August 2011

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What if? A picture painted from the MI5 files

Aug 31, 2011 KNews Letters Comments Off on What if? A picture painted from the MI5 files

Dear Editor, Reading the MI5 files released on Guyana, I decided to explore what Guyana would have looked like if the PPP won the election outright in 1964. Guyana got PNC dictatorship...

A 100 percent increase in salary for all qualified teachers

Aug 31, 2011 KNews Letters Comments Off on A 100 percent increase in salary for all qualified teachers

Dear Editor, I am happy to see that the AFC is focused on raising people’s salaries in tandem with reducing taxes (the VAT). This is very good news for Guyanese and they should take the AFC’s...

The Guyana Revenue Authority has a zero tolerance position on fraud

Aug 31, 2011 KNews Letters Comments Off on The Guyana Revenue Authority has a zero tolerance position on fraud

Dear Editor, The Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) is once again expressing its dissatisfaction with the ‘print and apologize’ methodology employed by the Kaieteur News. Reference is hereby...

Hurricane Irene effects still being felt

Aug 31, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Hurricane Irene effects still being felt

– Irate CAL passengers stranded at CJIA A large group of furious passengers were yesterday made to wait at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport (CJIA) in great discomfort after a number of...

Migration and Population

Aug 31, 2011 KNews Editorial Comments Off on Migration and Population

The WikiLeaks revelation that the US had issued 73,000 immigrant visas to Guyanese between 1992 and 2004 should not have raised too many eyebrows. Every Guyanese family (at least on the coast) has at...

Bandits threaten to kill employees during woodworking shop hold-up

Aug 31, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Bandits threaten to kill employees during woodworking shop hold-up

Employees at a Kersaint Park, La Bonne Intention, East Coast Demerara woodworking establishment are trying to put behind them the experience of 45 minutes of terror at the hands of four...

Condoms attract sizeable bids at Tender Board

Aug 31, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Condoms attract sizeable bids at Tender Board

Three bids were opened for the supply and delivery of male and female condoms under the Health Ministry’s Materials Management Unit (MMU), yesterday at National Procurement and Tender...

Guyanese businessman among top 25 most influential Indians in North America

Aug 31, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Guyanese businessman among top 25 most influential Indians in North America

Guyana-born Ashook Ramsaran was among nine persons of Indian-origin honoured at a very high profile awards event held on August 14 at the Sutton Hotel in Toronto. Ramsaran was...

Wakenaam shopkeeper found dead in bed

Aug 31, 2011 KNews News 2

– foul play ruled out Mary Narine, a 61-year-old widow and shopkeeper who lived alone at Maria’s Pleasure, Wakenaam, was discovered dead in her home early yesterday morning by...

Lindeners receive much-needed wheelchairs

Aug 31, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Lindeners receive much-needed wheelchairs

Two Lindeners, who have been immobilized their entire lives due to health complications, yesterday received a new lease on life after they were each presented with wheelchairs, compliments of...

Wanton wastage of water in Craig resulting in residents’ suffering – GWI

Aug 31, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Wanton wastage of water in Craig resulting in residents’ suffering – GWI

Guyana Water Incorporated (GWI) has issued disconnection warnings to customers of Craig, East Bank Demerara, who were found engaging in wanton wastage which the company says significantly...

St. Sidwell’s Primary celebrates 100th anniversary

Aug 31, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on St. Sidwell’s Primary celebrates 100th anniversary

As the Saint Sidwell’s Primary School marks its 100th anniversary on Saturday (September 3), the institution’s staff has planned a week of activities, to commemorate this historical...

Nat’l Accreditation Council hosts important three-day workshop

Aug 31, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Nat’l Accreditation Council hosts important three-day workshop

The National Accreditation Council (NAC) is currently hosting a three-day peer review workshop with support from the Caricom Secretariat. The occasion was convened at the Pegasus Hotel,...

Murder accused vows to commit suicide

Aug 31, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Murder accused vows to commit suicide

High drama was the order of the day in Magistrate Hazel Octive-Hamilton’s courtroom yesterday, during the Preliminary Inquiry into the 2009 murder of Hector Marshall. The accused, Shawn...

HOLDING THE SECURITY SERVICES ACCOUNTABLE

Aug 31, 2011 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on HOLDING THE SECURITY SERVICES ACCOUNTABLE

The judiciary is independent of the executive. The police force and the military are not. The hierarchy of the police force enjoys operational independence. That is when it comes to the day-...

Feud escalates among Friendship farmers

Aug 31, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Feud escalates among Friendship farmers

– crops destroyed, death threats allegedly made An ongoing feud between farmers at Friendship, East Bank Demerara, escalated this week with one man accusing some members of the...

$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...

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UG Green Institute Prelim. Report Pt. 1

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Hard Truths by GHK Lall (Kaieteur News) – The University of Guyana Green Institute (UGGI) did its 60th Independence Survey. Titled: Guyana at 60: Trust, Oil, and the Society Being Built. The Preliminary Report is out. It’s a start. Guyanese get to hear from academics with their models and...

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