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Hospital attempts to justify paying $1,909 for $80 cream

Jun 18, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Hospital attempts to justify paying $1,909 for $80 cream

…says amount paid to New GPC is OK “Unless one item is overwhelmingly over-priced, we prefer to keep them within the list,” – Hospital Statement The Georgetown Public...

AFC praises Ralph Ramkarran’s tough stance on Corruption

Jun 18, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on AFC praises Ralph Ramkarran’s tough stance on Corruption

…Fmr. Speaker warns Govt. not to wait for more accusations Alliance For Change (AFC) Chairman Khemraj Ramjattan is calling on the leaders in the Peoples Progressive Party (PPP) to...

OP Gifts NCN $500M in four years

Jun 18, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on OP Gifts NCN $500M in four years

As information continues to surface about the affairs of the National Communication Network (NCN), investigations have revealed that during the years 2008 to 2011 some $499M was turned...

Govt. set to defy Parliamentary Resolution directing NICIL probe

Jun 18, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Govt. set to defy Parliamentary Resolution directing NICIL probe

…AFC streamlines Disciplinary Action in Committee of Privileges By Gary Eleazar The Guyana Government will not be adhering to the Parliamentary Resolution being sought by A...

Elderly woman stabbed, stripped of jewellery

Jun 18, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Elderly woman stabbed, stripped of jewellery

A 63-year-old woman is now a patient in the High-Dependency-Unit (HDU) at the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC), nursing several stab wounds about her body. The stabbing...

Christianburg/Wismar cruise to 3-1 win over Kwakwani

Jun 18, 2012 KNews Sports Comments Off on Christianburg/Wismar cruise to 3-1 win over Kwakwani

Digicel Nationwide Schools Football tourney By Rawle Welch Despite a more purposeful performance in the second period, hosts Kwakwani Secondary much to the disappointment of their vociferous...

Orville Hinds takes victory; Greaves and Persaud DQ, to face disciplinary hearing

Jun 18, 2012 KNews Sports Comments Off on Orville Hinds takes victory; Greaves and Persaud DQ, to face disciplinary hearing

13th Castrol Father’s Day Cycle Race An otherwise exiting race was brought into disrepute by two of Guyana’s most senior riders yesterday on the West Demerara, it was the 13th Annual Castrol Road...

Diamond oust North to reach Final Four

Jun 18, 2012 KNews Sports Comments Off on Diamond oust North to reach Final Four

By Edison Jefford The success story of the Diamond/McDoom team in the 2012 National Community Basketball League (NCBL) has to be the vast improvement of its undersized centre, Jermaine Slater, who...

Haiti withdraws from Guinness Street Challenge Tournament

Jun 18, 2012 KNews Sports Comments Off on Haiti withdraws from Guinness Street Challenge Tournament

– cites flight problems As the start of the inaugural Guinness Street Football Challenge Tournament draws near, the media was reliably informed via telephone yesterday that Haiti, one of the...

Banks DIH draws first blood in battle of corporations’ dominoes tournament

Jun 18, 2012 KNews Sports Comments Off on Banks DIH draws first blood in battle of corporations’ dominoes tournament

Banks DIH Ltd took advantage of their home turf and drew first blood when the first of three dominoes competitions between two other beverage giants, Ansa McAl and Demerara Distillers Ltd, concluded...

Bollers and Thomas storm to gold in T&T

Jun 18, 2012 KNews Sports Comments Off on Bollers and Thomas storm to gold in T&T

Guyana’s Junior National 200m champion sprinter, Elton Bollers of Royal Youth Movement (RYM) and Inter Guiana Games (IGG) bronze medalist, Ernesto Thomas registered superb performances in the Twin...

Month of activities staged as B’ce premiere football club elects new executives

Jun 18, 2012 KNews Sports Comments Off on Month of activities staged as B’ce premiere football club elects new executives

Former national footballer, Neil ‘Grizzly’ Humphrey was recently elected to the helm when the Hearts of Oak Master Football Club of New Amsterdam, Berbice, recently held its Annual General...

Little Rascals race away with Farfan and Mendes team title

Jun 18, 2012 KNews Sports Comments Off on Little Rascals race away with Farfan and Mendes team title

The combined efforts of Jason Ray Khalil, Larissa Wiltshire, Alec Melville, Gianni Carpenter and Daniel Islam, who called themselves the Little Rascals, proved to be indomitable as they captured the...

Girls rescued from sexual exploitation responding well to counselling

Jun 18, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Girls rescued from sexual exploitation responding well to counselling

– Ann Greene Almost two months after being rescued from a life of sexual exploitation in Region Seven, four teenage girls are adapting well to counselling. This was according to head...

Police conduct surprise raid at Bartica nightspot

Jun 18, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Police conduct surprise raid at Bartica nightspot

…nab 11 underaged patrons Reports of under aged girls engaged in prostitution saw ranks of the Guyana Police Force, Welfare Officers and Social Workers, swooping down and sealing off...

Albion Estate supervisor at centre of fraud investigaton

Jun 18, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Albion Estate supervisor at centre of fraud investigaton

A supervisor from the Guyana Sugar Corporation (GuySuCo) Albion Estate, Berbice, has been accused of fraud at his workplace. The supervisor is said to have entered workers’ names for...

King’s Jewellery returns to Berbice as new shopping mall opens on the Corentyne

Jun 18, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on King’s Jewellery returns to Berbice as new shopping mall opens on the Corentyne

By Leon Suseran A spanking-new shopping mall was commissioned and declared open on the Central Corentyne area on Wednesday. Additionally, two new stores officially opened their doors....

East La Penitence groups repaint pedestrian crossings

Jun 18, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on East La Penitence groups repaint pedestrian crossings

The revitalized East Penitence Community Policing Group (CPG) and members of the recently formed East La Penitence Community Development Group (CDG) are repainting pedestrian crossings...

Too many cases dismissed because of absent witnesses

Jun 18, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Too many cases dismissed because of absent witnesses

– PCA Chairman “Magistrates are supposed to issue warrants for the eyewitnesses to show up in court, not punish the victims by dismissing the case” -Justice Kennard By...

Men must be taught to speak about their pain lest they erupt in violence against their partners

Jun 18, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Men must be taught to speak about their pain lest they erupt in violence against their partners

– Roman Catholic Priest By Leon Suseran A high- ranking Roman Catholic priest believes that he knows one of the reasons for Guyanese men erupting with such violence against their partners....

Musician fathered 13

Jun 18, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Musician fathered 13

“If I am to relive my life there are numerous situations I would try to avoid, many chances I wouldn’t take and lots of roads I won’t travel, but I am 100 per cent sure that I would proudly...

Importers upset, food industry prepares to adjust

Jun 18, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Importers upset, food industry prepares to adjust

Impending Styrofoam ban… By Kristen Macklingam Some wholesalers and retailers of Styrofoam items have expressed concern about the impending Government ban on the importation of these products. They...

MAY YOU BE FULL OF IT

Jun 18, 2012 KNews Features / Columnists, Tony Deyal column Comments Off on MAY YOU BE FULL OF IT

This was on a Christmas card from a foreign student but a friend sent me something that was posted on a political blog in Trinidad that was even more entertaining. A gentleman, obviously irate with...

The Opposition’s understanding of the FMAA is foggy

Jun 18, 2012 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on The Opposition’s understanding of the FMAA is foggy

The Fiscal Management and Accountability Act (FMAA) was passed into law in 2003. Thus, it may be something of a novelty and a mystery to some of those parliamentarians not familiar with its...

The focus should be on “why such high failure rate when there are so many lessons?”

Jun 18, 2012 KNews Letters Comments Off on The focus should be on “why such high failure rate when there are so many lessons?”

Dear Editor, There was an interesting letter to the editor in Kaiteur News newspaper on June 9, 2012, captioned, “there needs to be a clampdown on extra lessons” written by Mr. Rafael Khan. It...

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Peeping Tom… Kaieteur News- The advent of significant oil discoveries has catapulted Guyana into the global spotlight.... more