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No new vendors on Regent Street for Christmas Season – Mayor

Nov 22, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on No new vendors on Regent Street for Christmas Season – Mayor

In order to keep the city clean for the Christmas holidays, the Mayor and City Council (M&CC) says there will be no new vendors for the season especially along Regent Street. Those...

Ethanol demonstration plant being built at Albion Sugar Factory

Nov 22, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Ethanol demonstration plant being built at Albion Sugar Factory

Guyana is continuing its quest to explore alternative energy sources. This time, a London-based technology company is building a bio-ethanol demonstration plant that will use molasses at the...

Cricket legend urges UGBC graduates to have positive attitudes in life

Nov 22, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Cricket legend urges UGBC graduates to have positive attitudes in life

…Prof Samad misses convocation Some 180 students graduated from various fields over the weekend at the University of Guyana Berbice Campus (UGBC) at Port Mourant, Corentyne. The new graduates...

Chris Brown not coming

Nov 22, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Chris Brown not coming

– Replacement being sourced for “Unforgettable II” International artiste Chris Brown is not coming to Guyana for a show which was scheduled for Boxing Day, December 26, 2012 at the...

CeCe Winans, 15-member troupe coming for ‘Fulfilment’ Festival

Nov 22, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on CeCe Winans, 15-member troupe coming for ‘Fulfilment’ Festival

Ten-time Grammy award winner and double platinum recording artiste, CeCe Winans, has been contracted to perform at a massive Gospel Festival set for the Guyana National Stadium on January 26, 2013....

Gang invades school, beat, stab schoolboy

Nov 22, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Gang invades school, beat, stab schoolboy

The education system in East Berbice, Region Six, continues to take a beating. There were shocking revelations at the Vryman’s Erven Secondary (VESS) in New Amsterdam on Friday. A fifth form...

Two stillbirths occur at Berbice hospital, mothers in anguish

Nov 22, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Two stillbirths occur at Berbice hospital, mothers in anguish

Two child deaths rocked Berbice, and took place hours apart; both at the New Amsterdam Public Hospital. Kaieteur News spoke with the sorrowful yet angry mothers who were in tears. One mother said...

Clint Eastwood is making a fourth version starring Beyonce

Nov 22, 2012 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on Clint Eastwood is making a fourth version starring Beyonce

I do try my best to see the television interviews that Yesu Persaud and Christopher Ram do separately every Sunday night. But there is no consistency on my part. Things always get in the way and I...

Canadian University Service Overseas (CUSO) replaces VSO

Nov 22, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Canadian University Service Overseas (CUSO) replaces VSO

By Latoya Giles Dr Roger Luncheon has said that Government has decided to part ways with the Volunteer Services Overseas group. He made the disclosure yesterday at his weekly press briefing....

THE INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY SHOULD BE PUT ON NOTICE

Nov 22, 2012 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on THE INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY SHOULD BE PUT ON NOTICE

Guyana’s system of parliamentary democracy faces its sternest test today. This day will either go down in history as a day in which the country’s parliamentary democracy survived...

Woman jailed for house break

Nov 22, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Woman jailed for house break

A two-year trial for break an enter and larceny came to an end yesterday at the Providence Magistrate’s Court, resulting in a woman having to spend the next five years of her life in prison. The...

Teen remanded after Ogle drug bust

Nov 22, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Teen remanded after Ogle drug bust

A 17-year-old girl who was caught with 1.5 kilograms of cannabis in her possession at the Ogle Airstrip appeared at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court on a drug trafficking charge....

Government to construct $50M Special Needs school

Nov 22, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Government to construct $50M Special Needs school

Government has approved funding for the construction of the S50.19M Special Needs school which will be housed in the same compound with the Ptolemy Reid Rehabilitation Centre, located on...

Soesdyke children murder…Wife continues to testify at PI

Nov 22, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Soesdyke children murder…Wife continues to testify at PI

Yesterday, Onica Blanchard, the wife of triple murder accused, John Blanchard, returned to court to offer evidence against the man she once shared a home with. The woman was called to the...

Motorbike bandit jailed for four years

Nov 22, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Motorbike bandit jailed for four years

A self-confessed motorcycle thief was yesterday sentenced to four years’ imprisonment by Chief Magistrate Priya Sewnarine-Beharry. Roger Samuels, 36, of 10 Water Street, Agricola, was charged with...

Greenwich Park Primary School wins ECHO’s ‘Most improved school yard competition’

Nov 22, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Greenwich Park Primary School wins ECHO’s ‘Most improved school yard competition’

Greenwich Park Primary School defeated 14 other schools on the East Bank Essequibo to cop first place and emerge winner of the Environmental Community Health Organization (ECHO) ‘Most...

Police fail to testify, ‘Henry Greene’ protestors walk free

Nov 22, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Police fail to testify, ‘Henry Greene’ protestors walk free

Seven women who were arrested and charged for allegedly carrying on an illegal demonstration at the home of now deceased former police commissioner, Henry Greene, were set free, after...

The Health Minister is trying to blindfold us with spectacles

Nov 22, 2012 KNews Letters Comments Off on The Health Minister is trying to blindfold us with spectacles

Dear Editor, It is funny yet distasteful for the Minister of Health to try to make light of the matter in which his Ministry failed to get its act together to send a flight to evacuate...

There are more questions than answers about the dealings of the PPP govt.

Nov 22, 2012 KNews Letters Comments Off on There are more questions than answers about the dealings of the PPP govt.

Dear Editor, I just read a letter to your newspaper penned by one Mr. Vishnu Bisram. Mr. Bisram was berating your newspaper for peddling falsehoods about the ownership of EZjet – an...

The capacity of Guyanese to endure pain is amazing

Nov 22, 2012 KNews Letters Comments Off on The capacity of Guyanese to endure pain is amazing

Dear Editor, I am having trouble understanding the following facts: Lethem has had little or no power for several days now due to a faulty Generator plunging the community there into...

The will of the people must be respected

Nov 22, 2012 KNews Letters Comments Off on The will of the people must be respected

Dear Editor, The Attorney General and Minister of Legal Affairs has the prerogative to apply his interpretation of the Constitution and advance argument in defence of his cabinet...

Fleecing a pensioner

Nov 22, 2012 KNews Letters Comments Off on Fleecing a pensioner

Dear Editor, My wife and I are pensioners; we also have two orphan grandsons to care for. On August 29, 2012 an employee from GWI came to my residence and disconnected my water supply...

It is time for the President to acknowledge the political liability of Mr. Rohee

Nov 22, 2012 KNews Letters Comments Off on It is time for the President to acknowledge the political liability of Mr. Rohee

Dear Editor, We quote from George Entwistle, the former Director General of the BBC who said, “In the light of the fact that the director general is also the editor-in-chief and...

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Due diligence on investments must become a priority

Peeping Tom… Kaieteur News- In 1985, the Forbes Burnham government looking for economic salvation, entered into a memorandum... more