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Jul 18, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Drug mix-up sparks recall of Rugby Enteric Aspirin
The Government Analyst Food and Drugs Department (GAFFD) have issued statements recalling a batch of ‘Rugby’ brand Enteric coated Aspirin Tables. The recall is due to a mix up with...Jul 18, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Combating city vectors high on Vector Control Services agenda – Director
In what can be described as a move to help restore the capital city to an acceptable state, the Ministry of Health through its Vector Control Services Unit has plans to introduce an intense...Jul 18, 2013 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on THE MAKING OF A HERO
I met him one day in London, sitting in a pub sipping a soda. He would have fitted better in a café where the drinks are softer and the conversation quieter, less common and more...Jul 18, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Auto Parts store robbed; two employees attacked
With the spate of robberies plaguing the business community for the past week, an auto parts store was yesterday robbed by two gunmen who pretended to be potential customers. According to the...Jul 18, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Two-vehicle accident sends both vehicles into trenches
These two vehicles ended up in separate trenches in the vicinity of Warren at No 19 East Coast Berbice, after they were involved in an accident. According to information, at...Jul 18, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Police adjusting strategies to deal with crime increase
– five killed in armed robberies within two weeks The recent spike in violent criminal activity has forced the local police to adjust their strategies in a valiant attempt to curb the...Jul 18, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Bhim urges new apprentices to improve “troubling” sugar industry
Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Guyana Sugar Corporation (GuySuCo), Paul Bhim, called on apprentices yesterday at the Port Mourant Training School’s 52nd Annual Graduation...Jul 18, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on TB/HIV fight faces multiple challenges…Some patients not taking medication, 24 co-infected patients died last year
By Neil Marks Some patients who test positive for the deadly combination of Tuberculosis and HIV abruptly stop taking the prescribed medication, challenging health care workers to track...Jul 18, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Fire destroys Tuschen Housing Scheme property
-family of four homeless A family of four was yesterday rendered homeless after their two-storey, three-bedroom Lot 2253 Tuschen Housing Scheme home was destroyed by fire at around 11:15hrs....Jul 18, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Matthew’s Ridge plane crash… Passenger recalled pilot saying “Oh Gosh” before landing in bushes
Ulan Benjamin, one of the passengers, who was traveling in an Air Services Limited (ASL) Cessna Caravan aircraft on Monday when it crashed at Matthew’s Ridge, Region One, said that he heard when...Jul 18, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Agricola family comes home to ransacked house
Burglars cart off $100,000 in cash and items By Javone Vickerie An Agricola family returned home from Georgetown, yesterday to find that they had been robbed of their cash and...Jul 18, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on 13 new archaeological sites found in Rupununi
In light of the disclosure of 13 new archaeological sites that were found in the Rupununi Savannah, Region Nine during an anthropology field school visit to the Karanambo Ranch, Archaeologist...Jul 18, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Guyanese collapses during walk in Barbados
Two men, one of them a Guyanese, met their demise under differing circumstances in Barbados Tuesday, one succumbing to an apparent heart attack, and the other through violent means. The body...Jul 18, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Police rewards 1300 ranks with monetary incentives
The Guyana Police Force as part of its 174th anniversary celebrations yesterday doled out $10M to more than 1300 of its ranks who performed outstandingly suppressing crime and traffic...Jul 18, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Voir Dire conducted in Lusignan massacre trial
The defence for the two men accused of taking part in the 2008 slaughter of 11 Lusignan residents, brought to the court’s attention several issues that could negatively affect their...Jul 18, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on 6,000 tons of paddy to leave for Venezuela shortly – GRDB
– 30,000 tons paddy, 29,000 tons white rice already shipped As part of Guyana’s contractual obligation to ship paddy and white rice to Venezuela, the sixth shipment of paddy for 2013 is...Jul 18, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Six graduate Emergency Medical Dispatchers programme
The Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) is now equipped with six fully trained Emergency Medical Dispatchers (EMD). Those who recently graduated from the training programme are...Jul 18, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Several Region Seven communities educated about TIP
Apparently, weeks before members of Guyana Women Miners’ Organization rescued five Trafficking In Persons (TIP) victims, four members of the Ministerial Task Force on Trafficking in Persons...Jul 18, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on ‘Cakes’ charged with beating wife
Cleophus Hope, called ‘Cakes’, 56, a Seaman of Betsy Ground, East Canje, Berbice, was on Monday placed on $25,000 bail by Magistrate Rhondel Weaver last week. He appeared before her at the New...Jul 18, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Court Marshal Dainty laid to rest
Walter Herbert Dainty was laid to rest yesterday after a brief funeral service at Sandy’s Funeral Home earlier in the morning. Dainty died last week at the age of 86. At the funeral service his...Jul 18, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on High court criminal sessions expected to resume today in Berbice
High court proceedings in the criminal session in the Berbice High Court are expected to resume today. This was after proceedings came to a halt just after the beginning of the June sessions...Jul 18, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Heightened security for PPP Congress – Rohee
By Leon Suseran Speaking at a Press Conference at Freedom House in New Amsterdam recently, Chairperson of the People’s Progressive Party/Civic (PPP/C), Minister Clement Rohee has stated that...Jul 18, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Two Antiguans get life for killing Guyanese butcher
Antigua (Antigua Observer) – Shrill shrieks echoed through the High Court building Tuesday as the mother of one of two men sentenced to life in prison broke down in tears. Lasana Anthony “Tony”...Jul 18, 2013 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on It is not only bad governance but bad attitudes
The corruption began under the Presidency of Dr. Cheddi Jagan and continued from thereon. But in that period, it was small time skullduggery. Perhaps the greatest claim to fame that Jagan had was his...Jul 18, 2013 KNews Letters Comments Off on These people cannot enhance any crucial discourse
DEAR EDITOR, I refer to M. Maxwell’s letter in KN of July 16, 2013 in which he wrote; “Unlike Freddie Kissoon, I will not relent to the shamelessly convenient reasoning of Minette Bacchus.” I...

Sep 13, 2026
The Guyana Amazon Warriors kept their playoff hopes alive with a 25 run win over the Trinbago Knight Riders in the 2026 Limacol WCPL. Runs for Shermaine Campbell and wickets from Shabnim Ismail and...Sep 13, 2026
(Kaieteur News) – I am not surprised that electricity demand in Linden has surged by more than 135 per cent from its 2005 level. In fact, given the price at which electricity is supplied there, it would be surprising if demand had not surged. The figures tell the story. Electricity consumption...Sep 06, 2026
By Sir Ronald Sanders (Kaieteur News) – The world has broken the 1.5°C promise it made to its most vulnerable countries. The breach has not yet been recorded on a sustained basis, but the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) says it is widely assessed as unavoidable and likely within the...Sep 13, 2026
Hard truths… (Kaieteur News) – Never knew Dr. Bharrat Jagdeo to be sneaky. Sloppy, hostility personified and sleeker than mercury, he can be. But not sneaky, not he. Hence, I weigh why he waited until Pres. Ali’s back was turned to show his face at the Arthur Chung Convention Center...Freedom of speech is our core value at Kaieteur News. If the letter/e-mail you sent was not published, and you believe that its contents were not libellous, let us know, please contact us by phone or email.
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