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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...

Ex-Region 3 deputy murdered

Oct 27, 2009 KNews News Comments Off on Ex-Region 3 deputy murdered

Residents of Canal Number Two, West Bank Demerara, were left in shock yesterday after former Region Three Vice Chairman, Ramnauth Bisram, one of the community’s prominent members, was found...

Chief of Staff orders arrest

Oct 27, 2009 KNews News Comments Off on Chief of Staff orders arrest

Coast Guards made unauthorised trip A joint criminal investigation involving representatives of the Guyana Police Force, the Guyana Defence Force’s G2 Branch and the Coast Guard has been launched...

GUYOIL compensates affected customers

Oct 27, 2009 KNews News Comments Off on GUYOIL compensates affected customers

All affected customers have been compensated and their vehicles are back in working order, said a representative of the Guyana Oil Company (GUYOIL) Providence Terminal yesterday. Several customers...

Brazilian stabbed to death in Robb Street apartment

Oct 27, 2009 KNews News Comments Off on Brazilian stabbed to death in Robb Street apartment

Police are probing the murder of an elderly Brazilian whose bound body was discovered with multiple stab wounds in a Robb Street apartment yesterday afternoon. The shocking discovery was made by a...

Negligence blamed for three-vehicle collision

Oct 27, 2009 KNews News Comments Off on Negligence blamed for three-vehicle collision

Negligence on the part of a motorist may have been the sole cause for a three-vehicle collision last evening at Goed Fortuin, West Bank Demerara. Reports are that sometime after 19:00 hours a truck,...

Regional govts move to regulate professionals

Oct 27, 2009 KNews News Comments Off on Regional govts move to regulate professionals

…journalists decry move as means to muzzle press The Guyana Press Association (GPA) yesterday stated that it views with alarm, the draft Professional Services Bill being pushed by the CARICOM...

Injured man faints in court after being remanded

Oct 27, 2009 KNews News Comments Off on Injured man faints in court after being remanded

A man who appeared to have been severely injured was remanded to prison yesterday on a charge of inflicting grievous bodily harm to his spouse. When the magistrate made the announcement, the man,...

Dem boys seh… Henry planning fuh jump at gymkhana

Oct 27, 2009 knews News Comments Off on Dem boys seh… Henry planning fuh jump at gymkhana

These past few days was nuff killing. Dem boys want to know if people gone mad. Some men go wheh a man live and after a brawl, dem kill he. A Brazilian get kill in he apartment and a man from West...

LBI planting gang back at work

Oct 27, 2009 KNews News Comments Off on LBI planting gang back at work

Sugar workers at the La Bonne Intention (LBI) estate are back at work, after the Guyana Sugar Corporation (GuySuCo) has agreed to discuss the ongoing issue with the Guyana Agricultural and General...

GuySuCo/GAWU still locked in ‘talks’

Oct 27, 2009 KNews News Comments Off on GuySuCo/GAWU still locked in ‘talks’

Guyana Sugar Corporation (GuySuCo) and the Guyana Agricultural and General Workers’ Union (GAWU) are still deadlocked in their wages and salaries negotiation. This is according to General Secretary...

Movie Town owner was not the robber

Oct 27, 2009 KNews News Comments Off on Movie Town owner was not the robber

Contrary to what was published in last week Thursday’s Edition of this newspaper, Robbie Singh, proprietor of Movie Town Video Club, was not the individual who appeared in court to answer a charge...

Deal on Wheels winner collects prize

Oct 27, 2009 KNews News Comments Off on Deal on Wheels winner collects prize

A Lindener was the lucky Republic Bank customer to claim the brand new Nissan Cube (in background) which represented the grand prize in the recently concluded Deal on Wheels loan promotion. Leonard...

Delayed $400M conservancy project now hinges on World Bank

Oct 27, 2009 KNews News Comments Off on Delayed $400M conservancy project now hinges on World Bank

By Gary Eleazar The $400M funded World Bank Project that involves works to be carried out on the East Demerara Water Conservancy was at one time placed on hold because of the fact that the lone...

Grenada born beauty officially crowned Miss Guyana World 2009

Oct 27, 2009 KNews News Comments Off on Grenada born beauty officially crowned Miss Guyana World 2009

Its official! Imarah Radix, 24, was officially bestowed the title of Miss Guyana World 2009 yesterday at a simple but significant ceremony at the Roraima Duke Lodge. Miss Guyana World 2008, Christa...

Fish Festival IV ends on a high note

Oct 27, 2009 KNews News Comments Off on Fish Festival IV ends on a high note

The annual Rockstone Fish Festival, which is now in its fourth year, attracted hundreds of people seeking to access Region Ten’s newest tourism destination to experience unadulterated leisure...

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“One Guyana” is no less a national slogan than “Green Guyana”

Kaieteur News- The notion that “One Guyana” is a partisan slogan is pure poppycock. It is a desperate fiction... more