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PPP/C, AFC trade verbal blows on the Corentyne

Oct 31, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on PPP/C, AFC trade verbal blows on the Corentyne

– Nagamootoo calls Freedom House the ‘Rob St Gang’ – Joey Jagan says “Moses lied!” By Leon Suseran Tempers flared on the Corentyne on Sunday during...

Sleeping child dies after tree crashes onto house

Oct 31, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Sleeping child dies after tree crashes onto house

– five others injured A five year old girl was killed early Sunday morning after heavy winds caused a tree to crash down on her home while she slept. Dead is Tammica Hackett, of...

Black Tacoma linked to Election vandals

Oct 31, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Black Tacoma linked to Election vandals

…police to review CCTV recordings The Peoples Progressive Party Civic is again reporting that individuals have been vandalizing its election paraphernalia such as billboards. The...

Court bars millers from leaving country until farmers paid

Oct 31, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Court bars millers from leaving country until farmers paid

MRL rice row… – milling licences suspended By Leonard Gildarie Government has secured injunctions against owners of Mahaicony Rice Limited (MRL) barring...

RUSAL employee buried alive in mining pit

Oct 31, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on RUSAL employee buried alive in mining pit

– colleague injured A 20-year-old RUSAL bauxite company employee was buried alive and another worker seriously injured when a mining pit caved in on them at Kwakwani, around 10:30 hours...

President engaging in political opportunism – Ramjattan

Oct 31, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on President engaging in political opportunism – Ramjattan

Presidential Candidate of the Alliance For Change (AFC) Khemraj Ramjattan has noted with amusement President Jagdeo’s latest decree on clearing the 132 scrap metal containers on the wharves...

Guyanese continue their littering ways

Oct 31, 2011 KNews News 12

As the Mayor and City Council struggles to clean up Georgetown, citizens make this task for them difficult as they continue to litter in the most absurd places. The uncontrollable littering habits of...

MRWP holds successful Farmers’ Market

Oct 31, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on MRWP holds successful Farmers’ Market

The Mangrove Reserve Women Producers (MRWP) held their first Farmers’ Market, sponsored by Digicel to promote their agro-produce which they have been developing for months. Despite the inclement...

Miss Guyana Universe contestants receive prizes

Oct 31, 2011 KNews News 5

Contestants of the July 9, Miss Guyana Universe Pageant 2011, last evening received their prizes. The ceremony held at the Water Chris Hotel, Waterloo Street, Georgetown, was not without contention....

Randolph ‘The Accomplisher’ Morgan is overall King; is 3rd Guyanese to dead lift 700lbs

Oct 31, 2011 KNews Sports Comments Off on Randolph ‘The Accomplisher’ Morgan is overall King; is 3rd Guyanese to dead lift 700lbs

Having conquered all at the local, Caribbean, Regional and International levels, Randolph ‘The Accomplisher’ Morgan continues to prove that he is the best in the business on the local scene. A...

Pegasus Hotel Tennis Open starts Friday

Oct 31, 2011 KNews Sports Comments Off on Pegasus Hotel Tennis Open starts Friday

The Pegasus Tennis Open starts on Friday Nov 4 at the hotel’s courts in Kingston. The tournament, which is held annually, coincides with the anniversary for the Hotel which has been sponsoring...

Mangal wins Macorp Golf tourney

Oct 31, 2011 KNews Sports Comments Off on Mangal wins Macorp Golf tourney

Mike Mangal blazed the golf course at Lusignan to win last Saturday’s Macorp Medal Play Golf tournament in an electrifying performance. The former Guyana Open champion shot a net 63 and also had...

Infrastructure investment, emergency employment needed

Oct 31, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Infrastructure investment, emergency employment needed

– say UN agencies The International Labour Organisation (ILO) and the United Nations Economic Commission for the Caribbean and Latin American (ECLAC) say the strong economic recovery of the...

Pacesetters and Victory Valley Royals to contest final on Nov 4

Oct 31, 2011 KNews Sports Comments Off on Pacesetters and Victory Valley Royals to contest final on Nov 4

It was basketball at its finest on Saturday last at the Mackenzie Sports Club in Linden, as a capacity crowd witnessed Pacesetters defeating their arch rivals Dynas Ravens 66-62 and Victory Valley...

Ruggers experience mixed fortunes at Pan American Games

Oct 31, 2011 KNews Sports Comments Off on Ruggers experience mixed fortunes at Pan American Games

The Guyana Rugby team at the XVI Pan American Games in Guadalajara, Mexico endured mixed fortunes on the first day of competition in the Rugby component of the Games Saturday. Playing in Pool A of...

Stop the loud music at cricket matches

Oct 31, 2011 KNews Sports Comments Off on Stop the loud music at cricket matches

Dear Editor, Yesterday (Saturday) while watching the finals of the Caribbean super 50 competition, I took time to reflect about my own cricket experience, among my earliest memories are various...

GECOM clears PPP/C, APNU, AFC, TUF to contest election

Oct 31, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on GECOM clears PPP/C, APNU, AFC, TUF to contest election

Of the seven political parties/grouping that submitted Candidates’ List to contest the General and Regional Elections on November 28, only four have been cleared thus far with another...

Robert Persaud owes Guyanese an apology – APNU

Oct 31, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Robert Persaud owes Guyanese an apology – APNU

A Partnership for National Unity (APNU) has noted with interest the “rantings of Robert Persaud that are being broadcasted far and wide on the PPP/C’s domestic...

13-year old girl suffers burns in Pigeon Island fire

Oct 31, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on 13-year old girl suffers burns in Pigeon Island fire

13-year old Toosieda Persaud sustained burns to both her legs while fleeing from a fire that had engulfed her home at Pigeon Island, East Coast Demerara, early yesterday morning....

Govt. projects resume in Bartica

Oct 31, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Govt. projects resume in Bartica

The numerous Government contracts in Bartica which were stalled as a result of the unavailability of stones have been resumed. According to reports out of Bartica, the main...

GPHC clarifies procedures to deal with maternal death complaints

Oct 31, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on GPHC clarifies procedures to deal with maternal death complaints

The Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation says that a loss of life at the institution does not necessarily reflect incompetence of the staff there but in fact indicates that...

WRITING ON THE WALL

Oct 31, 2011 KNews Features / Columnists, Tony Deyal column Comments Off on WRITING ON THE WALL

You cannot hope to bribe or twist (thank God!) the British journalist. But, seeing what the man will do unbribed, there’s no occasion to. (Humbert Wolfe) “If you have a berth in your company...

Leadership was never the problem for the PNCR

Oct 31, 2011 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on Leadership was never the problem for the PNCR

Patrick Manning, the four-time elected Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago deserved to have retired from politics with a better send off. He has been a stalwart for the Peoples National Movement...

Freddie Kissoon had called for Nigel Hughes to “resign his leadership role in the Guyana Bar Association”

Oct 31, 2011 KNews Letters Comments Off on Freddie Kissoon had called for Nigel Hughes to “resign his leadership role in the Guyana Bar Association”

Dear Editor, “Mouth open, story jump out” is an old idiom often heard in Guyana. There is also another popular saying that, “A liar should have a good memory”. Freddie Kissoon’s memory is...

Coalitions, defections and ethnic fears

Oct 31, 2011 KNews Letters Comments Off on Coalitions, defections and ethnic fears

Dear Editor, Both Kaieteur News (in KN 25th October, “Changing alliances and voter shift”) and Stabroek News (in SN 30th October, “Re-alignment”) have editorialized on the “re-alignments,...

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Bureaucracy gone bananas!

…Peeping Tom kaieteur News- Every morning, the government wakes up, stretches its arms, and spends one billion dollars... more