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The nation should be more responsive towards the plight of women and girls

Dec 08, 2008 knews Letters 1

DEAR EDITOR, “Girl, 26, found with throat slit” was one of the front page stories of Kaieteur News on Friday, November 28th. It would turn out that Creavonne Throne’s end was more torturous, as...

Guyanese Women in Development fetes orphanage

Dec 08, 2008 knews News Comments Off on Guyanese Women in Development fetes orphanage

NEW AMSTERDAM, BERBICE – As part of activities to mark Child Awareness Month, the members of the Guyanese Women in Development (GUYWID) visited the Anjuman Orphanage at Philadelphia Street in...

Removal of James McAllister from Parliament is vindictive and undemocratic

Dec 08, 2008 knews Letters 4

DEAR EDITOR, The Caribbean Guyana Institute for Democracy (CGID) condemns the removal of James McAllister, an Opposition People’s National Congress (PNC) Member of Parliament (MP), from the...

Completion of Rose Hall Town Fire Station delayed

Dec 08, 2008 knews News Comments Off on Completion of Rose Hall Town Fire Station delayed

ROSE HALL TOWN, CORENTYNE – The completion of the Rose Hall Town Fire Station was delayed as a result of financial constraints. The estimated date of completion is now mid-January, and not this...

Medicine Chest spreads Yuletide cheer

Dec 08, 2008 knews News Comments Off on Medicine Chest spreads Yuletide cheer

ALBION, CORENTYNE – The Medicine Chest Incorporated, of Middle Street, Georgetown, continues to fill prescriptions with Yuletide cheer. Over the weekend, some 44 boys and girls of the Camal...

Where do we go from here?

Dec 08, 2008 knews Letters 1

DEAR EDITOR, Has post-Independence Guyana descended into a death-squad dictatorship or a death-squad democracy? What would drive someone to ask such a grotesque question? Well, from the chambers of...

Good Success win Busta cricket competition in Wakenaam

Dec 08, 2008 knews Sports Comments Off on Good Success win Busta cricket competition in Wakenaam

Defeat Sans Souci by 65 runs in final Good Success Sports club defeated Sans Souci Sports Club by 65 runs to win the final of the Busta 40 overs cricket competition at the Wakenaam Community Sports...

Bath Nursery School gets playground

Dec 08, 2008 knews News Comments Off on Bath Nursery School gets playground

BATH SETTLEMENT, WEST COAST BERBICE – The Bath/Waterloo Nursery School on the West Coast of Berbice received a recreational park recently. The $500,000 facility was made possible through the...

Adopt a more responsible attitude towards waste disposal

Dec 08, 2008 knews Letters Comments Off on Adopt a more responsible attitude towards waste disposal

DEAR EDITOR, The designed technical capabilities of our drainage and irrigation systems continue to be seriously compromised, due to indiscriminate dumping and pollution. This, in effect, causes the...

Qurbani meat is for the poor and needy

Dec 08, 2008 knews Letters 1

DEAR EDITOR, Thanks to all from abroad who sent money to Guyana for sacrifices, in the name of their deceased relatives, so that the meats could be given to the poor and needy. Qurbani is for both,...

Bread prices remain the same

Dec 08, 2008 knews News Comments Off on Bread prices remain the same

Consumers are reporting that the price for bread has still not been reduced, despite the promise by some bakeries to do so since the end of November. As it is currently, the consuming public is still...

The Peeper has been advised to go to school

Dec 08, 2008 knews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom 1

The recent announcement of the possibility of a US$1B investment in the bauxite industry led the Peeper to believe that Guyana was aiming at more than just a plant to extract alumina from our...

Does Santa Claus really exist?

Dec 08, 2008 knews Letters Comments Off on Does Santa Claus really exist?

DEAR EDITOR, I came across a letter (in SN, Dec 7, 2008) by George Cave in response to Montgomery Chester on the existence of Santa Claus. While Mr. Cave highlights the philosophical dimensions of...

Non Pariel man’s death baffling investigators

Dec 08, 2008 knews News Comments Off on Non Pariel man’s death baffling investigators

Investigators on the East Coast of Demerara are awaiting a post mortem report to determine the cause of death of 51-year-old Balkissoon Latchman, whose body was picked up on the Coldingen Access Road...

SPRAY FOR US SINNERS

Dec 08, 2008 knews Features / Columnists, Tony Deyal column Comments Off on SPRAY FOR US SINNERS

In the midst of raging dengue epidemics, the cry goes out throughout the lands of the Caribbean, “Let us spray!” And there goes forth the word from Ministries of Health that the whole world...

Islamic terror

Dec 08, 2008 knews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon 2

Today is Eid-Ul Adha, a sacred occasion in the Muslim calendar. It comes at a time when the religion of Islam, the world of Islam, and the meaning of Islam are under intense discussion by the peoples...

Norton is presidential material

Dec 08, 2008 knews Letters 4

DEAR EDITOR, PNCR Executive Member Mr. Aubrey Norton has the appearance of a President as reflected in his striking and charismatic press photos in 28th and 30th Kaieteur News 2008 respectively....

Fidelity report only completed last Friday

Dec 08, 2008 knews News Comments Off on Fidelity report only completed last Friday

…will be presented to President on his return next week — Sharma Auditor General of Guyana, Deodat Sharma, says that, contrary to the report in other sections of the media which implies...

Sacrifice and nation building

Dec 08, 2008 knews Editorial Comments Off on Sacrifice and nation building

Today, the nation joins the Muslim community in observing Eid-ul-Adha – the festival of sacrifice. Grounded in an event that is of critical significance to three major world religions – Islam,...

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No immigrant should feel safe in America today

Peeping Tom… Kaieteur News- There was a time when an illegal immigrant in America could live in the shadows with some... more