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Police seeking close associate

Aug 30, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Police seeking close associate

Body on sand pit… As the police continue their probe into the brutal murder of Soesdyke resident, 43 year old Rafeek Khan, sources close to the investigation have said that focus is now being...

Hurricane Earl grounds several LIAT flights

Aug 30, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Hurricane Earl grounds several LIAT flights

LIAT (1974) Ltd. announced the cancellation of several flights scheduled for today across the Caribbean island chain due to Hurricane Earl. According to reports, the airline did not say whether...

An expensive way to tear down a fence

Aug 30, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on An expensive way to tear down a fence

Woman stabbed nine times discharged from hospital

Aug 30, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Woman stabbed nine times discharged from hospital

– estranged husband and sister released on $300,000 bail each Twenty-two year-old Trishawarie Ramdharie, of Cornelia Ida, West Coast Demerara, who was stabbed nine times by her estranged...

Weather change favourable to farmers

Aug 30, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Weather change favourable to farmers

BENGAL FARM, CORENTYNE – Some 50 percent of the second rice crop in East Berbice/Corentyne is almost ready for early harvesting. The change in weather last week is favourable to farmers and should...

Mainstay to benefit from IDB Cultural Development Programme

Aug 30, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Mainstay to benefit from IDB Cultural Development Programme

The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) has selected 28 partner institutions to finance and provide technical assistance to small-scale cultural development projects in 21 countries. One such...

Top Nat’l Grade Six Assessment students honoured

Aug 30, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Top Nat’l Grade Six Assessment students honoured

TAIN, CORENTYNE – The six top performers in Berbice at this year’s National Grade Six Assessment were recognized for their efforts on Friday by the Central Corentyne Chamber of Commerce. The...

Forestry Commission increases awareness of Lacey Act

Aug 30, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Forestry Commission increases awareness of Lacey Act

The Guyana Forestry Commission is working to ensure that all timber exporters understand the intricacies of the US Lacey Act and avoid the penalties attached with non-compliance. Signed into law more...

UG applications reopened

Aug 30, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on UG applications reopened

The University of Guyana is facilitating late applications from potential students whose CSEC or CAPE results became available during the third and fourth weeks of August. This is according to Public...

Oldies are goldies

Aug 30, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Oldies are goldies

When the curtains are raised for the 38th edition of ‘Oldies are Goldies’ on Sunday September 5, patrons can be assured that they would be enthralled right up until they are lowered. At least...

Region Six continues to show improved performance at CSEC

Aug 30, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Region Six continues to show improved performance at CSEC

NEW AMSTERDAM, BERBICE – Education Officer in Region Six Shafiran Bhajan said the overall performance of students at this year’s Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate examination (CSEC)...

Bandits relieve businessman of firearm

Aug 30, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Bandits relieve businessman of firearm

The police are investigating an armed robbery that occurred at about 20:55hours on Saturday at a Sports Bar in Barr Street, Kitty, during which a businessman and his female friend were attacked and...

Murdered boy’s mom believes she knows son’s killer

Aug 30, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Murdered boy’s mom believes she knows son’s killer

Even as his murder remains unsolved, the mother of seven-year-old Dacwaun Sutherland is convinced that a man in her community holds the answers to her son’s death. The man in question is an...

Regional body agrees to provide flood, drought insurance

Aug 30, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Regional body agrees to provide flood, drought insurance

Crucial breakthrough… By Leonard Gildarie Guyana’s fight to introduce disaster insurance has moved one step closer to becoming a reality with a regional body saying that it will be ready with a...

Two die by drowning in Berbice

Aug 30, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Two die by drowning in Berbice

The police are investigating two separate drowning incidents in Berbice over the last 48 hrs. They involve a one-year-old boy and an 81-year-old man. The body of one year old Clifford Campbell was...

STATE OWNERSHIP OF THE MEANS OF PRODUCTION DOES NOT TRANSLATE TO WORKING CLASS POWER

Aug 30, 2010 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on STATE OWNERSHIP OF THE MEANS OF PRODUCTION DOES NOT TRANSLATE TO WORKING CLASS POWER

No one can dismiss the factor of race in Guyanese politics. But is race holding back this country or is the real problem economic, and more specifically the absence of a model of development that...

“Mirrors on the ceilings, the pink champagne on ice” They’re living it up at the Hotel Prado

Aug 30, 2010 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on “Mirrors on the ceilings, the pink champagne on ice” They’re living it up at the Hotel Prado

This is a small country. People see, people talk. There is no place to hide. The trouble the media have is when we write about what we know, you can face a libel suit because there are those who will...

IN A GREEN NIGHTMARE

Aug 30, 2010 KNews Features / Columnists, Tony Deyal column Comments Off on IN A GREEN NIGHTMARE

I used to like rain. When I was growing up, the sound of the rain on the galvanised (zinc) roof was a symphony and lullaby simultaneously. But now it galvanises me into action since the rain...

Mr. Singh is deliberately silent on some salient facts of history

Aug 30, 2010 KNews Letters Comments Off on Mr. Singh is deliberately silent on some salient facts of history

Dear Editor, Mr. Sasenarine Singh in his letter, “Why blame the AFC for reading the grassroots point of view and strategizing accordingly?” in Kaieteur News August 25, 2010 sets out to analyse...

Corbin supporters seem obsessed with the need to respect Party rules

Aug 30, 2010 KNews Letters Comments Off on Corbin supporters seem obsessed with the need to respect Party rules

Dear Editor, The closer we get to General Elections, the more I am convinced that the opposition is blowing the greatest opportunity to defeat the ruling PPP/C. With all the scandals, corruption,...

Wastage of taxpayers’ money

Aug 30, 2010 KNews Letters Comments Off on Wastage of taxpayers’ money

Dear Editor, This country sickens me to the core. The level of waste, corruption, mismanagement and inefficiency that surround this nation is staggering. Two hundred and fifty-four million dollars...

Using the Baldridge model in higher education

Aug 30, 2010 KNews Letters Comments Off on Using the Baldridge model in higher education

Dear Editor, This is an abridged version of a piece I wrote some time ago on reforming higher education. Governments in many countries have initiated dramatic cutbacks in higher education budgets....

Minister Robert Persaud responds to Henry Jeffrey

Aug 30, 2010 KNews Letters Comments Off on Minister Robert Persaud responds to Henry Jeffrey

Dear Editor, Burying past mistakes with deception and distortion in today’s social environment smacks of political opportunism and a proclivity to historical revisionism of our contemporary...

Vindictiveness and spite

Aug 30, 2010 KNews Editorial Comments Off on Vindictiveness and spite

Responding once to complaints that the then opposition was getting too “big for its britches” and becoming emboldened in its criticism of his government, LFS Burnham pointed out that “there are...

This is unprincipled and a smelly red herring

Aug 29, 2010 KNews Letters Comments Off on This is unprincipled and a smelly red herring

Dear Editor, The Cabinet Secretary’s (CS) statements as reported in SN of August 27, 2010, smacks of arrogance, feeble minded thinking, and surreptitious intent. If we take the CS at his word, the...

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The PPP/C’s greatest liability

Peeping Tom Kaieteur News- One might have expected that a ruling party basking in the largesse of oil wealth would chart... more