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Mayor’s Cup All Star U-23 footballers to tour Suriname

Jul 28, 2010 KNews Sports Comments Off on Mayor’s Cup All Star U-23 footballers to tour Suriname

– three practice games scheduled starting today The Mayor’s Cup Under-23 All Star football squad will tour neighbouring Suriname from Tuesday August 3 to Saturday August 7 for a Goodwill...

Olympic-size Pool nearing completion

Jul 28, 2010 KNews Sports Comments Off on Olympic-size Pool nearing completion

“Making steady progress” – Anthony Minister of Culture, Youth and Sport, Dr. Frank Anthony, on his visit yesterday to the site of the Olympic-Size Swimming Pool that is being constructed at...

Trinidad ends Guyana’s hockey medal hopes

Jul 28, 2010 KNews Sports Comments Off on Trinidad ends Guyana’s hockey medal hopes

Guyana’s hopes for a hockey medal in the Central American and Caribbean Games were cast aside by a determined Trinidad ladies team who dished out a 5-1 beating on the South Americans. With Guyana...

Cush making his mark as 20/20 specialist

Jul 28, 2010 KNews Sports Comments Off on Cush making his mark as 20/20 specialist

– another hat-trick for veteran all-rounder By Sean Devers in Trinidad In Association with Digicel At age 35, many in Guyana had written off Lennox Joseph Cush as an aging warrior who was over...

Customer care seminar fails to attract “those in need of training”

Jul 28, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Customer care seminar fails to attract “those in need of training”

Several persons in Linden were on Friday last given the opportunity to learn and reinforce good customer relations practices, through a Customer Care Seminar at the Egbert Benjamin Exhibition Centre...

Coconut water bottling factory being readied

Jul 28, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Coconut water bottling factory being readied

By Leonard Gildarie The Hope Estate plantation, East Coast Demerara, is being upgraded with government looking for interested parties to run a coconut water bottling facility there. Over the weekend,...

FFTP Director recognized for service to the community

Jul 28, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on FFTP Director recognized for service to the community

Executive Director of Food For The Poor (Guyana) Inc. Leon L Davis, received a certificate on Monday for his “outstanding and invaluable service to the community” . At the organization’s...

Govt. returns seized West Dem co-op

Jul 28, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Govt. returns seized West Dem co-op

A West Bank Demerara co-op society seized by government last week has been handed back to the cane farmers. Officials of the Labour Ministry disclosed on Monday that there were a number of...

We often forget the children

Jul 28, 2010 KNews Letters Comments Off on We often forget the children

Dear Editor, We sometimes focus more on living and forget the little ones beside us that so much need our direction. Our children are being left to find their way on their own, and more so fend for...

Linden hit-and-run victim unidentified

Jul 28, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Linden hit-and-run victim unidentified

A hit-and-run accident early yesterday morning has resulted in the death of a man of Amerindian descent, who is yet to be identified. The dead man was discovered on the Linden Highway in the vicinity...

Two more Army officers graduate

Jul 28, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Two more Army officers graduate

Two more officers from the Guyana Defence Force were recently awarded with their master’s and bachelor’s degrees in Computer Science and Management respectively. Through a press release the army...

Obesity Is Over Fat

Jul 28, 2010 KNews Letters Comments Off on Obesity Is Over Fat

Dear Editor, The terms, overweight and obesity, often are used interchangeably, but in fact the conditions are not the same. The true standard of measure is the proportion of weight that is composed...

An Indecent Assault On The Local Private Sector

Jul 28, 2010 KNews Letters Comments Off on An Indecent Assault On The Local Private Sector

Dear Editor, Every country in the Caribbean takes pride in its hotels for the role they play in the local tourism industry, the backbone of its economy. Their industry has been built over many years...

This topsy turvy world

Jul 28, 2010 KNews Letters Comments Off on This topsy turvy world

Dear Editor, Barack Obama is of mixed race — a White mother and a Black father. However the White see him as Black and the Blacks see him as Black. When he was voted into office most of us voted...

Shouldn’t Mr. Jagdeo step into the ring now?

Jul 28, 2010 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on Shouldn’t Mr. Jagdeo step into the ring now?

When a President or Prime Minister wants to be the “Maximum Hero,” “All-Powerful Leader,” the “Divine Soul” of his/her nation, he/she must not only be endowed with the qualities of...

More outages expected – GPL

Jul 28, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on More outages expected – GPL

The Guyana Power and Light Inc. (GPL) has blamed recent outages in the Demerara area on an underground power cable that failed on July 21. As a result there may be further outages as efforts are made...

Is it legal to sell alcohol at weddings?

Jul 28, 2010 KNews Letters Comments Off on Is it legal to sell alcohol at weddings?

Dear Editor, The selling of alcohol at weddings is very disturbing and troublesome. For a number of years now, the selling of alcohol at some weddings has led me to believe that there is no authority...

Spate of power outages on W.C.D. overbearing

Jul 28, 2010 KNews Letters Comments Off on Spate of power outages on W.C.D. overbearing

Dear Editor, I express my utter dissatisfaction and frustration with the recent spate of power outages experienced by residents on the West Coast of Demerara. These power outages occur at practically...

Improvements in the Education Sector

Jul 28, 2010 KNews Letters Comments Off on Improvements in the Education Sector

Dear Editor, Education is a huge undertaking and one that is focused on the nurturing of skills and the talent of our people. In order to create a strong basis for the sustainable development of...

GINA is the designated accreditation agency

Jul 28, 2010 KNews Letters Comments Off on GINA is the designated accreditation agency

Dear Editor, Last Saturday’s Kaieteur News report titled, ‘KN reporter refused entry to President’s press conference’, is demonstrative of that newspaper’s unwillingness to subscribe to the...

Put aside politics and clean up the city

Jul 28, 2010 KNews Letters Comments Off on Put aside politics and clean up the city

Dear Editor, The Environmental Community Health Organiastion (ECHO) is calling on the competent authorities to urgently address the increasingly worrying garbage situation in the city. The existing...

Messianic Populism and Adventurism

Jul 28, 2010 KNews Editorial Comments Off on Messianic Populism and Adventurism

So we have two neighbouring countries – Suriname on the East and Venezuela on the west ruled by leaders – respectively Desi Bouterse and Hugo Chavez – that display(ed) definite tendencies...

An investment in the future

Jul 28, 2010 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on An investment in the future

Those who are astounded by the decision of the Alliance For Change not to enter into any pre-election coalition with the PNCR or the PPP, a decision that effectively dashes any hope of a Big Tent...

Fake Piccadilly shoes seized in the battle of the shoe stores

Jul 27, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Fake Piccadilly shoes seized in the battle of the shoe stores

In a case which clearly highlights the problem facing Guyana with fake goods, officials yesterday seized 278 boxes of fake brand-name Piccadilly shoes from The Discount Store at 102 Regent Street as...

Driver loses control, kills self, injures passenger

Jul 27, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Driver loses control, kills self, injures passenger

The country’s road fatality figure increased yesterday with the death of a 19-year-old Herstelling, East Bank Demerara resident, who was impaled by parts of a fence after he lost control of the...

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Fastest growing economy and an empty stadium

…Peeping Tom Kaieteur News- It’s a classic Guyanese tale, really. You live in the fastest growing economy in the... more