March 2012

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Works Minister to receive report from Engineers on Lady Northcote fire

Mar 12, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Works Minister to receive report from Engineers on Lady Northcote fire

Mere hours after a fire was put out in the engine room of the MV Lady Northcote, while it was approaching Port Georgetown, engineers were onboard the vessel assessing the damages....

A Cop, a bottle of ‘Ganja Wine’ and my backtrack experience

Mar 12, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on A Cop, a bottle of ‘Ganja Wine’ and my backtrack experience

By Gary Eleazar A few years ago former President Bharat Jagdeo gave me what I have since liked to call a crash course in economics 101 when it comes to external factors affecting the...

Overseas-based Guyanese chopped after chasing cow off property

Mar 12, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Overseas-based Guyanese chopped after chasing cow off property

Two youths are in police custody at the Mahaicony Police Station after chopping an overseas-based Guyanese and his cousin on the Mahaicony Branch Road, East Coast Demerara Saturday....

Relative of wounded suspect denies he attacked cops with knife

Mar 12, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Relative of wounded suspect denies he attacked cops with knife

– police warhead found in house Relatives of “usual criminal suspect” Randy Morris have denied that he attacked ranks with a knife when they went to arrest him last Saturday...

Who will implement it?

Mar 12, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Who will implement it?

Police Strategic Plan… By Dale Andrews Concerns are being raised about the Guyana Police Force’s Strategic Development Plan. It’s almost two years into the proposed plan...

10 Kilos of cocaine found in CJIA compound

Mar 12, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on 10 Kilos of cocaine found in CJIA compound

A man was detained briefly yesterday after two haversacks were found in the compound of the Cheddi Jagan International Airport Timehri with some 10 kilograms of cocaine. According to a...

A new building for Human Services Ministry being touted by Webster

Mar 12, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on A new building for Human Services Ministry being touted by Webster

A new location for the Ministry of Human Services and Social Security is being touted by Minister Jennifer Webster. Her disclosure comes in the wake of recent reports published by...

Latest Three Rivers Kids Foundation batch returns

Mar 12, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Latest Three Rivers Kids Foundation batch returns

– mission deemed a success Despite the majority of the cases being complicated ones, the seven children and one adult who left Guyana on Friday February 10, 2012 for medical...

Chinese National robbed at Ogle traffic light

Mar 12, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Chinese National robbed at Ogle traffic light

A Chinese National was robbed on Saturday evening while waiting on the traffic light to change at Ogle on the East Coast of Demerara. According to reports, the man Kim Chow was driving...

Revamping of jury system an imperative

Mar 12, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Revamping of jury system an imperative

– State Counsel Prejudice on the part of jurors has been listed as one of the many reasons highlighted to indicate that there is a dire need for the revamping of the local jury...

GUNS, KNIVES AND ICE PICKERS

Mar 12, 2012 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on GUNS, KNIVES AND ICE PICKERS

With frequent regularity gun crimes are taking place within the country. In these crimes, homes have been invaded, their occupants brutalised and in some instances, there have been fatalities. The...

Fisherman feared drowned at Mabaruma

Mar 12, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Fisherman feared drowned at Mabaruma

Police were yesterday still scouring the Aruka River for the body of a 48-year-old fisherman, who is believed to have drowned on Saturday while taking a swim at Kumaka, Mabaruma. There are...

THE NEW CHINA SYNDROME

Mar 12, 2012 KNews Features / Columnists, Tony Deyal column Comments Off on THE NEW CHINA SYNDROME

After almost three years of daily labour I eventually had to tire. Then within a little more than a year after tiring, I had to retire. The reason was simple. The original tires...

Education Chief concerned about subjecting children to lessons too early

Mar 12, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Education Chief concerned about subjecting children to lessons too early

Even as efforts are made by the Ministry of Education to restructure its approach to primary education assessments, Chief Education Officer (CEO), Olato Sam, has expressed concern about the extent to...

EZjet is required to report all proposed cancelled flights ten days in advance; passengers must be fully refunded

Mar 12, 2012 KNews Letters Comments Off on EZjet is required to report all proposed cancelled flights ten days in advance; passengers must be fully refunded

Dear Editor, EZjet’s CEO, Sonny Ramdeo, met the press last week to address questions about the source of the millions of US$ he is investing in an allegedly unprofitable airline venture. Though the...

Unfair attack on Ramdeo of EZJet

Mar 12, 2012 KNews Letters Comments Off on Unfair attack on Ramdeo of EZJet

Dear Editor, This is in reference to several unfair, unsubstantiated commentaries (attacks) in your newspaper (KN) in recent days on the owner Mr. Sonny Ramdeo of EZJet and the airline itself. I have...

Crime bosses under US watch

Mar 12, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Crime bosses under US watch

The United States government is refusing to comment on reports that extradition requests are coming for several Jamaicans involved in organised crime. Reports have long surfaced about a list...

When a nation’s resources are involved, Government must inform citizens

Mar 12, 2012 KNews Letters Comments Off on When a nation’s resources are involved, Government must inform citizens

Dear Editor, There has been a great deal of controversy arising from a disclosure that the government and Ansa Mc Al have signed an agreement for an Ethanol Plant or study. The company has gone to...

Minister Shree Chan never bought any property from any government

Mar 12, 2012 KNews Letters Comments Off on Minister Shree Chan never bought any property from any government

Dear Editor, I would appreciate if you could print the following response to Mr. Greenidge’s letter titled “I have never bought anything from NICIL…” printed in your Sunday’s edition of...

Ramotar needs to chart his own destiny

Mar 12, 2012 KNews Letters Comments Off on Ramotar needs to chart his own destiny

Dear Editor, President Donald Ramotar would soon have to decide what kind of legacy he will leave so that he is not seen just as an extension of his predecessors. Most importantly he will not last...

Remember to include persons with disabilities

Mar 12, 2012 KNews Letters Comments Off on Remember to include persons with disabilities

Dear Editor, It is ironic that the Guyana National Bureau of Standards (GNBS) on Monday March 5, 2012, launched the new building code at a venue that is disability unfriendly. This venue, the Guyana...

Kudos to Karen de Souza

Mar 12, 2012 KNews Letters Comments Off on Kudos to Karen de Souza

Dear Editor, We take this opportunity to salute Karen de Souza on her nomination for the International Woman of Courage award. Over time, Karen has been part of the struggle in Guyana against...

I was amazed at the way certain sections of the media distorted events at the PNC/R meeting

Mar 12, 2012 KNews Letters Comments Off on I was amazed at the way certain sections of the media distorted events at the PNC/R meeting

Democratic Rules of Engagement

Mar 12, 2012 KNews Editorial Comments Off on Democratic Rules of Engagement

The government has decided to let the courts decide whether the action by the joint parliamentary opposition – made up of APNU and AFC – on the composition of the Committee of selection is in...

Lady Northcote catches fire at sea

Mar 11, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Lady Northcote catches fire at sea

– all passengers reach shore safely Passengers onboard the Lady Northcote coming from Port Kaituma to Port Georgetown were given the scare of their lives after fire broke out on the vessel....

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(Kaieteur News) – Santa Rosa Secondary and defending champions Chase’s Academic Foundation sit primed on seven points as action continues today in the Republic Bank Secondary School Football...

A capital city beyond redemption?

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(Kaieteur News) – Georgetown has become so dysfunctional, so hopelessly disorganised and so resistant to correction that one must ask whether the effort to save it is worth the trouble. The greatest mistake successive governments have made is not recognising that Georgetown should have long been...

A Divided World: A Commonwealth Opportunity

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By Sir Ronald Sanders (Kaieteur News) – When Commonwealth leaders gather in Antigua and Barbuda from 1st to 4th November, they should address a question that reaches beyond their association: how can countries of different size, wealth and outlook sustain cooperation in a world increasingly...

The epitaph on Mr. Gavin Douglas’ tombstone should read: Murdered...

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(Kaieteur News) – Another Guyanese dead, and in degraded fashion, at the hands of State agents. A State that now stands as a monument to how much the PPP Govt. has criminalized it. When not one alleged rogue cop, with blood in his eye, but four of them, can deliver blows on a man that’s...

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