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21-year-old charged for Makouria shallow grave murder

May 13, 2008 KNews News Comments Off on 21-year-old charged for Makouria shallow grave murder

Shawn Ransom, a 21-year-old chain saw operator of Christianburg, Linden, was yesterday remanded to prison for the murder of Robert Griffith, whose partly decomposed body was found in a shallow grave...

Free HIV testing for Nurses’ Week

May 13, 2008 KNews News Comments Off on Free HIV testing for Nurses’ Week

The Georgetown Medical Centre Inc., formerly Prasad Hospital, will be offering free HIV, blood pressure and sugar count testings as nurses at that hospital celebrate Nurses Week 2008. The free blood...

Digital Tourism: Exploring New Worlds and Opportunities from the Comfort of Home

May 13, 2008 KNews News Comments Off on Digital Tourism: Exploring New Worlds and Opportunities from the Comfort of Home

Digital tourism, one of the latest technological trends, is taking the world by storm. But what is digital tourism, and how can it affect the lives of everyone who partakes? The term “digital...

Upcoming CARICOM-Canada negotiations…

May 13, 2008 KNews News Comments Off on Upcoming CARICOM-Canada negotiations…

Trade Ministers call for strong development component Ministers of Trade of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) have reiterated the need for a strong development component and a structure that caters...

UWI receives US$650,000 grant from IDB

May 13, 2008 KNews News Comments Off on UWI receives US$650,000 grant from IDB

The University of the West Indies (UWI) has received the approval of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) for a technical assistance grant in the amount of US$650,000 to undertake a project to...

Jamaica’s request for CET rice waiver not granted by COTED

May 12, 2008 KNews News Comments Off on Jamaica’s request for CET rice waiver not granted by COTED

…countries to hold bilateral discussions Jamaica did not get its rice waiver request granted at the just concluded Twenty-Sixth Special Meeting of the Council for Trade and Economic Development...

PNCR blind to reality, only knows the language of the streets

May 12, 2008 KNews News Comments Off on PNCR blind to reality, only knows the language of the streets

– Pres. Jagdeo President Bharrat Jagdeo has expressed his disappointment with the decision of the People’s National Congress Reform (PNCR) to take to the streets to protest the rising cost of...

Freddie Kissoon column – When roles get reversed, history gets distorted

May 12, 2008 KNews Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on Freddie Kissoon column – When roles get reversed, history gets distorted

On Arrival Day, in my column for that edition of Kaiteur News, entitled “The Political Arrival of the East Indians,” I wrote: “When one attempts to understand the psyche of the African and...

Peeping Tom – Life’s greatest tribulation

May 12, 2008 KNews Peeping Tom Comments Off on Peeping Tom – Life’s greatest tribulation

Money, they say, is the root of man’s greatest anxieties. Those without are in need of more, and those with a great deal never seem content with what they have. Money, therefore, brings its fair...

Arthur Chung admitted to hospital

May 12, 2008 KNews News Comments Off on Arthur Chung admitted to hospital

The Honourable Arthur Chung, Guyana’s first’s President, was last night admitted to the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation’s High Dependency Unit (HDU). Chung, 90, was reportedly admitted...

Five Mother’s Day babies born at city hospitals

May 12, 2008 KNews News Comments Off on Five Mother’s Day babies born at city hospitals

What is the perfect gift for a woman to receive on Mother’s Day? Well, several women thought that they received the best gift they could have possibly gotten when they delivered healthy, beautiful...

Kalamadeen kidnap/murder…

May 12, 2008 KNews News Comments Off on Kalamadeen kidnap/murder…

Three ‘suspects’ released After two horrible days of being locked up at the Brickdam Police Station, the three farmers who were detained for questioning into the Farouk Kalamadeen kidnapping and...

Postmaster caught stealing road construction stone

May 12, 2008 KNews News Comments Off on Postmaster caught stealing road construction stone

Police have detained a postmaster from an East Coast Demerara Post Office who was caught stealing stone earmarked for road construction. The man was held on Saturday night after he was caught...

Basic Nutrition Program heralded a success

May 12, 2008 KNews News Comments Off on Basic Nutrition Program heralded a success

…expanded to 30 health centres So successful and impacting has the Basic Nutrition Program been that Government and the IDB have taken the decision to extend it to 30 additional health centres...

Orealla, Siparuta get Community Policing Groups

May 12, 2008 KNews News Comments Off on Orealla, Siparuta get Community Policing Groups

OREALLA, CORENTYNE RIVER — The Amerindian reservations of Orealla and Siparuta, on the Corentyne River, are now deriving benefits from the establishment of two community policing groups in...

Unlocking Your Brain’s Potential: Exploring the World of Nootropics

May 12, 2008 KNews Sports Comments Off on Unlocking Your Brain’s Potential: Exploring the World of Nootropics

Welcome to the enchanting world of nootropics, where science facilitates brain enhancement. In this article, we will get into the basics of nootropics, comprehend their advantages, explore various...

What are the TUC’s plans for addressing the problems confronting workers?

May 12, 2008 KNews Letters Comments Off on What are the TUC’s plans for addressing the problems confronting workers?

Dear Editor, Samantha Ali’s “Ms. Gillian Burton is a true trade unionist” letter (Kaieteur News, 6/5/2008) sought to link my letter “What are the new TUC President’s plans to deal with the...

Why Offshore Casinos Must Navigate Legal Compliance

May 12, 2008 KNews Sports Comments Off on Why Offshore Casinos Must Navigate Legal Compliance

Apple, Meta and Google, three of the world’s biggest companies, are currently in court appealing a 2022 decision that could change the entire internet economy. Last year, a judge ruled that the...

Push for reduced Govt. spending, then press for reduced taxation

May 12, 2008 KNews Letters Comments Off on Push for reduced Govt. spending, then press for reduced taxation

Dear Editor, According to the 2007 data from The World Factbook, the amount of revenues collected by Governments (taxes) for the countries in the region around Guyana is compiled below (in order of...

May the new Foreign Minister be given the freedom to change Takuba Lodge

May 12, 2008 KNews Letters Comments Off on May the new Foreign Minister be given the freedom to change Takuba Lodge

Dear Editor, I would like to congratulate Guyana’s new Foreign Minister, Ms. Carolyn Rodrigues-Birkett, on her new post and use your column to ask her a few questions. Guyana currently does not...

Republic Bank ‘Right Start’ U-15 cricket Berbice leg commences

May 12, 2008 KNews Sports Comments Off on Republic Bank ‘Right Start’ U-15 cricket Berbice leg commences

Play in the Berbice leg of the Republic Bank ‘Right Start’ national Inter school U-15 40-over cricket competition got started in Berbice with Skeldon High already winning the Upper Corentyne...

Linden is in the process of rebuilding

May 12, 2008 KNews Letters Comments Off on Linden is in the process of rebuilding

Dear Editor, My only aim for this letter is to simply highlight a crucial rebuilding process that Linden is experiencing. Over the years Linden has been dubbed a deprived and depressed town,...

Greaves wins feature 50-mile road race at Continental Cycle Club meet

May 12, 2008 KNews Sports Comments Off on Greaves wins feature 50-mile road race at Continental Cycle Club meet

By Franklin Wilson The Day was Mother’s Day but the event was a specially arranged meet by the Continental Cycle Club (CCC) and sponsored by a number of Cycling Enthusiasts and entities. And yet...

Dire consequences for our inaction

May 12, 2008 KNews Sports Comments Off on Dire consequences for our inaction

By Rawle Welch Recently, two very renowned Guyanese sport administrators, one current and one former made similar pronouncements at different occasions which to my mind could not be merely...

The PNCR continues to terrorise the Guyanese nation

May 12, 2008 KNews Letters Comments Off on The PNCR continues to terrorise the Guyanese nation

Dear Editor, President Bharrat Jagdeo recently slammed Opposition Leader Mr. Robert Corbin, saying some $100 million which should have gone exclusively to paying registration scrutineers is being...

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