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Jan 18, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on 2011 Budget… Income tax threshold raised, Corporation tax lowered
Minister of Finance, Dr Ashni Singh yesterday presented what he justifiably called the largest budget in Guyana’s history but unlike the previous year, budget persons can look forward to some sense...Jan 18, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on 2011 budget… Public Assistance, Old Age Pension increased
The 2011 budget contains increases that will benefit approximately 50,000 people on Public Assistance or receiving Old Age pensions. Yesterday, Minister of Finance, Dr. Ashni Singh, announced the...Jan 18, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on 2011 budget… Health sector gets $14B allocation
– construction of 150-bed surgical specialty hospital on the cards A whopping $14B has been allocated to the health sector this year with the aim of improving quality of services, Finance...Jan 18, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on 2011 budget… $3.6B allocated for housing
– 7,500 house lots; 4,000 land titles for distribution Government has targeted 7,500 house lots this year with 4,000 land titles to be distributed. During his presentation of the 2011 National...Jan 18, 2011 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Dem boys seh… Ashni sing in parliament
Ashni sing in Parliament and he sing a song that people been hearing fuh a long time. He change some of de words but was de same song. Every now and then some of he backers beat a rhythm pun de desk...Jan 18, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Budget designed to buy votes – Opposition
Opposition parties yesterday charged that the $161.4 billion budget that the government announced was designed as a package of goodies to dangle before the electorate ahead of general elections this...Jan 18, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Guyanese twin feared drowned off T&T beach
A Guyanese twin and their Trinidadian friend are feared dead after they disappeared of the southern coast of Trinidad last Sunday. The two brothers whose names were given as Ricky and Ryan Lall, and...Jan 18, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Fisherman knifed to death at city wharf
… Suspect had threatened to kill him on Sunday “He always troubling and tormenting meh cousin…..I watch he stand up over him (Marlon) and stab him,” cried Michelle Vieira as she recounted...Jan 18, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on La Penitence vendors protest outside OP
After being informed that they would have to remove from the La Penitence Market, some vendors decided to protest in front of the Office of the President in order to gain a meeting with the Head of...Jan 18, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Robbers shoot vendor in Regent St.
An itinerant vendor was battling for his life last night after two gun-toting bandits shot him in the stomach outside the abandoned Piggott’s Drug Store located at the Regent and Bourda Street...Jan 18, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Police seize firearm from licenced holder
Police have temporarily seized the firearm of a licenced holder as they probe the discharge of the weapon under questionable circumstances. While the owner is saying that it went off accidentally,...Jan 18, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on More private farmers, mechanisation eyed for sugar turnaround
… 2010 earnings plunge 13 per cent Lower sugar exports coupled with an almost 10 per cent decline in export price saw Guyana’s cash receipt for this big earner sliding 13.2 per cent to US$104M...Jan 18, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Region Six officials lambaste D&I workers for substandard work
Drainage and Irrigation (D&I) workers in Berbice came under fire yesterday as many of their work-related behaviour were revealed to the public by Regional Officials of Region Six. The workers,...Jan 18, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Sea defence workers mull strike action for pay hike
President of the Guyana Labour Union, Carvil Duncan, said he would serve notices to the Public Works and Communications, and Labour Minister today, stating that sea defence workers countrywide, who...Jan 18, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on PNCR appoints new Member of Parliament
The Peoples National Congress Reform (PNCR) yesterday filled its vacant seat in the National Assembly with one of the party stalwarts, Joan Baveghems. The new Member of Parliament took her oath of...Jan 18, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Cancer patient needs financial assistance to live
After being diagnosed with a cancerous tumour on his left cheek, Ramnarine Singh, 40, of 89 Little Diamond, East Bank Demerara is seeking financial assistance from the public to aid in the payment...Jan 18, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Dead Corneila Ida man went to lover’s aid
… wife of accused tried to save victim’s life A man identified as Fazal Bacchus is currently in police custody following the death of Dhanpaul Rambarack of Cornelia Ida, West Coast Demerara....Jan 18, 2011 knews News Comments Off on Robbers shoot vendor in Regent Street
An itinerant vendor was battling for his life last night after two gun-toting bandits shot him in the stomach outside the abandoned Piggott’s Drug Store located at the Regent and Bourda Street...Jan 18, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Beaten teacher yet to regain consciousness
– Loved ones pray for her recovery Shaundell Warwick, the teacher who was brutalised by her reputed husband, remains in an unconscious state at the Georgetown Public Hospital. However, this...Jan 18, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Lethem woman appears in court on theft charge
Jennifer Davis of Lethem, Region Nine, appeared before Magistrate Priya Beharry charged with theft. To the charge, Davis pleaded not guilty. She was unrepresented. It is alleged that between December...Jan 18, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Legal system frustrating rice farmer dispossessed of land
A West Coast Berbice rice farmer is blaming the slothful nature of the justice system for the delay in him occupying and cultivating several acres of rice land which he believes was wrongfully...Jan 18, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on 15 Girl Guides benefit from Muriel Wight Scholarships
Fifteen members of the Guyana Girl Guides Association (GGGA) have benefitted from the recently established Muriel Wight Scholarship Fund. The association announced that the students would have...Jan 18, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Addressing substance abuse must be modified – Minister Ramsammy
‘We have failed in the past because we have not met people in their own setting. We try to recreate their setting and think they would simply run after us,” said Minister of Health, Dr Leslie...Jan 18, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on GT&T cables vandalised along ECD
Some villages along the East Coast of Demerara are currently without the use of the landline telephones as vandals have once again struck. According to Public Relations Officer for the Guyana...Jan 18, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Official launch of Guyana’s programme tomorrow
… UN Int’l Year For People of African Descent In a release from the Ministry of Culture, Youth and Sport, it was confirmed that in keeping with its obligation as a Member State of the United...Mineral and oil rich country borrowing to feed, clothe and house its citizens.
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