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Grandmother throws pepper sauce on teen

Sep 03, 2008 knews News Comments Off on Grandmother throws pepper sauce on teen

A 50-year-old grandmother was yesterday granted $25,000 bail for allegedly throwing two bottles of pepper sauce on a teenage girl. Jacklyn Lander, who resides at 83 Leopold Street, is accused of...

Harbour Bridge repairs continue, cause minor traffic jams

Sep 03, 2008 knews News Comments Off on Harbour Bridge repairs continue, cause minor traffic jams

The ongoing repairs to the Demerara Harbour Bridge have resulted in minor traffic congestion along the structure, especially in the late morning hours. Repairs to the bridge have become more and more...

BILL COTTON/REFORM…BIG STADIUM, BIG CHALLENGES, FUNKED?

Sep 03, 2008 knews Features / Columnists Comments Off on BILL COTTON/REFORM…BIG STADIUM, BIG CHALLENGES, FUNKED?

Both made valiant attempts. Both pulled much victory from the jaws of defeat. But both ultimately failed to satisfy the live audience. Both Paloma for the Opening and Bobby V for the Closing did not...

Blame the government…Success does not come easy

Sep 03, 2008 knews Features / Columnists Comments Off on Blame the government…Success does not come easy

Carifesta is over and it is back to normal life. Schools have reopened and children are in some spanking new buildings because the government has found it necessary to build new schools. The student...

Rice farmers peeved over unfinished irrigation works

Sep 03, 2008 knews News Comments Off on Rice farmers peeved over unfinished irrigation works

Farmers from the Good-Hope # 51 Neighbourhood Democratic Council (NDC) on the Corentyne coast are complaining that irrigation works in the area have been abandoned before completion. It is reported...

ACP states would be worse off with the EPA

Sep 03, 2008 knews Letters Comments Off on ACP states would be worse off with the EPA

DEAR EDITOR, A number of CARICOM Heads of State, Sir Shridath Ramphal, the Girvan-Brewster-Lewis Memorandum, OXFAM, hundreds of academics, the Christina Taubira Report, among others, have heaped...

Bring Act Homestead to Guyana

Sep 03, 2008 knews Letters Comments Off on Bring Act Homestead to Guyana

DEAR EDITOR, In 1862 the United States of America in the face of impending economic crisis, and shortages of food, and compounded by an ongoing civil war, took the historic decision to bring into...

Cuban Ambassador bids farewell

Sep 03, 2008 knews News Comments Off on Cuban Ambassador bids farewell

Cuba’s Ambassador to Guyana Franscisco Marchante Castellanos yesterday paid a courtesy call on President Bharrat Jagdeo at the Office of the President, Vlissengen Road. The courtesy call was to bid...

The Parrot Speaks…Cari…Cari…sad-you-gone

Sep 03, 2008 knews Features / Columnists Comments Off on The Parrot Speaks…Cari…Cari…sad-you-gone

The Parrot was unavoidably absent from last Sunday’s edition. Blame it on the Akon concert. Well not just that; all of Carifesta X. With so many events, including super concerts (all free) to...

The “Roop” Economic Corner…Early warning systems – Are we ready?

Sep 03, 2008 knews Features / Columnists Comments Off on The “Roop” Economic Corner…Early warning systems – Are we ready?

Peter R. Ramsaroop, MBA INTRODUCTION: This week we all became aware once again of the hurricane season. We in Guyana have been lucky never to have experienced a hurricane, but given global warming,...

Cancer patient receives air ticket to access treatment in T&T

Sep 03, 2008 knews News Comments Off on Cancer patient receives air ticket to access treatment in T&T

By Rustom Seegopaul Cancer patient Zandra Bryden, 65, has received assistance in the form of an air ticket from the Periwinkle Cancer Club to travel to Trinidad and Tobago where she will receive...

The slow agricultural drive of some regional governments

Sep 03, 2008 knews Letters Comments Off on The slow agricultural drive of some regional governments

DEAR EDITOR, When one looks at the behaviour of some Caribbean governments, it leaves much to be desired. Food prices on the world market were on the rise for the most part of 2008 but declined...

Peeping Tom…FREDDIE, YUH NOT STEADY!

Sep 03, 2008 knews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on Peeping Tom…FREDDIE, YUH NOT STEADY!

Freddie Kissoon was once a highly-paid consultant to the PPP regime, a role that he relished, so much that his cockiness got the better of him. In trying, on one of his television shows, to embarrass...

AG observations on municipality… Inquiry ‘likely to be completed in 3 months’

Sep 03, 2008 knews News Comments Off on AG observations on municipality… Inquiry ‘likely to be completed in 3 months’

The inquiry into the findings of the Auditor General (AG) Report of the City Municipality of 2007 is likely to be completed within three months or possibly before, allowing for clarity of the...

Is the PNC party ready to work with Govt. in the fight against crime?

Sep 03, 2008 knews Letters Comments Off on Is the PNC party ready to work with Govt. in the fight against crime?

DEAR EDITOR, It is nice to read in the Guyana Chronicle the opposition PNCR party’s comment on the killing of two of Guyana’s most notorious criminals in ‘Fineman’ and ‘Skinny’. The PNCR...

Freddie Kissoon column…Responsibility and propaganda: The “Fine Man” story

Sep 03, 2008 knews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on Freddie Kissoon column…Responsibility and propaganda: The “Fine Man” story

There are several persons that write under the sobriquet, Peeping Tom, and the ones that heap praise on the PPP are the more jejune ones. Their arguments are extremely illogical. I will reply to one...

Greater electrical capacity required at Takatu Bridge

Sep 03, 2008 knews News Comments Off on Greater electrical capacity required at Takatu Bridge

….resuscitation of Moco-Moco hydro power plant being mulled – PrashadMuch focus is being placed on trade relations between Brazil and Guyana, given the imminent completion of the Takatu Bridge...

We can be a great nation if we put our differences aside and become one

Sep 03, 2008 knews Letters Comments Off on We can be a great nation if we put our differences aside and become one

DEAR EDITOR, I respond to the letter signed “Concern Guyanese”. I agree with every thing said about a united front for our country, but it won’t be healthy politically to have a one-party...

Amerindian or Indigenous?

Sep 03, 2008 knews Editorial Comments Off on Amerindian or Indigenous?

September is “Amerindian Heritage Month”. Surely one aspect of the heritage of any people would be to allow them to name themselves. Three years ago, when the “Amerindian Bill’s amendment was...

Sunday Cartoon – August 31

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The government is in choppy waters

Peeping Tom Kaieteur News- The government stands like a beleaguered captain at the helm of a storm-tossed ship, finds itself... more