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Help steps up, but so does scale of Haiti tragedy

Jan 19, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Help steps up, but so does scale of Haiti tragedy

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) – The staggering scope of Haiti’s nightmare came into sharper focus yesterday as authorities estimated 200,000 dead and 1.5 million homeless in the heart of this...

Guyana Haiti relief fund stands at $214.8M

Jan 19, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Guyana Haiti relief fund stands at $214.8M

One Guyanese confirmed dead Even as logistics for the international community remain a major challenge to access and provide aid to those affected by the earthquake in Haiti, reports from the Guyana...

65 year-old wrestles with gunman following robbery

Jan 19, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on 65 year-old wrestles with gunman following robbery

– gets Commendation Award from Top Cop hours later A 65-year-old businessman is now thanking God for sparing his life and for his military training. He said that these are the only two reasons...

Body found at Georgetown seawalls with throat slashed

Jan 19, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Body found at Georgetown seawalls with throat slashed

Detectives were up to press time trying to ascertain the identity of a man who was found murdered at the Kingston seawall yesterday morning. The man is of mixed ethnicity, and is about 35 to 40 years...

Bulkan denies being at meeting when it was presented

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… Controversial Suriname map Forestry critic, Janette Bulkan, who is under fire from government, has denied that she was present at an October meeting in Washington where Suriname reportedly...

Banks DIH profit crosses $2 billion mark

Jan 19, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Banks DIH profit crosses $2 billion mark

Brewery giant Banks DIH Limited crossed the $2 billion profit mark in 2009. This is according to Chairman Clifford Reis who will present his annual report to shareholders this Saturday. Before tax,...

Dem boys seh… Haiti is out of bounds

Jan 19, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Dem boys seh… Haiti is out of bounds

Guyana busy sympathising wid Haiti but de people in that country don’t know. Dem ain’t hearing nutten from Guyana and de Americans shut down de airport. Imagine a Caricom Prime Minister try to go...

UK commits further £20m to relief and recovery work in Haiti

Jan 19, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on UK commits further £20m to relief and recovery work in Haiti

…as EU ministers meet in Brussels The UK Government is trebling its funding for the immediate humanitarian response to the Haiti earthquake. International Development Secretary, Douglas Alexander,...

Essequibo businessman dies in Haiti

Jan 19, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Essequibo businessman dies in Haiti

Guyanese businessman, Donald Richards, a\k, McDonald is being counted among the dead in Haiti. Richards, who operated a business place at Lima Essequibo, left Guyana with his son, Peabo Richards, to...

Guyana, Kuwait sign MoU, co-operation agreements

Jan 19, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Guyana, Kuwait sign MoU, co-operation agreements

…as Jagdeo visits Middle East KUWAIT CITY, Kuwait — President Bharrat Jagdeo and his delegation arrived to a red carpet welcome early Sunday morning in Kuwait City where the flags of Kuwait and...

GRA putting final inputs into new Tax Act

Jan 19, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on GRA putting final inputs into new Tax Act

The Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) is putting its final input in the design of the new Tax Administration Act, Commissioner General Kurshid Sattaur said yesterday. The process of putting together the...

Embrace Martin Luther King’s ideals – says Clement Rohee

Jan 19, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Embrace Martin Luther King’s ideals – says Clement Rohee

Home Affairs Minister, Clement Rohee, who is performing the duties of President, urged a gathering at the Mayor and City Council (M&CC) Assembly Hall, yesterday, to embrace the ideals of Dr...

Mayor laments City Hall’s exclusion from Haiti Relief efforts

Jan 19, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Mayor laments City Hall’s exclusion from Haiti Relief efforts

Although City Hall remains in a cash-strapped state and struggles to maintain its daily administrative operation, City Mayor Hamilton Green yesterday raised his concerns about efforts to exclude the...

Regional vice chairman denies assaulting villager

Jan 19, 2010 knews News Comments Off on Regional vice chairman denies assaulting villager

– calls for a thorough investigation Vice Chairman of Region Five, West Coast Berbice, Karran Persaud Deokarran, is calling on the Commissioner of Police and the Commander of the Police East...

Farmers urged to conserve on water as EDWC drops low

Jan 19, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Farmers urged to conserve on water as EDWC drops low

Farmers and all users of water from the East Demerara Water Conservancy (EDWC) are being urged to conserve water as the water level in the conservancy has dropped below the “dead storage level.”...

Man loses hand in road accident

Jan 19, 2010 knews News Comments Off on Man loses hand in road accident

Labourer Harry Persaud, a\k Terry of Hampton Court Village, had his left hand severed because of an accident Sunday afternoon on the Hampton Court Public Road. According to Persaud’s sister-in-law,...

CARICOM heightens response to Haitian crisis

Jan 19, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on CARICOM heightens response to Haitian crisis

The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) moved its assistance to its earthquake devastated Member State, Haiti to another level with the deployment of a Tactical Mission to that country on Sunday. Last...

GDF cultivates “exotic” vegetables

Jan 19, 2010 knews News Comments Off on GDF cultivates “exotic” vegetables

The Guyana Defence Force Agriculture Corps has initiated a project which has, to date, delivered promising results in the cultivation of cauliflower and broccoli, two crops that are gaining...

Scores of nursing students being selected for training – Dr Ramsaran

Jan 19, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Scores of nursing students being selected for training – Dr Ramsaran

The notion of having local doctors tutor students of nursing has attracted some level of stubbornness on the part of tutors within the system, according to Minister within the Health Ministry, Dr...

Another community at Siriki

Jan 19, 2010 knews News Comments Off on Another community at Siriki

Food for the Poor constructed yet another village on the Essequibo Coast, this time at Siriki, Pomeroon. The houses which are already occupied were completed late last year. This is the second...

Pensioner dies after being dragged by minibus

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Victorine Barrows, 81, of Roxanne Burnham Gardens, was pronounced dead after she was admitted to the Georgetown Public Hospital Corperation (GPHC) yesterday. According to sources, minibus BMM 2018 at...

Guyana United for Haiti concert set for Jan 22

Jan 19, 2010 knews News Comments Off on Guyana United for Haiti concert set for Jan 22

All stakeholders have a role to play in sharing, not just heart, but providing necessities as ‘our brothers’ keepers in Haiti says entertainer, Kerwin Bollers, as he announced plans for a mega...

Submerged excavator being dismantled to bring it ashore

Jan 19, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Submerged excavator being dismantled to bring it ashore

Workers yesterday continued their efforts to remove a sunken excavator from the Atlantic Ocean, aback of Pegasus Hotel. Using cables, the workers dismantled the bucket and other sections and dragged...

Earthquakes in diverse places

Jan 19, 2010 knews Letters Comments Off on Earthquakes in diverse places

Dear Editor, As a nation and people of this Republic we are deeply sock, horrified, heart-stricken, and even traumatized at this terrible, untold, and unforeseen disaster which struck Haiti. Claiming...

Race and politics in 2010

Jan 19, 2010 knews Letters Comments Off on Race and politics in 2010

Dear Editor, A national consultation must be held on race and politics in Guyana. The year must be 2010 and every ordinary Guyanese must participate. Every youth organisation, autonomous and...

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Bureaucracy gone bananas!

…Peeping Tom kaieteur News- Every morning, the government wakes up, stretches its arms, and spends one billion dollars... more