18 – October – 2015 – Kaieteur News

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Pradoville Two deal…SARU requests Public Security Ministry to investigate criminal aspects

Oct 18, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Pradoville Two deal…SARU requests Public Security Ministry to investigate criminal aspects

The State Asset Recovery Unit (SARU) over the weekend, made a formal request to the Ministry of Public Security to investigate the criminal aspect of the Pradoville Two deal. Earlier this week, SARU...

Forensic audit recommends criminal charges against Brassington – Jaipaul Sharma

Oct 18, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Forensic audit recommends criminal charges against Brassington – Jaipaul Sharma

As a forensic audit into the National Industrial and Commercial Investments Limited (NICIL), nears completion, Junior Finance Minister, Jaipaul Sharma, has confirmed that criminal charges have been...

Venezuela agrees to take “cheaper” Suriname rice

Oct 18, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Venezuela agrees to take “cheaper” Suriname rice

Venezuela has signaled intentions to take excess rice from neighbouring Suriname, putting a dent on any hopes that Guyana may have had about reviving an oil-for-rice deal. Suriname media reported...

Government to initiate Styrofoam ban from January

Oct 18, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Government to initiate Styrofoam ban from January

Government, in its thrust to promote a green economy and environment, is moving ahead with plans to ban the importation and use of closed-cell extruded polystyrene foam, popularly known by the trade...

Motorcycle thieves captured on CCTV footage

Oct 18, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Motorcycle thieves captured on CCTV footage

Having secured the CCTV footage from the Demerara Harbour Bridge, the Guyana Police Force is now on the hunt for two suspected motorcycles thieves. The two men reportedly visited a Schoonord, West...

Astute Educator, Ms. Yonette Chichester, is a Special Person

Oct 18, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Astute Educator, Ms. Yonette Chichester, is a Special Person

“…being an educator gives you ample opportunity to help in any field of life; it is more than just being a teacher because you transfer morals and values; you are a psychologist, a...

Dem boys seh…Brassington tasting nuff bitterness

Oct 18, 2015 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Dem boys seh…Brassington tasting nuff bitterness

When dem boys would talk about jail picking some people and dem name Jagdeo and Brassington and Babbie, people use to think is joke. But dem boys did know something that nuff people didn’t know. De...

Little progress as private developers race to meet February deadline

Oct 18, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Little progress as private developers race to meet February deadline

More than a month after inspections by Government officials along East Bank Demerara found several private housing developments heavily behind schedule, it appears that not much has changed. Minister...

Police force no longer a last employment option – Top Cop

Oct 18, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Police force no longer a last employment option – Top Cop

(By Mondale Smith) All things being equal, by the end of next year Guyana will see an additional 1200 new police ranks deployed said Police Commissioner, Seelall Persaud DSM. Coupled with this is a...

4th Annual Courts Pee Wee Schools Football Competition

Oct 18, 2015 KNews Sports Comments Off on 4th Annual Courts Pee Wee Schools Football Competition

Favourites register emphatic victories as third round ends It was a day the favourites reinforced their billing as such after registering emphatic victories during the third round of action in this...

Herath spins Sri Lanka to big win over Windies

Oct 18, 2015 KNews Sports Comments Off on Herath spins Sri Lanka to big win over Windies

(Reuters) – Sri Lanka needed less than four days to thrash West Indies by an innings and six runs in the opening test at Galle yesterday with Rangana Herath leading the victory charge by...

Interesting Creature… False killer whale

Oct 18, 2015 KNews Features / Columnists, Interesting Creatures in Guyana Comments Off on Interesting Creature… False killer whale

The false killer whale (Pseudorca crassidens) is a cetacean, and the third-largest member of the oceanic dolphin family (Delphinidae). It lives in temperate and tropical waters throughout the...

Mining responsible for 87 per cent of deforestation in 2014

Oct 18, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Mining responsible for 87 per cent of deforestation in 2014

…but Guyana on track to receive more Norway money Mining in recent years has served as a major boon to the Guyana economy but it is also being recognized as one of the country’s main...

Overseas based doctors set to bring support to local health sector

Oct 18, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Overseas based doctors set to bring support to local health sector

In a matter of days a visiting medical team is slated to arrive to lend its support to the local health sector. The support, which will come as part of the observance of Cancer Awareness Month, will...

Kitty Market: a source of pride eroded by neglect

Oct 18, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Kitty Market: a source of pride eroded by neglect

“Every week, a person who used to live in Kitty would come back to see the market. Up to recently, a woman come and said she ain’t been here in 25 years and she come to see the market. She said...

GTUC calls for systematic and structural change to refine Public Service

Oct 18, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on GTUC calls for systematic and structural change to refine Public Service

…increase to Government ministers/ parliamentarians can be barometer for public servants wages General Secretary of the Guyana Trades Union Congress (GTUC), Lincoln Lewis, has made several...

THE VAT – PART II

Oct 18, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on THE VAT – PART II

By Harold A. Bascom (When we left Port Kaituma last week, psychologist Yvonne Holder and her brother, Brent, were investigating the baffling suicides of four young men. The Regional Chairwoman had...

Increase in ministers’ salaries must be contextualized

Oct 18, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Increase in ministers’ salaries must be contextualized

By Charles L. Griffith, BS (Ag. Eng.) MS (Ag. Proc. Eng.) PE The increase in Ministers salaries could have been placed in the public domain with different support for such actions, to include...

COUNTRYMAN: Boys will be boys – hopefully!

Oct 18, 2015 KNews Countryman, Features / Columnists Comments Off on COUNTRYMAN: Boys will be boys – hopefully!

By Dennis Nichols This land, my Guyana El Dorado, has produced several outstanding citizens over the years – men and women of great substance. Men looked and acted like men; women like women. The...

The Story Within The Story… Holding our feet to those electrical fires

Oct 18, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on The Story Within The Story… Holding our feet to those electrical fires

By Leonard Gildarie Growing up, I had difficulties saying no to friends and work colleagues. I was always more of a quiet follower. But family responsibilities and dedication forced me to take quick...

Hail to Jamaican accomplishment

Oct 18, 2015 KNews Features / Columnists, Ronald Sanders Comments Off on Hail to Jamaican accomplishment

By Sir Ronald Sanders On October 13, 2015 it was 44 years since a West Indian won the Man Booker Prize for the finest fiction written in English for the year. The first and only writer of West...

Stag Elite League continues today

Oct 18, 2015 KNews Sports Comments Off on Stag Elite League continues today

The Stag Elite League is set to continue today with two matches at the Guyana Defence Force ground, Camp Ayanganna. Pele and the GDF will square off in the feature match which would be preceded at...

GCB/Banks DIH/Digicel National Secondary School Cricket League commences

Oct 18, 2015 KNews Sports Comments Off on GCB/Banks DIH/Digicel National Secondary School Cricket League commences

…Marian Academy, Annandale Secondary and Friendship records wins The Guyana Cricket Board (GCB) inaugural National Secondary School Cricket League sponsored by Banks DIH’s Coca Cola and...

Bhola enjoyed prolific stint in EACA

Oct 18, 2015 KNews Sports Comments Off on Bhola enjoyed prolific stint in EACA

Everest Cricket Club all-rounder Manjrekar Bhola enjoyed productive season in the recently concluded Eastern America Cricket Association 40-over tournament. The right-handed Bhola who represented...

WHAT HAS THE GOVERNMENT DONE?

Oct 18, 2015 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on WHAT HAS THE GOVERNMENT DONE?

There have been reports in the media that Guyana has shifted to sourcing a greater amount of its fuel supplies from Trinidad and Tobago. There has been no public announcement of this arrangement and...