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The Crane Fly

Jan 17, 2010 knews Features / Columnists, Interesting Creatures in Guyana Comments Off on The Crane Fly

Insects in the family Tipulidae are commonly known as crane flies. Adults are very slender, long-legged flies that may vary in length from 2–60 millimeters (mm). Tropical species, however, may...

KAIETEUR NEWS RELIEF FUND FOR HAITI

Jan 17, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on KAIETEUR NEWS RELIEF FUND FOR HAITI

Front page comment Haiti needs our help, all of our help. There is untold suffering in that country. The situation has long passed desperate. This is why we must act and act now. We must join with...

Dem boys seh….Guyana is Hollywood and Bollywood

Jan 17, 2010 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Dem boys seh….Guyana is Hollywood and Bollywood

Is only in times of disaster that some politicians does come together. Is like dem does team up because dem frighten that something bad gun happen to dem and dem ain’t gun get support. Bharrat and...

Statesman extraordinaire, Rashleigh Jackson, O.R.

Jan 17, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Statesman extraordinaire, Rashleigh Jackson, O.R.

…. This week’s ‘Special Person’ is “I hope that optimism would keep alive the hope and aspiration for an international society that is rule-based, which provides for the equivalence of...

Nearly 1,000 eye surgeries conducted at Port Mourant facility

Jan 17, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Nearly 1,000 eye surgeries conducted at Port Mourant facility

– Plans apace to extend service to Caricom countries More than 11,000 patients have been able to access the National Ophthalmology Centre in Port Mourant, Berbice, as at the end of last year....

IDB redirects resources for emergency assistance and reconstruction

Jan 17, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on IDB redirects resources for emergency assistance and reconstruction

Haiti earthquake: Inter-American Development Bank (IADB) President, Luis Alberto Moreno, has pledged to redirect millions of dollars in IDB grants to support assistance and reconstruction efforts....

Road deaths in Caribbean have IDB’s attention

Jan 17, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Road deaths in Caribbean have IDB’s attention

The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) and the FIA Foundation for the Automobile and Society of the United Kingdom are joining forces to promote road safety in Latin America and the Caribbean. The...

Housing Ministry, GuySuCo closer to finalising land sale

Jan 17, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Housing Ministry, GuySuCo closer to finalising land sale

The ongoing drive by the Ministry of Housing and Water to provide house lots to Guyanese will soon be given a major boost as its negotiation with the Guyana Sugar Corporation to acquire lands is...

Investigations launched into North Ruimveldt Fire

Jan 17, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Investigations launched into North Ruimveldt Fire

Yesterday, several persons of the North Ruimveldt Squatting area were being questioned by the police into the circumstances surrounding the fire that destroyed four buildings, Friday night. Two other...

Guyana’s Haiti relief reaches $213.6M in cash

Jan 17, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Guyana’s Haiti relief reaches $213.6M in cash

(By Mondale Smith) With representatives of religious, Governmental and civil society as well as religious bodies all converging in one room on a regular basis the human element that fosters unity...

Dangerously drunk

Jan 17, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Dangerously drunk

They say that too much of anything is good for nothing. This held true for one rum drinker on Friday night. The man who imbibed beyond his limits fell on the road way in the vicinity of the route 42...

Sol holds customer appreciation function at the Pegasus

Jan 17, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Sol holds customer appreciation function at the Pegasus

Sol Guyana held its customer appreciation function at the Pegasus Friday last, where valued customers and distinguished guests were invited to socialise. The function started with a video show of the...

Housewife wins Ashmin’s $2.5M car

Jan 17, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Housewife wins Ashmin’s $2.5M car

Nadira Ramsarran, 36, got her morning prayers answered yesterday when she picked the right key that started the engine to the Ashmins $2.5 M Toyota RunX car that represented the first prize in the...

Jagdeo, Corbin join forces in Haiti appeal

Jan 17, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Jagdeo, Corbin join forces in Haiti appeal

President Bharrat Jagdeo and opposition leader, Robert Corbin, have issued appeals for Guyana’s citizens to respond to the national efforts to bring relief to victims of the impoverished Caribbean...

Man in custody for allegedly setting house afire

Jan 17, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Man in custody for allegedly setting house afire

After a night of heated arguments with her husband Orin, Abigail Bollers, went to the Cove and John Police Station to make a report. By the time she was done, the house she shared with her husband...

Talented Guyanese needs assistance to complete studies

Jan 17, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Talented Guyanese needs assistance to complete studies

– says would return to Guyana to develop country A young Guyanese, Oretta Alleyne, 25, who became the first to receive a partial scholarship worth TT$18,000 from Roy Watts Memorial last year,...

Today is World Religions Day

Jan 17, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Today is World Religions Day

Annually, the third Sunday in January is observed worldwide as World Religions Day. Today, the Inter Religious Organisation of Guyana (The IRO) will be hosting a programme to observe the day on the...

Clico (Guyana) has enough to pay-off policyholders

Jan 17, 2010 knews News Comments Off on Clico (Guyana) has enough to pay-off policyholders

– But Camp street building at risk of being sold-off cheaply CL Financial, the parent company of failed insurance giant, Clico, says that the company is in the court to protect its assets and...

After 135 days in custody… High Court orders release of Army Captain

Jan 17, 2010 knews News Comments Off on After 135 days in custody… High Court orders release of Army Captain

The High Court on Thursday issued an order directing the Chief of Staff of the Guyana Defence Force Commodore Gary Best to immediately release Captain Ronald Hope. This was after the Defence...

No amount of propaganda can wish away Burnham’s contributions – Corbin

Jan 17, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on No amount of propaganda can wish away Burnham’s contributions – Corbin

The People’s National Congress Reform will have a presence in Barbados as the legacy of the late Linden Forbes Sampson Burnham among other prominent Caribbean leaders namely, Vere Cornwall Bird and...

AFC calls for Haitian debt write-off

Jan 17, 2010 knews News Comments Off on AFC calls for Haitian debt write-off

The Alliance For Change has issued an international plea for Haiti’s debts to be written off in light of the massive devastation that has hit the island county. The party in a statement issued...

More monitoring of Brazilian miners imminent

Jan 17, 2010 knews News Comments Off on More monitoring of Brazilian miners imminent

The government, while conceding lapses, intends to step up efforts in monitoring and regulating the presence of Brazilian miners in Guyana. “We are not unmindful that their arrival might not be...

Father alleges daughter being sexually abused

Jan 17, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Father alleges daughter being sexually abused

A father is concerned for his three-year-old daughter’s well-being. He alleges that she is being molested by her uncle, the brother of the child’s mother. According to Seon Case, 28, of 183...

ADA DEBIDIN (1913 – 2010)

Jan 17, 2010 knews Features / Columnists, Guyanese Literature Comments Off on ADA DEBIDIN (1913 – 2010)

By Petamber Persaud At 91, Ada Debidin had achieved a most remarkable feat – publishing her second book, a collection of stories for children. For a female, for a female writer, for a writer at...

GuySuCo begins to pay creditors – Deputy CEO

Jan 17, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on GuySuCo begins to pay creditors – Deputy CEO

While he was not in a position to say exactly how much and to whom, Deputy Chief Executive Officer of the Guyana Sugar Corporation, Rajendra Singh, says that the sugar company has commenced payments...

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The private sector were cheerleaders for foreign investment

Peeping Tom… “The private sector were cheerleaders for foreign investment” Kaieteur News – The cries... more