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Non-appointment of Ombudsman a mockery of the constitution

Aug 27, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Non-appointment of Ombudsman a mockery of the constitution

– AFC Annually, a budgetary allocation is made for the Office of the Ombudsman but its substantive office remains empty. Months into his presidency, Donald Ramotar has not...

Moleson Creek residents say they have been forgotten

Aug 27, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Moleson Creek residents say they have been forgotten

By Samuel Whyte Moleson Creek residents believe that they have been abandoned by those who were put in positions to help alleviate the hardships they have been forced to endure over the past...

Eleven NOC escapees to be charged

Aug 27, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Eleven NOC escapees to be charged

Eleven juveniles who broke out of the New Opportunity Corps last Wednesday are scheduled to appear in the Charity Magistrate’s Court today on charges of escaping from the Onderneeming facility. A...

Market vendor killed in M’cony hit and run accident

Aug 27, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Market vendor killed in M’cony hit and run accident

Police at Mahaica on the East Coast of Demerara have detained a truck driver after fragments of an exterior light that was recovered from the scene of a fatal hit and run accident...

Homeowner sends burglar to hospital

Aug 27, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Homeowner sends burglar to hospital

A teenage burglar received a sound thrashing from an Enmore, East Coast Demerara resident, after he was caught red handed in a home in the village. According to information, at around...

Inter- Guiana Festival deemed “successful”

Aug 27, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Inter- Guiana Festival deemed “successful”

As Guyana closed the curtains on what was considered “a successful staging of the second annual Inter -Guiana festival yesterday, Lance Canterbury an organizer of the event stated...

Workers duped, threatened with death for leaving logging camp

Aug 27, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Workers duped, threatened with death for leaving logging camp

Four men who had sought employment with a logging concern are claiming that they were tricked and almost used as slaves when they ventured into the interior to work. The men Nick...

Workers’ interest dear to Gov’t – President tells GAWU’s 20th Congress

Aug 27, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Workers’ interest dear to Gov’t – President tells GAWU’s 20th Congress

The Twentieth Delegates’ Congress of the Guyana Agricultural and General Workers’ Union (GAWU), opened on Saturday at the Guyana International Conference Centre, Liliendaal, amidst praises for...

NUTS IN A NAME?

Aug 27, 2012 KNews Features / Columnists, Tony Deyal column Comments Off on NUTS IN A NAME?

“The fault is not in our stars but in ourselves.” This is what Cassius of the “lean and hungry look”, a gentleman that Julius Caesar said “thinks too much”, said to his...

Kidney transplant patient eager to get back to work

Aug 27, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Kidney transplant patient eager to get back to work

After securing the assistance from the public to pay for a $3M kidney transplant, 31-year-old Kampta Shivsankar of lot 674 Best Village, West Coast Demerara, is currently on the road to...

Amerindians should beware of what the PPP did in Linden

Aug 27, 2012 KNews Letters Comments Off on Amerindians should beware of what the PPP did in Linden

Dear Editor, The PPP is on the warpath of vindictiveness. Linden rejected the PPP in the November 2011 election. The vindictive PPP decided to punish Linden by raising electricity rates on a...

President Ramotar: Please justify your nation’s UN Vote on Syria

Aug 27, 2012 KNews Letters Comments Off on President Ramotar: Please justify your nation’s UN Vote on Syria

Dear Editor, In Politics and International Relations, not all decision-making falls easily into Black or White areas (Right or Wrong), so the analysts and pundits create another area – the grey...

Essequibo celebrates its latest centenarian Ramjohn Mohamed Khan

Aug 27, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Essequibo celebrates its latest centenarian Ramjohn Mohamed Khan

A grand celebration was held last Saturday at Aurora on the Essequibo Coast, in observance of the 100th birth anniversary of Essequibo’s newest centenarian Ramjohn Mohamed Khan. Khan,...

Scrabble association President optimistic of future of sport as Regional tourney ends

Aug 27, 2012 KNews Sports Comments Off on Scrabble association President optimistic of future of sport as Regional tourney ends

By Michael Benjamin Interim President of the Guyana Association of Scrabble Players (GASP), Colin Chichester has stressed the need for wider participation in the sport and has issued a call for...

Junior rider Raynauth Jeffrey secures another commanding win

Aug 27, 2012 KNews Sports Comments Off on Junior rider Raynauth Jeffrey secures another commanding win

Flying Stars Cycle Club 60-Mile Road Race Guyana’s leading junior and juvenile riders continues to upstage their senior counterparts when the Flying Stars Cycle Club held a 60-mile road race on...

A caution to Freddie Kissoon

Aug 27, 2012 KNews Letters Comments Off on A caution to Freddie Kissoon

Dear Editor, A long time ago, when Adam Harris and Freddie Kissoon were engaged in a war of words in the newspapers, I wrote a letter imploring that they both use the great gifts that were given to...

Rohee will be in a conflict of interest position during the Linden Commission of Inquiry

Aug 27, 2012 KNews Letters Comments Off on Rohee will be in a conflict of interest position during the Linden Commission of Inquiry

Dear Editor, The International Committee in Continuing Defence of Linden has noted with relief but concern the announcement of a Commission of Inquiry into the July 18th protest killings in...

Father of deceased testifies in school boy fatal stabbing PI

Aug 27, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Father of deceased testifies in school boy fatal stabbing PI

The Preliminary Inquiry (PI) into the death of 17-year-old Anfernee Bowman continued in a somber atmosphere last Wednesday at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court, when the deceased’s...

Did the security cameras in Parliament Building record the attack on Freddie?

Aug 27, 2012 KNews Letters Comments Off on Did the security cameras in Parliament Building record the attack on Freddie?

Dear Editor, Another daylight robbery was committed on another business during last week and based on what was reported in the newspaper, the surveillance footage from the building’s security...

THE LOCATION OF THE SYNTHETIC ATHLETIC TRACK

Aug 27, 2012 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on THE LOCATION OF THE SYNTHETIC ATHLETIC TRACK

An all weather track is a necessary but by no means a sufficient condition to ensure the international success of local athletes. Trinidad and Tobago has had synthetic tracks since the...

Fishermen missing at sea for over 10 days

Aug 27, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Fishermen missing at sea for over 10 days

– relatives lament lack of assistance from relevant authorities There is still no trace of the two fishermen from Rosignol, West Bank Berbice who left their homes more than a...

Suriname Night – a mesmerizing scene

Aug 27, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Suriname Night – a mesmerizing scene

On Saturday evening Guyanese were again welcomed to the Inter-Guiana Cultural Festival held at the National Cultural Centre (NCC) where a Surinamese group took to the stage and...

BV trounce Mahaica 2-0; Buxton United 0 Bakewell Buxton Stars 0

Aug 27, 2012 KNews Sports Comments Off on BV trounce Mahaica 2-0; Buxton United 0 Bakewell Buxton Stars 0

Mackeson / EDFA Senior League When competition continued in the Mackeson sponsored East Demerara Football Association (EDFA) Senior League continued on Saturday at the Buxton Community Centre Ground,...

Paramakatoi Secondary School overcrowded

Aug 27, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Paramakatoi Secondary School overcrowded

…in no condition to reopen – teacher With one more week left before the start of a new school term, some schools are not in any condition to continue classes much less accept new students,...

Guyana teams finish 2nd in both team events, 3rd overall at Caribbean Squash tourney

Aug 27, 2012 KNews Sports Comments Off on Guyana teams finish 2nd in both team events, 3rd overall at Caribbean Squash tourney

Guyana’s Ladies and Men lost out in their bids for the team championships on the final day of squash at the Caribbean Championships in Trinidad and Tobago. Guyana has not been able to send both men...

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The wait is over, all roads lead to KMTC for their Grand Boxing Day Horse race meet

Merry Christmas, Ya Filthy Animals!

Peeping Tom… Kaieteur News- Ah, Christmas—the season of goodwill, good cheer, and, let’s not forget, good riddance!... more