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Nagamootoo returns to Whim today

Oct 30, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Nagamootoo returns to Whim today

…former PPP member plagues the party In the incumbent People’s Progressive Party (PPP) they are lining up to castigate “The Naga” and they would have good reason to. This is the view...

US coke swallower nabbed at CJIA

Oct 30, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on US coke swallower nabbed at CJIA

A 28 year-old woman from the United States is currently under guard at a city hospital after she was nabbed at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport, Timehri, early Friday morning. According...

Mangrove Committee hosts Farmers’ market today

Oct 30, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Mangrove Committee hosts Farmers’ market today

Members of the Mangrove Reserve Women’s Agriculture Producers (MRWAP) group based at Cove and John East Coast Demerara, will host the first ever Farmers’ Market under the trees, today. The...

Young Lindener targets the young for academic development

Oct 30, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Young Lindener targets the young for academic development

In an era when too many youths are preoccupied with the Gaza and Gully culture, there are thankfully still quite a few for whom attaining a good education and making good career choices are...

Essequibo Police investigate maternal death

Oct 30, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Essequibo Police investigate maternal death

Detectives are in the process of obtaining statements from doctors and nurses, who were in charge of a patient, who died at the Suddie Public Hospital a few days after she had given...

Robbery under arms accused gets $100,000 bail

Oct 30, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Robbery under arms accused gets $100,000 bail

– police allegedly places false charge There was a controversial courtroom scene when an alleged robbery under arms detainee appeared to answer the charge against him. Vincent Hinds,...

“Loose cannon” remanded for multiple offenses in interior

Oct 30, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on “Loose cannon” remanded for multiple offenses in interior

A man who was described as a “loose cannon” was on Friday remanded to jail after he visited the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court to answer three separate charges. Malcolm Henry...

God is indeed watching us—but from a distance!!!

Oct 30, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on God is indeed watching us—but from a distance!!!

By Michael Benjamin Power– ultimate unbridled power! This seems to be the goal of the PPPC as General and Regional elections loom. At least this is according to Prime Ministerial...

AFC’s Action Plan is rooted in 200 Years of Knowledge – Part 2

Oct 30, 2011 KNews AFC Column, Exchange Rates Comments Off on AFC’s Action Plan is rooted in 200 Years of Knowledge – Part 2

By Dr. Tarron Khemraj INTRODUCTION It was noted in the first column that there are several conventional wisdoms that have been ventilated over the decades by practice and debates among...

Clogged canal frustrates Albouystown residents

Oct 30, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Clogged canal frustrates Albouystown residents

Irate residents in a section of Albouystown are expressing great disgust and frustration as it relates to a garbage pile-up in a nearby canal. The waterway in the vicinity of Albouys Street...

NCDs account for more disabilities than classical diseases

Oct 30, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on NCDs account for more disabilities than classical diseases

Although Guyana through the Ministry of Health has a vision where people live long disability-free and productive lives, the truth is that in the last few decades chronic...

Interesting Creatures…The Boa Constrictor

Oct 30, 2011 KNews Features / Columnists, Interesting Creatures in Guyana Comments Off on Interesting Creatures…The Boa Constrictor

The Boa constrictor is a large, heavy-bodied species of snake. It is a member of the family Boidae found in North, Central, and South America, as well as some islands in the Caribbean. A...

More Guyanese making positive lifestyle choices

Oct 30, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on More Guyanese making positive lifestyle choices

…as National Diabetes Programme intensifies Guyana like the rest of the world is facing a growing diabetes epidemic, and the Ministry of Health has been intensifying its approach to tackle and...

The desecration of the names of great humans

Oct 30, 2011 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on The desecration of the names of great humans

I cringed. I was nauseated at what Gail Teixeira wrote in support of Juan Edghill’s right as a religious preacher to enter politics (letter in both KN and SN). In doing so, she desecrated the...

From the Diaspora…TONE DOWN MR. PRESIDENT

Oct 30, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on From the Diaspora…TONE DOWN MR. PRESIDENT

By Ralph Seeram The nominations are in; the race has truly begun. You can tell by the “mudslinging” and character assassinations being lobbed by both opposition and the ruling party. It...

GT&T Jingle and Song Competition…The ‘sugar song’, Joel Ghansham and a 10-year-old handful

Oct 30, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on GT&T Jingle and Song Competition…The ‘sugar song’, Joel Ghansham and a 10-year-old handful

By Leonard Gildarie Well, it is here. I am not sure why I never took the opportunity to pay more attention to GT&T’s Cellink Jingle and Song Competition. But I am loving it! Reality TV, as...

ImmigrationTALK: E-Verify – Coming to your Employer Soon!

Oct 30, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on ImmigrationTALK: E-Verify – Coming to your Employer Soon!

By Attorney Gail S. Seeram, [email protected] The word “E-Verify” will soon be an everyday term or process used when applying for a job in the United States. E-Verify is free and...

Why is Arti Cameron not at Miss World?

Oct 30, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Why is Arti Cameron not at Miss World?

– A national beauty queen’s horror story A new Miss World would be crowned next Sunday, and it’s an absolute certainty that it would not be Miss Guyana – in fact, Arti...

The reality check is never far away

Oct 30, 2011 KNews Features / Columnists, My Column Comments Off on The reality check is never far away

I got a reality check the other day when I happened to be driving a Mercedes Benz along the streets of Georgetown. There were people who knew me but who perhaps because of the strangeness of...

Nagamootoo takes on Jagdeo

Oct 30, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Nagamootoo takes on Jagdeo

“…every time he opens his mouth on a public platform he speaks volumes of himself….I am not going to describe him, people will describe him” Head of State Bharrat Jagdeo has been...

IT IS THE PARTIES THAT MATTER!

Oct 30, 2011 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on IT IS THE PARTIES THAT MATTER!

Reality will eventually step in. All of the main political parties are at present basking in the trophies that they have captured in the game of psychological warfare being practiced. In this...

A panicking PPP resorts to its usual propaganda of divisiveness

Oct 30, 2011 KNews APNU Column, Features / Columnists Comments Off on A panicking PPP resorts to its usual propaganda of divisiveness

The seemingly endless column of citizens wearing the green of the APNU, on Nomination Day, Thursday 27 October, 2011, evidently sent the PPP propagandists into a frenzy of fear. As all...

Being Guyanese

Oct 30, 2011 KNews Ravi Dev Comments Off on Being Guyanese

One of the unfortunate characteristics of electioneering politics is while striving to prove they are each “better”, politicians stress only their differences. Over the years, we too have...

The Commonwealth: Will wise heads prevail?

Oct 30, 2011 KNews Features / Columnists, Ronald Sanders Comments Off on The Commonwealth: Will wise heads prevail?

By Sir Ronald Sanders (The writer is a member of the Eminent Persons Group that has produced a report on reform of the Commonwealth) A visitor to Perth in Australia during the week ending 30th...

The Baccoo Speaks

Oct 30, 2011 KNews Features / Columnists, The Baccoo Speaks Comments Off on The Baccoo Speaks

It seems impossible to curb the spate of road accidents. All of the drivers would think about safety until they get behind the wheel of a vehicle. That is when they throw caution to the...

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