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RHTY&SC honours PMSS Teacher and Student of the Term

Jan 03, 2012 knews Sports Comments Off on RHTY&SC honours PMSS Teacher and Student of the Term

The seven cricket teams of the Rose Hall Youth and Sports Club (RHTY&SC) last week honoured the Teacher and Student of the term at the Port Mourant Secondary School (PMSS). The duo was honoured...

Peeping Tom should stop being facetious

Jan 03, 2012 knews Letters Comments Off on Peeping Tom should stop being facetious

Dear Editor, I can understand that Peeping Tom supports the PPP and given the tone of his writings, he definitely supports President Donald Ramotar. I have no problem with that. What I have a problem...

Encouraging good behaviour in public

Jan 03, 2012 knews Letters Comments Off on Encouraging good behaviour in public

Dear Editor, The talk around town, post-election, is about things that are ‘new’. New President, National Assembly, Speaker, politics, parliamentarians, faces, GECOM, ships, deals, contracts and...

Interior worker goes missing

Jan 03, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Interior worker goes missing

– did not make contact with family in nine months Family members of 30-year-old Besham Narine of Lot 2 Adventure, Essequibo Coast are now frantic because they have not heard from him in...

Geeta Singh-Knight back in the news

Jan 03, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Geeta Singh-Knight back in the news

By Gary Eleazar While there are some who may not want too many changes this New Year there are others who would love to see some. In fact there are reports that there are some with senior...

Twelve New Year’s babies

Jan 03, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Twelve New Year’s babies

The mothers of 12 babies born on New Year’s Day at the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC), New Amsterdam Hospital, St. Joseph Mercy Hospital and Woodlands Hospital received gifts...

School dropout raped, suspect on bail

Jan 03, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on School dropout raped, suspect on bail

Relatives of a 13-year-old girl who was sexually assaulted by one of her relatives have expressed disgust over the release of the perpetrator. Reports are that the victim and the perpetrator...

Cheekies rewards new mothers

Jan 03, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Cheekies rewards new mothers

For the second time ever, the Cheekies family from Ansa McAl Trading went countrywide to honour mothers of New Year’s Day babies. The presentation of “Cheekies Bundle of Joy” gift...

Gafoors aids in community development

Jan 03, 2012 KNews News 2

The Gafoors Group of Companies closed the year in service to the community. Company director, Ameena Gafoor, said that she would like to put good books into the hands of as many...

Innovative means ensure success in Science – Teacher

Jan 03, 2012 KNews News 1

Although faced with a number of challenges, the Abram Zuil Secondary School on the Essequibo Coast, like a number of other schools across the country, has been able to introduce innovative...

Ramotar sets up Justice and Infrastructure committees

Jan 03, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Ramotar sets up Justice and Infrastructure committees

Ministers directed to form advisory committees President Donald Ramotar has added two new sub-committees to Cabinet – the council of Government Ministers, which he chairs. The two new...

The woman who sang and prayed while her home burned

Jan 03, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on The woman who sang and prayed while her home burned

…a story of strength and faith By Leon Suseran How would you have reacted or felt if you were in church worshipping God and all of a sudden you were informed that your home is...

Create more facilities for the disabled – Walcott

Jan 03, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Create more facilities for the disabled – Walcott

Chairperson of Guyana Council of Organizations for Persons with Disabilities (GCOPD), Leon Walcott, is calling on Government to hasten the creation of more facilities that are user-friendly for...

Welcoming the New Year

Jan 03, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Welcoming the New Year

Traditionally people welcome the New Year in a variety of ways. Some go to church, some to parties and some simply stayed at home. In Georgetown a few lined J.B. Singh Road alongside Camp Ayanganna...

Guyana records first road fatality

Jan 03, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Guyana records first road fatality

An Old Year’s Night Bar B Que and family lime ended with a fatality for a Bush Lot family after one of its members became a hit and run victim. It was reported that 26-year-old...

Republic Bank, Ansa McAl honour New Year’s babies

Jan 03, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Republic Bank, Ansa McAl honour New Year’s babies

There were two New Year bundles of joy at the New Amsterdam Hospital on January 1. Radica Dayadat of Fyrish Village, on the Corentyne, brought forth her little baby girl at 1:45 hrs on...

Bouterse to review CARICOM institutions

Jan 03, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Bouterse to review CARICOM institutions

Surinamese President Desi Bouterse is the new chairman of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) and he says this year holds great opportunities for strengthening the regional integration movement....

After 2 years as Minister…Irfaan Ali builds mansion with poolhouse

Jan 01, 2012 KNews News 84

The construction of a house at Leonora, West Coast Demerara, is the talk of neighbours who say that the property is owned by 31-year-old Irfaan Ali, the Minister of Housing and Water. The house...

Front page comment ….Kaieteur New Year wish to all

Jan 01, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Front page comment ….Kaieteur New Year wish to all

A Happy New Year to all Guyana! Kaieteur News joins in welcoming the year 2012. We are hopeful that this year will see the beginning of a new process of all our leaders and political...

2011: A Year Replete with Scampishness, Secret Deals and Downright Skullduggery

Jan 01, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on 2011: A Year Replete with Scampishness, Secret Deals and Downright Skullduggery

ENMORE US$12.5M Packaging Plant This past year the Guyana Sugar Corporation (GuySuCo) under the auspices of the former Minister of Agriculture Robert Persaud commissioned a US$12.5M at Enmore on East...

Dem boys seh…De Rat give Guyana nuff soft loan

Jan 01, 2012 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Dem boys seh…De Rat give Guyana nuff soft loan

Christmas is a time when people does eat nuff but dem have people who can eat more than dem own weight. Two of dem is Sam and Henry. Dem boys seh that Henry beat Sam. When he playing...

Guyana’s revenues set to surpass $104B target

Jan 01, 2012 KNews News 1

-self-employed remain biggest evaders of taxes -Suriname car scam being probed By Leonard Gildarie Despite a year geared for elections, Guyana is set to collect a record-breaking amount in taxes and...

MV Oliver goes missing at high seas

Jan 01, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on MV Oliver goes missing at high seas

On Wednesday December 21, last, the MV Oliver L, registered in the name of Raymond Lord, left Trinidad destined for Port Georgetown, Guyana, but to date has not arrived nor its crew members...

A bad year for the aviation sector

Jan 01, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on A bad year for the aviation sector

A near-disastrous crash-landing at the country’s only international airport, and a spate of other accidents in the interior made 2011 a bad year for the aviation sector. There were at...

Amaila Falls Hydro Project’s price tag rests on an escalator

Jan 01, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Amaila Falls Hydro Project’s price tag rests on an escalator

Having been embroiled in a plethora of controversies over the years and having been conceputalised ever since the early 1990s the price tag for the Amaila Falls Hydro Electric Project seems to rest...

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Due diligence on investments must become a priority

Peeping Tom… Kaieteur News- In 1985, the Forbes Burnham government looking for economic salvation, entered into a memorandum... more