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FITUG accuses AFC of possible union busting

Mar 18, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on FITUG accuses AFC of possible union busting

The Federation of Independent Trade Unions of Guyana (FITUG), is concerned over what it sees as an overt attempt by the Alliance For Change (AFC) party to undermine the work of the Guyana...

Local e-marketing website launch

Mar 18, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Local e-marketing website launch

Local companies and individuals advertising their goods and services could do so online at www.gxsellit.com. This website was launched on March 16 to offer companies and individuals the...

Celebrating Women in Parliament

Mar 18, 2012 KNews AFC Column, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Celebrating Women in Parliament

An address by Mrs. Catherine Hughes MP, Thursday, March 15, 2012 at Parliament Buildings (an event hosted by the Tenth Parliament of Guyana) I am honoured to be among this outstanding group of...

The Great Kiskadee (Pitangus sulphuratus)

Mar 18, 2012 KNews Features / Columnists, Interesting Creatures in Guyana Comments Off on The Great Kiskadee (Pitangus sulphuratus)

The Great Kiskadee, Pitangus sulphuratus, is a passerine bird. It is a large tyrant flycatcher; sometimes its genus Pitangus is considered monotypic, with the Lesser Kiskadee (P. lictor) separated in...

When I was small, I heard this thing

Mar 18, 2012 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on When I was small, I heard this thing

When I was small, I would hear my parents and their guests in our home saying that in India you have the rich and the poor and there was nothing in between. My father and mother and their friends who...

Death on a ship of secrets

Mar 18, 2012 KNews Features / Columnists, Murder and Mystery Comments Off on Death on a ship of secrets

– Someone lured Jean Khan to her doom By Michael Jordan If you were to visit Bartica, you would see an ancient, half-sunken vessel jutting out of the river, in the vicinity of Triangular...

A disturbing troop movement

Mar 18, 2012 KNews Features / Columnists, My Column Comments Off on A disturbing troop movement

Venezuela reports that it is taking an interest in drug trafficking in the region. It is moving 15,000 troops to borders it shares with Guyana, Brazil and Colombia. Anytime there is troop movement to...

‘Old Story Time’ for school stages

Mar 18, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on ‘Old Story Time’ for school stages

– Countrywide dramatisation of CXC English B Text For the third year running, Top Cat Theatre Productions, in collaboration with the Ministry of Education and Ministry of Culture,...

WHEN THE TIME COMES!

Mar 18, 2012 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on WHEN THE TIME COMES!

At last Thursday’s sitting of the National Assembly, questions tabled by the Alliance for Change and relating to three major contracts signed under the Jagdeo administration, were...

First batch of pest control operators certified

Mar 18, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on First batch of pest control operators certified

Almost 50 participants from various pest control companies on Friday graduated from the Ministry of Agriculture’s pest control certification programme. This programme lasted two weeks...

Mash and Multiculturalism

Mar 18, 2012 KNews Features / Columnists, Ravi Dev Comments Off on Mash and Multiculturalism

Swirling around the last Mashramani – as has been the case for the last decade – were the usual accusations of governmental control of the event and the questioning of the suitability of...

CARICOM: DOING THE DRAGON DANCE?

Mar 18, 2012 KNews Features / Columnists, Ronald Sanders Comments Off on CARICOM: DOING THE DRAGON DANCE?

By Sir Ronald Sanders On February 9th, Prime Minister of St Vincent and the Grenadines, Ralph Gonsalves, wrote a robust letter to the Secretary-General of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM),...

The Baccoo Speaks

Mar 18, 2012 KNews Features / Columnists, The Baccoo Speaks Comments Off on The Baccoo Speaks

The madness has begun in the underworld and this could have been averted had people been taking the warnings seriously. Some people are careless when it comes to the illegal task they...

Teen missing from Hauraruni Girl’s Home

Mar 18, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Teen missing from Hauraruni Girl’s Home

It has been almost four weeks since 16-year-old Shanice Sampson was discovered missing from her room at the Hauraruni Girl’s Home on the Linden/Soesdyke Highway. The girl’s sister, Simone...

ImmigrationTALK: Adam Walsh Act Prohibit Certain Types of Petitioners

Mar 18, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on ImmigrationTALK: Adam Walsh Act Prohibit Certain Types of Petitioners

By: Attorney Gail S. Seeram, 1-877-GAIL-LAW, www.GailLaw.com The Adam Walsh Child Protection and Safety Act (“Adam Walsh Act”) became law on July 27, 2006. It contains two...

From the Diaspora…STUPID ME, STUPID YOU, AVOID BEING SCAMMED

Mar 18, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on From the Diaspora…STUPID ME, STUPID YOU, AVOID BEING SCAMMED

By Ralph Seeram The e-mail came with the bold headline; you won one million pounds in the U.K lottery. It all looked perfectly legal, attorney’s name to contact, bank and bank account number...

Labourer fished out of Mahaicony canal

Mar 18, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Labourer fished out of Mahaicony canal

–believed to have suffered a “fits attack” The body of a 33-year-old labourer, Bruce Walcott, was on Friday last, fished out of a canal at Belmont, Mahaicony, East Coast Demerara. Walcott...

Happiness

Mar 18, 2012 KNews Features / Columnists, Food For Thought Comments Off on Happiness

Every day, as we seek happiness, the world seduces us with a ceaseless barrage of things and people we can possess. It gives us plenty of compelling reasons why we should have them. It could...

Colin Jones asks court to plead guilty to setting fire charge

Mar 18, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Colin Jones asks court to plead guilty to setting fire charge

During the preliminary inquiry (PI) against Colin Jones, Randy Mars, Jahfar Sampson, Basil Morgan and Anthony Watson, into the matter of setting fire to the Supreme Court, Jones, who is...

Prisoner jailed for three years for ganja possession

Mar 18, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Prisoner jailed for three years for ganja possession

A man who was in prison on a three-year sentence and was on the verge of being released, will have to serve a further three years. The man, Charles Caesar, an inmate of the New...

Man executed in rum-shop

Mar 17, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Man executed in rum-shop

-masked killers escape in car Leonard Mahadeo, a Diamond resident was last evening gunned down in cold blood shortly before midnight at a popular Eccles, East Bank Demerara drinking spot. According...

Govt. threatens to boycott Parliamentary Committees

Mar 17, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Govt. threatens to boycott Parliamentary Committees

…PM says will abide with court ruling Leader of the Government side in the House, Prime Minister Samuel Hinds yesterday signaled to members of the media that the Government will withhold its...

Six Customs officers fired in bribery probe

Mar 17, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Six Customs officers fired in bribery probe

The Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) has confirmed reports of Kaieteur News that a businessman paid over hundreds of thousands of dollars to Customs officers to have his container released. GRA...

Venezuela deploys troops to Guyana Border to combat drug trafficking

Mar 17, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Venezuela deploys troops to Guyana Border to combat drug trafficking

Venezuela’s Defense Minister says the military will deploy about 15,000 soldiers to regions along the country’s borders, including that with Guyana, in order to combat armed groups and...

Dem boys seh…Venezuela causing nervousness

Mar 17, 2012 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Dem boys seh…Venezuela causing nervousness

Guyana nervous. Some people pick up de news and learn that Venezuela moving 15,000 troops to de border. Right away people start fuh book tickets to lef de country because somebody tell...

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National Table Tennis duo Shemar Britton, Chelsea Edghill to represent Guyana at prestigious Panam Table Tennis Cup

Mashramani must break from the shackles of imitation

Peeping Tom… Kaieteur News- Mashramani, heralded as Guyana’s grand national celebration, is often presented as a... more