April 2011

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Central Police Station outreach programme

Apr 18, 2011 KNews Sports Comments Off on Central Police Station outreach programme

FAPTC 25B are football champs The Central Police station Inter Service and Community Outreach programme is continuing with a number of games and other activities. The final of the 5-a-side football...

Police retain U-23 Athletic Championships title

Apr 18, 2011 KNews Sports Comments Off on Police retain U-23 Athletic Championships title

– Caesar upsets Ageday, James sizzles If there was any doubt surrounding the selection of Stephan James for this weekend’s Junior CARIFTA Games in Jamaica, the quarter-miler ensured that he...

Junior Chamber International: Making a difference, one community at a time

Apr 18, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Junior Chamber International: Making a difference, one community at a time

By Gary Eleazar Junior Chamber International (JCI) is an organisation that not many Guyanese are familiar with. But it’s been active in Guyana for the past 45 years assisting young people in...

Total private investments are on the decline since 1992

Apr 18, 2011 KNews Letters Comments Off on Total private investments are on the decline since 1992

Dear Editor, In a recent news report, President Bharrat Jagdeo noted an upsurge in investments. I take it that the President is alluding to private investments in Guyana. The official data, however,...

Fascism is evident in the regime on a daily basis

Apr 18, 2011 KNews Letters Comments Off on Fascism is evident in the regime on a daily basis

Dear Editor, During the week ending Saturday 16th April, 2011 it was reported in various media houses that the PPP’s presidential candidate Donald Ramotar said that he grew up in a democratic...

A great example of self-exoneration

Apr 18, 2011 KNews Letters Comments Off on A great example of self-exoneration

Dear Editor, Ravi Dev’s letter on April 17, brief and to the point for a change is a great example of self-exoneration and passing the buck, while at the same time, straddling empty spaces in his...

The minibus situation is like a sore left to fester on its own

Apr 18, 2011 KNews Letters Comments Off on The minibus situation is like a sore left to fester on its own

Dear Editor, Mini bus drivers and conductors provide an invaluable service to Guyanese. In a land where public transport, via land, is non-existent, these hardworking men and women transport the...

Some fundamental things are absolutely wrong with cricket in Demerara

Apr 18, 2011 KNews Letters Comments Off on Some fundamental things are absolutely wrong with cricket in Demerara

Dear Editor, I have been following the Demerara Cricket Board (DCB) ‘saga’ for a very long time now and I feel that I am obligated to make my concerns public and I am sure the general public...

Stagnant universities and ineffectual monuments

Apr 18, 2011 KNews Letters Comments Off on Stagnant universities and ineffectual monuments

Dear Editor, Ralf Dahrendorf fittingly remarked that “Stagnant universities are expensive and ineffectual monuments to status quo which is more likely to be a status quo ante, yesterday’s world...

Why dismiss the words of wisdom and experience?

Apr 18, 2011 KNews Letters Comments Off on Why dismiss the words of wisdom and experience?

Dear Editor, I refer to a letter “Eusi Kwyana is a relic of an ancient echo”. (Guyana Chronicle 3-04-11). Mr. Kwayana is a man of much wisdom and has played an important role in the creation of...

Can’t NCN (Linden) embark on a much more meaningful approach?

Apr 18, 2011 KNews Letters Comments Off on Can’t NCN (Linden) embark on a much more meaningful approach?

Dear Editor, It seems the NCN Linden Television has gone full swing; on a roll with the Christianburg Magistrate Court, being punctual and maintaining their rendezvous at every court session, without...

NATIONAL SERVICE IS HISTORY

Apr 18, 2011 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on NATIONAL SERVICE IS HISTORY

The possible reintroduction of compulsory National Service, should the opposition win this year’s elections has now become a political issue. In reality it is a non-issue because no party in its...

GOING UP IN SMOKE

Apr 18, 2011 KNews Features / Columnists, Tony Deyal column Comments Off on GOING UP IN SMOKE

Smokers are at their last gasp but not the cigarette industry or “Big Tobacco” as it is called. It is no sense saying that you pay twice for your cigarettes – first when you get them and...

The Sanya Declaration

Apr 18, 2011 KNews Editorial Comments Off on The Sanya Declaration

In our last Friday’s editorial “BRICS Power”, we noted the entry of South Africa into the BRIC (Brazil, Russia, India and China) grouping at the third annual meeting in the Chinese city of...

Cornelia Ida man succumbs to gunshot wound following robbery

Apr 17, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Cornelia Ida man succumbs to gunshot wound following robbery

Forty-three-year old Balram Teekaram, called ‘Bandar’ of Cornelia Ida, who was shot on Tuesday last after armed bandits invaded his West Coast Demerara home, has died. The man’s wife, Savitree...

Gunman shoots village captain, snatches bag with $1M

Apr 17, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Gunman shoots village captain, snatches bag with $1M

Police are hunting for a gunman who shot 56-year-old village captain, Wilbert Hall, three times while robbing him of $1M at a Chinese restaurant in Co-op Crescent, Linden. Hall, who is the toshao of...

Housing scam sends victim into hiding

Apr 17, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Housing scam sends victim into hiding

– Claims police are unwilling to pursue reports of death threats By Rabindra Rooplall A young man caught in the web of a housing fraud is appealing to the police to investigate a swindler who...

A pioneer with a passionate love for humanity

Apr 17, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on A pioneer with a passionate love for humanity

Ellena Stewart-Leander is a ‘Special Person’ Her warm and welcoming disposition represents a mere fraction of the qualities that depict how much of a special person Minister Ellena...

Dem boys seh…Bharrat get voice mail

Apr 17, 2011 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Dem boys seh…Bharrat get voice mail

De Waterfalls paper got some people who wuss than anything anybody ever see. Indian cricket league playing and de Waterfalls boss man decide to bet some of de staff. De man win de first set of bet...

Good governance, security, and bridging the racial divide is Khemraj Ramjattan’s passion

Apr 17, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Good governance, security, and bridging the racial divide is Khemraj Ramjattan’s passion

(This is the second in a series of articles featuring Presidential Candidates of the main political parties ahead of this year’s general elections. This week, the Alliance for Change’s...

Seven dogs maul 13-year-old

Apr 17, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Seven dogs maul 13-year-old

Seven dogs attacked a 13-year-old boy early Thursday morning while he was returning home from a shop in the neighbourhood. Yognauth Shopaul, of Third Street, Adelphi Settlement, East Canje, was...

OLPF programme will cross a significant developmental threshold

Apr 17, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on OLPF programme will cross a significant developmental threshold

– Dr Luncheon “When it would have taken root in the homes and minds of our people, equity in our developmental processes would have crossed a significant threshold…This is exactly what our...

Region gears to eliminate mother to child transmission of HIV

Apr 17, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Region gears to eliminate mother to child transmission of HIV

…As COHSOD meeting concludes The notion that the Caribbean needs to take collective action against mother to child transmission of the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) was one of the issues...

Man breaks reputed wife’s arm

Apr 17, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Man breaks reputed wife’s arm

Despite all efforts of Minister of Human Services and Social Security, Priya Manickchand, to curb domestic abuse faced by women in the society, women continue to experience brutality by their...

Man remanded for Finance Ministry fraud

Apr 17, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Man remanded for Finance Ministry fraud

Ministry of Finance Public Service supervisor, Lawrence Dundas, of Lot 35 David Street Subryanville, Georgetown, was on Friday remanded after he allegedly embezzled over $1.6 million in pension funds...

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The great rediscovery

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(Kaieteur News) – There are few things more moving than a sudden conversion. Saul had his road to Damascus. St. Augustine heard a divine voice. And now thousands of overseas-based Guyanese are experiencing their own spiritual awakening. After decades of living in Brooklyn, Toronto, Miami,...

If the OAS did not exist, it could not be created today

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By Sir Ronald Sanders (Kaieteur News) – I have spent a decade in the councils of the Organization of American States. I have watched governments come and go, seen some crises handled well and others handled badly, sat through more commemorative meetings than sessions discussing pressing issues,...

Local tolerance for bull-a beauty to behold

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Hard Truths by GHK Lall (Kaieteur News) – Guyanese should get first prize for their tolerance for bull, their bottomless reservoir of docility. And humour. They have grown in those respects relative to their head-of-state. Whatever has taken over his head, the astonishing is what...

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