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Guyana LCDS and Norway funds

Jun 24, 2012 KNews AFC Column, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Guyana LCDS and Norway funds

The information below was published previously. However, in light of the constant distortions, untruths and blatant lies being hawked on NCN, the Alliance For Change thinks it is in the...

UG workers protest re-election of Chancellor

Jun 24, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on UG workers protest re-election of Chancellor

Unions representing the teaching staff and workers of the University of Guyana are protesting the re-appointment of Professor Compton Bourne as Chancellor. “ As far as the Unions and...

Prostitute of 28 years now seeks decent job

Jun 24, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Prostitute of 28 years now seeks decent job

A woman, who has been a prostitute for over 28 years, yearns for a better way of life but feels constrained by her lack of education and her inability to find a stable job. Only last...

ImmigrationTalk…Traveling Under Advance Parole may not lead to Inadmissibility

Jun 24, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on ImmigrationTalk…Traveling Under Advance Parole may not lead to Inadmissibility

By Attorney Gail S. Seeram Under U.S. Immigration laws, individuals who depart the United States after having lived there without lawful status for one year or more are barred from returning...

Rio+20: No closer to a safer global environment

Jun 24, 2012 KNews Features / Columnists, Ronald Sanders Comments Off on Rio+20: No closer to a safer global environment

By Sir Ronald Sanders The Rio+20 Conference in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, has brought the world no closer to a safer global environment. Indeed, if the measure of its success is that the large and...

Cartoon – June 24, 2012

Jun 24, 2012 KNews Cartoons, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Cartoon – June 24, 2012

GDF participates in Tradewinds 2012 in Barbados

Jun 24, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on GDF participates in Tradewinds 2012 in Barbados

Guyanese soldiers are among law enforcement and defence force officers from the United States, Canada and 15 Caribbean countries taking part in Exercise Tradewinds 2012. The Caribbean...

GRANGER CONGRATULATES 100-YEAR-OLD BERBICE VETERAN

Jun 24, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on GRANGER CONGRATULATES 100-YEAR-OLD BERBICE VETERAN

Leader of the Opposition, Brigadier David Granger, travelled to Number 41 Village, West Coast Berbice on Thursday, to congratulate and to spend time with Mr. Arnold Bascom on his 100th...

From the Diaspora…So here I am in Guyana experiencing all the highs and lows

Jun 24, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on From the Diaspora…So here I am in Guyana experiencing all the highs and lows

By Ralph Seeram It was a long, exhausting hot and sticky day, but I am not complaining. I can “man up” without air conditioning. After all, I “born and grew up in New Amsterdam”. I can take...

Where was the Mayor & City Council for the past 15 years?

Jun 24, 2012 KNews Letters Comments Off on Where was the Mayor & City Council for the past 15 years?

Dear Editor, Kindly permit me to state my humble opinion as a law abiding, hardworking tax payer of this city of Georgetown. I have for some time now, been following the ups and lots of downs of the...

The president as per the Constitution plays a participatory role in parliament, not a dominant one

Jun 24, 2012 KNews Letters Comments Off on The president as per the Constitution plays a participatory role in parliament, not a dominant one

Dear Editor, Having followed the ongoing discussions regarding President Ramotar’s threat that he “will not assent to any bill that [the opposition] carry unless it is with the full agreement of...

Empower People, not the politicians

Jun 24, 2012 KNews Letters Comments Off on Empower People, not the politicians

Dear Editor, Seven months into the new parliament, the opposition has not made much effort to empower the people. While the opposition has attempted to make the government more accountable in its...

Is the lotto like the three –card game?

Jun 24, 2012 KNews Letters Comments Off on Is the lotto like the three –card game?

Dear Editor, Sometime after a good run of the introduction of the new format of the lotto- super 6, where instead of choosing numbers between one to 36, it was reduced to one to 28. A customer wrote...

YCT should rethink its position on the call to boycott targeted businesses

Jun 24, 2012 KNews Letters Comments Off on YCT should rethink its position on the call to boycott targeted businesses

Dear Editor, The Youth Coalition for Transformation (YCT) members should rethink their position on the call to boycott targeted businesses and rescind such calls. Countries can only achieve economic...

Ralph Ramkarran should be applauded for his courageous move

Jun 24, 2012 KNews Letters Comments Off on Ralph Ramkarran should be applauded for his courageous move

Dear Editor, This is in reference to Freddie’s recent comment on Ralph Ramkarran. Freddie, you should look beyond Mr. Ralph Ramkarran’s past and support of the PPP regime, rather than taking...

Understanding China

Jun 24, 2012 KNews Editorial Comments Off on Understanding China

China has been in the news recently – for not entirely positive reasons. But behind these stories is that of a nation that has latched on to a unique method of generating growth. The following are...

Female warders smuggle ganja into Camp Street jail

Jun 23, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Female warders smuggle ganja into Camp Street jail

…to join inmates in cell There’s been a drug bust at the Camp Street Prison—and two warders were the traffickers. Officials found this out on Wednesday after two female prison officers...

Stray-catchers seek to clear Berbice roads

Jun 23, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Stray-catchers seek to clear Berbice roads

Stray- catching is back in full swing in Berbice. This time, the authorities intend to make it work to deal with the problem of animals that roam the many roadways across the region. Region...

President not a puppet of National Assembly – Attorney General

Jun 23, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on President not a puppet of National Assembly – Attorney General

“It would be irresponsible for a national assembly to pass a law which would collide with executive Policies and programmes which the executive is pursuing, because it is the exclusive...

THE PARTIES SHOULD MEET

Jun 23, 2012 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on THE PARTIES SHOULD MEET

APNU is a national party. Like the PPPC it contested every administrative region in Guyana during the 2011 polls. It did particularly well in Region Ten regaining much of the ground that it had...

From pillar to post

Jun 23, 2012 KNews Editorial Comments Off on From pillar to post

The government seems to be wandering from blunder to blunder and getting itself mired in situations that it really should not be. At present the most strident call has been for a serious...

Dem boys seh…Bobby running out of nought

Jun 23, 2012 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Dem boys seh…Bobby running out of nought

Believe it or not, Bobby file another lawsuit against de Waterfalls paper. This time he claiming only $100,000. Dem boys seh that he run out of dem nought. By de time he done file...

Nothing vindictive in Electricity Reform in Linden

Jun 23, 2012 KNews Letters Comments Off on Nothing vindictive in Electricity Reform in Linden

DEAR EDITOR, I would also like to assure Mr. Lincoln Lewis and all who might have read his letter in SN and KN of 2012-06-22 captioned “Linden highlights the PPP’s vindictive and...

All of our politicians should read Mahatma’s writings

Jun 23, 2012 KNews Letters Comments Off on All of our politicians should read Mahatma’s writings

Dear Editor, I want to compliment KN for the ad which quotes the Mahatma with his picture; all Guyanese should adopt Gandhi’s statement in KN as it would serve the nation much better....

An obvious miscarriage of authority

Jun 23, 2012 KNews Letters Comments Off on An obvious miscarriage of authority

Dear Editor, The announced reduction of annualised vacation leave from 42 days to 21 days (KN, Friday, June 22, 2012) is obviously a miscarriage of authority to which even the Ministry...

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Following one’s conscience rather than the crowd

Peeping Tom… Kaieteur News- “They’re certainly entitled to think that, and they’re entitled to full respect... more