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Food and Drugs Department warns of test strips recall

Dec 28, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Food and Drugs Department warns of test strips recall

A defect that has served to inhibit sufficient absorption in diabetes test strips has caused a recall to be prompted. As a result, the Food and Drug Department of the Ministry of Health is currently...

GRA seizes $5M in smuggled Heineken, Johnny Walker whisky

Dec 28, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on GRA seizes $5M in smuggled Heineken, Johnny Walker whisky

– detain vessels The Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) on Wednesday last seized $5M worth of alcoholic beverages, including more than 600 cases of Heineken beer that was being smuggled into the...

Gee Whiz – It’s the Christmas season again

Dec 28, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Gee Whiz – It’s the Christmas season again

– The greatest gift of all By Michael Benjamin Wow, it’s the Christmas season again!! I’ve waited twelve months—twelve long dreary months for this season to come. When I last checked the...

GOOD KING WENCESLAS AND OTHER CAROLS

Dec 28, 2010 KNews Features / Columnists, Tony Deyal column Comments Off on GOOD KING WENCESLAS AND OTHER CAROLS

The Merriam-Webster Dictionary says the word most searched for online this year was “austerity” which means “enforced or extreme economy”. Given the crowds in the malls, streets and stores...

Man drowns on E’bo Coast

Dec 28, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Man drowns on E’bo Coast

Sixty-one-year-old Ramsey Persaud a/k Izick, of Mainstay Village, Essequibo Coast, was discovered in a trench at Land of Plenty on Christmas Day by his son, Mitesh Persaud. According to Police,...

Boxing Night vexations and the hate young Guyanese have for their country

Dec 28, 2010 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on Boxing Night vexations and the hate young Guyanese have for their country

Each day in this country, you see not only the helplessness of the presidency, the Government of Guyana and the ruling party to instill some form of logic in their governance but the abominable,...

DARK CLOUDS BEHIND THE SILVER LINING

Dec 28, 2010 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on DARK CLOUDS BEHIND THE SILVER LINING

As the year winds slowly down to an end, it is time to reflect on some of the more important developments of 2010. The economic scorecard is mixed. For the fifth straight year, Guyana will enjoy a...

Breaking News: Ministry of Health fire… Army major, businessman charged for treason

Dec 27, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Breaking News: Ministry of Health fire… Army major, businessman charged for treason

An army major and his wife are among three persons arrested and facing treason charges for the July 2009 fire at the Ministry of Health. This fire has been blamed on a gang of what has been described...

Breaking News!! Agricola Kidnap Update… Cops looking for ‘Fishy’

Dec 27, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Breaking News!! Agricola Kidnap Update… Cops looking for ‘Fishy’

– victim urges family to pay ransom Police are said to be looking for an underworld figure known as ‘Fishy’ in connection with Thursday’s kidnapping of 29-year-old Agricola Gail Perreira....

Woman kidnapped $20Million demanded

Dec 25, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Woman kidnapped $20Million demanded

Police were last night questioning a number of persons following the kidnapping of a 29-year-old woman from Agricola. Some men reportedly kidnapped the woman around 20:00 hrs on Thursday night. The...

Guyanese trio tries to extort $500,000 from wealthy Bergen woman

Dec 25, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Guyanese trio tries to extort $500,000 from wealthy Bergen woman

(from the Cliffview Pilot) A ruthless team of would-be extortionists tried strong-arming a wealthy Englewood Cliffs woman into paying more than $500,000 to keep them from sharing “compromising”...

Govt. looking for $3B more one day before year-end

Dec 25, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Govt. looking for $3B more one day before year-end

The government, each year, presents a National Budget which represents the current and capital expenditures for the year but subsequent to that, each year there would be further requests for money by...

Fire wrecks Christmas for Bagotstown families

Dec 25, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Fire wrecks Christmas for Bagotstown families

– two houses razed Fire of unknown origin wrecked the Christmas Day plans for four Bagotstown families shortly after 21:00 hrs last night, destroying two houses in the East Bank of Demerara...

Victim died from shock and haemorrhage

Dec 25, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Victim died from shock and haemorrhage

…. Bound, and gagged body on Highway A post mortem examination conducted on the remains of taxi driver Leyton Garraway has shown that he died from shock and haemorrhage due to multiple chop...

Mayor bemoans lack of multiple radio stations

Dec 25, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Mayor bemoans lack of multiple radio stations

By Rabindra Rooplall Guyana is one of the only countries to have one radio station in the Caribbean and Latin America, says Mayor Hamilton Green. And that radio station is state-owned, he added. He...

Diaspora looking in…I MISS MY GUYANESE STYLE CHRISTMAS

Dec 25, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Diaspora looking in…I MISS MY GUYANESE STYLE CHRISTMAS

By Ralph Seeram Thousands of Guyanese worldwide are now heading home for the Christmas holidays. The planes are coming from cities such as New York, Toronto, Miami, London and the Caribbean Islands...

Family pays tribute to mother murdered on Christmas Eve

Dec 25, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Family pays tribute to mother murdered on Christmas Eve

By Michael Jordan If Devi Fung and her siblings could have one Christmas wish granted, it would perhaps be that the person who killed their mother last Christmas Eve be brought to justice. Mrs. Fung,...

Ambitious youth has plans to propel Computer Technolgy in Guyana

Dec 25, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Ambitious youth has plans to propel Computer Technolgy in Guyana

“One major way that Guyana can grow is to become a bigger player in the computer technology industry.” At least this is the conviction of 27-year-old Jason Mars who is of the firm belief that...

Ashanti promises a ‘great’ show

Dec 25, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Ashanti promises a ‘great’ show

A few hours into Guyana, Ashanti got some things right and some things wrong. Hits and Jams have proclaimed her as the first diva to hit these shores, and she told local press she has some Guyana...

Carl Greenidge is right that Guyana is a nightmare in need of visionary leadership

Dec 25, 2010 KNews Letters Comments Off on Carl Greenidge is right that Guyana is a nightmare in need of visionary leadership

Dear Editor, Mr. Carl Greenidge’s now famous quotable quote, “Guyana is a nightmare and needs visionary leadership to lift itself from that position,” clearly irked the Jagdeo administration,...

Morality in Guyana

Dec 25, 2010 KNews Editorial Comments Off on Morality in Guyana

This Christmas Day is as good a time as any to question the sort of morality that is guiding our people. Killing without apparent remorse and a tendency to dehumanise and oppress each other are only...

Will Guyana’s goal ‘One People, One Nation, One Destiny’ ever Be attained?

Dec 25, 2010 KNews Letters Comments Off on Will Guyana’s goal ‘One People, One Nation, One Destiny’ ever Be attained?

Dear Editor, From the day (May 26, 1966) Guyana received political independence, this country was faced with the challenge of building a Guyanese nation – “One People, One Nation, One...

Would Donald Ramotar drop out from PPP race?

Dec 25, 2010 KNews Letters Comments Off on Would Donald Ramotar drop out from PPP race?

Dear Editor, GuySuCo’s decision to de-recognize GAWU was the oxygen of explosive outrage and simmering anger amongst sugar workers in Enmore and Enterprise ECD. Many were disappointed that...

The things I missed out on this Christmas

Dec 25, 2010 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on The things I missed out on this Christmas

I am not going to burden you with ponderous political arguments on this quiet family day. I will certainly remember Christmas 2010. I made a mistake in yesterday’s column when I said I spent 22...

Blood shortage at Linden Hospital Complex necessitated transfer – CEO

Dec 24, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Blood shortage at Linden Hospital Complex necessitated transfer – CEO

By Michael Jordan A shortage of blood at the Linden Hospital Complex was one of the factors that caused two doctors to transfer maternity patient, Inga Nieuenkirk, to the Georgetown Public Hospital...

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The Brazilian Bulldozer

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(Kaieteur News) – The local livestock industry has always had its challenges but there was a time when the livestock farmer could earn a decent living. The cattle rancher braved droughts, floods, rustlers, marauding jaguars and government promises. The poultry farmer rose before dawn, tended his...

If the OAS did not exist, it could not be created today

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By Sir Ronald Sanders (Kaieteur News) – I have spent a decade in the councils of the Organization of American States. I have watched governments come and go, seen some crises handled well and others handled badly, sat through more commemorative meetings than sessions discussing pressing issues,...

From Kamla to the U.S. – SOS

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Hard Truths by GHK Lall (Kaieteur News) – I confess to disagreements with Trinidad and Tobago’s Prime Minister, Excellency Kamla Persad-Bissessar. Too much under the thumb of the U.S. Reacting too readily to stimuli from DJ Trump. But whatever is said about PM Kamla, she has the interests...

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