July 2011

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The rationale behind our objection to the reopening of the Claims and Objections period

Jul 17, 2011 knews AFC Column, Features / Columnists Comments Off on The rationale behind our objection to the reopening of the Claims and Objections period

The Alliance For Change has noted with concern, the fact that the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) is currently giving serious consideration to a request from the PPP to reopen the claims and...

Looking at a challenging education system

Jul 17, 2011 knews Features / Columnists, My Column Comments Off on Looking at a challenging education system

By Adam Harris This past week, 515 more trained teachers entered the system. Last year, a similar number graduated from the Cyril Potter College of Education and they were all supposed to add to the...

Building your home? (Low-cost housing and the Int’l Building Expo)

Jul 17, 2011 knews News Comments Off on Building your home? (Low-cost housing and the Int’l Building Expo)

By Leonard Gildarie Everybody wants a good deal…whether you are shopping for a TV, groceries, a car or even a building, or simply renovating your home. And there are good deals and savings to be...

Bernardo Bertolucci’s “Last Tango in Paris”

Jul 17, 2011 knews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on Bernardo Bertolucci’s “Last Tango in Paris”

They say life is what you make it. But life has its ugly moments when regrets and angst take over as you watch how history merges into the present. It was Tom Dalgetty who wrote a few years back in a...

Who murdered the spiritualist’s family?

Jul 17, 2011 knews Features / Columnists, Murder and Mystery Comments Off on Who murdered the spiritualist’s family?

By Michael Jordan If you’re receptive enough, there are crime scenes that you will visit where you’ll feel an overwhelming presence of evil. That’s happened to me twice; back in 2000, when I...

The Baccoo Speaks

Jul 17, 2011 knews Features / Columnists, The Baccoo Speaks Comments Off on The Baccoo Speaks

The recent arrest of some suspected bandits has placed a damper on another group that had planned a similar campaign. The issue at hand is that the increased police patrols are actually serving a...

Ethnic Impact Statement

Jul 17, 2011 knews Features / Columnists, Ravi Dev Comments Off on Ethnic Impact Statement

(For the umpteenth time we offer this proposal to reduce ethnic bickering leading to conflict) In all societies, citizens critically evaluate the policies and activities of the incumbent government:...

A FORENSIC AUDIT IS NEEDED

Jul 17, 2011 knews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on A FORENSIC AUDIT IS NEEDED

A major fraud has reportedly taken place at the Ministry of Finance. The sum believed to have been fraudulently paid out to undeserving persons is said to be nearing the $200 million mark –...

Pauline Massey is new President

Jul 17, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Pauline Massey is new President

Pauline Massay is the new President of the Lions Club of Central Demerara which recently installed a new executive for the fiscal year. Massay took over the presidency from Sharon Letlow to become...

Immigration TALK: Acquiring U.S. Citizenship through Birth to a U.S. Citizen Parent

Jul 17, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Immigration TALK: Acquiring U.S. Citizenship through Birth to a U.S. Citizen Parent

By Attorney Gail S. Seeram This past week, the question of deriving U.S. citizenship from a U.S. citizen parent arose more than once, so I wanted to educate my readers on this sometimes confusing...

Education sector progress depends on behavioural change – Baksh

Jul 17, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Education sector progress depends on behavioural change – Baksh

The education sector is unlike other sectors that deal with crop cultivation, building of roads, and housing development. It depends on stakeholder participation to get result, says Minister of...

Teaching is one of the most demanding professions

Jul 17, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Teaching is one of the most demanding professions

– Prof Samad tells graduating teachers at CPCE graduation “Teaching is one of the most demanding of the professions. This is so because the real teacher never stops teaching; it is in you and...

Bel Air Park multi-million$$$ heist… Seven remanded

Jul 16, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Bel Air Park multi-million$$$ heist… Seven remanded

Seven of the eight people that were arrested following the daring robbery at businessman Malcolm Panday’s residence at Bel Air on Tuesday, were arraigned yesterday at the Georgetown Magistrates’...

Strange text messages from Digicel phones target Cellink users’ pockets

Jul 16, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Strange text messages from Digicel phones target Cellink users’ pockets

– GT&T invokes PUC Many Cellink customers have been receiving text messages on their mobile phones inviting them to return calls to a number that appears to have been trying to reach the...

Rape accused doctor still in custody

Jul 16, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Rape accused doctor still in custody

Convicted sex felon, Dr. Vishwamintra Persaud, remained in custody yesterday as police continued their investigations into allegations that he sexually assaulted a 13-year-old girl. Police officials...

Notorious pirate “Long Hair” caught in Suriname

Jul 16, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Notorious pirate “Long Hair” caught in Suriname

Convicted pirate Kevin ‘Long Hair’ Narine, who broke out of New Amsterdam Prison with three others last month, has reportedly been arrested in Suriname. According to GFC Nieuws, the Guyanese...

APNU formally launched

Jul 16, 2011 knews News Comments Off on APNU formally launched

…fails to announce any new major partners A Partnership for National Unity (APNU) was formally launched last evening, with a fusion of African and Indian drumming and dance. The partnership sees...

AFC pickets GECOM

Jul 16, 2011 knews News Comments Off on AFC pickets GECOM

– opposes reopening to claims and objections period The Alliance For Change (AFC) is opposing the reopening of the Claims and Objections. In protest, the political party staged a peaceful...

Dem boys seh…Is everybody thiefing

Jul 16, 2011 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Dem boys seh…Is everybody thiefing

When cell phone come people who had feel big. Was a big monster that weigh about ten pounds. Then it get smaller and smaller. Even poor people run and buy. Some people rather buy phone credit than...

NO MAJOR CONTRACT IN AN ELECTION YEAR

Jul 16, 2011 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on NO MAJOR CONTRACT IN AN ELECTION YEAR

It is a convention that in an election year, the sitting government does not sign any major contracts that can bind future governments. In Guyana’s context, the signing of a contract to construct a...

‘Normal’ teenage behaviour turned out to be dangerous depression

Jul 16, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on ‘Normal’ teenage behaviour turned out to be dangerous depression

They are many signs that indicate normal teenage behaviour. Mild depression is one of them; but its consequence is widely underestimated. Manoj Amit Persaud,15, of Little Diamond, East Bank Demerara,...

Security Guard found dead on worksite

Jul 16, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Security Guard found dead on worksite

Workers at a construction site yesterday stumbled on the body of one of their colleague after searching for him for some time. Workers turned up for duty yesterday at a building located at the corner...

Post mortem confirms causes of Essequibo death

Jul 16, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Post mortem confirms causes of Essequibo death

Exactly, two days after their bodies were discovered, aback of Adventure on Wednesday, July 13, last, Government pathologist, Nehaul Singh, conducted a post mortem examination on Ranveer ‘Randy’...

Corentyne centenarian reaches an amazing 110 years

Jul 16, 2011 KNews News 1

By Leon Suseran It is said that the best things are hidden far away, and perhaps that is true, since Guyana’s oldest citizen is quietly living out her God-given blessings in a village called Little...

Man admits to breaking into games store

Jul 16, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Man admits to breaking into games store

The man who broke and entered a game shop and stole a quantity of items was yesterday jailed for 12 months. The 20-year-old pleaded guilty and subsequently told the court, “I thief it yes but (the...

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Bread, circuses and the price of silence

Sep 03, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – Juvenal, the Roman satirist, looked upon his fellow citizens nearly two thousand years ago and wondered what had become of a people who once cared passionately about the affairs of the Republic. “We have sold our votes,” he wrote, before observing that the Roman citizenry...

Haiti after Kenscoff: Pledges and Promises Do Not Stop the Killing

Aug 30, 2026

By Sir Ronald Sanders (Kaieteur News) – For generations, Kenscoff was where people from Port-au-Prince went to breathe. Its cool hills offered relief, and its farmers supplied the capital’s markets. Gang attacks reached the commune in January 2025, but it remained an important barrier between...

From gunboat and Ping-Pong diplomacy to gangster diplomacy

Sep 04, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – There was U.S. President James Munroe and his stellar vision: Manifest Destiny. Then came Presidents Andrew Jackson and Zachary Taylor, among others. Men of military acclaim; generals who laid claim to personal heraldry. Native American Indian tribes chased from their...

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