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What went wrong with GuyExpo 2009?

Oct 13, 2009 knews Letters Comments Off on What went wrong with GuyExpo 2009?

Dear Editor, I wasn’t schedule to attend the event because of some major and pressing commitments, but at the very last second, I managed and happened to be on site merely to establish a business...

GT&T to co-stage lighting of national diya

Oct 13, 2009 knews News Comments Off on GT&T to co-stage lighting of national diya

To usher in Deepavali 2009, on Thursday, at 16:00hrs, “Rashtra Jyoti”, the symbolic lighting of a national diya will be done at the Promenade Gardens, Middle Street. The lighting of this diya,...

Heads of Guyana’s Missions meet in city

Oct 13, 2009 knews News Comments Off on Heads of Guyana’s Missions meet in city

The Conference of Heads of Mission, which brings together all the heads of Guyana’s overseas embassies, high commissions and consulates, was today convened at the Guyana International Conference...

Democracy in Guyana really sustains the Kissoon public discourse

Oct 13, 2009 knews Letters Comments Off on Democracy in Guyana really sustains the Kissoon public discourse

Dear Editor: I refer to Freddie Kissoon’s column in the Kaieteur News of October 12, 2009. His distortions continue to run amok. He uses his usual mischievous illusions to label people who happen...

Paratroopers stage jumps over Rose Hall

Oct 13, 2009 knews News Comments Off on Paratroopers stage jumps over Rose Hall

ROSE HALL TOWN, CORENTYNE – Scores of Berbicians flocked the Area ‘H’ Ground, Rose Hall Town on the Corentyne on Sunday to get a glimpse of the Guyana Defence Force paratroopers in action....

PPP’s obsession with the media

Oct 13, 2009 knews Letters Comments Off on PPP’s obsession with the media

Dear Editor, It is indeed fascinating to see the PPP’s various spin artists weave their craft to justify and promote the PPP’s “success” over the years. They are not lying because in their...

Kissing the face of sempiternal evil

Oct 13, 2009 knews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on Kissing the face of sempiternal evil

The Kissing Bridge of the Double Day Holiday at Tuschen, East Bank, Essequibo, lay down its troubled self over a small waterway last Saturday after Minister Robeson Benn ordered its demolition. The...

Construction to start by mid next year

Oct 13, 2009 knews News Comments Off on Construction to start by mid next year

The construction of a 150-megawatt hydro power project at Amalia Falls is expected to start by mid-next year. The project, expected to cost over US$500M, and for which financing is being worked on...

What’s with govt. advertising policy?

Oct 13, 2009 knews Letters Comments Off on What’s with govt. advertising policy?

Dear Editor, Another dangerous precedent is being set by government through its latest and somewhat continuous tirade against the two most read newspapers in the country, Kaieteur News (KN) and...

Reduced waiting time at GPHC “not an overnight thing” – Health Minister

Oct 13, 2009 knews News Comments Off on Reduced waiting time at GPHC “not an overnight thing” – Health Minister

With the introduction of more than 60 doctors to the local health sector recently, Health Minister, Dr Leslie Ramsammy, had voiced his confidence in the fact that the waiting time at public health...

LET THE PEOPLE DECIDE!

Oct 13, 2009 knews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on LET THE PEOPLE DECIDE!

Given the number of delegates that attend party conferences, it may reasonably be assumed by the uninformed observer that the ruling People’s Progressive Party does not have more than five thousand...

Lieutenant in hiding

Oct 12, 2009 KNews News Comments Off on Lieutenant in hiding

The Guyana Police Force appears to be stumped in making the arrest of an army lieutenant who is alleged to be involved in an ammunition theft. The police have since search two homes where the platoon...

Dem boys seh…Robeson can’t kiss

Oct 12, 2009 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Dem boys seh…Robeson can’t kiss

Any time somebody tell you that de hammer gun fall pun you, it mean trouble. Hammer does kill people and quite a few kill men with hammer. Dem mek de hammer fall pun dem. Only thing is that dem was...

10,000 cases by year-end

Oct 12, 2009 KNews News Comments Off on 10,000 cases by year-end

Over $300M spent annually on Malaria… By Fareeza Haniff The Guyana government, through the Ministry of Health, spends approximately $300 to $400 million a year on malaria infections within the...

Top ministers call for urgent regional action plan

Oct 12, 2009 KNews News Comments Off on Top ministers call for urgent regional action plan

As water crisis looms: As several countries battle adverse weather and water shortage, several ministers of CARICOM in an unprecedented move have recommended the urgent development of a regional...

Too early to say what caused it – Brassington

Oct 12, 2009 KNews News Comments Off on Too early to say what caused it – Brassington

Regent Street Fire… While Shaheed Hamid is of the opinion that the fire which razed his business establishments on Regent Street on Friday was caused by an electrical wire in front of his...

Marijuana excuse not believed, court fines vendor $10,000

Oct 12, 2009 KNews News Comments Off on Marijuana excuse not believed, court fines vendor $10,000

A vendor who claimed a doctor told her to used marijuana to help her asthma was fined $10,000 instead. Audrey Briggs, 29, a mother of three of St John Street, New Amsterdam, was on Thursday ordered...

Businessman accuses resident of poisoning poultry, plants

Oct 12, 2009 KNews News Comments Off on Businessman accuses resident of poisoning poultry, plants

– fears for family’s safety Diamond New Scheme businessman, Ronald Prescott, says that he is being tormented by a female resident, whom he has accused of poisoning his poultry and plants....

GEB driver on bail in student’s accident

Oct 12, 2009 KNews News Comments Off on GEB driver on bail in student’s accident

As 9-year-old Sunil Singh remains critical at the Georgetown Hospital after he was hit by a GEB security vehicle, relatives said that they are unhappy with the way the matter is being handled by the...

Who killed Alicia Foster?

Oct 12, 2009 KNews News Comments Off on Who killed Alicia Foster?

One year after… Why did someone order the execution of a pretty 26-year-old former Bishop’s high School Student one year ago? Did she incur the wrath of someone while conducting her duties as...

Workers still not satisfied with new price offered

Oct 12, 2009 KNews News Comments Off on Workers still not satisfied with new price offered

Diamond sugar strike… On Thursday last, workers at the Diamond GuySuCo plant, downed tools, claiming that they were not satisfied with the monies they were receiving for clearing beds at the...

LCDS consultations a sham by administration

Oct 12, 2009 KNews News Comments Off on LCDS consultations a sham by administration

– PNCR The Peoples National Congress reform (PNCR) has viewed, with skepticism, the intentions of the Bharrat Jagdeo regime to engage in consultation on Avoided Deforestation and their now...

Teenager dead after truck accident

Oct 12, 2009 KNews News Comments Off on Teenager dead after truck accident

A tragic road accident, which occurred Saturday night at Cane Grove, East Coast Demerara, Saturday night, has left one dead. Chetram Jaikarran, 13, of Supply, Mahaica, a student of Lancaster...

Roaming cattle a menace to Grove/Diamond residents

Oct 12, 2009 KNews News Comments Off on Roaming cattle a menace to Grove/Diamond residents

– blamed for accidents, damage to property It’s been touted as a future township, but the New Grove/Diamond Housing Scheme continues to be overrun by cows, horses, pigs, goats and other...

Blind accident victim succumbs

Oct 12, 2009 KNews News Comments Off on Blind accident victim succumbs

…“he wanted to come home and die”- mother Everton Douglas, the blind man who was badly injured in a mini-bus accident last month, succumbed at his Mocha Arcadia, East Bank Demerara home at...

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Berbice ease past Demerara in low-scoring match

The geography of pettiness

Kaieteur News – You have to admire the commitment. Not to international diplomacy, mind you, but to the art of the... more