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Bank of Baroda plans Mon Repos branch

Dec 21, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Bank of Baroda plans Mon Repos branch

Bank of Baroda is planning to open a branch at Mon Repos, East Coast Demerara. The India-based entity made the disclosure during a meeting on Monday, last, with President Donald Ramotar at his...

Got to have that Old Year’s Night Cook- up?

Dec 21, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Got to have that Old Year’s Night Cook- up?

By Leon Suseran How preparing and enjoying a meal of cook- up rice became associated with the last night of the year may not be as important as savouring one of Guyana’s most beloved traditional...

Hold appointment of new GGMC boss

Dec 21, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Hold appointment of new GGMC boss

– establish Parliamentary Committee first – GPSU The Guyana Public Service Union (GPSU) has called on government to hold off on the appointment of a new Commissioner for the...

Health sector anticipates significant influx of trained nurses

Dec 21, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Health sector anticipates significant influx of trained nurses

The health sector is currently preparing for its greatest influx of nurses in a matter of months, which is expected to help strengthen the level of professionalism in the public sphere. This...

FFTP makes final distribution for 2011

Dec 21, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on FFTP makes final distribution for 2011

As the year comes to an end, Food for the Poor Guyana Inc (FFTP), on Friday last made their final distribution for 2011, of $1.8M worth of items, at their compound in Festival City,...

City Hall aims to be self-sufficient in garbage disposal

Dec 21, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on City Hall aims to be self-sufficient in garbage disposal

Plans to become fully self-sufficient at garbage disposal may have to be fast-tracked by the Mayor and City Councillors of Georgetown, in light of the recent disruption of the relevant flow in...

Probe continues into Five Star robbery/murder

Dec 21, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Probe continues into Five Star robbery/murder

The two persons who were arrested following the robbery/murder at Five Star Backdam, in the North West District last week Tuesday, have been released from police custody. This newspaper was told that...

More NOC escapees recaptured

Dec 21, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on More NOC escapees recaptured

Police, after conducting a routine road block on the Essequibo Coast, have recaptured two more of the eight juveniles who had previously escaped from the New Opportunity Corps at Onderneeming....

Mahaica poultry farmer was strangled

Dec 20, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Mahaica poultry farmer was strangled

A post mortem examination has confirmed that Unity, Mahaica poultry farmer Ramlogan Singh was strangled. Singh’s bound body, with a cloth tied tightly over his mouth and around his neck, was...

Blood thirsty bandits terrorise Uitvlugt businesswoman

Dec 20, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Blood thirsty bandits terrorise Uitvlugt businesswoman

Two bandits made off with millions of dollars in cash and jewellery apparently securing their Christmas, while leaving an Uitvlugt business family in shambles for the holiday. The men who...

Hope Canal only 10 percent complete after one year

Dec 20, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Hope Canal only 10 percent complete after one year

Hope Canal has been identified as one of the largest infrastructure initiatives in the history of Guyana by newly appointed Minister of Agriculture, Dr Leslie Ramsammy. To date, only 10 percent of...

School boy’s plea spares thief jail term

Dec 20, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on School boy’s plea spares thief jail term

– tells magistrate it’s the season of goodwill and forgiveness In the season of goodwill, a victim in an alleged robbery with aggravation matter has pardoned his...

Was there a supernova of ethnic voting?

Dec 20, 2011 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on Was there a supernova of ethnic voting?

I have not heard or seen in writing, even one commentator who disagreed with the opinion that the November 28 election was a massive manifestation of ethnic voting. It is easy to say that when you...

Apportioning blame in the wrong place

Dec 20, 2011 KNews Editorial Comments Off on Apportioning blame in the wrong place

Christmas is a time when even the bitterest of enemies set hostilities aside and try to let peace prevail. During the First and Second World Wars the Allies and the Axis laid down their arms...

THE MEDIA IS SLEEPING

Dec 20, 2011 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on THE MEDIA IS SLEEPING

Dem Boys does talk half and lef half. But is not only dem boys that doing that. When it comes to the accusations against the Top Cop, it seems as if certain sections of the media are only...

Dem boys seh…Dem former leaders disappearing

Dec 20, 2011 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Dem boys seh…Dem former leaders disappearing

Dem boys don’t mek joke when people dead. It got to be that dem frighten suh all was well when Kim Jong ill. Then dem get de news Kim Jong Dead. Right away dem boys know is not a...

The young today are no less deserving

Dec 20, 2011 KNews Letters Comments Off on The young today are no less deserving

Dear Editor, Reference is made to the news item emanating from a letter written by Capt. Gerry Gouveia to Brigadier David Granger (‘Upset Gouveia writes Granger over Duke Lodge...

Rights are indeed rights; but, they are not absolute

Dec 20, 2011 KNews Letters Comments Off on Rights are indeed rights; but, they are not absolute

Dear Editor, The results of the November elections, resulting in a PPP/C minority government being returned to office, have resulted in protest marches from particularly...

CN Sharma made a difference for opposition’s gains

Dec 20, 2011 KNews Letters Comments Off on CN Sharma made a difference for opposition’s gains

Dear Editor, The combined opposition votes outnumber the ruling party’s. Political analysts should begin to find the reasons why the PPP lost so many votes. One reason, according to...

Lumber shortage, the data and the forest sector

Dec 20, 2011 KNews Letters Comments Off on Lumber shortage, the data and the forest sector

Dear Editor, In my letter on the alleged lumber shortage and the actuality of log exports, published as ‘Lumber shortage and log exports’ (Kaieteur News, 18 December 2011), I showed...

GFA / Banks Beer Knockout Cup…Riddim Squad call on experience to beat UG 3-1

Dec 20, 2011 KNews Sports Comments Off on GFA / Banks Beer Knockout Cup…Riddim Squad call on experience to beat UG 3-1

-GDF pulled from tournament Experienced campaigners Riddim Squad had to summon their superior experience to repel a spirited performance from the University of Guyana to advance to the next stage...

K&S football extravaganza…Seawall FC send Bakewell Topp XX packing in major upset

Dec 20, 2011 KNews Sports Comments Off on K&S football extravaganza…Seawall FC send Bakewell Topp XX packing in major upset

In what the pundits regard as a major upset, Seawall FC clawed back from a 1-0 deficit to register 2 goals and send Bakewell Topp XX packing 2-1 when action in the Kashif and Shanghai football...

GFA suspicious of GDF’s sudden withdrawal from Banks Beer KO Cup

Dec 20, 2011 KNews Sports Comments Off on GFA suspicious of GDF’s sudden withdrawal from Banks Beer KO Cup

By Rawle Welch The sudden withdrawal of the Guyana Defence Force from the Guyana Football Association (GFA) / Banks Beer Knockout Cup is being viewed with suspicion by the executive that runs...

6 gold medals for Stephenson, 2 bronze each for Stephenson and Van Lange

Dec 20, 2011 KNews Sports Comments Off on 6 gold medals for Stephenson, 2 bronze each for Stephenson and Van Lange

Guyana’s Jessica Stephenson ended the year and the Blue Waters International Invitational Meet hosted by Marlins in Trinidad on a high by winning the overall female 15 and over high point...

GTC/PM win Rick Sakawat Memorial Volleyball competition

Dec 20, 2011 KNews Sports Comments Off on GTC/PM win Rick Sakawat Memorial Volleyball competition

Sunday, GTC/PM continued its winning ways in Volleyball in Berbice when they played unbeaten to cart off the Rick Sakawat Memorial Volleyball Trophy at the Albion Sports Complex...

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Desecration, Disrespectful, and Disgraceful

Peeping Tom… Kaieteur News- The solemnity of Babu Jaan, a site meant to commemorate the life and legacy of Dr. Cheddi... more