August 2013

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Hopefully, writers will be guided by facts, and not half-truths on the Amaila project

Aug 28, 2013 KNews Letters Comments Off on Hopefully, writers will be guided by facts, and not half-truths on the Amaila project

Dear Editor, I am compelled to respond to a letter appearing in yesterday’s edition of your newspaper (KN 26/08/2013) written by Asquith Rose and Harish S Singh. I believe the following...

Controversial Amaila Hydro..Legal fees set at whopping US$5M

Aug 27, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Controversial Amaila Hydro..Legal fees set at whopping US$5M

…Sithe Global had planned to pay itself US$60,000 monthly for four years to oversee the construction it designed Sithe Global, the company contracted to develop the Amaila Falls Hydro Electric...

Former Attorney General Doodnauth Singh laid to rest

Aug 27, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Former Attorney General Doodnauth Singh laid to rest

will be greatly missed – President Ramotar The body of former Attorney General and Minister of Legal Affairs, Doodnauth Singh, left his Forshaw Street, Queenstown home in a dholi...

OAS team to conduct anti-corruption review of Guyana

Aug 27, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on OAS team to conduct anti-corruption review of Guyana

A team from the Organization of American States (OAS) will conduct a review of Guyana’s anti-corruption measures in October. According to the 35-member grouping, the Commission from the OAS...

Internet Café bandits caught on camera

Aug 27, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Internet Café bandits caught on camera

The Uprising Internet Café located at Vlissingen road, Castello Housing Scheme was robbed on Sunday night around 9:30 pm by two young bandits. This was the second robbery to befall the establishment...

Man found hanging believed murdered

Aug 27, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Man found hanging believed murdered

The body of chain-saw operator Chandradat Hussein, 33, of Goed Bananen Land, East Canje, Berbice, was found hanging in a logging camp at Kurduni, Berbice River last Friday and police believed that he...

Phillips and Lovell promoted to Brigadier Generals

Aug 27, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Phillips and Lovell promoted to Brigadier Generals

– Phillips to succeed Rear Admiral Best as Army Chief Newly appointed Brigadier Mark Phillips has promised the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces, President Donald Ramotar that he will...

Dem boys seh…Sam blind and deaf, conveniently

Aug 27, 2013 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Dem boys seh…Sam blind and deaf, conveniently

Sam got to go to some senior citizens’ home. Dem boys find out that he deaf and he sight going. Being a prime minister require that people must got all dem senses. When people use to call...

World Juniors & Sub-Juniors Men’s Championships…Shewdass is 53kg World Champion in vintage performance

Aug 27, 2013 KNews Sports Comments Off on World Juniors & Sub-Juniors Men’s Championships…Shewdass is 53kg World Champion in vintage performance

By Franklin Wilson They say that champions are made of quality stuff and that an apt analogy for Guyanese sub-junior powerlifting sensation, Gumendra Shewdass, who hails from the Ancient...

Santokie, Cotterrell acquired by Guyana…Sammy also an option for this weekend’s T20s against T&T

Aug 27, 2013 KNews Sports Comments Off on Santokie, Cotterrell acquired by Guyana…Sammy also an option for this weekend’s T20s against T&T

By Sean Devers The Jamaican pair of left-arm speedsters Krishmar Santokie and Sheldon Cotterrell have been acquired by one of the sponsors of the Guyana Amazon Warriors to play in two feature...

Elle’s Vision wins Guyana Cup for second consecutive year, Cat Messiah scores double…

Aug 27, 2013 KNews Sports Comments Off on Elle’s Vision wins Guyana Cup for second consecutive year, Cat Messiah scores double…

Jagdeo, Singh and Jumbo Jet and Shariff stables outstanding By Samuel Whyte It was Elle’s Vision of the Jagdeo stable that came back after an almost one year rest to whip the field in a gate to...

Preserving the legacy: Former boxers to stage nostalgic boxing card in Linden

Aug 27, 2013 KNews Sports Comments Off on Preserving the legacy: Former boxers to stage nostalgic boxing card in Linden

Boxing pundits of the late seventies would remember with a tinge of nostalgia, the many pugilists that have ruled the roost and contributed to the rich boxing legacy locally. Names like Conrad...

Windball players presented with school kits from Digicel

Aug 27, 2013 KNews Sports Comments Off on Windball players presented with school kits from Digicel

Participants of the Annual AL Sport & Tour Promotions (ASTP)/Ministry of Culture, Youth & Sport (MCYS) /National Sports Commission (NSC) ‘Summer’ Windball Cricket Development...

Slingerz Football Club/National Association of Women’s Football Goal for Gold football…

Aug 27, 2013 KNews Sports Comments Off on Slingerz Football Club/National Association of Women’s Football Goal for Gold football…

Alpha and Bartica through to finals; wait for respective opponents Alpha ‘The Hammer’ United defeated Camptown FC 3 nil and booked a place in the final when those two teams clashed in the...

Letter to the Sports Editor…Ramnarine sets record straight on Scores Even

Aug 27, 2013 KNews Sports Comments Off on Letter to the Sports Editor…Ramnarine sets record straight on Scores Even

Dear Editor, There needs to be a correction in an article written in your newspaper (Sunday 25) regarding Guyana’s number 1 race horse Scores Even. Your article misstates that Scores Even...

Wayne Cave carts off the spoils in GASP Tier ‘B’ championships

Aug 27, 2013 KNews Sports Comments Off on Wayne Cave carts off the spoils in GASP Tier ‘B’ championships

The experts are adamant that perseverance is the main ingredient to success and Wayne Cave endorsed that view when he finally clinched the top spot when the Guyana Association of Scrabble...

Ramkarran defends AFC’s vote on Amaila

Aug 27, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Ramkarran defends AFC’s vote on Amaila

…says party showed independence, had nation’s interest at heart Former Speaker of the National Assembly, Ralph Ramkarran, believes that the Alliance For Change (AFC) may have shown its...

Marriott Hotel’s dog chases Kaieteur News reporter

Aug 27, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Marriott Hotel’s dog chases Kaieteur News reporter

A Kaieteur News Reporter, investigating reports that a construction worker fell off the third floor of the Marriott Hotel had to run for her life when a huge dog forced her to flee the compound in a...

Several Berbice public doctors sent home charging patients service fee – Armogan

Aug 27, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Several Berbice public doctors sent home charging patients service fee – Armogan

“There are some people whom we have had to ‘treat with’ some time ago and treat with seriously, because somehow they felt that the salary was not enough and therefore, they...

GPL completes two substations, five pending

Aug 27, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on GPL completes two substations, five pending

The Guyana Power Light (GPL) has already completed the construction of two substations while works are continuing on five more. The substations completed are at Vreed-en-Hoop and Edingburg on the...

Linden Highway crash…Relatives believe victim was still alive when placed into hearse

Aug 27, 2013 KNews News 2

Even as distraught relatives of the two victims who perished in the minibus that toppled into the Kairuni Creek on Sunday afternoon try to come to grips with their loss, many Lindeners...

Cops question Women Miner’s Association head over assault, theft claims

Aug 27, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Cops question Women Miner’s Association head over assault, theft claims

Head of the Guyana Women Miners Organisation, Simona Broomes was questioned yesterday at the Criminal Investigations Department Headquarters, Eve Leary, in connection with an allegation that...

Carifesta XI comes to an end

Aug 27, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Carifesta XI comes to an end

By Ivan Cairo PARAMARIBO, Suriname; As Suriname’s President Desi Bouterse, backed by several of his cabinet Ministers and Members of Parliament performed a farewell song on stage, Carifesta...

French Guiana family loses 12-year-old in accident

Aug 27, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on French Guiana family loses 12-year-old in accident

– calls on local authorities for justice By Rabindra Rooplall A French Guiana family on vacation will now be burying 12 year old Johnny Romeo Da Silva who was killed after a motorcar...

What’s with the fire hydrants?

Aug 27, 2013 KNews Editorial Comments Off on What’s with the fire hydrants?

These past few weeks the nation was focused on the Amaila Falls Hydroelectric Project. Everyone was talking about the huge sums of money that the project was costing. At the same time they...

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UG Green Institute Prelim. Report Pt. 1

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Hard Truths by GHK Lall (Kaieteur News) – The University of Guyana Green Institute (UGGI) did its 60th Independence Survey. Titled: Guyana at 60: Trust, Oil, and the Society Being Built. The Preliminary Report is out. It’s a start. Guyanese get to hear from academics with their models and...

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