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Amaila Falls’ US15.4M roads delayed again

Dec 22, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Amaila Falls’ US15.4M roads delayed again

– ‘Fip Motilall’ to hire sub-contractors Plagued by controversy ever since it was awarded to Makeswar ‘Fip’ Motilall of Synergy Holdings Inc, the US15.4M Amaila Falls...

Roll-On/ Roll-Off ferries arrive in Guyana

Dec 22, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Roll-On/ Roll-Off ferries arrive in Guyana

The wait is over for the two Roll-On/ Roll-Off ferries from China that will operate between Parika and Supenaam. The two vessels, acquired from China at a cost of US$14M, funded by a US$17 M grant...

Guyana foots $97M bill to prepare for Indian Hospital

Dec 22, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Guyana foots $97M bill to prepare for Indian Hospital

The Government of Guyana has green-lighted some $97M for the site preparation of a specialty hospital to be constructed at Turkeyen, East Coast Demerara, but it leaves more questions than...

Annandale businessman chopped, burnt, house set alight in bandit attack

Dec 22, 2011 KNews News 5

During the wee hours of yesterday, two bandits attacked and robbed Ganesh Puran of $20,000 just as he was closing his woodworking shop in Annandale, East Coast Demerara. Reports are...

Diplomatic vehicle torched

Dec 22, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Diplomatic vehicle torched

A United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) diplomatic vehicle, DPL 28-17, was badly damaged after being torched Wednesday morning at Lot 59, Anira Street, Queenstown. The UNDP diplomat who used...

Patrick Manning, Aubrey Norton and one man rule

Dec 22, 2011 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on Patrick Manning, Aubrey Norton and one man rule

The CARICOM islands have parliamentary elections every four years (like in the US). After two years in power, the Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago decided he would call a national poll two years...

Killing the goose

Dec 22, 2011 KNews Editorial Comments Off on Killing the goose

In Guyana, it is customary that prices of certain commodities soar at this time of the year. People enter the marketplace and suddenly find that they do not have enough money when just...

Dem boys seh…Shaik get lef behind

Dec 22, 2011 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Dem boys seh…Shaik get lef behind

When Shaik Baksh was de Minister of Education, he promote a policy that no child, no matter how dunce, gun ever stay in de same class. He call it no child left behind. Children stop studying and some...

The results of the elections were not a mandate for shared governance

Dec 22, 2011 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on The results of the elections were not a mandate for shared governance

We must not misrepresent the results of the 2011 general and regional elections. Those elections led to the PPPC winning the presidency by virtue of it receiving the largest bloc of votes, and...

Brandon Harding crowned GT&T’s English segment Jingles’ winner

Dec 22, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Brandon Harding crowned GT&T’s English segment Jingles’ winner

Lindener, Brandon Harding, a crowd favourite in the English segment of the wildly popular Guyana Telephone and Telegraph Company (GT&T) Jingle and Song Competition, was last night declared the...

What about Region One?

Dec 22, 2011 KNews Letters Comments Off on What about Region One?

Dear Editor, I read with some dismay, in the newspapers of December 17, the plans that the new Minister of Education had for the pilot project that aimed at improving the performance of...

Let’s have a cross-party consensus to implement a Bribery Act

Dec 22, 2011 KNews Letters Comments Off on Let’s have a cross-party consensus to implement a Bribery Act

Dear Editor, So the dust of the Guyanese elections has settled like a fine coat of snow on a winter wonderland meadow and the children of Guyana’s political family rush to sit next...

Keep up the good work, FFTP!

Dec 22, 2011 KNews Letters Comments Off on Keep up the good work, FFTP!

DEAR EDITOR, As a donor to Food for the Poor (Guyana) Incorporated, the Non-Governmental Organisation which is successfully rendering its services to help comfort the poorest of the...

Basketball community plunged into mourning

Dec 22, 2011 KNews Sports Comments Off on Basketball community plunged into mourning

-Legendary Coach, Phillip George passes The basketball community has been plunged into mourning following the passing of legendary coach, Phillip George also known as ‘Coach Man’ and...

Boxer Mayweather gets 90 jail days in Vegas case

Dec 22, 2011 KNews Sports Comments Off on Boxer Mayweather gets 90 jail days in Vegas case

LAS VEGAS (AP)—Boxer Floyd Mayweather Jr. was sentenced Wednesday to 90 days in jail after pleading guilty to reduced battery domestic violence and harassment charges before a Las...

GCB moves to quash IMC decision

Dec 22, 2011 KNews Sports Comments Off on GCB moves to quash IMC decision

-seeks WICB intervention The Guyana Cricket Board (GCB) has moved to the High Court to nullify Minister of Culture, Youth and Sports, Dr. Frank Anthony’s decision to set up an Interim...

Young Achievers of Guyana win in Suriname

Dec 22, 2011 KNews Sports Comments Off on Young Achievers of Guyana win in Suriname

Guyana’s top volleyball club, Young Achievers returned home from participating in an Inter Guiana’s Club Tournament last weekend as champions. The tournament which was hosted by...

Fingered in piracy…Fishing official could face expulsion if found guilty

Dec 22, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Fingered in piracy…Fishing official could face expulsion if found guilty

A senior official from the Upper Corentyne Fisherman’s Coop Society could be expelled from all fishing related activities if he is found to have been involved in the recent piracy attacks...

GPL’s fuel bill rises to a staggering $23B

Dec 22, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on GPL’s fuel bill rises to a staggering $23B

– workers settle for 8% increase Workers of the country’s cash-strapped power company have settled for less than the salary increase they initially bargained for in order to stave off...

Chronicle’s Editor-in-Chief robbed after car is rammed

Dec 22, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Chronicle’s Editor-in-Chief robbed after car is rammed

Editor-in-Chief of the Guyana Chronicle, Mark Ramotar, was early Wednesday morning robbed at gunpoint by four men who cornered his vehicle into the concrete median at Agricola, East Bank...

US$80,000 in goods lost after boat heading from Suriname sinks

Dec 22, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on US$80,000 in goods lost after boat heading from Suriname sinks

A boat with goods valued US$80,000 on the way to Guyana from Suriname sank Monday night in the Nickerie River, according to Suriname news. On the boat were peanut cheese, liquor, tomato paste,...

Grove/Diamond NDC in trouble…Residents want garbage buildup cleared before Christmas

Dec 22, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Grove/Diamond NDC in trouble…Residents want garbage buildup cleared before Christmas

Residents of Diamond and Grove, East Bank Demerara, are worried over a growing garbage crisis and want authorities to do something about it before Christmas. Their concerns may be valid with...

Archaeological find up Berbice River…Results awaited on possible 5,000 year-old human settlement

Dec 22, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Archaeological find up Berbice River…Results awaited on possible 5,000 year-old human settlement

Groundbreaking archaeological discoveries have been made in Guyana in recent times. Local and United States (US) archaeologists have unearthed the remains of a whale, a giant porpoise...

Bandits storm Enmore lumberyard, escape with $1.6M in cash, jewelry

Dec 22, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Bandits storm Enmore lumberyard, escape with $1.6M in cash, jewelry

Police ranks are presently reviewing tapes from a security camera to identify two gunmen who robbed the “S & K Lumber Yard and General Store”, located at Blossom Scheme, Enmore South,...

Youth Coalition steps up calls for Surujbally,Boodhoo resignation

Dec 22, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Youth Coalition steps up calls for Surujbally,Boodhoo resignation

Following the announcement of the General and Regional Elections results on December 1st, the Youth Coalition for Transformation (YCT) has been calling for the resignation of Guyana Elections...

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Tennis Association applauds historic GYD $8 billion allocation to the sports sector in the 2025 National Budget

‘Govt. must come clean on gas-to-energy project’

– spending US$2B on a project without financial, environmental studies is criminality at its worst – WPA Kaieteur... more