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Jul 18, 2008 knews News Comments Off on Venezuela proposes to build road to G/T
– willing to reduce oil payments if price reaches US$150 By Leonard Gildarie The Venezuelans are proposing to build a 430-kilometer road that will provide a major trade link between Georgetown...Jul 18, 2008 knews News Comments Off on Forestry bodies clash over TPL closure
…accusations fly about misinformation The Guyana Forestry Commission has lashed out against the Forest Products Association (FPA) accusing them of a deliberately attempting to misinform the public...Jul 18, 2008 knews News Comments Off on Court orders retrial for Death Row inmate
The prosecution yesterday put death row inmate, Derrick Callender, on the witness stand to testify against Gary Moses, for whom a retrial was ordered by the Appellate Court. Callender and Moses...Jul 18, 2008 knews News Comments Off on VAT yields $20B more in unexpected earnings
Last year, Government collected a staggering $80 billion in revenues, thanks largely to its collection of the newly implemented Value Added Tax (VAT). But prominent local Chartered Accountant,...Jul 18, 2008 knews News Comments Off on Photos of dead prisoner show extent of torture
– police say probe still not complete Relatives of prison inmate Edwin Niles yesterday released photographs of the dead man and these appear to support allegations that he was tortured....Jul 18, 2008 knews News Comments Off on PPP parliamentarian condemns Moseley ban
By Gary Eleazar A senior member of the People’s Progressive Party (PPP) and Member of Parliament, Moses Nagamootoo, yesterday publicly condemned the ban against Capitol News reporter and Vice...Jul 18, 2008 knews News Comments Off on Army private lands in court for assault
A Guyana Defence Force private was released on bail after he was slapped with several charges stemming from a confrontation with a police sergeant. The accused 19-year-old, Troy Glen, of 180 West...Jul 18, 2008 knews News Comments Off on Labour Ministry takes Woodlands Hospital to court
By Fareeza Haniff The ongoing feud between the Guyana Labour Union and the Woodlands Hospital has taken a turn for the worse, as a meeting held between the two parties on Wednesday proved fruitless....Jul 18, 2008 knews News Comments Off on Rose Hall fire station gets more donations
ROSEHALL TOWN, CORENTYNE – Two overseas-based Guyanese on Wednesday donated some $600,000 towards the establishment of the fire station at Rose Hall Town, Corentyne. Businessman Dave Balgobin,...Jul 18, 2008 knews News Comments Off on $50M Black Bush Polder seed paddy plant commissioned
A $50M seed paddy plant was on Thursday commissioned in Black Bush Polder, a main rice cultivation area in Region Six . The facility at Lesbeholden, was constructed under the Food and Agriculture...Jul 18, 2008 knews News Comments Off on Benschop Foundation takes aid to East Berbice
ALBION, CORENTYNE – The recently formed Benschop Foundation extended its generosity to Albion on Wednesday. Members of the St. Mary’s Anglican Church received a quantity of supplies including...Jul 18, 2008 knews News Comments Off on IATA travel agents outraged by Minister’s comments
A group of International Air Transport Association (IATA) accredited travel agents yesterday expressed their anger and outrage at the comments by Minister of Trade, Industry and Commerce, Manniram...Jul 18, 2008 knews Sports Comments Off on Who is who on the Guyana National Scrabble Team?
The eight-member Guyana National Scrabble team, which is set to participate in the Caribbean Championships scheduled to be staged in Barbados from August 1-3, are winding down their preparations....Jul 18, 2008 knews Sports Comments Off on Bank of Bermuda Foundation Junior Caribbean Squash Championships
Guyana Boys beat OECS and Jamaica, the Girls dispose of Barbados Guyana’s junior squash team made an impressive start to the team competition of the Caribbean Junior Squash Championships, in...Jul 18, 2008 knews Sports Comments Off on Fans, major stakeholder for DCC 2008
Concerts and musical events being looked at – Foley By Franklin in Curacao compliments of Digicel Football fans and lovers can look forward to lots of benefits as a major stakeholder of the 2008...Jul 18, 2008 knews Sports Comments Off on Trophy Stall/MYO Inter Jamaat 10 overs tapeball cricket…
Wins for Meten-Meer-Zorg, Queenstown and Hustlers Meten-Meer-Zorg posted back to back wins when play in the Trophy Stall sponsored Muslim Youth Organisation of Guyana (MYO) 10 overs Inter-Jamaat...Jul 18, 2008 knews Sports Comments Off on Guyana National legacy Run set for Sunday
The National Legacy Run 2008 organized by the Ministry of Culture, Youth and Sport/National Sports Commission in collaboration with the Ministry of Health and PAHO/WHO is set for Sunday. The Run,...Jul 18, 2008 knews Sports Comments Off on Sevens team making WC finals realistic – Nascimento
– will need a minimum of US$35,000, UK-based Giles cops Guyana’s MVP award By Rawle Welch “The opportunity to put our Rugby Sevens team in the World Cup is far more realistic than that of...Jul 18, 2008 knews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on THERE IS A DIFFERENCE BETWEEN CRITICISM AND DISRESPECT
The declaring of Capital News reporter, Gordon Moseley, as persona non grata is not as straightforward as some would have us believe. It cannot be simply a case of condemning the banning of the...Jul 18, 2008 knews Features / Columnists Comments Off on The ban on the reporter
Guyana is perhaps the only country in the world where the responsible Government agency is not allowed to decide whom it must invite to events it hosts. This must be the only country in the world...Jul 18, 2008 knews Letters Comments Off on Clarifying misconceptions about ‘ancestral lands’
DEAR EDITOR, I refer to a letter captioned “AFC calls for UN probe” (SN 18/6/08) by one Modibo. Modibo made the statement that the “Government was denying Africans the right to own property by...Jul 18, 2008 knews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on The non-existent legacy of Cheddi Jagan
As Guyana grows older as a nation, more facts on its history will become known. It is the same with all countries. There will be more revelations on some of history’s great and not so great...Mineral and oil rich country borrowing to feed, clothe and house its citizens.
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Republic Bank Caribbean Premier League 2024… Kaieteur Sports – Defending champs Guyana Amazon Warriors opened their account with 3-wicket win over the Antigua & Barbuda Falcons during...Kaieteur News – We can find no better example of self-interest masquerading as magnanimity than the recent motion passed... more
By Sir Ronald Sanders Kaieteur News – There is an alarming surge in gun-related violence, particularly among younger... more
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