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Three bidders for $B supply of 27,000 laptops

Apr 13, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Three bidders for $B supply of 27,000 laptops

The bids for the much talked about One Laptop Per Family (OLPF) project were yesterday opened at the National Procurement and Tender Administration Board for the supply of 27,000 units for the...

Gunmen snatch cash, gun, hijack car

Apr 13, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Gunmen snatch cash, gun, hijack car

Four heavily armed gunmen escaped with a canister containing an undisclosed sum of cash at around 17:45 hrs yesterday after holding up a vehicle containing a female security guard and employees of...

NY-based ex-cop, 77, fatally shot for chain

Apr 13, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on NY-based ex-cop, 77, fatally shot for chain

– bandits seen riding away on bicycle By Latoya Giles A 77-year-old ex-policeman was shot dead at his one of his properties yesterday by two bandits who made off with his gold chain. The...

Serial abuser, 62, jailed for wounding lover

Apr 13, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Serial abuser, 62, jailed for wounding lover

Charles Goodluck, a 62-year-old security guard of East Canje, Berbice, who was previously charged with murder, manslaughter, attempted murder, assault and wounding, among other charges, all committed...

Govt. insists nothing secret about concessions

Apr 13, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Govt. insists nothing secret about concessions

Government yesterday insisted that there was nothing secret about a recent granting of forest concessions to an India’s coffee-making company last year. Amidst swirling questions in the media over...

Fire destroys Christianburg courthouse

Apr 13, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Fire destroys Christianburg courthouse

Linden’s oldest functioning landmark, the Christianburg Magistrate’s Court, was early yesterday morning destroyed by fire. Shock and dismay gripped the community as news of the raging...

Dem boys seh…Bharrat and Kwame deh pun stupidness

Apr 13, 2011 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Dem boys seh…Bharrat and Kwame deh pun stupidness

When dem boys start fuh hear bout slipshod wuk and corruption dem decide to call de Waterfalls paper. Now that dem boys done wid corruption dem getting even more things to talk about. Bharrat tell de...

Rebuilding a team for World Cup reason for Sarwan’s non-selection for ODI team

Apr 13, 2011 KNews Sports Comments Off on Rebuilding a team for World Cup reason for Sarwan’s non-selection for ODI team

Chanderpaul asked to retire from ODIs By Sean Devers At age 30 and with an ODI average of 43.20 from 166 matches Guyanese middle order batsman and former West Indies Captain Ramnaresh Sarwan has been...

River Plate arrive for CFU Football clash

Apr 13, 2011 KNews Sports Comments Off on River Plate arrive for CFU Football clash

Visitors expect ‘physical’ game from Alpha United By Sean Devers Puerto Rico’s champions, River Plate, arrived in Guyana yesterday afternoon where they oppose Guyana’s two times defending...

CARIFTA Games team need another $1M

Apr 13, 2011 KNews Sports Comments Off on CARIFTA Games team need another $1M

The bugbear of corporate funding for national teams has once again raised its ugly head when the President of the Athletics Association of Guyana (AAG), Colin Boyce, disclosed yesterday that a...

Karran all round heroics guides ECI to victory

Apr 13, 2011 KNews Sports Comments Off on Karran all round heroics guides ECI to victory

A fine all round performance by Vinhood Karran guided ECI to victory last Sunday at the National Park over Farnum’s XI in a tapeball 20/20 contest. A day after being outclassed by the powerful...

Central Police Station Youth Club Day of sports set for today

Apr 13, 2011 KNews Sports Comments Off on Central Police Station Youth Club Day of sports set for today

With its recent success in staging their 20/20 competition, which was won by the Guyana Fire Service, the Central Police Station Outreach and Community Enhancement Programme under the leadership of...

Suicide granny did not have financial problems

Apr 13, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Suicide granny did not have financial problems

Relatives of 75-year-old Shairoon Ali are angry at a news report which stated that she committed suicide because of a debt she owed for groceries. The relatives claimed that there is no way that the...

PM/GTC #1 win Trophy Stall round robin open Volleyball competition

Apr 13, 2011 KNews Sports Comments Off on PM/GTC #1 win Trophy Stall round robin open Volleyball competition

The youthful and energetic Guysuco Training Centre #1 team brushed aside all opponents to cart off the Trophy Stall first place trophy when the BVA held its round robin one day open competition at...

Jacobs takes Man-of-the-Match on T&TEC debut in Trinidad

Apr 13, 2011 KNews Sports Comments Off on Jacobs takes Man-of-the-Match on T&TEC debut in Trinidad

Says standard is far higher than Guyana’s club cricket Queen’s Park Cricket Club boosted their advantage atop the Trinidad and Tobago Eastern Credit Union Premier Division standings after...

Boxing officials convene today as GABA stages coaching clinic

Apr 13, 2011 KNews Sports Comments Off on Boxing officials convene today as GABA stages coaching clinic

The amateur boxing sector will receive a timely boost to its pool of trainers when Terrence Poole, a level one boxing coach affiliated to the Guyana Amateur Boxing Association (GABA), hosts a 4 days...

Regatta Football 2K11 officially unveiled last evening

Apr 13, 2011 KNews Sports Comments Off on Regatta Football 2K11 officially unveiled last evening

Four teams to collide for top prize By Franklin Wilson in Bartica The 2011 Bartica Regatta Football tournament kicked off last evening at the Bartica Community Centre Ground after being officially...

Facts should be the key not poor ethics

Apr 13, 2011 KNews Sports Comments Off on Facts should be the key not poor ethics

Dear Sir, The Bartica Football Association would like to respond to various erroneous statements that have been printed by sport reporters and in the letter column of the daily newspapers accusing...

8.5 percent of all deaths in Guyana linked to diabetes – Health Minister

Apr 13, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on 8.5 percent of all deaths in Guyana linked to diabetes – Health Minister

A high percent of TB patients are also diabetics in the population, according to Health Minister, Dr Leslie Ramsammy. In fact, he had revealed that a recent study has shown that persons living with...

GPHC gears to improve critical nursing care

Apr 13, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on GPHC gears to improve critical nursing care

Critical nursing care at the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) is poised for immense improvement. According to Coordinator of In-Service Education for Nurses, Mr Owen John, training in...

GT&T holds out hope for West Dem. internet users

Apr 13, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on GT&T holds out hope for West Dem. internet users

A delegation comprising residents of West Coast Demerara recently met with the Chief Executive Officer of Guyana Telephone and Telegraph Company (GT&T), Yog Mahadeo, at the entity’s Brickdam...

Burglars “take all” from Tech Media

Apr 13, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Burglars “take all” from Tech Media

Burglars carted off more than $7M worth of electronic gadgets from the Tech Media, a store located at Robb and King Streets. Kaieteur News understands that the intruders entered the store by smashing...

Pensioners yet to receive monies

Apr 13, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Pensioners yet to receive monies

More than one year ago monies which were to be paid out to police pensioners were stolen from the Force’s Finance Office and to date the senior citizens are yet to receive their money. Earlier this...

UG in a mess? Whose Fault is it?

Apr 13, 2011 KNews Letters Comments Off on UG in a mess? Whose Fault is it?

Dear Editor, Too often have been the occasions when the PPP Government has been blamed for the current decline (a mess really) that is a feature of the country’s premiere educational institution....

Another PI commences for ‘Cobra’

Apr 13, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Another PI commences for ‘Cobra’

Tyrone Rowe, popularly known as ‘Cobra’, Amad Lallchand aka Rondy and Dwayne Critchlow were all charged for the offence of robbery under arms, allegedly committed on Troy Collins sometime last...

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This must not be our hour of humiliation

Peeping Tom… Kaieteur News- There are moments in the history of nations when fate lays before them a choice not of... more