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Race against time for aging Harbour Bridge…APNU says – New bridge more important than Marriott Hotel

Aug 05, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Race against time for aging Harbour Bridge…APNU says – New bridge more important than Marriott Hotel

The recent shocking collapse of the Demerara Harbour Bridge, which left thousands stranded and severe losses to especially farmers and businesses, should be a wake-up call for government to...

Govt.US$85M Parliamentary request…Finance Minister’s latest demand disrespectful – Carl Greenidge

Aug 05, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Govt.US$85M Parliamentary request…Finance Minister’s latest demand disrespectful – Carl Greenidge

By Gary Eleazar The Guyana Government, through its Finance Minister, has submitted two supplementary requests for monies to be advanced from the Consolidated Fund to meet unforeseen expenditure, but...

Ramjattan new AFC leader, Hughes Chairman

Aug 05, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Ramjattan new AFC leader, Hughes Chairman

…as Trotman exits The Alliance For Change (AFC) has named attorney-at-law Khemraj Ramjattan as that party’s new leader following elections at its Third National Conference yesterday. This was...

Dem boys seh…Kwame gat fuh walk now fuh meet dem li’l ones

Aug 05, 2012 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Dem boys seh…Kwame gat fuh walk now fuh meet dem li’l ones

Some people name does tell wha dem is. Tek de name Ali. When dem woman miners check pun some Chinee who wukking dredge in de bush de people tell dem that Ramzan Ali bring dem fuh wuk. Well dem boys...

Peer educator and fitness enthusiast, Eli Hazel, is a ‘Special Person’

Aug 05, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Peer educator and fitness enthusiast, Eli Hazel, is a ‘Special Person’

“My principle in life is that people must do positive and uplifting things for themselves…make yourself somebody and be dedicated to whatever it is that you do.” By Leon Suseran Eli Hazel is a...

Fraser-Pryce is sprint queen once again

Aug 05, 2012 KNews Sports Comments Off on Fraser-Pryce is sprint queen once again

LONDON (Reuters) – Jamaica’s Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce proved to be the sprint queen of the track once again when she retained her Olympic 100 metres title on Saturday. Fraser-Pryce,...

Tennis: Serena Williams storms to singles gold

Aug 05, 2012 KNews Sports Comments Off on Tennis: Serena Williams storms to singles gold

(Reuters) – Serena Williams won her first Olympic tennis women’s singles gold on Saturday with a 6-0 6-1 demolition of Russia’s Maria Sharapova on Wimbledon’s Centre Court. The...

Why did Rohee not act as the Home Affairs Minister did in 1962?

Aug 05, 2012 KNews Letters Comments Off on Why did Rohee not act as the Home Affairs Minister did in 1962?

Dear Editor, I wish to join those who have mourned in public the loss of three precious lives, and to join those who have denounced the opening of deadly fire on citizens protesting for whatever...

What qualifies this man to be the Chairman of Guysuco?

Aug 05, 2012 KNews Letters Comments Off on What qualifies this man to be the Chairman of Guysuco?

Dear Editor, Recently, it was reported that Mr. Raj Singh is the Chairman of Guysuco and travels to Guyana on a monthly basis with all expenses paid, enjoying a lot of succor on the backs of the...

Parliament to start review of homosexual, death penalty laws this week

Aug 05, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Parliament to start review of homosexual, death penalty laws this week

The Guyana Government has apparently decided on its first step to dealing with the matter of the Death Penalty, Lesbians, Homosexuals and the issue of Corporal Punishment. The matter has surfaced as...

Health Ministry strengthening surveillance to combat cholera

Aug 05, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Health Ministry strengthening surveillance to combat cholera

It has been just short of a month since there have been reports of cholera in some parts of Cuba, and this country’s Chief Medical Officer Dr. Shamdeo Persaud has confirmed that there have not been...

After Nigel Hughes, who is next?

Aug 05, 2012 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on After Nigel Hughes, who is next?

My conceptualizations of people, places, events and things are graphically told in black and white; in other words they are in print. No one can say that I was the last to say this or that. No one...

A Commission of Inquiry into the Linden unrest will bear no fruit

Aug 05, 2012 KNews Letters Comments Off on A Commission of Inquiry into the Linden unrest will bear no fruit

Dear Editor, History has a way of repeating itself. The Wismar disturbances of 1964 saw the resignation of Janet Jagan in June, 1964; as minister responsible for the police. History has it recorded...

Truckers fearful of traversing Linden to Lethem trail

Aug 05, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Truckers fearful of traversing Linden to Lethem trail

Drivers of cargo trucks are fearful of traversing the Linden to Lethem trail, owing to criminal elements, resulting in increased prices for fuel and food in neighbouring mining districts. The flow of...

G Division hosts successful Fitness Walk

Aug 05, 2012 KNews Sports Comments Off on G Division hosts successful Fitness Walk

The top brass and Ranks of G Division held a successful Fitness Walk recently in observance of the Guyana Police Force’s 173rd Anniversary. The event attracted ranks from all the Police...

“Youth at London Olympics 2012 and in cricket not being wasted!”

Aug 05, 2012 KNews Sports Comments Off on “Youth at London Olympics 2012 and in cricket not being wasted!”

Colin E. H. Croft You gotta love it! The 30th Olympics in modern times, London 2012, already has new pin-up girls, and we have not really started the athletics fully or completed cycling or...

Mo Farah wins Olympic 10,000m gold for Great Britain

Aug 05, 2012 KNews Sports Comments Off on Mo Farah wins Olympic 10,000m gold for Great Britain

Mo Farah became the first Briton to win Olympic 10,000m gold with a tremendous victory in the Olympic Stadium. The 29-year-old won in a time of 27 minutes, 30.42 seconds. Farah’s triumph ended a...

Kennard Memorial Turf Club stages Post Emancipation race meet

Aug 05, 2012 KNews Sports Comments Off on Kennard Memorial Turf Club stages Post Emancipation race meet

The horses have all been engaged in good gallops; the jockeys have prepared thoroughly and the track is in immaculate condition. It’s now lights, camera, action, as the Kennard Memorial Turf...

Ministerial accountability and responsibility

Aug 05, 2012 KNews AFC Column, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Ministerial accountability and responsibility

(An excerpt from an address by Hon. Cathy Hughes MP to the National Assembly – July 24, 2012) No matter how exhaustive the constitutional and international provisions in a democracy, that democracy...

“Dem ah watch meh” singer’s torched car found in cemetery

Aug 05, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on “Dem ah watch meh” singer’s torched car found in cemetery

Popular chutney artiste and Director of Firefest Productions, Mahendra Ramkellawan, found one his vehicles torched after it was stolen from his Eccles Housing Scheme residence yesterday. The Toyota...

These two police ranks are terrorizing Albouystown residents

Aug 05, 2012 KNews Letters Comments Off on These two police ranks are terrorizing Albouystown residents

Dear Editor, I write to draw to the attention of the public and those in authority a pattern of abuse towards the residents of Albouystown by two police patrols headed by Cadet Officers (names given)...

The Deception of Minister Manickchand

Aug 05, 2012 KNews Letters Comments Off on The Deception of Minister Manickchand

Dear Editor, I need to bring to the public’s attention the utter deception in the reply of the Minister of Education (“Sunday editorial failed to publish pertinent facts,” Tuesday, July 31, 12)...

Bandits shoot businessman, 74, escape with $2M

Aug 05, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Bandits shoot businessman, 74, escape with $2M

The 74-year-old President of the Guyana Volleyball Federation Lenox Shuffler is recovering well after receiving a gunshot wound to his left ankle when bandits attacked him on Friday afternoon. The...

Which university?

Aug 05, 2012 KNews Editorial Comments Off on Which university?

Recently there was a desultory and defensive response to our editorial “Higher Education at UG?” in which we had bemoaned the dearth of research in our sole tertiary institution. We questioned...

WHO PACKED YOUR PARACHUTE?

Aug 05, 2012 KNews Features / Columnists, Food For Thought Comments Off on WHO PACKED YOUR PARACHUTE?

Sometimes in the daily challenges that life gives us, we miss what is really important. We may fail to say hello, please, thank you, congratulate someone on something wonderful that has happened to...

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Thomas’ hat-trick inspires D.C Caesar Fox 10-5 victory, as Annai Sec’ hammer Dolphin

The stakes are high in Guyana’s democracy

Peeping Tom… Kaieteur News- In any vibrant democracy, the mechanisms that bind it together are those that mediate differences,... more