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Whyte-Nedd’s performance merits appointment – Yarde

Aug 27, 2010 knews News Comments Off on Whyte-Nedd’s performance merits appointment – Yarde

Her years of acting in the capacity of Chief Education Officer, should see Ms Genevieve Whyte-Nedd being eligible for the full benefits associated with the substantive position. At least this is the...

Strikers, Regal & Providence to contest Zone 4 final

Aug 27, 2010 KNews Sports Comments Off on Strikers, Regal & Providence to contest Zone 4 final

Strikers, Regal and Providence will contest the final of the Supligen dominos competition following semi final play on Wednesday last at R&R. Scramblers were sent packing finishing on 69 games to...

New Amsterdam, Mahaica Determinators & Pistons advance

Aug 27, 2010 KNews Sports Comments Off on New Amsterdam, Mahaica Determinators & Pistons advance

New Amsterdam United, Mahaica Determinators and Pistions United are the latest teams to advance when competition in the 3rd annual Cheddi Jagan Memorial knock0out football tournament continued at the...

La Penitence man found dead in home

Aug 27, 2010 knews News Comments Off on La Penitence man found dead in home

– was not seen for several days The decomposing body of 55-year-old Michael Whaul, of Lot 13D Tucville Terrace, North East La Penitence was discovered early yesterday morning by neighbours. At...

Digicel adds its name to Guyana Cup sponsors

Aug 27, 2010 KNews Sports Comments Off on Digicel adds its name to Guyana Cup sponsors

Digicel’s resolute support for the Horse Racing industry continued yesterday when it added its name to the list of sponsors for this weekend’s Jumbo Jet Auto Sales-organised Guyana Cup Race Meet...

Harris ‘Paints’ a good corporate image

Aug 27, 2010 KNews Sports Comments Off on Harris ‘Paints’ a good corporate image

Makes donation to Albouystown Boxing facility The Forgotten Youth Foundation (FYF) Boxing Gym will get a well deserved facelift following a timely donation of several gallons of paint by Harris...

Not enough tail-wind may have caused Cessna crash

Aug 27, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Not enough tail-wind may have caused Cessna crash

A preliminary report into last week’s accident which left a Cessna 206 badly damaged has suggested that there was not enough tailwind to generate speed for a takeoff. According to Minister of...

Corporate Guyana lend huge support

Aug 27, 2010 KNews Sports Comments Off on Corporate Guyana lend huge support

With a few days remaining before the Super one-day Jumbo Horse race meet organised by Jumbo Jet Auto Sales and Racing Stables in collaboration with the Rising Sun Turf Club set to come off, Corporate...

Habitat receives $1M boost from GT&T

Aug 27, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Habitat receives $1M boost from GT&T

A non-profit organization, which since 1995 has helped provided homes to over 2,000 families in Guyana, says that it is partnering with more organizations in an effort to improve its services. The...

UG hire-car drivers ordered to move again

Aug 27, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on UG hire-car drivers ordered to move again

– calling on institution’s authorities to intervene Hire-car drivers operating from the head of the University of Guyana (UG) access road are contemplating protest actions after being...

Graveyard of political mediocrity, cemetery of fossilized thinking

Aug 27, 2010 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on Graveyard of political mediocrity, cemetery of fossilized thinking

By any economic measurement, Guyana is a very poor country (emphasis on the word, very). In the CARICOM region, it is just stuck in the position of being below all states except Haiti. We are an...

Buxton’s economy suffered under PNCR policies – Ramotar

Aug 27, 2010 knews News Comments Off on Buxton’s economy suffered under PNCR policies – Ramotar

“…ruling administration revived village through investment.” General Secretary of the People’s Progressive Party Donald Ramotar has fired another salvo at the leader of the Opposition Robert...

History and Castro

Aug 27, 2010 KNews Editorial Comments Off on History and Castro

Fidel Castro was pronounced to be in “magnificent” health by his admirer Hugo Chavez, who had just spent five hours with him. Earlier this month, Castro had addressed the Cuban Parliament,...

GBC on board as ECB launches its 50-over round-robin cricket festival

Aug 27, 2010 KNews Sports Comments Off on GBC on board as ECB launches its 50-over round-robin cricket festival

The management of Guyana Beverages Inc. of Diamond EBD has always proven to be a good corporate citizen and yesterday morning more evidence of this surfaced when that entity acquiesced to the...

Inter-ethnic understanding and unity is a process not an event

Aug 27, 2010 KNews Letters Comments Off on Inter-ethnic understanding and unity is a process not an event

Dear Editor, The occasion of the visit of the President to Buxton has certainly created significant entropy in the debate surrounding same. I agree with The Leader of the PNCR that the President has...

Mark Sutton Foundation hosting Football clinic

Aug 27, 2010 KNews Sports Comments Off on Mark Sutton Foundation hosting Football clinic

Members of the Tritons and Positive Vibes Football Clubs based in Paradise/Bachelors Adventure and Melanie Damishana are currently benefiting from a Coaching Clinic being staged by the Mark Sutton...

WE WILL SURVIVE!

Aug 27, 2010 knews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on WE WILL SURVIVE!

Glenn Lall is a visionary. Long before the recent withdrawal of GINA ads, he had predicted that this was in the works, and he took steps to protect his newspaper from strangulation by the State....

Queen’s college performance improves in 2010

Aug 27, 2010 KNews Letters Comments Off on Queen’s college performance improves in 2010

Dear Editor, With respect to the above headline which occurred in the Wednesday, August 25, 2010 issue of the Kaieteur News, I find it necessary to state the following:- At Queen’s College, there...

WICB exposes WIPA’s attempts to misguide the public

Aug 27, 2010 KNews Sports Comments Off on WICB exposes WIPA’s attempts to misguide the public

St John’s, Antigua –The WICB notes WIPA’s responses to the WICB’s exposure of the players association’s rejection of the joint ICC/FICA proposal which was designed to bring a final...

It is the squeaking chair that gets the oil

Aug 27, 2010 KNews Letters Comments Off on It is the squeaking chair that gets the oil

Dear Editor, I have been reading the harsh responses to the critical comments made by David Hinds and some leaders of the opposition parties to the recent visit to Buxton by President Jagdeo. One...

Sowing seeds of division

Aug 27, 2010 KNews Letters Comments Off on Sowing seeds of division

Dear Editor, I. G. Abbott’s 26/8/2010 letter, “An attempt to plant confusion in the minds of the few who might be less informed”, is equally culpable as Peeping Tom’s 24/8/2010 “Keeping the...

WIPA denies that it has stymied, delayed or breached any Agreements

Aug 27, 2010 KNews Sports Comments Off on WIPA denies that it has stymied, delayed or breached any Agreements

Port-of-Spain, T&T: WIPA replies to the WICB’s Release of 24th August 2010 as follows: 1. There was no timeframe set out in the New York Agreement (NYA) for the Special Arbitrations as...

Stop this ‘contingency fees’ demand

Aug 27, 2010 KNews Letters Comments Off on Stop this ‘contingency fees’ demand

Dear Editor, Several parents of new students who would be attending school in a few days’ time have approached me with the disturbing fact that secondary schools across Berbice particularly in New...

PPP attempting to rewrite history – Corbin

Aug 26, 2010 knews News Comments Off on PPP attempting to rewrite history – Corbin

“ This is further evidence of their ostrich-like behaviour. “ Leader of the People’s National Congress Reform (PNCR) Robert Corbin yesterday responded to the comments made by General Secretary...

Court dismisses GPSU’s decade-old case against Gopaul

Aug 26, 2010 knews News Comments Off on Court dismisses GPSU’s decade-old case against Gopaul

The High Court on Tuesday dismissed a decade-old case filed by the Guyana Public Service Union (GPSU) in which government was accused of unlawfully halting the deductions of fees from non-unionized...

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“One Guyana” is no less a national slogan than “Green Guyana”

Kaieteur News- The notion that “One Guyana” is a partisan slogan is pure poppycock. It is a desperate fiction... more