July 19, 2012

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Breaking news!!! Anger boils in Linden after deadly night

Jul 19, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Breaking news!!! Anger boils in Linden after deadly night

– Residents gather for second day of protest Cleared streets but an uneasy mood permeated the town of Linden Thursday morning, hours after a nasty battle between law enforcement...

Linden protest turns deadly…Four dead, two dozen injured

Jul 19, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Linden protest turns deadly…Four dead, two dozen injured

At least four persons were confirmed dead and several others were injured as Police opened fire in Linden on the first day of a planned five-day protest against electricity rate hikes. In the wake of...

We must talk to each other

Jul 19, 2012 KNews Editorial Comments Off on We must talk to each other

There can be no substitute for dialogue and discussion. All too often, however, there is confrontation because no one wants to consider an accommodation with the other because each considers...

ALL RIGHTS ARE LIMITED

Jul 19, 2012 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on ALL RIGHTS ARE LIMITED

A Partnership for Nation Unity (APNU) should not fall victim to the Alliance for Change (AFC) strategy of deflecting criticism from itself towards the partnership. This is what the AFC is trying to...

Paramountcy: Then and now

Jul 19, 2012 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on Paramountcy: Then and now

In philosophy there is the concept of “substance and form.” The two are inseparable. Substance is the inherent totality of elements in an object. Form is structure of the elements. The contents...

Dem boys seh…Kwame go fuh start mischief

Jul 19, 2012 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Dem boys seh…Kwame go fuh start mischief

Wha is play fuh li’l boy is dead fuh crappo. Dem got problems in Linden. People dead. Before Gee Nah mek peace it decide fuh pour gasoline pun fire. And is Kwame who decide to do...

Oil, gold and airport expansion across the Guianas

Jul 19, 2012 KNews Letters Comments Off on Oil, gold and airport expansion across the Guianas

DEAR EDITOR, Oil discovery, gold rush and airport expansion across the Guianas are making headlines these days. The Guianas are poised for an economic boom due to the discovery of oil along...

Pronunciation and the Frederick Kissoons of the world

Jul 19, 2012 KNews Letters Comments Off on Pronunciation and the Frederick Kissoons of the world

Dear Editor, Once upon a time, one of the first things I pored over in the Guyana media was Freddie Kissoon’s column. But that was then; these days, after glimpsing at his column...

Wrong to suggest unpublished research is useless

Jul 19, 2012 KNews Letters Comments Off on Wrong to suggest unpublished research is useless

DEAR EDITOR, Because it was easy to deduce who actually penned KN’s editorial of Sunday, July 8, titled “Higher Education at UG?”, and after I swept it aside with my response in KN July 10...

There is nothing to suggest any impropriety, or misuse of resources

Jul 19, 2012 KNews Letters Comments Off on There is nothing to suggest any impropriety, or misuse of resources

Dear Editor, A section of the media has repeated a most mischievous and inaccurate aspect of Mr. Ramon Gaskin’s report which referred to misuse of fuel by the Mayor. I wish to make it...

President Ramotar’s conspiracy of silence

Jul 19, 2012 KNews Letters Comments Off on President Ramotar’s conspiracy of silence

DEAR EDITOR, I agree – generally, with the comments of the Alliance for Change (AFC), but they stop short of stating that such editorials could not have been written without the consent...

Preparations moving apace for biggest ‘street ball’ contest

Jul 19, 2012 KNews Sports Comments Off on Preparations moving apace for biggest ‘street ball’ contest

– Registration opens at outlets across Guyana By Edison Jefford There is absolutely no doubt that when the best ‘street-ballers’ from all across Guyana lace their sneakers for the Mackeson...

George and young Windies quick Jones top Under-17 batting and bowling

Jul 19, 2012 KNews Sports Comments Off on George and young Windies quick Jones top Under-17 batting and bowling

St John’s, Antigua – Windward Islands batsman Keone George topped the batting charts in the recently concluded West Indies Cricket Board inaugural Under 17 Tournament played in Tobago. George, a...

DOCOL on board Inter-Market Futsal Tournament

Jul 19, 2012 KNews Sports Comments Off on DOCOL on board Inter-Market Futsal Tournament

Sales and Marketing Manager of Demerara Oxygen Company Ltd. (DOCOL) Gopienauth Sowdajar speaking with this newspaper shortly after presenting a cheque for an undisclosed sum to Co-ordinator of...

Barbados sink Guyana 112-13 in AFNA Championship

Jul 19, 2012 KNews Sports Comments Off on Barbados sink Guyana 112-13 in AFNA Championship

By Juanita Hooper in Trinidad and Tobago Guyana National Netball team could not have prevented another downfall on the fourth day of the American Federation of Netball Association (AFNA)...

Min of Sports/NSC cricket camp opens Monday at Enterprise

Jul 19, 2012 KNews Sports Comments Off on Min of Sports/NSC cricket camp opens Monday at Enterprise

The Sports Ministry and National Sports Commission (NSC) have collaborated with National Female Cricket Coach Latchman Yadram to host an under-17 cricket camp at the Enterprise Community...

GDA looking for young draughts players

Jul 19, 2012 KNews Sports Comments Off on GDA looking for young draughts players

The Guyana Draughts Association (GDA) is looking for youths and children who can play draughts in preparation for a tournament between Guyana and Suriname in August in Guyana. Interested...

West Indies name provisional squad for ICC World Twenty20

Jul 19, 2012 KNews Sports Comments Off on West Indies name provisional squad for ICC World Twenty20

St. John’s, Antigua – West Indies yesterday named the following provisional 30-member squad for the 2012 ICC World Twenty20 to be staged in Sri Lanka in September. Squad Samuel Badree...

Basketball summer Clinic on in Berbice

Jul 19, 2012 KNews Sports Comments Off on Basketball summer Clinic on in Berbice

Young and aspiring Basketball players in Berbice have a chance to learn the game and improve their skills over the holiday period when the Berbice Basketball Association (BBA) organize their...

Guyana succumb to USA 82-25

Jul 19, 2012 KNews Sports Comments Off on Guyana succumb to USA 82-25

– Coach says retaining ball possession is a weak area for Guyana By Juanita Hooper in Trinidad and Tobago Guyana’s National Netballers last evening went down fighting to the...

Letter to the Sports Editor…Sports Cheats

Jul 19, 2012 KNews Sports Comments Off on Letter to the Sports Editor…Sports Cheats

Dear Editor, “Why do people go to the extent to cheat to win sporting events?” Audio English.net Dictionary definition of cheating is stated as: The noun cheating has 1 sense: – A...

Prime Minister offers no apology for killed Lindeners

Jul 19, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Prime Minister offers no apology for killed Lindeners

…expresses disappointment by blocked bridge, missionaries unable to travel to interior Prime Minister Samuel Hinds last evening issued an official statement in response to the unrest in Linden...

Government of Guyana Statement on the Linden situation

Jul 19, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Government of Guyana Statement on the Linden situation

The Government of Guyana sincerely regrets the loss of life and injuries as events took an unfortunate turn for the worse this evening in Linden. The Government extends condolences and sympathies to...

Alliance for Change (AFC) statement on the situation in Linden

Jul 19, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Alliance for Change (AFC) statement on the situation in Linden

The use of force, and more so of deadly force, against the residents of Linden has to be condemned. The AFC extends sympathy to the relatives who have been martyred for their just cause. This...

City workers ordered to remove illegal scrap metal business from Lamaha Park

Jul 19, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on City workers ordered to remove illegal scrap metal business from Lamaha Park

Georgetown Mayor, Hamilton Green, has ordered workers to remove the illegal scrap metal business affecting Lamaha Park residents. The Mayor disclosed this during a telephone interview with Kaieteur...

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Carter gave West Indies a fighting chance in a tall chase but they ran out of steam ESPNcricinfo – Captain Oliver Peake’s 109 and pace bowler Charles Lachmund’s four-for made...

Cash or Kind?

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(Kaieteur News) – In policy debates, especially in developing and small open economies, it has become fashionable to argue that in-kind grants are preferable to cash grants because they supposedly create less instability in macroeconomic fundamentals. The claim sounds responsible, even prudent....

Visa Restrictions and the Cost of Caribbean Disunity

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By Sir Ronald Sanders (Kaieteur News) – When powerful states act, small states are tempted to personalize the action. When small states fragment, powerful states do not need to explain themselves. That is the lesson CARICOM should draw from the recent U.S. decision to impose partial visa...

Budget 2026: From a rich man’s position

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If I were a rich man… I’d build a big tall house with rooms by the dozen… I’d fill my yard with chicks and turkeys and ducks and geese… I see my wife…looking like a rich man’s wife… (Kaieteur News) – Those lines cobbled together from Fiddler on the Roof announce to the world the...

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