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Missing $90M…Police try to justify where $$$$$ went

Mar 07, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Missing $90M…Police try to justify where $$$$$ went

– Commanders maintain they got no money By Dale Andrews The Guyana Police Force, in a belated statement, has finally accounted for the money earmarked for their elections...

Fip Motilall never completed Amaila Falls road design — Walter Willis

Mar 07, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Fip Motilall never completed Amaila Falls road design — Walter Willis

…contract was for design and construction The government is racing to complete the Amaila Falls hydro project road. In the process, it has had to extend the deadline once again, the fourth...

Bandits shoot schoolgirl for cell phone

Mar 07, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Bandits shoot schoolgirl for cell phone

Bandits shot a 16-year-old schoolgirl and made off with her Blackberry cell phone at around 19:30 hrs yesterday. Sasha Gilhuys, a student of St. Rose’s Secondary, was shot in the left...

Allen Stanford found guilty in Ponzi scheme

Mar 07, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Allen Stanford found guilty in Ponzi scheme

HOUSTON (Reuters) – Allen Stanford was convicted yesterday of running a $7 billion Ponzi scheme, a verdict that caps a riches-to-rags trajectory for the former Texas financier and Caribbean...

Cricket impasse: GCB executives resign en masse

Mar 07, 2012 KNews Sports Comments Off on Cricket impasse: GCB executives resign en masse

Following the resignation of President Ramsay Ali, Lionel Jaikarran and Chetram Singh from the embattled Guyana Cricket Board (GCB) the rest of the executive committee of the GCB tendered...

I was clean on NICIL’s financial affairs – Winston Brassington

Mar 07, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on I was clean on NICIL’s financial affairs – Winston Brassington

…but evidence points to questionable deals Head of the National Industrial and Commercial Investment Limited (NICIL), Winston Brassington, has justified his stead at the helm of the...

An argument as to why there may be another general election

Mar 07, 2012 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on An argument as to why there may be another general election

Mr. Ralph Ramkarran is in the news again. He was silent after the selection of Donald Ramotar as the PPP’s Presidential entry for the 2011 General Elections. Now he has re-appeared with...

AVOIDING A POLITICAL SIDESHOW

Mar 07, 2012 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on AVOIDING A POLITICAL SIDESHOW

Change is in the air. It may not involve dismissals; it may simply be resignations or stated intentions to move on. The results are, however, the same; change is in the air. One of the persons who...

International Women’s Day

Mar 07, 2012 KNews Editorial Comments Off on International Women’s Day

Guyana is one country that does not need to be told why there should be an “International Women’s Day”. Just a perusal of the headlines of the newspapers should convince even the...

Dem boys seh…De Rat help fund de Boss Man birthday

Mar 07, 2012 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Dem boys seh…De Rat help fund de Boss Man birthday

Is true wha dem boys seh. Money does follow money. De waterfalls Boss Man gun celebrate he birthday Friday. Every time is he birthday he does got to spend a lot of money pun food and...

The Ministry of Education seems to have the most unrealistic people on this planet

Mar 07, 2012 KNews Letters Comments Off on The Ministry of Education seems to have the most unrealistic people on this planet

Dear Editor, The Kaieteur News of 25th February, 2012 in the article titled “Students’ role to help realize improvement at CSEC being amplified” begins with the following sentence...

We are sitting on an environmental time bomb

Mar 07, 2012 KNews Letters Comments Off on We are sitting on an environmental time bomb

Dear Editor, We, in Guyana, are sitting on an environmental time bomb at Haags Bosch Landfill. The Inter-American Development Bank and the City Council ought to be very worried...

Cooperative principles are being ignored at Paradise

Mar 07, 2012 KNews Letters Comments Off on Cooperative principles are being ignored at Paradise

Dear Editor, More than seven years after the Chief Co-operatives Development Officer (formerly styled Commissioner for Co-operatives Development) assumed control of the affairs of the...

Phagwah: A time to embrace unity and goodwill

Mar 07, 2012 KNews Letters Comments Off on Phagwah: A time to embrace unity and goodwill

DEAR EDITOR, This festival is called by two names—‘Holi’ and ‘Phagwah’. ‘Holi’ derives from ‘Hola’, which means grains. It is a time when crops are harvested and...

Way cleared for Guyana’s continued participation in Regional 4-day competition

Mar 07, 2012 KNews Sports Comments Off on Way cleared for Guyana’s continued participation in Regional 4-day competition

In a release from Imran Khan, Corporate Communications Official of the West Indies Cricket Board, it was confirmed that the Guyana cricket team will continue their participation in the...

West Indies names squad for Digicel ODIs in St Vincent

Mar 07, 2012 KNews Sports Comments Off on West Indies names squad for Digicel ODIs in St Vincent

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados – West Indies Cricket Board’s (WICB) Selection Panel yesterday announced the West Indies squad for the first three Digicel One-Day Internationals against Australia to...

Hikers hold glitzy awards ceremony

Mar 07, 2012 KNews Sports Comments Off on Hikers hold glitzy awards ceremony

– Founding members, former GHB President, sponsors among those recognised In a glitzy ceremony that epitomized the high standard that the club usually exhibits on the field of play,...

Disgraced Stanford faces life behind bars after being found guilty of £4bn fraud

Mar 07, 2012 KNews Sports Comments Off on Disgraced Stanford faces life behind bars after being found guilty of £4bn fraud

Mail Online – Disgraced financier Allen Stanford has been found guilty of orchestrating a massive £4.6billion fraud by a court in Houston, Texas. Stanford set up a series of $20m...

Beckles to conduct GABA Referee/Judges Course

Mar 07, 2012 KNews Sports Comments Off on Beckles to conduct GABA Referee/Judges Course

Boxing team for T&T event Experienced AIBA accredited Referee/Judge, James Beckles, will be in Guyana to conduct another Amateur Boxing Referees and Judges Course set for March 14 to 18...

Austin vows to turn back challenge of the ‘chin checker’ in March ProAm boxing

Mar 07, 2012 KNews Sports Comments Off on Austin vows to turn back challenge of the ‘chin checker’ in March ProAm boxing

Simeon Hardy’s demolition of Iwan ‘Pure Gold’ Azore has netted him the Caribbean Boxing Federation (CABOFE) welterweight title plus a place among the elite boxers to battle for honours...

NSC Mashramani Junior Badminton winners receive prizes

Mar 07, 2012 KNews Sports Comments Off on NSC Mashramani Junior Badminton winners receive prizes

The National Sports Commission Annual Mashramani Junior Tournament presentation took place on Monday at the Queens College Badminton Courts. The feature address at the...

Hand-in-Hand supports Bodybuilding championship

Mar 07, 2012 KNews Sports Comments Off on Hand-in-Hand supports Bodybuilding championship

Hand-in-Hand on Monday threw their support behind Guyana Amateur Bodybuilding Federation as they prepare to host the Novices and Intermediate Bodybuilding competition set for March 31...

B’ce cricketers delighted as Western Union renews Junior Ambassador Programme

Mar 07, 2012 KNews Sports Comments Off on B’ce cricketers delighted as Western Union renews Junior Ambassador Programme

Western Union, the money transfer entity with worldwide connections, continues to support the efforts of local sports persons and has collaborated with the executives of the Rose Hall...

Kings face Pistons in feature encounter; Jets take on Bulls

Mar 07, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Kings face Pistons in feature encounter; Jets take on Bulls

– as Trophy Stall/LABA League resumes tonight After a break due to the inclement weather, the Linden Amateur Basketball Association (LABA) Trophy Stall-Sponsored League...

GTT 10/10 set to start this weekend

Mar 07, 2012 KNews Sports Comments Off on GTT 10/10 set to start this weekend

The Third Edition of the GT&T 10/10 Nationwide male and female softball cricket competitions organized by the Guyana Softball League in association with the Ministry of Culture...

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Futebol Real Brazil executive Naranda Wislon visits Guyana

The GRA is batting out of its crease

Peeping Tom… Kaieteur News- The Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) has once again demonstrated a perplexing propensity... more