

Peeping Tom… Kaieteur News-Guyana has long championed the sanctity of territorial integrity and the rejection of aggression... more