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Breathtaking action on display at Rising Sun Rodeo

Oct 28, 2009 KNews Sports Comments Off on Breathtaking action on display at Rising Sun Rodeo

It was skills, thrills and spills when the Rising Sun Rodeo Committee held a successful one day Rodeo at the Rising Sun Turf Club, Arima Park West Coast Berbice last Sunday. It was a day filled...

Leonora Primary School benefits from Guyana Softball League chivalry

Oct 28, 2009 KNews Sports Comments Off on Leonora Primary School benefits from Guyana Softball League chivalry

Glenroy Duncan and Serena Grandison were adjudged champion boy and girl respectively when the Leonora Primary School held its graduation and awards ceremony 2009 in the school’s auditorium...

Darren Sammy Emulates Julian Charles

Oct 28, 2009 KNews Sports Comments Off on Darren Sammy Emulates Julian Charles

Dear Editor, Darren Sammy recent appointment as Windward Islands captain for the Regional One Day tournament (the President’s Cup) scheduled for Guyana starting the (today) October 28 made him the...

Power Stout Tapeball tourney continues this week

Oct 28, 2009 KNews Sports Comments Off on Power Stout Tapeball tourney continues this week

The Power Stout Tapeball tournament organised by Guyana Tapeball League in association with the Guyana Softball League and sponsored by Banks DIH Ltd in collaboration with GNSC, Giftland Office Max,...

East Coast mom was constantly abused – Relatives

Oct 28, 2009 knews News Comments Off on East Coast mom was constantly abused – Relatives

The relatives of Dionne Skeete, called Dionne Mathias, who died last Saturday under suspicious circumstances, said that the woman was constantly abused by her husband Their version of events leading...

When domestic violence ends in death…Prosecuting the offenders

Oct 28, 2009 knews News Comments Off on When domestic violence ends in death…Prosecuting the offenders

A GINA feature When the 19-year-old woman peered into her parents bedroom, nothing prepared her for what she was about to see. The teenager recalled being aroused by a loud scream and the voice of...

Food for the Poor reaches out to Agriculture Ministry

Oct 28, 2009 knews News Comments Off on Food for the Poor reaches out to Agriculture Ministry

The Agriculture Ministry yesterday benefited from yet another Food for the Poor donation to enhance the ongoing grow more food campaign. Hadassah Hammond, Food for the Poor’s senior Public...

Man remanded for football stabbing at Tucville Ground

Oct 28, 2009 knews News Comments Off on Man remanded for football stabbing at Tucville Ground

A John Fernandes employee, who is a die hard supporter of the Pele Football Club, was remanded to prison yesterday after he allegedly stabbed two guys at a football match. Garfield Tyrell, 34, of 84...

Mexico is not a failed state – embassy

Oct 28, 2009 knews News Comments Off on Mexico is not a failed state – embassy

The Mexican Embassy in Georgetown is refuting an article written by columnist Frederick Kissoon which suggested that Mexico is a failed state. The release stated that Mexico was ranked 105 out of 177...

Guyana host workshop for MRVS design

Oct 28, 2009 knews News Comments Off on Guyana host workshop for MRVS design

The Guyana Forestry Commission through the Agriculture Ministry in collaboration with the Office of Climate Change yesterday hosted a two-day workshop on the development of a Monitoring, Reporting...

Controversy brews over $20M Pigeon Island Bridge construction

Oct 28, 2009 knews News Comments Off on Controversy brews over $20M Pigeon Island Bridge construction

Controversy is brewing over the ongoing construction of a $20 million bridge at Pigeon Island, East Coast Demerara. The contract stipulates that construction should be finished in six months, by...

GT&T customers to update information to comply with Act

Oct 28, 2009 knews News Comments Off on GT&T customers to update information to comply with Act

Failure on the part of customers to comply with the Guyana Telephone and Telegraph Company (GT&T) request to provide the entity with adequate information about themselves could see their cellular...

Grove man remanded for sex with underaged girl

Oct 28, 2009 knews News Comments Off on Grove man remanded for sex with underaged girl

An East Bank Demerara man has landed himself in a Berbice court after he is accused of having sex with a 13-year-old girl. Anthony Haynes, 34, of 177 Grove Housing Scheme, was refused bail at the New...

Construction worker accused of using fork on colleague

Oct 28, 2009 knews News Comments Off on Construction worker accused of using fork on colleague

A construction worker was granted $30,000 bail in court yesterday after he allegedly stabbed a man with a fork after the man’s cousin bought cocaine instead of marijuana. Acting Chief Magistrate...

GAWU proposes 10 per cent wage increase

Oct 28, 2009 knews News Comments Off on GAWU proposes 10 per cent wage increase

The Guyana Sugar Corporation (GuySuCo) and the Guyana Agricultural and General Workers’ Union (GAWU) were involved in two sessions of discussion yesterday in their wages and salaries negotiation...

Freddie is wrong on dictatorship and Ravi Dev

Oct 28, 2009 knews Letters Comments Off on Freddie is wrong on dictatorship and Ravi Dev

DEAR EDITOR, Just when I thought that Freddie Kissoon had turned over a new leaf after an unsavoury allegation from Muniram, he proved me wrong by reverting to the old type of writings of cussing out...

NAACIE hosts seminar for Branch representatives

Oct 28, 2009 knews News Comments Off on NAACIE hosts seminar for Branch representatives

Several branch representatives were yesterday a part of a one-day seminar hosted by the National Association of Agricultural Commercial and Industrial Employees. The branch representatives were drawn...

For how long must this abominable situation be endured?

Oct 28, 2009 knews Letters Comments Off on For how long must this abominable situation be endured?

DEAR EDITOR, Orrin Gordon’s letter to Kaieteur News, Thursday Oct 8th 2009, “Lindeners must wake up to the clear causes of injustices”, must surely be of concern for all Lindeners and is one...

Is the psyche of the former Guyanese colonial subject permanently damaged?

Oct 28, 2009 knews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on Is the psyche of the former Guyanese colonial subject permanently damaged?

Quite an impressive list of Third World scholars argue that colonialism’s most dangerous consequence was not what it did to the land and the economy of the colonial subject but to his/her...

I wrote as a patriot

Oct 28, 2009 knews Letters Comments Off on I wrote as a patriot

DEAR EDITOR, I refer to the letter of the Honourable and Learned Mr. Charles R. Ramson S.C., M.P, Attorney General and Minister of Legal Affairs, hereinafter referred to as “The Honourable Attorney...

Republic Bank launches 2009 apprenticeship programme

Oct 28, 2009 knews News 2

The second Republic Bank apprenticeship programme was launched yesterday at its head office at Promenade Court. The batch of 23 apprentices will serve in various departments across the Bank’s...

“Desk riding” experts like Peeping Tom should ask rice farmers’ opinion about land leveling

Oct 28, 2009 knews Letters Comments Off on “Desk riding” experts like Peeping Tom should ask rice farmers’ opinion about land leveling

DEAR EDITOR, I refer to the heading of the Peeping Tom article in the Kaieteur News of October 11, 2009 “Modern Technology must be appropriate, cost effective and beneficial.” Nothing is wrong...

Critical thinking

Oct 28, 2009 knews Editorial Comments Off on Critical thinking

Behind the seemingly legalistic dispute concerning the propriety of the government’s post-election actions, lies some trenchant disagreement between the two major parties as to facts about how they...

Guyoil replace GWI

Oct 28, 2009 knews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Guyoil replace GWI

Imagine things reach de stage wheh everybody decide that dem got to get smart. Dem got to mek money and it don’t matter how dem get it. And according to dem boys is dem who wukking wid de...

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The theatre of protest and the death of reason

Peeping Tom… Kaieteur News- The recent deaths of two young men in Linden demand investigation and truth. But they also... more