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Specifications for almost all government projects/ contracts are a state secret. WHY?

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…US$295 is an estimated cost – Minister Webster

Feb 04, 2011 knews News Comments Off on …US$295 is an estimated cost – Minister Webster

– no specification or tender as yet The government is still to tender for the computers for the one laptop per family (OLPF) programme. The government has already voted $1.8 billion for this...

GuySuCo gets another $1B from govt.

Feb 04, 2011 knews News Comments Off on GuySuCo gets another $1B from govt.

The sugar industry, struggling to regain its footing after last year recording one of its worst performances in two decades, is to receive a $1B cash injection from government. During an early...

Where are Sheema Mangar’s samples?

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Mystery seemingly surrounds the whereabouts of the forensic samples that detectives took more than three months ago in an effort to track down the killers of bank employee Sheema Mangar. The police...

Fleeing bandits leave shotgun behind

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Fearful of a beating by angry residents, fleeing bandits left a shotgun behind as they made a hasty retreat from the home of an intended victim in the Kamarang area last Tuesday. Police in a press...

Dem boys seh…Guyana really coming back

Feb 04, 2011 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Dem boys seh…Guyana really coming back

Guyana coming back. That is wha Dave Martins sing and people start fuh clap. De radio station start fuh play this song steady and Bharrat decide that he gun mek it de national anthem till dem boys...

Bandits strike three Canje households

Feb 04, 2011 knews News Comments Off on Bandits strike three Canje households

Armed bandits in Berbice went on a robbery spree, attacking the occupants of three Canje households in a brazen assault in the wee hours of yesterday. The men who were masked and carried handguns,...

Cop loses firearm while on patrol duty

Feb 04, 2011 knews News Comments Off on Cop loses firearm while on patrol duty

Several teams from the Police Tactical Services Unit (TSU) swooped down on communities in the city yesterday, in search of a firearm that was dropped by one of their colleagues sometime between...

2011 Budget approved by National Assembly

Feb 04, 2011 knews News Comments Off on 2011 Budget approved by National Assembly

The $161B Current and Capital Expenditure for 2011 was yesterday given the approval of the National Assembly for spending in the various sectors when the Appropriation Bill was passed in the House....

Moore and Allen sign with prestigious promotion Group in USA

Feb 04, 2011 KNews Sports Comments Off on Moore and Allen sign with prestigious promotion Group in USA

Local bantamweight and multiple champion of several prestigious championship belts, Leon Moore is the latest Guyanese to join the Boxing 360 promotional group in the USA, emulating his countryman,...

Families ‘to hear’ from company in April

Feb 04, 2011 knews News Comments Off on Families ‘to hear’ from company in April

Families of the victims of the trawler explosion which occurred last June, now have to wait until April this year to hear if the fishing company will pay them any compensation. The preliminary report...

Table Tennis coaching clinic set for Berbice tomorrow

Feb 04, 2011 KNews Sports Comments Off on Table Tennis coaching clinic set for Berbice tomorrow

Samuel Whyte With its renewed drive to spread the game of Table Tennis countrywide and make Guyana once more a force to be reckoned with in the Caribbean, the Guyana Table Tennis Association (GTTA)...

Commander Vyphuis rushed to hospital

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Divisional Commander of the police ‘A’ Division, Assistant Commissioner George Vyphuis was admitted to the St. Joseph Mercy Hospital after collapsing during a senior management meeting of...

McDonald calls for the preservation of Bourda

Feb 04, 2011 KNews Sports Comments Off on McDonald calls for the preservation of Bourda

Among the many subjects of his lucid presentation at the Guyana Olympic Association’s (GOA) Awards and Appreciation Evening last Saturday, Dr. Ian McDonald called for the preservation of the...

Stop the profound madness and put cricket first – BCB PRO Foster

Feb 04, 2011 KNews Sports Comments Off on Stop the profound madness and put cricket first – BCB PRO Foster

Public Relations Officer (PRO) of the Berbice Cricket Board and 2009 National Sports Personality Hilbert Foster has made a passionate plea to cricket administrators in Guyana to stop the infighting...

Guyana, Brazil announce bid to establish duty-free zone

Feb 04, 2011 knews News Comments Off on Guyana, Brazil announce bid to establish duty-free zone

Guyana has signed a historic agreement with Brazil’s businesses to trade goods and even tap into 200-plus tourists who transit through the border states of the neighbouring country daily....

World food prices hit record high in January

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World food prices rose to an all-time high in January, according to the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO). The FAO’s Food Price Index measures the cost of a basket of basic...

Schools battle for honours in National inter-Secondary Schools’ Futsal tourney

Feb 04, 2011 KNews Sports Comments Off on Schools battle for honours in National inter-Secondary Schools’ Futsal tourney

Several schools will continue their quest for dominance when the National Inter-Secondary Schools’ 2011 Futsal Football tournament continues at the National Gymnasium, Mandela Avenue this...

Yet another scandal erupts about “Medical University”

Feb 04, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Yet another scandal erupts about “Medical University”

No stranger to the news is Nanda Kissoon, (just one of the many aliases) who has been embroiled in a nursing school scandal many times before. Kissoon was on Wednesday, last, again escorted to the...

Bartica miners join call for GGMC overhaul

Feb 04, 2011 knews News Comments Off on Bartica miners join call for GGMC overhaul

– say “cease work orders” being abused By Leonard Gildarie Amidst Government concerns over “corruption” at the Guyana Geology and Mines Commission (GGMC), at least one mining body...

GECOM, ERC meet to promote non-violent elections

Feb 04, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on GECOM, ERC meet to promote non-violent elections

In preparing for the upcoming elections, Dr. Steve Surujbally, Chairman of Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) and Bishop Juan Edghill, Chairman of the Ethnic Relations Commission (ERC) met on...

Religious bodies host successful ‘Harmony Walk’

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As observances for World Interfaith Harmony Week continue, individuals from the various religious groups came out in their numbers yesterday for the ‘Harmony Walk’. The walk started at...

One of Guyana’s oldest dies at 104

Feb 04, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on One of Guyana’s oldest dies at 104

Yesterday, four weeks before her 105th birthday, centenarian Cecilia Goddard Hughes called Gertrude, drew her last breath. She passed away at her residence, 2950 North Ruimveldt, Georgetown. Ms....

It is a problem of democracy and ignorance, not fear

Feb 04, 2011 KNews Letters Comments Off on It is a problem of democracy and ignorance, not fear

Dear Editor, As general elections in Guyana draw close, all kinds of fears and anxieties grip the population, the kind of fears and anxieties accompanied by violence that have characterized our...

A street vendor led to the Tunisian Velvet Revolution

Feb 04, 2011 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on A street vendor led to the Tunisian Velvet Revolution

In Guyana, over three hundred street vendors were forcibly removed from their selling base one evening. No one in the Government of Guyana gave them warning or notice. The bulldozers came and...

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Keevin Allicock – the next torchbearer for Guyanese professional boxing

Sometimes the best of leaders fail

Peeping Tom… Kaieteur News- Jimmy Carter’s presidency fell victim to global and domestic upheavals. His single term... more