January 2011

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Rohee justifies $17M expenditure on Community Policing

Jan 17, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Rohee justifies $17M expenditure on Community Policing

Government’s expenditure of a whopping $17M on Community Policing last year is being justified by Home Affairs Minister Clement Rohee. This expenditure, he said, was to supplement the...

GBTI raising the bar at Lethem

Jan 17, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on GBTI raising the bar at Lethem

In keeping with its expansion drive, the Guyana Bank for Trade and Industry is increasing its asset base in the attractive location of Lethem near the Guyana/Brazil border. This follows the opening...

Father claims woman kidnapped his children

Jan 17, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Father claims woman kidnapped his children

Roopchandra Persaud, of Lusignan East Sideline Dam, East Coast Demerara is accusing a former paramour of abducting his children. Missing are Tulsie Persaud 11, and Vishaul Persaud 6, they both were...

Baby with hole in heart celebrates first birthday

Jan 17, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Baby with hole in heart celebrates first birthday

Yesterday was a day of rejoicing for the Jackson family of Supply Mahaica, as their youngest family member whom they were fearful would not have lived to see six months made it to his first birthday....

Wilson, Giddings, Forde, Morgan top Cross Country race

Jan 17, 2011 KNews Sports Comments Off on Wilson, Giddings, Forde, Morgan top Cross Country race

By Edison Jefford Region Nine’s, Doretta Wilson, Linden’s Nathanie Giddings and Georgetown’s Cleveland Forde and Alika Morgan emphatically topped the four categories of the National...

Taxi driver dies after fight with friend

Jan 17, 2011 knews News Comments Off on Taxi driver dies after fight with friend

Police have detained a 40-year-old Anna Catherina, West Coast Demerara man following the death of a taxi driver at around 21:00 hrs last night. Kaieteur News understands that the victim, identified...

DEM BOYS SHE….ROBESON GOT TO CLEAR DE MAHAICONY ROAD

Jan 17, 2011 knews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on DEM BOYS SHE….ROBESON GOT TO CLEAR DE MAHAICONY ROAD

These past few weeks Robeson was busy bulldozing things. And that is because he graduate from using de hammer. De man clear everything and he moving to clear more. Dem boys seh that he tackle Big...

Junior Jaguars aiming for last CONCACAF finals berth

Jan 17, 2011 KNews Sports Comments Off on Junior Jaguars aiming for last CONCACAF finals berth

Leave for Suriname today; oppose Bermuda on Wednesday in 1st game By Franklin Wilson With 11 countries already booking their place in the CONCACAF Under-20 finals which will be contested in Guatemala...

U-20 footballers enlightened on HIV/AIDS at one-day seminar

Jan 17, 2011 KNews Sports Comments Off on U-20 footballers enlightened on HIV/AIDS at one-day seminar

As Guyana’s Under-20 football team prepares for its immediate football engagements in Suriname, the national governing body seized the opportunity to prepare the young ballweavers more holistically...

Macbethian waltz on necrophiliac waters: The Rohee candidacy

Jan 17, 2011 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on Macbethian waltz on necrophiliac waters: The Rohee candidacy

On reading that Clement Rohee was interested in contesting the PPP’s nomination, I penned a column with a long title (“Kafkaesque, Mephistophelean, Faustian theatre of the absurd.”) in which I...

HONEY, I’M HOME

Jan 17, 2011 KNews Features / Columnists, Tony Deyal column Comments Off on HONEY, I’M HOME

This year, 2011, is the Chinese year of the rabbit but if I didn’t know better I would think it is the year of the dog. Dog lovers would find nothing strange about that since, for them, every...

Education Ministry promotes ‘eating local’

Jan 17, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Education Ministry promotes ‘eating local’

There is need for Guyanese to embrace the notion of eating locally grown foods if Guyana is to remain successful as an agricultural driven country, said Education Minister Shaik Baksh. His comments...

Families’ input key to children’s education – DCEO

Jan 17, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Families’ input key to children’s education – DCEO

“Only a small portion of learning comes through what we formally think of as our education system. Where does the rest come from? It comes from the home,” asserted Deputy Chief Education Officer,...

Budget 2011

Jan 17, 2011 KNews Editorial Comments Off on Budget 2011

Today the Minister of Finance will deliver the budget for this year. It used to be that budgets were regarded not only to indicate how much government intended to spend on the country’s development...

THE NATIONAL LIBRARY NEEDS A BREATH OF FRESH AIR

Jan 17, 2011 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on THE NATIONAL LIBRARY NEEDS A BREATH OF FRESH AIR

One of the things I always look for whenever I enter into someone’s home for the first time is the presence of books. A bookshelf or better yet a study that has books is a good indicator that...

The needs and concerns of our youth must come to the forefront of the nation’s agenda

Jan 17, 2011 KNews Letters Comments Off on The needs and concerns of our youth must come to the forefront of the nation’s agenda

Dear Editor, We can all recognise the unsympathetic truth that Guyana has by and large failed its young people in the last 18 years. Many of us as youths are largely disappointed and disenchanted...

Kissoon blatantly misrepresents what I wrote

Jan 17, 2011 KNews Letters Comments Off on Kissoon blatantly misrepresents what I wrote

Dear Editor Freddie Kissoon’s column captioned, “Harry’s areolation and harlequinade” in the Kaieteur News of January 15, 2011, is ostensibly a response to my recent letter published in the...

Can we afford to up the retirement age?

Jan 17, 2011 KNews Letters Comments Off on Can we afford to up the retirement age?

Dear Editor, I recently read Freddie Kissoon’s article, “Is the white man smarter than 3rd world people?” and it makes me wonder whether Mr. Kissoon is truly committed to everything he writes...

Is this not in contravention of the Sea Defence Act?

Jan 17, 2011 KNews Letters Comments Off on Is this not in contravention of the Sea Defence Act?

Dear Editor, In accordance with the Sea Defence Act it is illegal for the owners of the Celina Resort to be granted a lease and allowed to build the Resort over an existing grouted boulder slope sea...

Some Toshaos are failing their communities

Jan 17, 2011 KNews Letters Comments Off on Some Toshaos are failing their communities

Dear Editor, I wish to make a serious observation on Amerindians and the LCDS and the un-pardoned failure by some Toshaos to disseminate information to their community members. I wish to address a...

Why not have a United Guyana Party (UGP)?

Jan 17, 2011 KNews Letters Comments Off on Why not have a United Guyana Party (UGP)?

Dear Editor, I congratulate Kaieteur News and your columnist, Freddie Kissoon for being fearless in enlightening the Guyanese Diaspora about wrongs that are being done in beloved Guyana. I am...

It’s my right to determine who I show reverence to and who I am contemptuous of

Jan 17, 2011 KNews Letters Comments Off on It’s my right to determine who I show reverence to and who I am contemptuous of

Dear Editor, I have never read in any book on psychology or sociology or philosophy that human beings by nature are compelled to respect each other. There are categories of human behaviour that cause...

Do not split the vote

Jan 17, 2011 KNews Letters Comments Off on Do not split the vote

Dear Editor, I have a simple message to deliver to Guyanese – do not split the vote – vote AFC. I would like to urge that party to adopt this message and make it a winning slogan like Obama did...

Pension Programme open to fraud – AG

Jan 16, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Pension Programme open to fraud – AG

… Ministry working to close loopholes. Although the amount of money the average pensioner collects each month may seem insignificant, for almost 50,000 senior citizens it means something. Pensions...

Republic Bank opens $560M Diamond branch

Jan 16, 2011 knews News Comments Off on Republic Bank opens $560M Diamond branch

Republic Bank (Guyana) yesterday afternoon commissioned what is now its 11th branch in Guyana. The $560 million building sits at the new commercial plaza that has begun to take shape at the entrance...

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Sinking ship, bailing out-US midterms – Pt. II

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