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Public consultation means engaging all sides in frank and open discussion

Nov 09, 2009 KNews Letters Comments Off on Public consultation means engaging all sides in frank and open discussion

Dear Editor, Over the weekend the Obama administration scored a major political victory when their Health Care Insurance Bill was passed by the House of Representatives. After scores of meetings,...

Visa issuance and cancellation

Nov 09, 2009 KNews Letters Comments Off on Visa issuance and cancellation

Dear Editor, I wish to bring to the attention of the general public and especially those in government and the Joint Services about certain conditions for the issuance and cancellation of visas for...

LISTEN TO THE PEOPLE!

Nov 09, 2009 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on LISTEN TO THE PEOPLE!

The President of Guyana must understand that however much he chooses to believe who like to tell him what he wants to hear, it is often better to find out the truth even if this comes from a source...

All Guyanese must strongly condemn acts of brutality

Nov 09, 2009 KNews Letters Comments Off on All Guyanese must strongly condemn acts of brutality

Dear Editor, It is with dismay I saw on the front pages of the Kaieteur news dated 31, October, 2009 the badly burnt and incapacitated body of a young man alleged to be a suspect in a current murder...

We need Freddie’s pen and would be poorer if not

Nov 09, 2009 KNews Letters Comments Off on We need Freddie’s pen and would be poorer if not

Dear Editor, I once said that young people should take a page from Frederick Kissoon’s book, especially young journalists. If nothing else, they should emulate his bold and fearless stand in...

Guyana: Descent into state terrorism

Nov 09, 2009 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on Guyana: Descent into state terrorism

There can be no doubt about it; the PPP had lost rationality and a creeping nihilism is taking over that party and the government it leads. There are all types of authoritarian systems in the world...

A PARLIAMENT FULL OF SHEETS

Nov 09, 2009 KNews Features / Columnists, Tony Deyal column Comments Off on A PARLIAMENT FULL OF SHEETS

Parliamentarians throughout the world are often chided for exhibiting, while at their appointed or elected task, a childish obsession with the trivial and sexual. However, they reached their nadir...

We have lost all that was good about radio quite some time ago

Nov 09, 2009 KNews Letters Comments Off on We have lost all that was good about radio quite some time ago

Dear Editor, Recently I was engaged with an interview with someone with great knowledge, insight, passion and love for radio in Guyana. Maybe our exchange of views and ideas may be of benefit to your...

WTO and Doha

Nov 09, 2009 KNews Editorial Comments Off on WTO and Doha

As we ponder the now all-but-dashed hopes that the December Copenhagen meeting on Climate Change will lead to a new Protocol, we should spare a thought for the status of the WTO’s Doha Round. A new...

Guyana/US graduate disappears

Nov 08, 2009 KNews News Comments Off on Guyana/US graduate disappears

…in raging Kaieteur Falls “I’m waiting for my husband to bring her home when he comes” – Mother By Mondale Smith A visitor to Kaieteur Falls said that she saw Aliya Bulkan,...

GAWU clashes with NCN over non-airing of interview

Nov 08, 2009 knews News Comments Off on GAWU clashes with NCN over non-airing of interview

…forced to buy time on CNS 6, Little Rock The Guyana Agricultural and General Workers’ Union (GAWU) is complaining that the state-owned, National Communications Network (NCN) is refusing to air a...

Leonora woman electrocuted

Nov 08, 2009 KNews News Comments Off on Leonora woman electrocuted

A fatal error on the part of a young boy may have resulted in the death of 59-year-old Sarjudai Persaud, of 9 Leonora Junior Staff Compound, West Coast Demerara. Persaud, according to reports was...

SUV driver trapped as vehicle plunges into canal

Nov 08, 2009 KNews News Comments Off on SUV driver trapped as vehicle plunges into canal

About 21:45hrs a man plunged into the Church and Cummings Street canal and saved an unidentified man who was trapped in his green Toyota jeep GGG4045. The man had been knocked unconscious. Moments...

Differently able, but certainly not without vision

Nov 08, 2009 KNews News Comments Off on Differently able, but certainly not without vision

Julie Lewis is a ‘Special Person’ “I was better at answering questions off the bat, rather than writing them down. I guess you could say I was bright. Something was wrong with my eyes,...

Elderly home gets endowment

Nov 08, 2009 KNews News Comments Off on Elderly home gets endowment

The Guyana Palms was recently endowed with a quantity of medical supplies valued at $500,000, complements of Publisher of the National Media and Publishing Company, Mr Glenn Lall. The donation came...

Minimal success recorded in fight against suicides in Guyana

Nov 08, 2009 KNews News Comments Off on Minimal success recorded in fight against suicides in Guyana

The suicide success rate in Guyana is fortunately minimal, given that of the more than 500 attempts made yearly the death toll average is close to 200, according to the Health Ministry. Minister of...

UGSS election marred with racial overtones

Nov 08, 2009 KNews News Comments Off on UGSS election marred with racial overtones

…as the Revolutionaries Party edged to victory by 15 votes The University of Guyana’s Student Society (UGSS) yesterday completed elections for the new student body and the Revolutionaries party...

A tribute to 1763

Nov 08, 2009 knews News Comments Off on A tribute to 1763

Govt. must respect judicial orders

Nov 08, 2009 knews News Comments Off on Govt. must respect judicial orders

Government Member of Parliament, Anil Nandlall, during a recent press briefing under the auspices of the Guyana Bar Association said that what is needed in Guyana is a Constitutional Court. He...

Charges being prepared for Benschop – NFMU Head

Nov 08, 2009 knews News Comments Off on Charges being prepared for Benschop – NFMU Head

Some one week after Head of the National Frequency Management Unit, Valmiki Singh, seized a piece of electronic equipment from Mark Benschop’s South Ruimveldt home charges are still being prepared....

Drop-In Centre gets books from Interact Clubs

Nov 08, 2009 knews News Comments Off on Drop-In Centre gets books from Interact Clubs

Children of the Drop-In Centre received several boxes of books yesterday, thanks to the initiative of a number of Interact Clubs of top Georgetown schools. Receiving the donation, on behalf of the...

Man dies after losing control of car

Nov 08, 2009 knews News Comments Off on Man dies after losing control of car

A father of five died in another road accident after returning from relatives early yesterday morning. Clarence Perry, 40, of 241 BB Eccles East Bank Demerara died after he lost control of his car...

Man stabbed

Nov 08, 2009 knews News Comments Off on Man stabbed

Thirty-year-old Linden Green was yesterday afternoon rushed to the Georgetown Public Hospital after he was stabbed twice in the region of his chest, by a known assailant. Reports reaching this...

Ministry of Education forcefully takes over facility

Nov 08, 2009 knews News Comments Off on Ministry of Education forcefully takes over facility

The Ministry of Education has made good on its promise to forcefully take possession of a plot of land that houses the Guyana Softball Association on Carifesta Avenue. Yesterday, a number of Ministry...

Gang leaves teenager seriously ill

Nov 08, 2009 knews News Comments Off on Gang leaves teenager seriously ill

Munesh Ramsaroop, 18, who was severely beaten by known men, on Thursday night last, at his aunt’s residence in Mainstay, on the Essequibo Coast, has been admitted a patient at the Suddie Public...

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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