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Synergy must complete 1/4 mile per day to meet deadline – project document

May 06, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Synergy must complete 1/4 mile per day to meet deadline – project document

The start date for the Amaila Falls road project has been revised from April 12, to April 15. Makeshwar Fip Motilall, Head of Synergy Holdings Inc, has eight weeks to survey the site for road and...

90,000 ID cards still uncollected

May 06, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on 90,000 ID cards still uncollected

Old cards could be decommissioned soon-GECOM warns By Leonard Gildarie The Guyana Elections Commision (GECOM) has expressed worry over 90,000 National Identification Cards (ID) which are still...

More midwives needed to reduce unnecessary deaths and injury in childbirth – ICM

May 06, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on More midwives needed to reduce unnecessary deaths and injury in childbirth – ICM

As International Day of the Midwife is observed, major emphasis is being placed on the fact that there is a dire need for midwives globally. According to a statement issued by the International...

Dem boys seh…Guyana got nuff Champion

May 06, 2010 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Dem boys seh…Guyana got nuff Champion

Awards is something that does mek people feel proud and dem have some that does mek people get vex. Dem is de award that does insult. For example, dem boys like de award that Bharrat get. In fact, de...

West Demerara goes back in time on Arrival Day

May 06, 2010 knews News Comments Off on West Demerara goes back in time on Arrival Day

The West Demerara Indian Religious, Social and Cultural Organisation put on another impressive display of bygone culture of the East Indians who began arriving in this country 172 years ago. Several...

GDF hosts Holy Name Nursery School pupils at Base Camp Ayanganna

May 06, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on GDF hosts Holy Name Nursery School pupils at Base Camp Ayanganna

In keeping with its policy of building and fostering partnerships and goodwill with the wider society, the Guyana Defence Force hosted 21 pupils from the Holy Name Nursery School of Riversview East...

Reputed husband refutes allegations of torched Linden house

May 06, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Reputed husband refutes allegations of torched Linden house

Brent Lewis, the former reputed husband of the mother of his five children, who allegedly torched a neighbour’s home on Saturday night is claiming that it is a frivolous allegation to tarnish the...

More midwives needed to reduce unnecessary deaths and injury in childbirth – ICM

May 06, 2010 knews News Comments Off on More midwives needed to reduce unnecessary deaths and injury in childbirth – ICM

As International Day of the Midwife is observed, major emphasis is being placed on the fact that there is a dire need for midwives globally. According to a statement issued by the International...

US-based union to seek punitive measures against Guyana Government

May 06, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on US-based union to seek punitive measures against Guyana Government

Service Employees International Union (SEIU) 1199, United Healthcare Workers East is threatening to urge the United States of America take punitive action against the Guyana Government if the current...

GDF rescues lost dental health team en route to St Cuthbert’s Mission

May 06, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on GDF rescues lost dental health team en route to St Cuthbert’s Mission

It was a small undertaking but the mandate to serve and protect was very much in effect when a squad of Guyana Defence Force ranks went out on a mission to rescue a dental outreach team that had lost...

Scrap metal dealers eyeing legislations to police industry

May 06, 2010 knews News Comments Off on Scrap metal dealers eyeing legislations to police industry

– elect new executive The Guyana Scrap Metal Dealers Association (GCMDA), currently facing a crisis after Government banned exports last week in the wake of an increase in vandalism, says that...

Inclement weather could postpone AAG U-23 meet

May 06, 2010 knews Sports Comments Off on Inclement weather could postpone AAG U-23 meet

The dark clouds now hover over this weekend’s Athletics Association of Guyana (AAG) Under-23 Championships following the advent of the rainy season that seriously affected the World Twenty/20...

Local drivers, riders gearing up for C/Bean Series

May 06, 2010 knews Sports Comments Off on Local drivers, riders gearing up for C/Bean Series

– King, Vieira to lead Guyana’s challenge Local drivers and riders gearing up to participate in the opening event of the 2010 Caribbean Motor Racing Series in Jamaica on May 24 will have...

Motion of No Confidence in Nadir tabled again

May 06, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Motion of No Confidence in Nadir tabled again

Initially rejected by the Speaker of the National Assembly, the motion of No Confidence brought by the PNC/R against Minister Manzoor Nadir has been accepted after revisions and is now tabled for...

Buxton man peeved at constant police harassment

May 06, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Buxton man peeved at constant police harassment

A Buxton, East Coast Demerara resident believes that he is being specifically targeted by the police because of his past alleged connections with wanted men who had used the village as a hideout...

Hugh Ross honours veteran Bodybuilder Lindie Sharpe

May 06, 2010 knews Sports Comments Off on Hugh Ross honours veteran Bodybuilder Lindie Sharpe

63-year-old Louis Deane also recognised Seven-time Mr. Guyana Lindie Sharpe who hails from the Bauxite Mining Town of Linden was honoured by Hugh Arlington Ross for his immense contributions to the...

St. Agnes, MEI, St. Sidwell among winners

May 06, 2010 knews Sports Comments Off on St. Agnes, MEI, St. Sidwell among winners

St. Agnes, Monar Educational Institute (MEI), ABC Academy, East La Penitence and St. Sidwell’s were the latest winners in this year’s Annual Regional Primary Schools Windball Cricket...

Friends Inc. stages 3rd Annual Grass Track Meeting on May 23

May 06, 2010 knews Sports Comments Off on Friends Inc. stages 3rd Annual Grass Track Meeting on May 23

– Proceeds in aid of charity The country’s top grass track riders have already confirmed participation in this year’s GT&T Cellink Plus / Friends Inc. Meeting which is in aid of charity...

Fortune cops best legs trophy at Second HRC

May 06, 2010 knews Sports Comments Off on Fortune cops best legs trophy at Second HRC

Compliments of Donald Sinclair Ms Body Fitness Open winner Alisha Fortune, who successfully retained the top spot at the Second Edition of the Hugh Ross Classic Bodybuilding & Fitness Show, also...

Super Ward Finals to set new standards

May 06, 2010 knews Sports Comments Off on Super Ward Finals to set new standards

– referees trained, sponsors recommit By Edison Jefford The dynamism of the inaugural Mackeson Super Ward Basketball Championships should be further emphasised this weekend when the Final...

Withholding of teachers’ salaries is unlawful

May 06, 2010 knews Letters Comments Off on Withholding of teachers’ salaries is unlawful

Dear Editor, So is this what life in this democracy has come to; teachers cannot be paid their April salaries? I read with disgust the article in last Sunday’s Kaieteur News and I am perturbed at...

Two remanded on rape

May 06, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Two remanded on rape

A 30-year-old who was imbibing alcohol with his neighbour, of Devonshire Castle, Essequibo Coast, on April 9, last was remanded to prison on Monday on a charge of rape. Mohan Roopdaneshwar was not...

President showed extremely poor judgment attending IAC ceremony honouring Chanderpaul

May 06, 2010 knews Letters Comments Off on President showed extremely poor judgment attending IAC ceremony honouring Chanderpaul

Dear Editor, Prodigious West Indian cricketer, Guyanese Shivnarine Chanderpaul, deserves to be recognised as a Guyanese sportsman who earned himself an international reputation while helping to keep...

Private schools urged to raise the bar -Minister Baksh

May 06, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Private schools urged to raise the bar -Minister Baksh

Private educational institutions have a role to play in enhancing the local education standard. Provisions have been made in the new education legislation to ensure this happens, says Minister of...

How can some of us be so gullible?

May 06, 2010 knews Letters Comments Off on How can some of us be so gullible?

Dear Editor, I am very happy reading in Kaieteur News (05-05-10) that the police are hunting for the ‘fake healers/fortune tellers’ from India. I wish they will also hunt such persons who are...

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TOTALTEC to open hospitality complex in Houston

Kaieteur News – TOTALTEC Inc., a provider of services to the energy and construction sectors here on Monday announced... more