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Chato’s land, the tragic land, and the killing fields 44 years after

May 26, 2010 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on Chato’s land, the tragic land, and the killing fields 44 years after

We have achieved 44 years of Independence and if you want to see the state of the nation, then take a bus or plane to the interior and lime in Chato’s land. Chato’s land is the rich interior of...

Blind Society calls for improved educational equipment in schools

May 26, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Blind Society calls for improved educational equipment in schools

Yesterday a number of visually impaired persons from around Guyana gathered at the Cheddi Jagan Research Centre where discussions were held on making their lives a little easier in their various...

Unlicensed driver in bizarre road death charged

May 26, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Unlicensed driver in bizarre road death charged

Police have charged an unlicensed driver who was allegedly involved in last week’s bizarre fatal accident in Diamond Housing Scheme. But they are still trying to ascertain whether he actually...

Corbin suspends errant party member

May 26, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Corbin suspends errant party member

…matter reported to the police, criminal action to be pursued – PNCR Sherwin Benjamin, the Guyana Youth and Student Movement (GYSM) member who assaulted an elderly woman at the People’s...

Berbice River drug duo jailed for three years each

May 26, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Berbice River drug duo jailed for three years each

Two West Berbice men, who were caught with a quantity of drugs back in 2008 up the Berbice River, were each found guilty of possession of narcotics for the purpose of trafficking and sentenced to...

Mason granted $150,000 bail on bodily harm charge

May 26, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Mason granted $150,000 bail on bodily harm charge

Twenty-five year-old Alfred Bradshaw of Princes Street, Lodge, was yesterday placed on $150,000 bail when he appeared before Acting Chief Magistrate Melissa Robertson. It was alleged that Bradshaw,...

There is potential for disputes between indigenous communities and the State

May 26, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on There is potential for disputes between indigenous communities and the State

– World Bank official Land policy-making and land governance, particularly as it relates to REDD preparation is not yet an integrated function of the Guyana government. This is according to...

After 28 years, Cuyuni farmer still awaits lease

May 26, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on After 28 years, Cuyuni farmer still awaits lease

– pickets Lands and Surveys A Cuyuni farmer, who has been waiting 28 years for lease to his farmlands in the Cuyuni area, would be satisfied for now, if he can just get a document to stipulate...

Police refute boat purchase article

May 26, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Police refute boat purchase article

The Guyana Police Force has refuted reports that it has purchased a $19M twin-engine boat which has never worked. The report in last Thursday’s Kaieteur News alleged that the vessel, which was...

Kenya’s unforgiving road to independence

May 26, 2010 KNews Letters Comments Off on Kenya’s unforgiving road to independence

Dear Editor, In the last century, there were many just wars for freedom, and one cannot help but recognise Viet Nam, Algeria, Afghanistan but to mention a few. Many people may not know about the...

Guyana’s Honorary Consul to B’dos Norman Faria is dead

May 26, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Guyana’s Honorary Consul to B’dos Norman Faria is dead

Norman Faria, Guyana’s Honorary Consul to Barbados, passed away on Monday in a hospital in Barbados. Faria who had been admitted to the hospital during the course of a brief illness leaves his...

NDIA ‘not taking over koker management’

May 26, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on NDIA ‘not taking over koker management’

Minister of Agriculture, Robert Persaud has said that, “the NDIA is not taking over regional management of kokers, they are just supporting management for now.” Less than two weeks after the...

Only in Guyana!

May 26, 2010 KNews Letters Comments Off on Only in Guyana!

Dear Editor, Sorry to see you have become the victim of this vile, inhuman form of attack. I have heard that when in the vicinity of primates such as apes and gorillas you should watch out for this...

Appalled by what happened to Mr. Kissoon

May 26, 2010 KNews Letters Comments Off on Appalled by what happened to Mr. Kissoon

Dear Editor, I write to register my utter disgust and condemnation regarding what happened to Mr. Frederick Kissoon as reported in yesterday’s Kaieteur News (25-05-10). The people who did this are...

Miner was clubbed to death in hammock

May 26, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Miner was clubbed to death in hammock

– Commander lauds residents for arrest Dalton Prince, the miner who was slain at Ikawan, Cuyuni on Sunday, was clubbed to death as he slept in a hammock, police said yesterday. The motive...

We have degenerated into bestiality, madness

May 26, 2010 KNews Letters Comments Off on We have degenerated into bestiality, madness

Dear Editor, There are many things that Freddie Kissoon wrote I don’t agree with, and he isn’t someone I will choose as one of my friends. But if we are going to talk about democracy,...

DPP restricted from penning letter to the press

May 26, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on DPP restricted from penning letter to the press

… Judges to make ruling next week Within a matter of days the judges in the cocaine in pinksuit case High Court matter will make their ruling on the matter involving the Director of Public...

We deserve better leaders

May 26, 2010 KNews Letters Comments Off on We deserve better leaders

Dear Editor, As I gazed at a video of oil spewing into the Gulf of Mexico from a ruptured British Petroleum oil well, all I could think is, “what a mess!” My heart wrenched when considering the...

A lesson for the criminal minds

May 26, 2010 KNews Letters Comments Off on A lesson for the criminal minds

Dear Editor, I know it was with a heavy heart that Jamaican Prime Minister Mr. Bruce Golding rescinded his earlier decision to delay or avoid the extradition of Christopher ‘Dudus’ Coke, the...

Stopping the ‘brain drain’ – UG intends to do its part

May 26, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Stopping the ‘brain drain’ – UG intends to do its part

A plug for the country’s brain drain may perhaps be in its formative stages as the University of Guyana steps up to the bat under Vice Chancellor, Professor Lawrence Carrington. The question of...

It is time we resist voting on racial grounds

May 26, 2010 KNews Letters Comments Off on It is time we resist voting on racial grounds

Dear Editor, I refer to an article in your daily newspaper on 13th May, 2010 under the headlined ‘Guyanese voters must judge their ruling politicians harshly’ written by University of Guyana...

Though politically independent, we are growing economically dependent on foreign help

May 26, 2010 KNews Letters Comments Off on Though politically independent, we are growing economically dependent on foreign help

Dear Editor, Perhaps there is precious less to actually celebrate, so let me say that as we observe the arrival of the day Guyana attained political independence from Britain 44 years ago, it is...

Fecal matter thrown in Freddie Kissoon’s face

May 25, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Fecal matter thrown in Freddie Kissoon’s face

… NCN claims to know attacker Kaieteur News columnist Frederick Kissoon has vowed that he will not be silenced by the attack on his person last night when a man threw fecal matters into his face....

President Jagdeo signs Sexual Offences Bill into law

May 25, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on President Jagdeo signs Sexual Offences Bill into law

President Bharrat Jagdeo yesterday assented to the Sexual Offences Bill 2010 at a special ceremony at the Police Officers’ Mess Annex. The public assenting to the Bill was attended by several...

Front page comment… WE STAND BY FREDDIE!

May 25, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Front page comment… WE STAND BY FREDDIE!

Kaieteur News vehemently condemns the odious attack that occurred last night on our daily columnist, Mr. Frederick Kissoon. Faecal matter was thrown into Kissoon’s face as he left a popular...

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The burden of proof rests on the asserting party

Peeping Tom… Kaieteur News- In recent days there have been serious assertions made and associations implied without... more