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Little Diva Flames Football Club commence training programme

Oct 17, 2013 KNews Sports Comments Off on Little Diva Flames Football Club commence training programme

Little Diva Flames Football Club commenced training last Saturday 12th Oct 2013 at the GFC Ground under the tutelage of Coaches Joseph “Bill” Wilson and Sheron “Sherry”...

City Inn/Inter City Taxi Service sponsors 10/10 tapeball cricket for Upper Corentyne primary schools

Oct 17, 2013 KNews Sports Comments Off on City Inn/Inter City Taxi Service sponsors 10/10 tapeball cricket for Upper Corentyne primary schools

The City Inn Suites/Inter City Taxi Service of Line Path, Skeldon, Corriverton, Berbice has teamed up with the Upper Corentyne Cricket Association (UCCA) to sponsor the Upper Corentyne Inter Primary...

Guyanese riders ready for CCC challenge – Coach Gibbs

Oct 17, 2013 KNews Sports Comments Off on Guyanese riders ready for CCC challenge – Coach Gibbs

The Guyana Cycling Federation (GCF) eight-member team to the 2013 edition of the Caribbean Cycling Championships (CCC) will wheel out on Friday for the Island of Curacao where they will come up...

Family of eight displaced by La Parfaite Harmonie fire

Oct 17, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Family of eight displaced by La Parfaite Harmonie fire

A fire believed to be electrical in origin yesterday destroyed the home of eight occupants who managed to save some of the appliances at their 66th Street La Parfaite Harmonie home. According to...

Ball of fire: PPP calls for a national conversation on indiscipline

Oct 17, 2013 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on Ball of fire: PPP calls for a national conversation on indiscipline

When you read that caption, obviously you laughed. You know that the PPP cannot be serious. But human psychology defies logic. To understand what the PPP means by indiscipline you have...

Brush fire erupts at Golden Grove

Oct 17, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Brush fire erupts at Golden Grove

Residents of Fourth Bridge, Golden Grove, East Bank Demerara on Tuesday received a scare after a fire believed to have been caused by spontaneous combustion, erupted in the vacant fields...

Way clear for new homeowners to apply for mortgage relief

Oct 17, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Way clear for new homeowners to apply for mortgage relief

The way has been cleared for first time homeowners to claim for relief on their mortgage interest from the state-owned tax agency. Inviting applications for the mortgage interest relief (MIR), the...

Guyana protests inhumane DR court ruling

Oct 17, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Guyana protests inhumane DR court ruling

…estimates that 210,000 citizens stand to lose nationality The Guyana Government has registered its concern over a recent High Court Ruling in the Dominican Republic. It has described the ruling as...

Timehri North Community Council condemns alleged attack on Chinese

Oct 17, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Timehri North Community Council condemns alleged attack on Chinese

…says Government creating environment The Timehri North Community Development Council (TNCDC) has condemned the reported robbery/assault committed against three Chinese nationals executing work...

Collaborative effort underway to address Regional Education issues

Oct 17, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Collaborative effort underway to address Regional Education issues

While, Minister of Local Government and Regional Development, Ganga Persaud reiterates his disapproval of over recent protest activities at regional educational institutions, he disclosed that...

Parliament emerges from two month recess

Oct 17, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Parliament emerges from two month recess

… Anti money laundering legislation first on agenda The Parliament has resumed from its recess and while no date has been set as yet for the sitting of the National Assembly, the work of the...

QUESTIONS MUST BE ASKED OF THIS PRIVATIZATION

Oct 17, 2013 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on QUESTIONS MUST BE ASKED OF THIS PRIVATIZATION

When the National Assembly reconvenes after its annual break, important questions concerning the privatizations that have taken place under the Jagdeo administration should be tabled by the...

Timehri North Community Council condemns alleged attack on Chinese

Oct 17, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Timehri North Community Council condemns alleged attack on Chinese

…says Government creating environment The Timehri North Community Development Council (TNCDC) has condemned the reported robbery/assault committed against three Chinese nationals executing work...

Region Three Councilors reiterate call for works contracts accountability

Oct 17, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Region Three Councilors reiterate call for works contracts accountability

… refused to sign off improper work The only two Opposition members on a five- member works committee in Region Three are reiterating calls for more accountability relating to the...

A failure to develop technology

Oct 17, 2013 KNews Editorial Comments Off on A failure to develop technology

The computer came to Guyana in the early 1980s but it is still to be ubiquitous. The first computer was installed at the Guyana Rice Marketing Board when Mike Whaul’s company began...

New medical school set to churn out quality professionals

Oct 17, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on New medical school set to churn out quality professionals

Within six months the local health sector is expected to be augmented with a batch of Phlebotomists. In a year’s time additional Nursing, Pharmacy and Laboratory Technician Assistants will...

Guyanese held with drugs in Barbados

Oct 17, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Guyanese held with drugs in Barbados

Eight Guyanese crew members are in custody in Barbados after police found marijuana and cocaine on board a vessel in which they had arrived in the port of Bridgetown from Guyana late Tuesday...

Black Bush man dead in hit-and-run

Oct 17, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Black Bush man dead in hit-and-run

A Black Bush Polder man was struck dead on the Joppa Public Road shortly after 19:00 hrs on Tuesday evening. The lifeless body of Arvin Dilall, 35, of Lot 120 Yakusari North, Black Bush Polder,...

NFA strongly condemns this act of aggression

Oct 17, 2013 KNews Letters Comments Off on NFA strongly condemns this act of aggression

Dear Editor, The National Front Alliance [NFA] strongly condemns the act of aggression perpetuated by the Navy of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela against the sovereign Cooperative...

One does what comes naturally

Oct 17, 2013 KNews Letters Comments Off on One does what comes naturally

DEAR EDITOR, One does not ‘choose’ a manual career, one does what comes naturally. I have seen this happen. My brother is a typical example. No one sent him to learn the trade of a motor mechanic...

APNU is not a Political Party

Oct 17, 2013 KNews Letters Comments Off on APNU is not a Political Party

DEAR EDITOR, An article in Kaieteur News on Wednesday, October 16 (Private housing developers given preference over poor Guyanese – APNU) reflects a confusion that seems to have become...

We will not allow ourselves to be used in this way

Oct 17, 2013 KNews Letters Comments Off on We will not allow ourselves to be used in this way

DEAR EDITOR, In her recent, lengthy letter published in Stabroek News, Kaieteur News and the Guyana Chronicle, Minister of Education Priya Manickchand weighed in on the conflict of interest issue...

Humans are always on the lookout for advancement in their pursuit of the good life

Oct 17, 2013 KNews Letters Comments Off on Humans are always on the lookout for advancement in their pursuit of the good life

DEAR EDITOR, It is not without serious misgivings that I write to express some thoughts on the recent resignations at the Strategic Management Department at the Guyana Police Force. I first of...

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A wave of criminal deportees may be coming our way soon

Peeping Tom… Kaieteur News-It is peculiar the way the PPP/C government often finds itself staring down the barrel of... more