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Soyini Fraser could win a ticket to Vietnam

Jun 08, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Soyini Fraser could win a ticket to Vietnam

– Miss Guyana Earth Q&A ends By Neil Marks Today, I’ll not deal with plastic, the one and a half hour I had to wait, or a backdrop that kept falling down. But it is preposterous...

Residents cite former Top Cop’s chicken farm for environmental problems

Jun 08, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Residents cite former Top Cop’s chicken farm for environmental problems

A major controversy is brewing and is threatening to get out of hand as residents of a section of Bachelor’s Adventure, East Coast Demerara, prepare to protest the continued rearing of poultry by...

YCG continues to educate communities on HIV/AIDS

Jun 08, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on YCG continues to educate communities on HIV/AIDS

By Rabindra Rooplall Youth Challenge Guyana (YCG) has completed another HIV/AIDS community outreach programme in Regions Three, Four and Eight last month, according to voluntary counsel and testing...

Relatives yet to get PM report

Jun 08, 2010 knews News Comments Off on Relatives yet to get PM report

Annoyed relatives of Damian Lindore, 23, the Linden Taxi driver who was found dead on the Soesdyke/Linden Highway two weeks ago, are peeved at the fact that the government pathologist is refusing to...

China Trading owners threaten legal action against ex-employees

Jun 08, 2010 knews News Comments Off on China Trading owners threaten legal action against ex-employees

Proprietors of China Trading, Jason and Lily Wang, say that legal action is being considered against any other persons who come forward with allegations of sexual misconduct during their employment...

Essequibo students replant mangroves for World Environmental Day

Jun 08, 2010 knews News Comments Off on Essequibo students replant mangroves for World Environmental Day

In observance of World Environmental Day, the Guyana Mangrove Restoration project has undertaken one of its newest initiatives, the first of many planned activities, which includes the experimental...

Management to discuss report on suspended lecturer this month

Jun 08, 2010 knews News Comments Off on Management to discuss report on suspended lecturer this month

Management of the University of Guyana (UG), later this month, is set to discuss a report which a special body has prepared involving a lecturer who was suspended last year following allegations of...

Impact of mercury to be assessed by Health Ministry with $12M WWF grant

Jun 08, 2010 knews News Comments Off on Impact of mercury to be assessed by Health Ministry with $12M WWF grant

Intended to garner greater understanding of the health implications resulting from occupation and other forms of exposure to mercury among vulnerable members in mining communities, a grant agreement...

Police nab three after robbery

Jun 08, 2010 knews News Comments Off on Police nab three after robbery

Three men have been arrested and stolen gold jewellery recovered with the help of public spirited persons, following an armed robbery committed on a man at about 21:15h yesterday at Hyde Park,...

GCC & Hikers share the spoils in Mr. Toppers Indoor

Jun 08, 2010 knews Sports Comments Off on GCC & Hikers share the spoils in Mr. Toppers Indoor

Hikers’ men did just enough to spoil GCC’s parade, denying them a possible first ever clean sweep in all four divisions of the Mr., Toppers Indoor Hockey Championships which ended on...

‘Lady Jags’ getting ready for Cuba clash

Jun 08, 2010 knews Sports Comments Off on ‘Lady Jags’ getting ready for Cuba clash

Locals two games away from qualifying for CONCACAF Gold Cup By Franklin Wilson With yet another change to the schedule by the Caribbean Football Union for the Women’s Gold Cup competition,...

Guyana Defence Force march off with Mayor’s Cup

Jun 08, 2010 knews Sports Comments Off on Guyana Defence Force march off with Mayor’s Cup

After two weeks of pulsating action in the final rounds of the competition, the Guyana Defence Force (GDF) emerged as the top team when the curtains came down on this year’s edition of the...

Hand in Hand Insurance donates towards CAC boxing team coffers

Jun 08, 2010 knews Sports Comments Off on Hand in Hand Insurance donates towards CAC boxing team coffers

As the boxers elected to represent Guyana at the Central American and Caribbean Games scheduled for Puerto Rico starting on July 22 next, the Hand in Hand Insurance Company made a healthy donation to...

Western Union ‘Junior Cricket Ambassadors’ say thanks

Jun 08, 2010 knews Sports Comments Off on Western Union ‘Junior Cricket Ambassadors’ say thanks

The four young cricketers who are being supported by Western Union under the Junior Ambassador Cricket Programme initiated by the Rose Hall Town Youth and Sport Club presented a gift of appreciation...

Frequent postponements frustrates LABA

Jun 08, 2010 knews Sports Comments Off on Frequent postponements frustrates LABA

– Hamid laments need for indoor facility By Edison Jefford President of the Linden Amateur Basketball Association (LABA), Abdulla Hamid expressed the association’s frustration over the...

Klass installs interim Football Association in Lethem

Jun 08, 2010 knews Sports Comments Off on Klass installs interim Football Association in Lethem

Long-serving President of the Guyana Football Federation (GFF), Colin Klass, on May 16 installed an interim body to run Football in Rupununi until elections are held in the first week of September....

Edghill adds U-15, U-18 scalps to collection

Jun 08, 2010 knews Sports Comments Off on Edghill adds U-15, U-18 scalps to collection

– Johnson, Panday, Bryan also cop titles Like her predecessors Trenace Lowe and Michelle John would have done on many occasions, an enterprising and definitely talented Chelsea Edghill added...

Sports Policy must be supported by huge financial backing

Jun 08, 2010 knews Sports Comments Off on Sports Policy must be supported by huge financial backing

The recent disclosure by Minister of Sport Dr. Frank Anthony that the long-awaited National Sports Policy will be completed in one week’s time is a welcome development, but 18 years of delay must...

Guyana team affected by Barbados Airport strike

Jun 08, 2010 knews Sports Comments Off on Guyana team affected by Barbados Airport strike

By Sean Devers “With all of what we have gone through we have to win this thing,” were the words of a tired Skipper of the Guyana Blind Cricket team after he arrived in Barbados close to 19:00hrs...

White Americans, African Trinidadians and now Guyanese East Indians

Jun 08, 2010 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on White Americans, African Trinidadians and now Guyanese East Indians

It needs no explanation that Barack Obama could not have become the President of the United States if he didn’t get a colossal swing of votes from white Americans. Even if all African-Americans and...

A ‘Champion’ of Law and Order

Jun 08, 2010 knews Letters Comments Off on A ‘Champion’ of Law and Order

Dear Editor, The African Cultural & Development Association (ACDA) extends heartfelt congratulations to outgoing Assistant Commissioner of Police, Paul Slowe for his distinguished career of...

KAIETEUR NEWS COMES UNDER FURTHER PRESSURE!

Jun 08, 2010 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on KAIETEUR NEWS COMES UNDER FURTHER PRESSURE!

The latest action by the authorities against Kaieteur News was unexpected but it fits into a recent pattern. For more than one year now this newspaper has been on its guard and therefore was fully...

What is next on this despicable agenda?

Jun 08, 2010 knews Letters Comments Off on What is next on this despicable agenda?

Dear Editor, It is a sad day when the scarce resources of this nation are redirected and squandered by its government to attack and demean citizens. Is there no bottom to the lows that the men of...

Any democratic govt. should officially welcome and engage critics

Jun 08, 2010 knews Letters Comments Off on Any democratic govt. should officially welcome and engage critics

Dear Editor, The volume of abuse visited most recently on Mr. Christopher Ram, although it may not be the same in form as the faecal waste thrown on Mr. Frederick Kissoon, is essentially of the same...

We need to fix this

Jun 08, 2010 knews Letters Comments Off on We need to fix this

Dear Editor, Public servants are the backbone of the labour market and job sector in Guyana. They keep the wheels of essential services turning on a daily basis. Whenever one of our own ( I say...

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Peeping Tom… Kaieteur News – The assertion that “under international law, Venezuela is responsible for... more