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“Cutting Styles” emerges from unlikely partnership

Jun 27, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on “Cutting Styles” emerges from unlikely partnership

The Ministry of Agriculture via the New Guyana Marketing Corporation will partner with Guyana Fashion Weekend today for an event which promises to showcase Guyana’s talent in the culinary arts,...

Bess becomes 2nd Berbician Test pacer, but Windies’ struggles continue

Jun 27, 2010 KNews Sports Comments Off on Bess becomes 2nd Berbician Test pacer, but Windies’ struggles continue

By Sean Devers In association with Caribbean Airlines South Africa were 46-2 replying to West Indies’ 231 after the opening day of the 3rd Digicel Test at the Kensington Oval here yesterday on...

Cops fail to find ‘Blacka’

Jun 27, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Cops fail to find ‘Blacka’

Despite intensive searches yesterday, ranks from Georgetown and Mahdia have failed to find the surviving gunman from last Monday’s Mowasi Landing shootout that left two people dead. The slain...

ACP-EU sign Second Revised Cotonou Agreement

Jun 27, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on ACP-EU sign Second Revised Cotonou Agreement

After more than a year of negotiations with the European Union, the African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) Group and the EU this week signed the second five-yearly review of the Cotonou Agreement in...

More cocaine intercepted at GPOC

Jun 27, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on More cocaine intercepted at GPOC

Despite the stringent measures in place, persons in the narcotic trade seem hell bent on trying to smuggle the illegal substance out of the country. On Friday, another person was caught at the...

The Crisis of Management in our Sugar Industry

Jun 27, 2010 knews News Comments Off on The Crisis of Management in our Sugar Industry

By R. O. Bostwick The Sugar Industry has always been of supreme importance to our national economy in many respects. Inter alia, it is the largest foreign exchange earner and the most significant...

Character assassination and the Internet

Jun 27, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Character assassination and the Internet

This week, I want to touch on a topic that I believe not only has relevance right now but is going to receive far greater focus in the upcoming months, in the lead up to the general elections to be...

Guyana Cultural Association calls for award nominations

Jun 27, 2010 knews News Comments Off on Guyana Cultural Association calls for award nominations

This year the Guyana Cultural association is attempting to honour a new cross section of Guyanese Society during its annual award exercise. Organisers of the event which forms a part of the Guyana...

Business Coalition on HIV/AIDs hands out awards

Jun 27, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Business Coalition on HIV/AIDs hands out awards

The Guyana Business Coalition on HIV/AIDS, Friday evening handed out awards to several companies for their outstanding work in seeking to eliminate HIV/AIDS and the stigma and discrimination against...

Patentia Secondary Head Teacher’s home broken into

Jun 27, 2010 knews News Comments Off on Patentia Secondary Head Teacher’s home broken into

No matter what comes her way, Gloria Gobin, the Head Teacher of Patentia Secondary School said she will not give up on her 31 years of teaching service. Ever since the shooting to death of one of her...

Historical body reviews history, politics, environment

Jun 27, 2010 knews News Comments Off on Historical body reviews history, politics, environment

History and the Environment was the theme yesterday as the Guyana Institute of Historical Research staged its third annual conference. Held at the National Library Conference Room, the four panel...

Scrap metal association not “scrapped”- founder says

Jun 27, 2010 knews News Comments Off on Scrap metal association not “scrapped”- founder says

A scrap metal dealer has denied that an association he helped to establish has been “scrapped”. As a matter of fact, says Percy Cole, former President of the Guyana Scrap Iron and Metal Dealers...

OUT OF CONTROL? WHAT ELSE COULD BE EXPECTED? (Part 7)

Jun 27, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on OUT OF CONTROL? WHAT ELSE COULD BE EXPECTED? (Part 7)

By Clarence O. Perry Used correctly, education will build for us a prosperous and democratic Guyanese nation. Used wrongly, it will continue to destroy us. There is so much more that can be...

Lindeners fed up with empty promises – says PNCR MP

Jun 27, 2010 knews News Comments Off on Lindeners fed up with empty promises – says PNCR MP

People’s National Congress Reform (PNCR) Parliamentarian, Africo Selman, during the party’s recent press briefing, said that the people of Linden are fed up with the empty promises made by the...

Massive shake-up mooted for City Hall hierarchy

Jun 27, 2010 knews News Comments Off on Massive shake-up mooted for City Hall hierarchy

– Move stems from disputed China trip A massive shake up may be imminent within the hierarchy of City Hall, a move that could materialise with a motion to have both Mayor Hamilton Green and...

Leadership for today

Jun 27, 2010 knews Editorial Comments Off on Leadership for today

The need for leadership is perennial. Man, after all, is a social animal and by definition we must function in groups and institutions – especially in our modern, complex societies. Groups and...

Sheila Holder asked to apologise

Jun 27, 2010 knews Letters Comments Off on Sheila Holder asked to apologise

Dear Editor, I again call on Alliance For Change (AFC) Member of Parliament, Sheila Holder to issue an apology for making false, outlandish, and inflammatory claims in an article published on the AFC...

PPP/C IN PANIC MODE: signs of the end of the dictatorship

Jun 27, 2010 KNews APNU Column, Features / Columnists Comments Off on PPP/C IN PANIC MODE: signs of the end of the dictatorship

The PPP/C regime appears to have driven itself into frenzy over recent events in the CARICOM countries of Trinidad and Tobago and Suriname to the extent that their paranoia has led to fright over...

Preparing for the rainy season

Jun 27, 2010 knews Letters Comments Off on Preparing for the rainy season

Dear Editor, The rainy season is here once again and I was very glad to see that there hasn’t been any report of excessive flooding around the country. As many may have noticed, many canals (both...

Questions in publishing Cadres poll

Jun 27, 2010 knews Letters Comments Off on Questions in publishing Cadres poll

Dear Editor, I notice that Freddie Kissoon (in several columns in Kaieteur News) and his acolytes (in several letters in SN and Kaieteur News) are touting the findings of the Cadres poll which showed...

Falling standards in our education system

Jun 27, 2010 knews Letters Comments Off on Falling standards in our education system

Dear Editor, I wish to congratulate Rev. Cecil Gideon on the nice piece of writing in the Kaieteur News of June 17, captioned, ‘’The Decline of Education in Guyana”. And my congratulations go...

Guyana does not have TIP on the scale that should attract the attention of the U.S.

Jun 27, 2010 knews Letters Comments Off on Guyana does not have TIP on the scale that should attract the attention of the U.S.

Dear Editor, I read a letter written by Charrandass Persaud and published in Kaieteur News of 26th June 2010, under the caption, “Trafficking in person is modern day slavery”. The writer...

GCF hosts successful Olympic Day BMX meet

Jun 27, 2010 KNews Sports Comments Off on GCF hosts successful Olympic Day BMX meet

The Guyana Cycling Federation (GCF) yesterday joined many of its sister associations when they hosted a BMX 5-race Cycle Meet at the Inner Circuit of the National Park in observance of Olympic Day,...

Sizzling action expected on July 5 as 7th ‘Wheat Up’ Cycle road race launched

Jun 27, 2010 KNews Sports Comments Off on Sizzling action expected on July 5 as 7th ‘Wheat Up’ Cycle road race launched

By Franklin Wilson Defending champion Warren ‘Forty’ Mc Kay will have his work cut out come July 5th when the 7th annual National Milling Company of Guyana Inc. (NAMILCO) sponsored ‘Wheat Up’...

The Journey, an evening of literature, Part XI

Jun 27, 2010 knews Features / Columnists, Guyanese Literature Comments Off on The Journey, an evening of literature, Part XI

– by Petamber Persaud The eleventh leg of The Journey, an evening of literature, was staged on Wednesday, June 2, at the National Art Gallery, Castellani House under the theme ‘Anatomy of...

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Dem Boys Seh… Kaieteur News- Dem boys seh when yuh see wrong, yuh supposed to call it out. But some people like they... more