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Goed Fortuin collect prize after dominating Mayor Green’s birthday tournament

Jan 29, 2013 KNews Sports Comments Off on Goed Fortuin collect prize after dominating Mayor Green’s birthday tournament

Footballers of the Goed Fortuin community braved the inclement weather among other vicissitudes that forced the postponement of many of the fixtures, to eventually emerge winners and eventual...

Preparations heightened for Bush Lot United season opening horserace meet

Jan 29, 2013 KNews Sports Comments Off on Preparations heightened for Bush Lot United season opening horserace meet

With less than one week away for the 2013 opening horserace meet organised by the Bush Lot United Turf Club set for next Sunday, 3rd February at the club entity Sea View Park Bush Lot West...

‘Sleeping in Town’ will be awake and running for more glory in 2013

Jan 29, 2013 KNews Sports Comments Off on ‘Sleeping in Town’ will be awake and running for more glory in 2013

Amidst the ongoing debate of which was the better or champion horses for 2012, perhaps the animal that shined out like a beacon, was no other than Sleeping in Town. That is, because its...

Brassington seeks $204M compensation for Linden building

Jan 29, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Brassington seeks $204M compensation for Linden building

…commissioners see it as “taking from Peter to give to Peter” By Abena Rockcliffe Executive Director of the National Industrial and Commercial Investment Limited (NICIL)...

GDF dispatches team to investigate ganja-smoking soldiers at Cuyuni

Jan 29, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on GDF dispatches team to investigate ganja-smoking soldiers at Cuyuni

The Guyana Defence Force is in the process of dispatching an investigative team, headed by a Lieutenant Colonel and Guyana Police Force ranks to the Cuyuni district to investigate allegations...

$1M demanded from Brazilians for remains of Mazaruni accident victim

Jan 29, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on $1M demanded from Brazilians for remains of Mazaruni accident victim

Helena Rodrigues, who survived the Mazaruni River boat accident that claimed 10 lives, including her reputed husband, Francisco Oliveira Alves, yesterday, expressed extreme discontent over the...

Mazaruni River crash…Speed, no life jackets increased death toll –Transport Minister

Jan 29, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Mazaruni River crash…Speed, no life jackets increased death toll –Transport Minister

Government has admitted that enforcement in the hinterland’s waterways remains a major problem and unveiled a number of measures to increase safety. Ten bodies were recovered after a horrific...

Sugar industry gets lifeline…EU extends Guyana’s quota system to 2020

Jan 29, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Sugar industry gets lifeline…EU extends Guyana’s quota system to 2020

By Leonard Gildarie Guyana’s ailing sugar industry, faced with more worries over a 2015 deadline that would see the end of an era of sugar quotas to Europe’s lucrative market, has been given a...

Dem boys seh…Brazzy try a hustle and get ketch

Jan 29, 2013 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Dem boys seh…Brazzy try a hustle and get ketch

Brazzy try fuh hustle de Linden Commissioners. He hear that dem paying compensation and he tun up fuh claim $204 million in compensation. He plan was to collect de money and hide it away....

Home Affairs Ministry inks consultancy contract with British firm

Jan 29, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Home Affairs Ministry inks consultancy contract with British firm

The Home Affairs Ministry today signed a contract with the United Kingdom (UK)-based Capita Symonds firm for the provision of consultancy services for the Guyana Police Force (GPF) in keeping with...

Criminal-minded law enforcers

Jan 29, 2013 KNews Editorial Comments Off on Criminal-minded law enforcers

Guyana, by virtue of its natural resources, has attracted a wave of people from foreign lands because these people have the technology to exploit these resources, technology that we lack in...

Shippers to ramp up calls for the speedy implementation of SWAPS

Jan 29, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Shippers to ramp up calls for the speedy implementation of SWAPS

The Shipping Association of Guyana (SAG) has said that its clamor for the implementation of an electronic Single Windows Automated System (SWAPS) by Government to speed up shipping and clearance...

Political controversy over mosquito nets…APNU questions sidelining of Region Eight chairman

Jan 29, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Political controversy over mosquito nets…APNU questions sidelining of Region Eight chairman

By Romila Boodram Government and the Opposition are at loggerheads over the recent distribution of 5000 insecticide treated mosquito nets to Region Eight, Regional Executive Officer...

Fraud probe may have netted scapegoats – Union rep

Jan 29, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Fraud probe may have netted scapegoats – Union rep

The Guyana Public Service Union Region Ten representative Maurice Butters, has said that the three employees attached to the accounts department of the Linden Hospital Complex, who are under probe...

MAKE SQUATTING A CRIMINAL OFFENCE

Jan 29, 2013 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on MAKE SQUATTING A CRIMINAL OFFENCE

Regardless of who is the owner of a property, regardless of whether or not there is a dispute over ownership of a property, no one has a right to be squatting on another land. In other...

President Ramotar raises food bill, drugs fight at key regional meet

Jan 29, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on President Ramotar raises food bill, drugs fight at key regional meet

President Donald Ramotar, who is attending the First Summit of Heads of State and Government of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC) in Chile, told his...

Banks DIH modernizes after record profits – Reis

Jan 29, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Banks DIH modernizes after record profits – Reis

By Leon Suseran Chairman of Banks DIH Limited, Clifford Reis, has stated that the company is undergoing a modernization like no other time in its history. This announcement was made at the...

Chinese ferry suffers mechanical problems

Jan 29, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Chinese ferry suffers mechanical problems

The newly-acquired Chinese ferry, Sabanto, suffered engine problems yesterday and had to be towed by the MV Malali. According to passengers, the incident happened around 05:45hrs between the...

Toddler infected with deadly bacterium

Jan 29, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Toddler infected with deadly bacterium

…forces young mother to seek public assistance At merely 18 months old, Shafiyah Mohamed has already had two surgical interventions and today requires endless hospital visits and medication...

GTUC applauds Government’s first step to minimum wage issue

Jan 29, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on GTUC applauds Government’s first step to minimum wage issue

Head of the Guyana Trades Union Congress (GTUC) Norris Witter, has said, “As a labour union, we can never be satisfied with any wage, minimum or otherwise, that does not reflect the reality...

Chinese celebrate with New Year’s fair, 160 years of arrival

Jan 29, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Chinese celebrate with New Year’s fair, 160 years of arrival

– 2013 is Year of the Snake After waiting for some four hours for the arrival of Prime Minister Samuel Hinds, the Chinese New Year 2013 fair began with scores of families turning out...

Nations University, AIB offers international MBA courses

Jan 29, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Nations University, AIB offers international MBA courses

– Courses tailored for wide section of entrepreneurs, career officials Nations University in collaboration with the Australian Institute of Business (AIB) is offering tuitions in Guyana...

Kissoon continues to detail reasons for calling Jagdeo ‘ideological racist’

Jan 29, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Kissoon continues to detail reasons for calling Jagdeo ‘ideological racist’

Kaieteur News columnist and former University of Guyana lecturer, Frederick Kissoon yesterday continued to explain in detail, reasons for calling former President Bharrat Jagdeo an...

Local CSIs learn from French experts

Jan 29, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Local CSIs learn from French experts

The crime scene management capabilities of the Guyana Police Force will receive a shot in the arm at the completion of a one-week training programme for crime scene investigators (CSI). The training...

Who can challenge the Government on behalf of the Guyana Cricket Board?

Jan 29, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Who can challenge the Government on behalf of the Guyana Cricket Board?

– by D’Andra Lewars, Norman Manley Law School If I’m a part of a club that cannot sue in law, can I bring a case as its representative? This was the question before the Caribbean Court...

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Tennis Association applauds historic GYD $8 billion allocation to the sports sector in the 2025 National Budget

‘Govt. must come clean on gas-to-energy project’

– spending US$2B on a project without financial, environmental studies is criminality at its worst – WPA Kaieteur... more