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Slain Lindeners laid to rest…Monument to be erected in their honour – Granger

Aug 02, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Slain Lindeners laid to rest…Monument to be erected in their honour – Granger

By Jenelle Carter As sunrise greeted the mining town of Linden yesterday there was a somber mood, as what would have been an Emancipation celebration turned out to be the day the community buried...

Mechanical failure forces small plane to crash land at CJIA

Aug 02, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Mechanical failure forces small plane to crash land at CJIA

A plane reportedly heading to Brazil crash landed at Cheddi Jagan International Airport yesterday morning, after its landing gear failed. The pilot, Frederico Ratte, of Florida who was the only...

Bel Air businessman murder….Suspects may be ex-customs officers – Investigators

Aug 02, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Bel Air businessman murder….Suspects may be ex-customs officers – Investigators

By Rabindra Rooplall Investigations are continuing as police are pondering whether ex-customs officials may have indeed been responsible for the murder of a businessman on Tuesday night. The...

Each parliamentary session costs taxpayers $1.7million

Aug 02, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Each parliamentary session costs taxpayers $1.7million

“Is wha’ these people always talking so long long about in deh….dem just wasting time in deh.” These are some of the sentiments usually expressed by passersby whenever there is a sitting of...

US study reveals…High percentage of poor quality malaria medicines in Guyana

Aug 02, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on US study reveals…High percentage of poor quality malaria medicines in Guyana

Maryland, USA (PRNewswire) – USNewswire – Two articles recently published in Malaria Journal shed new light on the quality of antimalarial medicines circulating in countries in the Amazon...

Dem boys seh…De Rat, Irfaat and de Bees got to run

Aug 02, 2012 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Dem boys seh…De Rat, Irfaat and de Bees got to run

When de fire in Regent Street out one man who lose he store talk hard how dem thief till dem thief out de fire hydrant money. Dem boys didn’t understand, suh de man explain that when de Waterfalls...

West Indies v New Zealand, 2nd Test, Jamaica…Elusive victory within West Indies’ grasp

Aug 02, 2012 KNews Sports Comments Off on West Indies v New Zealand, 2nd Test, Jamaica…Elusive victory within West Indies’ grasp

Cricinfo – Kieran Powell was 19 when West Indies last won a Test series against opponents other than Zimbabwe or Bangladesh. He celebrated his birthday on the first day of the Trinidad Test...

Badminton players thrown out, cyclist Wiggins wins

Aug 02, 2012 KNews Sports Comments Off on Badminton players thrown out, cyclist Wiggins wins

(Reuters) – Eight women badminton players were disqualified from the Olympics yesterday for deliberately trying to lose and manipulate the draw, angering fans and fellow athletes who said they...

ACDA Emancipation Festival

Aug 02, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on ACDA Emancipation Festival

Citizens to be engaged on Public Works Ministry’s infrastructural failures

Aug 02, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Citizens to be engaged on Public Works Ministry’s infrastructural failures

“One is forced to conclude that in some instances these works are undertaken to provide work for the privileged and well connected Contractors,” Joseph Harmon By Gary Eleazar The recent...

Private sector cries exclusion from Linden/Ramotar meeting

Aug 02, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Private sector cries exclusion from Linden/Ramotar meeting

– Solomon says room soon for other stakeholders The Private Sector Commission (PSC) yesterday lamented its exclusion from a Tuesday meeting between representatives of Linden and President...

Toshao’s Elections and questionable practices at St. Cuthbert’s Mission

Aug 02, 2012 KNews Letters Comments Off on Toshao’s Elections and questionable practices at St. Cuthbert’s Mission

Dear Mr. Editor, The Toshao’s Election was held on the April 21st. The Returning Officer and a team of about four persons were from the from Region 4’s office. Three persons contested the...

Executive insanity and tripartite idiocy

Aug 02, 2012 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on Executive insanity and tripartite idiocy

How politics plays out in the coming months will be a fascinating curiosity for every Guyanese. In the new configuration brought about by the arrival of minority government in November last year, the...

Solidarity with Lindeners sets tone at ACDA Emancipation Festival

Aug 02, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Solidarity with Lindeners sets tone at ACDA Emancipation Festival

Thousands of Guyanese turned out to the National Park, yesterday, to pay tribute to their ancestors as they celebrated the 174th anniversary of the abolition of slavery at the African Cultural...

Way forward on key rights issues for Parliament today

Aug 02, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Way forward on key rights issues for Parliament today

The National Assembly is today expected to commit to a special select committee to decide on the way forward on the abolition of corporal punishment and the death penalty, the decriminalization of...

Persaud, Maxwell were wrong

Aug 02, 2012 KNews Letters Comments Off on Persaud, Maxwell were wrong

Dear Editor, I would like to respond to two rebuttals published on Monday, July 30, 2012 in response to my article published in Kaieteur News Sunday’s edition. Mr. Mike Persaud, I am sure, has read...

Petition for disbanding Corriverton IMC…Several persons deny signing, one ‘signatory’ dead 24 years ago

Aug 02, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Petition for disbanding Corriverton IMC…Several persons deny signing, one ‘signatory’ dead 24 years ago

– APNU promises probe By Leon Suseran Several persons in Corriverton are claiming that the signatures purportedly theirs on a petition submitted by A Partnership for National Unity...

WICB Under-19 Tournament second round round-up

Aug 02, 2012 KNews Sports Comments Off on WICB Under-19 Tournament second round round-up

Following are the summarized close-of-play scores on the opening day of the second round of matches in the Regional Under-19 three-day Championship today in Barbados: At Foursquare Oval: Jamaica...

Brazilian killed in Puruni ATV accident

Aug 02, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Brazilian killed in Puruni ATV accident

Fifty-five year-old Brazilian gold miner, Paulo Carvalho Silva, became another victim of Guyana’s treacherous interior terrain when he died after crashing his all-terrain vehicle (ATV) on Tuesday....

‘Drunk’ boat captain and crew “beat, rob passengers” at Wakenaam

Aug 02, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on ‘Drunk’ boat captain and crew “beat, rob passengers” at Wakenaam

The captain of a Parika / Supenaam Ferry and his crew have been accused of threatening , beating and robbing passengers at the Wakenaam Ferry Stelling shortly after 21:00 hours on Tuesday night....

Mining under Siege

Aug 02, 2012 KNews Letters Comments Off on Mining under Siege

Dear Editor, The Guyana Gold and Diamond Miners Association (GGDMA) this year will celebrate its 30 anniversary. As President of an association whose executive members collectively hold more than 200...

Holder continues winning ways in Berbice

Aug 02, 2012 KNews Sports Comments Off on Holder continues winning ways in Berbice

Dwight Holder continues a strong hold on the cycling arena in Berbice with another win, when he rode away with the seventh annual Guyana Bank of Trade and Industry road race which was held on...

Mangrove Restoration Project one of EU’s success stories

Aug 02, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Mangrove Restoration Project one of EU’s success stories

Identified as one of EU’s success stories in the Caribbean, Guyana’s Mangrove Restoration Project (GMRP) will be highlighted at the upcoming Global Climate Change Alliance (GCCA) conference in...

Local Aeronautical School graduate wins British scholarship

Aug 02, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Local Aeronautical School graduate wins British scholarship

LIAT Airlines Line Engineer Dorian Nicholas, who graduated from the Art Williams and Harry Wendt Aeronautical Engineering School in December last year with a maintenance engineer’s licence, has...

Something’s amiss at Cycling Federation

Aug 02, 2012 KNews Sports Comments Off on Something’s amiss at Cycling Federation

By Edison Jefford Some aspects of the administration of the Guyana Cycling Federation (GCF) seem to be amiss according to a well-placed source, who spoke to Kaieteur Sport yesterday under the...

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Waramuri stuns Vreed-en-Hoop 7-1, as Bush Lot topple Ann’s Grove

Development for whom?

Peeping Tom… Kaieteur News- The Vice President of Guyana, Bharrat Jagdeo, has declared with great confidence that there... more