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Opposition absent as Bills sent to Select Committee

Aug 12, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Opposition absent as Bills sent to Select Committee

Telecoms legislation… By Leonard Gildarie Two pieces of legislation, that government says will break the monopoly of the Guyana Telephone and Telegraph Company (GT&T) and throw the...

Inferno razes TH&D storage bond

Aug 12, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Inferno razes TH&D storage bond

– Hundreds of millions in estimated losses Hundreds of millions in valuables went up in smoke early yesterday morning as a fire consumed the Transport and Harbours Department...

Two girls top at CSEC

Aug 12, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Two girls top at CSEC

After five years of hard work and hours of gruelling classes, extra lessons, working through the holidays and studying night after night, the wait is finally over. CSEC results are here. The...

Queen’s College dominates CAPE in 2011

Aug 12, 2011 KNews News 7

Every single student who has ever had to write the Caribbean Advanced Proficiency Examinations (CAPE) will tell you that in comparison to the Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate (CSEC), CAPE is...

Dem boys seh …..Dem container gun tun house fuh some people

Aug 12, 2011 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Dem boys seh …..Dem container gun tun house fuh some people

People got a big cleaning exercise going on in Queens. De Big man going there this weekend fuh collect money that gun help pay de passage fuh he and Uncle Donald. One man walk wid a pointer broom but...

‘Phony’ GPL workers nabbed after fleecing Land of Canaan residents

Aug 12, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on ‘Phony’ GPL workers nabbed after fleecing Land of Canaan residents

Luck ran out on two men who claimed they were employees of the Guyana Power and Light Inc., and fleeced several residents of varying amounts of cash. The men were arrested on Wednesday afternoon by...

One killed, three injured in accident

Aug 12, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on One killed, three injured in accident

A 29-year-old man was killed when the vehicle in which he was travelling was struck by another car. The fatal collision occurred just after 01:00 hrs yesterday morning at the junction of David and...

Cops probe fisherman’s death at sea

Aug 12, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Cops probe fisherman’s death at sea

Police are questioning the captain and crew-members of a fishing vessel following the sudden death at sea of one of the crew. John Dowden, of Hogg Street, Albouystown, also known as ‘Nattie’,...

Robbery accused trio granted bail

Aug 12, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Robbery accused trio granted bail

Patrick Dundas, Napthli Favourite and Lapntali Clarke, who were charged with robbery with aggravation, were each granted bail to the tune of $125,000 when they appeared yesterday before...

Teen remanded on robbery charge

Aug 12, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Teen remanded on robbery charge

A teenager accused of committing robbery under arms was yesterday remanded to prison by Magistrate Hazel Octave Hamilton when he appeared before her at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court. The...

Man beaten to death at Port Kaituma

Aug 12, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Man beaten to death at Port Kaituma

The police are investigating yet another murder in Guyana’s interior, following the death of a 19-year-old miner in the North West District around 23:00 hours on Tuesday last. Police in a press...

Still no start date for Linden-Lethem road works

Aug 12, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Still no start date for Linden-Lethem road works

Discussions on the development of the Linden to Lethem Road have been ongoing for years and the Governments of Guyana and Brazil have not yet decided on the date when the construction of the road...

All roads lead to Providence today for Jam Zone Masters’ Cups semis

Aug 12, 2011 KNews Sports Comments Off on All roads lead to Providence today for Jam Zone Masters’ Cups semis

By Sean Devers The wait is finally over and the battle about to begin as the biggest stars in Caribbean T20 cricket collide in two exciting semi-finals of the Jam Zone Masters’ Cup T20 cricket...

Digicel lauds efforts of Special Olympics team

Aug 12, 2011 KNews Sports Comments Off on Digicel lauds efforts of Special Olympics team

Hosts Luncheon for contingent By Edison Jefford One of the largest corporate supporters of sports in Guyana, Digicel, yesterday lauded the efforts of the national Special Olympics team, which...

Guyana aim to hand Jamaica 3rd straight defeat

Aug 12, 2011 KNews Sports Comments Off on Guyana aim to hand Jamaica 3rd straight defeat

Regional U-19 cricket round three By Sean Devers Guyana rebounded from their first round loss to defending Champions Trinidad and Tobago by beating the Leeward Islands in their second round...

Tulsie crowned champion rider

Aug 12, 2011 KNews Sports Comments Off on Tulsie crowned champion rider

Biker Boyz Grass Track Meet Peter Tulsie made the transition from Novice to Pro rider in grand style when he rode to two victories which propelled him to Champion Rider status when the...

Yassin ushers praise on the national ladies hockey team

Aug 12, 2011 KNews Sports Comments Off on Yassin ushers praise on the national ladies hockey team

President of the Guyana Olympic Association (GOA) K.A Juman Yassin speaking at a press briefing to highlight the National ladies Hockey team’s outstanding performance at the just...

Jumbo Jet stables rolls them over with $20M horse race sponsorship

Aug 12, 2011 KNews Sports Comments Off on Jumbo Jet stables rolls them over with $20M horse race sponsorship

Digicel offers support to fraternity once again Samuel Whyte With over $20 million in total sponsorship at stake for the August 21 Jumbo Jet Guyana Cup Horse Race Meet, including a hefty...

GDA to host competition on Sunday @ Timehri

Aug 12, 2011 KNews Sports Comments Off on GDA to host competition on Sunday @ Timehri

The Guyana Draughts Association (GDA) in its continuing efforts to speard the game will be hosting a competition for players on the East Bank of Demerara including Soesdyke and Timehri...

Double whammy

Aug 12, 2011 KNews Editorial Comments Off on Double whammy

While most of us have been transfixed at the spectacle of the downgrading of the creditworthiness of the US and the subsequent implosion of its stock markets (as well as the world’s)...

Things about Guyanese fascism I didn’t know

Aug 12, 2011 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on Things about Guyanese fascism I didn’t know

The PPP Government has been in power nineteen years. In these two decades, many fascist and cruel policies have crept up on us that we simply didn’t know about and don’t know at the...

An impressive show of force by the PPP!

Aug 12, 2011 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on An impressive show of force by the PPP!

It was billed as a platform for youths. But coming in an election year, and organized on behalf of the People’s Progressive Party (involving a great many of the present and upcoming...

PPP’s suspension of its Congress is a slap in the face of party members and supporters

Aug 12, 2011 KNews Letters Comments Off on PPP’s suspension of its Congress is a slap in the face of party members and supporters

Dear Editor, I could swear I was going to have a heart attack from laughing after reading Kaieteur News’ article titled “PPP postpones congress to focus on general elections” (KN, August 10,...

Jagdeo did not seek NY Parade Invitation

Aug 12, 2011 KNews Letters Comments Off on Jagdeo did not seek NY Parade Invitation

Dear Editor, I am responding to Mr. Malcolm Harripaul’s missive (KN Aug 9) accusing President Bharrat Jagdeo of among other things: 1. seeking an invitation to attend the India Day Parade...

Kissoon’s principles are based on narcissism and self-promotion

Aug 12, 2011 KNews Letters Comments Off on Kissoon’s principles are based on narcissism and self-promotion

Dear Editor, I notice that Mr. Freddie Kissoon places me in his ranting and raving column on Wednesday, with Dev, Bisram and Misir, all of whom I have exposed repeatedly for their lies, distortions...

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…Peeping Tom Kaieteur News- The call for a referendum on Guyana’s oil contract is a step in the right direction,... more