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Wrangling over legal technicalities

Feb 21, 2010 knews Letters Comments Off on Wrangling over legal technicalities

Dear Editor, The U.S. Government had requested the arrest and extradition of Barry Dataram about a year ago. At the time the Guyana and U.S. governments did not have extradition treaties and enabling...

Letter to the Sports Editor Germany’s TTL Bombery first European Pro Team to visit Guyana 1992

Feb 21, 2010 KNews Sports Comments Off on Letter to the Sports Editor Germany’s TTL Bombery first European Pro Team to visit Guyana 1992

Dear Editor, Guyana playing without experienced quartet of Auric Tappin, Leon Christian, Mark Agard and Robert Byass, were no match for Germany’s TTL Bombery, the first European Professional team...

We need to bring back greater accountability in the budget system

Feb 21, 2010 knews Letters Comments Off on We need to bring back greater accountability in the budget system

Dear Editor, As the Budget debate unfolds and the opportunity for the small man evaporates, we must seriously contemplate what we want as a future for the Guyanese people. Why in a year with such a...

The Jagdeo factor in a volatile global financial system

Feb 21, 2010 knews Letters Comments Off on The Jagdeo factor in a volatile global financial system

Dear Editor, All is not well on the world’s economic front. Economic and financial crises in the U.S. continue to carry global consequences. Guyana, nonetheless, remains largely unscathed, due to...

USA-based Mark Lee injects $150,000 towards cause

Feb 21, 2010 KNews Sports Comments Off on USA-based Mark Lee injects $150,000 towards cause

USA based Guyanese Mark Lee, a long time friend and supporter of the Kashif & Shanghai Organisation has stepped up to throw in his lot to the Haiti Football Federation (HFF) fund raising double...

Time to arrest violence in schools

Feb 21, 2010 knews Letters Comments Off on Time to arrest violence in schools

Dear Editor, It is with much concern that I observe the recent upsurge of violence being committed by students on their colleagues within the confines of our city’s schools. This ugly phenomenon,...

Censor Violent Music

Feb 21, 2010 knews Editorial Comments Off on Censor Violent Music

The debate on violence in our schools and among our youths in general continues to swirl in our midst. As we pointed out in our editorial “Violence in Schools”, there is no monocausal explanation...

Fans treated to action packed bouts at Harpy Eagle’s boxing card

Feb 21, 2010 KNews Sports Comments Off on Fans treated to action packed bouts at Harpy Eagle’s boxing card

By Michael Benjamin Devon Boatswain of the Guyana Defence Force and Stephon Gouveia of the Harpy Eagles turned in impressive performances to win their respective fights and eventually earned the best...

Literature and Society

Feb 21, 2010 knews Features / Columnists, Guyanese Literature Comments Off on Literature and Society

By Petamber Persaud It piques me how little appreciation we show towards the literature of our country especially when it is the only aspect of our life that embodies the whole of our collective...

Harpy Eagles Boxing Gym re-commissioned after renovation works

Feb 21, 2010 KNews Sports Comments Off on Harpy Eagles Boxing Gym re-commissioned after renovation works

Boxers of the Harpy Eagles Boxing Gym (HEBG) would resume training at a spanking new facility following the formal re-opening of the Albouystown based gym yesterday morning. The gym had undergone a...

Entries for Kennard’s Memorial Turf Club Phagwah race meet close Feb. 27

Feb 21, 2010 KNews Sports Comments Off on Entries for Kennard’s Memorial Turf Club Phagwah race meet close Feb. 27

Entries for the Kennard’s Memorial Turf Club Phagwah race meet at its Bush Lot Farm Corentyne headquarters, on Sunday March 7 will close next Saturday, February 27. The nation’s top horses, as...

France in Haiti: A fresh start by Sarkozy?

Feb 21, 2010 knews Features / Columnists, Ronald Sanders Comments Off on France in Haiti: A fresh start by Sarkozy?

By Sir Ronald Sanders At last a French President visited Haiti – a country that contributed greatly to France’s accumulation of wealth in the 18th Century and which France impoverished for a...

Diamond Secondary win title

Feb 21, 2010 KNews Sports Comments Off on Diamond Secondary win title

Diamond Secondary School are the winners of the AL Sport & Tour Promotions sponsored Inter-School Windball Cricket Tournament after they defeated debutant Supply in the final by 26 runs last...

INTRA-CARIBBEAN MIGRATION AND CULTURAL DIFFERENCES

Feb 21, 2010 knews Features / Columnists, The Arts Forum Comments Off on INTRA-CARIBBEAN MIGRATION AND CULTURAL DIFFERENCES

BOOK REVIEW By Emeritus Professor Frank Birbalsingh Clive Sankardayal, The Brown Curtains, New York, Jako Books, 2007, pp.288. Although the action in Clive Sankardayal’s The Brown Curtains is...

Mings Products & Services Ltd does it again

Feb 21, 2010 KNews Sports Comments Off on Mings Products & Services Ltd does it again

– Sponsors tournament for players over 30 years In what was another clear demonstration of its commitment to sports, Mings Products & Services Ltd Administrative Assistant Sherry Mars,...

The Spectacled Caiman (Caiman crocodilus)

Feb 21, 2010 knews Features / Columnists, Interesting Creatures in Guyana Comments Off on The Spectacled Caiman (Caiman crocodilus)

The Spectacled Caiman (Caiman crocodilus) is a crocodilian reptile found in much of Central and South America. It lives in a range of lowland wetland and riverine habitat types and can tolerate salt...

Records tumble on day 1 & 2 of GASA Mash Meet

Feb 21, 2010 KNews Sports Comments Off on Records tumble on day 1 & 2 of GASA Mash Meet

Female swimmers display pristine form; van Lange & Stephenson set the pace By Franklin Wilson A total of 11 records have been shattered in two days and a number of others are in jeopardy going...

The budget and debates have become a sham

Feb 21, 2010 knews AFC Column, Features / Columnists Comments Off on The budget and debates have become a sham

The days when the government’s annual budget presentation to the National Assembly would cause high expectation are gone. The people’s eyes have been opened to the sham that the annual budget and...

Tiger Woods has my sympathy

Feb 21, 2010 knews Features / Columnists, My Column Comments Off on Tiger Woods has my sympathy

The past few days were mindboggling. I had to sit and hear about a man who seems to have a hearty sex appetite and who wants help to curb it. He wants this help so bad that he is going to therapy....

THE 2010 BUDGET: LONG ON WORDS; SHORT ON VISION

Feb 21, 2010 KNews APNU Column, Features / Columnists Comments Off on THE 2010 BUDGET: LONG ON WORDS; SHORT ON VISION

Minister of Finance, Dr. Ashni Singh, presented his 2010 Budget to the National Assembly on Monday, February 11, 2010, with his predictable boast of it being the largest in Guyana’s history....

All set for Rising Sun Race Meet today

Feb 21, 2010 KNews Sports Comments Off on All set for Rising Sun Race Meet today

A lot of excitement is anticipated today when the Rising Sun Turf Club stages its grand annual one day horserace meet, at the club’s track on the West Coast of Berbice. A massive $3million in cash...

Sorry to disappoint you on this one

Feb 21, 2010 knews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on Sorry to disappoint you on this one

I have extremely liberal views, so extensive that I can easily be classified as an unrealistic person. But I take my values seriously. I believe in these conceptualizations sincerely and I cling to...

The Baccoo speaks

Feb 21, 2010 knews Features / Columnists, The Baccoo Speaks Comments Off on The Baccoo speaks

There is going to be a scathing criticism of a public institution over a death. As has become the norm, there are going to be accusations of neglect and poor medical procedures. One of the charges is...

GAPF Novices set for next Sunday at Saint Stanislaus College

Feb 21, 2010 KNews Sports Comments Off on GAPF Novices set for next Sunday at Saint Stanislaus College

What is expected to be the most hectic year in the history of Powerlifting in Guyana will get cracking next Sunday when the Guyana Amateur Powerlifting Federation (GAPF) brings off their Novices...

Marginalisation of identity

Feb 21, 2010 knews Features / Columnists, Ravi Dev Comments Off on Marginalisation of identity

(The following concludes the discussion on marginalisation originally published in 2008) Last week we posited that the discourse and institutionalisation of “race and racism” was an integral part...

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