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Hope U-20 Football final Monedderlust defeats NAUFC on penalty kicks

Sep 03, 2014 KNews Sports Comments Off on Hope U-20 Football final Monedderlust defeats NAUFC on penalty kicks

Monnederlust FC (MFC) defeated New Amsterdam United FC (NAUFC) in sudden death penalty kicks, after the game ended in a 2-2 stalemate, to claim the 2nd Annual Hope Memorial U20 Football Competition,...

Authorities unearth more housing scams

Sep 03, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Authorities unearth more housing scams

The Ministry of Housing and Water said that it has unearthed yet more scams involving properties, all of which are currently engaging the attention of its investigation unit. According to the...

GECOM committed to credible voters’ list – Deputy Chief Elections Officer

Sep 03, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on GECOM committed to credible voters’ list – Deputy Chief Elections Officer

While the ruling People’s Progressive Party (PPP) has listed its concerns as regards the Preliminary List of Electors (PLE) produced by the Guyana Elections Commission, (GECOM), Deputy Chief...

Truck driver faces court for elderly pedestrian’s death

Sep 03, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Truck driver faces court for elderly pedestrian’s death

The man, who was reportedly behind the wheel of the beverage truck which killed an elderly pedestrian six weeks ago, was released on $1M bail when he appeared in court. Ravin Singh, 27, of Lot 46...

Veteran singer Delma Lynch passes away

Sep 03, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Veteran singer Delma Lynch passes away

Delma Lynch was an astute woman with a melodious voice who sang her way into the hearts of many who heard her. She spent almost her entire adult life as a singer and maintained a good reputation...

Community support required to help halt abuse – Human Services Minister

Sep 03, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Community support required to help halt abuse – Human Services Minister

“We are not interested in your names, what we are interested in is having the complaints,” said Minister of Human Services and Social Security, Jennifer Webster, as she emphasised the importance...

Father of two stabbed to death at Arakaka

Sep 03, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Father of two stabbed to death at Arakaka

Police at Port Kaituma have arrested a man known as “Desmond” after a miner was fatally stabbed to death on Monday. A police report stated that around 01:00hrs, on Monday September 1, Glendon...

Bids tendered for rehabilitation and extension of schools

Sep 03, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Bids tendered for rehabilitation and extension of schools

Bids were opened yesterday at the National Procurement and Tender Administration Board (NPTAB) for the rehabilitation and extension of schools. The bids, which fall under the Ministry of Education,...

STARR Computers hosts technology seminar for women

Sep 03, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on STARR Computers hosts technology seminar for women

Entrepreneurial women of the St Cuthbert’s Mission craft centre and representatives of the ‘S-4 Foundation’ participated in a technology seminar over the weekend at STARR Computers Inc.’s...

Gerhard Ramsaroop, GWI, the National Park and White man redemption

Sep 03, 2014 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on Gerhard Ramsaroop, GWI, the National Park and White man redemption

I would advise readers that as they take in this column paragraph by paragraph, they must bear in mind we are referring to a country that achieved Independence half a century ago. We must bear in...

Pride and anger

Sep 03, 2014 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on Pride and anger

A person is supposed to have pride in themselves, their achievements, their family, their friends, and most of all in their country. In this regard, pride is a good thing. Sometimes, however, pride...

“Proper sense of environmental responsibility essential for development”- ECHO

Sep 03, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on “Proper sense of environmental responsibility essential for development”- ECHO

By Zena Henry Guyana is witnessing an unprecedented push in the mining industry, and at the same time, a significant loss of biodiversity, and the increase of polluted soils and water...

Poverty at its peak in indigenous communities…this must change – PNCR

Sep 03, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Poverty at its peak in indigenous communities…this must change – PNCR

As observances for Amerindian Heritage Month get underway, the People’s National Congress Reform (PNCR) has issued a call for the government to implement programmes that will empower indigenous...

No money can compensate for the destruction of our environment, and the plunder of our assets

Sep 03, 2014 KNews Letters Comments Off on No money can compensate for the destruction of our environment, and the plunder of our assets

Dear Editor, We, at Echo, welcome the news, as reported in the local media, of the government’s commitment to put $ 2 Billion from mining revenues for protected areas fund. This is good. However,...

Poor Sanitation and Stunting in Guyana

Sep 03, 2014 KNews Letters Comments Off on Poor Sanitation and Stunting in Guyana

Dear Editor, After the first letter was published in your newspapers on Saturday 16 August, 2014 on the possible impact of poor sanitation on stunting, it appears that several persons in Guyana have...

iNet announces new high speed broadband service

Sep 03, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on iNet announces new high speed broadband service

iNet Communications and Newtec yesterday announced the launch of a new high speed broadband service for Guyana, which enables download speeds of 10 Mbps, at affordable rates, using the IP Easy...

Our operations are in keeping with forestry sector regulations

Sep 03, 2014 KNews Letters Comments Off on Our operations are in keeping with forestry sector regulations

Dear Editor, BaiShanLin International Forest Development Inc. has issued several responses regarding concerns that have been recently raised in the media about the company’s operations. On August...

YCG to dispatch 50 volunteer teachers to far-flung regions

Sep 03, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on YCG to dispatch 50 volunteer teachers to far-flung regions

— as moves made to improve tutoring process with ‘Coaching’ Volunteer teachers have over the years been helping to fill a crucial teaching void in some public education institutions. ...

Pope correct to call for people to be placed ahead of profits

Sep 03, 2014 KNews Letters Comments Off on Pope correct to call for people to be placed ahead of profits

Dear Editor, An article caught my attention. It is about a billionaire in the United States who threatened to discontinue charity donations if the Pope continues his support for the poor. According...

CONSISTENT INCONSISTENCIES

Sep 03, 2014 KNews Editorial Comments Off on CONSISTENT INCONSISTENCIES

The one thing that watchers can bet their last dollar on is that politicians in this country can definitely be depended on to provide the most outrageous kind of comic relief. An overseas investor,...

Under pressure Bai Shan Lin pays monies owed to Amerindians

Sep 02, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Under pressure Bai Shan Lin pays monies owed to Amerindians

– dead silence on duty free concessions granted to company Chinese-owned logging company, Bai Shan Lin, amidst scrutiny of its operations, has paid off several Amerindians it owed from a...

More questions surface over criteria used to pick New GPC as drug supplier

Court orders release of businessman held in connection with narco-submarine

Sep 02, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Court orders release of businessman held in connection with narco-submarine

Head of the Customs Anti-Narcotics Unit (CANU) James Singh was yesterday forced- via a legal order- to release the Waini River businessman who was detained over the discovery of a semi-submersible...

Bandits escape in customer’s car after robbing lumber yard

Sep 02, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Bandits escape in customer’s car after robbing lumber yard

Bandits robbed the owners of Shivnauth Lumber yard at De Hoop, Mahaica yesterday then made good their escape in a customer’s car. The stolen Toyota Allion, belonging to Amar Sookar, was found hours...

West Coast drama as police arrest woman over $6M stolen lumber

Sep 02, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on West Coast drama as police arrest woman over $6M stolen lumber

It would have been a perfect crime. But then fate intervened. The victim, Mohamed Riaaz Karim of Roden Rust, East Bank Essequibo is now thanking his lucky stars after he not only escaped...

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The Windfall Tax paradox

…Peeping Tom Kaieteur News- It is a curious feature of the modern age that the more complex our agreements, the more... more