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Layoffs not a direct result of global financial crisis – Labour Minister

Mar 28, 2009 knews News Comments Off on Layoffs not a direct result of global financial crisis – Labour Minister

…situation will be resolved within 6-12 months Responding to inquiries about the recent retrenchments in the manufacturing sector, Minister of Labour, Manzoor Nadir, has said that he does not...

Enmore man falls from roof

Mar 28, 2009 knews News Comments Off on Enmore man falls from roof

Shafeek Amin, who hails from Enmore, East Coast Demerara, fell 12 feet to the ground from his roof yesterday afternoon. Reports stated that the 23-year-old man was on top of the building doing some...

National Cadet and Junior TT teams intensify preparations

Mar 28, 2009 knews Sports Comments Off on National Cadet and Junior TT teams intensify preparations

– sponsorship coming in at unexpected rates By Edison Jefford While preparations for the Caribbean Cadet and Junior Table Tennis Championships are expected to intensify over the weekend, the Guyana...

Regional U-15 tourney switched from Guyana to T&T

Mar 28, 2009 knews Sports Comments Off on Regional U-15 tourney switched from Guyana to T&T

Embattled CLICO still sponsors By Sean Devers in Trinidad Originally scheduled to commence on April 6 in Guyana, the West Indies 50-overs under-15 cricket competition has now been switched to...

Reassessing the actual devaluation of the Guyana Dollar

Mar 28, 2009 knews Letters Comments Off on Reassessing the actual devaluation of the Guyana Dollar

Dear Editor Please allow me to reassess the actual devaluation of the Guyana Dollar that I said may take place in my letter to Guyana Chronicle, 27 March 2009, “Savers should convert their savings...

The law rarely works in the best interest of the small man

Mar 28, 2009 knews Letters Comments Off on The law rarely works in the best interest of the small man

Dear Editor, Over the years from PNC era to now I am convinced, supported by overwhelming evidence, that the Guyana Police Force motto ‘Service and Protection’ is blatantly false “ nowhere near...

Grove water well gas sent to USA for tests

Mar 28, 2009 knews News Comments Off on Grove water well gas sent to USA for tests

Samples of the gas taken from the well that erupted in Grove New Housing Scheme earlier this month were yesterday sent to a laboratory in the USA for tests that could help to ascertain whether it has...

M&CC demolishes stalls at Stabroek Market

Mar 28, 2009 knews News Comments Off on M&CC demolishes stalls at Stabroek Market

In what was described as a surprise move, the City Constabulary, under orders from the Mayor and City Council (M&CC) of Georgetown, demolished a number of stalls in the Stabroek Market area, just...

Berbicians need help

Mar 28, 2009 knews Letters Comments Off on Berbicians need help

Dear Editor, Guyana is still yet to face the worst. It is time for the government to take stock of themselves. Berbice is the one county that is facing extreme neglect. I do not want to hear about...

Health Ministry poised to improve DOTS programme

Mar 28, 2009 knews News Comments Off on Health Ministry poised to improve DOTS programme

With the main intent being to provide a set of directions to strengthen the health system and decrease mortality and morbidity due to Tuberculosis (TB), the local Health Ministry is working towards...

Sensitise farmers and consumers about the ills of chemical fertilizers

Mar 28, 2009 knews Letters Comments Off on Sensitise farmers and consumers about the ills of chemical fertilizers

Dear Editor, The majority of Guyanese are being fed with fertilizer chemicals, which I am sure can have an adverse effect on their health. This has not been considered seriously by anyone I know of....

GTUC accuses CLICO (Guyana) of industrial relations breaches

Mar 28, 2009 knews News Comments Off on GTUC accuses CLICO (Guyana) of industrial relations breaches

It is very disappointing that the there is a deafening silence by the Minister of Labour in relation to the employees that were dismissed from CLICO (Guyana), says General Secretary of the Guyana...

Developing the tourism product

Mar 28, 2009 knews Letters Comments Off on Developing the tourism product

Dear Editor, When Mr. Jad Rahaman operated his Tour Company at the Barakara Resort in the Mazaruni River, he painstakingly kept the nature trail that leads to the Barakara Falls (opposite to the...

‘Plastic City’ residents deterred by cost of house lots

Mar 28, 2009 knews News Comments Off on ‘Plastic City’ residents deterred by cost of house lots

As the Ministry of Housing and Water continues to seek to relocate the squatters of Plastic City, the price of house lots continues to deter many of the squatters from pursuing the government’s...

Multi-million-dollar misery in Diamond

Mar 28, 2009 knews Letters Comments Off on Multi-million-dollar misery in Diamond

Dear Editor, I am a resident of Third Street in Section ‘A’ Block ‘X’ in Diamond, East Bank Demerara. A little over six years ago I was allotted and purchased the plot of land on which I...

The President said the Ministers work for him

Mar 28, 2009 knews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on The President said the Ministers work for him

Minister Robeson Benn is very upset at my column yesterday. For what I do not know because in Guyana when something is public knowledge, the entire country knows about it. Minister Benn is livid over...

THE WATER MAN WILL BE BACK AT HIS DESK SOON

Mar 28, 2009 knews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on THE WATER MAN WILL BE BACK AT HIS DESK SOON

I have placed a wager that by the time President Bharrat Jagdeo returns from his Middle East trip, Mr. Karan Singh will be back to work at the Guyana Water Inc. (GWI). Mr. Singh was this week sent...

Jagdeo seeks bolstered ties between Guyana, Jordan

Mar 28, 2009 knews News Comments Off on Jagdeo seeks bolstered ties between Guyana, Jordan

President Bharrat Jagdeo has held talks with Jordan’s Foreign Minister Nasser Judeh on appropriate ways to further bolster ties between Jordan and Guyana. During a visit to the Ministry of Foreign...

Clinton’s U.S. Mea Culpa

Mar 28, 2009 knews Editorial Comments Off on Clinton’s U.S. Mea Culpa

Last week, President Jagdeo made his displeasure public about the United States’s seeming penchant for “lecturing” rather than assisting more materially in the fight against drug trafficking...

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The third parties will not survive this year’s elections

Peeping Tom… Kaieteur News- The fate of third parties in this year’s general and regional elections is as predictable... more