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Four rescued after squall overturns boat

Dec 24, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Four rescued after squall overturns boat

Four men narrowly escaped drowning on Thursday after a boat powered by a 200 horsepower engine toppled over in the Essequibo River during a squall. The boat which is the property of the Region Two...

‘Fip’ deemed hopelessly behind schedule since April

Dec 24, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on ‘Fip’ deemed hopelessly behind schedule since April

…Luncheon says delay will not hamper financial closure for Hydro project With the US$15.4M Amaila Falls Road project which was handed to Makeshwar ‘Fip’ Motilall and Synergy Holdings Inc being...

Seven charged in Western Union heist

Dec 24, 2011 KNews News 6

-four refused bail Seven persons were charged yesterday in connection with last Wednesday’s 10M heist at a Church Street Western Union outlet. Four of the accused were remanded, while the...

Probation report blames education system failure for teen’s incarceration

Dec 24, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Probation report blames education system failure for teen’s incarceration

Guyana is quickly becoming a country where officials do as they please without consideration for the consequences. That was the summation of a Probation Report which was recently...

Fire destroys another East Canje home

Dec 24, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Fire destroys another East Canje home

Just as firefighters were replacing their hoses after fighting one fire yesterday morning in Betsy Ground East Canje, they were summoned to another inferno in the same district. This second...

Housewife wins car as Christmas gift

Dec 24, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Housewife wins car as Christmas gift

Christmas will be a wonderful occasion for 49-year-old Bhagwandai Gangadeen, a housewife and mother of two, who is now the proud owner of a brand new car which she won in a competition hosted...

Back in place

Dec 24, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Back in place

Workers hoisting the Christmas tree at Rahaman’s Park back in place, after high winds on Thursday night brought the structure down

Prison Fellowship holds Xmas party for children of inmates

Dec 24, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Prison Fellowship holds Xmas party for children of inmates

Prison Fellowship Guyana in collaboration with Guyana Prison Service yesterday held a Christmas get together for children whose fathers are incarcerated. The event was held at the Prison...

Canal No 2 Polder Senior Citizens feted at Christmas

Dec 24, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Canal No 2 Polder Senior Citizens feted at Christmas

The tenth Canal Senior Citizens Christmas Party was recently held at the Kawall Primary School. Over 450 Senior Citizens were treated with meals and entertainment, food hampers, and monetary...

Mon Repos neighbours in land dispute

Dec 24, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Mon Repos neighbours in land dispute

Two Mon Repos, East Coast Demerara residents are at “war” over approximately 1000 square feet of land. According to Harry Sankar, he resides at 120 Mon Repos EBD and since 2006 one...

Thief asks magistrate for jail time

Dec 24, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Thief asks magistrate for jail time

While some detainees were pleading to be placed on bail for the Christmas season, one prisoner asked the magistrate for a jail sentence instead. Forty-three year old Balkarran Persaud of 108 Cane...

Agricola man shot after fleeing from police

Dec 24, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Agricola man shot after fleeing from police

A man was shot in the right arm in Second Street, Agricola, East Bank Demerara (EBD) yesterday after police tried to apprehend the man, after they suspected him to have had marijuana in...

Children’s Convalescent Home gets Christmas treat

Dec 24, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Children’s Convalescent Home gets Christmas treat

Staff of Guyana and Trinidad Mutual Life Insurance Group of Companies (GTM) took the initiative to make Christmas happen for the little ones at the Red Cross Children’s Convalescent Home...

Christmas in Tiger Bay

Dec 24, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Christmas in Tiger Bay

Residents in Rosemary Lane (Tiger Bay), Georgetown yesterday received gifts and hampers worth $400,000 from Gift Land Office Max. The handing over was done at the Community Center in...

Man sleeps in bed with murdered reputed wife

Dec 23, 2011 KNews News 20

A 21-year old man was arrested after he was found lying in a bed yesterday morning with the nude body of his reputed wife, whom he had allegedly murdered hours earlier. The 20-year old woman, cane...

Country loses billions in revenues…GRA going after big contractors, businesses in 2012

Dec 23, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Country loses billions in revenues…GRA going after big contractors, businesses in 2012

-KFC, other companies targeted in crackdown “It is barefaced what some of these businesses are doing…thinking that they are untouchable. Some are masquerading as charities but they are...

A New Wind

Dec 23, 2011 KNews Editorial Comments Off on A New Wind

There seems to be a new wind blowing through Guyana; a fresh wind and for now, a pleasant wind. It is too early, much too early to pronounce definitively on its temporality: there is...

Ceaseless cacophony of banalities and mediocrities

Dec 23, 2011 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on Ceaseless cacophony of banalities and mediocrities

In living with power every day, the mind must reach a saturation point with men and women whose words are flaky, voices are unfriendly, styles are inelegant and personalities are pretentious. The...

ENCOURAGING!

Dec 23, 2011 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on ENCOURAGING!

The President of Guyana has started his presidency on an encouraging note. He has extended an olive branch to the opposition, agreed for consultations with them on the Budget, set up a...

Dem boys seh…Dem gun get wuk one by one

Dec 23, 2011 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Dem boys seh…Dem gun get wuk one by one

Dem got a song at Christmas time ‘Wuk dem one by one, wuk dem two by two’ and so on. All dem contractors getting expose one by one. Under de big Rat dem been ah wuk de nation two by...

Bisram’s Poll on Target

Dec 23, 2011 KNews Letters Comments Off on Bisram’s Poll on Target

Dear Editor, Vishnu Bisram’s poll was on target and not wrong as stated by Mr. Chris Ram who conducted a detailed disaggregated analysis of the findings simply to prove the poll is incorrect in...

GECOM seeks to educate Freddie Kissoon

Dec 23, 2011 KNews Letters Comments Off on GECOM seeks to educate Freddie Kissoon

Dear Editor, The Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) deliberately disregarded Mr. Freddie Kissoon’s first accusation against the Commission on the issue of its response to the People’s...

Correcting Peeping Tom

Dec 23, 2011 KNews Letters Comments Off on Correcting Peeping Tom

Dear Mr. Editor, Kindly direct this letter to Mr. Peeping Tom. Dear Mr. Peeping Tom, I am an admirer of your writings. On most occasions I find you to be objective and you do call a spade a...

UG Library offers unreliable service

Dec 23, 2011 KNews Letters Comments Off on UG Library offers unreliable service

Dear Editor, As a first year student at the University of Guyana, I believe that the library system is very atrocious. On a normal day a student has to wait several hours before paid...

Recycling and reshuffling

Dec 23, 2011 KNews Letters Comments Off on Recycling and reshuffling

Dear Editor, One of the reasons given for the bunch of recycled and reshuffled Ministers in the present Cabinet is that the President’s choice is limited to the PPP/C list of candidates....

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Following one’s conscience rather than the crowd

Peeping Tom… Kaieteur News- “They’re certainly entitled to think that, and they’re entitled to full respect... more