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Gunman grabs $17M, guns, ammo from Toolsie Persaud employees

Gunman grabs $17M, guns, ammo from Toolsie Persaud employees

Aug 16, 2013 News 5

  –    Accounts clerks, guards detained   Police are grilling four employees of local hardware giant, Toolsie Persaud Limited, who are claiming that a lone gunman relieved them of $17M...
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Region’s radio, TV execs meet in Guyana to enhance strategies

Region’s radio, TV execs meet in Guyana to enhance strategies

Aug 16, 2013 News Comments Off on Region’s radio, TV execs meet in Guyana to enhance strategies

Over 80 delegates comprising senior executives of at least 30 radio and television outfits across the region will descend on Guyana over the weekend for the Caribbean Broadcasting Union (CBU)’s...
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Public Works takes swift actions against delinquent contractors

Public Works takes swift actions against delinquent contractors

Aug 16, 2013 News Comments Off on Public Works takes swift actions against delinquent contractors

The Public Works Ministry has terminated a multi-million dollar sea defence contract that was undertaken by Toolsie Persaud Quarries Inc., in Leguan; and suspended the contract for M&B...
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GECOM advertises for Chief Election Officer

GECOM advertises for Chief Election Officer

Aug 16, 2013 News Comments Off on GECOM advertises for Chief Election Officer

The Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) has commenced its search for a Chief Election Officer. According to a GECOM advertisement appearing in this publication today, applicants for the position have...
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Amazon Warriors waltz past Tallawahs by 5 runs at Sabina

Amazon Warriors waltz past Tallawahs by 5 runs at Sabina

Aug 16, 2013 Sports Comments Off on Amazon Warriors waltz past Tallawahs by 5 runs at Sabina

Christopher Barnwell came up trumps with a superb last over to help the Guyana Amazon Warriors defeat the Jamaica Tallawahs by five runs in their Limacol Caribbean Premier League (LCPL) match...
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Top trio of Jayawardene, Malinga and Mahmood to come and play in LCPL

Top trio of Jayawardene, Malinga and Mahmood to come and play in LCPL

Aug 16, 2013 Sports Comments Off on Top trio of Jayawardene, Malinga and Mahmood to come and play in LCPL

St. John’s, Antigua – Three of the world’s leading Twenty20 players, the Sri Lanka duo of Mahela Jayawardene and Lasith Malinga, along with former Pakistan all-rounder Azhar Mahmood, are coming...
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Lennox Allen resumes career with convincing victory

Lennox Allen resumes career with convincing victory

Aug 16, 2013 Sports Comments Off on Lennox Allen resumes career with convincing victory

Caribbean Boxing Federation Super/Middleweight champion, Lennox Allen, resumed his career on a winning note when he unanimously outpointed Michel Gbenga in a six rounds Light/Heavyweight bout at the...
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Johnson satisfied with locals’ performance in CRTTF pre-Cadet C/ships

Johnson satisfied with locals’ performance in CRTTF pre-Cadet C/ships

Aug 16, 2013 Sports Comments Off on Johnson satisfied with locals’ performance in CRTTF pre-Cadet C/ships

By Zaheer Mohamed Head Coach of the Guyana team which competed in the recently concluded Caribbean Region Table Tennis Federation (CRTTF) pre-Cadet Championship Linden Johnson said he is satisfied...
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Letter to the Sports Editor….ALVIN JOHNSON RESPONDS TO WINSTON BOSTON

Letter to the Sports Editor….ALVIN JOHNSON RESPONDS TO WINSTON BOSTON

Aug 16, 2013 Sports Comments Off on Letter to the Sports Editor….ALVIN JOHNSON RESPONDS TO WINSTON BOSTON

  Dear Editor, I have read Winston G. Boston’s letter on page 34 of Kaieteur News, Wednesday August 14, 2013 and I am compelled to respond since my name has been negatively mentioned in the...
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Positive spinoffs from SPSFA as players selected for Nat. U-17 WCQ

Positive spinoffs from SPSFA as players selected for Nat. U-17 WCQ

Aug 16, 2013 Sports Comments Off on Positive spinoffs from SPSFA as players selected for Nat. U-17 WCQ

Following their successful showing in the just concluded Scotiabank/Pepsi Schools’ Football Academy, twelve (12) female participants have been selected for the National Under-17 World Cup...
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LCPL gets the Virgin seal of approval from Sir Richard Branson

LCPL gets the Virgin seal of approval from Sir Richard Branson

Aug 16, 2013 Sports Comments Off on LCPL gets the Virgin seal of approval from Sir Richard Branson

ST JOHN’S, Antigua – Sir Richard Branson, the founder of the Virgin Group, has given the Limacol Caribbean Premier League (LCPL) his seal of approval after attending the Antigua...
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Pepsi Sonics Vocational Programme ends

Pepsi Sonics Vocational Programme ends

Aug 16, 2013 Sports Comments Off on Pepsi Sonics Vocational Programme ends

THE two-week Schools Vocational Programme which was organised by Pepsi Sonics Basketball Club came to an end on Sunday, at the National Gymnasium with matches being played among the participants of...
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Slingerz/NAWF ‘Goal for Gold’ Extravaganza…Alpha & Western Tigers register convincing victories

Slingerz/NAWF ‘Goal for Gold’ Extravaganza…Alpha & Western Tigers register convincing victories

Aug 16, 2013 Sports Comments Off on Slingerz/NAWF ‘Goal for Gold’ Extravaganza…Alpha & Western Tigers register convincing victories

Alpha ‘The Hammer’ United FC breezed past Grove Hi-Tec 3-0 while Western Tigers emulated their feat with a 2-1 victory over Seawall FC to inch towards championship honours when the Slingertz...
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Taylor, Hyman guide Thunder to Goodluck\TNT dominoes title

Taylor, Hyman guide Thunder to Goodluck\TNT dominoes title

Aug 16, 2013 Sports Comments Off on Taylor, Hyman guide Thunder to Goodluck\TNT dominoes title

Sky Taylor and Jilon Hyman marked 17 and 15 games respectively as Thunder amassed 81 games to win the Sonia Goodluck/TNT Dominoes competition when the final was contested last Sunday at R & R,...
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Guyana Watch team services West Coast B’ce

Guyana Watch team services West Coast B’ce

Aug 16, 2013 News Comments Off on Guyana Watch team services West Coast B’ce

–    heads for Leonora today By Romila Boodram Residents of West Coast Berbice took the opportunity to see the doctors of the Guyana Watch Medical team yesterday, as the specialists moved to...
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Route 32 minibus owners threaten to cease operations

Route 32 minibus owners threaten to cease operations

Aug 16, 2013 News 5

–    Complain of high fuel prices By Javone Vickerie Minibus operators plying Route 32 (Georgetown/Parika), specifically those operating from Vreed-en-hoop, are planning to cease operation...
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Reparations for Slavery: Can a claim be sustained?

Reparations for Slavery: Can a claim be sustained?

Aug 16, 2013 News Comments Off on Reparations for Slavery: Can a claim be sustained?

By Sir Ronald Sanders KCMG AM, Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies and a former Caribbean diplomat In 1838, British slave owners in the English-Speaking Caribbean received...
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Local agro-processors need help with packaging and labeling – IICA official

Local agro-processors need help with packaging and labeling – IICA official

Aug 16, 2013 News Comments Off on Local agro-processors need help with packaging and labeling – IICA official

By Keeran Danny Packaging and labeling, sometimes the major attractions for a product, remain a challenge for local agro-processors, who have to “compete” with similar products produced overseas...
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Rohee tells Nat’l Economic Forum of 1960s mayhem

Rohee tells Nat’l Economic Forum of 1960s mayhem

Aug 16, 2013 News Comments Off on Rohee tells Nat’l Economic Forum of 1960s mayhem

….underscores security as prerequisite for growth in economy By Gary Eleazar The National Economic Forum yesterday heard from the Minister with responsibility for security within its borders and...
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Staying focused is key to academic success, says CSEC standout

Staying focused is key to academic success, says CSEC standout

Aug 16, 2013 News Comments Off on Staying focused is key to academic success, says CSEC standout

  By Abena Rockcliffe Even though he wrote so many Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate (CSEC) subjects that essentially make him eligible to be accepted to do nearly any course at most...
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Special session today to nominate Mayoral stand-in

Special session today to nominate Mayoral stand-in

Aug 16, 2013 News Comments Off on Special session today to nominate Mayoral stand-in

–    ‘Chief  Citizen’, deputy overseas Today, Friday August 16, 2013, is the scheduled date, in which the Councillors of the Mayor and City Council, (M&CC) will meet in a special...
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The Police Commissioner and his officers were very nice to me. Thanks.

The Police Commissioner and his officers were very nice to me. Thanks.

Aug 16, 2013 Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on The Police Commissioner and his officers were very nice to me. Thanks.

  I begin this column by offering an apology to my editor. I told him I would not be around from Thursday for three days because I was off in the interior. The truth was that I was off from...
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Training of nurses high on agenda to improve maternal health care – CMO

Training of nurses high on agenda to improve maternal health care – CMO

Aug 16, 2013 News Comments Off on Training of nurses high on agenda to improve maternal health care – CMO

  Even as diligent moves are being made by the Ministry of Health to train more Obstetricians, equal efforts are being directed to the training of nurses. And according to Chief Medical Officer...
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Egypt’s Tragedy

Egypt’s Tragedy

Aug 16, 2013 Editorial Comments Off on Egypt’s Tragedy

The other foot inevitably dropped in the unfolding tragedy in Egypt which began when the democratically-elected government of Mohammed Morsi was overthrown in a coup d’état by the army on July 3....
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Health Ministry outlines resolute measures to combat HIV

Health Ministry outlines resolute measures to combat HIV

Aug 16, 2013 News Comments Off on Health Ministry outlines resolute measures to combat HIV

By Sharmain Grainger The elimination of mother-to-child transmission (eMTCT) of HIV has been recognized as a key factor in the recently launched HIVision2020 National Strategic Plan, which is...
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Olympic Kremlin crowned Horse-of-the-Year at One Guyana Thoroughbred Racing Awards

Olympic Kremlin crowned Horse-of-the-Year at One Guyana Thoroughbred...

Feb 02, 2025

Kaieteur Sports-Olympic Kremlin, the star of Slingerz Stables, was named Horse of the Year at the One Guyana Thoroughbred Racing Awards held on Friday evening in Berbice. The Brazilian-bred...
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Guyana Squash Association celebrates historic Doubles Court opening

Guyana Squash Association celebrates historic...

Feb 02, 2025

Western Tigers will be 50 this year ‘2025’

Western Tigers will be 50 this year ‘2025’

Feb 02, 2025

UG Honours outstanding athletes at Annual Sports Awards and Dinner

UG Honours outstanding athletes at Annual Sports...

Feb 02, 2025

East Bank Pool Club set to Cue Off 2025 Eight-Ball C/ship today  

East Bank Pool Club set to Cue Off 2025...

Feb 02, 2025

Guyana Police Force Senior Officers defeat visiting Canadian New Western Cricket Club in friendly cricket match

Guyana Police Force Senior Officers defeat...

Feb 02, 2025

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