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Jumbo Joy wins feature race at Norman Singh Turf Club meet

Jul 22, 2009 KNews Sports Comments Off on Jumbo Joy wins feature race at Norman Singh Turf Club meet

Jumbo Joy, owned by Nazrudeen Mohamed of the Jumbo Jet Stable, scored a clinical victory in the feature C class event, when the Norman Singh Memorial Turf Club in collaboration with Banks DIH Limited...

The Ramjohn legacy continues…

Jul 22, 2009 KNews News Comments Off on The Ramjohn legacy continues…

(By Alex Wayne) It has been three years since the great pioneer of the contracting profession, Mr. Mohamed Ally Ramjohn, (Mr. Buck Ramjohn) departed this world. Mr. Ramjohn, at the age of 17, joined...

US citizen jailed following CJIA drug bust

Jul 22, 2009 KNews News Comments Off on US citizen jailed following CJIA drug bust

Twenty-four year old Michael Moore, a US citizen, who was found with 795 grams of cocaine at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport, on Sunday, appeared before Magistrate Hazel Octave Hamilton...

Imran Khan wins Edward Ajodha Golf tourney

Jul 22, 2009 KNews Sports Comments Off on Imran Khan wins Edward Ajodha Golf tourney

Reigning National Open champion, Imran Khan, won last weekend’s Edward Ajodha sponsored Stableford Golf tournament at the Lusignan Golf course (LGC). Khan, who carted off the championship flight at...

Manbodh grabs 4-18 as All Star win

Jul 22, 2009 KNews Sports Comments Off on Manbodh grabs 4-18 as All Star win

All Star defeated Knight Riders by 8 wickets as the Mike’s Pharmacy 15 overs softball cricket competition continued recently in Wakenaam. Knight Riders batted first and made 113 all out in 15 overs...

Five months later, Mash designer ‘still not paid’

Jul 22, 2009 KNews News Comments Off on Five months later, Mash designer ‘still not paid’

It has been five months since Paul Burnett designed the Region Seven Mashramani banner and King Float, along with costumes for 50 revelers and he claims that he is still to be paid for his work....

Support for Dr. Frank Anthony’s view on ICC Twenty20

Jul 22, 2009 KNews Sports Comments Off on Support for Dr. Frank Anthony’s view on ICC Twenty20

Dear Editor, We feel compelled to express publicly both our support for Minister of Sport Dr. Frank Anthony and our utter disappointment and disgust with respect to the significantly unfair reduction...

Canadian High Commissioner visits Benschop Foundation

Jul 22, 2009 KNews News Comments Off on Canadian High Commissioner visits Benschop Foundation

Outgoing Canadian High Commissioner, Charles Court, yesterday paid a courtesy call on the Benschop Foundation as part of his final assignments before leaving Guyana. Court, who was described as a...

Trevon Griffith continues a proud DCC tradition

Jul 22, 2009 KNews Sports Comments Off on Trevon Griffith continues a proud DCC tradition

Dear Editor, Trevon Griffith’s century against the Leeward Islands in the opening round of the TCL Regional Under-19 three-day competition at the Up Park Ground in Jamaica saw the DCC opener join...

GWI introduces fortnightly billing system

Jul 22, 2009 KNews News Comments Off on GWI introduces fortnightly billing system

– anticipates improved cash flow By Sharmain Cornette As part of a strategic turnaround plan, the Guyana Water Incorporated (GWI) has incorporated a new approach which will see it becoming more...

Always give full support

Jul 22, 2009 KNews Letters Comments Off on Always give full support

Dear Editor, There will be times when our sports ambassadors suffer mixed fortunes during their respective participation at overseas meetings, and we must continue to give our full support at all...

Liberalised telephone industry will slash costs – Jagdeo

Jul 22, 2009 KNews News Comments Off on Liberalised telephone industry will slash costs – Jagdeo

…defends sale of shares in GT&T President Bharrat Jagdeo on Monday said that his intention to liberalise the telecommunications sector will lead to cheaper costs and enhanced services to...

Systematic terror campaign

Jul 22, 2009 KNews Letters Comments Off on Systematic terror campaign

Dear Editor, I am not sure what information exactly the Minister of Health can be trying to hide if we were to believe Kaieteur News and SN as well as columnist, Freddie Kissoon, who seeks to say...

Works recommence at Bourda Market

Jul 22, 2009 KNews News Comments Off on Works recommence at Bourda Market

– but funding may be a challenged – City Engineer Although rehabilitative works recommenced yesterday on the Bourda Market there is no guarantee that the Mayor and City Council of Georgetown...

Do we not see how history oft times repeats itself?

Jul 22, 2009 KNews Letters Comments Off on Do we not see how history oft times repeats itself?

Dear Editor, We are all saddened by the destruction last Friday of one of our historic buildings – one which my older family members associated with during the great days of Queen’s College....

The Minister is being under-served by his Director of Sports

Jul 22, 2009 KNews Letters Comments Off on The Minister is being under-served by his Director of Sports

Dear Editor, Looking at the picture in the Sunday Kaieteur (July 19, 2009) allowed me to feel vindicated in my advocacy for the delivery on the contract the Government made with the people in the...

Timing, focus and the fate of Guyana

Jul 22, 2009 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on Timing, focus and the fate of Guyana

Nigel Westmaas has replied to my criticism (“We are not captive to Freddie Kissoon’s timing or focus”- KN, July 18) of the Stabroek page, “In the Diaspora” in which I focused on the patent...

Harris Group of Companies appoints Ian Kenyon as CEO

Jul 22, 2009 KNews News Comments Off on Harris Group of Companies appoints Ian Kenyon as CEO

The Harris Group of Companies, one of the Caribbean’s leading manufacturers of architectural finishes, construction and industrial products, has announced that its Board of Directors has appointed...

CARICOM, the crisis and help

Jul 22, 2009 KNews Editorial Comments Off on CARICOM, the crisis and help

With Jamaica and Dominica forced to turn to the IMF for funds to help them deal with the effects of the global financial crisis, one would hope that this act would help focus the minds of the leaders...

GIVE JAGDEO A BREAK!

Jul 22, 2009 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on GIVE JAGDEO A BREAK!

The only initiative that has been called the Jagdeo Initiative is the one being promoted within the Caribbean Community dealing with agriculture. The Low Carbon Development Strategy has been...

Has this obnoxious way of speaking become our ‘national tongue’?

Jul 22, 2009 KNews Letters Comments Off on Has this obnoxious way of speaking become our ‘national tongue’?

Dear Editor, “The moral fabric of the community has gone to the gutter. It hurts me so much to hear how young persons speak to one another and more so senior ones in this area. They have no respect...

$76 MILLION to repair Liliendaal pump

Jul 21, 2009 KNews News Comments Off on $76 MILLION to repair Liliendaal pump

…Contractor refuses to divulge information, says ‘To hell with you.’ By Fareeza Haniff and Mondale Smith It appears that Kaieteur News publication of sluices and drainage pumps is beginning to...

Peter Morgan sentencing hearing set for September

Jul 21, 2009 KNews News Comments Off on Peter Morgan sentencing hearing set for September

Self-confessed drug dealer, Peter Morgan, is to appear before Senior Judge Edward R. Korman on September 10, where he will know just how many years he will serve behind bars. According to court...

AG now cannot audit Health Ministry

Jul 21, 2009 KNews News Comments Off on AG now cannot audit Health Ministry

…records will take several years to reconstruct The recent fire at the Ministry of Health has destroyed the financial records and has now rendered the Audit Office of Guyana incapable of auditing...

NBS reneges on mandate to bring back UK investment

Jul 21, 2009 KNews News Comments Off on NBS reneges on mandate to bring back UK investment

When New Building Society (NBS) held its Annual General Meeting on April 25, last, to approve the accounts for the year 2008, the shareholders had voted to repatriate the more than $715M it had...

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This must not be our hour of humiliation

Peeping Tom… Kaieteur News- There are moments in the history of nations when fate lays before them a choice not of... more