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Poverty Reduction paper stalled in National Assembly – Dr Luncheon

May 22, 2009 knews News Comments Off on Poverty Reduction paper stalled in National Assembly – Dr Luncheon

‘There is growing sense of ‘frustration’ for those who have to implement agreements’ By Tusika Martin The Poverty Reduction paper has already been approved by Cabinet but parliamentary...

Barbados is using Guyanese as scapegoats for economic problems- Ramotar

May 22, 2009 knews News Comments Off on Barbados is using Guyanese as scapegoats for economic problems- Ramotar

The Barbadian Government is using Guyanese as the scapegoat for that country’s current economic situation. This view was expressed by People’s Progressive Party General Secretary, Donald Ramotar,...

Missing underwear resurfaces

May 22, 2009 knews News Comments Off on Missing underwear resurfaces

A pair of panties belonging to the victim in the Colin Mack rape preliminary inquiry, which is to be tendered in evidence, has resurfaced, and is currently at the East La Penitence police station....

17 escape death in car/minibus accident

May 22, 2009 knews News Comments Off on 17 escape death in car/minibus accident

Seventeen people, including two drivers and two nurses, escaped with minor injuries following a car and minibus accident on the Mon Repos, East Coast Demerara Public Road, yesterday. Of the lot, only...

Region must invest in resources in Guyana

May 22, 2009 knews News Comments Off on Region must invest in resources in Guyana

AMBASSADOR to CARICOM MP Denis Kellman, wants to see pan-Caribbean companies take the region’s productive sectors into the export markets. He was speaking against the backdrop of a recent spate of...

Feasibility study ongoing for athletics facility

May 22, 2009 knews Sports Comments Off on Feasibility study ongoing for athletics facility

– Government, AAG engaged in discussions By Edison Jefford The absence of a synthetic athletics facility was identified as the biggest bugbear to local athletes’ development time immemorial,...

Guyana to compete at Parbo Beer Cup in Suriname

May 22, 2009 knews Sports Comments Off on Guyana to compete at Parbo Beer Cup in Suriname

Face host, Antigua & Barbuda and French Guiana By Franklin Wilson After a lengthy lay off from international competition, Guyana’s footballers will be back in contention when they compete...

Bryden & Fernandes Inc. makes debut sponsorship

May 22, 2009 knews Sports Comments Off on Bryden & Fernandes Inc. makes debut sponsorship

Trix Drink Mix U-17 to kick off next Saturday at GFC ground By Franklin Wilson Even with the Global Financial crunch still taking its toll on economies around the world, a number of corporate...

Scrabble players gear up for National tournament

May 22, 2009 knews Sports Comments Off on Scrabble players gear up for National tournament

Twenty five of the nation’s top scrabble players would vie for top honours, when the Guyana Association of Scrabble Players (GASP) stages the 2009 National Scrabble Championships from May 26-31....

High powered field for Citizens Bank Golf tourney

May 22, 2009 knews Sports Comments Off on High powered field for Citizens Bank Golf tourney

A star-studded line up in expected for the second annual Citizens Bank Medal Play Golf tournament tomorrow, at the Lusignan Golf Club. Defending champion Gavin Todd is expected to be in action to...

Riverain communities, Fire and Prison Services get FFTP help

May 22, 2009 knews News Comments Off on Riverain communities, Fire and Prison Services get FFTP help

Travel in the Pomeroon for students may be made a little easier through a Food for the Poor initiative. On Wednesday, two 75-horsepower Yamaha outboard engines, worth $2.3M, were donated to Camille...

Busta champion of champions semis on tomorrow

May 22, 2009 knews Sports Comments Off on Busta champion of champions semis on tomorrow

Semi-final rivalry in the Busta Champion of Champions 50-over competition in the Ancient County of Berbice, sponsored by the Guyana Beverage Company, will be contested tomorrow. Battling for places...

Local police notify Interpol about abandoned vessel

May 22, 2009 knews News Comments Off on Local police notify Interpol about abandoned vessel

The vessel discovered in the Corentyne River is suspected to be one which had capsized and was abandoned during a race between Senegal and French Guiana early last month. The police have since...

It’s do or die for Fortune, Greene

May 22, 2009 knews Sports Comments Off on It’s do or die for Fortune, Greene

– as Caribbean Games hope fades National sprinters Alisha Fortune and Rawle Greene are in a historic battle to compete at the inaugural Caribbean Games in Trinidad and Tobago. The duo has one more...

Twenty three teams vie for honours in National Dominoes playoff

May 22, 2009 knews Sports Comments Off on Twenty three teams vie for honours in National Dominoes playoff

Over one million dollars and other incentives will be at stake when the Supligen sponsored, National Dominoes playoffs, gets underway at the National Gymnasium, Mandela Avenue tomorrow morning. The...

Minibus operator claims phone with police numbers

May 22, 2009 knews News Comments Off on Minibus operator claims phone with police numbers

Police ranks whose telephone numbers appeared on a cellular phone recovered by the police during raids at Haslington, East Coast Demerara, have been cleared of any contact with the now dead Courtney...

Burglars hit Bourda Market again

May 22, 2009 knews News Comments Off on Burglars hit Bourda Market again

Even as stallholders in the Bourda Market continue to air their concern about the state of disrepair of the market, three stalls were burglarised on Wednesday night. However Kaieteur News only...

Peters returned as president of Buxton Carl Hooper Cricket Club

May 22, 2009 knews Sports Comments Off on Peters returned as president of Buxton Carl Hooper Cricket Club

Esse Peters was re-elected to serve his fourth consecutive term as the President of the Buxton Carl Hooper Cricket Club, when the East Coast entity held its Annual General Meeting, Sunday last. Troy...

Opposition wants Gov’t to be more Proactive about Guyanese in B’dos

May 22, 2009 knews News Comments Off on Opposition wants Gov’t to be more Proactive about Guyanese in B’dos

– Luncheon says administration will keep fighting The main opposition People’s National Congress Reform (PNCR) is accusing the government of having a “haphazard and ill-thought out...

Magistrate recuses self from hot oil burning case

May 22, 2009 knews News Comments Off on Magistrate recuses self from hot oil burning case

…withdraws bail and remands accused With allegations that he was compromised, Magistrate Yohhahnseh Cave has withdrawn himself from presiding over the Preliminary Inquiry into an attempted murder...

The Chimera of Mr. Mervin

May 22, 2009 knews Letters Comments Off on The Chimera of Mr. Mervin

Dear Editor, I refer to Mr. Emile Mervin’s letter of February 21, 2009 in the Kaieteur News, with the caption “The President did make promises he never kept”. I thank Mr. Mervin for conceding...

The collapse of the Guyana economy

May 22, 2009 knews Letters Comments Off on The collapse of the Guyana economy

Dear Editor, The Opposition parties and the press have fallen asleep at the switch. It is their duty to alert Guyanese to impending disaster. Such seems to be the case if Mr. Tony Vieira’s comment...

Tenelec 1st division cricket continues in Berbice

May 22, 2009 knews Sports Comments Off on Tenelec 1st division cricket continues in Berbice

The Tenelec Berbice first division 50-overs cricket competition continues this weekend with three matches tomorrow and five games on Sunday. In Zone ‘A’, East Bank Berbcie side Edinburgh make...

President to assent to DUI Bill today

May 22, 2009 knews News Comments Off on President to assent to DUI Bill today

The hard hand of the law will fall on persons who drink and drive after today. President Bharrat Jagdeo will today assent to the Evidence, Motor Vehicle and Road Traffic Amendment Bill at Office of...

Destruction of the PNCR

May 22, 2009 knews Letters Comments Off on Destruction of the PNCR

Dear Editor, In his Kaieteur News feature of May 19, 2009 entitled, “Paper forms and forms of conspiracies inside the PNC”, Freddie Kissoon stated that, “This columnist knows that fraud...