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‘Special Person’ Cyrilda de Jesus blazes a gold trail

Aug 08, 2010 knews News Comments Off on ‘Special Person’ Cyrilda de Jesus blazes a gold trail

A true “Bush Woman” and pioneer… “We had to fetch everything…almost 80 pounds on my back for 28 miles…maybe that is why my back is not so good anymore.” By Leonard Gildarie While...

Help! I’m doling out ‘ top ups’ for services already paid for

Aug 08, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Help! I’m doling out ‘ top ups’ for services already paid for

By Michael Benjamin The banging of bins preceded by a raucous voice on a bullhorn rudely interrupted my sleep yesterday morning. Thirty seconds later, after I had successfully managed to focus, I was...

The Cicada

Aug 08, 2010 knews Features / Columnists, Interesting Creatures in Guyana Comments Off on The Cicada

A cicada is an insect of the order Hemiptera, suborder Auchenorrhyncha, in the superfamily Cicadoidea, with large eyes wide apart on the head and usually transparent, well-veined wings. There are...

Righting and Re-writing History

Aug 08, 2010 knews Features / Columnists, Guyanese Literature Comments Off on Righting and Re-writing History

– By Petamber Persaud (Extract of an interview with Ms. Beryl Adams-Haynes, author of Plaisance: From Emancipation to Independence and Beyond, Georgetown, Guyana, July 2010) Petamber Persaud...

Delivering economic good: a new role for diplomacy

Aug 08, 2010 knews Features / Columnists, Ronald Sanders Comments Off on Delivering economic good: a new role for diplomacy

By Sir Ronald Sanders The British Government has recently launched an initiative to make its Ambassadors front-line persons in pushing British business abroad. There are lessons in this move for...

BOOK REVIEW

Aug 08, 2010 knews Features / Columnists, The Arts Forum Comments Off on BOOK REVIEW

By L’Antoinette Osunide Stines, PhD. On Rex Nettleford’s final work: DANCE JAMAICA: RENEWAL AND CONTINUITY—The National Dance Theatre of Jamaica 1962 – 2008 Dance Jamaica: Renewal and...

The Facts about the AFC position on “Alliances”

Aug 08, 2010 knews AFC Column, Features / Columnists Comments Off on The Facts about the AFC position on “Alliances”

Since 2006, the Alliance For Change has promoted actively the concept of creating strategic Alliances to guarantee effective change in Guyana. This was based on the premise that growth and...

Morgan, Sital to spearhead Demerara’s quest

Aug 08, 2010 KNews Sports Comments Off on Morgan, Sital to spearhead Demerara’s quest

Caribbean distance queen Alika Morgan and Chavez Sital are among the big name athletes slated to compete at the August 11 African Cultural Education Association Damon’s Memorial Day of Sport and...

Civilisation?

Aug 08, 2010 KNews Editorial Comments Off on Civilisation?

The African slaves that were finally “emancipated” had been initially enslaved because the Europeans insisted they were not “civilised.” The Greeks were the ones who initially set the example...

My country is slipping down the drain

Aug 08, 2010 knews Features / Columnists, My Column Comments Off on My country is slipping down the drain

By Adam Harris Every year I get a chance to look at Guyana from the outside and every year the same thoughts run through my head. Do I really live there? How could I live there and not feel...

Jamaican rugby embarks on robust plan for future

Aug 08, 2010 KNews Sports Comments Off on Jamaican rugby embarks on robust plan for future

An enthusiastic and upbeat bunch of Jamaican rugby players returned to the island recently following their encouraging performance at both the CAC Games and the NACRA Sevens competitions in Guyana...

Bikers Auto Spares supports Inter-Market football competition

Aug 08, 2010 KNews Sports Comments Off on Bikers Auto Spares supports Inter-Market football competition

The 2010 Inter-Market Football indoor competition, initially scheduled to kick off tomorrow afternoon, has been rescheduled to Tuesday at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall, Georgetown and the organizers...

BCB congratulates T20 champs

Aug 08, 2010 KNews Sports Comments Off on BCB congratulates T20 champs

The President and Executive Committee of the Berbice Cricket Board would like to express heartfelt congratulations to the management and members of the Guyana 20/20 cricket team on their achievement...

The difference between Afro-Guyanese and Indo-Guyanese

Aug 08, 2010 knews Features / Columnists Comments Off on The difference between Afro-Guyanese and Indo-Guyanese

Whatever the cultural and social influences that create a racist, I seemed to have been immune to them during my developmental years. It was not as if I did not interact with racists. I grew up in...

RHTYSC celebrates 20th Anniversary

Aug 08, 2010 KNews Sports Comments Off on RHTYSC celebrates 20th Anniversary

Widely regarded as Guyana’s leading youth and sports organisation, the Rose Hall Town Youth and Sports Club from the August 15 to September 30 would be celebrating it’s 20th anniversary after...

Me and my big mouth: Autobiographical notes

Aug 08, 2010 knews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on Me and my big mouth: Autobiographical notes

I was having lunch a year ago with Mark Benschop, who rushed from his seat, ran onto the road and yelled out, “come, come” to a passing driver. The female driver pulled up, came into the small...

RHTYSC receives overseas donations

Aug 08, 2010 KNews Peeping Tom Comments Off on RHTYSC receives overseas donations

Overseas based Guyanese in the United States of America continues to support Guyana’s leading youth and sports organisation, the Rose Hall Town Youth and Sports Club. Secretary/CEO of the club...

The strange case of Mohamed Ibrahimi

Aug 08, 2010 knews Features / Columnists, Murder and Mystery Comments Off on The strange case of Mohamed Ibrahimi

By Michael Jordan Now that the guns are relatively silent, and the killing spree seems to have ended, this is perhaps as good a time as any to look back at some of the unsolved cases that sprung out...

The Baccoo speaks

Aug 08, 2010 knews Features / Columnists, The Baccoo Speaks Comments Off on The Baccoo speaks

A few days from now there is going to be a shocking revelation. The government is going to announce that it will not be pursuing the idea of having a national air carrier. This decision will be...

Burnham: The London Years

Aug 08, 2010 knews Features / Columnists, Ravi Dev Comments Off on Burnham: The London Years

(The following was the fourth in a fourteen-part series on LFS Burnham in KN during 2000. We offer it on the occasion of the 25th Anniversary of his death.) Forbes Burnham entered London University...

A SHARE FOR EVERYONE

Aug 08, 2010 knews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on A SHARE FOR EVERYONE

Guyana has always been a poor country. But its main problem has always been less its poverty than its inequality. Even in the difficult period when the supermarket shelves were empty, when shortages...

Plaisance bloodbath … Cops say slain man was a bandit

Aug 07, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Plaisance bloodbath … Cops say slain man was a bandit

– one still critical By Latoya Giles Anthony Taylor, who was shot dead during Thursday night’s robbery at Plaisance, East Coast Demerara, was one of the bandits who carried out the brazen...

Would-be thief caught halfway through hospital window

Aug 07, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Would-be thief caught halfway through hospital window

– severely beaten; suffers broken ribs, foot and arm Thirty-two year-old Claude Howard of Skeldon, a known felon, travelled over 60 miles and decided to rob the New Amsterdam Hospital, it...

Jagdeo blasts unreasonable hardware suppliers

Aug 07, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Jagdeo blasts unreasonable hardware suppliers

… International Building Expo kicks off By Leonard Gildarie Yesterday, President Jagdeo, in his feature address to a large gathering at the first-ever International Building Expo at the...

Guyanese is new head of al-Qaeda’s global operations

Aug 07, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Guyanese is new head of al-Qaeda’s global operations

… FBI tells Associated Press MIAMI (AP) – A suspected al-Qaeda operative who lived for more than 15 years in the U.S. has become chief of the terror network’s global operations, the FBI...

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National Table Tennis duo Shemar Britton, Chelsea Edghill to represent Guyana at prestigious Panam Table Tennis Cup

Mashramani must break from the shackles of imitation

Peeping Tom… Kaieteur News- Mashramani, heralded as Guyana’s grand national celebration, is often presented as a... more