August 2011

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The Commonwealth: Making it work for people

Aug 21, 2011 KNews Features / Columnists, Ronald Sanders Comments Off on The Commonwealth: Making it work for people

By Sir Ronald Sanders (The writer is a member of the Commonwealth Eminent Persons Group appointed to recommend ways to reform the Commonwealth) Following a year of work, including...

Missile Crisis

Aug 21, 2011 KNews Features / Columnists, Ravi Dev Comments Off on Missile Crisis

Mr Kwayana has concluded that I have constructed “a kind of standing missile defence system around the PPP to save it, the PPP from attack.” And just what is this missile system? It...

CORRUPTION AND SILENCE IN GUYANA

Aug 21, 2011 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on CORRUPTION AND SILENCE IN GUYANA

For a long time, a very long time, there have been rumours about the degree to which drug cartels may have compromised the Guyana Police Force. There was even the well-known case in...

Policemen are human beings too

Aug 21, 2011 KNews Features / Columnists, My Column Comments Off on Policemen are human beings too

Almost all of this week there was damning news about policemen providing cover for drug lords and for drug dealers. When I read the first article I concluded that somewhere along the line one...

Mr. Martinez and his apartment of secrets

Aug 21, 2011 KNews Features / Columnists, Murder and Mystery Comments Off on Mr. Martinez and his apartment of secrets

– It took a gruesome killing for a nine-year affair to come to light By Michael Jordan I guess you can call it a jigsaw puzzle with missing pieces. We know the killer. We know his...

My bedroom window looks down onto a pimper’s paradise

Aug 21, 2011 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on My bedroom window looks down onto a pimper’s paradise

I wouldn’t know where to start if I was asked to name some of the songs I think are phenomenally lovely. And I guess that goes for all the folks in the world. But I know five songs...

The Golden lion tamarin (Leontopithecus rosalia)

Aug 21, 2011 KNews Features / Columnists, Interesting Creatures in Guyana Comments Off on The Golden lion tamarin (Leontopithecus rosalia)

Interesting Creatures… The golden lion tamarin (Leontopithecus rosalia) also known as the golden marmoset, is a small New World monkey of the family Callitrichidae. Native to the...

The AFC’s alternative plan to the OLPF

Aug 21, 2011 KNews AFC Column, Features / Columnists Comments Off on The AFC’s alternative plan to the OLPF

By Gerhard Ramsaroop The AFC would like to reiterate its position that the PPP’s insistence on spending six billion dollars on 90,000 laptops – under the One Laptop Per Family...

Mr. Bisram is just laughing at the newspapers

Aug 21, 2011 KNews Letters Comments Off on Mr. Bisram is just laughing at the newspapers

Dear Editor, I write in relation to a correspondence by M. Maxwell (KN – Mon. Aug 15 and SN -Tues Aug 16) with very similar titles requesting both papers to desist from publishing polls...

Absolute balderdash

Aug 21, 2011 KNews Letters Comments Off on Absolute balderdash

Dear Editor, I would greatly crave your indulgence in publishing this piece because it pains me to see what is happening in our country, yet those who are in-charge seem to be in a...

These are facts that cannot be wished away or erased

Aug 21, 2011 KNews Letters Comments Off on These are facts that cannot be wished away or erased

Dear Editor, It is amazing how much life has changed over the past two decades or so. This is reflected among other ways, in the increasing number of Guyanese who today own their own...

BRIC, India and the knowledge economy

Aug 21, 2011 KNews Letters Comments Off on BRIC, India and the knowledge economy

Dear Editor Not too long ago, the economic invincibility of the developed world seemed immovable. But then BRIC (Brazil, Russia, India, and China) came along as serious contenders. The...

The authors of these blogs lack evidence

Aug 21, 2011 KNews Letters Comments Off on The authors of these blogs lack evidence

Dear Editor, Guyana has turned into a democratic country with the most enhanced and easily accessible form of electronic communications that are almost to the standards of developed...

Ramjattan’s twisted reasoning

Aug 21, 2011 KNews Letters Comments Off on Ramjattan’s twisted reasoning

Dear Editor, Mr. Ramjattan of the AFC has often remarked at community meetings of the AFC that the PPPC has not done enough for Indo-Guyanese. Is it not a double standard for him to now...

Freddie vs Jagdeo court battle begins

Aug 20, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Freddie vs Jagdeo court battle begins

– Court told Ambassadors, heads of key state agencies all Indians – Luncheon claims Govt. impartial By Latoya Giles The highly published and much anticipated...

Speeding car flies into upper flat living room

Aug 20, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Speeding car flies into upper flat living room

A family of three got the shock of their lives early yesterday morning when a car smashed into the upper flat of their two-storey house at Lot 35 Bagotstown, East Bank Demerara (EBD). The...

Ed Ahmad indicted on US$50M bank fraud

Aug 20, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Ed Ahmad indicted on US$50M bank fraud

– faces maximum of 30 years if convicted A federal grand jury in Brooklyn, USA, has returned an indictment charging Guyanese businessman Edul Ahmad with participating in a mortgage fraud...

Dem boys seh…..Rat get more troublesome

Aug 20, 2011 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Dem boys seh…..Rat get more troublesome

Rat don’t done. Dem ain’t satisfy wid politics; dem gone and attack a man in de North West. De man lie down in de mortuary dead as a nit. Hat didn’t save he because dem rat...

Employees prime suspects in Konawaruk double-murder

Aug 20, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Employees prime suspects in Konawaruk double-murder

-police The father and son who were slain at a Konawaruk mining camp were apparently murdered by some of their colleagues and not by bandits as was first reported. A police official disclosed that...

Popular Robb St. businessman found murdered in home

Aug 20, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Popular Robb St. businessman found murdered in home

By Latoya Giles The Robb Street business community was left in shock and disbelief after the owner of Rachpaul’s Drug Store, was found murdered in his home early...

Cops to charge couple, teenage son

Aug 20, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Cops to charge couple, teenage son

$300M cocaine bust… – Attorney Police have indicated that they will charge Haslington New Scheme residents, Leonard Bacchus, his wife and teenage son, in connection with the...

US$42M electricity upgrade project launched

Aug 20, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on US$42M electricity upgrade project launched

– includes 110km transmission lines, 7 sub-stations, modern control room Government yesterday unveiled a major US$42M ($8.4B) project that will see the replacement of 110km of...

Preparations for fifth Guyana Fashion Weekend heating up

Aug 20, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Preparations for fifth Guyana Fashion Weekend heating up

– CEO says magazine almost completed By Sean Devers Preparations for this year’s Guyana Fashion Weekend (GFW) is heating up and according to CEO of the event,...

Alleged fraudster remanded

Aug 20, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Alleged fraudster remanded

Twenty-six year-old Vishaul Ramoutar, who is before the court on a fraudulent conversion charge, was yesterday remanded to prison until September 9. When Ramoutar appeared before Magistrate Hazel...

Bicycle thief jailed for five years

Aug 20, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Bicycle thief jailed for five years

A man with a penchant for other people’s bicycles appeared yesterday before Magistrate Hazel Octive-Hamilton where he was arraigned on the charges of robbery under arms and larceny, and...

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Tahir (5-17), Mehidy (3-13) magic show leaves Kings in disarray as...

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2026 Republic Bank CPL…GAW vs. SKL (Kaieteur News) – Two mind-boggling spells from spin wizard Imran Tahir, who put on a magic show for his 5-fer, backed by Mehidy Hasan Miraz’s 3 wickets on...

When someone we love is taken from us

Sep 10, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – After my first encounter with the Guru, I had to probe for some more life lessons. I pressed Guru a much heavier question. “Guru,” I said, “how does one recover from losing someone one loves?” He did not answer immediately. Perhaps there are some questions that deserve...

The World Has Broken the 1.5°C Promise. Small States Should Not Have...

Sep 06, 2026

By Sir Ronald Sanders (Kaieteur News) – The world has broken the 1.5°C promise it made to its most vulnerable countries. The breach has not yet been recorded on a sustained basis, but the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) says it is widely assessed as unavoidable and likely within the...

A double centurion-not Roman, but Guyanese

Sep 10, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – I have honoured before and lived to regret the lapse. In the instance of Chartered Accountant, attorney-at-law, and social activist, there is firm belief that I’m on good grounds to publish this tribute. For the milestone of his 200th oil and gas column. A milestone...

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