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The Maned Wolf (Chrysocyon brachyurus)

Jan 08, 2012 KNews Features / Columnists, Interesting Creatures in Guyana Comments Off on The Maned Wolf (Chrysocyon brachyurus)

The maned wolf (Chrysocyon brachyurus) is the largest canid of South America, resembling a large fox with reddish fur. This mammal is found in open and semi-open habitats, especially...

Background to the Present Imbroglio II

Jan 08, 2012 KNews Features / Columnists, Ravi Dev Comments Off on Background to the Present Imbroglio II

(This concludes the preface to my reply to those who claim that our ethnically-oriented voting is ipso facto “racist”.) The tragic events at Ruimveldt, when 14 Indians and 1 African were killed...

Canada taking the Commonwealth lead

Jan 08, 2012 KNews Ronald Sanders Comments Off on Canada taking the Commonwealth lead

By Sir Ronald Sanders The Government of Canada has placed itself in the front of the drive to reform the 54-nation Commonwealth. The 62-year-old organization should be all the better...

The year of the court papers that traveled faster than sound

Jan 08, 2012 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on The year of the court papers that traveled faster than sound

For an analyst to evaluate the contents of 2011 in Guyana, it would take at least forty columns. The phenomenon of the November 28 election and the attitude of the GECOM high priests would take at...

The Baccoo Speaks

Jan 08, 2012 KNews Features / Columnists, The Baccoo Speaks Comments Off on The Baccoo Speaks

There is a lot of anger around and sometimes people lose their reasoning. This is going to be the case of a property dispute in the eastern corridor of the lower coast. A family member would move on,...

Disappearing without a trace: The Barbita Sarjou case

Jan 08, 2012 KNews Features / Columnists, Murder and Mystery Comments Off on Disappearing without a trace: The Barbita Sarjou case

By Michael Jordan If there’s one lesson you learn in this profession, it’s to never take anything for granted; never assume that things are exactly the way they seem. So that’s why I’m...

Study: Seafood consumption has quadrupled since 1950

Jan 08, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Study: Seafood consumption has quadrupled since 1950

On average, each person on the planet is eating four times as much seafood as was consumed in 1950, while nearly half of the seafood we eat today is farmed, according to a new report by Worldwatch...

‘The English Patient’ for Castellani Tuesday

Jan 08, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on ‘The English Patient’ for Castellani Tuesday

Director Anthony Minghella’s “The English Patient” is the Classic Tuesdays film to be screened at the National Gallery, Castellani House, Vlissengen Road, Georgetown. The 2006 film won...

There should be no sacred cows

Jan 08, 2012 KNews Features / Columnists, My Column Comments Off on There should be no sacred cows

The Christmas season is over and it is back to the treadmill. There was some unfinished business from the past year and it is my hope that we get such businesses over in a hurry. One of them has to...

Health sector playing pivotal role in development

Jan 08, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Health sector playing pivotal role in development

A clear agenda has already been defined by the public health sector for this year, with recently appointed Minister of Health, Dr. Bheri Ramsaran, at its helm. The Minister during an interview with...

Choosing regional chairmen could also prove contentious

Jan 08, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Choosing regional chairmen could also prove contentious

– Consensus needed in selection of chairman of Regions 4, 7, 8 Even as the government and opposition political parties struggle to find consensus on who will be the Speaker of the...

FINDING A SPEAKER

Jan 08, 2012 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on FINDING A SPEAKER

The sincerity of A Partnership for National Unity (APNU) towards power sharing has been put on test. And the results have not been at all consistent with what APNU has been preaching. APNU...

Linden IMC chairman describes 2011 as a good year

Jan 08, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Linden IMC chairman describes 2011 as a good year

Interim Management Committee Chairman, Orrin Gordon, in his first Press Conference for the new year told the media that generally the past year was a good one as regards some entities and the...

Guyana to cash in on Brazil’s World Cup, Summer Olympics

Jan 08, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Guyana to cash in on Brazil’s World Cup, Summer Olympics

-GMSA eyes cheaper entrepreneur credit, faster Customs’ transactions -business model to help companies save energy being developed The Guyana Manufacturing Services Association (GMSA) is...

A parliamentary structure where the will of the people is sacrosanct

Jan 08, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on A parliamentary structure where the will of the people is sacrosanct

By Michael Benjamin Voting at the National and Regional elections, once characterized by ethnic affiliation and to some extent, selfish considerations, has taken a definitive twist, and for the first...

Husband committed to High Court for nursery school teacher’s murder

Jan 08, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Husband committed to High Court for nursery school teacher’s murder

Hubert Pilgrim, the tomb builder who was charged last year February, for the murder of his reputed wife, 41-year-old nursery school teacher, Natalie Loncke, was on Friday last committed to the High...

Blanchard murder PI postponed

Jan 08, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Blanchard murder PI postponed

– court not in receipt of case docket The commencement of the murder preliminary inquiry of John Blanchard, the father fingered in the death of his three young children, has been postponed until...

Court regular jailed after robbing Taxi driver.

Jan 08, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Court regular jailed after robbing Taxi driver.

Lioneon Odell, 24, of Line Path was described as a jailbird. On Wednesday he was sentenced to 12 months in jail when he appeared before a magistrate and pleaded guilty to a charge of robbery...

Thieving fisherman to spend time in jail

Jan 08, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Thieving fisherman to spend time in jail

A fisherman who decided that fishing alone cannot work and so decided to try his hand at something else has been caught and jailed. Stanley Edwards, 27, of Orealla, Upper Corentyne River, is...

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The stakes are high in Guyana’s democracy

Peeping Tom… Kaieteur News- In any vibrant democracy, the mechanisms that bind it together are those that mediate differences,... more