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Unlicensed driver knocks woman into trench, escapes

Jun 16, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Unlicensed driver knocks woman into trench, escapes

An unlicensed driver was nabbed by police after he had escaped from the scene of an accident after knocking a pedestrian into a nearby trench, before slamming the speeding car into a lamp post....

Hole in heart baby gears up for second surgery

Jun 16, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Hole in heart baby gears up for second surgery

– Defies doctors’ expectations “Baby Kenneth” as he is known, is said to be gearing for a second heart surgery some time later this year. Yesterday the toddler’s grandmother Bernadette...

Female prison officer grilled, charges likely

Jun 16, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Female prison officer grilled, charges likely

The constabulary rank attached to the New Amsterdam Constabulary who was detained in connection with the recent escape of prisoner Krishna Paul Doerga from the New Amsterdam Prisons has been released...

Sinners versus angels in a comic book story

Jun 16, 2011 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on Sinners versus angels in a comic book story

One of the most outrageous accounts of a country’s history can be found in the mouths of the leaders of the PPP and its Government here in Guyana. We can start with the PPP in opposition from 1964...

New laptop tender begins tomorrow

Jun 16, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on New laptop tender begins tomorrow

The government will tomorrow re-advertise for the supply of laptops under the One Laptop Per Family (OLPF) project, and will be asking for different specifications in hopes of attracting a larger...

NMS Students sent home for lack of textbook

Jun 16, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on NMS Students sent home for lack of textbook

Some 64 third form students of the New Amsterdam Multilateral Secondary School (NAMS) were on Monday ordered to leave the premises because they were not in possession of the Literature Text Book “A...

Plane damages propeller while landing at Eteringbang airstrip

Jun 16, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Plane damages propeller while landing at Eteringbang airstrip

A local charter aircraft reportedly damaged its propeller yesterday while landing on a runway at Eteringbang, Cuyuni. No one was reportedly injured, an official of the Air Services Limited (ASL) said...

Guyana Prison Service “incompetent” – AFC

Jun 16, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Guyana Prison Service “incompetent” – AFC

The AFC yesterday spoke out against what it called the “incompetence of the Guyana Prison Service”. In its weekly press briefing the party noted that there has been yet another prison break where...

‘Cobra’ fears for his life

Jun 16, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on ‘Cobra’ fears for his life

The preliminary inquiry (PI) into one of the robbery under arms cases for which Tyrone Rowe, called ‘Cobra, and his associates, Dwayne Critchlow and Amad Lallchand, aka Rondy have been charged,...

Gov’t goes easy on Bouterse’s New River claim

Jun 16, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Gov’t goes easy on Bouterse’s New River claim

Georgetown seems to have decided not to protest the latest statement by Suriname’s President Desi Bouterse that the New River Triangle in southern Guyana belongs to Suriname. The statement was made...

Mahaica attempted murder duo further remanded

Jun 16, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Mahaica attempted murder duo further remanded

Two men who were charged with the attempted murder of Jowkarran Gurdatt were again denied their pretrial liberty when they made another court appearance before Magistrate Alex Moore at the Mahaica...

NO RULER HAS A RIGHT TO TELL PEOPLE WHAT TO EAT

Jun 16, 2011 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on NO RULER HAS A RIGHT TO TELL PEOPLE WHAT TO EAT

The decision to ban wheat and wheaten flour was typical of backwardness that characterized economic policy-making at the time the prohibition was implemented in Guyana. Flour was a basic staple in...

GNBS bans defective fans

Jun 16, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on GNBS bans defective fans

Three models of the Lasko brand and one model of the Galaxy brand of box fans which were manufactured by Lasko Products Inc. are being recalled due to manufacturing defects, according to Guyana...

A Martyr’s Requiem

Jun 15, 2011 KNews Editorial Comments Off on A Martyr’s Requiem

Last Monday was the thirty-first anniversary of the murder most foul of Dr. Walter Rodney. It is rather pathetic that those who are members of the organisation for which his life was snuffed out at...

Severance pay delayed

Jun 15, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Severance pay delayed

…as union objects to clauses in discharge agreement Frustrated sugar workers plan to protest this morning after the anxiously awaited severance pay exercise ended before it began yesterday as their...

GuySuCo flip-flops on forensic audit – Hides behind AG

Jun 15, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on GuySuCo flip-flops on forensic audit – Hides behind AG

The Guyana Sugar Corporation (GuySuCo) says that it remains committed to honour an offer by accountant, Christopher Ram, to conduct a forensic audit on the recently commissioned Enmore packaging...

Heavy flooding reported along Corentyne River

Jun 15, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Heavy flooding reported along Corentyne River

…logging brought to a halt By Leonard Gildarie Heavy rains and swollen rivers continue to wreak havoc around the country with several riverain communities along the Corentyne River now reporting...

Alleged abduction in Campbellville

Jun 15, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Alleged abduction in Campbellville

– Shots fired, man dragged into car Residents of Akawini Street, Section K, Campbellville, are alleging that a male individual was abducted at gunpoint at around midday yesterday by occupants...

Teen’s mother files complaint with Medical Council

Jun 15, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Teen’s mother files complaint with Medical Council

The mother of one of the teenage girls who died in March at the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) – maternal patient Joanne Peters – has filed a formal complaint with the...

Guyanese among foreigners being trafficked to T&T under guise of CSME

Jun 15, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Guyanese among foreigners being trafficked to T&T under guise of CSME

– report says (Trinidad Guardian) Haitians, Jamaicans and Guyanese nationals are being “trafficked” into Trinidad and Tobago under the cover of the Caricom Single Market and Economy...

Dem boys seh…Bar-Rat put words in Bim Bim mouth

Jun 15, 2011 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Dem boys seh…Bar-Rat put words in Bim Bim mouth

Something strange happen. Dem boys now claiming that GuySuCo behaving like a woman who got she son and mekking decisions. Now this boy give a commitment to a gyal. He want de sex. De gyal agree. Then...

Fire devours upper flat of Lodge house

Jun 15, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Fire devours upper flat of Lodge house

… 14 homeless An extended family in Lodge Housing Scheme was left at a loss as the upper flat of their home was completely consumed by a fire of unknown origin around midday yesterday. Five...

Guyana observes World Blood Donor Day

Jun 15, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Guyana observes World Blood Donor Day

Yesterday Guyana joined the world in celebrating “World Blood Donor Day”, and the blood bank observed the occasion by releasing 90 red balloons, a symbol of their appreciation for local blood...

Kuru Kuru Coop College appoints new board

Jun 15, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Kuru Kuru Coop College appoints new board

A new board has been appointed at the Kuru Kuru Cooperative College and will soon take on the task of restructuring the programmes of the institution to be more relevant to national developmental...

Company invests over US$1M to boost power generation

Jun 15, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Company invests over US$1M to boost power generation

Banks DIH Limited is investing over US$1M (G$200M) to boost its energy capacity, recently signing an agreement with Hyundai Company of South Korea for the purchase of a 1.7 megawatt (MW) generator....

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The transportation cash grant

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(Kaieteur News) – There was a time when public policy was expected to solve real problems rather than create expensive spectacles. The government’s transportation cash grant for every primary school child is a prime example of a policy that confuses universality with fairness. When I...

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By Sir Ronald Sanders (Kaieteur News) – Antigua and Barbuda is one of the smaller countries of the Caribbean. Yet small states have often advanced ideas that have significance beyond their size. The decision by the Government of Antigua and Barbuda, led by Prime Minister Gaston Browne, to make...

Unlimited benefits for former presidents – third go

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Hard Truths by GHK Lall (Kaieteur News) – This is the third go at the unlimited benefits bill for former presidents introduced by the PPP govt. in parliament. Three expresses anger, may even lead to a part four. I let the facts and numbers speak. Guyanese get to think, decide. Differing is fine....

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