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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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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”

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

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...

GDF jeep kills granny, 80

Dec 06, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on GDF jeep kills granny, 80

What started off as a peaceful afternoon stroll to the mosque ended with the demise of 80-year-old Nazo Saddick. The octogenarian was fatally struck by a speeding jeep on the East Bank Public...

USE OF THE ARCHIVES SHOULD BE RESTRICTED

Dec 06, 2013 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on USE OF THE ARCHIVES SHOULD BE RESTRICTED

It is extremely disturbing to read that persons believed to be associated with a publishing company have been combing through the newspaper records in the Walter Rodney Archives, formerly the...

Guyana Beverage Company GM Robert Selman honoured by RHTY&SC

Dec 06, 2013 KNews Sports Comments Off on Guyana Beverage Company GM Robert Selman honoured by RHTY&SC

General Manager of Guyana beverage Company Inc., Robert Selman was on Tuesday last recognized by the Rose Hall Town Youth and Sports Club (RHTY&SC) for his remarkable contribution to the...

The problem with street politics is a deadly one

Dec 06, 2013 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on The problem with street politics is a deadly one

No one can deny that the PNC is setting on a bed of thorns. A good example of this is a letter in the Stabroek News yesterday written by two stalwarts from the Working People’s...

Five per cent pay hike…Public servants ‘sick-out’ to continue retaliation

Dec 06, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Five per cent pay hike…Public servants ‘sick-out’ to continue retaliation

Staffers of the country’s hospitals have decided to take their protest action against the Government-imposed five per cent increase a notch further by embracing a union call to start a...

Allie thanks sponsors and support team

Dec 06, 2013 KNews Sports Comments Off on Allie thanks sponsors and support team

– signals early preparations for the new season Despite not having the kind of success at the final leg of the Caribbean Motor Racing Championship (CMRC), local Group 2B champion...

Relatives identify seawall victim

Dec 06, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Relatives identify seawall victim

The man whose nude body was found on the Georgetown seawalls on Wednesday has been identified as 52-year-old Andrew Erskine of Lot 93 Subryanville. Relatives identified the body yesterday at...

2013 National Senior Chess C/ships…Interesting twist to championship as Meusa stumbles

Dec 06, 2013 KNews Sports Comments Off on 2013 National Senior Chess C/ships…Interesting twist to championship as Meusa stumbles

When former Senior Chess Champion, Wendell Muesa, defeated his successor, Taffin Khan, on day two of the 2013 National Senior Chess Championships, the former player had said that his major challenges...

World Scrabble Championships…McDonald delivers lukewarm returns in two days of intense competition

Dec 06, 2013 KNews Sports Comments Off on World Scrabble Championships…McDonald delivers lukewarm returns in two days of intense competition

After two intense days and 15 rounds of word forming activities in the World Scrabble Championships, Prague, Czech Republic, National Scrabble champion, Abigail McDonald has endured mixed fortunes...

This is not the Leguan I knew as a child

Dec 06, 2013 KNews Letters Comments Off on This is not the Leguan I knew as a child

Dear Editor, One of the oldest, most likeable and popular priests in Leguan, Pt Jairam Maharaj (Bata)passed away on Deepavali night Nov 2nd at the age of 71.The late Pt. Deonarine Sharma was...

Voters should choose presidential candidates like America

Dec 06, 2013 KNews Letters Comments Off on Voters should choose presidential candidates like America

Dear Editor, The process of choosing executives to run the parties and or selecting candidates to contest elections in Guyana is broken. An election is imminent but democratic reforms empowering...

This atrocity by the Ministry of Local Government is a dent on decency

Dec 06, 2013 KNews Letters Comments Off on This atrocity by the Ministry of Local Government is a dent on decency

Dear Editor, There was an irony of all ironies when on Wednesday December December 4, 2013 in the midst of a forum for Mayors of the Americas and the Caribbean, I received the news that the Ministry...

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If the system is not broken why try to fix it?

…Peeping Tom kaieteur News- A few years ago, I was at a private hospital watching the workers “clock-in” to work... more