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Shocking admission of a senior policewoman

May 09, 2010 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on Shocking admission of a senior policewoman

I never called him “Beltman” to his face. But that was my name for him. In all these years that he came up to me and chatted with me, I have never asked him his name. I don’t know his name. ...

Court stops cremation, husband thrashed, rearrested

May 09, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Court stops cremation, husband thrashed, rearrested

…third autopsy ordered By Latoya Giles and Neil Marks High Court Judge, Rishi Persaud, yesterday granted a motion stopping the cremation of Bridgette Gangadeen. He also ordered a third autopsy. The...

Hydroelectric project price questionable

May 09, 2010 KNews News 1

Hydroelectric plants have been in existence for several decades. It has long been recognised that while they are expensive to build the long-term benefits are worth the expenditure. The concept is...

Region Four in crisis as monies withheld – Chairman

May 09, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Region Four in crisis as monies withheld – Chairman

– fuel purchases, school maintenance, drainage works in jeopardy The operations of Region Four (Demerara/Mahaica) is in a crisis situation after millions of dollars, representing budgetary...

MILLIONS paid twice for same contract – source

May 09, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on MILLIONS paid twice for same contract – source

The long-awaited Marriott Hotel continues to be elusive but the money spent by the government to prepare for the investors has raised eyebrows in that there were two payments to two separate...

Fake pandits flee hideouts

May 09, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Fake pandits flee hideouts

– leave acroutrements behind By Leonard Gildarie Several Indian nationals who pretended to be Pandits with mystical power, and who fleeced several Guyanese over the past weeks of millions of...

Dem boys seh….Happy Mother’s Day

May 09, 2010 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Dem boys seh….Happy Mother’s Day

Today is a special day fuh dem mothers. And dem sweet. Dem boys does forget dem whole year but today dem can’t forget dem. Everybody love y’all. I love you too. Dem got other people dem boys...

Dave Martins-Guyanese cultural icon

May 09, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Dave Martins-Guyanese cultural icon

“I preach that all the time, don’t be ashamed of your dialect, it is a powerful (means of) communication…it’s a language, it’s not ignorance.” By Michael Jordan An elephant bowling...

Li’l Champs show now cancelled

May 09, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Li’l Champs show now cancelled

The troupe, including Li’l Champs Hemant, Shreyasi and Yatharth, Afsha Musani, Raja Hassan and musicians coming out of Mumbai India will not be performing at the National Stadium Providence. The...

New public servants not getting $4,000 hardship allowance, GPSU upset

May 09, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on New public servants not getting $4,000 hardship allowance, GPSU upset

New entrants to the public service are not benefiting from the tax free $4,000 hardship allowance the government began paying out at the height of the global financial crisis. This has angered the...

School days are the best but these are the worst

May 09, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on School days are the best but these are the worst

School days are among the best days of one’s life. During my childhood days my parents, but more specifically, my mother spared no effort in reminding me of this fact. The problem, though, is that...

President takes another swipe at Economic Index report

May 09, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on President takes another swipe at Economic Index report

The low ranking which the 2010 Index of Economic Freedom report gave on Guyana again came in for another heavy criticism by President Bharrat Jagdeo, who said that it emanated from, a right-wing and...

Ministry of Health awaits report on maternal death

May 09, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Ministry of Health awaits report on maternal death

Having learnt of the death of Waheeda Basil, of De Willem, West Coast Demerara, who died hours after giving birth to a baby boy on Thursday, Minister of Health, Dr Leslie Ramsammy, in a statement has...

The education system is out of control — Part Two

May 09, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on The education system is out of control — Part Two

What else could be expected? By Clarence Perry The environment in many of our schools was not too far removed from the days of slavery when the whip and harsh punishment prevailed. If you could not...

Man caught in compromising position with boy on seawall

May 09, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Man caught in compromising position with boy on seawall

A man who thought that the Georgetown seawall was the safest place to have sex with a nine-year-old boy, spent a night in the Brickdam Lock-ups, after he was caught by the probing eyes of ranks of a...

Taxation sends local car prices skyrocketing

May 09, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Taxation sends local car prices skyrocketing

It has not always been an easy task for automobile dealers with the conscientious ways of importing cars for the Guyanese market. Import taxes are hugely exorbitant for local auto dealers. Therefore,...

GBTI impromptu competition continues with great excitement

May 09, 2010 knews News Comments Off on GBTI impromptu competition continues with great excitement

Richard Ishmael Secondary School secured a landslide victory last week Tuesday over the Institute of Business Education when the two schools clashed in the Guyana Bank for Trade and Industry (GBTI)...

THAG denies ‘erasing’ President Jagdeo’s message

May 09, 2010 knews News Comments Off on THAG denies ‘erasing’ President Jagdeo’s message

The magazine produced by the Tourism and Hospitality Association of Guyana (THAG) has revamped the pages on which the messages by President Bharrat Jagdeo, Tourism Minister Manniram Prashad, and THAG...

IT’S DO OR DIE AT KENSINGTON OVAL TODAY

May 09, 2010 KNews Sports Comments Off on IT’S DO OR DIE AT KENSINGTON OVAL TODAY

Windies must beat India to stay in title hunt By Sean Devers in Barbados In association with Carib Beer & Leisure Inn After being trashed in their opening Super Eight games here on Friday,...

KKR school show a mega hit for Guyanese artistes

May 09, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on KKR school show a mega hit for Guyanese artistes

Event outgrows National Sports Hall The Cliff Anderson Sports Hall is a spacious venue but judging from the turn out of the nation’s youth yesterday, it might not be the first choice next year for...

Rosignol Post Office needs maintenance

May 09, 2010 knews Letters Comments Off on Rosignol Post Office needs maintenance

Dear Editor, I am a resident of Rosignol Village, West Bank, Berbice; I am concerned about the post office in Rosignol. For the past years the Rosignol Post Office is in a state which is not pleasing...

No offence was meant to the true and sincere pandits

May 09, 2010 knews Letters Comments Off on No offence was meant to the true and sincere pandits

Dear Editor, Mr. Mahadeo Panchu was filled with emotionalism on reading my letter, perhaps because he is a Hindu, and so missed the point I was making about pandit and bandit. For his information the...

TRANSPARENCY AND ACCOUNTABILITY: The Jagdeo Administration must submit hydro proposals to Parliament

May 09, 2010 KNews APNU Column, Features / Columnists Comments Off on TRANSPARENCY AND ACCOUNTABILITY: The Jagdeo Administration must submit hydro proposals to Parliament

The lack of transparency and accountability of the Jagdeo Administration is once again illustrated by the mystery surrounding the granting of the US$15.4 M contract, to Synergy Holdings (a company...

Inconclusive elections: British Guiana 1964 and Great Britain 2010

May 09, 2010 knews Letters Comments Off on Inconclusive elections: British Guiana 1964 and Great Britain 2010

Dear Editor, The current British election results poignantly make the point that with a hung Parliament, the Prime Minister remains as Prime Minister until there is resolution to the...

Sangeeta Persaud, Swami Aksharananda and a dark, deep, fathomless hypocrisy!

May 09, 2010 knews Letters Comments Off on Sangeeta Persaud, Swami Aksharananda and a dark, deep, fathomless hypocrisy!

Dear Editor, I refer to the letter by Swami Aksharanda, captioned, “Many questions remain unanswered regarding Sangeeta Persaud’s death” (SN May 7, 2010) and would appreciate the opportunity to...