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What public mischief is Rohee talking about?

Apr 26, 2011 knews Letters Comments Off on What public mischief is Rohee talking about?

Dear Editor, I respond to Kaieteur News article, dated 21st April 2011 in connection with the refugee case in Canada. Clement Rohee is attacking me unjustly. I never made any allegations against him,...

Neither the PPP nor the PNC succeeded in improving people’s lives

Apr 26, 2011 knews Letters Comments Off on Neither the PPP nor the PNC succeeded in improving people’s lives

Dear Editor, Having read the latest of Cheddi Jagan Jnr.’s increasingly frequent contributions to your letter columns (published Friday 22nd April), I was reminded of Ronald Regan’s simple...

Did Burt Bacharach have the PPP in mind?

Apr 26, 2011 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on Did Burt Bacharach have the PPP in mind?

A few years ago, Burt Bacharach released an album titled, “At this time,” One of the cuts (“Who are these people?) contains the following lyrics’ “Who are these people that keep telling us...

Guyana has paid an incalculable price for festering instrumental malice

Apr 26, 2011 knews Letters Comments Off on Guyana has paid an incalculable price for festering instrumental malice

Dear Editor, Rhetoric, in whatever form and in whatever style, is always an attempt to persuade, to influence, to produce identification and signification, to move its recipients to attitude and to...

Journalists are always the punching bags for frustrated politicians

Apr 26, 2011 knews Letters Comments Off on Journalists are always the punching bags for frustrated politicians

Dear Editor, The letter by Charles Ramson (Jr.) Esq., in which he put down and “exposed” my friend, Adam Harris, listing all the places he worked in and quoting from Harris’ writing, was not...

President Jagdeo and professionalism

Apr 26, 2011 knews Letters Comments Off on President Jagdeo and professionalism

Dear Editor, When I read with astonishment the Adam Harris’s column in your newspaper, under the caption: “Jagdeo hates professionalism”, I felt duty-bound, as a professional journalist,...

BEING SMITTEN LEADS TO BEING BITTEN

Apr 26, 2011 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on BEING SMITTEN LEADS TO BEING BITTEN

A standup comedian observed that these days, politicians are not emerging from the ranks of the people. Instead they are offering themselves up to the people as the chosen ones. They come forward and...

A poor attempt by Nigel Green to distort my comments

Apr 26, 2011 knews Letters Comments Off on A poor attempt by Nigel Green to distort my comments

Dear Editor, I observed a letter by one Nigel Green in the Kaieteur News in response to my letter captioned, “Mr. Ramotar’s absolution of GuySuCo is deceitful”. I am absolutely convinced that...

Who is at fault here?

Apr 26, 2011 knews Letters Comments Off on Who is at fault here?

Dear Editor, I think the Department of Education in Berbice needs to employ better procedures when dealing with the records of teachers that are submitted to the department. Whether it is application...

The return of the prodigals

Apr 26, 2011 knews Editorial Comments Off on The return of the prodigals

More Guyanese have come home in a long time for this the Easter season and it just goes to show that negative publicity or not, people will always come home because as they say, home is where the...

Bandits beat elderly woman with shotgun during midday robbery

Apr 25, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Bandits beat elderly woman with shotgun during midday robbery

She could have been their mother or grandmother but armed bandits paid no heed to that as they beat and robbed a 72-year old business woman during a brutal robbery at Triumph, East Coast Demerara...

Detained man for ID parade in cop shooting

Apr 25, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Detained man for ID parade in cop shooting

Police were yesterday still questioning a suspect in connection with Saturday afternoon’s $2M robbery during which police Sergeant Ransford Liverpool was shot. The suspect, who is reportedly from...

Cane Cutter in attempt murder suicide after wife spurned him

Apr 25, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Cane Cutter in attempt murder suicide after wife spurned him

An East Canje man has been hospitalised after he drank poison in an effort to take his own life moments after he had inflicted multiple stab wounds on his former lover when she refused to make up...

Family awaits answers as labourer remains critical in ICU

Apr 25, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Family awaits answers as labourer remains critical in ICU

Is it accident or robbery? Thirty-two year-old Khemraj Hariprashad is clinging on to life at the Intensive Care Unit of the Georgetown hospital, the victim of what appears to be a hit and run...

Bartica’s oldest resident is 102 not out

Apr 25, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Bartica’s oldest resident is 102 not out

She has two children alive, 22 grandchildren, 135 great grandchildren and she is still trying to count her great-great grandchildren at 102 years-old. Leah Allen was born on April 13th 1909 at...

Multiple donations needed to sustain NBTS

Apr 25, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Multiple donations needed to sustain NBTS

– Health Minister Although there is an increasing number of persons who donate blood, there still remains a dire need for blood donation, according to Minister of Health, Dr Leslie Ramsammy. As...

Wreath laying ceremony

Apr 25, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Wreath laying ceremony

Members of the Guyana Trades Union Congress (GTUC) turned out in numbers at the Parliament Building yesterday to commemorate another period which is identified with the worker’s struggles and...

Over 20 Rupununi villages receive mobile, ICT, agriculture equipment

Apr 25, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Over 20 Rupununi villages receive mobile, ICT, agriculture equipment

Toshaos in over 20 Amerindian communities in the Rupununi, Region Nine had their long awaited requests for assistance from the Ministry of Amerindian Affairs granted on April 23 corresponding with a...

Thrills and less spills on day one of Bartica Easter Regatta 2K11

Apr 25, 2011 KNews Sports Comments Off on Thrills and less spills on day one of Bartica Easter Regatta 2K11

Despite a late start to the days’ activities, the 36th Bartica Easter Regatta got off to an electrifying opening at the Golden Beach Circuit yesterday witnessed by a colourful crowd of over three...

George, clear prospect for Police future in Athletics

Apr 25, 2011 KNews Sports Comments Off on George, clear prospect for Police future in Athletics

In a meet organised to spot future talent for the Guyana Police Force Track and Field Team, Winston George ensured that he impressed the Top Brass of the institution yesterday at the Police Sports...

ECCB holds practice for U-15s from tomorrow

Apr 25, 2011 KNews Sports Comments Off on ECCB holds practice for U-15s from tomorrow

In preparation for the Inter-Association under-15 cricket competition, the East Coast Cricket Board (EECB) will be holding practice sessions from tomorrow to Thursday at the Lusignan Community Centre...

Guyana capture bronze medals in two categories

Apr 25, 2011 KNews Sports Comments Off on Guyana capture bronze medals in two categories

Guyana’s Junior and Cadet Teams competing at Caribbean Table Tennis (TT) Championships in San German, Puerto Rico, secured bronze medals in the Girls’ 15-years-and-under and Boys’...

East leads West with one discipline left to contest

Apr 25, 2011 KNews Sports Comments Off on East leads West with one discipline left to contest

With just one discipline left to be contested, East on 90 points lead the West on 85 after the completion of four of the five disciplines of the Women on the Move / Mackenzie Sports Club Cavalcade of...

Guyanese-born man one of Suriname’s most wanted

Apr 25, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Guyanese-born man one of Suriname’s most wanted

A Guyana-born man is one of Suriname’s most wanted, media reports have said. According to Superintendent John Jones, an official of the Police Public Relations Department, investigators almost...

Self-stigma….a major challenge in HIV/AIDS fight – Dr Singh

Apr 25, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Self-stigma….a major challenge in HIV/AIDS fight – Dr Singh

Although the impact of stigma and discrimination still has a dire impact on the fight against HIV/AIDS, the health sector has been able to make inroads among some key populations. However,...

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The burden of proof rests on the asserting party

Peeping Tom… Kaieteur News- In recent days there have been serious assertions made and associations implied without... more