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‘Thrill’ makers take Guyana to CCJ

May 25, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on ‘Thrill’ makers take Guyana to CCJ

(Waterkant) Suriname – The makers of Thrill soft drinks, Suriname-based Rudisa Beverages, has taken Guyana to a regional court to reclaim millions of dollars of environmental tax charged....

Grove Hi Tec FC to hold Independence Day of sports tomorrow

May 25, 2011 KNews Sports Comments Off on Grove Hi Tec FC to hold Independence Day of sports tomorrow

Sportsmen and women on the East Bank of Demerara will have the opportunity to test each other tomorrow when the Grove Hi Tec Football Club brings off their annual day of sports which coincides with...

Cougars Football Club win Digicel Berbice Cup

May 25, 2011 KNews Sports Comments Off on Cougars Football Club win Digicel Berbice Cup

Cougars Football Club played unbeaten to take top honours when the first ever Digicel sponsored, Digicel Cup Football competition organized by the Hearts Of Oak Masters Football Club (HOMFC) was...

GT Office Assistants hosts Day of Sports

May 25, 2011 KNews Sports Comments Off on GT Office Assistants hosts Day of Sports

The GT Office Assistants Sports Committee will be hosting an Independence Day of Sports this Thursday at the YMCA ground, Thomas Lands, commencing from 09:00 hrs. According to a release from the...

VAT is three times the burden

May 25, 2011 KNews Letters Comments Off on VAT is three times the burden

Dear Editor, I read an article in your daily newspaper about TAX and VAT in Guyana and wish to commend you to firstly recognize the hard times which the PPP Government has created for Guyanese. It is...

UK-based company is sole bidder on OLPF sub-project

May 25, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on UK-based company is sole bidder on OLPF sub-project

After receiving no bids on the first occasion for the supply of computer-based training software and online evaluation for the One Laptop Per Family (OLPF) programme, the National Procurement and...

Don’t be blind to Agricola

May 25, 2011 KNews Letters Comments Off on Don’t be blind to Agricola

Dear Editor, I set about penning this letter because I am burdened by the fact that although the community in which I reside is making strides for the better, it would appear that no one notices....

Radio is dead in Kwakwani

May 25, 2011 KNews Letters Comments Off on Radio is dead in Kwakwani

Dear Editor, I am making another attempt to highlight and have the issue of radio addressed. The last time I heard radio clearly in my community, Kwakwani, was when President Jagan’s funeral was...

The morality police are watching

May 25, 2011 KNews Features / Columnists, Stella Says Comments Off on The morality police are watching

I am often disappointed, and at times even offended, at the way homosexuals are viewed. Those who interact with me throughout the day will customarily refrain from their usual sexist verbiage so as...

Tired of Harry Gill’s biased writings

May 25, 2011 KNews Letters Comments Off on Tired of Harry Gill’s biased writings

Dear Editor, Mr. Editor I have grown weary reading the biased writing of one Mr. Harry Gill. But when I read his reckless articles, I consider what my brother said to me a few years ago “Haters...

Alcohol is insidious

May 25, 2011 KNews Letters Comments Off on Alcohol is insidious

Dear Editor The Government has launched its Feminition Women’s Expo weekend. The press releases from the launch indicate that Banks DIH, DDL and Ansa McAl who all sell alcoholic and non-alcoholic...

Murder accused walks free

May 25, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Murder accused walks free

Twenty-eight year-old Bernstein James yesterday walked out of the Mahaica Magistrate’s Court a free man, freed of the charge of murder. He had been accused of killing his brother Floyd James, on...

PM Hinds cannot deny he spoke to me on March 4

May 25, 2011 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on PM Hinds cannot deny he spoke to me on March 4

The Prime Minister can hardly deny speaking to citizens when he is on the streets of Georgetown, because there are also five attendants who can testify to his action. The PM always has with him five...

Power and Sex

May 25, 2011 KNews Editorial Comments Off on Power and Sex

Henry Kissinger, who knew a thing or two about power in his days, once pithily remarked that power was the ultimate aphrodisiac. Nothing that has happened before and since – culminating with the...

The Legacy of Dr. Cheddi Jagan is Tarnished

May 25, 2011 KNews Letters Comments Off on The Legacy of Dr. Cheddi Jagan is Tarnished

Dear Editor Everyday one reads in the daily newspapers of corruption, crimes, substandard works and family disruption. In post 1992, many Guyanese felt that such attritions would no longer happen....

THE PRESIDENTIAL DEBATES…

May 25, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on THE PRESIDENTIAL DEBATES…

Democracy is electronic these days. Television is all. Look at the history from poor Richard Nixon in 1960 (he looked shifty and he never changed that image until he resigned in 1973) to...

Is PPP really a democratically elected Gov’t?

May 25, 2011 KNews Letters Comments Off on Is PPP really a democratically elected Gov’t?

Dear Editor, Kindly allow me to respond to Mr Vishnu BIsram’s letter, “ One can’t bully his or her way into governance when rejected by the voters,” (KN 05-20-11). Mr Bisram on several...

Let the PPP account for its years in office

May 25, 2011 KNews Letters Comments Off on Let the PPP account for its years in office

Dear Editor, There seems to be an orchestrated and concerted effort on the part of the PPP/C and its collaborators to make their campaign theme “28 years of PNC”, a strategy they hope will cause...

A deplorable situation

May 25, 2011 KNews Letters Comments Off on A deplorable situation

Dear Editor, I would like to draw your attention to the deplorable state of the Diamond Community Center Street (aka Cinema Street) on the East Bank of Demerara. Attached is a picture of what happens...

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