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Missing aircraft…

Nov 17, 2008 knews News 5

Crew may have perished – official It’s been 15 heart-wrenching days since a U.S. twin-engine aircraft and its three-man crew disappeared over the Mazaruni jungle. It has also been a week...

Global financial crisis…

Nov 17, 2008 knews News 2

PNCR calls for economic stimulus package The People’s National Congress Reform (PNCR), during its most recent press conference, has called on the Government, in light of the current global...

GRA accounting software crashes

Nov 17, 2008 knews News 5

The Total Revenue Integrated Processing System (TRIPS), the accounting software that is used by the Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) to keep track of all transactions within the entity, has reportedly...

‘Peeping Toms’ could soon face imprisonment

Nov 17, 2008 knews News 1

Voyeurism is a worldwide phenomenon that is widely known, but there is little recourse in the legislation of Guyana, despite the fact that it could be classified as an invasion of privacy. Voyeurism...

Four held for ex-con’s death

Nov 17, 2008 knews News 9

Police have detained four people in connection with the suspected vigilante-style killing of ex-convict Rickford Barker, whose battered body was found in a Soesdyke cemetery on Saturday. Kaieteur...

Mass deworming exercise to begin in Region Six

Nov 17, 2008 knews News Comments Off on Mass deworming exercise to begin in Region Six

– Health Ministry targets 120,000 persons Following the successful deworming exercise by the Ministry of Health to eliminate Filariasis in Region Five, the ministry will now take the...

17th COHSOD meeting gets underway today

Nov 17, 2008 knews News Comments Off on 17th COHSOD meeting gets underway today

– Free movement of skills among major issues on agenda The seventeenth meeting of the Council for Human and Social Development (COHSOD), which is being held here today and tomorrow under the...

Compliance with drinking water standards highlighted at workshop

Nov 17, 2008 knews News Comments Off on Compliance with drinking water standards highlighted at workshop

The Guyana National Bureau of Standards (GNBS), in collaboration with the CARICOM Regional Organisation for Standards and Quality (CROSQ), on Thursday last held a workshop at Hotel Tower on...

Digicel launches $25M Christmas promotion

Nov 17, 2008 knews News Comments Off on Digicel launches $25M Christmas promotion

Telecommunications giant Digicel, on Thursday last, launched its Christmas promotion with a whopping $25M worth of cash and prizes. Over the next seven weeks, customers will be afforded the chance to...

Number 51 Village residents without potable water again

Nov 17, 2008 knews News Comments Off on Number 51 Village residents without potable water again

Residents of Number 51 Village are once again without potable water. People’s National Congress Reform Region Six Councillor and resident of Number Fifty-One Village, Winston Samuels, indicated...

Moblissa residents lament unsuitable learning environment

Nov 17, 2008 knews News Comments Off on Moblissa residents lament unsuitable learning environment

While the more developed and recognized areas in Guyana are enjoying free and easy access to a proper education, the residents in Moblissa, a small community on the Soesdyke/Linden Highway, are...

Moblissa community benefits from five wells

Nov 17, 2008 knews News Comments Off on Moblissa community benefits from five wells

The Moblissa community is on the starting point to recovery, as five wells have been established in the area under the Moblissa Water Users Association, via the Linden Economic Advancement Programme...

Private security firms pledge to support police for Christmas

Nov 17, 2008 knews News Comments Off on Private security firms pledge to support police for Christmas

The Guyana Association of Private Security Organizations (GAPSO) has pledged to work with the police to address the crime problem, primarily in the city, throughout the Christmas season and beyond....

Expanding economic activities in interior posing a problem for police

Nov 17, 2008 knews News Comments Off on Expanding economic activities in interior posing a problem for police

– Crime Chief The expansion of economic activities in Guyana’s hinterland is placing a heavy burden on the police force, resulting in an increase in criminal activities in the interior. This...

Action packed bouts witnessed as curtains come down on amateur boxing tourney

Nov 17, 2008 knews Sports Comments Off on Action packed bouts witnessed as curtains come down on amateur boxing tourney

By Michael Benjamin As the curtains came down on the finals in the Guyana Amateur Boxing Association (GABA) Champion of Champions, Junior Cadet, U-15 and Starters tournament at the Mandela Avenue,...

Linden Tourism month Walk Race

Nov 17, 2008 knews Sports Comments Off on Linden Tourism month Walk Race

Mitchell claims 82nd consecutive raceNational champion Rudolph Mitchell scored his 82nd consecutive win at Linden when the Cavaliers Sports Club organized Linden Tourism Month walk race was held...

“Take Governance seriously…”

Nov 17, 2008 knews Sports Comments Off on “Take Governance seriously…”

– Anthony urges GOA admin graduates By Edison Jefford Minister of Culture, Youth and Sport, Dr. Frank Anthony urged graduates of the Guyana Olympic Association (GOA) Sports Administrators’...

What goes around comes around

Nov 17, 2008 knews News 2

DEAR EDITOR, Not so long ago, I had a brief chat with Lincoln Lewis. With sadness, he told me a story of stopping at a gas station while on his way to work in Barbados, and hearing a young man...

Patriots, Royals record latest LABA C/ship triumphs

Nov 17, 2008 knews Sports Comments Off on Patriots, Royals record latest LABA C/ship triumphs

Play in the Linden Amateur Basketball Association’s Senior Club basketball championship continued at the Mackenzie Sports Club hard court on Saturday night with wins for Patriots and Victory Valley...

B’ce has the right in international law to secede

Nov 17, 2008 knews Letters 12

DEAR EDITOR, I would like to continue my dialogue on the reasons why and how Berbice should secede. In my previous letters to the Kaieteur News and SN, I stated some fundamental reasons, based mainly...

Erect a shrine/monument in remembrance of Jonestown dead

Nov 17, 2008 knews Letters 8

DEAR EDITOR, The CNN broadcast, via local channels over the past few days, about the tragedy at Jonestown was refreshing in the sense that it was actually the first time I paid much attention and...

GFF is giving the players basket to fetch water

Nov 17, 2008 knews Sports Comments Off on GFF is giving the players basket to fetch water

DEAR MR. EDITOR, Surprised I am not, confused I am; at his press conference on the 13th of November, Mr. Colin Klass stated that “I came into football voluntarily and when I decide to leave I will...

NBTS appeals for blood donation during Christmas

Nov 17, 2008 knews News Comments Off on NBTS appeals for blood donation during Christmas

Following the severe shortage of blood the National Blood Transfusion Service (NBTS) has recently experienced, there has been some amount of improvement in terms of voluntary donation. This is...

LABA secretary replies to Banks DIH’s denial for sponsorship commitment

Nov 17, 2008 knews Sports Comments Off on LABA secretary replies to Banks DIH’s denial for sponsorship commitment

DEAR MR. EDITOR, After due consideration and in light of denial by the beverage giants Banks DIH Limited, that it never committed itself to sponsor the LABA’s 2008 First Division basketball ...

Pump up the marketing plans

Nov 17, 2008 knews Letters Comments Off on Pump up the marketing plans

DEAR EDITOR, I honestly believe that when a product becomes a household name, it results from serious marketing strategies and planning. The Guyana Annual, which is the new name for The Christmas...

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Alarm in West Indies over radical two-division plan for Test cricket

The Horse Racing Authority Bill will solve nothing!

Peeping Tom… Kaieteur News- The Horse Racing Authority Bill of 2024, though ostensibly aimed at regulating horse racing... more