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Money spent on overpriced drugs could pay 20% increase to nurses, teachers – AFC tells Ramotar

Money spent on overpriced drugs could pay 20% increase to nurses, teachers – AFC tells Ramotar

Dec 06, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Money spent on overpriced drugs could pay 20% increase to nurses, teachers – AFC tells Ramotar

“The AFC deems the refusal to establish the PPC as a sad commentary on the presidency’s will to stamp out cronyism, favouritism and discrimination and the perception thereof, in the...

Nelson Mandela bids goodbye

Nelson Mandela bids goodbye

Dec 06, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Nelson Mandela bids goodbye

JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) – Former South African President Nelson Mandela died peacefully at his Johannesburg home yesterday after a prolonged lung infection, President Jacob Zuma said....

World pays tribute to Nelson Mandela…His Excellency Donald Ramotar – “ A giant in defence of human rights and for a free and just society”

World pays tribute to Nelson Mandela…His Excellency Donald Ramotar – “ A giant in defence of human rights and for a free and just society”

Dec 06, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on World pays tribute to Nelson Mandela…His Excellency Donald Ramotar – “ A giant in defence of human rights and for a free and just society”

On behalf of the Government and people of the Republic of Guyana and on my own behalf, I express sincere condolences on the passing of Former President Nelson Mandela. This loss is not...

Town Clerk’s appointment constitutes executive lawlessness – AFC

Town Clerk’s appointment constitutes executive lawlessness – AFC

Dec 06, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Town Clerk’s appointment constitutes executive lawlessness – AFC

Leader of the Alliance For Change (AFC), Khemraj Ramjattan has labeled the recent appointment of Carol Sooba as Town Clerk, as an act of “executive lawlessness” and a total breach of...

APNU says…BOSAI contract designed to rob country of billions

APNU says…BOSAI contract designed to rob country of billions

Dec 06, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on APNU says…BOSAI contract designed to rob country of billions

The “illegal” Mining Agreement between the government and the Chinese bauxite mining company has been classified as, “a product of corruption.” This assertion was made by Financial...

Education Ministry overpaid thousands, not millions

Education Ministry overpaid thousands, not millions

Dec 06, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Education Ministry overpaid thousands, not millions

Kaieteur News in Tuesday’s edition inadvertently reported that Education officials presided over overpayments to contractors the sum of S1.5B. The figure is in fact $1.5M. This...

APNU moves to Parliament to reduce Berbice Bridge toll

APNU moves to Parliament to reduce Berbice Bridge toll

Dec 06, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on APNU moves to Parliament to reduce Berbice Bridge toll

“Wealth is devolved from Berbicians to benefit a private company” – Harmon The political opposition has for a number of years been calling for a reduction of the toll of the...

Jagdeo authorized radio licence for ‘Ghost Company’

Jagdeo authorized radio licence for ‘Ghost Company’

Dec 06, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Jagdeo authorized radio licence for ‘Ghost Company’

Days before President Bharrat Jagdeo demitted office, he directed that a ‘Ghost Company’ be handed a radio licence with five frequencies. General Elections were held on November 28, 2011;...

Dem boys seh…Creatah tek Mandela de great, waiting fuh Rat de devil

Dem boys seh…Creatah tek Mandela de great, waiting fuh Rat de devil

Dec 06, 2013 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Dem boys seh…Creatah tek Mandela de great, waiting fuh Rat de devil

Dem boys seh that a great leader get call to the house in de sky yesterday. And dem boys certain he gun deh good because de Big Man whisper that he gun tek care of this great leader. Let your...

Hand-in-Hand/GT&T Inter- County cricket…Demerara fight back after Essequibo’s bright start on rain affected day

Hand-in-Hand/GT&T Inter- County cricket…Demerara fight back after Essequibo’s bright start on rain affected day

Dec 06, 2013 KNews Sports Comments Off on Hand-in-Hand/GT&T Inter- County cricket…Demerara fight back after Essequibo’s bright start on rain affected day

By Zaheer Mohamed Demerara were fighting back at the close of play on day one against Essequibo in the opening round of the Guyana Cricket Board (GCB) organised Guyana Telephone and Telegraph...

Berbice vs President’s XI…Opening day washed out

Berbice vs President’s XI…Opening day washed out

Dec 06, 2013 KNews Sports Comments Off on Berbice vs President’s XI…Opening day washed out

Heavy overnight showers and inadequate ground staff combined to ensure the opening day of the first round of the Hand-in-Hand/GT&T four-day Senior Inter-County cricket match between...

Flex Night Int. now set for March 2, 2014

Flex Night Int. now set for March 2, 2014

Dec 06, 2013 KNews Sports Comments Off on Flex Night Int. now set for March 2, 2014

Director of Flex Night Inc. Donald Sinclair has disclosed that this year’s Flex Night International body building and fitness show will not come off this month as was originally scheduled. Sinclair...

Completion of $78M sluice at Buxton suffers year-long delay

Completion of $78M sluice at Buxton suffers year-long delay

Dec 06, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Completion of $78M sluice at Buxton suffers year-long delay

Completion of the $78M sluice being constructed at Buxton, East Coast Demerara has been delayed over one year, with shortage of timber piling and poor weather conditions blamed. Construction of the...

Improve infrastructure, manage extraction industries to ensure development – CDB’s Dr. Justin Ram

Improve infrastructure, manage extraction industries to ensure development – CDB’s Dr. Justin Ram

Dec 06, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Improve infrastructure, manage extraction industries to ensure development – CDB’s Dr. Justin Ram

By Tiffanne Ramphal From decades of economic decline and stagnation, with peaking poverty levels and a decline in the real Gross Domestic Product, Guyana has emerged even to the point of...

Vagrancy, intolerance and contemptible acts

Vagrancy, intolerance and contemptible acts

Dec 06, 2013 KNews Editorial Comments Off on Vagrancy, intolerance and contemptible acts

The rapidly increasing number of pavement dwellers in the city and its environs has always been a source of concern. Economic hardship, drug addiction and mental illness have for the most part...

Former TT cop in court on human trafficking charge of Guyanese woman

Former TT cop in court on human trafficking charge of Guyanese woman

Dec 06, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Former TT cop in court on human trafficking charge of Guyanese woman

(Trinidad Guardian) The file in the case against a former policeman on a human-trafficking charge involving a Guyanese woman has not yet reached the Director of Public Prosecutions. Deputy...

Bravo, Edwards give WI lifeline…Chanderpaul’s first innings 76 takes him past 11,000 runs

Bravo, Edwards give WI lifeline…Chanderpaul’s first innings 76 takes him past 11,000 runs

Dec 06, 2013 KNews Sports Comments Off on Bravo, Edwards give WI lifeline…Chanderpaul’s first innings 76 takes him past 11,000 runs

Dunedin, New Zealand – Purposeful half-centuries from Darren Bravo and Kirk Edwards helped West Indies rebound from a first innings batting collapse on Wednesday (New Zealand Time) and...

Tenelec U-15 tourney Berbice…Albion and RHT Farfan & Mendes into final; 10 wicket haul for Yadram

Tenelec U-15 tourney Berbice…Albion and RHT Farfan & Mendes into final; 10 wicket haul for Yadram

Dec 06, 2013 KNews Sports Comments Off on Tenelec U-15 tourney Berbice…Albion and RHT Farfan & Mendes into final; 10 wicket haul for Yadram

Albion Cricket Club (ACC) and Rose Hall Town Farfan & Mendes (RHTF&M) pulled out all the stops in their respective semi final matches en-route to the final of the Tenelec Inc....

Govt. advertises for Solid Waste Recycling Plant

Govt. advertises for Solid Waste Recycling Plant

Dec 06, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Govt. advertises for Solid Waste Recycling Plant

By Latoya Giles The Government of Guyana has announced that it is looking for eligible service providers including individuals or agencies to express their interest to build, transfer, and...

Bandits leave returning Guyanese stranded

Bandits leave returning Guyanese stranded

Dec 06, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Bandits leave returning Guyanese stranded

Two members of a Yakusari, Black Bush Polder, Berbice family, returning from the Cheddi Jagan International Airport, Timehri, chose the wrong location and time to stop to relieve themselves...

Regional Strategy proposed to improve performances in Maths and English

Regional Strategy proposed to improve performances in Maths and English

Dec 06, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Regional Strategy proposed to improve performances in Maths and English

With a view of improving the performances of students in the areas of Mathematics and English, the Caribbean Examinations Council (CXC) has proposed a Regional Strategy for Performance...

Auditor General’s report unveils several discrepancies at GRA

Auditor General’s report unveils several discrepancies at GRA

Dec 06, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Auditor General’s report unveils several discrepancies at GRA

An examination of the Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) by the Auditor General, Deodat Sharma, in his 2012 report, has found that there were 734 seizures during the period 2005 to 2010 but as of...

Farmer killed by overturned tractor

Farmer killed by overturned tractor

Dec 06, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Farmer killed by overturned tractor

A 24-year-old farmer lost his life when the tractor he was driving into the backlands of Cane Grove, East Coast Demerara, turned over and pinned him around 08:20 hours yesterday. It took...

WICB launches “We vs Them”

WICB launches “We vs Them”

Dec 06, 2013 KNews Sports Comments Off on WICB launches “We vs Them”

St. John’s Antigua – Cricket lovers from around the world joined DJ Chicky over the weekend as the WICB launched its campaign for next year’s limited-overs series against England....

Fallout continues over Town Clerk appointment

Fallout continues over Town Clerk appointment

Dec 06, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Fallout continues over Town Clerk appointment

Staffers of the Mayor and City Council (M&CC) continue to take offence to the “unconstitutional and unjust” appointment of the “unqualified” Ms Carol Sooba to the senior position of Town...

D-Up Basketball Academy Training camp brings Hoop Dreams to Life with Region 3 Jamboree

D-Up Basketball Academy Training camp brings Hoop Dreams to Life...

Nov 21, 2024

Kaieteur Sports – The D-Up Basketball Academy is gearing up to wrap its first-of-its-kind, two-month youth basketball camp, which tipped off in September at the Tuschen Primary School (TPS)...

Campbell Eyes Eighth Men’s Physique Title in Final Amateur Outing

Campbell Eyes Eighth Men’s Physique Title in...

Nov 21, 2024

Alphonso, Fung-a-Fat, Munroe among top performers as Stena Drilling Junior Skill Level Tournament concludes

Alphonso, Fung-a-Fat, Munroe among top performers...

Nov 20, 2024

Guyana’s finest Physiques to battle for Glory at Mr. Guyana National Seniors Championship

Guyana’s finest Physiques to battle for Glory...

Nov 20, 2024

CWI names West Indies Test Squad for home series against Bangladesh

CWI names West Indies Test Squad for home series...

Nov 20, 2024

Georgetown romp to 292-run win over Select XI

Georgetown romp to 292-run win over Select XI

Nov 20, 2024

Bureaucracy gone bananas!

…Peeping Tom kaieteur News- Every morning, the government wakes up, stretches its arms, and spends one billion dollars... more

Rising Gun Crimes in the Caribbean: Urgent Action required by all

By Sir Ronald Sanders Kaieteur News – There is an alarming surge in gun-related violence, particularly among younger... more

Exxon contract can be changed

…Hard Truths By GHK Lall Kaieteur News- The sacred U.S. Constitution in its original form was and is a compact with... more