December 10, 2014 - Kaieteur News

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Brazil/Guyana fibre optic cable project collapses

Dec 10, 2014 KNews News 1

More than four years after an agreement was signed between Guyana and Brazil for a fibre optic cable to link Government facilities, the project appears to have collapsed because of technical issues....

Disappointing turnout as TGI hosts anti-corruption march

Dec 10, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Disappointing turnout as TGI hosts anti-corruption march

By Abena Rockcliffe Chanting catchphrases like “say no to corruption” and “zero percent corruption, 100 percent development,” several concerned citizens joined Transparency Guyana Inc. (TGI)...

APNU protestors wear black to mourn “death of democracy”

Dec 10, 2014 KNews News 1

By Abena Rockcliffe Leaders and supporters of A Partnership for National Unity (APNU) yesterday mounted protest action outside of the Office of the President for the eighth consecutive week, to...

Production bonus, salary increase announced for sugar workers

Dec 10, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Production bonus, salary increase announced for sugar workers

Sugar workers have been awarded four and a half days pay for this year’s production. In the face of a financial crisis, payment is expected no later than February 27th, 2015. The Guyana...

Jagdeo/Kissoon libel case…Plaintiff gets two more weeks to reply to defence amendments

Dec 10, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Jagdeo/Kissoon libel case…Plaintiff gets two more weeks to reply to defence amendments

Lawyers for former President Bharrat Jagdeo, in the libel case against Kaieteur News columnist Frederick Kissoon, the newspaper’s publisher Glenn Lall and its Editor-in-Chief Adam Harris, were...

Guyana Stores/NICIL court battle…CEO Tony Yassin cross-examined

Dec 10, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Guyana Stores/NICIL court battle…CEO Tony Yassin cross-examined

Guyana Stores Limited (GSL) Chief Executive Officer, Tony Yassin, was cross-examined yesterday as the court battle between the National Industrial and Commercial Investments Limited (NICIL) and Royal...

Attack at Sterling Products Ltd…Killers were after money safe

Dec 10, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Attack at Sterling Products Ltd…Killers were after money safe

– three persons detained, car impounded Police have detained three men and impounded a silver-grey car that may have been used by the gunmen who killed security guard Wilfred Stewart and...

Granger deaf and Ramjattan blind

Dec 10, 2014 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Granger deaf and Ramjattan blind

When Jagdeo give away de radio frequencies to he best friend and he family and he party, dem boys talk about de danger of that. Even de big man at the US embassy at de time know that this thing was...

Ansa McAL partners with BFA/EDFA/EBFA for staging of Stag Beer super 16 challenge

Dec 10, 2014 KNews Sports Comments Off on Ansa McAL partners with BFA/EDFA/EBFA for staging of Stag Beer super 16 challenge

By Zaheer Mohamed Ansa McAl has united with Berbice Football Association (BFA), East Demerara Football Association (EDFA) and the East Bank Football Association (EBFA) for the staging of the...

GCC Tigers, Hickers vets both repeat 2013 victories, Pepsi Hikers on target

Dec 10, 2014 KNews Sports Comments Off on GCC Tigers, Hickers vets both repeat 2013 victories, Pepsi Hikers on target

Diamond Mineral Water International Indoor Hockey Festival… The GCC Tigers and veteran side the Hickers both repeated their 2013 victories in the Diamond Mineral Water International Indoor...

GCB outreach continues in Berbice

Dec 10, 2014 KNews Sports Comments Off on GCB outreach continues in Berbice

– donates gear kit to Skeldon Estate Cricket Club The Guyana Cricket Board (GCB) countrywide cricket outreach programme continued in Berbice as President of the Board, Drubahadur, donated a...

Berbice Basketball action set to bounce off today at the Area H ground

Dec 10, 2014 KNews Sports Comments Off on Berbice Basketball action set to bounce off today at the Area H ground

The basketball action which was originally set to bounce off last Sunday will now get started today in Berbice. Six teams are set to take part in the competition with the teams being divided into two...

Milerock, Uitvlugt cart off honours in 4th Kayo and Tallo’s U-13, U-16 football fiesta

Dec 10, 2014 KNews Sports Comments Off on Milerock, Uitvlugt cart off honours in 4th Kayo and Tallo’s U-13, U-16 football fiesta

Linden’s Milerock and West Demerara’s Uitvlugt Under-13 and Under-16 teams are the new champions following last Saturday’s Kayo’s Academy and Rickland ‘Tallo’ Hutson 4th Youth Challenge...

GFA/Banks Beer Cup…Santos and Rhythm Squad triumph over Beacon and Camptown

Dec 10, 2014 KNews Sports Comments Off on GFA/Banks Beer Cup…Santos and Rhythm Squad triumph over Beacon and Camptown

By Michael Benjamin The tournament has only just commenced but already the action is intense and riveting and points to an interesting climax as the participating teams in the GFA/Banks Beer Cup...

Continental Group of Companies supports Sunburst Campton FC

Dec 10, 2014 KNews Sports Comments Off on Continental Group of Companies supports Sunburst Campton FC

Continental Group of Companies under its Continental Foods Inc Sunburst Brand continues to support the Campton Football Club. Yesterday at the company’s office at Industrial Site Ruimveldt, the...

Forde first Caribbean male to finish Run Barbados 10k, Half Marathon

Dec 10, 2014 KNews Sports Comments Off on Forde first Caribbean male to finish Run Barbados 10k, Half Marathon

– Morgan is second Caribbean woman in both races Guyana’s Cleveland Forde was the first Caribbean male athlete to cross finish line on Saturday in the Run Barbados Powerade 10km Road Race and...

Johnson, Deonarine and Permaul in WI 30-man W/Cup squad

Dec 10, 2014 KNews Sports Comments Off on Johnson, Deonarine and Permaul in WI 30-man W/Cup squad

By Sean Devers in Trinidad Guyanese trio Leon Johnson, Narsingh Deonarine and Veerasammy Permaul were yesterday named the West Indies 30-man provisional squad for the ICC Cricket World Cup to be...

Shabby treatment of our precious ambassadors

Dec 10, 2014 KNews Sports Comments Off on Shabby treatment of our precious ambassadors

By Rawle Welch By now, members of the history making national rugby team that captured both the NACRA 15’s and 7’s titles in the same year would have returned to their respective places of abode...

Jaguars Karate Association launches Marian Academy Cup Tournament

Dec 10, 2014 KNews Sports Comments Off on Jaguars Karate Association launches Marian Academy Cup Tournament

The Jaguars Karate Association (JKA) whose main Dojo is located at the Everest Cricket Club Pavilion, Carifesta Avenue and Camp Road, Thomas Lands, Georgetown recently presented its trophies and...

Lusignan win Ram Slam T20 tourney

Dec 10, 2014 KNews Sports Comments Off on Lusignan win Ram Slam T20 tourney

Hosts Lusignan Sports Club won their Ram Slam T/20 cricket final playing against neighbours Annandale, Good Hope and Mon Repos last Sunday. The action started off with Good Hope vs Annandale. The...

Mackeson 3×3 basketball bounces off in Linden tomorrow

Dec 10, 2014 KNews Sports Comments Off on Mackeson 3×3 basketball bounces off in Linden tomorrow

The Mackeson ‘King of the Rim’ Basketball Competition, which has already wrapped up its East Coast, West Coast and Georgetown Zones, will head to Linden tomorrow night where two teams will be...

World reductions in malaria cases, mortality by the end of 2015 – UN

Dec 10, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on World reductions in malaria cases, mortality by the end of 2015 – UN

The United Nations health agency has released a report which reveals that the number of people dying from malaria globally has fallen dramatically with more and more countries moving towards its...

‘Global Shapers’ hosts successful fund-raising workshop

Dec 10, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on ‘Global Shapers’ hosts successful fund-raising workshop

– In aid of constructing library for Sophia “A truly inspiring, learning event,” was how many described “The Ultimate Communications Workshop 2014” which was recently hosted by the...

Marriott Hotel: Post-colonial madness

Dec 10, 2014 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on Marriott Hotel: Post-colonial madness

One day in October, I went to the Pegasus to deliver a document to a Guyanese visiting for the Queen’s College reunion. I drove west on New Market Street, stopped at German’s to pick up some...

NGO’s input helping to curtail HIV in Region One

Dec 10, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on NGO’s input helping to curtail HIV in Region One

…as plans apace to expand health care services The notion that Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs) have been particularly instrumental in helping to tackle the spread of HIV/AIDS was...

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

Bureaucracy gone bananas!

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