August 2010

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The President has a right to visit anywhere in Guyana

Aug 24, 2010 knews Letters Comments Off on The President has a right to visit anywhere in Guyana

Dear Editor, Exactly one month after the mark of the 170th anniversary of the purchase of Buxton, formerly named Plantation New Orange Nassau, I was disheartened to read and listen to some of the...

CSEC exposes the need for compulsory reading

Aug 24, 2010 knews Editorial Comments Off on CSEC exposes the need for compulsory reading

President’s College came into existence in 1985 having been established as the School of Excellence. Top performances at what was then the Common Entrance were the first choices. Many parents opted...

Police capture Aranka gang

Aug 23, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Police capture Aranka gang

– Alexander Village woman among suspects The reign of terror created by a gang in the gold mining area of Aranka came to an abrupt end with the capture of an entire gang of criminals on...

Alcohol consumption major cause of road accidents in Berbice

Aug 23, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Alcohol consumption major cause of road accidents in Berbice

– 334 drunk driving cases recorded As the call gets louder for something to be done about the raving consumption of alcohol in Berbice, the police are at their wits end in trying to cope with...

Woman stabbed nine times by estranged husband

Aug 23, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Woman stabbed nine times by estranged husband

Doctors were last night fighting trying desperately to save the life of a 22 year old woman who was stabbed over nine times by her estranged husband. Trishawarie Ramdharie, 22, of Cornelia Ida West...

Bishop’s High is CSEC 2010 top performing school

Aug 23, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Bishop’s High is CSEC 2010 top performing school

– Minister Baksh The Bishop’s High School has been declared the best performing school at this year’s Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate (CSEC) Examination. The results of the...

Chinese women celebrate 150 years in Guyana

Aug 23, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Chinese women celebrate 150 years in Guyana

“Chinese women came here as refugees, not knowing what to expect; to a strange land with strange foods and people, and an even stranger language. We have made our lives and our homes here among...

Couple in car injured after blowout

Aug 23, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Couple in car injured after blowout

Another early morning accident, this time in the vicinity of the Conversation Tree on the Rupert Craig Highway has left a 30 year old man nursing serious injuries. Nohar Seenjan, 30, of De Abreu...

Kishore captures Courts Medal play Golf title

Aug 23, 2010 KNews Sports Comments Off on Kishore captures Courts Medal play Golf title

Teenage golfer Avinda Kishore carted off the third annual Courts Guyana Inc. Medal Play golf tournament in tough playing conditions caused by overnight rain last Saturday at the Lusignan Golf Course....

Dave Martins to perform ‘Not a blade of Grass’ at grudge match this weekend

Aug 23, 2010 KNews Sports Comments Off on Dave Martins to perform ‘Not a blade of Grass’ at grudge match this weekend

By Sean Devers Dave Martins’ message in his hit single ‘Not a blade of Grass’ written during Guyana’s border dispute with Venezuela was clear. “We int giving up no mountain, we int giving...

Hikers Hockey Club Junior Camp 2010 starts today

Aug 23, 2010 KNews Sports Comments Off on Hikers Hockey Club Junior Camp 2010 starts today

The Hikers Hockey Club has scheduled its annual junior summer camp from today, August 23 to 28 at the Saint Stanislaus College Forum. The camp is open to all aspiring junior hockey players and will...

Lower yields predicted this rice crop

Aug 23, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Lower yields predicted this rice crop

BENGAL FARM, CORENTYNE – As the inclement weather continues to have its way, President of the Guyana Rice Producers’ Association Leeka Rambrich is predicting lower yields for this rice crop. The...

Further decline in ethical and moral standards in Guyanese politics

Aug 23, 2010 KNews Letters Comments Off on Further decline in ethical and moral standards in Guyanese politics

Dear Editor, The recent rapid downward spiral of events in Guyana has taken on uglier turns leading us further into a deeper hole of national strife, instability, impoverishment, disintegration and...

The ‘psychology of wrongness’ and the ‘psychology of entitlement’

Aug 23, 2010 KNews Letters Comments Off on The ‘psychology of wrongness’ and the ‘psychology of entitlement’

Dear Editor, Within recent times I have passively watched the Alliance For Change (AFC) after vocally expressing my utter disgust with the incompetence of Raphael Trotman, Sheila Holder, Dennis...

ISLAM IS NOT THE ENEMY OF AMERICA

Aug 23, 2010 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on ISLAM IS NOT THE ENEMY OF AMERICA

In this week’s column we examine the controversy that has erupted over the construction of a mosque near to Ground Zero and its implications for the traditional respect for democratic governance in...

Internal strife in the PNCR is indirectly aiding the PPP regime

Aug 23, 2010 KNews Letters Comments Off on Internal strife in the PNCR is indirectly aiding the PPP regime

Dear Editor, From all that is unfolding in our political arena in this pre-election period, it seems that the target for elections 2011 is not to remove the PPP from office but to destroy the PNCR....

Self-betrayal and self-destruction: The African Guyanese in Guyana

Aug 23, 2010 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on Self-betrayal and self-destruction: The African Guyanese in Guyana

There is an eruption of anger in the WPA and a mutiny inside the mind of Dr. David Hinds over the organized visit of Mr. Jagdeo to Buxton. Three dimensions of the analysis need to be focused on. One...

HAPPINESS IS

Aug 23, 2010 KNews Features / Columnists, Tony Deyal column Comments Off on HAPPINESS IS

There are people who find that measuring a country by its Gross Domestic Product or overall official economic output is grossly unfair. They argue that if money can’t buy you love, it definitely...

Good Judgement in Leaders

Aug 23, 2010 KNews Editorial Comments Off on Good Judgement in Leaders

In 2005, Michael Ignatieff, the noted commentator left the halls of Harvard for the political hustings of Canada. By 2007, he had recanted his early support for the Iraq war and offered the following...

Gold miner shot dead at Kurupung

Aug 22, 2010 knews News Comments Off on Gold miner shot dead at Kurupung

A 30-year old gold miner from Stanleytown, West Bank Demerara became another murder victim in Guyana’s interior. Reports reaching this newspaper stated that Rawle Mentore was shot dead after...

Linden accident leaves two dead

Aug 22, 2010 knews News Comments Off on Linden accident leaves two dead

A gruesome accident at Kairuni on the Linden/Soesdyke highway has left two men dead and three others hospitalised with injuries not considered life threatening, according to informed sources. One of...

Early morning accident leaves one dead

Aug 22, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Early morning accident leaves one dead

– three others hospitalised An early morning accident on the Mandela Avenue, in the vicinity of the National Cultural Center yesterday, left one person dead and three others nursing various...

A political dance seeking credence among Afro-Guyanese – WPA

Aug 22, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on A political dance seeking credence among Afro-Guyanese – WPA

Jagdeo’s Buxton Visit… The Working Peoples’ Alliance says that it joins with others in characterising President Jagdeo’s recent visit to Buxton as a political dance aimed at satisfying the...

‘Killer’ drivers paying to stay out of jail

Aug 22, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on ‘Killer’ drivers paying to stay out of jail

By Michael Jordan How much is a child’s life worth? Five million dollars? $600,000? Half of this figure? All of the above, it seems. A three-month Kaieteur News investigation has unearthed a...

Dem boys seh…Is more thiefing

Aug 22, 2010 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Dem boys seh…Is more thiefing

De lie detector people coming back again. De first time dem come, dem test all de security workers. Dem ketch some people lying and of course Bharrat knock dem off. Dem boys seh that all over de...

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An insult to our intelligence

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(Kaieteur News) – We are told that the reason regular government press conferences have disappeared is because the administration has moved from “campaign mode” into “implementation mode.” In other words, governing has apparently become too demanding an occupation to permit the...

The Caribbean’s Limits in Absorbing Other States’ Deportees

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By Sir Ronald Sanders (Kaieteur News) – Migration policy is a matter of sovereign control. Governments assert, rightly, their authority to regulate borders, determine who may enter, and enforce their laws. The United States has that right, as does every sovereign state. All Caribbean governments...

Sanctity of contract

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Hard Truths by GHK Lall (Kaieteur News) – Sanctity of contract has a resonant ring. In isolation. Sanctity of contract placed next to sanctity of sovereignty doesn’t have a leg on which to stand. It pales. It must fade. For what does sanctity of contract do to sanctity of...

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