February 24, 2010 - Kaieteur News

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Pulsating music, gyrations characterise Guyana’s 40th Republic Anniversary

Feb 24, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Pulsating music, gyrations characterise Guyana’s 40th Republic Anniversary

By Michael Benjamin The liquor flowed freely as revelers imbibed, some slowly, others as though there would be no tomorrow. The refreshing sound of Guyanese music filled the air. Revelers gyrated to...

Parliamentary records tampered with

Feb 24, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Parliamentary records tampered with

– Ramjattan Alliance For Change (AFC) Chairman Khemraj Ramjattan is charging that the Parliamentary Hansard has been tampered with. Ramjattan was referring to the session that relates to the...

<<>>Is nuff shake up and big trouble

Feb 24, 2010 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on <<>>Is nuff shake up and big trouble

News does travel far and fast and dem boys seh that nuff news traveling. One news is that New Building Society in trouble and is serious trouble. De news is that de NBS about to collapse. Only de...

Retired Rosignol headmaster kills self

Feb 24, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Retired Rosignol headmaster kills self

– licensed gun found near body Police are probing the suspected suicide of retired headmaster and popular businessman Aubrey Alexander, who was found dead at around 14:00 hrs yesterday in his...

Finance Minister goes back in time as debates end

Feb 24, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Finance Minister goes back in time as debates end

– Corbin says Budget imposes burdens Finance Minister Dr. Ashni Singh took a waltz back in time on Monday in vehement defence of the 2010 budget, quoting “Man No.1” and “Man...

Mash in Lethem sizzles

Feb 24, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Mash in Lethem sizzles

The Department of Education, Region Nine, copped the first prize in the Lethem Mashramani Float Parade through the streets of Central Rupununi yesterday. With their float depicting the six races of...

NDIA brings water from Upper Mahaica for drought-hit farmers

Feb 24, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on NDIA brings water from Upper Mahaica for drought-hit farmers

Efforts to utilize fresh water 27 miles up the Mahaica River for drought-hit agricultural cultivations and cattle on the coast, are expected to be completed today. Construction of a canal leading...

Absent witnesses stall murder trial

Feb 24, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Absent witnesses stall murder trial

– Judge threatens to issue warrants The absence of two prosecution witnesses brought an early end to the murder trial of Khemraj Gopaul, of Angoy’s Avenue, on Monday. Gopaul is on trial at...

RHT Gizmos & Gadgets crush Skeldon to reach semis

Feb 24, 2010 KNews Sports Comments Off on RHT Gizmos & Gadgets crush Skeldon to reach semis

A youthful Rose Hall Town Gizmos & Gadget (RHTG&G) team missing five if its senior players to national and Trinidad club duties crushed Skeldon Community Centre (SCC) by 126 runs to reach the...

Blyden scores 1st ton in T&T’s 50-over League

Feb 24, 2010 KNews Sports Comments Off on Blyden scores 1st ton in T&T’s 50-over League

By Sean Devers in Trinidad GDF all-rounder Travis Blyden registered the first century in this year’s 50-over Championship League here in Trinidad with a shot-filled 110 with 9 fours and 3 sixes...

Shiraz and Shahab Roshandin new record holders

Feb 24, 2010 KNews Sports Comments Off on Shiraz and Shahab Roshandin new record holders

Shiraz and Shahab Roshandin are the new record holders of the three-hour Endurance Race after they registered 121 laps to erase the old mark of 120 laps during last Sunday’s Guyana Motor racing...

MOM Budhan Baksh leads Farm A to 13 run win over Farm C

Feb 24, 2010 KNews Sports Comments Off on MOM Budhan Baksh leads Farm A to 13 run win over Farm C

A fine all round performance from Man-of-the-match Budhan Baksh guided Farm C to an exciting 13 run win over their A team in the final of the F&H Printing Establishment sponsored Muslim Youth...

Fox /Dr. Surujbally claim Doubles title

Feb 24, 2010 KNews Sports Comments Off on Fox /Dr. Surujbally claim Doubles title

Reigning 55 and over doubles champions Maxie Fox and Steve Surujbally outplayed Bobby Khan/Roy Rampersaud 6-1, 7-5 to maintain their dominance in that category as play in the Mings Products &...

Mike Brusche had the best aggregate in Guyana’s 1968 Boa Vista Tour

Feb 24, 2010 KNews Sports Comments Off on Mike Brusche had the best aggregate in Guyana’s 1968 Boa Vista Tour

Dear Editor, Guyana National Basketball team, led by Eagles Compton Nicholson, played unbeaten on their 1968 tour of Boa Vista Brazil. The Parade Ground Ballers started the Brazil Mission with an...

The atrocities perpetuated by QC Board of Governors

Feb 24, 2010 KNews Letters Comments Off on The atrocities perpetuated by QC Board of Governors

Dear Editor, Queen’s College is the premier secondary institution in this country, it has produced presidents, prime ministers, lawyers, doctors, scientists, businessmen only to mention a few. I...

The negative aspects of homosexuality are due to society’s attitude

Feb 24, 2010 KNews Letters Comments Off on The negative aspects of homosexuality are due to society’s attitude

Dear Editor, We should stand in revulsion against, and do all we can to oppose, the prejudice, the hatreds, and the condemnation of a society that make the homosexual’s life so difficult. The...

Kissoon and gang are no threat to this Govt.

Feb 24, 2010 KNews Letters Comments Off on Kissoon and gang are no threat to this Govt.

Dear Editor, I refer to Mr. Freddie Kissoon’s column of February 22, 2010 in the Kaieteur News. I see now I am in his ‘Three Musketeers’ grouping; in my childhood days, I endeared the reference...

Mabaruma, Lethem hospitals benefiting from roving initiative – Minister Ramsaran

Feb 24, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Mabaruma, Lethem hospitals benefiting from roving initiative – Minister Ramsaran

The Ministry of Health has been collaborating with the private sector in its quest to provide crucial medical services to residents of some far flung public health facilities. Already benefiting from...

Guyana needs to encourage its highly skilled overseas-based people to return

Feb 24, 2010 KNews Letters Comments Off on Guyana needs to encourage its highly skilled overseas-based people to return

Dear Editor, Columnist, Mr. Kissoon’s piece, “I did not and will not run away from my country. The three Musketeers did” (Kaieteur News February 22, 2010) was utterly distasteful. Mr. Kissoon...

There is truly a time for everything

Feb 24, 2010 KNews Letters Comments Off on There is truly a time for everything

Dear Editor, Praise the good Lord for the hours upon hours of rain yesterday (23-02-10) in Berbice. There is truly a time for everything. The land and crops must be rejoicing. But I was truly taken...

Armed men attack Mainstay family

Feb 24, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Armed men attack Mainstay family

Five masked bandits, three of them armed with handguns, attacked the Seecharran family at Mainstay village on the Essequibo Coast last Monday evening. Farmer Sew Vishnu Seecharran said that his...

Despite challenges, GPHC is a model institution – Health Minister

Feb 24, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Despite challenges, GPHC is a model institution – Health Minister

The notion that people die in hospitals all over the world was emphasised recently by Health Minister Dr Leslie Ramsammy even as he underscored that deaths occurring at local public health facilities...

Charges pending months after Linden accident

Feb 24, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Charges pending months after Linden accident

Latoya Hinds, the mother of Akeem Hinds, has been wondering why the driver of a vehicle that crashed in Linden on October 20, last and claimed the life of her son, has not yet been charged. At the...

I would expect an apology from Mr. Dev too

Feb 24, 2010 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on I would expect an apology from Mr. Dev too

In a letter in yesterday’s edition of this newspaper, Ravi Dev requested an apology over what he claims is a fiction attributed to him; that is he is an employee of the Office of the President in...

Guyana is not bound to have zero deforestation

Feb 24, 2010 KNews Letters Comments Off on Guyana is not bound to have zero deforestation

Dear Editor, I refer to Ms Janet Bulkan’s letter under the caption “President statement does not appear to accord with the MOU”, (SN, 14-02-10). I wish to raise the following points in relation...