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The Value Added Tax a burden

Dec 04, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on The Value Added Tax a burden

“50% tax burden on the working and non working is not too far fetched. None of President Jagdeo’s predecessors has ever taxed their people as much as he did.” – Accountant By: Amar Panday...

RHTY&SC undergoes massive Management changes as it prepares for the future

Dec 04, 2010 knews Sports Comments Off on RHTY&SC undergoes massive Management changes as it prepares for the future

Club Captains for 2011 season appointed Thirteen (13) young and energetic executives were elected on Tuesday November, 30 to the Management Team of the Rose Hall Town Youth & Sports Club as the...

Suspected Rose Hall bank robber remanded for drugs

Dec 04, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Suspected Rose Hall bank robber remanded for drugs

Terrence Azore, 47, of 577 Main Road, Melanie Damishana, East Coast Demerara, and one of the men on trial for the Rose Hall Town bank robbery, was on Wednesday nabbed with a quantity of marijuana,...

Out-of- work Barama workers get stipend

Dec 04, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Out-of- work Barama workers get stipend

Barama Company Limited (BCL) and Government gave to former employees who were affected by the company’s plywood mill closure, their respective stipends yesterday. The donation was made at the...

Policeman nabbed in wanted man’s house

Dec 04, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Policeman nabbed in wanted man’s house

A 22-year-old police constable was nabbed with a quantity of marijuana, yesterday, after he was surprised by some of his colleagues and caught at the home of one of the men who was recently nabbed...

Upper Demerara Football Association 2010/2011 Open League underway

Dec 04, 2010 knews Sports Comments Off on Upper Demerara Football Association 2010/2011 Open League underway

Following a three year hiatus, competitive football at the senior level in the Bauxite Mining Town of Linden is up and running with the Upper Demerara Football Association (UDFA) 2010/2011 Senior...

RHTY&SC Cricket teams donate Desktop Photocopier to BCB

Dec 04, 2010 knews Sports Comments Off on RHTY&SC Cricket teams donate Desktop Photocopier to BCB

The Rose Hall Town Youth & Sports Club continued its assistance towards the development of cricket in the Ancient County when they donated a Desktop Photocopier, Fax Machine and Phone System. The...

Less than half of account holders claim payments

Dec 04, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Less than half of account holders claim payments

Less than half of the depositors who were eligible to recoup their savings from Globe Trust and Investments Company Limited (GTICL) have come forward to claim their payments. According to Liquidator,...

Cellink Berbice undergoing rigid preparation to defend Inter-County T20 Title

Dec 04, 2010 knews Sports Comments Off on Cellink Berbice undergoing rigid preparation to defend Inter-County T20 Title

The Berbice Cricket Board is sparing no effort to make sure that their Cellink Senior Inter County Twenty20 team is fully prepared to successfully defend their Inter County Title in the Guyana...

Confusion as vendors fight for preferential Port Mourant stalls

Dec 04, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Confusion as vendors fight for preferential Port Mourant stalls

Less than a day after the $102M Port Mourant Market was commissioned on the Corentyne, confusion reigned yesterday among vendors and stall-holders. Regional Chairman Zulfikar Mustapha was summoned to...

GRFU calls up 18 players for IRB Sevens World Series

Dec 04, 2010 knews Sports Comments Off on GRFU calls up 18 players for IRB Sevens World Series

The Guyana Rugby Football Union (GRFU) has called up an 18-man senior national Sevens squad to begin training in preparation for the International Rugby Board (IRB) Sevens World Series to take place...

Essequibo leg of GT&T 10/10 awareness programme completed

Dec 04, 2010 knews Sports Comments Off on Essequibo leg of GT&T 10/10 awareness programme completed

Activity moves to West Coast Demerara Organizing Committee Chairman of the GT&T 10/10 softball cricket tournament, Mr. Carmachand Rambarran reiterated his company’s commitment to the...

Albion are 2010 Tenelec Inc. 50 overs Champions

Dec 04, 2010 knews Sports Comments Off on Albion are 2010 Tenelec Inc. 50 overs Champions

Defeat Rose Hall Town Gizmos & Gadgets by 6 wickets Albion Community Centre Cricket Club successfully defended their Tenelec Inc. 50 overs title on Sunday last when they defeated Rose Hall Town...

Emile, you’re wrong!

Dec 04, 2010 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on Emile, you’re wrong!

Let me say upfront that I thank New York-based Guyanese, Emile Mervin, for reading my columns. I would like to congratulate him for his constant concern about the descent into terrible governance as...

Prosecutor challenges delay in trial

Dec 04, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Prosecutor challenges delay in trial

The case of witness tampering against embattled television owner Chandra Narine Sharma continued yesterday before Magistrate Geeta Chandan-Edmond at the Georgetown Magistrates’ court. At...

U-17 footballers heighten preparations for second leg of CFU World Cup qualifiers

Dec 04, 2010 knews Sports Comments Off on U-17 footballers heighten preparations for second leg of CFU World Cup qualifiers

The local U-17 footballers preparing for the national duties in the second leg of the U-17 Caribbean Football Union (CFU) World Cup qualifiers have intensified their training and coach of the squad...

Venezuelan sentenced for illegal entry and forged documents

Dec 04, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Venezuelan sentenced for illegal entry and forged documents

A 26-year-old Venezuelan, Tamara Elizabeth Noriega Gomez, was yesterday sentenced to 18 months imprisonment by (ag) Chief Magistrate Priya Beharry on the charges of forgery, felony and illegal entry....

Guinness ‘Greatest of de Streets’ final on tonight

Dec 04, 2010 knews Sports Comments Off on Guinness ‘Greatest of de Streets’ final on tonight

The unanimous chatter across the town is that the two teams in tonight’s final are arguably the best in this year’s Banks DIH Guinness ‘Greatest in de Streets’ Football Tournament so fans...

Guyana to design policies for the Disabled -Minister Ramsammy

Dec 04, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Guyana to design policies for the Disabled -Minister Ramsammy

Under the theme “Keeping the promise: mainstreaming disability in the Millennium Development Goals”, International Day of Persons with Disabilities will be observed today to promote awareness...

START WITH A PILOT BEFORE AIMING FOR THE SKY

Dec 04, 2010 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on START WITH A PILOT BEFORE AIMING FOR THE SKY

Does Guyana have sufficient trained computer-trained and qualified personnel willing to teach computer in fifty of our secondary schools? It may not seem like a lot but it may be difficult given what...

Illiteracy has become an integral part of National life

Dec 04, 2010 knews Letters Comments Off on Illiteracy has become an integral part of National life

Dear Editor, On May1, 2008, I wrote a letter to the editor on, “Literacy in Guyana”. I started the letter by stating, “We need a national conversation on the state of literacy in Guyana.” I...

Vita Malt National Table Tennis C/ships open today

Dec 04, 2010 knews Sports Comments Off on Vita Malt National Table Tennis C/ships open today

The Guyana Table Tennis Association (GTTA) Banks DIH sponsored National Championships will open today at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall with players and clubs competing in the most acclaimed event...

Our wildlife should be left in the wilds

Dec 04, 2010 knews Letters Comments Off on Our wildlife should be left in the wilds

Dear Editor, On October 23-10 my neighbour was passing by Rusal on Forshaw Street, Queenstown and saw a man leading a small Anteater on a rope; feeling sorry for the animal he bought the Anteater for...

GWI committed to improving quality of its service

Dec 04, 2010 knews Letters Comments Off on GWI committed to improving quality of its service

Dear Editor, The Guyana Water Incorporated (GWI) wishes to respond a letter, titled, “Is this what we call progress”, (Kaieteur News, November 15, 2010). We thank you for the opportunity to...

Guyanese women issues discussed in London

Dec 04, 2010 knews Letters Comments Off on Guyanese women issues discussed in London

Dear Editor, I salute the organisers of last week’s Guyana conference against domestic violence. Issues affecting Guyanese and other women were also discussed at a London meet organised by the...

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