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King’s Jewellery softball…Yusuf guides Phone Paradise to 9 wicket win

May 28, 2014 KNews Sports Comments Off on King’s Jewellery softball…Yusuf guides Phone Paradise to 9 wicket win

A fine half century by Yunnis Yusuf guided Phone Paradise to a nine-wicket victory over Superior Woods when the King’s Jewellery Softball tournament continued recently at Thirst Park. Yusuf...

Legislation needed to protect auditors from victimisation – Financial Analysts

May 28, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Legislation needed to protect auditors from victimisation – Financial Analysts

Considering the fact that a field auditor was sent on leave because he sent a report to President Donald Ramotar which reportedly exposed corruption in the National Drainage and Irrigation Authority...

Ansa Mc Al intensifies awareness campaign to tackle sale of counterfeit goods

May 28, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Ansa Mc Al intensifies awareness campaign to tackle sale of counterfeit goods

While the Government Analyst Food and Drug Department, (GA-FDD) continues efforts to counteract the incidence of bogus products on the local market, authorized distributor Ansa McAl Trading Limited,...

City Hall statutory meeting ends abruptly

May 28, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on City Hall statutory meeting ends abruptly

– rift continues between Mayor, Sooba The City Hall’s statutory meeting which was scheduled to be held yesterday was cancelled because Mayor Hamilton Green had deemed the semi-locked room...

Former tourism official named as Copa Airlines sales manager

May 28, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Former tourism official named as Copa Airlines sales manager

A former senior official of the Guyana Tourism Authority (GTA) has been named as the local sales manager for the Panama-based Copa Airlines. Nadine Oudkerk’s appointment became effective on May 19,...

Exhibition launched to highlight female writers as part of Independence celebration

May 28, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Exhibition launched to highlight female writers as part of Independence celebration

Aimed at promoting the creative writings of local women, the Ministry of Human Services is currently collaborating with the National Library to host an exhibition as part of the continued celebration...

International Blacklisting…Opposition concerned but Govt. is ambling – Granger

May 28, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on International Blacklisting…Opposition concerned but Govt. is ambling – Granger

…APNU writes to CFATF, CARICOM Chair The Opposition is concerned about Guyana being blacklisted internationally by the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) but it is the government that is ambling on...

No “yanking” took place on Hope Canal project – Agri Ministry

May 28, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on No “yanking” took place on Hope Canal project – Agri Ministry

Government has denied it “yanked” a multi-million dollar sluice gate contract it issued to Courtney Benn Contracting Services. Rather, the firm in the first place was not even awarded that...

CAL blames CJIA workers for drug find

May 28, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on CAL blames CJIA workers for drug find

Caribbean Airlines Limited (CAL) says cocaine found aboard a flight which landed in Guyana over the weekend was stashed there by employees working on the ground at the Cheddi Jagan International...

Exceptional QC students for prestigious Science and Engineering programme

May 28, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Exceptional QC students for prestigious Science and Engineering programme

Three students of Queen’s College have been granted the honour of participating in the Innovation in Science and Engineering (SPISE) Programme slated to be held at the University of the West Indies...

Tuschen gets $99M nursery school

May 28, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Tuschen gets $99M nursery school

Residents of Tuschen, East Bank Essequibo and surrounding communities yesterday welcomed the commissioning of a new nursery school built at a cost of $98.8M. Architecturally, the building is the...

N/A man, 49, charged with teenage ex-lover’s murder

May 28, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on N/A man, 49, charged with teenage ex-lover’s murder

Robert Sandy called ‘Jug’, the 49-year-old man who allegedly stabbed the 19-year-old mother of one of his children to death on the evening of May 19, before ingesting poison and being...

UAE officials in talks to bring airline to Guyana

May 28, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on UAE officials in talks to bring airline to Guyana

The Government of Guyana is in talks with United Arab Emirates (UAE) towards negotiating an air service agreement that will see at least one of UAE’s three major flag carriers operating flights to...

UGSS President says tuition fee should be incremental

May 28, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on UGSS President says tuition fee should be incremental

– insists students should not be ostracised Anything outside of an incremental increase of tuition fee at the University of Guyana (UG) is “unfair” and “unreasonable”, according to...

EU-funded programme boosting agri producers to kick off next month

May 28, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on EU-funded programme boosting agri producers to kick off next month

The European Union (EU)-funded Agricultural Policy Programme (APP) from which Guyana and 14 other Caribbean Forum of African Caribbean and Pacific States (CARIFORUM) countries will benefit, was...

Bids for Education Ministry projects dominate

May 28, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Bids for Education Ministry projects dominate

Several bids were tendered for supply and delivery of services for the Ministry of Education yesterday. The bids were opened at the National Procurement and Tender Administration Board...

Digicel’s top brass meets with President Ramotar

May 28, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Digicel’s top brass meets with President Ramotar

Top executives of mobile giant, Digicel, yesterday called on President Donald Ramotar. 8 At the top of the agenda would have been the ongoing talks to liberalise the telecommunications industry in...

Prison warder took cutlasses, acid into lockups – injured inmates

May 28, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Prison warder took cutlasses, acid into lockups – injured inmates

“Two weeks before we were attacked, we tell the OC about the acid that the prison warder brought into the prison” While the Guyana Police Force (GPF) and Prison authorities have remained...

Paramakatoi Well to be repaired within two weeks – GWI

May 28, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Paramakatoi Well to be repaired within two weeks – GWI

After complaints raised about Paramakatoi not having an operable Well, the Guyana Water Incorporated (GWI) has announced that the water supply system which serves the community is under the...

SWEET MAN DEAL

May 28, 2014 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on SWEET MAN DEAL

Imagine you have an idea which you think will be successful. This idea is to establish your own business. You have good reason to believe that if you go ahead and establish this business, it will be...

Taking heed of nature and acting sensibly

May 28, 2014 KNews Editorial Comments Off on Taking heed of nature and acting sensibly

Over the years, floods have come and gone; we await the next prolonged period of rainfall, to find out whether we will once again be submerged. We can continue to debate the technicalities and...

Thoughts that are going through my mind as I watch the IPL

May 28, 2014 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on Thoughts that are going through my mind as I watch the IPL

The morning hours are the best time of the day to catch me at home. I drop off my wife to work, go in the National Park to exercise, then off to home to type my contribution for page 10 (except...

Ms Ali should suggest some alternatives

May 28, 2014 KNews Letters Comments Off on Ms Ali should suggest some alternatives

Dear Editor, In light of our own struggle to institutionalise democracy while trying to engender respectable economic growth in Guyana, I will confine my response on Ms Saraswati Ali’s comments on...

Distorting history for political reasons

May 28, 2014 KNews Letters Comments Off on Distorting history for political reasons

Dear Editor, On Sunday May 25, 2014 I attended the Independence Flag Raising Ceremony at Micobie Region Eight. Before I go further I would just like to know of the reasons for the government holding...

HISTORY MUST BE REVEALED

May 28, 2014 KNews Letters Comments Off on HISTORY MUST BE REVEALED

Dear Editor, Within the last year I have been followingwith mixed feelings, newspapers accounts of activities/events in my community of East Canje. Those activities have created among the people of...

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Fastest growing economy and an empty stadium

…Peeping Tom Kaieteur News- It’s a classic Guyanese tale, really. You live in the fastest growing economy in the... more