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Amelia’s Ward house goes up in flames

Sep 27, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Amelia’s Ward house goes up in flames

Fire early yesterday morning razed a one-bedroom wooden cottage at 2111 Central Amelia’s Ward, leaving in its wake only blackened rubble, and a zinc bathroom and latrine on the property. Several...

Overseas mission offers FREE medical services in rural Guyana

Sep 27, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Overseas mission offers FREE medical services in rural Guyana

A variety of medical services will be offered free of cost to citizens from today at the Project Dawn Liliendaal, Greater Georgetown, facility. This medical move comes as part of the efforts of...

Missing OLPF laptops…Six staff sent home…Police still tight-lipped

Sep 27, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Missing OLPF laptops…Six staff sent home…Police still tight-lipped

It is now a little over one month since six workers from the One Laptop Per Family (OLPF) project were sent home to facilitate an investigation into the theft of over 100 computers and police...

Child Protection Week…Five Bills available to enforce protection

Sep 27, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Child Protection Week…Five Bills available to enforce protection

As Child Protection Week 2012, continued under the theme, “Adults, take action against child abuse; the time is now” thousands of children are caught in a cycle of abuse. Generally, child...

Six fingered in $15 million milk theft

Sep 27, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Six fingered in $15 million milk theft

Six former employees of Patsan Trading are accused of pilfering $15 million worth of powdered milk from the Company. Germain Tulloch, Parmanand Persaud Jaggernath, Marlon Baiechu, Jose Rodney,...

Squatters still occupy Mahdia arcade

Sep 27, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Squatters still occupy Mahdia arcade

…potential vendors point accusing fingers at REO Once again Region Eight’s Government-appointed Executive Officer, Ronald Harsawack, is being accused of impeding development within the district....

Guyana to enhance quality of foods being exported

Sep 27, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Guyana to enhance quality of foods being exported

Cabinet will soon be in possession of the draft Food Safety Bill aimed at ensuring that foods produced locally are of the highest quality. The Bill seeks to establish a Food Safety Agency that will...

Child Protection Week….Failure to report child abuse is an offence – CPA Director

Sep 27, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Child Protection Week….Failure to report child abuse is an offence – CPA Director

A failure to report a suspected incident of child abuse is an offence under the Protection of Children’s Act says Director of Child Protection Agency (CPA), Ann Greene. Child Protection Week...

Guyana businessman languishing in Dubai jail over a year without charges, bail

Sep 27, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Guyana businessman languishing in Dubai jail over a year without charges, bail

By Ray Chickrie Dubai, UAE- Guyanese businessman, Abul Kalam Azad Sattaur, has been held in jail in Dubai, in the United Arab Emirates, since August of last year, while travelling from Bangkok to Sao...

De Sinco Trading brings Tresemme and Hair Motion products to Guyana!

Sep 27, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on De Sinco Trading brings Tresemme and Hair Motion products to Guyana!

De Sinco trading along with Unilever Caribbean has brought to the Guyanese market the “Tresemme and Hair Motion” care products. The two distributing giants launched the product line recently....

Kaieteur News opens doors for blood drive

Sep 27, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Kaieteur News opens doors for blood drive

Kaieteur News yesterday opened its doors as a blood donation site to facilitate the National Blood Bank’s one-week blood drive initiative that started on Tuesday. Supported mainly by the entity’s...

Berbice Chamber to host workshop

Sep 27, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Berbice Chamber to host workshop

The Berbice Chamber of Commerce and Development Association is organizing a two-day workshop for potential business entrepreneurs. The workshop will be held on October 10 and 11, 2012 at the Chamber...

Guysuco weeder died from Epilepsy and drowning

Sep 27, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Guysuco weeder died from Epilepsy and drowning

The Guysuco employee, Satish Kisten, called ‘Dingo’, 29, of Brothers Village, East Bank Berbice, who was found dead in a trench on Friday died by drowning following a bout of epilepsy (fits)....

House collapses

Sep 27, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on House collapses

This house situated at Main Street and 31 Stanleytown, New Amsterdam was in a precarious position for a long time. It came tumbling down on Monday evening. Two occupants, a woman and her daughter...

Man on $10,000 bail for stealing plastic containers

Sep 27, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Man on $10,000 bail for stealing plastic containers

Wesley Ferdinand, 48, of Sparendaam was yesterday released on $10,000 bail after he allegedly stole $20,000 worth in plastic containers and footwear from a female vendor. The man admitted to the...

Queenstown is 171 years old

Sep 27, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Queenstown is 171 years old

Queenstown, one the oldest Villages on the Essequibo Coast, celebrated its 171st anniversary on Tuesday with a series of activities to commemorate the occasion. The Village was bought by...

A change in traffic laws in Guyana?

Sep 26, 2012 KNews Letters Comments Off on A change in traffic laws in Guyana?

Dear Editor, I would like the traffic department of the Guyana Police Force to respond to my query of a notice I observed printed recently in the daily newspapers, Kaieteur News and Chronicle. It is...

Apology to Abu Bakr

Sep 26, 2012 KNews Letters Comments Off on Apology to Abu Bakr

DEAR EDITOR, I write to tender an apology to Mr. Abu Bakr for the inclusion of his name (in a letter I penned in KN Sep 21) among those who wrote about troubling aspects of the PNC executive...

Condoning fraud and corruption

Sep 26, 2012 KNews Letters Comments Off on Condoning fraud and corruption

Dear Editor, President Donald Ramotar’s comment recently (Stabroek News 24.09.2012 “irregularities not top priority says Ramotar”) about the financial irregularities at the National...

The Expo warrants certain action

Sep 26, 2012 KNews Letters Comments Off on The Expo warrants certain action

Dear Editor, It is ironic that the street which borders GPL’s massive facility situated in Sophia (North) has been without light for the longest while, and consequently dangerously...

The Registrar got it all wrong

Sep 26, 2012 KNews Letters Comments Off on The Registrar got it all wrong

Dear Mr. Editor, We refer to the article ‘Land Registrar justifies decision to withhold transports’ published in the 18th September, 2012 edition of the Kaieteur News and wish to respond to the...

A Magicians’ convention at NIS

Sep 26, 2012 KNews Letters Comments Off on A Magicians’ convention at NIS

Dear Editor, My NIS number is A11110352. Permit me through your media to seek assistance in advising me on the way forward to have the NIS account for all of my contributions. For the past years...

Sultan Mohamed misdirected racist attacks

Sep 26, 2012 KNews Letters Comments Off on Sultan Mohamed misdirected racist attacks

Dear Editor, This is a response to Mr Sultan Mohamed’s letters of September 8 and September 12, 2012 on my letters about the importance People’s Parliament and “protest” and on the...

The sugar belt is evidence of working class economic stagnation

Sep 26, 2012 KNews Letters Comments Off on The sugar belt is evidence of working class economic stagnation

Dear Editor, As October 5 dawns upon us, we must remind the nation of the good memories and very bad memories associated with that date. The good memory is associated with the “dawn of the...

All to play for as Windies girls face New Zealand in World T20 opener

Sep 26, 2012 KNews Sports Comments Off on All to play for as Windies girls face New Zealand in World T20 opener

Galle, Sri Lanka – West Indies Women will start their bid to win the ICC Women’s World T20 tournament when they face New Zealand today in Group B at the Galle International Cricket...

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