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2011 Budget… Income tax threshold raised, Corporation tax lowered

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Minister of Finance, Dr Ashni Singh yesterday presented what he justifiably called the largest budget in Guyana’s history but unlike the previous year, budget persons can look forward to some sense...

2011 budget… Public Assistance, Old Age Pension increased

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The 2011 budget contains increases that will benefit approximately 50,000 people on Public Assistance or receiving Old Age pensions. Yesterday, Minister of Finance, Dr. Ashni Singh, announced the...

2011 budget… Health sector gets $14B allocation

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– construction of 150-bed surgical specialty hospital on the cards A whopping $14B has been allocated to the health sector this year with the aim of improving quality of services, Finance...

2011 budget… $3.6B allocated for housing

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– 7,500 house lots; 4,000 land titles for distribution Government has targeted 7,500 house lots this year with 4,000 land titles to be distributed. During his presentation of the 2011 National...

Dem boys seh… Ashni sing in parliament

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Ashni sing in Parliament and he sing a song that people been hearing fuh a long time. He change some of de words but was de same song. Every now and then some of he backers beat a rhythm pun de desk...

Budget designed to buy votes – Opposition

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Opposition parties yesterday charged that the $161.4 billion budget that the government announced was designed as a package of goodies to dangle before the electorate ahead of general elections this...

Guyanese twin feared drowned off T&T beach

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A Guyanese twin and their Trinidadian friend are feared dead after they disappeared of the southern coast of Trinidad last Sunday. The two brothers whose names were given as Ricky and Ryan Lall, and...

Fisherman knifed to death at city wharf

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… Suspect had threatened to kill him on Sunday “He always troubling and tormenting meh cousin…..I watch he stand up over him (Marlon) and stab him,” cried Michelle Vieira as she recounted...

La Penitence vendors protest outside OP

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After being informed that they would have to remove from the La Penitence Market, some vendors decided to protest in front of the Office of the President in order to gain a meeting with the Head of...

Robbers shoot vendor in Regent St.

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An itinerant vendor was battling for his life last night after two gun-toting bandits shot him in the stomach outside the abandoned Piggott’s Drug Store located at the Regent and Bourda Street...

Police seize firearm from licenced holder

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Police have temporarily seized the firearm of a licenced holder as they probe the discharge of the weapon under questionable circumstances. While the owner is saying that it went off accidentally,...

More private farmers, mechanisation eyed for sugar turnaround

Jan 18, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on More private farmers, mechanisation eyed for sugar turnaround

… 2010 earnings plunge 13 per cent Lower sugar exports coupled with an almost 10 per cent decline in export price saw Guyana’s cash receipt for this big earner sliding 13.2 per cent to US$104M...

Region Six officials lambaste D&I workers for substandard work

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Drainage and Irrigation (D&I) workers in Berbice came under fire yesterday as many of their work-related behaviour were revealed to the public by Regional Officials of Region Six. The workers,...

Sea defence workers mull strike action for pay hike

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President of the Guyana Labour Union, Carvil Duncan, said he would serve notices to the Public Works and Communications, and Labour Minister today, stating that sea defence workers countrywide, who...

PNCR appoints new Member of Parliament

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The Peoples National Congress Reform (PNCR) yesterday filled its vacant seat in the National Assembly with one of the party stalwarts, Joan Baveghems. The new Member of Parliament took her oath of...

Cancer patient needs financial assistance to live

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After being diagnosed with a cancerous tumour on his left cheek, Ramnarine Singh, 40, of 89 Little Diamond, East Bank Demerara is seeking financial assistance from the public to aid in the payment...

Dead Corneila Ida man went to lover’s aid

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… wife of accused tried to save victim’s life A man identified as Fazal Bacchus is currently in police custody following the death of Dhanpaul Rambarack of Cornelia Ida, West Coast Demerara....

Robbers shoot vendor in Regent Street

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An itinerant vendor was battling for his life last night after two gun-toting bandits shot him in the stomach outside the abandoned Piggott’s Drug Store located at the Regent and Bourda Street...

Beaten teacher yet to regain consciousness

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– Loved ones pray for her recovery Shaundell Warwick, the teacher who was brutalised by her reputed husband, remains in an unconscious state at the Georgetown Public Hospital. However, this...

Lethem woman appears in court on theft charge

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Jennifer Davis of Lethem, Region Nine, appeared before Magistrate Priya Beharry charged with theft. To the charge, Davis pleaded not guilty. She was unrepresented. It is alleged that between December...

Legal system frustrating rice farmer dispossessed of land

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A West Coast Berbice rice farmer is blaming the slothful nature of the justice system for the delay in him occupying and cultivating several acres of rice land which he believes was wrongfully...

15 Girl Guides benefit from Muriel Wight Scholarships

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Fifteen members of the Guyana Girl Guides Association (GGGA) have benefitted from the recently established Muriel Wight Scholarship Fund. The association announced that the students would have...

Addressing substance abuse must be modified – Minister Ramsammy

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‘We have failed in the past because we have not met people in their own setting. We try to recreate their setting and think they would simply run after us,” said Minister of Health, Dr Leslie...

GT&T cables vandalised along ECD

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Some villages along the East Coast of Demerara are currently without the use of the landline telephones as vandals have once again struck. According to Public Relations Officer for the Guyana...

Official launch of Guyana’s programme tomorrow

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… UN Int’l Year For People of African Descent In a release from the Ministry of Culture, Youth and Sport, it was confirmed that in keeping with its obligation as a Member State of the United...

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Fingerprinting and Finger-Pointing

…Peeping Tom Kaieteur News- No one, not even the staunchest supporters of Guyana’s electoral process, would claim... more