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Cops detain employee

Dec 21, 2009 KNews News Comments Off on Cops detain employee

Robbery at Sheik Hassan Printery… Police are questioning an 18-year-old employee of Sheik Hassan’s Printery in connection with last Friday’s heist at the Eccles Industrial Site...

Guyana secures CDB financing

Dec 21, 2009 KNews News Comments Off on Guyana secures CDB financing

The Government of Guyana has secured financing from the Caribbean Development Bank (CDB) to assist in implementing the Community Services Enhancement Project, and it intends to apply a part of the...

Controversial lawyers for House today

Dec 21, 2009 KNews News Comments Off on Controversial lawyers for House today

…seems heading for Select Committee The controversial Legal Practitioners (Amendment) Bill is again on the cards for debate in the National Assembly but from all indications it will be sent to a...

Contrasting results on day 4 of 20th Kashif & Shanghai

Dec 21, 2009 KNews Sports Comments Off on Contrasting results on day 4 of 20th Kashif & Shanghai

Carlos Brown leads 10-man Topp XX to grinding win; Alpha pummels Grove Hi Tec 7-1 By Franklin Wilson Seventeen year-old Bakewell Topp XX goalkeeper Carlos Brown was the hero of his side’s...

‘Stealth Bomber’ arrives for ‘Season’s Beatings’ card

Dec 21, 2009 KNews Sports Comments Off on ‘Stealth Bomber’ arrives for ‘Season’s Beatings’ card

Georgetown, GUYANA – Guyana’s first Female World Champion Gwendolyn ‘The Stealth Bomber’ O’Neil arrived over the weekend in keeping with her ring date next Sunday against the spoiler Sharon...

Female footballers rewarded as Goodwill series ends

Dec 21, 2009 KNews Sports Comments Off on Female footballers rewarded as Goodwill series ends

Nikita Persaud is MVP; Ronella Albert best goalie; Ashley Rodrigues highest goal scorer USA-based Nikita Persaud was named the Most Valuable Player of the just concluded International women’s...

Snatchers seize inaugural Rupununi F/Ball League

Dec 21, 2009 KNews Sports Comments Off on Snatchers seize inaugural Rupununi F/Ball League

Beat Shiriri twice in 2-match final A fair sized crowd watched as Snatchers beat Shiriri in both of their home and away final of the inaugural Rupununi Football Association (FA) senior male...

Abigail McDonald finishes year on successful note

Dec 21, 2009 KNews Sports Comments Off on Abigail McDonald finishes year on successful note

Carts off GASP Scrabble Scramble Abigail McDonald recently boasted that following her sojourn to Malaysia to compete in the World Scrabble championships, that she would be a force to be reckoned...

Copenhagen was a bust because the principal players wanted to retain their status quo

Dec 21, 2009 KNews Letters Comments Off on Copenhagen was a bust because the principal players wanted to retain their status quo

Dear Editor, In my November 26 letter, “Copenhagen or bust,” I referenced a Mr. Nigel Lawson, writing in a TimesOnline article on November 23, 2009, with a caption that read,...

It’s absolutely priority for a Freedom of Information Act to be put in place

Dec 21, 2009 KNews Letters Comments Off on It’s absolutely priority for a Freedom of Information Act to be put in place

Dear Editor, Guyana has some very talented journalists without a doubt. The dilemma is that much of the valuable resources seem to be squandered away on never ending battles on competing, overworked...

Khan pleased with TCL Group Windies U-19 side’s preparations

Dec 21, 2009 KNews Sports Comments Off on Khan pleased with TCL Group Windies U-19 side’s preparations

Omar Khan, the TCL Group West Indies under-19 Manager, has stressed the importance of the squad’s one-week training camp ahead of the ICC U-19 Cricket World Cup in New Zealand next month and...

Enough ‘highflying’ language

Dec 21, 2009 KNews Letters Comments Off on Enough ‘highflying’ language

Dear Editor, I am sick with the so called intellectual debate and the use of ‘highflying’ language in dealing with Guyana’s problems. Such academic terms as, “macro economic...

Benn was a true patriot

Dec 21, 2009 KNews Letters Comments Off on Benn was a true patriot

Dear Editor, The recent death of Brindley Benn marks the end of a period of Guyana’s history which was characterized by deep political divisions, ethnic violence and ideological differences which...

The ‘1964 election’ history is damaging to whoever the cap fits

Dec 21, 2009 KNews Letters Comments Off on The ‘1964 election’ history is damaging to whoever the cap fits

Dear Editor, I refer to Mr. Rashleigh Jackson’s letter of December 12, 2009, a response to what I wrote “The 1964 Elections: A Betrayal of trust.” I express no surprise at Mr....

Keep animals off our roadways

Dec 21, 2009 KNews Letters Comments Off on Keep animals off our roadways

Dear Editor, Animals on the roadways cause serious vehicular accidents, damage to properties and vehicles and even cause several deaths each year. Government should imposed tough laws and penalties...

Is this the greatest fraud in human history?

Dec 21, 2009 KNews Letters Comments Off on Is this the greatest fraud in human history?

Dear Editor, So let’s talk a little about the Climate Summit in Denmark which ended last weekend, and which, has many saying that it did not achieve its purpose, just like Kyoto in 1997. First,...

The use of discretion powers in 1964 in Guyana and 2001 in Trinidad and Tobago

Dec 21, 2009 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on The use of discretion powers in 1964 in Guyana and 2001 in Trinidad and Tobago

In 2001, General Elections were held in Trinidad and Tobago, pitting the incumbent Mr. Basdeo Panday of the United National Congress (UNC) against Mr. Patrick Manning of the Peoples National Movement...

The tyranny of elected dictatorship in Guyana

Dec 21, 2009 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on The tyranny of elected dictatorship in Guyana

This is a country populated mostly by people 35 years of age and under. Four years ago, the statistics showed that seventy five percent of the population was 35 years and under. Politically, that is...

HIS MASTER’S VOICE

Dec 21, 2009 KNews Features / Columnists, Tony Deyal column Comments Off on HIS MASTER’S VOICE

My grandfather was a hunter, noted for his one hand and his crack-shot accuracy despite this handicap. The story was that it was the work of a jealous husband armed with a machete who encountered my...

The Right Stuff

Dec 21, 2009 KNews Editorial Comments Off on The Right Stuff

The travails of the sugar industry have brought to the fore a constraint on our quest for development that somehow does not receive the attention that it ought to – the need to develop and retain...

Dem boys seh…Wheh de Christmas party?

Dec 21, 2009 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Dem boys seh…Wheh de Christmas party?

Dem boys looking fuh Christmas parties. Every year dem does ask all dem friends who wukking somewhere if dem workplace got Christmas party. De thing is to go to all of dem and sport because it...

18-year-old’s shooting sparks protest

Dec 20, 2009 KNews News Comments Off on 18-year-old’s shooting sparks protest

…relatives insist he was collecting scrap iron Family members of Hemchand Gopaul, the 18-year-old youth of 3 D Rose Hall Town, Corentyne, Berbice, who was fatally shot by police, and residents from...

One shot dead, another wounded outside Bar

Dec 20, 2009 KNews News Comments Off on One shot dead, another wounded outside Bar

By Latoya Giles Controversy surrounds the shooting to death of 28-year-old Hewley Nicholas Barker, of Norton Street, Lodge. Barker was shot dead early yesterday morning, by an off-duty Assistant...

Dem boys seh…Varshnie married fuh real

Dec 20, 2009 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Dem boys seh…Varshnie married fuh real

Wedding bells ring on London and is now dem boys putting two and two together. Varshnie married again and de man is somebody who use to wuk wid Bharrat as de Aide de Camp. Dem boys seh that when dem...

Is ‘Nasty Man’ cracking? Young offender threatens mayhem

Dec 20, 2009 knews News Comments Off on Is ‘Nasty Man’ cracking? Young offender threatens mayhem

Guyana’s prison system is designed to rehabilitate inmates but the recent utterances of a prisoner send a chilling message of what the system can create. Some people do make it out with a changed...

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The PPPC does not practice political inclusion

…Peeping Tom Kaieteur News- The People’s Progressive Party/Civic (PPPC) has mastered the art of political rhetoric.... more