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Lindeners must wake up to these clear cases of injustices

Oct 08, 2009 knews Letters Comments Off on Lindeners must wake up to these clear cases of injustices

Dear Editor, Jocelyn Morian wrote recently, thanking whoever was responsible for the work being done on the Linden – Ituni-Kwakwani Road. Well, that road, has been in bad condition for several...

Guyana an elected dictatorship?

Oct 08, 2009 knews Letters Comments Off on Guyana an elected dictatorship?

Dear Editor, In a recent column, Freddie Kissoon asked whether Dr. Randy Persaud, “will leave me alone…Randy will be the Government’s answer to Freddie Kissoon. I have no problem with...

Man charged for Barama dredge murder

Oct 08, 2009 knews News Comments Off on Man charged for Barama dredge murder

Sherlock Allick, 19, of Station Street, Matthews Ridge, was remanded to prison yesterday after he appeared before Acting Chief Magistrate Melissa Robertson to answer the charge of murder. On...

Open letter to the Auditor General

Oct 08, 2009 knews Letters Comments Off on Open letter to the Auditor General

Dear Auditor General, Recently the media has reported on a number of issues suggesting that there is fraud, waste, abuse and corruption involving public officials and public accounts. Specifically,...

Trio pickets Public Service Commission

Oct 08, 2009 knews News Comments Off on Trio pickets Public Service Commission

The lawns of the Public Service Commission (PSC) attracted a picketing exercise yesterday. The exercise was engaged as a public effort to retaliate the non-appointments and failure on the part of...

Is this a new form of progress and development?

Oct 08, 2009 knews Letters Comments Off on Is this a new form of progress and development?

Dear Editor, I wish to respond to Randy Persaud’s letter captioned “Guyana on the Move” in the press recently. Randy Persaud in his letter is measuring progress and development by the amount of...

Ministry unaware of allegations by West Dem teachers

Oct 08, 2009 knews News Comments Off on Ministry unaware of allegations by West Dem teachers

Fox says there’s no evidence to support Minister within the Ministry of Education, Desrey Fox, has said that she is unaware of the allegations made by teachers of the West Demerara area. According...

Attorneys for Guyanese terrorist suspect want evidence suppressed

Oct 08, 2009 knews News Comments Off on Attorneys for Guyanese terrorist suspect want evidence suppressed

Attorneys for Russell DeFreitas, the Guyanese terrorist suspect, are requesting that all statements and items seized by investigators in the case to be suppressed. They claim that American amendments...

Guyana continues to make tremendous progress under the visionary leadership of Jagdeo

Oct 08, 2009 knews Letters Comments Off on Guyana continues to make tremendous progress under the visionary leadership of Jagdeo

Dear Editor, October 5th, 2009 marks 17years since the return of democracy and free and fair elections in 1992. Integrity was returned to our ballots, which have since been counted at the place of...

Randy’s rancorous randannite

Oct 08, 2009 knews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on Randy’s rancorous randannite

Dr. Randy Persaud, employed by the Office of the President, has written a long letter in the Stabroek News (“Contrary to what the newspapers report Guyana is on the move,” SN, Oct 6) in which he...

Dr Ramsammy slams PAHO, GAVI for ‘politicking’ over vaccines

Oct 08, 2009 knews News Comments Off on Dr Ramsammy slams PAHO, GAVI for ‘politicking’ over vaccines

Minister of Health, Dr. Leslie Ramsammy, has called for the Pan American Health Organisation (PAHO) and the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunisation (GAVI) to resolve their issues as soon as...

Is the perception of these charges not greater than the reality?

Oct 08, 2009 knews Letters Comments Off on Is the perception of these charges not greater than the reality?

Dear Editor, Firstly, on the premise that the report on Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) stealing power is true and that Kurshid Sattaur did say that he will “deal with them (GPL)”. I think Sattaur...

THE MEDIA IS MISSING THE ISSUE

Oct 08, 2009 knews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on THE MEDIA IS MISSING THE ISSUE

Taxpayers’ monies are going to be used to complete the Casique Hotel located behind the former Buddy’s International Hotel. That venture was supposed to have been completed in time for Cricket...

The likely shortage of money

Oct 08, 2009 knews Editorial Comments Off on The likely shortage of money

The pace of development is often slowed by the flow of money. In Guyana, more often than not, the money comes from the revenue collected by the government. This money is in the form of foreign aid...

Guyana begins to lose US$35 milllion yearly

Oct 07, 2009 KNews News Comments Off on Guyana begins to lose US$35 milllion yearly

EU final sugar cut takes effect… Guyana’s sugar industry has entered a critical phase rather quietly on October 1, last as the European Union (EU) effected the last of a phased price cut....

Cubana Air Disaster victims remembered 33 years later

Oct 07, 2009 KNews News Comments Off on Cubana Air Disaster victims remembered 33 years later

Martin Carter poetic phrase ‘death must not find us thinking that we die’ in the revolutionary Death of a Comrade, reverberated yesterday during reflections on the 33rd Cubana aircraft...

Third body is not Bannister’s

Oct 07, 2009 KNews News Comments Off on Third body is not Bannister’s

Murder on the Island Princess… The third gutted body that was found near the Queenstown, Essequibo foreshore last week may not be that of seaman Rickford Bannister. Police officials reported...

Calculated move afoot to suffocate Stabroek News, Kaieteur News

Oct 07, 2009 knews News Comments Off on Calculated move afoot to suffocate Stabroek News, Kaieteur News

…Govt. ads must be allocated using President’s proposed yard stick-AFC Leader of the Alliance For Change, Raphael Trotman, yesterday stated that his party believes that if there is to be a free...

Suspect held, charges likely in Barama dredge murder

Oct 07, 2009 knews News Comments Off on Suspect held, charges likely in Barama dredge murder

Police have detained a suspect in last month’s attack on a Barama mining dredge that left manager, Regerton Simon, dead and his colleague Malvin Edwards badly wounded. Kaieteur News understands...

Burrowes School of Arts graduating class holds art exhibition

Oct 07, 2009 KNews News Comments Off on Burrowes School of Arts graduating class holds art exhibition

The Burrowes School of Arts graduating class of 2009 is holding an art exhibition at the National Gymnasium. The exercise, which started last Friday, will conclude on October 9. Nine students...

Bamboo craft rare but not forgotten

Oct 07, 2009 KNews News Comments Off on Bamboo craft rare but not forgotten

Guyexpo 2K9… A quick glance at this booth will not invoke any desire to stop for a tour, but upon observing what seems to be a modest display there is a very interesting story to be told. The booth...

When life gives you lemon, make lemonade

Oct 07, 2009 KNews News Comments Off on When life gives you lemon, make lemonade

Misfortune and unfortunate circumstances befall all human beings but sociologists contend that it is not what happens, but how the affected person handles the experience. There is the popular idiom...

Primary school gets keyboard from P&P Insurance Brokers

Oct 07, 2009 KNews News Comments Off on Primary school gets keyboard from P&P Insurance Brokers

P & P Insurance Brokers and Consultants Limited recently made a donation of a computer to the North Georgetown Primary School, the winner of a quiz competition recently sponsored by the National...

Dhanpaul (89), Mohamed (5-26) spur Zeeburg to title

Oct 07, 2009 KNews Sports Comments Off on Dhanpaul (89), Mohamed (5-26) spur Zeeburg to title

Zeeburg beat Vergenoegen by 44 runs in the final of the Barakat Brothers 40-over Cricket Competition on Sunday last at the West Meten-Meer-Zorg ground. Yetesh Dhanpaul hit 9 fours in 89 to lead...

Tutorial’s ‘B’ House tumble ‘E’ House

Oct 07, 2009 KNews Sports Comments Off on Tutorial’s ‘B’ House tumble ‘E’ House

As school hosts Inter-House C/ships By Edison Jefford Tutorial High School’s ‘B’ House spent two years in the shadows of ‘E’ House before the 2006 Champions took back the title they...

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National Table Tennis duo Shemar Britton, Chelsea Edghill to represent Guyana at prestigious Panam Table Tennis Cup

Mashramani must break from the shackles of imitation

Peeping Tom… Kaieteur News- Mashramani, heralded as Guyana’s grand national celebration, is often presented as a... more