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$580M road project to finish by year-end

Jun 28, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on $580M road project to finish by year-end

NEW AMSTERDAM, BERBICE – Residents of East Berbice/Corentyne are to derive benefits from a special multi-million road programme funded by the Ministries of Public Works and Finance. Chairman of...

Belvedere Industrial Site fails to attract many businesses

Jun 28, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Belvedere Industrial Site fails to attract many businesses

BELVEDERE VILLAGE, CORENTYNE – So far only ten entities have expressed an interest in establishing businesses at the Belvedere Industrial Site on the Corentyne and these applications date back to...

Teen cancer victim in need of help

Jun 28, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Teen cancer victim in need of help

STANLEYTOWN, NEW AMSTERDAM – Fifteen-year old Trinemcon Tracey Martin of Lot 46 Stanleytown, New Amsterdam has neuroblastoma, a rare cancer of the central nervous system. Her relatives have been...

The critical factors in selecting a leader for a ‘big tent’

Jun 28, 2010 KNews Letters Comments Off on The critical factors in selecting a leader for a ‘big tent’

Dear Editor, There has been a lot of talk, in the SN and Kaieteur News, about who should lead a “big tent” opposition in the 2011 elections and what we have is commentary on what each...

Many drivers are in a hurry on our roads

Jun 28, 2010 KNews Letters Comments Off on Many drivers are in a hurry on our roads

Dear Editor, The ‘fools’ on the roads in Guyana never cease to amaze me. Many motorists have officially turned the roadways in Guyana into designated sport tracks and are engaging daily in their...

Learn the mining laws

Jun 28, 2010 KNews Letters Comments Off on Learn the mining laws

Dear Editor, I wish to take this opportunity to congratulate Mr. M. C. Wilfred on his election as the President of the Guyana Gold, Diamond and Miners Association of Guyana. With the election of a...

The racial divisions of our society are rooted in British colonial rule

Jun 28, 2010 KNews Letters Comments Off on The racial divisions of our society are rooted in British colonial rule

Dear Editor, The issue of racial divisions in our society is the responsibility of all Guyanese (in Guyana and abroad). It is good that the British High Commissioner has flagged up this very crucial...

JUST THE TIP OF THE ICEBERG

Jun 28, 2010 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on JUST THE TIP OF THE ICEBERG

Guyana is too small and too poor a country to defy the United States of America. Therefore, for all the grandstanding that is taking over the US State Department’s Trafficking in Person’s (TIP)...

Who will step forward?

Jun 28, 2010 KNews Letters Comments Off on Who will step forward?

Dear Editor, Politics the world knows is a dirty game. It stokes controversy and conflicts and breeds hate, racism, war and genocide. In every continent of the Globe, whether it’s dictatorship,...

King Kong sent his goons to disrupt the conference

Jun 28, 2010 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on King Kong sent his goons to disrupt the conference

You had to be there to see before your very eyes the tragedy that is a country named Guyana. Unless this country purges itself of the governmental dominance of the PPP, we are going to implode so...

A virulent and poisonous event

Jun 28, 2010 KNews Letters Comments Off on A virulent and poisonous event

Dear Editor, I condemn in maximum force the diabolical third segment of the event I attended on the 26th June 2010 at the National Library organised by the Guyana Institute for Historical Research....

THE GOALIE DID IT

Jun 28, 2010 KNews Features / Columnists, Tony Deyal column Comments Off on THE GOALIE DID IT

Albert Camus, author of L’Étranger (The Stranger) is a French-Algerian novelist who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1957. According to the Telegraph newspaper, “He is now recognised...

Civil Society in Guyana

Jun 28, 2010 KNews Editorial Comments Off on Civil Society in Guyana

Arising in the late seventies, the notion of “civil society” took on a whole new connotation from that of its traditional, historical usage. Classically defined as those institutions...

Boat builder recalls his horrifying two-week ordeal with kidnappers

Jun 27, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Boat builder recalls his horrifying two-week ordeal with kidnappers

“Me beg them, ‘ow buddy, me get family and dey nah know wheh me gone’. Me beggin dem everyday, me praying and begging dem” Imagine being locked away on a trawler with no land in sight...

Festival of the Chariot delights Georgetown

Jun 27, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Festival of the Chariot delights Georgetown

Citizens of Georgetown and those in the city for various activities were treated to a colourful display by the Hare Krishna Movement yesterday. The parade was held under the theme “Parading for...

Unselfishly committed to the needy

Jun 27, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Unselfishly committed to the needy

Jimmy Bhojedat is a ‘Special Person’ “My advice to youths in any depressed situation is to not settle for less and always strive for better, because the opportunities are there to...

13-year-old in Sharma rape case, the only protected witness

Jun 27, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on 13-year-old in Sharma rape case, the only protected witness

…adults were only offered accommodation The mother and sisters of a 13-year-old girl at the centre of the carnal knowledge case involving Chandra Narine Sharma recently recanted their stories in an...

Dem boys seh….Bharrat Kissoon and Freddie Jagdeo

Jun 27, 2010 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Dem boys seh….Bharrat Kissoon and Freddie Jagdeo

Uncle Freddie does eat, sleep and dream Bharrat. Dem boys seh that things reach de stage wheh every time Uncle Freddie open he mouth he got to talk bout Bharrat. And he can’t seh nutten nice bout...

Child abuse higher in Georgetown

Jun 27, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Child abuse higher in Georgetown

Instances of child abuse are more rampant in Georgetown and in the mining town of Linden, the Social Services Statistical Bulletin for 2009 has shown. The Bulletin is produced by the Statistical...

Ex-GDF association commemorates second anniversary

Jun 27, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Ex-GDF association commemorates second anniversary

The Ex-Guyana Defense Force (GDF) Association is completing two years as an organisation. The association in a statement disclosed that its membership has just passed the 800 mark and the growth...

20-yr-old fined for sex with dead

Jun 27, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on 20-yr-old fined for sex with dead

A 20-year-old garbage collector in Berbice has pleaded guilty to performing an indecent act on a dead body after he allegedly exhumed the corpse of an elderly woman and had sex with it. Roopram...

Honey Sehgal – clearing mind and skin

Jun 27, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Honey Sehgal – clearing mind and skin

The Hari Mandir in Amritsar, Punjab, known popularly as the Golden Temple, is the holiest shrine in Sikhism. Although the building itself has great historical and architectural interest, it is the...

Improved attendance, heightened performances highlight fifth ProAm boxing card

Jun 27, 2010 KNews Sports Comments Off on Improved attendance, heightened performances highlight fifth ProAm boxing card

By Michael Benjamin Mandessa Moses thrilled a much-improved crowd with a classical boxing display of two-fisted punching that distinguished her apart from Margaret ‘Chico’ Walcott, earning her a...

Youth Ministry’s camps to commence in July

Jun 27, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Youth Ministry’s camps to commence in July

The Ministry of Culture, Youth and Sport will be hosting its annual summer camps for students for the August holidays. It is scheduled to commence on July 12 and conclude on August 27. The camps will...

The Importance of Play

Jun 27, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on The Importance of Play

By Marijke Huybrechts, Speech & Language Therapist, MoH/VSO If you think back to your childhood, some of your fondest childhood memories may include time spent engaging in play. And those simple...