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Porknocker goes over Kaieteur Falls

Dec 06, 2009 KNews News Comments Off on Porknocker goes over Kaieteur Falls

– body spotted on rock below Less than a month after Aliya Bulkan went over the edge of Kaieteur Falls, another body was spotted lying at the bottom of the Falls late Friday. The body, said to...

Valedictorian says graduates need hope

Dec 06, 2009 knews News Comments Off on Valedictorian says graduates need hope

By: Brushell Blackman The University of Guyana, under threatening skies held its 43rd Convocation Ceremony at its Turkeyen Campus yesterday. The exercise saw the attendance of President Bharrat...

A simple, but courageous grandfather

Dec 06, 2009 KNews News Comments Off on A simple, but courageous grandfather

Cecil Nathaniel Exeter is a ‘Special Person’ By Michael Jordan This is the story of a simple man. This is the story of a man who endured unimaginable heartbreak that would have destroyed lesser...

Dem boys seh… Ashni singing and Bheri talking

Dec 06, 2009 knews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Dem boys seh… Ashni singing and Bheri talking

Is sheer music. Dem boys hear people singing carols and other things but dem get a surprise de other day. Ashni was singing calypso and it wasn’t ‘in search of a star.’ It wasn’t even Finance...

Guyana-born woman arrested with false US Social Security number

Dec 06, 2009 KNews News Comments Off on Guyana-born woman arrested with false US Social Security number

LIVINGSTON – A woman who is a resident alien from Guyana and has been living in Queens, NY, has been charged with identity theft in the first degree in connection with a Columbia County woman....

Fogarty’s Santa parade brings children out

Dec 06, 2009 KNews News Comments Off on Fogarty’s Santa parade brings children out

Fogarty’s annual Santa parade yesterday which started from Pegasus and move straight to Fogarty’s in Water Street, saw tremendous response from various organisations especially schools which...

Govt. to scale down role in GPL operations

Dec 06, 2009 KNews News Comments Off on Govt. to scale down role in GPL operations

When Guyana Power and Light, on Friday, commissioned the US$30M Kingston power plant, Government signaled its intentions to scale down its involvement in the sector. According to President Bharrat...

New infrastructures, more professionals for improved health sector

Dec 06, 2009 KNews News Comments Off on New infrastructures, more professionals for improved health sector

– Dr Ramsaran In its quest to improve the delivery of health care service, a number of infrastructural works have been funded by Government. However, some of these works have not been spared the...

Two Brazilians exploit Linden/Lethem road link

Dec 06, 2009 KNews News Comments Off on Two Brazilians exploit Linden/Lethem road link

To some it might not seem like much, but to the average Lindener, two tourists travelling overland from Brazil to Linden and back to their homeland, speaks volumes for the growth potential of the...

18-year-old finds largest cash pool in Merry Mansion

Dec 06, 2009 KNews News Comments Off on 18-year-old finds largest cash pool in Merry Mansion

Ranole Bourne, 18, of D’Urban Street Wortmanville missed a few hours of his prom night last week but has more than 100,000 reasons to celebrate nonetheless as Digicel is making his Christmas even...

Shell goes to Linden

Dec 06, 2009 KNews News Comments Off on Shell goes to Linden

General Manager of SOL Guyana INC, Ken Figaro, on Thursday officially commissioned the Shell Linden Service Station, at the old ESSO facility on Republic Avenue Linden. Figaro declared, “Today we...

Diamond traffic lights to be operational soon

Dec 06, 2009 KNews News Comments Off on Diamond traffic lights to be operational soon

The Ministry of Public Works and Communication has announced that ongoing works at Diamond, East Bank Demerara, to ease traffic congestion, will be completed by December 15. Already, the traffic...

Gunmen, Wireless Connections boss trade shots

Dec 06, 2009 KNews News Comments Off on Gunmen, Wireless Connections boss trade shots

While Maxwell Thom is recovering from the effects of the most recent Regent Street fire that destroyed his business, he has been the subject of a gun attack. Shortly after midnight Friday night, at...

Guyana to share US$627,000 for Caribbean Tobacco Control Project

Dec 06, 2009 KNews News Comments Off on Guyana to share US$627,000 for Caribbean Tobacco Control Project

Guyana, Barbados, Jamaica and Trinidad and Tobago will be benefiting from approximately US$627,000 for the Caribbean Tobacco Control Project. The Project is aimed at controlling and raising warning...

17 years of PPP ineptitude, incompetence, corruption and destruction (Part 1)

Dec 06, 2009 knews APNU Column, Features / Columnists Comments Off on 17 years of PPP ineptitude, incompetence, corruption and destruction (Part 1)

We have been forced to reintroduce the weekly column in Kaieteur News. Some of the events and behaviour patterns of the government have not been in the interest of the people. As 2009 comes to an end...

Rusal restarts Aroaima, Kwakwani operations

Dec 06, 2009 knews News Comments Off on Rusal restarts Aroaima, Kwakwani operations

– letter indicates union accepted retrenchment of 75 workers By Leonard Gildarie The Bauxite Company of Guyana Inc.(BCGI), owned by Russia’s RUSAL, has announced that more than 200 of the...

Police issue wanted bulletin for septic tank murder suspect

Dec 06, 2009 knews News Comments Off on Police issue wanted bulletin for septic tank murder suspect

Police have issued a wanted bulletin for a woman whom they believe is the main suspect in the murder of Ram Kanaya. According to the police, Particksha Shaw is wanted by the police for questioning in...

Canada committed to negotiating trade agreement with CARICOM

Dec 06, 2009 knews News Comments Off on Canada committed to negotiating trade agreement with CARICOM

…Ambassador tells gathering at GMSA award ceremony Canada is committed to supporting Guyana and the wider CARICOM and to negotiating a mutually beneficial trade agreement says Canada High...

RUSAL/employees imbroglio further illustrates need for FOI- AFC

Dec 06, 2009 knews News Comments Off on RUSAL/employees imbroglio further illustrates need for FOI- AFC

By Gary Eleazar The current imbroglio that surrounds the bauxite industry, namely between RUSAL and its employees, further illustrates the need for Freedom of Information legislation in Guyana. This...

Unprofessional conduct of West Coast, Demerara Police

Dec 06, 2009 knews Letters Comments Off on Unprofessional conduct of West Coast, Demerara Police

Dear Editor, I bring attention to the unprofessional conduct of police ranks on the West Coast, Demerara. I am really astonished by the unprofessional behaviour of the police, which borders on...

Corporate entities, overseas-based Guyanese company pitch in for PM race meet

Dec 06, 2009 knews Sports Comments Off on Corporate entities, overseas-based Guyanese company pitch in for PM race meet

Banks DIH, Republic Bank, Neal and Massy and Digicel have thrown their support the Port Mourant Turf Club’s one day Pre Christmas horserace meet next Sunday December 13. The sponsorship money has...

Was this ‘trigger-happy’ cop disciplined?

Dec 06, 2009 knews Letters Comments Off on Was this ‘trigger-happy’ cop disciplined?

Dear Editor, Two months ago Kaieteur News carried a heart wrenching story of a trigger-happy policeman shooting to death a dog nursing her litter of seven pups. From the story, the dog’s only crime...

Which organisation is really responsible for registration of nursing schools?

Dec 06, 2009 knews Letters Comments Off on Which organisation is really responsible for registration of nursing schools?

Dear Editor, I am not too clear whether it’s the National Accreditation Council Guyana (NACG) or the Ministry of Health. I recently took my daughter to register at a nursing school and remembering...

Newly constructed grand stand dedicated in memory of Deo Kharag

Dec 06, 2009 knews Sports Comments Off on Newly constructed grand stand dedicated in memory of Deo Kharag

Administrators of the Kennard Memorial Turf Club (KMTC) have voted unanimously to dedicate the newly constructed grand stand to the memory of Deo Kharag, a former President of the Club from 1955-1976...

Not homophobia but plain sanity

Dec 06, 2009 knews Letters Comments Off on Not homophobia but plain sanity

Dear Editor, In response to Stephen Lewis’s (co-director of AIDS free world) speech and comments at the recent workshop, let me highlight a few corrections. Firstly, there is no where in the bill...

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The wait is over, all roads lead to KMTC for their Grand Boxing Day Horse race meet

Merry Christmas, Ya Filthy Animals!

Peeping Tom… Kaieteur News- Ah, Christmas—the season of goodwill, good cheer, and, let’s not forget, good riddance!... more