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Drugs purchase scandal continues…Govt. pays $8,000 for $600 injection

Jun 19, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Drugs purchase scandal continues…Govt. pays $8,000 for $600 injection

– also buys $1,600 aspirin for $2,700 One day after government came out in defence of reports that it purchased an $80 anti-fungal cream for $1,909 per tube, there are now more shocking details...

Deplorable road condition sparks protest in Linden

Jun 19, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Deplorable road condition sparks protest in Linden

…nurses fall on road with alarming frequency Nurses and auxiliary staff of the Linden Hospital Complex, yesterday downed tools for several hours and formed a human barricade to block traffic along...

Boat mishap in Puruni, three missing

Jun 19, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Boat mishap in Puruni, three missing

Three miners are missing and feared drowned after a boat they were travelling in overturned around 07:00 hrs yesterday in the Puruni River, located in Middle Mazaruni. One of the...

IPA demands answers on disqualification to supply medical drugs

Jun 19, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on IPA demands answers on disqualification to supply medical drugs

Head of International Pharmaceutical Agency (IPA), Lloyd Singh, says that his company is only given medical supply contracts when the government has to measure up to the transparency...

Pest Control Plus owner laid to rest… Police detain businessman

Jun 19, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Pest Control Plus owner laid to rest… Police detain businessman

Police have detained a city businessman in connection with the execution-style killing of Pest Control Plus owner Mohamed Salahudeen Bacchus Baksh. An official explained that the businessman was...

Is Bharrat Jagdeo ignorant, naïve or just deceptive?

Jun 19, 2012 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on Is Bharrat Jagdeo ignorant, naïve or just deceptive?

When the mind refuses to see reality it stagnates. It locks itself up in a warped time zone. When actual events relentlessly force themselves on such a mind, it is inevitably too late....

Dem boys seh…De Health Ministry B fuh Kwame de nation

Jun 19, 2012 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Dem boys seh…De Health Ministry B fuh Kwame de nation

There is a saying. It is better to let people think you are a fool than to open you mouth and remove all doubts. Dem boys got dem own one. It is better to let people think you are a thief...

Corruption has Donald Ramotar cornered

Jun 19, 2012 KNews Editorial Comments Off on Corruption has Donald Ramotar cornered

Over time the people of this country have been hearing about their corrupt government. For example, there was talk that Forbes Burnham had stolen so much money that he was the fifth richest person in...

WHAT IS THE PROBLEM?

Jun 19, 2012 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on WHAT IS THE PROBLEM?

The latest explanation by the opposition for not supporting a financial paper submitted by the government for expenditure made from the Contingency Fund for 2011, was that it was the same document...

Let’s bring the gravy train of corruption to a screeching halt now!

Jun 19, 2012 KNews Letters Comments Off on Let’s bring the gravy train of corruption to a screeching halt now!

DEAR EDITOR, In response to SN’s scathing editorial, “CHEC,” (June 18), I couldn’t help noting the writer’s recognition of the Jagdeo regime’s failure to exercise due diligence before...

Robert Corbin has demonstrated sober leadership

Jun 19, 2012 KNews Letters Comments Off on Robert Corbin has demonstrated sober leadership

DEAR EDITOR, Since Mr. Robert Corbin has announced his intention not to seek re-election to serve as leader of the PNCR, there has emerged all kinds of pundits, real or fictional, who have...

June – A significant month in Guyana’s political calendar

Jun 19, 2012 KNews Letters Comments Off on June – A significant month in Guyana’s political calendar

DEAR EDITOR, The month of June is significant in the political calendar of Guyana. It is the month in which five sugar workers were brutally shot to death by colonial police for having dared to stand...

A call to duty

Jun 19, 2012 KNews Letters Comments Off on A call to duty

DEAR EDITOR, The winds of change are enveloping the entire planet – first and third world countries alike. Dishonesty and corruption are implicated in many instances. In our own context,...

The Preamble of a Constitution can no longer be ignored or brushed aside

Jun 19, 2012 KNews Letters Comments Off on The Preamble of a Constitution can no longer be ignored or brushed aside

DEAR EDITOR, The days when the Preamble of a Constitution could be ignored or brushed aside are over. The attitude it seems has prevailed in places from time to time. The present Preamble of...

Covent Garden crushes APS

Jun 19, 2012 KNews Sports Comments Off on Covent Garden crushes APS

-Houston stuns Mercy Wing Covent Garden registered the largest margin of victory so far in this year’s Digicel Nationwide Schools Football Competition after inflicting an 18-1 drubbing on...

Sombre atmosphere as England hunt series

Jun 19, 2012 KNews Sports Comments Off on Sombre atmosphere as England hunt series

The one-day series continues at The Oval today, overshadowed by the death of Tom Maynard, the Surrey batsman, yesterday. Maynard had been tipped to appear at full England level and many of the...

Another one bites the dust

Jun 19, 2012 KNews Sports Comments Off on Another one bites the dust

-Plaisance reaches first Final Four By Edison Jefford First it was Albouystown/Charlestown, then it was North Ruimveldt, and now it’s the super-strong Wortmanville/Werk-En-Rust that has exited the...

LIVEWIRE makes donation to Coomacka CDC

Jun 19, 2012 KNews Sports Comments Off on LIVEWIRE makes donation to Coomacka CDC

– several sport activities for Weekend Festival Coordinator of the upcoming Coomacka Weekend Festival, LIVEWIRE Productions on Sunday presented some Mercury vapour lamps to the...

We are undeserving of that elusive Olympic gold medal

Jun 19, 2012 KNews Sports Comments Off on We are undeserving of that elusive Olympic gold medal

Says Michael Benjamin Whosoever coined the old adage about putting all of one’s eggs in one basket would have felt exonerated after Imran ‘Magic’ Khan, Guyana’s key hope for a...

Unknown Bollers is known

Jun 19, 2012 KNews Sports Comments Off on Unknown Bollers is known

– records fastest 200m time oversea for local based junior athlete Royal Youth Movement (RYM) athlete, Elton Bollers of the University of Guyana (UG) has been improving tremendously in his...

BCB contributes to Devers’ medical expenses

Jun 19, 2012 KNews Sports Comments Off on BCB contributes to Devers’ medical expenses

Ex-Berbice cricketer to return to Brain Surgeon next month International Cricket broadcaster Sean Devers has received a contribution of $50,000 towards his medical bills (MRI images) from the...

Proper labelling of drugs in English pivotal – Govt. Analyst

Jun 19, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Proper labelling of drugs in English pivotal – Govt. Analyst

– Department to remove items from supermarkets, retailers who have information not displayed in English The Government Analyst/Food and Drug Department (GA/FDD) will be removing from the...

Police lab will do forensic DNA testing

Jun 19, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Police lab will do forensic DNA testing

– Barbadian and French specialists to train locals The soon to be completed police forensic laboratory at the University of Guyana Turkeyen Campus will definitely have the capabilities to...

Rohee defends acquisition of $37M water cannon

Jun 19, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Rohee defends acquisition of $37M water cannon

Home Affairs Minister Clement Rohee has defended Government’s acquisition of a water cannon, dismissing assertions that it might have been a case of misplaced priority. The Minister was...

Hundreds rush to meet registration deadline

Jun 19, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Hundreds rush to meet registration deadline

As the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) yesterday prepared to wrap up its registration process, scores of unregistered persons, both young and old, flooded locations all across the...

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Traditional media is still king

…Peeping Tom Kaieteur News-Election campaigns are a battle for attention, persuasion, and votes. In this digital age,... more