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Ministry of Culture, Youth & Sports to challenge Floodlights XI

Nov 12, 2009 knews Sports Comments Off on Ministry of Culture, Youth & Sports to challenge Floodlights XI

The Ministry of Culture, Youth & Sports will be fielding a team tomorrow evening to challenge the Floodlights XI at the GCC Ground Bourda, in a 25 overs softball cricket encounter. Minister of...

Barrington hits debut fifty for GDF in GCB 3-day cricket

Nov 12, 2009 knews Sports Comments Off on Barrington hits debut fifty for GDF in GCB 3-day cricket

Soldiers take 1st innings points from E/Prise Twenty-one year-old National opening batsman Shemroy Barrington fell 32 short of the first century in the Demerara zone of the inaugural Guyana Cricket...

GCA’s Busta Cup cricket continues this weekend

Nov 12, 2009 knews Sports Comments Off on GCA’s Busta Cup cricket continues this weekend

The Georgetown Cricket Association (GCA) Busta 20/20 second division cricket competition continues this weekend with 8 matches. Fixtures: Saturday: DCC vs Everest at GDF (10:00hrs) Umpires Grant...

There is a scramble by powerful people to get as much of the state’s largesse as possible

Nov 12, 2009 knews Letters Comments Off on There is a scramble by powerful people to get as much of the state’s largesse as possible

Dear Editor, Thankfully, my family ceased planting rice several years ago, because rice farmers in Guyana are always facing some sort of difficulty and nothing substantially is being done to help...

US Attorney General cares about corruption in Guyana

Nov 12, 2009 knews Letters Comments Off on US Attorney General cares about corruption in Guyana

Dear Editor, The US Attorney General, Mr. Eric Holder recent remarks at the Ministerial Global Forum on Fighting Corruption and Safeguarding Integrity, in Doha Qatar gives me hope that Guyana can be...

Gunpoint robber goes to jail

Nov 12, 2009 knews News Comments Off on Gunpoint robber goes to jail

George Yearwood, a 51-year-old man of 305 One Mile Wismar, Linden, who was charged with co-defendant Wesley Carto Payne, called ‘Piggy’ of Lot 17 Section ‘C’ Christianburg, Linden, was...

Norway’s US$250M a drop in a bucket that actually needs US$ billions

Nov 12, 2009 knews Letters Comments Off on Norway’s US$250M a drop in a bucket that actually needs US$ billions

Dear Editor, Before Guyanese start popping champagnes, jumping up and hollering with glee over Norway’s announced decision to pay Guyana up to US$250 million between next year and the year 2015 to...

Additional vessel on Essequibo River aiding river transport

Nov 12, 2009 knews News Comments Off on Additional vessel on Essequibo River aiding river transport

The efficiency of traffic on the Essequibo River has been significantly improved with the addition of another vessel to the fleet of Transport and Harbours Department. According to the Traffic...

What is the truth with respect to ghostwriters in Guyana?

Nov 12, 2009 knews Letters Comments Off on What is the truth with respect to ghostwriters in Guyana?

Dear Editor, I had to read the article over and over in the Kaieteur News, captioned “Irate President lashes out at Kaieteur News” of November 6, 2009, since I could not believe what I was...

2008 murder accused nabbed, charged, remanded

Nov 12, 2009 knews News Comments Off on 2008 murder accused nabbed, charged, remanded

A deportee who was on the run for 18 months after committing a murder in March 2008 was nabbed and remanded yesterday, when he made his court appearance. He claimed he was in Suriname where he...

How much more must we sink?

Nov 12, 2009 knews Letters Comments Off on How much more must we sink?

The Editor, How low is our beloved Guyana under this administration to sink? Freddie Kissoon is right, you cannot wallow in the gutter to respond to every thing said, or done by our Head of State,...

What’s with these suicides

Nov 12, 2009 knews Editorial Comments Off on What’s with these suicides

Just a few weeks ago Dr Leslie Ramsammy decided to take the bull by the horns and to address the issue of suicides. The statistics have been revealing over the years that suicides were highest in...

Wakenaam gears for World Diabetic Day

Nov 12, 2009 knews News Comments Off on Wakenaam gears for World Diabetic Day

As part of its activities for World Diabetic Day to be observed on November 14, the Region Three Diabetic Management Committee hosted a clinic at the Wakenaam Cottage Hospital on Tuesday. The clinic...

CGX reports further progress

Nov 12, 2009 knews News Comments Off on CGX reports further progress

Canadian-based CGX Energy is moving towards drilling next year for oil offshore the Guyana-Suriname basin which has been identified as a major new frontier in the industry. “We have reached a key...

Escaped prisoner charged, sentenced to prison

Nov 12, 2009 knews News Comments Off on Escaped prisoner charged, sentenced to prison

The prisoner, who escaped the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court on Monday, made another court appearance on Tuesday to be read new charges and landed a lengthy jail term. He was charged for escaping...

Farmer’s body fished out of Pomeroon River

Nov 12, 2009 knews News Comments Off on Farmer’s body fished out of Pomeroon River

Villagers of the Burnt Bush Profit community on Sunday fished the lifeless body of 68- year-old Harry Lall of the Lower Pomeroon River, minutes after they discovered him missing. Lall, a ground...

Another unused health centre found

Nov 12, 2009 knews News Comments Off on Another unused health centre found

While the Region Three officials are still mum on the cost of the health clinic at Versailles, West Bank Demerara, another unused health centre has been found, but this time in Tuschen Housing...

Senior citizens treated by Tucville Primary

Nov 12, 2009 knews News Comments Off on Senior citizens treated by Tucville Primary

Students of Tucville Primary School, as part of the programme for Month of the Elderly, treated the residents of Uncle Eddie’s Home to songs and gifts last Friday. The visit by the students to the...

Labourer drowns

Nov 12, 2009 knews News Comments Off on Labourer drowns

On Tuesday, detectives attached to the Anna Regina Police Station, responding to a call, rushed to a canal to find the body of a man floating there. It turned out that it was the body of 39- year-old...

Victims of Medusa

Nov 12, 2009 knews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on Victims of Medusa

There is a long list of educated politicians who were happy to serve in an organization where power was centralized in the personality of a Leviathan and democratic structures were non-existent....

Soldier remanded on carnal knowledge charge

Nov 12, 2009 knews News Comments Off on Soldier remanded on carnal knowledge charge

A Guyana Defence Force private was on Tuesday remanded to prison by Magistrate Haymant Ramdhani at the Mahaica Magistrate’s Court on a charge of carnally knowing a girl under the age of 16. Derrick...

Kabakaburi Council members unlawfully removed by RDC

Nov 12, 2009 knews News Comments Off on Kabakaburi Council members unlawfully removed by RDC

Two council members of Kabakaburi were reportedly relieved of their council duties by representatives of the Regional Democratic Council on Tuesday. The RDC representatives reportedly went to the...

WHAT IS REALLY GOING ON IN GUYANA?

Nov 12, 2009 knews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on WHAT IS REALLY GOING ON IN GUYANA?

One Government Minister appeared on local television and announced that there was now a problem with housing: not that there was no housing being provided by the government; but rather that the...

Body spotted by search party

Nov 11, 2009 knews News Comments Off on Body spotted by search party

The body of 23-year-old Aliya Bulkan has reportedly been spotted in the basin (at the bottom) of the Kaieteur Falls. Just around 13:00 hours yesterday, a search party which has been scouring the area...

Guns not linked to any other crime scene

Nov 11, 2009 knews News Comments Off on Guns not linked to any other crime scene

-police issue bulletins for more terror suspects Ballistic tests carried out on shells recovered from the scenes of last Wednesday’s reign of terror in the city have revealed that they were fired...

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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