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Demerara Mutual earned $1.3 B in 2009 – after tax profit $240M

Jul 10, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Demerara Mutual earned $1.3 B in 2009 – after tax profit $240M

The Demerara Mutual Life Assurance Ltd. revenue for 2009 totalled $1.3B, a slight reduction from the previous year. Contrary to an earlier publication by Kaieteur News, the figures released at the...

Full Group and GSL to stage floodlight softball cricket competition

Jul 10, 2010 knews Sports Comments Off on Full Group and GSL to stage floodlight softball cricket competition

Full Group Entertainment in collaboration with the Guyana Softball League (GSL) will stage a floodlight softball cricket competition on Saturday July 31 and Sunday August 1. This competition has been...

International environmental groups should direct their tirades to the developed countries

Jul 10, 2010 knews Letters Comments Off on International environmental groups should direct their tirades to the developed countries

Dear Editor, I wish to refer to an article in the Monday July 5, 2010 edition of Kaieteur News, captioned, “Guyana among countries named as UN is warned about corruption”. The other countries...

Why is the Indian political critic a traitor?

Jul 10, 2010 knews Letters Comments Off on Why is the Indian political critic a traitor?

Dear Editor, At every turn, a powerful truth is emerging in this nation. Simply put, any political critic of the PPP of Indian descent is castigated by the PPP and branded as a betrayer and traitor....

THE VERANDAH AND THE PORCH

Jul 10, 2010 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on THE VERANDAH AND THE PORCH

A VIEW FROM INSIDE OUT The driver was quiet soon after we pulled off from the airport. Judging from his nervous looks during that first ten minutes of driving, I presumed that he was trying to...

It’s our right to meet as the people’s representatives

Jul 10, 2010 knews Letters Comments Off on It’s our right to meet as the people’s representatives

Dear Editor, I wish to reply to a pile of mischief dumped by Randy Persaud in the SN of Friday, 9thJuly, 2010 blaming the AFC for the story on the Jagdeo third term, to hide internal problems. I have...

The real meaning of ‘democratization of education’

Jul 10, 2010 knews Letters Comments Off on The real meaning of ‘democratization of education’

Dear Editor, I am responding to the letter: “Democratization of Education”, published in Kaieteur News 03-07-10, written by a former Chief Executive Officer of the Ministry of Education, Mr....

The urgency for leadership change

Jul 10, 2010 knews Letters Comments Off on The urgency for leadership change

Dear Editor, There comes a tide in the affairs of men which, taken at the flood leads on to fortune…Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar. There is a tide in the political affairs of Guyana that taken...

Kwakwani residents grateful for help received

Jul 10, 2010 knews Letters Comments Off on Kwakwani residents grateful for help received

Dear Editor, On the 30th June the Kwakwani community was in a state of deep shock when news of the accident that claimed the lives of two residents spread across the community. The entire community...

The vicious cycle of crime and poverty

Jul 10, 2010 knews Editorial Comments Off on The vicious cycle of crime and poverty

Child abandonment is a common feature these days. Parents are developing the same attitudes of the lower animals. They are producing children, nursing them until they are able to walk and then moving...

Minister of Agri. announcement troubling

Jul 10, 2010 KNews Letters Comments Off on Minister of Agri. announcement troubling

Dear Editor, The recent announcement by the Minister of Agriculture that they will drain the conservancy into the Demerara River instead of the Mahaica/Mahaicony creeks is rather troubling given the...

Autopsy raises questions… ASP Murray shot twice in head

Jul 09, 2010 knews News Comments Off on Autopsy raises questions… ASP Murray shot twice in head

An autopsy on the body of Assistant Superintendent Ivelaw Murray has revealed that he was shot twice in the head, a revelation that has raised questions as to whether the officer indeed committed...

Quick-thinking passerby saves boy from electrocution

Jul 09, 2010 knews News Comments Off on Quick-thinking passerby saves boy from electrocution

– lad clutched live wire while retrieving football Quick thinking by Charlene James, a manager at the Stain Masters Incorporated, yesterday afternoon, helped save the life of 12-year-old Ronell...

Swift action averts fire at G/town Prison

Jul 09, 2010 knews News Comments Off on Swift action averts fire at G/town Prison

Swift action by prison officials yesterday prevented what could have been a major catastrophe at the Georgetown Prison. Reports are that three inmates set alight a mattress in the facility, resulting...

Homeowner charged with manslaughter, granted bail

Jul 09, 2010 knews News Comments Off on Homeowner charged with manslaughter, granted bail

More controversy erupted yesterday after Magistrate Sherdel Isaacs-Marcus granted bail to the tune of $250,000 to 60-year old Melanie Damishana resident Crafton Wright, who appeared yesterday at the...

Gunmen terrorise, rob grieving Soesdyke family

Jul 09, 2010 knews News Comments Off on Gunmen terrorise, rob grieving Soesdyke family

There is the saying “when it rain, it pours”. Well this is indeed the case for the Beepat family of Soesdyke on the East Bank of Demerara. Popular businesswoman Patricia Beepat and her family are...

Dem boys seh…Is a jackass parade

Jul 09, 2010 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Dem boys seh…Is a jackass parade

Big cuss out break out de other day when Odinga call Robeson a jackass in front of everybody. Dem boys seh that Robeson see red and right away he call Bharrat. He tell Bharrat that he would not...

Banks DIH through its Coca-Cola Brand latest to support CAC Rugby

Jul 09, 2010 KNews Sports Comments Off on Banks DIH through its Coca-Cola Brand latest to support CAC Rugby

By Rawle Welch “Come out and join us at the Stadium, come out and support our teams, they’ve worked very hard and deserve your support,” was the pressing appeal made by President of the...

Unity man killed by speeding truck

Jul 09, 2010 knews News Comments Off on Unity man killed by speeding truck

Fifty-six year-old security guard, Sukhdeo Pargass, also known as Glassie, of 78 Factory Dam, Unity Village, East Coast Demerara, lost his life in a horrific manner on Wednesday afternoon . This...

Illegal mangrove cutting will lead to prosecution – Project Director

Jul 09, 2010 knews News Comments Off on Illegal mangrove cutting will lead to prosecution – Project Director

Project Coordinator of the Mangrove Restoration Project Bissasar Chintamanie has warned that persons who destroy the trees will be prosecuted to the full extent of the law. Speaking to Kaieteur News...

Venezuelan Embassy hosts reception for 200th Independence anniversary

Jul 09, 2010 knews News Comments Off on Venezuelan Embassy hosts reception for 200th Independence anniversary

As Venezuela celebrates 200 years of Independence, the Embassy of the Bolivarian Republic here in Guyana marked the occasion with a reception last evening. Government Ministers, members of the...

Victim last seen with ‘Zagga Zow’

Jul 09, 2010 knews News Comments Off on Victim last seen with ‘Zagga Zow’

A Kitty resident known as ‘Zagga Zow’ is a prime suspect in the murder of Claudine Inniss, called ‘Ann’, whose mutilated body was found on the seawall last Saturday. The tall,...

New database to help improve M&CC operation

Jul 09, 2010 knews News Comments Off on New database to help improve M&CC operation

Aimed at developing a standard record for clients of the Mayor and City Council of Georgetown (M&CC), a database system was unveiled yesterday by Chairman of the municipal implementation...

NSC sponsors visually impaired Track and Field Workshop

Jul 09, 2010 KNews Sports Comments Off on NSC sponsors visually impaired Track and Field Workshop

The National Sports Commission will be sponsoring a Track and Field Workshop for visually impaired persons and guides at the Bayrock ground in Linden. The objectives of the workshop are: To help...

Lecturer’s vehicle doused with corrosive liquid

Jul 09, 2010 knews News Comments Off on Lecturer’s vehicle doused with corrosive liquid

The vehicle of lecturer and local journalist, Terrence Esseboom, was yesterday doused with a corrosive liquid by an irate resident of the Kingston, Georgetown area, in the vicinity of the Digicel...

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No place for little boys in a big man’s world

Peeping Tom… Kaieteur News- There’s an old saying in Guyana: “You can’t put a little boy to do a big man’s... more