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Army Court martial…

May 24, 2008 KNews News Comments Off on Army Court martial…

Judge advocate to sum up case Judge advocate Oslen Small, who is hearing the Guyana Defence Force (GDF) court martial, is expected to sum up the case for the jury’s consideration on Tuesday....

Leatherback released after caught in fishermen’s seines

May 24, 2008 KNews News Comments Off on Leatherback released after caught in fishermen’s seines

Some fishermen of Domburg, Wakenaam had an unusual catch when a sea turtle found its way into their seines in the Essequibo River shortly after midday yesterday. This event attracted scores of...

Attorney supports Chief Justice, claims that he helped the state

May 24, 2008 KNews News Comments Off on Attorney supports Chief Justice, claims that he helped the state

Attorney-at-Law Sandil Kissoon, who made a successful application to have a murder accused placed on bail, yesterday responded to attacks on the Acting Chief Justice Ian Chang. Kissoon, who had filed...

Climate change and its effects:

May 24, 2008 KNews News Comments Off on Climate change and its effects:

GuySuCo forced to work round the clock to make up for lost days – Persaud By Leonard Gildarie Climate change has severely hampered the sugar industry to the extent that the number of days that...

3,000 rooms already available for CARIFESTA

May 24, 2008 KNews News Comments Off on 3,000 rooms already available for CARIFESTA

Accommodation and transportation arrangements are almost in place for CARIFESTA as the Ministry of Culture, Youth and Sport along with the Ministry of Tourism continues to prepare to host the mega...

Arts and Crafts Association to play pivotal role in Carifesta X

May 24, 2008 KNews News Comments Off on Arts and Crafts Association to play pivotal role in Carifesta X

The Guyana Arts and Crafts Association is expected to play a pivotal role in Carifesta X, according to Minister of Tourism, Industry and Commerce, Manniram Prashad. His comments came during a meeting...

Fulfilling the intellectual role

May 24, 2008 KNews Letters Comments Off on Fulfilling the intellectual role

Dear Editor, In SN on Thursday, May 8th, was a letter to the editor by one D. Ramprakash, under the caption, ‘Guyanese should be wary of Western vilification of “Third World” leaders’. In...

Essequibo students visit Kaieteur News

May 24, 2008 KNews News Comments Off on Essequibo students visit Kaieteur News

Yesterday, a group of 80 students and seven teachers from the Essequibo Islands Secondary School, Wakenaam, visited Kaieteur News as part of an educational trip to Georgetown. During their visit, the...

The alumina plant—Linden’s enduring landmark

May 24, 2008 KNews News Comments Off on The alumina plant—Linden’s enduring landmark

Established in 1961, almost a century after the famous Waterwheel at Christianburg, at a cost of $65 million, the old Alumina Plant at Spieghtland (Mackenzie) Linden is most likely the most expensive...

Minister’s comments offensive to Guyanese and the Constitution

May 24, 2008 KNews Letters Comments Off on Minister’s comments offensive to Guyanese and the Constitution

Dear Editor, Recent statements by Minister of Culture, Youth and Sports, Dr. Frank Anthony, in an article published in Kaieteur News dated 5/19/2008, are not likely to resonate well with Guyanese....

Family seeks assistance to find missing girl

May 24, 2008 KNews News Comments Off on Family seeks assistance to find missing girl

Fourteen-year-old Renetta Blake of 882 Patensen, Turkeyen, has gone missing and members of her family are praying that she returns home safely. It is however, the belief of some members of the family...

Has Govt. sold its 49% share in GPC?

May 24, 2008 KNews Letters Comments Off on Has Govt. sold its 49% share in GPC?

Dear Editor, In 1999, the Government of Guyana sold 51% of the shares of the Guyana Pharmaceutical Corporation (GPC) through a public bid. I am asking whether the government was paid or whether it...

Pressures and political instability

May 24, 2008 KNews Letters Comments Off on Pressures and political instability

Dear Editor, Rapid population growth, especially when it occurs in regions with sharp ethnic differences like Guyana, can put great stress on political institutions and complicate the problems of...

Pit-bull attacks nursery school pupils

May 24, 2008 KNews News Comments Off on Pit-bull attacks nursery school pupils

– mother fights off animal with lunch-pack A group of schoolchildren narrowly escaped serious injury yesterday when a roaming dog, described as a pit bull, attacked them on the East Bank...

Parliamentary Opposition petition CARICOM…

May 24, 2008 KNews News Comments Off on Parliamentary Opposition petition CARICOM…

Free Hinckson, reinstate Sharma’s licence Withdraw sedition charges against Oliver Hinckson and immediately release him from custody and rescind the suspension of the licence of CNS TV Channel 6,...

Peeping Tom – Sanata Clause In April

May 24, 2008 KNews Peeping Tom Comments Off on Peeping Tom – Sanata Clause In April

I heard that the government is producing a bestseller. It is entitled, “OPPROBRIUM- HOW TO DIVEST WITHOUT COMPETIVE BIDDING” with a preface jointly scripted by the Privatization Unit and...

A distortion of my views

May 24, 2008 KNews Letters Comments Off on A distortion of my views

Dear Editor, Ms. Samantha Ali’s reference in her letter of 20/5/2008 titled “Ms Burton’s works prove that she is a competent trade unionist” accused me of being “dishonest and unfair”,...

Does President Jagdeo have any ideals of his own?

May 24, 2008 KNews Letters Comments Off on Does President Jagdeo have any ideals of his own?

Dear Editor, In a GINA release entitled “Everything will not be alright if we don’t struggle for it”, President Jagdeo, while addressing a large audience at Babu John, Port Mourant, on March 2,...

Freddie Kissoon – Friday morning at the GRA and other stories

May 24, 2008 KNews Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on Freddie Kissoon – Friday morning at the GRA and other stories

All over Georgetown on Thursday, from what I have heard, the talk was about the pit bulls that nearly killed a young man in Queenstown (Demerara). This had to be the topic of conversation among most...

CLICO promises Independence spectacle

May 24, 2008 KNews News Comments Off on CLICO promises Independence spectacle

Guyana’s Independence Day celebrations are perhaps most fondly remembered by the giant splashes of fiery colour that illuminate the night sky at approximately midnight on May 25 each year, ever...

Our Thoughts Are With the Chinese and Burmese People

May 24, 2008 KNews Editorial Comments Off on Our Thoughts Are With the Chinese and Burmese People

During the first two months of this year, all Guyana was numbed by the terrifying massacres that left twenty-three persons dead and about a dozen others injured. Guyana has never before experienced...

Opposition parties call for revival of death squad probe

May 23, 2008 KNews News Comments Off on Opposition parties call for revival of death squad probe

…“We have to get to the truth, whatever it takes” The opposition parliamentary parties, with the exception of the Rise Organise and Rebuild (ROAR) Party, yesterday issued a call for the...

Global Warming – a threat to Mother Earth

May 23, 2008 KNews Letters Comments Off on Global Warming – a threat to Mother Earth

Dear Editor, I am of the opinion that people in our society still look upon Global Warming as a joke but really there would be nothing to laugh about when it starts to take effect. Global Warming is...

OP distances self from Rohee’s comment on the judiciary

May 23, 2008 KNews News Comments Off on OP distances self from Rohee’s comment on the judiciary

“It is the judiciary and not the executive which is the guardian of the Constitution” – Acting Chief Justice The Office of the President says that the executive arm of Government does not...

Pit bull attack survivor recounts near death experience

May 23, 2008 KNews News Comments Off on Pit bull attack survivor recounts near death experience

“I though for sure that I would’a dead…I did done give up already,” were the words of pit bull attack survivor, 20-year-old Rawle Ramsaywack, who was mauled by three vicious dogs on Tuesday....

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Does the PNCR really want to go down this road?

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