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Education Ministry overpaid millions

Jun 29, 2009 KNews News Comments Off on Education Ministry overpaid millions

The Ministry of Education has been cited in the 2007 Auditor General’s report for a number of deficiencies, such as failure to recover several millions of dollars in overpaid salaries, bank...

Ill-treatment in Barbados should be reported to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs

Jun 29, 2009 KNews News Comments Off on Ill-treatment in Barbados should be reported to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs

Barbados Immigration issue… The Government of Guyana has held discussions with the Government of Barbados over reports of ill-treatment meted out to Guyanese nationals by law enforcement...

Local politics deterring Diaspora from returning

Jun 29, 2009 KNews News Comments Off on Local politics deterring Diaspora from returning

– Dr. Yesu Persaud By Fareeza Haniff Guyanese were given a chance to go back into the history of this country, and to learn of the struggles and fights that were experienced to make Guyana...

Shri Prakash Gossai remembered

Jun 29, 2009 KNews News Comments Off on Shri Prakash Gossai remembered

The Indian Commemoration Trust yesterday held a ceremony at the Indian Monument Site to celebrate the life of the Late Shri Prakash Gossai. The ceremony was attended by Samuel Hinds, Prime Minister...

Drug addicts picked up by Ministry will be offered rehab programme

Jun 29, 2009 KNews News Comments Off on Drug addicts picked up by Ministry will be offered rehab programme

The Ministry of Human Services and Social Security will be offering drug rehabilitation to all drug addicts who are among the homeless persons it picks up off of the street and place in shelters....

Prisoner left crippled

Jun 29, 2009 KNews News Comments Off on Prisoner left crippled

Essequibo Prison van accident… The 17 year-old prisoner who was hospitalised two Friday’s ago following an accident on the Essequibo, has taken a turn for the worst. Up to press time yesterday...

Prisoners praised for city clean up work

Jun 29, 2009 KNews News Comments Off on Prisoners praised for city clean up work

Minister of Public Works and Communication, Robeson Benn has expressed satisfaction with the work being done by prisoners in ensuring the cleanliness of the ‘garden city’. The Minister made the...

Teenaged unlicenced driver remanded

Jun 29, 2009 KNews News Comments Off on Teenaged unlicenced driver remanded

Crippled accident victim case… A 16-year old, unlicensed driver who struck down a 47-year old woman, leaving her crippled for life, was remanded to prison when he appeared before a city...

Minibus accident victim dies after days in coma

Jun 29, 2009 KNews News Comments Off on Minibus accident victim dies after days in coma

Seventeen days after a minibus accident left her with a fractured skull and an amputated leg, 47-year-old Bibi Neisha Alli died at the Georgetown Hospital without regaining consciousness. One of...

War rages on between vendors and Parika NDC Chairman

Jun 29, 2009 KNews News Comments Off on War rages on between vendors and Parika NDC Chairman

The war between the Parika Neighbourhood Democratic Council (NDC) Chairman, Krishna Samlall and vendors allegedly operating on the road parapet rages on and from all indication, it seems headed for...

Overseas medical team here to conduct outreach programme

Jun 29, 2009 KNews News Comments Off on Overseas medical team here to conduct outreach programme

Persons living in the environs of Parika and Fort Wellington can look forward to free medical services over the next few days, as an overseas based medical team will be conducting medical outreach...

Digicel and Wildfire Productions hosted sizzling Summer Flex Concert

Jun 29, 2009 KNews News Comments Off on Digicel and Wildfire Productions hosted sizzling Summer Flex Concert

Digicel and Wildfire Productions have done it again as they staged a sizzling concert at the National Stadium on Friday night, featuring the ‘Energy God’, Elephant Man and Jamaican songstress...

Moore, Allen punch their way to titles

Jun 29, 2009 KNews Sports Comments Off on Moore, Allen punch their way to titles

By Michael Benjamin In what should have been 12 rounds of fistic fury, Leon ‘Hurry Up’ Moore disposed of Dexter Marques in 1:40 seconds of the second frame to relieve him of his bantamweight...

Forde ends Ballantyne’s CARICOM 10k dominance

Jun 29, 2009 KNews Sports Comments Off on Forde ends Ballantyne’s CARICOM 10k dominance

Morgan’s injury spoils Guyana’s clean sweep By Edison Jefford Cleveland Forde convincingly ended Pamenos Ballantyne’s CARICOM 10km Road Race dominance yesterday, when the Caribbean...

Marian, Kwakwani send early messages

Jun 29, 2009 KNews Sports Comments Off on Marian, Kwakwani send early messages

As mega NSBF begins Marian Academy and Kwakwani Secondary School sent strong messages to their foes in the opening of the mega National Schools’ Basketball Festival (NSBF), yesterday evening, at...

LCDS is about privatising the air we breathe

Jun 29, 2009 KNews Letters Comments Off on LCDS is about privatising the air we breathe

Dear Editor, The lack of public discussion about Guyana’s Low Carbon Development Strategy (LCDS) underpins the stark reality that Opposition politicians and Civil Society do not fully understand...

The soul of a transitional fossil

Jun 29, 2009 KNews Letters Comments Off on The soul of a transitional fossil

Dear Editor, Daniel Singh has again read the London Times newspaper and now he changes his story (GC June 26th). Remember when he claimed that the fossil, Darwinius masillae, is a scientific...

Regional Officials visit Tucber

Jun 29, 2009 KNews News Comments Off on Regional Officials visit Tucber

NEW AMSTERDAM, BERBICE – Work has commenced in the Tucber/Smythfield district in anticipation of effects from the May/June rainfall. The driving force behind this project is the Region Six...

GWI and its incompetence

Jun 29, 2009 KNews Letters Comments Off on GWI and its incompetence

Dear Editor, Some two months ago I made a report via telephone to the Guyana Water Inc., Chesney Office in Berbice concerning an ever flowing open standpipe on Levi Dam Angoy’s Avenue, New...

Minister Rodrigues seems to be operating outside her league

Jun 29, 2009 KNews Letters Comments Off on Minister Rodrigues seems to be operating outside her league

Dear Editor, I have seen on television Minister Carolyn Rodrigues speaking on her interaction with her Barbados counterpart. I have read the Minister’s statement that deportees will be afforded an...

PPP gives handout to school children at BBP

Jun 29, 2009 KNews News Comments Off on PPP gives handout to school children at BBP

MIBICURI, BLACK BUSH POLDER- The Central Committee members of the People’s Progressive Party distributed educational and hygiene kits to some students of the Mibicuri Primary School at Black Bush...

Power sharing in Guyana

Jun 29, 2009 KNews Letters Comments Off on Power sharing in Guyana

Dear Editor, Before we venture out into any discussion on power sharing we must first engage in an analysis of election results, because it is that process by which our society elects...

Why was President Jagdeo in Switzerland?

Jun 29, 2009 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on Why was President Jagdeo in Switzerland?

When Mr. Ralph Ramkarran wrote in the Chronicle that it would serve the PNC good to apologize for among other things, authoritarian policies when that party ruled Guyana, to the analyst, it appeared...

GOWN WITH THE WIND

Jun 29, 2009 KNews Features / Columnists, Tony Deyal column Comments Off on GOWN WITH THE WIND

One morning as he watched the school children pass in the street below their lodging at No. 22 Baker Street, the redoubtable Dr. Watson asked his friend, the famous sleuth Sherlock Holmes, “I say...

THE SUMMIT AND THE CLEAN UP

Jun 29, 2009 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on THE SUMMIT AND THE CLEAN UP

Every country likes to look dandy whenever there is a major international conference being held. After all, these events help to showcase the country to the many foreign dignitaries, their entourages...

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Waramuri stuns Vreed-en-Hoop 7-1, as Bush Lot topple Ann’s Grove

Development for whom?

Peeping Tom… Kaieteur News- The Vice President of Guyana, Bharrat Jagdeo, has declared with great confidence that there... more