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Space, flooding, power outages among constraints highlighted by IDCE Berbice head at Graduation

Dec 23, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Space, flooding, power outages among constraints highlighted by IDCE Berbice head at Graduation

Resident tutor of the Institute of Distance and Continuing Education (IDCE) in New Amsterdam, Ms Janice John, stated that there were numerous challenges that came in the way of the centre...

Drunken driver/vehicle pulled from canal

Dec 23, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Drunken driver/vehicle pulled from canal

A drunk driver was last evening spared the worst fate when he careened the vehicle he was driving into the canal outside of the burnt out Ministry of Health compound on Brickdam. The drunken...

Car lands in gutter after traffic light collision

Dec 23, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Car lands in gutter after traffic light collision

Temporary power outage affecting traffic signals at the junction of Lamaha and Camp Streets might have contributed to a two-car collision around 14:00 hrs yesterday. Paul Panday, whose...

M&CC embraces recycling alternative to waste disposal

Dec 23, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on M&CC embraces recycling alternative to waste disposal

Recycling is being touted as a new approach to Solid Waste Management by the Mayor and City Councillors of Georgetown (M&CC), an undertaking which is expected to be swiftly introduced in...

51-year-old man remanded after allegedly posting cocaine at GPO

Dec 23, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on 51-year-old man remanded after allegedly posting cocaine at GPO

A 51-year old man was yesterday refused bail after he was accused of posting 1.228 kilograms of cocaine via the General Post Office (GPO). Lyndon Claude Reese appeared before Acting...

MMC Security guard committed to high Court on manslaughter charge

Dec 23, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on MMC Security guard committed to high Court on manslaughter charge

An MMC security guard who is accused of shooting an alleged battery thief was yesterday committed to stand trial in the High Court. Twenty-three-year-old Romeo Jones, who was fingered...

Anti-piracy Committee Chairman’s brother among those charged

Dec 23, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Anti-piracy Committee Chairman’s brother among those charged

Berbice police believe that they have busted a major piracy gang. They are certain that they have made a major dent in the piracy business with the recent capture of five men who were part of a...

Berbice shoplifting trio granted bail

Dec 23, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Berbice shoplifting trio granted bail

The two women and a taxi driver who were caught after they went on a shoplifting spree in Rose Hall Town, Corentyne, on Tuesday, appeared at the Albion Magistrate’s Court before...

Guyanese students learn the second most spoken language in the world

Dec 23, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Guyanese students learn the second most spoken language in the world

Over 50 Guyanese graduated on Thursday at the Umana Yana from a Spanish language programme offered by the collaborative effort of the Embassy of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela and...

Police conduct major drug eradication exercise up the Berbice River

Dec 23, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Police conduct major drug eradication exercise up the Berbice River

On Wednesday last, Berbice police conducted drug eradication operations at Gateroy and De Veldt in the Berbice River. A total of eight fields of marijuana plants, approximately eight acres in size,...

Amaila Falls’ US15.4M roads delayed again

Dec 22, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Amaila Falls’ US15.4M roads delayed again

– ‘Fip Motilall’ to hire sub-contractors Plagued by controversy ever since it was awarded to Makeswar ‘Fip’ Motilall of Synergy Holdings Inc, the US15.4M Amaila Falls...

Roll-On/ Roll-Off ferries arrive in Guyana

Dec 22, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Roll-On/ Roll-Off ferries arrive in Guyana

The wait is over for the two Roll-On/ Roll-Off ferries from China that will operate between Parika and Supenaam. The two vessels, acquired from China at a cost of US$14M, funded by a US$17 M grant...

Guyana foots $97M bill to prepare for Indian Hospital

Dec 22, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Guyana foots $97M bill to prepare for Indian Hospital

The Government of Guyana has green-lighted some $97M for the site preparation of a specialty hospital to be constructed at Turkeyen, East Coast Demerara, but it leaves more questions than...

Annandale businessman chopped, burnt, house set alight in bandit attack

Dec 22, 2011 KNews News 5

During the wee hours of yesterday, two bandits attacked and robbed Ganesh Puran of $20,000 just as he was closing his woodworking shop in Annandale, East Coast Demerara. Reports are...

Diplomatic vehicle torched

Dec 22, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Diplomatic vehicle torched

A United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) diplomatic vehicle, DPL 28-17, was badly damaged after being torched Wednesday morning at Lot 59, Anira Street, Queenstown. The UNDP diplomat who used...

Patrick Manning, Aubrey Norton and one man rule

Dec 22, 2011 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on Patrick Manning, Aubrey Norton and one man rule

The CARICOM islands have parliamentary elections every four years (like in the US). After two years in power, the Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago decided he would call a national poll two years...

Killing the goose

Dec 22, 2011 KNews Editorial Comments Off on Killing the goose

In Guyana, it is customary that prices of certain commodities soar at this time of the year. People enter the marketplace and suddenly find that they do not have enough money when just...

Dem boys seh…Shaik get lef behind

Dec 22, 2011 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Dem boys seh…Shaik get lef behind

When Shaik Baksh was de Minister of Education, he promote a policy that no child, no matter how dunce, gun ever stay in de same class. He call it no child left behind. Children stop studying and some...

The results of the elections were not a mandate for shared governance

Dec 22, 2011 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on The results of the elections were not a mandate for shared governance

We must not misrepresent the results of the 2011 general and regional elections. Those elections led to the PPPC winning the presidency by virtue of it receiving the largest bloc of votes, and...

Brandon Harding crowned GT&T’s English segment Jingles’ winner

Dec 22, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Brandon Harding crowned GT&T’s English segment Jingles’ winner

Lindener, Brandon Harding, a crowd favourite in the English segment of the wildly popular Guyana Telephone and Telegraph Company (GT&T) Jingle and Song Competition, was last night declared the...

What about Region One?

Dec 22, 2011 KNews Letters Comments Off on What about Region One?

Dear Editor, I read with some dismay, in the newspapers of December 17, the plans that the new Minister of Education had for the pilot project that aimed at improving the performance of...

Let’s have a cross-party consensus to implement a Bribery Act

Dec 22, 2011 KNews Letters Comments Off on Let’s have a cross-party consensus to implement a Bribery Act

Dear Editor, So the dust of the Guyanese elections has settled like a fine coat of snow on a winter wonderland meadow and the children of Guyana’s political family rush to sit next...

Keep up the good work, FFTP!

Dec 22, 2011 KNews Letters Comments Off on Keep up the good work, FFTP!

DEAR EDITOR, As a donor to Food for the Poor (Guyana) Incorporated, the Non-Governmental Organisation which is successfully rendering its services to help comfort the poorest of the...

Basketball community plunged into mourning

Dec 22, 2011 KNews Sports Comments Off on Basketball community plunged into mourning

-Legendary Coach, Phillip George passes The basketball community has been plunged into mourning following the passing of legendary coach, Phillip George also known as ‘Coach Man’ and...

Boxer Mayweather gets 90 jail days in Vegas case

Dec 22, 2011 KNews Sports Comments Off on Boxer Mayweather gets 90 jail days in Vegas case

LAS VEGAS (AP)—Boxer Floyd Mayweather Jr. was sentenced Wednesday to 90 days in jail after pleading guilty to reduced battery domestic violence and harassment charges before a Las...

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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