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May 02, 2009 knews News Comments Off on GTUC rally hears: Greed led to CLICO meltdown
“The CLICO issue is not going to go away and a number of people need to go straight to prison. The same greed that drove the international financial meltdown drove the CLICO financial meltdown....May 02, 2009 knews News Comments Off on FITUG prepared to reunite with GTUC – Komal Chand
– but holds separate rally for third consecutive year By Sharmain Cornette Division continues to persist among unions in Guyana, a situation, which was once again evident when workers...May 02, 2009 knews News Comments Off on May Day parade turnout largest in recent times – Carvil Duncan
This year’s May Day rally seemed to have attracted a larger turnout than the past year. FITUG President, Carvil Duncan said that this year the turnout was three times the size of previous years and...May 02, 2009 knews News Comments Off on Employers can no longer collect CLICO contributions from workers – Duncan
Employers guilty of collecting money from workers under the supposition that they are still paying contributions to the Colonial Life Insurance Company (CLICO) will not escape the scrutiny of the...May 02, 2009 knews News Comments Off on Man stabbed to death in DVD row
Fifty-one-year-old Rupert Randolph Gill, of Parfait Harmonie, West Bank Demerara, was yesterday stabbed to death after he intervened in a row over the burning of DVDs. The incident occurred around...May 02, 2009 knews News Comments Off on Pensioner found dead in Leguan trench
Residents of the closely-knit village of Richmond Hill, Leguan, were thrown into mourning early yesterday as the body of 69 year-old Ronald Klass, a well-known pensioner, was found in a trench....May 02, 2009 knews News Comments Off on Remand Prisoner sentenced to 19 years for murder
Remanded prisoner, Alfred Lewis, was sentenced to 19 years’ imprisonment on Wednesday, after he confessed to the murder of Saisnarine Ramnauth, a schoolteacher who was killed during a robbery....May 02, 2009 knews News Comments Off on Rice producers seek to halt GRPA polls
Two rice producers, Turhane Doerga and Jinnah Rahman, have secured several court orders against the Guyana Rice Producers’ Association (GRPA) in an attempt to prohibit the intended elections by the...May 02, 2009 knews News Comments Off on Welder seriously injured at BOSAI
A 51-year-old welder had to be rushed to the Woodlands Hospital yesterday after he was badly injured while working at BOSAI Minerals Guyana Inc. at Linden. According to reports, Joseph Abrams, of...May 02, 2009 knews News Comments Off on AIDANA SORAYA – a ‘tour de force’ for local theatre
GEMS Theatre Productions will stage ‘For Love of Aidana Soraya’ at the National Cultural Centre from May 14, next. The play, by Guyanese Ronan Blaze, is a “tour de force” for Guyana’s...May 02, 2009 knews News Comments Off on Airport exhibition on Indian Arrival opens
The Indian Arrival Committee (IAC) on Thursday launched a weeklong exhibition at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport yesterday, offering a glimpse into the lives of the East Indians who came to...May 02, 2009 knews News Comments Off on Two remanded to prison for stealing
Two men involved separate incidents were yesterday remanded after they were charged with theft. First was 18-year-old Michael Cameron who was charged with robbery underarms. It is alleged that on...May 02, 2009 knews News Comments Off on West Demerara Hospital identified for swine flu quarantine
In light of the increase in the Swine Flu virus in Mexico and other parts of the world, the Ministry of Health has advised that only essential travel to Mexico be undertaken and all non-essential...May 02, 2009 knews News Comments Off on Govt’s ignorance of Takatu Bridge opening akin to incompetence – PNCR
The fact that Guyanese authorities were not aware of the plans by the Brazilian Federal Government to open the Takatu Bridge is clearly a sign of incompetence, according to People’s National...May 02, 2009 knews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on Repeating the mistakes of the past
There is the story I heard that President Forbes Burnham once demanded that high judicial officials participate in weed-cleaning at Hope Estate. The response of one of the judges was that it was not...May 02, 2009 knews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on Whatever happened to the plan for secondary towns in Guyana?
Way back in the 1960s, right through to the end of the seventies, if you wanted cheap pants lengths, the place to go was Rose Hall Town on the Corentyne. Quite a few Guyanese would, when visiting...May 02, 2009 knews News Comments Off on CGX puts Corentyne joint venture process on hold
Canadian company CGX Energy’s (TSXV: OYL) joint venture process for its 100 percent-owned Corentyne license offshore Guyana is on hold, CGX President Kerry Sully said in a webcast, according to...May 02, 2009 knews News Comments Off on RPA incensed at attacks by rival group
The Guyana Rice Producers’ Association General Council takes exception to the continued public misuse of its acronym and the strategic campaign to vilify, demonise, and denigrate the RPA and its...May 02, 2009 knews News Comments Off on ‘Radika Girl’ arrives in Guyana to unleash ‘chutney inferno’
-show on at Starlite Drive-in A prominent businessman sought an injunction to prevent the hosting of the ‘Radika Girl’ Chutney Show’ at Starlite Drive-in, but the courts on Thursday allowed the...May 02, 2009 knews News Comments Off on Power generation Demerara barely above demand – GPL
…blackouts may ease soon Over the past few months, residents on the West Coast and West Bank of Demerara, as well as others in the Demerara Interconnected system have been affected by continuous...May 02, 2009 knews News Comments Off on Teen’s attempted suicide: Red Cross willing to intervene
The relative with whom a 13-year-old girl has been living are concerned for her well being ever since her mother took the child out of the Georgetown Public Hospital. The relative said that she...May 02, 2009 knews News Comments Off on Doppler radar two months behind schedule testing
…contractor causes delay All components of the radar equipment at the Doppler tower have been installed and testing should commence soon. This is according to Minister of Agriculture, Robert...May 02, 2009 knews News Comments Off on Digicel invests $3M in lights along Amelia’s Ward Highway
Digicel has invested $3M in lights along the Amelia’s Ward Linden Highway in an attempt to improve road safety along that stretch of highway. The area has been the location of many fatal accidents...May 02, 2009 knews Sports Comments Off on Uprising, Conquerors ease into Coca Cola U-15 final
Uprising and Fruta Conquerors will meet in the final of the 2009 Banks DIH Coca Cola under-15 tournament, a repeat of last year’s title match. The difference on this occasion is that the...
Dec 13, 2024
SportsMax – On the back of a magnificent debut century by Amir Jangoo, the West Indies completed a 3-0 ODI series sweep over Bangladesh with a four-wicket triumph in the third game at Warner...Peeping Tom… Kaieteur News- There’s an old saying in Guyana: “You can’t put a little boy to do a big man’s... more
By Sir Ronald Sanders Kaieteur News- The election of a new Secretary General of the Organization of American States (OAS),... more
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