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Divided Opposition approves Govt. contentious $5B expenditure

Mar 16, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Divided Opposition approves Govt. contentious $5B expenditure

…even as Speaker strikes out Prime Minister’s challenge By Gary Eleazar A division in the ranks of the political opposition parties in the National Assembly yesterday saw the approval for the...

One dismissed, 4 demoted in Customs’ $4M container probe

Mar 16, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on One dismissed, 4 demoted in Customs’ $4M container probe

At least four staffers of the Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) have reportedly been sanctioned as a result of a bribery probe involving the container of a city’s businessman. One has been...

Treason PI continues…Prosecution seeks to amend charge after defence no case submission

Mar 16, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Treason PI continues…Prosecution seeks to amend charge after defence no case submission

Yesterday as the treason matter continued against Army Reserve Officer Leonard Wharton, Major Bruce Munroe and Carol Ann Munroe, Special Prosecutor Vic Puran indicated to Chief...

NIS expenditure to surpass income in two years

Mar 16, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on NIS expenditure to surpass income in two years

…2010 report says Scheme’s reserves will dry up in a decade The Minister of Finance Dr. Ashni Singh yesterday in the National Assembly tabled a plethora of annual reports and audits including the...

Continental shelf quarrel…Guyana: E’bo claim settled since 1899

Mar 16, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Continental shelf quarrel…Guyana: E’bo claim settled since 1899

-regrets Venezuela’s moves The Guyana government yesterday insisted that a claim by neighbouring Venezuela over a substantial part of Essequibo has long been settled. The issue has reared...

“The world is still deceived with ornament.”

Mar 16, 2012 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on “The world is still deceived with ornament.”

These are the words of Shakespeare (Merchant of Venice) and they reverberate in present day Guyana as we are hearing salutary semantics from the media, some well known anti-PPP critics and...

NICE! NOT NICE!

Mar 16, 2012 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on NICE! NOT NICE!

There are many women in Guyana who prefer older men… and for some the older the better. They claim that older men know how to treat a woman well. The old men are not sprinters like the young men....

Dem boys seh…Sonny Boy lie like when haarse trotting

Mar 16, 2012 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Dem boys seh…Sonny Boy lie like when haarse trotting

Times changing real fast. One minute is something and another minute is de next. Dem had a time when de Waterfalls paper use to allow people like Knee Ass to write some column attacking...

Teaching Entrepreneurship

Mar 16, 2012 KNews Editorial Comments Off on Teaching Entrepreneurship

To say that we need to educate our ‘people’ to progress in this 21st century has now become quite clichéd. It is not that we have not explored the exhortation: we have referred...

It is hilarious that the Education Ministry has adopted a pseudonym to put forward its rebuttal

Mar 16, 2012 KNews Letters Comments Off on It is hilarious that the Education Ministry has adopted a pseudonym to put forward its rebuttal

DEAR EDITOR, I am very surprised that the Ministry of Education (MOE) took more than a week to respond to my letter which was captioned “The Ministry of Education seems to have the most unrealistic...

The Finance Minister should accommodate Mr. Greenidge

Mar 16, 2012 KNews Letters Comments Off on The Finance Minister should accommodate Mr. Greenidge

DEAR EDITOR The PPP/C government needs to be a bit more accommodating with PNC/APNU in getting the tripartite talks started, especially with Mr. Carl Greenidge, as reported in SN,...

Basic questions about the proposed Specialty Hospital

Mar 16, 2012 KNews Letters Comments Off on Basic questions about the proposed Specialty Hospital

DEAR EDITOR, It is good that sections of the Parliamentary Opposition are demanding a credible explanation about the proposed Specialty Hospital. This engagement is resembling an old PPP...

Non-Accountability and the Insidious Culture

Mar 16, 2012 KNews Letters Comments Off on Non-Accountability and the Insidious Culture

DEAR EDITOR, An enormous number of sinecures have been created by the administration over the past decade. Some of these have been within identifiable ministries, agencies, and departments....

Masters of Finance – Singh, Greenidge & Ram

Mar 16, 2012 KNews Letters Comments Off on Masters of Finance – Singh, Greenidge & Ram

DEAR EDITOR, I am beginning to enjoy the emerging gravitas and leadership being displayed by Finance Minister Ashni Singh; unlike many of the dinosaurs representing the major political...

Creating fact out of fiction?

Mar 16, 2012 KNews Letters Comments Off on Creating fact out of fiction?

Dear Editor, I find it odd that the Guyana Times which prides itself in being the “Beacon of Truth” would place me at some media consultation in Linden by a group calling itself the...

WI aim to draw first blood against Australia today

Mar 16, 2012 KNews Sports Comments Off on WI aim to draw first blood against Australia today

Kingstown, St Vincent – West Indies Captain, Darren Sammy hopes a winning history at Arnos Vale Cricket Ground can help the team get off to a winning start against Australia when the...

Alder leads Guyana’s female b/ball team to opening win

Mar 16, 2012 KNews Sports Comments Off on Alder leads Guyana’s female b/ball team to opening win

Extremely talented local forward, Natasha Alder led the Guyana women’s basketball team to a four-point 52-48 points win in their opening game over CPTSA Wings in the 12th Annual Gillian Brazier...

Fruta Conquerors pays courtesy call on PM Hinds

Mar 16, 2012 KNews Sports Comments Off on Fruta Conquerors pays courtesy call on PM Hinds

Despite not offering firm commitments to any of the requests made by the Fruta Conquerors Football Club, who paid a courtesy call on Prime Minister Samuel Hinds on Wednesday afternoon at his...

GFA/President Beer Super League

Mar 16, 2012 KNews Sports Comments Off on GFA/President Beer Super League

-Double-header on today at GFC Charlestown United will be hoping to become the latest team to inflict a defeat on Houston Stars when the two teams collide this evening in the GFA/President...

Cox/Levedev to clash for (WBA) cruiserweight title

Mar 16, 2012 KNews Sports Comments Off on Cox/Levedev to clash for (WBA) cruiserweight title

-‘Big Truck’ contracted for sparring duties By Michael Benjamin Following a sensational first round knockout victory over former World Boxing Council (WBC)...

RUSAL sponsors football Academy in Kwakwani – Six areas to be targeted

Mar 16, 2012 KNews Sports Comments Off on RUSAL sponsors football Academy in Kwakwani – Six areas to be targeted

RUSAL, a Russian-owned company, operating under the name Bauxite Company of Guyana Inc. (BGGI) has agreed to sponsor a football Academy that will see six villages in the Region 10 area...

Hikers make good on promise

Mar 16, 2012 KNews Sports Comments Off on Hikers make good on promise

– support Saints Hockey Club In keeping with a promise to support the efforts of the newly formed Saints Hockey Club, the Hikers Hockey Club juniors’ programme handed...

Canadian Super biker Kevin Graham coming

Mar 16, 2012 KNews Sports Comments Off on Canadian Super biker Kevin Graham coming

He has been coming here for quite a long time, and by now, must know the South Dakota Circuit like any other local competitor. So, when Canadian, Kevin Graham, arrives in Guyana to...

Edmonds says it’s scary to imagine what James can do

Mar 16, 2012 KNews Sports Comments Off on Edmonds says it’s scary to imagine what James can do

Despite Guyana’s runner-up quarter-miler athlete Stephan James of Running Brave Athletic Club missing the Athletic Association of Guyana (AAG) CARITA Games qualifying 400m U-20...

Police $90M Elections fund…Cheque for $320,000 was made out to Commander Ramnarine

Mar 16, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Police $90M Elections fund…Cheque for $320,000 was made out to Commander Ramnarine

By Dale Andrews The Ministry of Home Affairs says it remains committed to strict financial accountability and is assuring the public that at no time would it allow any breaches of...

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D-Up Basketball Academy Training camp brings Hoop Dreams to Life with Region 3 Jamboree

Bureaucracy gone bananas!

…Peeping Tom kaieteur News- Every morning, the government wakes up, stretches its arms, and spends one billion dollars... more