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GuySuCo makes one-off payment to workers

May 12, 2009 knews News Comments Off on GuySuCo makes one-off payment to workers

The 2.1 percent one-off payment to workers at the Guyana Sugar Corporation (GuySuCo) was paid with the Annual Production Incentive (API) still outstanding. This API, which amounts to 3.79 days...

GECOM finalising NRR

May 12, 2009 knews News Comments Off on GECOM finalising NRR

The Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) yesterday said that it is currently finalising the National Register of Registrants to be used as the basis for the conduct of a Claims and Objections...

Local athletes gear up for Independence Triathlon

May 12, 2009 knews Sports Comments Off on Local athletes gear up for Independence Triathlon

Local athletes will vie for honours when the Ministry of Culture, Youth & Sports, in collaboration with the National Sports Commission, stages the 2009 Independence Anniversary Triathlon Race on...

Collection of rates and taxes costly to City Hall

May 12, 2009 knews News Comments Off on Collection of rates and taxes costly to City Hall

Intensified efforts to boost the revenue base of the Mayor and City Council of Georgetown (M&CC) through the collections of rates and taxes have been costing the municipality more than it can...

Female Football League set for 3rd quarter

May 12, 2009 knews Sports Comments Off on Female Football League set for 3rd quarter

The embarrassment suffered by a female football team that represented Guyana during the recently staged Inter-Guianas Games managed to stir some amount of controversy, as to who should take the blame...

Four escape from NOC, two recaptured

May 12, 2009 knews News Comments Off on Four escape from NOC, two recaptured

On Sunday last, four inmates from the New Opportunity Corps on the Essequibo Coast escaped. The escapees are Barrington Cambridge, 15, Prince Pickery, 16, Errol Johnson, 16, and Clairmont Wilson, 16....

Cindy Johnson was a highlight at the Caricom B/ball C/ship

May 12, 2009 knews News Comments Off on Cindy Johnson was a highlight at the Caricom B/ball C/ship

Overseas-based Cindy Johnson AKA ‘CJ’ took the 2000 Caricom Basketball Championship in Barbados by storm although Guyana females finished last. Johnson’s performance was phenomenal. The...

PNC in power will be just as bad for Guyana as the PPP

May 12, 2009 knews Letters Comments Off on PNC in power will be just as bad for Guyana as the PPP

Dear Editor, Happy belated Mother’s Day! I wish all mothers everything they wish for themselves and their families. Mothers Day should be a day of thanks and honest reflection. Thanks for the daily...

Jamaican woman held with cocaine

May 12, 2009 knews News Comments Off on Jamaican woman held with cocaine

Another foreign national has been nabbed at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport, Timehri, trying to smuggle out cocaine. This time, a Jamaican woman was held with 2.2 kilograms of the drug while...

Mervin’s misleading evaluation of the Jagdeo Administration

May 12, 2009 knews Letters Comments Off on Mervin’s misleading evaluation of the Jagdeo Administration

Dear Editor, I refer to Mr. Emile Mervin’s letter of April 27, 2009 in the SN, with the caption ‘The President should think about redeeming his legacy.’ SN provides huge space to Mr. Mervin’s...

Bisram should examine which groups in Guyana and the world had their sovereign right and freedom forcibly taken away

May 12, 2009 knews Letters Comments Off on Bisram should examine which groups in Guyana and the world had their sovereign right and freedom forcibly taken away

Dear Editor, I have taken to ignoring the many deceptive and deliberate attempts to dumb down the horror of the Atlantic Slave trade involving Africans to something that was common to all groups, and...

No compromising of compliance in forestry sector – Minister Persaud

May 12, 2009 knews News Comments Off on No compromising of compliance in forestry sector – Minister Persaud

There will be no compromising on the issue of compliance within the forestry sector, Minister of Agriculture, Robert Persaud, told stakeholders yesterday during the Forest Product Development and...

Nurses: Stalwart healthcare providers

May 12, 2009 knews Letters Comments Off on Nurses: Stalwart healthcare providers

Dear Editor, Observing Nurse’s Week has been an annual pleasure for me over the past 50 years. Fifty-two years ago I made personal contact with two nurses in England when I underwent a...

CARICOM official wants better work environment for the Region’s police

May 12, 2009 knews News Comments Off on CARICOM official wants better work environment for the Region’s police

Assistant Secretary-General of the CARICOM Secretariat Dr. Edward Greene has called on Caribbean Governments to pay greater attention to the conditions under which police officers across the region...

Mae’s expulsion of student

May 12, 2009 knews Letters Comments Off on Mae’s expulsion of student

Dear editor, It is with disgust I read of the expulsion of a student at Mae’e school because of the use of a cell phone. No education ministry in any democratic country would allow this to happen....

School kids do not need cell phones

May 12, 2009 knews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on School kids do not need cell phones

I see no reason why any schoolchild should have need for a cellular phone while in school. For what possible reason does a child need a cell phone while in school? Over the past few days I have been...

Why doesn’t Rickey Singh come home to Guyana?

May 12, 2009 knews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on Why doesn’t Rickey Singh come home to Guyana?

During the seventies, when I was a UG student, I pointed out a criticism that was made against Professor Clive Thomas. I was young and radical and wanted to fight all the time. So I told Dr. Thomas...

Team Obama: Clueless

May 12, 2009 knews Editorial Comments Off on Team Obama: Clueless

Like all clichés, the one about America sneezing and the rest of the world catching a cold contains more than just a grain of truth. This importance of the US for global health arises primarily from...

LBI Cricket facility should be ready by November

May 12, 2009 knews Sports Comments Off on LBI Cricket facility should be ready by November

GCB still owed US$90,000 by Stanford – Singh Now that all of the paperwork problems which delayed the start of the construction of the LBI Guyana Cricket Board Hostel, training Gym and indoor...

Buddy’s Hotel on verge of opening gambling casino

May 11, 2009 knews News Comments Off on Buddy’s Hotel on verge of opening gambling casino

Guyana will have its first casino soon. This is according to the management of Buddies International Hotel, now Buddy’s Princess International Hotel, the Princess Group of Companies. Operations...

Man dies in accident on eve of brother’s wedding

May 11, 2009 knews News Comments Off on Man dies in accident on eve of brother’s wedding

On the eve of his brother’s wedding, 69-year-old Walter Wilson became the latest road fatality after being struck by a car near Mc Doom, East Bank Demerara. According to reports, Wilson, of...

Father claims son innocent

May 11, 2009 knews News Comments Off on Father claims son innocent

Killing of GPL Chief Security Officer… The father of Arnim Griffith yesterday continued to profess his son’s innocence in the murder of Guyana Power and Light Company Chief Security officer...

Six crowned at Mother and daughter pageant

May 11, 2009 knews News Comments Off on Six crowned at Mother and daughter pageant

(By Mondale Smith) Guyana has added three new queens and princesses to its pageant winners’ list. On Saturday night Tikesha Sullivan-Elias and daughter Tyanne; Yvonne Vikerie and daughter,...

Female guard dies six months after stabbing

May 11, 2009 knews News Comments Off on Female guard dies six months after stabbing

– cops still to catch suspect Female security guard Patricia Rose, who was brutally stabbed six months ago by an ex-boyfriend, has succumbed to her injuries. Rose, 44, of Vryheid’s Lust, East...

Witter describes new bill as another step towards dictatorship

May 11, 2009 knews News Comments Off on Witter describes new bill as another step towards dictatorship

General Secretary (ag) of the Guyana Trades Union Congress (GTUC), Norris Witter, says that at the appropriate time the union will ensure that the Public Utility Undertakings and Public Health...

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The PPPC does not practice political inclusion

…Peeping Tom Kaieteur News- The People’s Progressive Party/Civic (PPPC) has mastered the art of political rhetoric.... more