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Rice prices are expected to strengthen in the coming weeks

Feb 12, 2010 KNews Letters Comments Off on Rice prices are expected to strengthen in the coming weeks

Dear Editor, The costly but necessary initiatives currently being undertaken by our government to irrigate rice fields within the drought-stricken rice belt may soon pay dividend as global rice...

Hindu leadership declining

Feb 12, 2010 KNews Letters Comments Off on Hindu leadership declining

Dear Editor, I write in support of Mr. Mahadeo Panchu in his letter in the Tuesday, February 9th edition of Kaieteur News, captioned, “Where are our Hindu leaders?” I am convinced now more than...

Nonperforming FAs will be exposed

Feb 12, 2010 KNews Sports Comments Off on Nonperforming FAs will be exposed

National League main microscope By Edison Jefford The two year honeymoon of the Guyana Football Federation (GFF) National League will end soon, and what will be imminent is a relegation system that...

Language barrier between Cuban doctors, patients ‘being addressed’

Feb 12, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Language barrier between Cuban doctors, patients ‘being addressed’

Intended to address the evident language barrier between Cuban doctors and local patients, the Ministry of Health has been seeking to bridge the gap with the influx of Guyanese graduate doctors....

Leewards, Windwards square-off today at Bourda

Feb 12, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Leewards, Windwards square-off today at Bourda

Rivalry between the two factions that once made up the Combined Islands have always been a close and interesting affair and when the Leeward Islands and the Windwards clash in their fifth round...

This display of selective amnesia borders on insanity

Feb 12, 2010 KNews Letters Comments Off on This display of selective amnesia borders on insanity

Dear Editor, It is said that who the Gods want to destroy they first drive them mad. This is the case of Guyana and its ruling elites, clinging to every straw they hope to salvage themselves from the...

The GDF preparedness is not only for traditional warfare

Feb 12, 2010 KNews Letters Comments Off on The GDF preparedness is not only for traditional warfare

Dear Editor, The Editorial of Sunday, January 31st, 2010 titled, “Treading carefully with the Army’s role,” is very thought-provoking, and certainly a useful opportunity for the Guyana Defence...

Guyana aiming to improve at home as Bajans hunt 1st title since 2007

Feb 12, 2010 KNews Sports Comments Off on Guyana aiming to improve at home as Bajans hunt 1st title since 2007

By Sean Devers Strengthened by the availability of top West Indies batsman Shivnarine Chanderpaul, struggling Guyana has now lost the services of Vice-Captain Assad Fudadin as they prepare to battle...

The Budget and Economic Growth

Feb 12, 2010 KNews Editorial Comments Off on The Budget and Economic Growth

Under the tutelage of the IMF/World Bank over the past two decades, we have moved away from explicit planning by the government to achieve targets for the growth of the economy. Starting from the...

GPL launches major customer campaign

Feb 12, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on GPL launches major customer campaign

– to place reps in all NDCs to address billing queries, other issues Electricity consumers fearful of visiting the offices of the Guyana Power and Light Inc. (GPL) will soon no longer have to...

Mahdia miners describe six months notice as a death deal

Feb 11, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Mahdia miners describe six months notice as a death deal

…want new regulations scrapped By Neil Marks When the elderly Pastor Skeete got up on the stage to sing his primary school song “Gold, gold, gold, Just give me Potaro Gold,” everyone joined in...

Fire destroys Wismar home, family reduced to paupers

Feb 11, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Fire destroys Wismar home, family reduced to paupers

All the worldly possessions of a Block 22 Wismar family went up in flames, yesterday afternoon, after a fire of unknown origin completely obliterated their home, leaving in its wake blackened and...

First former stabbed at Lodge Community High

Feb 11, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on First former stabbed at Lodge Community High

The mother of a first form student of the Lodge Community High School is moving to transfer her son from the institution, citing escalating violence as her main reason. Delores Grant’s son is the...

Striking GTI lecturers, Education Minister strike temporary deal

Feb 11, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Striking GTI lecturers, Education Minister strike temporary deal

…will return to work on Monday The part time staffers at the Government Technical Institute (GTI) will return to work on Monday based on assurances by the Education Minister, Shaik Baksh, that...

Dem boys seh…Overseas voting got to be a joke

Feb 11, 2010 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Dem boys seh…Overseas voting got to be a joke

Ralph want overseas voting come back and Freddie interpret that to mean that de PPP frighten. But is a strange thing. One time de same people didn’t want overseas voting and dem get Uncle Dessy to...

Guyanese nabbed in Trinidad, to repay $2 million in US

Feb 11, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Guyanese nabbed in Trinidad, to repay $2 million in US

(AP) -Federal court jurors in Fargo say a man accused of bilking investors from North Dakota and elsewhere should pay back $2 million. Jurors on Tuesday convicted Neville Solomon of Georgetown,...

Tractor crushes man’s skull

Feb 11, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Tractor crushes man’s skull

Sheldon Munroe, a woodcutter lost his life tragically Wednesday evening, after the left wheel of the unlicensed tractor on which he was traveling crushed his skull. He and a cousin, Telroy, were...

GRA uses video cameras to examine commercial goods

Feb 11, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on GRA uses video cameras to examine commercial goods

– Businesses resist new measures The Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) says that it has implemented new measures, effective last Monday, which include examination of commercial goods using live...

Hindus to observe Shiva Raatri

Feb 11, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Hindus to observe Shiva Raatri

Hindus throughout Guyana will today observe Maha Shiva Raatri, one of the most sacred days in the Hindu calendar. Maha Shiva Raatri is the great day consecrated for the worship of the god Shiva and...

DPP’s advice being sought for gun-toting schoolboy

Feb 11, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on DPP’s advice being sought for gun-toting schoolboy

The Guyana Police Force is seeking the advice of the Director of Public Prosecutions to determine how to proceed with charges against a teenaged schoolboy who was found in possession of an illegal...

ChildLink sets out to be the voice of children

Feb 11, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on ChildLink sets out to be the voice of children

Every Child Guyana, which is an independent entity, launched a new organisation called ChildLink at the National Library, yesterday. The organisation gears for a Guyanese society where every child...

Seizure victim dies in canal

Feb 11, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Seizure victim dies in canal

The lifeless body of a seizure victim, who went on another of many of his fishing expeditions, was discovered floating on Monday in the Johanna Cecilia Tap area. His Uncle Pooran Hieralall spotted...

Hand in Hand 1st on board with GAPLF

Feb 11, 2010 knews Sports Comments Off on Hand in Hand 1st on board with GAPLF

With just over one month to go before Guyana welcomes the rest of the Caribbean to the 4th Annual Caribbean Powerlifting and Bench Press Championships set for the Princess Hotel, Providence, East...

Runako Morton never graced the ICC U-19 World Cup stage

Feb 11, 2010 knews Sports Comments Off on Runako Morton never graced the ICC U-19 World Cup stage

Dear Editor, Please allow me to correct a Tony Cozier captioned headline “Gifted adolescents.” The honourable and most reliable cricket correspondent in the Caribbean mentioned that 10 of the 15...

Mr. Devers’ slip is showing

Feb 11, 2010 knews Sports Comments Off on Mr. Devers’ slip is showing

Dear Editor, Your columnist wrote a very lengthy article on the state of Guyana’s Cricket. He has identified some of the problems but in his effort to support the Malteenoes agenda he has...

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