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Freddie can be objective when he wants to be

Mar 25, 2011 KNews Letters Comments Off on Freddie can be objective when he wants to be

Dear Editor, I write to commend columnist Freddie Kissoon on one of the more objective political analysis he has written in a very long time: “Carl Greenidge and Nietzsche’s Übermensch”...

Canadian firm announces major gold find at Aurora

Mar 25, 2011 knews News Comments Off on Canadian firm announces major gold find at Aurora

– says will invest US$150M over 20 years By Leonard Gildarie Guyana Goldfields Inc., a Canadian company which has been conducting explorations here since 1996, yesterday announced that it will...

Sacked OP employee claims Lumumba threatened her

Mar 25, 2011 knews News Comments Off on Sacked OP employee claims Lumumba threatened her

“I am willing to take a lie detector test by any agency. Is she prepared to do that?” – Odinga Lumumba Sacked Office of the President (OP) employee Marcelle Joseph has contended that...

Two plead guilty to manslaughter, two acquitted

Mar 25, 2011 knews News Comments Off on Two plead guilty to manslaughter, two acquitted

The trial of a Chesney, Corentyne quartet – a mother, her son and two other males – who were being tried in the Berbice High Court for murder, took a dramatic turn yesterday with the...

Another White Elephant ???

Mar 25, 2011 knews News Comments Off on Another White Elephant ???

Is the multi-million dollar building which now stands at the Princes and High Street location where the old Guyana Broadcasting Corporation (GBC) headquarters was situated, another white elephant?...

Fatal blaze resulted from toddlers playing with matches – Fire Chief

Mar 25, 2011 knews News Comments Off on Fatal blaze resulted from toddlers playing with matches – Fire Chief

Fire Chief Marlon Gentle has stated that Tuesday’s morning fire which claimed the life of two-year-old Nicholas Maraj was as a result of children playing with matches. Maraj’s three-year-old...

CARICOM challenged to advance renewable energy drive

Mar 25, 2011 knews News Comments Off on CARICOM challenged to advance renewable energy drive

Energy Ministers from across the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) met yesterday and were challenged to advance the Region’s renewable energy drive and leverage energy sector advantages in the face of...

Dem boys seh…De Top Cop tek he own discharge

Mar 25, 2011 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Dem boys seh…De Top Cop tek he own discharge

Security is a big thing. Was a time when people use to sleep wid dem house open. Dem didn’t have to worry. Dem boys seh that anybody who talk bout dem days got to realize that everybody was poor....

Social Sciences dethrone Natural Sciences in thriller

Mar 25, 2011 KNews Sports Comments Off on Social Sciences dethrone Natural Sciences in thriller

Social Sciences (SS) turned in a masterful performance to dethrone Natural Sciences 42-41 when the University of Guyana staged the finals of the Inter-Faculty Basketball Championships at the Cliff...

5th IPF/NAPF Caribbean Powerlifting C/ships lifts off today

Mar 25, 2011 KNews Sports Comments Off on 5th IPF/NAPF Caribbean Powerlifting C/ships lifts off today

Ansa McAl, New GPC & Johnny Singh contribute to Team Guyana The response from the business community to an appeal of the Guyana Amateur Powerlifting Federation (GAPF) has been given the thumbs up...

85 percent of complaints are resolved in favour of consumers – PUC

Mar 25, 2011 knews News Comments Off on 85 percent of complaints are resolved in favour of consumers – PUC

About 85 percent of all complaints directed to the Public Utilities Commission (PUC) are completed in favour of consumers, according to PUC Manager, Raymon Cummings. He however noted that the...

Parika stabbing victim ‘refuses to implicate cop’

Mar 25, 2011 knews News Comments Off on Parika stabbing victim ‘refuses to implicate cop’

An investigation into the stabbing of a Parika resident by a policeman is reportedly at a standstill because the wounded man is refusing to give a statement. “We can’t lay any charges because...

Covent Garden creates history, becomes 10-time winners

Mar 25, 2011 KNews Sports Comments Off on Covent Garden creates history, becomes 10-time winners

– L’Aventure also in winners’ row After waiting for four years and behind a vocal crowd that included parents and fans, Covent Garden Secondary School rewrote the history books when they...

Achievers Youth and Sports Club to hold award ceremony tomorrow

Mar 25, 2011 KNews Sports Comments Off on Achievers Youth and Sports Club to hold award ceremony tomorrow

The Achievers Youth and Sports Club of West Berbice will be holding its 9th Annual Award and Prize Giving Ceremony tomorrow, Saturday 26th March, 2011, at the R.D.C Board Room, Fort Wellington, West...

Constraints still abound as World TB Day is observed – Health Minister

Mar 25, 2011 knews News Comments Off on Constraints still abound as World TB Day is observed – Health Minister

More than 91 percent of all Tuberculosis patients were tested for HIV in 2010 and about 25 percent were found to be HIV positive, according to Minister of Health, Dr Leslie Ramsammy. In fact he...

Must the ERC or Granger atone for 1973 elections mishaps?

Mar 25, 2011 KNews Letters Comments Off on Must the ERC or Granger atone for 1973 elections mishaps?

Dear Editor, Ms Lurlene Nestor in a letter to (SN) on 22 March 2011, titled, “Did the ERC monitor what the President said at Babu John?” Ostensibly seeks to do well for Guyana. She is worried, as...

Zone 32 bus operators say being illegally forced to pay monies

Mar 25, 2011 knews News Comments Off on Zone 32 bus operators say being illegally forced to pay monies

– claim association uses police to threaten them Several Zone 32 minibus operators yesterday refused to continue paying monies to what they described as an illegal association and said that...

MSC honours Crosse on WI selection

Mar 25, 2011 KNews Sports Comments Off on MSC honours Crosse on WI selection

Malteenoes Sports Club (MSC) honoured one of its own when club member Kwame Crosse was presented with a set of cricket gears on Wednesday afternoon, in the club’s Pavilion. The gift represents the...

What’s in a name?

Mar 25, 2011 KNews Sports Comments Off on What’s in a name?

To be answered tonight as ‘Lightening Struck Assassin’ attempts to silence ‘Battersea Bomber’ By Michael Benjamin When Kwesi ‘Lightening Struck Assassin’ Jones enters the...

Mr. Kwayana was never Minister of Labour

Mar 25, 2011 KNews Letters Comments Off on Mr. Kwayana was never Minister of Labour

Dear Editor, In a letter dated 23 March, 2011, titled, “The men who helped make Dr. Cheddi Jagan”, Mr. Cheddi (Joey) Jagan (Jr) erroneously stated that “Mr. Kwayana served as Minister of Labour...

Thousands affected as GRA systems disrupted by lightning

Mar 25, 2011 knews News Comments Off on Thousands affected as GRA systems disrupted by lightning

Thousands of individuals conduting business at Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) offices across the country, are still being inconvenienced to some extent by the recent network disruption caused by...

It is not the World Bank that’s hampering the LCDS progress

Mar 25, 2011 KNews Letters Comments Off on It is not the World Bank that’s hampering the LCDS progress

Dear Editor, I congratulate the publisher of Kaieteur News for the outstanding job he is doing by providing the Guyanese people with not just news but real information. Mr. Lall made me very proud as...

Cops begin new probe in Pakaraimas shooting death

Mar 25, 2011 knews News Comments Off on Cops begin new probe in Pakaraimas shooting death

Police have returned to the Pakaraimas area where Samson Jacob Aaron was found dead last month to ascertain whether his demise was a suicide or a murder. Commander of E and F Division, Assistant...

Mayor’s Cup semifinalists to be decided starting Sunday

Mar 25, 2011 KNews Sports Comments Off on Mayor’s Cup semifinalists to be decided starting Sunday

The Mayor’s Cup football championship is closing in on its semifinal round. The battle for the four semifinal slots start Sunday with the first two quarterfinal matches at the Georgetown Football...

GNRA handgun shoot fixed for Sunday at Timehri

Mar 25, 2011 KNews Sports Comments Off on GNRA handgun shoot fixed for Sunday at Timehri

The Guyana National Rifle Association handgun section will run off its first practical pistol shoot for this year on Sunday at the Timehri rifle ranges. The IPSC Handgun competition rules will apply...

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A flawed interpretation of international law

Peeping Tom… Kaieteur News – The assertion that “under international law, Venezuela is responsible for... more