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GPL records massive $2B after tax losses in 2008

Nov 14, 2009 knews News Comments Off on GPL records massive $2B after tax losses in 2008

-spiralling fuel prices blamed Spiralling fuel costs last year caused the Guyana Power and Light Inc. (GPL) to make losses of almost $2B, an increase of 22 per cent from the previous year. According...

Tortured teen leaves hospital

Nov 14, 2009 KNews News Comments Off on Tortured teen leaves hospital

– released into parents’ custody Flanked by his parents and well-wishers, the 14-year-old boy whose torture triggered countrywide outrage, was discharged from the Georgetown Public Hospital...

The police can’t find Julius – Jagdeo

Nov 14, 2009 knews News Comments Off on The police can’t find Julius – Jagdeo

President Bharrat Jagdeo has made it clear that the Police cannot find the 15-year-old boy from whom his Information Liaison Officer, Kwame McCoy, is alleged to have solicited sex. McCoy had his visa...

Aliya Bulkan to be cremated today

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The body of 23-year-old Aliya Bulkan is expected to be cremated today. According to sources, the badly battered body would not be seen by the public. The agonising wait came to an end on Thursday...

Reign of terror…Second wanted man surrenders

Nov 14, 2009 knews News Comments Off on Reign of terror…Second wanted man surrenders

The second of the six persons for whom the Guyana Police Force had issued wanted bulletins for has turned himself in to the police. Early yesterday morning, Shawn Benn, of 53 Princess Street, Lodge,...

Dem boys seh…Bharrat going to Barbados

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Bharrat call a press conference yesterday. Dem boys seh that is de first time he hold three press conference in one week. When he had de first one everybody expect it because was a big programme wid...

Cops checking numbers in detained man’s phone

Nov 14, 2009 knews News Comments Off on Cops checking numbers in detained man’s phone

Police are checking the numbers in the mobile phone of a detained Albouystown man, Muammar Jabbar, for possible links to suspects in the recent ‘terror’ attacks at two police stations and other...

President off to Rome for World Food Summit

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President Bharrat Jagdeo is off to Rome, today, for the World Food Summit where he says he will push for agricultural development in the Caribbean which spend ….importing food annually. Jagdeo is...

THAT LASER LEVELER AGAIN

Nov 14, 2009 knews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on THAT LASER LEVELER AGAIN

The editor of this newspaper is to verify whether in the construction of the four-lane highway on the East Bank of Demerara or in any of the major road rehabilitation works which have taken place in...

LINES DRAWN AS BATTLE FOR C/SHIP LOOMS

Nov 14, 2009 knews Sports Comments Off on LINES DRAWN AS BATTLE FOR C/SHIP LOOMS

– Semi-finals on at Stadium tomorrow By Franklin Wilson Georgetown teams continues to exhibit their dominance in Guyana with three of the four teams in the semi-finals of the Guyana Football...

Upper Demerara retain overall National Schools’ C/ships title

Nov 14, 2009 knews Sports Comments Off on Upper Demerara retain overall National Schools’ C/ships title

Upper Demerara Kwakwani amassed a total of 67 points from the Swimming, Cycling, Track and Field and Teachers’ Championships to retain the overall Champion of Champions trophy last night at the...

CELL PHONE SHACK, SPLASHMIN’S RESORT & ECO ADVENTURE PARK BACK ON BOARD

Nov 14, 2009 knews Sports Comments Off on CELL PHONE SHACK, SPLASHMIN’S RESORT & ECO ADVENTURE PARK BACK ON BOARD

By Franklin Wilson As the focus intensifies on the 20th Kashif and Shanghai (K&S) Football Tournament set to kick off on Sunday December 13, 2209 at the National Stadium Providence with special...

Differently-abled graduate with special skills

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The Open Doors Centre at the Ministry of Health Compound Sophia (National Vocational Training Centre for Persons with Disabilities) Thursday graduated a number of specially skilled people. Tiffany...

NAPS gears to test 20,000 this year

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The National AIDS Programme Secretariat yesterday commenced the fourth annual week of testing. NAPS has been observing “The National Day of Testing” for the past three years. Yesterday at the...

Bandits rob GECOM staff at Enterprise

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Three female Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) staffers were left traumatised last evening after bandits robbed them while they were working at the Enterprise Primary School, East Coast Demerara....

STAG BEER/EAST BANK LEAGUE KICKS ON TOMORROW AT GROVE GROUND

Nov 14, 2009 knews Sports Comments Off on STAG BEER/EAST BANK LEAGUE KICKS ON TOMORROW AT GROVE GROUND

Kuru Kuru Lions, Grove Hi Tec, Timehri Panthers & Mocha Champs tangle Competition in the Stag Beer division-one league on the East Bank of Demerara continues tomorrow at the Grove Playfield with...

New body being created to continue LEAP operations

Nov 14, 2009 knews News Comments Off on New body being created to continue LEAP operations

As the Linden Economic Advancement Programme (LEAP) draws to a close in December, Government has announced that it has made arrangements for a successor. According to Government spokesman, Dr. Roger...

Fireworks anticipated at Rising Sun, Fund raising meet tomorrow

Nov 14, 2009 knews Sports Comments Off on Fireworks anticipated at Rising Sun, Fund raising meet tomorrow

Fireworks are expected tomorrow at the Rising Sun Turf Club when the Club in collaboration with the Lions Club of Durban Park and the Central Demerara brings off their grand one day Fund raising...

Miner shot, under police guard

Nov 14, 2009 knews News Comments Off on Miner shot, under police guard

Twenty-year-old Brian Blackman, a miner of 428 Block 22 Linden, was shot twice while plying his trade at the Rat’s Mining Firm in the Blackwater Backdam, an area close to Bartica. The circumstance...

President of Riddim Squad resigns, commences court proceedings against GFF

Nov 14, 2009 knews Sports Comments Off on President of Riddim Squad resigns, commences court proceedings against GFF

President of the Riddim Squad FC, Edun Cordis has tendered his resignation citing the dishonourable attitude of the executive of the Guyana Football Federation (GFF) as his primary reason. This...

IDB, China to finance Amaila Falls

Nov 14, 2009 knews News Comments Off on IDB, China to finance Amaila Falls

Jagdeo says project on track After a meeting in Washington, President Bharrat Jagdeo announced yesterday that the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) and the China Development Bank are likely to...

Banks DIH donates beverages to Schools championships

Nov 14, 2009 knews Sports Comments Off on Banks DIH donates beverages to Schools championships

Local beverage giants Banks DIH Ltd. made a sizeable donation of beverages and bottled water to the organizers of the 49th National Schools Athletics, Cycling and Swimming championships at Albion in...

Records show govt. is rightful owner of Thomas Street land – Dr. Luncheon

Nov 14, 2009 knews News Comments Off on Records show govt. is rightful owner of Thomas Street land – Dr. Luncheon

Head of the Presidential Secretariat, Dr. Roger Luncheon, has said that records have shown that the land situated at the corner of Thomas Road and Vlissengen Road, and which is being claimed by the...

14 graduate from Lions-sponsored skills programme

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Fourteen young ladies are better skilled today in the art of Cake and Food preparation through their participation in a course sponsored and facilitated by the Lions Club of East Demerara. According...

R.K’s Homesafe Security handed $60M monthly contracts

Nov 14, 2009 knews News Comments Off on R.K’s Homesafe Security handed $60M monthly contracts

– market tarmacs for Charity, Wales At least 50 per cent of the workforce of private security companies will have to comprise women, according to new regulations being considered by Government....

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Traditional media is still king

…Peeping Tom Kaieteur News-Election campaigns are a battle for attention, persuasion, and votes. In this digital age,... more