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Four-year-old undergoes first orthopaedic operation at Lethem Hospital

Sep 27, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Four-year-old undergoes first orthopaedic operation at Lethem Hospital

Orthopaedic operations are likely to become a regular feature at the new state-of-the-art Lethem Hospital, following a successful operation performed at the public facility on Saturday. Four-year-old...

Deo wins Akbar Auto Sales Golf tourney

Sep 27, 2010 KNews Sports Comments Off on Deo wins Akbar Auto Sales Golf tourney

Chatterpaul Deo returned to form to win Saturday’s Akbar Auto Sales Medal Play golf tournament at the Lusignan Golf course, East Coast Demerara. Deo recorded a net of 69 from a gross 83 playing off...

Mother claims she turned down meagre compensation

Sep 27, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Mother claims she turned down meagre compensation

Barama worker’s death… The mother of Barama Timber Company labourer Jason Fraser, whose remains were found in a wood shredder, has alleged that the firm has offered her a meagre sum as...

Four more matches on this evening

Sep 27, 2010 KNews Sports Comments Off on Four more matches on this evening

Four more matches will be contested this evening when the Banks DIH ‘Nite’ Hockey Competition continues at the Thirst Park ground. In the opening fixture, Hikers ladies take on Old Fort ‘B’...

Fathers must fulfill their roles in lives of children

Sep 27, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Fathers must fulfill their roles in lives of children

– Riehl As Child Protection week comes to a close, the People’s National Congress Reform says that the role of the father in the development of the child is important and the party is calling...

Demerara Cricket Board fixes Trial match for this week

Sep 27, 2010 KNews Sports Comments Off on Demerara Cricket Board fixes Trial match for this week

The Demerara Cricket Board selectors have submitted two squads for a trial match schedule for the GCC ground Bourda tomorrow, Tuesday September 28 starting at 9:00am. This game is in preparation...

Wins for Leguan, E.B. E’bo, Bartica, South and North E’bo

Sep 27, 2010 KNews Sports Comments Off on Wins for Leguan, E.B. E’bo, Bartica, South and North E’bo

Leguan, East Bank Essequibo, Bartica, South and North Essequibo registered victories as the Essequibo Cricket Board Busta 50 overs festival continued recently with matches in zone A and B. In zone A,...

Garrett Cup Inter School Football Competition continues today in Berbice

Sep 27, 2010 KNews Sports Comments Off on Garrett Cup Inter School Football Competition continues today in Berbice

The Garrett Cup Inter School Football competition is on in the Ancient County with some 16 schools participating. The competition which is open to secondary schools in Region 6 began on September 13,...

Health Minister echoes need for manual

Sep 27, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Health Minister echoes need for manual

Nurse Practitioners Bill… The need for a manual to guide the operation of the Nursing Council as it relates to the proposed Nurse Practitioners Bill is essential, according to Minister of...

Guyana wins 2010 Duck Curry competition

Sep 27, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Guyana wins 2010 Duck Curry competition

“Jagdesh and Bissessar crew” was crowned the winners of the Duck Curry competition at the Starlite Drive In on the East Coast Demerara, last evening. With 222 points, they walked away with the...

Govt. pitting workers against City Council

Sep 27, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Govt. pitting workers against City Council

…action should be directed against the State – Witter General Secretary (ag) of the Guyana Trades Union Congress, Norris Witter says that the government must desist from its campaign of...

Wife beater jailed

Sep 27, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Wife beater jailed

Thirty-nine year old Ravie Persaud of Hampshire Squatting area, Corentyne, who is reportedly in the habit of beating his wife, was sentenced to three months in jail by Magistrate Tajenarine Ramroop...

Dirty Harry jailed for beating, threatening to kill mother

Sep 27, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Dirty Harry jailed for beating, threatening to kill mother

Magistrate Tejnarine Ramroop sitting at the Albion Magistrate’s Court sentenced Harrinarine Lucknauth, called Dirty Harry, 38, to 21 days in jail after he was found guilty of beating and...

Region expends more money on access dams to rice fields

Sep 27, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Region expends more money on access dams to rice fields

NEW AMSTERDAM, BERBICE – The Region Six Administration is expending some $5.8 million on the preparation of the access dams to rice fields to ease the burden faced by farmers. Chairman Zulfikar...

Corentyne Chamber of Commerce reaches out to flood-hit Pakistan

Sep 27, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Corentyne Chamber of Commerce reaches out to flood-hit Pakistan

NEW AMSTERDAM, BERBICE – The Central Corentyne Chamber of Commerce (C.C.C.C.) has donated $200,000 to the Pakistan Disaster Relief Fund. President of the CCCC, Imran Hamid handed over a cheque...

Spelling Bee winners receive prizes

Sep 27, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Spelling Bee winners receive prizes

BUSH LOT VILLAGE, WEST COAST BERBICE – Mortice Primary School has won the Department of Education in Region Five 2010 Spelling Bee Competition. Fifteen schools battled for supremacy at the...

Gill comes up with another ‘trick’

Sep 27, 2010 KNews Letters Comments Off on Gill comes up with another ‘trick’

Dear Editor, To Harry Gill’s continued lawlessness and the fact that he is not allowed to break the PNCR rules, he comes up with another trick (“The saga of the defiant Robert Corbin”, Kaieteur...

Another example of poor planning

Sep 27, 2010 KNews Letters Comments Off on Another example of poor planning

Dear Editor, I am using this medium to ask the ‘big ones’ at the Ministry of Education, especially the Assistant Chief Education Officer for Secondary Schools Ms Melcita Bovell and the Minister...

Zero tolerance for reckless driving

Sep 27, 2010 KNews Letters Comments Off on Zero tolerance for reckless driving

Dear Editor, It’s sad to read that yet another careless action of a minibus driver could have almost caused the lives of over 15 people on Saturday 25th September. I don’t know how much longer...

Instead of threatening workers Oldendorff should negotiate

Sep 27, 2010 KNews Letters Comments Off on Instead of threatening workers Oldendorff should negotiate

Dear Editor, Arising from the ultimatum given to Oldendorff Carriers by the Guyana Bauxite and General Workers Union (GB&GW) to take industrial action unless the company comes to the bargaining...

Minister Lall’s explanation is not clear

Sep 27, 2010 KNews Letters Comments Off on Minister Lall’s explanation is not clear

Dear Editor, In the exercise of his democratic right, Minister Lall has publicly explained his side of the story and defended himself in the media. There are two issues (i) whether the Minister...

PNCR detractors will not have cheap political victory

Sep 27, 2010 KNews Letters Comments Off on PNCR detractors will not have cheap political victory

Dear Editor, Previous references to Harry Gill’s analysis are still relevant as he continues to write his hate speeches attacking the leader of the PNCR and the party. Him claiming that he is no...

PUT YOUR OWN HOUSE IN ORDER FIRST

Sep 27, 2010 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on PUT YOUR OWN HOUSE IN ORDER FIRST

When world leaders make recommendations on global issues, it always adds to the strength of their statements if their advice is backed up by practices within their own countries. The President of...

Boycott the next general elections!

Sep 27, 2010 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on Boycott the next general elections!

The CARICOM area, even Jamaica with its high level of interpersonal violence, is generally a placid political arena. But in all the CARICOM countries there would have been turbulent responses if what...

BEATING AROUND THE BUSHES

Sep 27, 2010 KNews Features / Columnists, Tony Deyal column Comments Off on BEATING AROUND THE BUSHES

Catch-phrases and slogans don’t have to make sense – they appeal to the imagination instead of the intellect. They grab you because they have an arresting turn of phrase, a novel form of...

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Jagdeo is a liability to Irfaan Ali

Peeping Tom… Kaieteur News- Bharrat Jagdeo has long represented an unsettling paradox in Guyana’s politics. He... more