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CJIA project halted – says Luncheon

Jun 22, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on CJIA project halted – says Luncheon

– but evidence suggests otherwise Almost seven months after a controversial US$138M deal was signed to rebuild the Cheddi Jagan International Airport (CJIA) and extend the runway, it has...

Vendetta follows slain businessman after the grave

Jun 22, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Vendetta follows slain businessman after the grave

– office set ablaze, $$M in losses Early yesterday morning, the office of the now dead Pest Control boss Mohamed Shahabudeen Bacchus was set ablaze. According to reports the fire service and...

Miner hacked to death

Jun 22, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Miner hacked to death

Twenty-nine-year-old Kevin Huggins, of Rivers Town Village, Essequibo Coast, was viciously hacked while asleep on Wednesday morning in his mining camp at ...

Snr. Police Officers’ Annual Leave slashed in half

Jun 22, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Snr. Police Officers’ Annual Leave slashed in half

Senior Officers of the Guyana Police Force are once again venting their anger at the Ministry of Home Affairs, this time over the slashing of their annualized vacation leave. The...

Constitutional crisis will erupt if President refuses to assent to opposition Bills – AFC

Jun 22, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Constitutional crisis will erupt if President refuses to assent to opposition Bills – AFC

“Ramotar needs to wake up and remind himself that he has moved beyond being the leader of the PPP.” “There will be a constitutional crisis if the President intends not to sign any...

Health Minister’s pharmaceutical probe a joke – APNU

Jun 22, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Health Minister’s pharmaceutical probe a joke – APNU

– party wants independent Commission of Inquiry By Latoya Giles A Partnership for National Unity (APNU)’s Shadow Minister of Health, Dr. George Norton, has described Minister Bheri...

The Quest for Growth

Jun 22, 2012 KNews Editorial Comments Off on The Quest for Growth

We are told that the “Tripartite Talks” will be reconvened. Rather than trying to score (cheap) political points, we are calling on the leaders of the parliamentary parties not to...

Dreams and feces in a failed revolution on the ocean shore

Jun 22, 2012 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on Dreams and feces in a failed revolution on the ocean shore

I met my wife in the throes of the Walter Rodney revolution in 1978. I was in my final year at UG and the Walter Rodney bandwagon was in tempestuous confrontation with the Forbes...

Ramkarran statement on corruption an old tactic – WPA

Jun 22, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Ramkarran statement on corruption an old tactic – WPA

– Party calls for enactment of Whistleblower and Asset Forfeiture Legislation In wake of the recent statement by PPP/C Executive member, Ralph Ramkarran, in relation to corruption, the...

Dem boys seh…Who get de airport kickback?

Jun 22, 2012 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Dem boys seh…Who get de airport kickback?

Guyana gun spend US$150 million pun an airport but nobody ain’t explain how that gun benefit Guyana, how it gun pay for itself. If this thing was so clean why dem do de signing in...

FASTER THAN SPEEDY GONZALES

Jun 22, 2012 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on FASTER THAN SPEEDY GONZALES

On Wednesday, this newspaper reported the Minister of Health as indicating that a probe team was being assembled to investigate the purchase of drugs (medicines) as well as the overall policies...

Gregory Gaskin has made his contribution to Guyana

Jun 22, 2012 KNews Letters Comments Off on Gregory Gaskin has made his contribution to Guyana

Dear Editor, It is with deep sadness that I pen these few lines to express my sincere condolences to the family and relatives of Mr. Gregory Gaskin. When I learnt of this tragic...

Linden highlights the PPP’s vindictive and discriminatory nature

Jun 22, 2012 KNews Letters Comments Off on Linden highlights the PPP’s vindictive and discriminatory nature

Dear Editor, Prime Minister Sam Hinds’s statement regarding the proposed electricity hike in Linden, that residents “will have to manage the best way that they can manage” speaks to the...

Enmore is changing

Jun 22, 2012 KNews Letters Comments Off on Enmore is changing

Dear Sir, It was as recent as last Wednesday, June 20, that a writer in the letter column of Kaieteur News declared that the PPP is relying on an outmoded and inefficient field mechanism to keep its...

An attempt to embarrass

Jun 22, 2012 KNews Letters Comments Off on An attempt to embarrass

Dear Editor, It has come to my attention, that certain elements within City Hall and their masters, in an effort to divert attention away from current, national and municipal events, have planned a...

Easy to be irresponsible with others’ money

Jun 22, 2012 KNews Letters Comments Off on Easy to be irresponsible with others’ money

Dear Editor, About the “lack of accountability and more excuses” letter detailing the widespread corruption in Guyana, there may be more – and worse – such exposures to come...

The political system needs change

Jun 22, 2012 KNews Letters Comments Off on The political system needs change

Dear Editor, I endorse the position advocated by Mr. Freddie Kissoon (column KN Jun 12) that the country needs a constitutional system that prevents the control of power in the hand of an ethnic...

Butts high in praise for Windies A Team programme

Jun 22, 2012 KNews Sports Comments Off on Butts high in praise for Windies A Team programme

Port-of-Spain, Trinidad — Chairman of West Indies Cricket Board Selection Panel, Clyde Butts, yesterday spoke on the West Indies A Team programme, following the Digicel Four Day...

WI vs England ODI…Last chance for tourists to impress

Jun 22, 2012 KNews Sports Comments Off on WI vs England ODI…Last chance for tourists to impress

Rotation has been on everybody’s mind since England took an unassailable 2-0 lead in the three-match ODI series and rested Graeme Swann, Stuart Broad and the local favourite, Tim Bresnan, for...

Ministry/Corporation 7-A-side football competition…

Jun 22, 2012 KNews Sports Comments Off on Ministry/Corporation 7-A-side football competition…

Training facility ‘Body Max’ rises to the corporate call Football fans are truly being entertained with several encounters as the action in the Inter Ministry/Corporation 7-A-side...

Top seeds to compete for Earl Vigilance Memorial Open Scrabble tournament

Jun 22, 2012 KNews Sports Comments Off on Top seeds to compete for Earl Vigilance Memorial Open Scrabble tournament

The intense battle for honours in the scrabble arena will continue when the members of the Guyana Association of Scrabble Players (GASP) journey to Linden for the Earl Vigilance Memorial Open...

West Demerara Sec. eliminate LTI on penalty kicks

Jun 22, 2012 KNews Sports Comments Off on West Demerara Sec. eliminate LTI on penalty kicks

New Silver City, St. Cuthbert’s, GETC, GITC also win The West Demerara Secondary School ground has now become synonymous with exciting matches and yesterday’s clash between the hosts and...

John Fernandes, MCYS clash to headline latest ministry corporation football

Jun 22, 2012 KNews Sports Comments Off on John Fernandes, MCYS clash to headline latest ministry corporation football

John Fernandes Limited will tackle the Ministry of Culture Youth and Sports in an eagerly anticipated thriller when action in the Inter Ministry/Corporation 7-A-side football...

24th edition of Friday Night Fights…Fraser, Atwell to battle for local featherweight crown as Dharry opts out of fight

Jun 22, 2012 KNews Sports Comments Off on 24th edition of Friday Night Fights…Fraser, Atwell to battle for local featherweight crown as Dharry opts out of fight

While some boxers commence their professional debuts on a high note, others take quite a while to make the transition from the amateur sector and may lose their first few bouts before...

B’dos F/ball official Sherlock Yarde dead at 55

Jun 22, 2012 KNews Sports Comments Off on B’dos F/ball official Sherlock Yarde dead at 55

Described as a true friend of Guyana’s Football By Sean Devers They say is it not how long you live but how you live that is important to the people you live with and the tributes...