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LCDS not a realistic model for development financing-AFC

Dec 30, 2009 KNews News Comments Off on LCDS not a realistic model for development financing-AFC

“It is unfortunate that after the debacle at Copenhagen, President Jagdeo is still bullish that Guyana can obtain a substantial cut of the proposed pitiful US$10B funds made available by the...

Father charged with robbery

Dec 30, 2009 KNews News Comments Off on Father charged with robbery

Magistrate Hazel Octive-Hamilton yesterday remanded a father of two. Lorenzo Sims, 21, of 22 Poudroyen West Bank Demerara, is charged with robbery under arms. It is alleged that on December 23, at La...

Region One Farm Company eyes renewable energy

Dec 30, 2009 KNews News Comments Off on Region One Farm Company eyes renewable energy

A Region One company has signaled its intentions to expand its Heart of Palm cabbage operations to Demerara and Berbice. Officials of Amazon Caribbean Limited recently paid a courtesy call on the...

CARICOM gets support for economic link with Latin America

Dec 30, 2009 KNews News Comments Off on CARICOM gets support for economic link with Latin America

Chairman of the CARICOM Council for Foreign and Community Relations (COFOR), Dr Kenneth Baugh, who is also the Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade Minister of Jamaica, says he believes economic...

R.K.’S Security refutes reports of unmanned govt. facilities

Dec 30, 2009 KNews News Comments Off on R.K.’S Security refutes reports of unmanned govt. facilities

Reports that several Government facilities were without guards of R.K.’s Security Services during recent checks are untrue, the company says. In statement condemning the Kaieteur News story that...

Two separately charged with possession of narcotics

Dec 30, 2009 KNews News Comments Off on Two separately charged with possession of narcotics

Magistrate Hazel Octive-Hamilton yesterday remanded two men, Lancelot Handy of Alberttown and Gary Drakes, when they appeared at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court to answer to charges of possession...

President sets new deadline for FOI, Broadcast legislation

Dec 30, 2009 KNews News Comments Off on President sets new deadline for FOI, Broadcast legislation

President Bharrat Jagdeo has yet again set a new deadline for some ‘priority’ legislation namely the Freedom of Information, Broadcast, and the amendments to the New Building Society Act. Asked...

Govt never promised to institutionalize any stakeholder forum -Jagdeo

Dec 30, 2009 KNews News Comments Off on Govt never promised to institutionalize any stakeholder forum -Jagdeo

President Bharrat Jagdeo says that he had never promised to institutionalise any stakeholder forum. The president made the disclosure at a recent press briefing when asked about political cooperation...

Race on to meet 300,000 ounces gold milestone

Dec 30, 2009 KNews News Comments Off on Race on to meet 300,000 ounces gold milestone

With two more days to go for the year, Guyana is hoping to meet a significant production target of 300,000 ounces of gold. As of yesterday, records indicated that 295,000 ounces have been declared,...

Much work goes into writing letters to the editors

Dec 30, 2009 KNews Letters Comments Off on Much work goes into writing letters to the editors

Dear Editor, Thousands of views must have been expressed in the letter columns of the daily newspapers this past year. As usual, it has been a very busy year for one of the most read portions of any...

IDB reaches record approvals, disbursements in 2009

Dec 30, 2009 KNews News Comments Off on IDB reaches record approvals, disbursements in 2009

-celebrated 50th Anniversary yesterday The Inter-American Development Bank set record levels of loan approvals and disbursements in 2009, playing a counter-cyclical role by providing financing to...

The longer the Ministry of Labour abandon its role discriminatory treatment to bauxite workers will escalate

Dec 30, 2009 KNews Letters Comments Off on The longer the Ministry of Labour abandon its role discriminatory treatment to bauxite workers will escalate

Dear Editor, The Bauxite Company Guyana Inc (BCGI) denial in its “Information Memorandum to the Public” that it did not dismiss workers because they are members of the Guyana Bauxite &General...

These cash trapped corporations should reduce their bureaucracy and large overheads

Dec 30, 2009 KNews Letters Comments Off on These cash trapped corporations should reduce their bureaucracy and large overheads

Dear Editor, Sugar Workers are once again being punished for the incompetence of others. There has been no statistics to show that the rank and file workers of GuySuCo are responsible for the...

Market stallholders cry foul

Dec 30, 2009 KNews Letters Comments Off on Market stallholders cry foul

Dear Editor, In the face of the growing financial down turn, we the stallholders of Kitty, Bourda and more particularly La Penitence markets were extremely distraught, when a division of the...

Why such a successful and lucrative industry is not given more prominence

Dec 30, 2009 KNews Letters Comments Off on Why such a successful and lucrative industry is not given more prominence

Dear Editor, I read with great elation that the Guyana Gold and Diamond Miners Association is calling on miners to meet and exceed this year’s target of 300,000+ ounces of gold (it does not state...

Policy-makers must understand the peculiarities of their country

Dec 30, 2009 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on Policy-makers must understand the peculiarities of their country

I was trapped in Eccles on Monday afternoon, trying to get to Herstelling. For half an hour, traffic was immobilized due to a huge build-up of vehicles because the bridge was closed. For all of us in...

Gunmen shoot, rob sand pit owner

Dec 30, 2009 KNews News Comments Off on Gunmen shoot, rob sand pit owner

Bandits shot a 48-year-old businessman three times and stole his firearm shortly after 11:00 hrs yesterday, after ambushing him at a sand pit he operates at Yarrowkabra, on the Soesdyke/Linden...

Dialogue not debate

Dec 30, 2009 KNews Editorial Comments Off on Dialogue not debate

It has become customary for many of us to make resolutions for the New Year. We review what we had done over the past year, evaluate our actions against our normative world view and then resolve to...

A probe into the Minister’s death is necessary

Dec 30, 2009 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on A probe into the Minister’s death is necessary

In any country of the world, the death of a Minister of the government would immediately invite a full scale investigation since the status of the person concerned would have dictated that any...

The ruling party’s obsession to control all aspects of information

Dec 30, 2009 KNews Letters Comments Off on The ruling party’s obsession to control all aspects of information

Dear Editor, I am in complete agreement with the findings of Mark Jewel as expressed in his letter captioned, “Freddie misunderstands Misir’s and Persaud’s motive”. This was in response to an...

Albouystown resident successfully challenges bestiality charges

Dec 30, 2009 KNews News Comments Off on Albouystown resident successfully challenges bestiality charges

The case involving Jagesh Roopnauth, a 55-year-old security guard who was kept in prison for more than four months for allegedly having sexual intercourse with a dog has been dismissed. The case was...

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Body of Chinese national who fell from new Demerara River bridge recovered

Dem signs need calibrating

Dem Boys Seh… Kaieteur News- Dem boys bin pass one of dem fancy speed meter signs wah de guvament put up fuh tell drivers... more