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Regent Street arms and ammo find… Wanted trio still at large

Sep 28, 2008 knews News Comments Off on Regent Street arms and ammo find… Wanted trio still at large

– ballistics tests being carried out Three men for whom the police issued bulletins on Friday are still to present themselves for questioning in relation to a cache of arms and ammunition...

Our Cabinet may be too young

Sep 28, 2008 knews Features / Columnists, My Column Comments Off on Our Cabinet may be too young

There has long been the debate about whether youth holds an advantage over experience or vice versa. Most older people would say that the two should go hand in hand because one complements the other....

Banks MCYS UDFA Division One League…Bakewell Topp XX beat Silver Shattas, Milerock & Blueberry Hill draw

Sep 28, 2008 knews Sports Comments Off on Banks MCYS UDFA Division One League…Bakewell Topp XX beat Silver Shattas, Milerock & Blueberry Hill draw

Bakewell Topp XX has joined Blueberry Hill at the top of the points standings following their 3-1 triumph over Silver Shattas on Friday evening when play in the Upper Demerara Football Association /...

The EPA, micro-management and the EPA

Sep 28, 2008 knews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on The EPA, micro-management and the EPA

This is not, and in the foreseeable future, will not be an easy country to administer. Guyana is fraught with structurally profound problems. Those structural problems become insurmountable because...

Bandits hammer hole in concrete wall

Sep 28, 2008 knews News Comments Off on Bandits hammer hole in concrete wall

– remove over $500,000 in items from Wholesale Depot For the second time this year, businessman Michael Rodrigues woke up to discover that one of his two businesses was broken into and items...

The Baccoo speaks

Sep 28, 2008 knews Features / Columnists, The Baccoo Speaks Comments Off on The Baccoo speaks

There is a group of criminal-minded people who may be considered as opportunistic criminals. Up until the notorious wanted man was killed, they remained in their cocoon because they knew that they...

Event Organisers Workshop completed in Berbice

Sep 28, 2008 knews Sports Comments Off on Event Organisers Workshop completed in Berbice

– hailed a successSome twelve (12) teachers representing the three (3) Guyana Teachers’ Union (GTU) Sports Districts in Berbice successfully completed the “Event Organisers” Workshop...

Reality of our tax money

Sep 28, 2008 knews Peeping Tom Comments Off on Reality of our tax money

Peter R. Ramsaroop, MBA Chairman, Vision Guyana INTRODUCTION Without our businesses generating jobs and paying taxes, the Ministers of Government will be like most of us, devoting great amounts of...

No. 2 Village win Aditiya Kids Trust Fund Foundation 20/20 competition

Sep 28, 2008 knews Sports Comments Off on No. 2 Village win Aditiya Kids Trust Fund Foundation 20/20 competition

No. 2 Village carted off the top prize of $100,000 and trophy when they defeated Bath Settlement by 13 runs in the final of the recently concluded Aditiya Kids First Fund Foundation 20/20 cricket...

Sponsors step forward for Guyana Fashion Weekend

Sep 28, 2008 knews News Comments Off on Sponsors step forward for Guyana Fashion Weekend

On Friday, with a simple ceremony held at the Kings Plaza Hotel, Guyana Fashion Weekend Chief Executive Officer Sonia Noel received two sizable cheques from sponsors King’s Jewellery World and the...

August school now means something different

Sep 28, 2008 knews Features / Columnists Comments Off on August school now means something different

The Parrot recalls the most memorable old-time “advertising” ploy to get people to purchase newspapers. Simply, it was the vendor, often depicted by a boy in movies, shouting “Extra, extra....

SQUATTING SHOULD BE MADE A CRIMINAL OFFENCE

Sep 28, 2008 knews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on SQUATTING SHOULD BE MADE A CRIMINAL OFFENCE

There is one sure way to obtain a government house lot. Go and squat on a piece on State land or reserve and when the demolition squad comes to remove your structure, raise a mighty noise and the...

Container for Haiti hurricane victims packed

Sep 28, 2008 knews News Comments Off on Container for Haiti hurricane victims packed

Donations for the container being packed with relief supplies for Haiti’s hurricane victims were yesterday handed over to the CARICOM Secretariat. Coordinated by the Secretariat’s Staff...

The Butterfly

Sep 28, 2008 knews Features / Columnists, Interesting Creatures in Guyana Comments Off on The Butterfly

According to some mythical legends, a butterfly is the personification of a person’s soul, whether they be living, dying or are already dead. Another superstitious belief is that once a butterfly...

WHAT IS JUSTICE?

Sep 28, 2008 knews AFC Column, Features / Columnists Comments Off on WHAT IS JUSTICE?

By Raphael Trotman, AFC Leader On Saturday last, I sat amongst a small gathering of family and friends as my father launched his book aptly entitled “Waiting For Justice”. Apt, because at this...

Health Ministry not oblivious to legislation on wilful transmission of diseases

Sep 28, 2008 knews News Comments Off on Health Ministry not oblivious to legislation on wilful transmission of diseases

The Ministry of Health is not unmindful of legislations that have been implemented internationally to deal with persons who deliberately infect others with sexually transmitted diseases such as the...

World Financial Crisis Will Hurt The Caribbean

Sep 28, 2008 knews Features / Columnists, Ronald Sanders Comments Off on World Financial Crisis Will Hurt The Caribbean

By Sir Ronald Sanders Events in the financial markets in the last few weeks portend a world of great uncertainty and instability that will have an adverse impact on the economies of developing...

Global financial crisis demands halt to EPA signature

Sep 28, 2008 knews News Comments Off on Global financial crisis demands halt to EPA signature

…Citizens’ Network urge urgent review of implications A number of civil society organizations, including trade unions, the private sector, women, farmers, religious organizations, academia and...

The “Estate” is still a Plantation

Sep 28, 2008 knews Features / Columnists, Ravi Dev Comments Off on The “Estate” is still a Plantation

There is an Arbitration Panel that is deliberating at this moment on the wage dispute in the sugar industry that deadlocked over the chasm between the four percent “increase” thrown out by...

Lindo Creek three months later… Miners’ remains still in funeral home refrigerator

Sep 28, 2008 knews News Comments Off on Lindo Creek three months later… Miners’ remains still in funeral home refrigerator

Three months after the shocking discovery of the charred bodies of eight miners at Lindo Creek, their remains are still lying in the Lyken Funeral Home refrigerator awaiting the results of DNA...

Trauma workshop on the charts for teachers – Health Minister

Sep 28, 2008 knews News Comments Off on Trauma workshop on the charts for teachers – Health Minister

Geared at improving the delivery of educationTeachers are expected to be able to better address the emotional problems of students after participating in a workshop which is scheduled to be held in...

US Economic Bailout, A Caribbean Lesson For Integration

Sep 28, 2008 knews Clarence E. Pilgrim, Features / Columnists Comments Off on US Economic Bailout, A Caribbean Lesson For Integration

By Clarence E. Pilgrim NASA’s space shuttle Atlantis and its seven astronauts are now set to blast off late at night on October 14 from the Johnson Space Center in Houston, for its last visit...

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Three wanted for illegal importation of arms, ammo

Sep 27, 2008 knews News Comments Off on Three wanted for illegal importation of arms, ammo

Police have issued wanted bulletins for Clayton Hutson, Trinidadian Joseph Aboud, and Frankie Ross in connection with the illegal importation of firearms and ammunition. A release issued...

Heavily-armed gang attacks Cuyuni miners

Sep 27, 2008 knews News Comments Off on Heavily-armed gang attacks Cuyuni miners

– robs camp, rapes women A group of mostly Brazilians miners are appealing for help from the Joint Services after many of them were held at the mercy of a gang of heavily armed bandits in the...

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Young Windies Women end U19 T20 World Cup campaign with crushing defeat

A warning to President Ali on U.S. Overtures

Peeping Tom… Kaieteur News- It remains unknown what President Ali told the U.S. Secretary of State during their recent... more