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Businessman’s body found in his car trunk

May 18, 2008 KNews News Comments Off on Businessman’s body found in his car trunk

The body of 52-year-old businessman Ganga Persaud was found in the trunk of his car, at around 06:30 hrs yesterday, in Eighth Street, Diamond Housing Scheme. He had apparently been strangled with...

Climate change threatens food security – – ECHO

May 18, 2008 KNews News Comments Off on Climate change threatens food security – – ECHO

…Canada pledges far-reaching help The effects of what is described as global warning and climate change is really the loud distress cry of the earth, which seeks to draw attention to the huge...

Fire bombing attempt will not stop Carifesta – Minister Anthony

May 18, 2008 KNews News Comments Off on Fire bombing attempt will not stop Carifesta – Minister Anthony

In wake of Friday night’s attack on his ministry, Minister of Culture, Youth and Sport, Dr. Frank Anthony, has given assurances that Carifesta X will be hosted as scheduled and the episode will not...

GRDB moving to recover millions in rice export fees

May 18, 2008 KNews News Comments Off on GRDB moving to recover millions in rice export fees

By Leonard Gildarie Government’s regulatory body, the Guyana Rice Development Board (GRDB) is attempting to recover more than $100 million in export revenues that have accumulated overtime....

West Bank Demerara youths targeted in peer educator workshop

May 18, 2008 KNews News Comments Off on West Bank Demerara youths targeted in peer educator workshop

Several youths, community and church leaders from the West Bank of Demerara were the main target group of a peer educators’ workshop. The two-day workshop which began yesterday at the Young Men’s...

The Roop Column – HOLY COW! – PPP vs. PNC – Stop the bickering

May 18, 2008 KNews Peeping Tom Comments Off on The Roop Column – HOLY COW! – PPP vs. PNC – Stop the bickering

By Peter R. Ramsaroop, MBA Chairman Vision Guyana INTRODUCTION: This is a never-ending topic, but it is getting worse. This was a GINA Official Release this week: “PPP/C govt. response to global...

M-16 used in Campbellville attack

May 18, 2008 KNews News Comments Off on M-16 used in Campbellville attack

Gunmen, in last Wednesday night’s attack that left Arjune Narine Singh dead and three others wounded, had used the American-made M-16 assault rifle. Police say that they recovered some .556 spent...

Torture report still to be turned over 44 days later

May 18, 2008 KNews News Comments Off on Torture report still to be turned over 44 days later

…report has lost all credibility — AFC Forty-four days after the announcement by Head of the Presidential Secretariat, Dr Roger Luncheon, that the report on the investigations into alleged...

The Sir Ronald Sanders Column – Dominica: Poverty and potential

May 18, 2008 KNews Ronald Sanders Comments Off on The Sir Ronald Sanders Column – Dominica: Poverty and potential

By Sir Ronald Sanders Right now it would be difficult to convince any banana farmer in the Caribbean island of Dominica that the Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA), initialled between the European...

The AFC Column – Voices of Its Principles

May 18, 2008 KNews AFC Column Comments Off on The AFC Column – Voices of Its Principles

What about a polygraph test, Mr. President? By Khemraj Ramjattan Chairman – AFC The recent surge of demonstrations sponsored by the PNC, especially coming so soon after being paid $100 million,...

Still no response to Corbin from CARICOM chair

May 18, 2008 KNews News Comments Off on Still no response to Corbin from CARICOM chair

…multi stakeholder petition in train Leader of the main opposition party Robert Corbin says that there has been no response to date by Chairman of the Caribbean Community, Hubert Ingraham,...

Concerning traffic and traffic lights – Purpose or Pretence?

May 18, 2008 KNews News Comments Off on Concerning traffic and traffic lights – Purpose or Pretence?

By Rustom Seegopaul In the times leading up to the ICC Cricket World Cup in Guyana, the country was all abuzz about the traffic lights that were being given to the Government of Guyana by the...

Peeping Tom – So It is Written; So Shall It Be

May 18, 2008 KNews Peeping Tom Comments Off on Peeping Tom – So It is Written; So Shall It Be

Kaieteur News has nothing to fear from the new newspaper that is due to come on stream soon. Kaieteur News is not worried at all about another newspaper being published in Guyana. Those who in their...

Lloyd Griffith, from headmaster to blind advocate

May 18, 2008 KNews News Comments Off on Lloyd Griffith, from headmaster to blind advocate

By Yannason Duncan He describes himself as “friendly and easy to approach,” but 59-year-old visually impaired Lloyd Griffith, of Suddie Village, Essequibo Coast, is a firm believer in the common...

Ravi Dev column – The dearth of theory

May 18, 2008 KNews Ravi Dev Comments Off on Ravi Dev column – The dearth of theory

One of the fallouts of the demise of Marxism as the dominant world-view of our political elites has been a dearth of alternative theoretical models to account for the political behaviour of our...

Freddie Kissoon – The permanent game that kills Guyana’s future…

May 18, 2008 KNews Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on Freddie Kissoon – The permanent game that kills Guyana’s future…

President Jagdeo has come out against the present activities of the PNC. He zeroed in on the alleged misuse of scrutineer money. The sum is about 100 million dollars. Without offering all the details...

A Goebbels culture held aloft by the opposition

May 18, 2008 KNews Letters Comments Off on A Goebbels culture held aloft by the opposition

Dear Editor, The fascist Minister of Propaganda in Hitlerite Germany, Herr Goebbels, is on record as having said that a lie is more believed when it is a big lie. He is further reported to have said...

The Parrot Speaks – Buddy’s should tell the naysayers where the wind is falling

May 18, 2008 KNews Peeping Tom Comments Off on The Parrot Speaks – Buddy’s should tell the naysayers where the wind is falling

The Parrot has noticed the obsession a certain media entity has with the sale of the Buddy’s International Hotel and everything that surrounds it. I want to make it pellucid that I am in no way...

Neighbour’s heroic efforts save teenager’s life

May 18, 2008 KNews News Comments Off on Neighbour’s heroic efforts save teenager’s life

For the past few weeks Guyanese have been bombarded by stories of murders, accidents and horrific deaths, but a life-changing event turned a simple, hard-working sales representative into a...

The Baccoo speaks

May 18, 2008 KNews The Baccoo Speaks Comments Off on The Baccoo speaks

There is always calm before a storm and this time around the calm is due to the pressures that the law enforcement officials placed on people who were making the society nervous. However, some people...

The birth of a university

May 18, 2008 KNews News Comments Off on The birth of a university

– the story of the Nations University One morning in September 1978, a young man from England was seated at the back of the hall at the Lilian Dewar Teacher Training College, in the building...

GCCI set to award seven business categories this year

May 18, 2008 KNews News Comments Off on GCCI set to award seven business categories this year

For the eighth year running, the Georgetown Chamber of Commerce and Industry (GCCI) will be recognising businesses and their contributions to Guyana. According to the Chamber, this year the...

The Arts Forum – A Tribute to Roy Heath (1926-2008)

May 18, 2008 KNews The Arts Forum Comments Off on The Arts Forum – A Tribute to Roy Heath (1926-2008)

The Arts Forum offers an occasional page of related topics intended to sensitize students and the general readership to neglected areas of our social history and our rich and diverse cultural...

Fashion Village for Carifesta well underway

May 18, 2008 KNews News Comments Off on Fashion Village for Carifesta well underway

The Carifesta Fashion Village is going to be excellent, assures Chairman of the Carifesta Fashion Focus Committee, Sonia Noel. Noel said that the current committee has been working day in and day out...

Retracting the letter that Ms. Alleyne-Persico did not write

May 18, 2008 KNews Letters Comments Off on Retracting the letter that Ms. Alleyne-Persico did not write

Dear Editor, I am hereby requesting the IMMEDIATE retraction of the piece titled “A Practical Guide to Visiting Guyana for CARIFESTA” published in the letters section of your paper on Saturday 17...

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Anderson ton, Looknauth’s 9 seals dominant 10-wicket win for Harpy Eagles

A wave of criminal deportees may be coming our way soon

Peeping Tom… Kaieteur News-It is peculiar the way the PPP/C government often finds itself staring down the barrel of... more