November 2011

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MMZ/ De Kinderen access bridge still not replaced

Nov 09, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on MMZ/ De Kinderen access bridge still not replaced

…eight months after promise Several months have passed and residents of the Meten-Meer-Zorg sideline dam (West Coast Demerara) have been left without a sturdy bridge which would allow...

GT&T’s Blackberry launching set for Friday

Nov 09, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on GT&T’s Blackberry launching set for Friday

-promises low prices, faster browsing By Leonard Gildarie The Guyana Telephone and Telegraph Company (GT&T) is gearing to launch its Blackberry Service on Friday with “affordable”...

Fifty signboards erected on #63 Beach

Nov 09, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Fifty signboards erected on #63 Beach

….as UCCCI concludes school competitions The Upper Corentyne Chamber of Commerce (UCCCI) has installed two beach preservation billboards and fifty (50) ‘clean beach’ signs. One billboard...

$200M-plus bids opened for GPHC supplies

Nov 09, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on $200M-plus bids opened for GPHC supplies

Bids for seven contracts by the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC), and valued more than $200M for critical supplies and services, were opened yesterday at the National Procurement...

New IDB poverty reduction fund…NGOs can now apply for up to US$1.5M

Nov 09, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on New IDB poverty reduction fund…NGOs can now apply for up to US$1.5M

Guyanese Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) are now each eligible for up to US$1.5M of funding from the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) to help reduce poverty. The IDB has issued a call...

Police nab driver who fled accident scene

Nov 09, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Police nab driver who fled accident scene

Shortly before 19:00hrs yesterday, police on the West Bank of Demerara reportedly apprehended a man believed to be the driver who fled an accident scene on Monday night after two lads were...

David Daniel Grimmond observes 103rd birthday!

Nov 09, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on David Daniel Grimmond observes 103rd birthday!

David Daniel Grimmond celebrated his 103rd birthday yesterday, with the gift of a true Christian function and a birthday cake, in the presence of his family and fellow church members. Born on...

CARICOM youth development goals endorsed by Suriname

Nov 09, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on CARICOM youth development goals endorsed by Suriname

Suriname’s Minister of Sport and Youth Affairs, Paul Abena,, has endorsed the CARICOM Youth Development Goals (CDYGs) and accompanying Youth Development Action Plan (CYDAP) as a step...

PPP/C denounces opposition claims of corruption

Nov 08, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on PPP/C denounces opposition claims of corruption

…Though own members have admitted “top to bottom” corruption Executive Member of the People’s Progressive Party/Civic (PPP/C), Robert Persaud, in a statement yesterday sought to...

Drivers beware of this La Parfaite Harmonie, W.B.D. bridge

Nov 08, 2011 KNews News 5

Months after a contract to construct a new bridge to link the La Parfaite Harmonie Housing Scheme to Canal Number One Polder was awarded, work is still to start. The current structure at that...

AFC proposes implementation of National Procurement Commission

Nov 08, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on AFC proposes implementation of National Procurement Commission

The establishment of a National Procurement Commission as a constitutional body will be one of the immediate measures to be introduced if the Alliance for Change (AFC) is able to secure...

PM’s wife in midst of child custody battle

Nov 08, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on PM’s wife in midst of child custody battle

…Leaves US with grandson despite court ordered stay Yvonne Hinds, the wife of Prime Minister Samuel Hinds, is said to have left the United States with her three-year-old grandson in the...

Sugar workers are being ‘screwed’- Nagamootoo tells Canje rally

Nov 08, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Sugar workers are being ‘screwed’- Nagamootoo tells Canje rally

Sugar workers and their rights have been trampled upon, according to former PPP/C Executive Member, Moses Nagamootoo. At a recently held political meeting in Adelphi, Canje, on Saturday,...

Dem boys seh…Donald tie bundle wid AFC and APNU fuh jail de Bees

Nov 08, 2011 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Dem boys seh…Donald tie bundle wid AFC and APNU fuh jail de Bees

When people getting married de pastor does tell dem fuh repeat “till death do us part.” Well dem boys tell a pledge fuh stick behind de Bees till death separate dem. De thing that mek dem...

Sacrifice

Nov 08, 2011 KNews Editorial Comments Off on Sacrifice

On Sunday, our Muslim fellow citizens of this multi-religious and multicultural society celebrated the festival of Eid ul Adha. In recognition of our multi-religiosity, the state declared its...

WHY THE MEDIA STAYED AWAY

Nov 08, 2011 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on WHY THE MEDIA STAYED AWAY

The private media did not boycott the meeting with presidential candidate of the People’s Progressive Party Civic, Mr. Donald Ramotar. The absence of the private media from that meeting was a...

The phantom of the opera joins the PPP’s election campaign

Nov 08, 2011 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on The phantom of the opera joins the PPP’s election campaign

A gentle old lady said to me in Nigel’s Supermarket last month if I don’t think that Peeping Tom is the President himself. I told her no. Without being personal, (and I sincerely say here that I...

This government wants silence in order to continue its oppression and plundering of our resources

Nov 08, 2011 KNews Letters Comments Off on This government wants silence in order to continue its oppression and plundering of our resources

Dear Editor, Prem Misir is reminded his disingenuous cut and paste of comments by noted individuals on the Rwanda genocide fools no one. Reference is made to his letter “Raising the...

Need for new ideas: Consider a union with Canada (or any other suitable country)

Nov 08, 2011 KNews Letters Comments Off on Need for new ideas: Consider a union with Canada (or any other suitable country)

DEAR EDITOR, There is an election campaign going on in Guyana. This is an ideal time to introduce new ideas about the future course of this nation. Ideas introduced in the heat of a...

These five CARICOM members are on the wrong side of history

Nov 08, 2011 KNews Letters Comments Off on These five CARICOM members are on the wrong side of history

Dear Editor, It comes as no surprise that several Caricom members, Trinidad and Tobago, the Bahamas , Barbados , Jamaica and St. Kitts and Nevis will not support the Palestinian bid for...

Going hard after the corrupt in the halls of power

Nov 08, 2011 KNews Letters Comments Off on Going hard after the corrupt in the halls of power

Dear Editor, Rajendra Bisessar said this “In some instances, some members of the PPP government would have to be tried and put in jail” in a letter titled ‘It’s blatant lies! I...

The stage is being set for massively unfair elections

Nov 08, 2011 KNews Letters Comments Off on The stage is being set for massively unfair elections

Dear Editor, My Business Page column in this past Sunday Stabroek noted how the Government has undermined the regional administrations and the local democratic organs across the...

Indian collapse leaves Delhi Test wide open

Nov 08, 2011 KNews Sports Comments Off on Indian collapse leaves Delhi Test wide open

Yahoo! Cricket – The Ashes defeat of 2005 was a life-altering one for many Australian players. After their unchallenged run for years, the defeat told them that they could no longer...

Mark Vieira feels he could hold off Mayers’ Ford Focus

Nov 08, 2011 KNews Sports Comments Off on Mark Vieira feels he could hold off Mayers’ Ford Focus

GT&T / Seaboard Marine Caribbean Motor Racing Championship Local speed ace Mark Vieira is predicting that Guyana has what it takes to hold off the anticipated threat of Barbados’...

Memorex Bermine, RHT Gizmos & Gadgets advance to final

Nov 08, 2011 KNews Sports Comments Off on Memorex Bermine, RHT Gizmos & Gadgets advance to final

Universal DVD Club Berbice t20 cricket A large and vocal holiday crowd provided a wonderful atmosphere in sunny conditions at the Blairmont ground last Monday as Memorex Bermine...

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(Kaieteur News) – Shreyas Iyer produced a breathtaking century on his T20I captaincy debut as India dismantled the West Indies by eight wickets in the opening match of their five-game series at...

(Kaieteur News) – The elections in Brazil have turned out to be more than electing a government. The first round, concluded on Sunday, has effectively signalled the end of an era and the changing of an age in the region. Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, at age eighty, finished second to Flávio...

The People’s Wars, Caribbean Bills

Oct 04, 2026

By Sir Ronald Sanders (Kaieteur News) – The Caribbean did not start, or participate in, the war involving the United States, Israel and Iran, nor the other continuing conflicts in the Middle East. Yet millions of Caribbean people are paying a price for them every day. They pay it at petrol...

MV Barima tragedy -would have handled differently

Oct 07, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – Things could have been different. I would have made allowance. But when it was the same stink and dutty story with the MV Barima tragedy, there was only one road left. In the late hours of that fateful Saturday night of July, those early hours of Sunday morning, the little...

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