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Letter to the Sports Editor….GFF General Council should seek sanction for Beckles

Oct 02, 2011 KNews Sports Comments Off on Letter to the Sports Editor….GFF General Council should seek sanction for Beckles

Dear Sports Editor, The comment solicited from Carlton Beckles Secretary, Bartica Football Association, by Sports Journalist Marlon Munroe, in an article captioned “Time to end...

Cricket Crisis – The Minister must demonstrate proper leadership

Oct 02, 2011 KNews Sports Comments Off on Cricket Crisis – The Minister must demonstrate proper leadership

Dear Editor, I have been following with interest at home and abroad (Trinidad), the crisis in Guyana cricket as it has been unfolding over the past two (2) years. It has become evident that...

New Amsterdam – Guyana’s oldest town

Oct 02, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on New Amsterdam – Guyana’s oldest town

The new New Amsterdam celebrates its 120th anniversary as a town this week. The celebration climaxes this weekend with the Town Day, Street Fair and Wash down, events that many people look...

And they’re off!!

Oct 02, 2011 KNews Editorial Comments Off on And they’re off!!

The Presidential Sweepstakes have been five years in the making. It leads to the largest prize in Guyana: occupancy of one of the most powerful offices in the world (if we go by the powers and...

Sir Shridath Ramphal calls on regional governments to support CCJ

Oct 02, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Sir Shridath Ramphal calls on regional governments to support CCJ

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – Prominent international diplomat Sir Shridath Ramphal has called on regional countries to put their legal houses in order and act in a “mature and creative...

ImmigrationTALK: Fraud Indicators to Avoid in the Immigration Process

Oct 02, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on ImmigrationTALK: Fraud Indicators to Avoid in the Immigration Process

By: Attorney Gail S. Seeram, [email protected] There are millions of immigration petitions processed by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and the U.S. Department of State. ...

HOUSING AND YOU: Illegal sand dumping and road damage

Oct 02, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on HOUSING AND YOU: Illegal sand dumping and road damage

By Leonard Gildarie This week my mind was running on a number of issues to write on but a simmering incident over the past days persuaded me that there is a more pertinent matter to be discussed at...

Being Grateful

Oct 02, 2011 KNews Features / Columnists, Food For Thought Comments Off on Being Grateful

I remember sitting with my dog, reading positive materials, surrounded by beauty. I felt a sense of calm and fulfillment. I was so grateful for my surroundings and my family and good...

Breaking new ground, setting new standards…The story of National Testing Week in Guyana

Oct 02, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Breaking new ground, setting new standards…The story of National Testing Week in Guyana

It is the largest public health activity on the annual calendar of the National AIDS Programme Secretariat (NAPS)/Ministry of Health and stands as a glaring testimony of the incredible...

Public Works Ministry to implement stringent weight limits for heavy duty vehicles

Oct 02, 2011 KNews News 3

-“… we have one BK International truck carrying the weight of ten ordinary trucks combined.” Billions of dollars are being spent on road construction in Guyana and while no one will complain...

Uitvlugt Methodist Church was founded by son of indentured labourers

Oct 02, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Uitvlugt Methodist Church was founded by son of indentured labourers

– preaching started under starapple tree Who would have thought that the founder of a local church of the Christian Methodists organization would have been a first generation...

Raj Mangal cremated after stirring tributes

Oct 02, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Raj Mangal cremated after stirring tributes

Honest, incorruptible, accountable, preserving, patriotic, reliable, dedicated, committed, a man of values and principles, outspoken and someone who believed that the impossible can become possible....

Jamaican nightclub owner remanded for prostituting Guyanese teen

Oct 02, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Jamaican nightclub owner remanded for prostituting Guyanese teen

Jamaica (JamaicaGleaner) – Hermelinda Parker, the former proprietor of the Latin Movement Nightclub at Dunrobin Plaza, St Andrew, has been charged with trafficking in persons. She appeared in...

Guyanese duo found guilty in Canadian backtrack case

Oct 02, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Guyanese duo found guilty in Canadian backtrack case

Canada (telegraphjournal)- A judge found three people, among them two Guyanese, guilty on Friday of conspiracy to induce people to enter the United States illegally. Judge William McCarroll...

Namilco launches new products at GuyExpo

Oct 02, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Namilco launches new products at GuyExpo

Namilco, the country’s lone flour mill, is releasing two new products – Parsad Mix and SIrnee Mix – at GuyExpo 2011. Free samples are available for both products at their Namilco...

From the Diaspora…..GRANGER: “I WILL REDUCE THE POWERS OF THE PRESIDENCY”

Oct 02, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on From the Diaspora…..GRANGER: “I WILL REDUCE THE POWERS OF THE PRESIDENCY”

By Ralph Seeram Five or six years ago the Guyanese American Cultural Association of Central Florida held a Guyana Day celebration to coincide with Guyana’s Independence Anniversary. We knew that...

Guyanese held in St. Lucia drug bust…Detainees face at least 10 years jail

Oct 02, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Guyanese held in St. Lucia drug bust…Detainees face at least 10 years jail

The six Guyanese who were arrested last Saturday after their vessel was intercepted in St Lucia waters were on Friday evening slapped with ten charges. According to news out of St Lucia...

Jimmy Carter invites Sir Ronald Sanders to join ‘Friends’

Oct 02, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Jimmy Carter invites Sir Ronald Sanders to join ‘Friends’

Sir Ronald Sanders, the Guyana-born international consultant, writer and a former Caribbean diplomat, has been invited by former US President, Jimmy Carter, to join the group of...

Armed gunmen attack, rob and chop ‘Rambo’

Oct 02, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Armed gunmen attack, rob and chop ‘Rambo’

While listening to music and entertaining some guests in his home yesterday afternoon, at his Lot 75 Dennis Street, Campbellville residence, Ramon Gaskin, was attacked and chopped by one of three...

The time has come for CHANGE!

Oct 02, 2011 KNews AFC Column, Features / Columnists Comments Off on The time has come for CHANGE!

By Anita Jaikaran From a recent trip to Guyana, I am just appalled by the many excuses that the Guyanese people, especially and most surprisingly, the youths, are fabricating not to vote in the...

Surama Eco Lodge…Exhibits unique in concept and execution

Oct 02, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Surama Eco Lodge…Exhibits unique in concept and execution

There is an array of exhibits on display in this year’s GuyExpo. Walking through one will find that there is something for everyone and their preferences such as Fab-Star pre...

Border dispute…Guyana, Venezuela to negotiate maritime issue

Oct 02, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Border dispute…Guyana, Venezuela to negotiate maritime issue

In a move geared to diffuse tensions, Guyana and Venezuela have signed a joint declaration to negotiate the delimitation of maritime boundaries between the two countries. The agreement was signed on...

Strange sensations inside of me Thursday evening at Buxton

Oct 02, 2011 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on Strange sensations inside of me Thursday evening at Buxton

I first met Walter Rodney one evening at a political rally. The time was 1974. The place was the George Walcott Lecture Theatre at UG. It was his first political outing on the campus after the UG...

Baksh underscores parental involvement in children’s education

Oct 02, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Baksh underscores parental involvement in children’s education

Education Minister Shaik Baksh has said that while more parents in the past few years have been paying greater attention to their children’s education, many are still to come on...

Who’s calling on my dead daughter’s phone?

Oct 02, 2011 KNews Features / Columnists, Murder and Mystery Comments Off on Who’s calling on my dead daughter’s phone?

-a killer may be playing a sadistic game with a Charlestown family By Michael Jordan A rather odd thing happened at Yvette Parris’ Sussex Street home last March. The phone in her home rang, but...

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Tennis Association applauds historic GYD $8 billion allocation to the sports sector in the 2025 National Budget

‘Govt. must come clean on gas-to-energy project’

– spending US$2B on a project without financial, environmental studies is criminality at its worst – WPA Kaieteur... more