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Man remanded for wounding mother

Apr 07, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Man remanded for wounding mother

A man who allegedly slashed his mother in the face with a broken bottle was yesterday remanded to prison by Acting Chief Magistrate Melissa Robertson at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court. Paul...

GFF supports Upper Demerara Football Association with gear

Apr 07, 2010 KNews Sports Comments Off on GFF supports Upper Demerara Football Association with gear

The executives of the interim body of the Upper Demerara Football Association (UDFA) yesterday afternoon received several pieces of football equipment to assist in football development in Region Ten....

Mahaica Pastor further remanded

Apr 07, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Mahaica Pastor further remanded

Pastor Shawn Maison was further remanded to prison yesterday, this time by Magistrate Haymant Ramdhani at the Mahaica Magistrate’s Court. This was the second time Maison had appeared before a...

Taxi service owner vouches for his drivers

Apr 07, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Taxi service owner vouches for his drivers

The owner of Oasis Taxi Service, Emsley Baptiste is assuring the general public that all of his drivers are of proper character. Baptiste made the comment after one of his driver’s was arrested in...

Motor vehicle licences go on sale

Apr 07, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Motor vehicle licences go on sale

Motor vehicle licences went on sale as of yesterday and the Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) says that persons in outlying districts can purchase these at the offices closest to them. GRA, in a...

Wife beater goes to jail for two months

Apr 07, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Wife beater goes to jail for two months

A man who was found in breach of two counts of using threatening language to his wife, assault, and damage to property, was jailed for two months on the assault charges, yesterday and placed on...

Labour Ministry seeks to vivify Occupational Safety and Health Act

Apr 07, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Labour Ministry seeks to vivify Occupational Safety and Health Act

Accidents do happen and one of the immutable laws of nature is that things will go wrong regardless of efforts to the contrary. Governments around the world have recognized that one of the ways they...

City budget is an essay of hope – Mayor Green

Apr 07, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on City budget is an essay of hope – Mayor Green

The capital city’s ‘essay of hope’ has been read with an impressive increase of 50 percent; up from $2.2B to $3.5B, but the rhetoric and clichés of deficiencies remain “material, manpower...

Bulkan and the APA are looking for chinks in the armour of the LCDS

Apr 07, 2010 KNews Letters Comments Off on Bulkan and the APA are looking for chinks in the armour of the LCDS

Dear Editor, I am astonished at the almost perverse delight which Ms. Janette Bulkan and her associates seem to have in trying to bring down the Low Carbon Development Strategy (LCDS). In her latest...

Time the Pope and his advisors look at the question of celibacy

Apr 07, 2010 KNews Letters Comments Off on Time the Pope and his advisors look at the question of celibacy

Dear Editor, I have been following with interest the controversy over allegations of child abuse by certain members of the Catholic hierarchy. The Pope himself has come under pressure for not doing...

Drunken row ends in chopping

Apr 07, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Drunken row ends in chopping

A North West District man is living proof of the dangers of alcohol. Speaking from his hospital bed with vague recollection of how he almost lost his life, 19-year-old Roy Samuels, who was chopped...

To suggest that the general orientation of universal secondary education neglect poor learners is wrong

Apr 07, 2010 KNews Letters Comments Off on To suggest that the general orientation of universal secondary education neglect poor learners is wrong

Dear Editor, There is little doubt that one of the major problems that have faced Guyana over the past decades has been the enormous waste of human resources that results from our education system...

These reports serve to give recognition to some concerns

Apr 07, 2010 KNews Letters Comments Off on These reports serve to give recognition to some concerns

Dear Editor, I was reassured recently when it was reported that President Jagdeo said that there was no evidence of fraud in the CLICO meltdown; and secondly when I read that the Guyana Chapter of...

Several projects underway, DDL not impacted much – Yesu Persaud

Apr 07, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Several projects underway, DDL not impacted much – Yesu Persaud

As several Caribbean countries scramble to deal with Europe’s announcement that it has closed a special fund earmarked for development of rum producers of the African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP)...

Goats bite, don’t they?

Apr 07, 2010 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on Goats bite, don’t they?

Do you realize that if the PPP wins the 2011 national elections, by the time the 2016 elections come around you would have had the PPP in power for 24 years. That would be the longest reigning...

The excuse of maintenance works is really laughable

Apr 07, 2010 KNews Letters Comments Off on The excuse of maintenance works is really laughable

Dear Editor, It is with a clear conscience and without any reservations that mention must be made about the apparent madness that currently consumes the operations of the Guyana Power & Light...

The notion of the ‘East Indian Mind’ is backward

Apr 07, 2010 KNews Letters Comments Off on The notion of the ‘East Indian Mind’ is backward

Dear Editor, By now most readers would have encountered a notion called the ‘East Indian Mind’ in a Kaieteur News column. I am shocked that in 2010 that anyone, literally anyone, would have the...

NOT WITHIN OUR TRADITION

Apr 07, 2010 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on NOT WITHIN OUR TRADITION

The Alliance For Change (AFC) at a recent sitting of the National Assembly moved to have the tabling of a Bill it had prepared deferred, since the government was not ready to proceed. If the AFC is...

Beyond identity politics

Apr 07, 2010 KNews Editorial Comments Off on Beyond identity politics

The following is excerpted from a rumination of the African-American intellectual Glenn Loury on the constraints of identity politics. “We are all familiar with what I’ll call the “identity”...

The Sangeeta Persaud tragedy

Apr 07, 2010 KNews Letters Comments Off on The Sangeeta Persaud tragedy

Dear Editor, The letter from Prem Misir dated April 4, 2010, relating to Sangeeta Persaud has prompted me to respond to this shocking tragedy. Although what Prem Misir said is true and meaningful, I...

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The Opposition is engaged in self-sabotage

Peeping Tom… Kaieteur News- You know, I never thought I’d see the day when elections in Guyana would become something... more