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$69M reconstructed NIS Corriverton office…Jail corrupt state officials, contractors involved in blatant fraud – Ramjattan

Aug 30, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on $69M reconstructed NIS Corriverton office…Jail corrupt state officials, contractors involved in blatant fraud – Ramjattan

“It is utterly ridiculous. I believe we have to jail some of these corrupt contractors, and more importantly, the state officials involved in these blatant frauds.”...

More ‘white elephants’

Aug 30, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on More ‘white elephants’

– Market tarmacs underutilised Government has produced even more white elephants after developing market tarmacs in rural areas which cost a lot of money and are not being utilised as they...

Freddie vs Jagdeo libel case…Court hears Black candidates overlooked for DPP position

Aug 30, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Freddie vs Jagdeo libel case…Court hears Black candidates overlooked for DPP position

The High Court yesterday heard how President Bharrat Jagdeo overlooked two Afro-Guyanese candidates for the post of Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) in favour of Indo-Guyanese, as the libel case...

Dem boys seh…Nutten doing wid engineer’s estimate

Aug 30, 2011 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Dem boys seh…Nutten doing wid engineer’s estimate

Dem small contractor got a new plan fuh build people house. Lang time a man use to look at a plan, do he calculation and come up wid he estimate. De person who building de house had de...

The post-colonial insanity of the PPP

Aug 30, 2011 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on The post-colonial insanity of the PPP

The story of the failed leaders who inherited the territories of the Third World after the white man left is tragic in the extreme. No writer with access to Dickensian ability to use the English...

NACTA Findings: Ramotar Preferred for Presidency

Aug 30, 2011 KNews Letters Comments Off on NACTA Findings: Ramotar Preferred for Presidency

Dear Editor, A tracking opinion survey on Guyana’s general elections conducted by NACTA in mid-August showed the PPP Presidential candidate Donald Ramotar is more preferred over David...

Stop beating around the bush – Forbes Burnham was a dictator

Aug 30, 2011 KNews Letters Comments Off on Stop beating around the bush – Forbes Burnham was a dictator

Dear Editor, Men like Brynmor T.I. Pollard, C.C.H, SC. should not try to fool people (“A response to the frequent references to dictatorial rule in Guyana”, KN, August 27, 2011). The...

Summer Foolishness

Aug 30, 2011 KNews Letters Comments Off on Summer Foolishness

Dear Editor, We’ve had summer schools, summer sizzles, summer camps, summer parties etc, etc, etc. Now, to crown it all, we have an ‘end of summer’ affair. Could someone, anyone, please,...

Police in Kitty are ignoring reports about this nuisance

Aug 30, 2011 KNews Letters Comments Off on Police in Kitty are ignoring reports about this nuisance

Dear Editor, For over two months someone has been riding a black motor cycle through the streets of Kitty much to the annoyance of residents. This motorcycle is very noisy since it has no...

Yet another stark reminder of what can happen when the masses rise up from their slumber

Aug 30, 2011 KNews Letters Comments Off on Yet another stark reminder of what can happen when the masses rise up from their slumber

Dear Editor, Events in Libya are now at the centre of global attention. It has been nearly six months since attempts by the rebel force aided and abetted by Western powers have been trying to...

Both Britain and the United States bear responsibility

Aug 30, 2011 KNews Letters Comments Off on Both Britain and the United States bear responsibility

Dear Editor, The recent release of classified information pertaining to the role of the British Government in the overthrow of the democratically elected PPP government did not come as a...

Greenidge ignores inconvenient truth

Aug 30, 2011 KNews Letters Comments Off on Greenidge ignores inconvenient truth

Dear Editor, Mr. Carl Greenidge ought to be ashamed of himself and should know that his recent press statements are not only intellectual dishonesty, but reckless. That he was a part of a Government...

Myles, Carto, Walcott for CYG

Aug 30, 2011 KNews Sports Comments Off on Myles, Carto, Walcott for CYG

Hampton Games two-time gold medalist, Malcolm Walcott along with national sprinters, Letitia Myles and Tiffany Carto were chosen by Athletics Association Guyana (AAG) to represent Guyana at...

TD Shabazz excited to be back at the helm

Aug 30, 2011 KNews Sports Comments Off on TD Shabazz excited to be back at the helm

-lauds the selfless effort of ‘Ultimate Warrior’ Technical Director of Guyana’s senior national team ‘the Golden Jaguars’ Trinidadian Jamal Shabazz in an interview with...

Bancroft is 2-day tourney best boxer

Aug 30, 2011 KNews Sports Comments Off on Bancroft is 2-day tourney best boxer

Ian Bancroft won the best boxer accolade when a two-day amateur boxing tournament was held last weekend at the Andrew Sixhead Lewis Boxing Gym in Albouystown. The tournament was sponsored by...

Local boxers experience mixed fortunes in Barbados invitational goodwill tourney

Aug 30, 2011 KNews Sports Comments Off on Local boxers experience mixed fortunes in Barbados invitational goodwill tourney

Guyanese boxers experienced mixed fortunes when they engaged their Barbados counterparts in a one night goodwill tournament hosted at the Springer Memorial Auditorium, St Michael Barbados,...

Champtress rules the roost at Rising Sun

Aug 30, 2011 KNews Sports Comments Off on Champtress rules the roost at Rising Sun

Jumbo Jet stables take top honours once again By Samuel Whyte It was Champtress that did the trick as the racehorse owned by Dennis DeRoop of The Simple Royal Stable of Corentyne...

Scott Service Station fuel D&C Promotions T20 tourney

Aug 30, 2011 KNews Sports Comments Off on Scott Service Station fuel D&C Promotions T20 tourney

Event bowls off on September 3 @ BCCG Scott Service Station of Bartica is the latest corporate entity to lend support to the 2nd edition of the D&C Promotions Twenty20 knock out cricket...

GDF, GPF rebound to avenge early losses

Aug 30, 2011 KNews Sports Comments Off on GDF, GPF rebound to avenge early losses

Milo Under-23 Football Tournament – Riddim Squad draw with Northern Rangers The Guyana Defence Force (GDF) rebounded from their opening round loss to Flamingo to inflict a 2-1 win...

Webster, Hussain capture top podium spots in Rapid Chess tournament

Aug 30, 2011 KNews Sports Comments Off on Webster, Hussain capture top podium spots in Rapid Chess tournament

Learie Webster of the West Demerara and Rashad Hussain of Mae’s Secondary emerged victorious in the senior and junior categories respectively, when the Guyana Chess Federation (GCF) staged...

Food for the Poor (Guy) Inc supports Berbice Cricket Board

Aug 30, 2011 KNews Sports Comments Off on Food for the Poor (Guy) Inc supports Berbice Cricket Board

The Administration of the Berbice Cricket Board was earlier this week given a shot in the arm when Food for the Poor (Guy) Inc donated a set of office furniture to the Board. The donation...

Amputee holds fitness walkathon

Aug 30, 2011 KNews Sports Comments Off on Amputee holds fitness walkathon

Amputee William France hosted his fifth fitness for life walkathon yesterday from the Two Brothers Gas Station at Eccles to the Mocha Road Head on the East Bank Demerara. Being the original...

Leaked embassy cables…”Ironic” Luncheon gets eye treatment in US; normal Guyanese go to Cuba

Aug 30, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Leaked embassy cables…”Ironic” Luncheon gets eye treatment in US; normal Guyanese go to Cuba

– Chinese-built convention centre described as white elephant The US had found it ironic that a senior government official, Dr. Roger Luncheon, sought emergency eye care in that country...

Tottering from precipice to precipice

Aug 30, 2011 KNews Editorial Comments Off on Tottering from precipice to precipice

Guyana is a country tottering from one indignity to another. The government talks about good governance, but exposes in the WikiLeaks cables tell another story. Perhaps the most...

Lumber shortage… Industry eyes alternative wood species for govt. contracts

Aug 30, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Lumber shortage… Industry eyes alternative wood species for govt. contracts

– price website, wallaba posts among options mulled By Leonard Gildarie A major meeting between players in the wood business, last Friday, while not immediately finding solutions to...

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$1.5M up for grabs at K&S National Futsal Championship

A broad-based movement for the people’s voice on oil

…Peeping Tom Kaieteur News- The call for a referendum on Guyana’s oil contract is a step in the right direction,... more