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Two die in multi-vehicle smash up

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FYRISH VILLAGE, CORENTYNE – Two more lives were lost on the Corentyne Highway yesterday. Dead are 13-year-old Ashnie Williams, of 39 Fyrish South, and Salim Mohamed of the Corentyne. According to...

Clico agents lash out at management over payment discrepancy

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The frustration at the Colonial Life Insurance Company’s (CLICO) Guyana Head Office, is ever growing, given that the agents attached to the company are increasingly peeved at what can only be...

650 US military personnel for Guyana exercise

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– Construction, medical training exercise slated Nearly 650 soldiers, sailors, marines and airmen are preparing to take part in New Horizons Guyana, a U.S. Southern Command-sponsored annual...

Rusal (Guyana) announces cost cutting measures

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As fresh wages negotiation start The Bauxite Company of Guyana Inc. (BCGI), part of RUSAL, has announced key cost cutting measures to keep operations afloat in the face of the global economic...

Schoolboy stabs classmate, disappears

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An 18-year-old schoolboy from the East Ruimveldt Secondary School, was yesterday afternoon rushed to the Georgetown Public Hospital nursing several stab wounds inflicted by a classmate. According to...

Admirable versatility and a nationalistic vigour

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Terence Ormonde Holder is a ‘Special Person’ “It gives so much satisfaction after working hard for five days a week to give up the weekends to go into a community and bend the back to...

GT&T’s Yog Mahadeo launches first book

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Chief Financial Officer of Guyana Telephone and Telegraph Company, Mr. Yog Mahadeo, on Friday evening, launched “A Garland of Pearls”, the first volume of a twin-volume series of...

Miss Guyana Universe contestants revealed

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The Miss Guyana Universe organization, yesterday revealed 12 of 13 contestants who will take part in this year’s pageant to select a representative from Guyana to compete in the international...

1000 entries received for GT&T Cellink Jingle and Song Competition

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Over 1000 entries have been received by Guyana Telephone and Telegraph Company which is gearing for the first round of auditions in the 2K9 GT&T Cellink Jingles and Song Competition. The...

Rwanda genocide survivor moves audience to tears

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At St John’s University graduation… It is hardly ever that a person comes face to face with someone who tried to kill them, or find out that marauding thugs and criminals have killed...

Second man from squatting area held

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Police yesterday expressed optimism of solving the murder of R.K security guard, Simone Coleridge, after holding a second man from the Tucville squatting community that is located near to Uncle...

PPP loses Wakenaam stalwart

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Hundreds turned up at Wakenaam on Friday, to pay their final respects to one of the most outstanding personalities of the island. Mr. Sarabjeet Ramlakhan M.S., popularly known as Tanna, passed...

Look at future differently

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– President Jagdeo to Caricom …‘there has been a patent neglect of agriculture in many regional countries’ By Tusika Martin The Caribbean Community (Caricom) needs to look at the future...

Enmore CPG gets $4.1M vehicle

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– Do not be dissuaded by judicial deficiencies, says Rohee Home Affairs Minister Clement Rohee has expressed disappointment at the rate of “too many” adjournments in the local courts, but...

After five years only two countries accept CCJ as final appellate court

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By Oscar Ramjeet The Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) entered its fifth year on April 12 since it was inaugurated at a lavish ceremony in Port of Spain, which was attended by nearly all the Heads of...

WNTD ushered in with awareness exhibition

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Today is World No Tobacco Day (WNTD), a day designated to raise awareness on the dangers of smoking. WNTD is being observed under the theme ‘Tobacco Health Warnings’. It was ushered in, locally,...

Theatre Guild yet to be paid Carifesta fees

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…launches 2009 outlook The Theatre Guild, which has found itself in a financial quagmire, says it is still owed $1.5 million by the government for performances held at the Guild Playhouse during...

Remittances to Latin America and the Caribbean decline this year

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By Odeen Ishmael Migrants from Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) living in the more developed countries will send back to their home countries US$64 billion in 2009, US$4 billion less than in...

What is the natural law for mating?

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Dear Editor, Justin DeFreitas ends his rebuttal of my studied proposal that “Homosexuality portends the fall of modern civilization” (Kaieteur News, May 25th) by urging me to “lighten up…...

A publicly open plot?

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Dear Editor, Pastor Daniel Singh continues his attempts to demean the work of science in his May 29th (GC) letter, “Looks like aunt ‘Ida’ was an imposter”. He says the “plot thickened”...

GHB stages youth hockey marathon

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The Guyana Hockey Board (GHB) staged a Global Youth Hockey Marathon yesterday in keeping with the International Hockey Federation’s (FIH) mandate to facilitate the event in every affiliate...

Potential of Guyana’s agricultural gateway

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Dear Editor, Guyana is poised to take off economically with the development of it agricultural sector and the opening of the Takutu Bridge which links us to Brazil is the first step in opening up new...

Collins into overdrive, assumes lead

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The race to find out who will be the two players to face off in the final of the National Open Scrabble Championship is still unknown after two of the three preliminary rounds were completed...

What exactly, must the PNC apologise for?

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Dear Editor, The SN headline dated May 24, 2009 and captioned, “There should be apology for past wrongs – Van West Charles says,” has opened the door for some serious debate, particularly...

Uprising, Conquerors start with convincing wins

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When the Trix Under-17 football league kicked off yesterday morning at the GFC ground, jumping into the lead with 3 points each were Uprising and Fruta Conquerors who won their respective games...

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Diamond Mineral Water Indoor Hockey Festival returns for 19th edition

Let us not be silent witnesses!

…Peeping Tom kaieteur News- Ray Daggers walked from Corriverton to Charity. It was a journey so epic it might have... more