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Hydro cost jumps US$385M in five months

Sep 29, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Hydro cost jumps US$385M in five months

Gov’t says cost bloated by price hikes The government yesterday linked the bloating cost of the Amaila Falls Hydro Project to added interest costs and price hikes for materials that would be used...

GUYEXPO 2011 opens today

Sep 29, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on GUYEXPO 2011 opens today

… 120,000 visitors expected Guyexpo 2011 is, according to organizers, expected to attract at least 120,000 visitors, more than 25,000 per night, making it an even bigger show than previous years....

Jagdeo vs. Freddie Kissoon libel suit…Court bars UN expert report

Sep 29, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Jagdeo vs. Freddie Kissoon libel suit…Court bars UN expert report

Justice Brassington Reynolds has provisionally ruled that he would not be admitting into evidence a UN expert report on racism in Guyana. On the last occasion both parties had asked for an...

Bogus Education Officer busted again

Sep 29, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Bogus Education Officer busted again

Police on the Essequibo Coast have apprehended a man purporting to be a District Education Officer from Georgetown. According to the police, Collis Akeem Peters, from Enterprise, Leguan, was...

Luncheon tells Sharma ignore unsigned document

Sep 29, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Luncheon tells Sharma ignore unsigned document

To meet with Jagdeo tomorrow Head of the Presidential Secretariat, Dr Roger Luncheon, has told TV station owner Chandra Narine Sharma, that he should disregard the document he reportedly...

Dem boys seh…Somebody got a big paycheck

Sep 29, 2011 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Dem boys seh…Somebody got a big paycheck

De NIS building set de stage. De price jump from one level to a high one. Now dem boys seh that everything gone up because everybody using de NIOS as de base fuh whatever dem have to do. De...

Guyana’s internal population has passed a million

Sep 29, 2011 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on Guyana’s internal population has passed a million

The 2006 Government like the ninth Parliament will become history soon. The national election may be in late November or very early in December. I will always remember the 2006 Government. Without...

Samuels’ action cleared by ICC

Sep 29, 2011 KNews Sports Comments Off on Samuels’ action cleared by ICC

ESPNcricinfo – Marlon Samuels, the West Indies batsman and part-time offspinner, has had his bowling action cleared by the ICC after undergoing significant remedial work. An independent test...

Sarwan, Chattergoon included in Guyana 50-Over team

Sep 29, 2011 KNews Sports Comments Off on Sarwan, Chattergoon included in Guyana 50-Over team

Latcha is lone uncapped player selected By Sean Devers Twenty-one year-old off-spinner Steven Latcha is the only player without any senior team experience named in a young Guyana 14-man squad...

Linden gears for Mackeson Smooth Moves basketball opening

Sep 29, 2011 KNews Sports Comments Off on Linden gears for Mackeson Smooth Moves basketball opening

– quest for NBA All-Star trip or $1M begins at MSC Sunday With a trip to the NBA All-Star Finals in Orlando Florida or an alternative of $1M up for grabs, the Mackeson...

Muneer Amin slams 1st century, 118, in teams score of 196 for 3

Sep 29, 2011 KNews Sports Comments Off on Muneer Amin slams 1st century, 118, in teams score of 196 for 3

RAF’S Hajjin Zeleena Rafeek Mem. Inter Jamaat T10 cricket Play in the inaugural RAF’S Variety Store sponsored Hajjin Zeleena Rafeek Memorial countrywide Inter Jamaat Ten10...

Williams outsprints opponents in 400m & 800m

Sep 29, 2011 KNews Sports Comments Off on Williams outsprints opponents in 400m & 800m

Saint Joseph High School Inter-house Championships After years five of rivalry between Murudi and Holitipu in the St. Joseph High School Inter-house Championships, the latter has...

Big Dominoes Competition on at Flavours

Sep 29, 2011 KNews Sports Comments Off on Big Dominoes Competition on at Flavours

With close to $200,000 worth of prize money up for grabs, the cream of the country’s top Dominoes Teams are anticipated to confirm participation for this Sunday’s 18-team...

Bakewell Softball cricket tournament continued last Sunday

Sep 29, 2011 KNews Sports Comments Off on Bakewell Softball cricket tournament continued last Sunday

The Bakewell Male Open 15/15, Female Open 10/10 and Male over 40 yrs 25/25 countrywide Softball tournament continued last Sunday at various venues. Results are as follows: Challengers...

Manchester City suspend Carlos Tevez for up to two weeks

Sep 29, 2011 KNews Sports Comments Off on Manchester City suspend Carlos Tevez for up to two weeks

Manchester City have suspended Carlos Tevez after it was alleged he refused to appear as a substitute in the 2-0 defeat by Bayern Munich. Tevez, 27, who said the dispute was a...

APNU “thinks” its support is growing!

Sep 29, 2011 KNews Letters Comments Off on APNU “thinks” its support is growing!

Dear Editor, Well for once, I’ve found something that I can agree with Mark Archer when he wrote, “You cannot paint a horse and call it a zebra” (Kaieteur News, Sept. 27). This is...

Despite its denials, the PPP is profiting from selling Guyanese their own land

Sep 29, 2011 KNews Letters Comments Off on Despite its denials, the PPP is profiting from selling Guyanese their own land

Dear Editor, Minister of Housing and Water, Mr. Irfaan Ali, and Taslim Baksh, Finance Officer of Central Housing & Planning Authority (CH&PA), assert I am wrong when I said the...

What is wrong with the AFC?

Sep 29, 2011 KNews Letters Comments Off on What is wrong with the AFC?

Dear Editor, I recently migrated to the United States. I was employed in Information Technology, in Guyana, with an inadequate salary, and now I am looking for a job. I question...

I publicly apologize to Mr. Trotman

Sep 29, 2011 KNews Letters Comments Off on I publicly apologize to Mr. Trotman

Dear Editor, In Kaieteur News 28/9/11 “Raphael Trotman wields a forked tongue” I attributed the quote/ remarks that; “the PNC is yet to apologize for years of rigged elections”...

HUGO CHAVEZ HAS BEEN GOOD TO GUYANA!

Sep 29, 2011 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on HUGO CHAVEZ HAS BEEN GOOD TO GUYANA!

In an insightful editorial in yesterday’s edition of this newspaper, it was observed that unlike the past there is in place in neighbouring Venezuela a government less committed to confrontation....

Halting the slide in education

Sep 29, 2011 KNews Editorial Comments Off on Halting the slide in education

The Education Ministry wants to see a turnaround in the fortunes of the school system. We are always decrying what passes for education these days because we have lost good teachers who opted...

Parliament dissolved…17 political parties to contest polls

Sep 29, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Parliament dissolved…17 political parties to contest polls

By Leonard Gildarie Guyana’s Ninth Parliament has been dissolved, officially paving the way for President Bharrat Jagdeo to announce a date for National Elections. However, that date will...

China to donate 30,000 laptops to OLPF–Ambassador

Sep 29, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on China to donate 30,000 laptops to OLPF–Ambassador

62nd anniversary of People’s Republic of China…. The Chinese Government yesterday said that over the past 39 years China and Guyana have maintained a sound momentum of growth....

Sea Defence breach, high tide causes widespread flooding in New Amsterdam

Sep 29, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Sea Defence breach, high tide causes widespread flooding in New Amsterdam

NCN Berbice shuts down transmission A sea defence breach in the Canje Creek, and an overburdened koker have resulted in immense flooding that has wreaked havoc on residents of Tucber, Nurseville...

Corentyne scam artist on the prowl

Sep 29, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Corentyne scam artist on the prowl

…sells girlfriend’s land twice, runs off with over $1M A suspected confidence trickster on the Upper Corentyne area has swindled more than a million dollars from at least two...

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Guyana’s oil bonanza is being squandered by political duels

Kaieteur News – In Guyana, politics and economics have always danced an ill-fated tango. It is difficult to say which... more