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ImmigrationINFO …Immigration News For Our Community

Dec 09, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on ImmigrationINFO …Immigration News For Our Community

Inspection Upon Arrival in the U.S. Attorney Gail Seeram, United States Customs and Border Protection (CBP) is an agency within the Department of Homeland Security. The agency is...

‘Policy Dialogues

Dec 09, 2012 KNews Editorial Comments Off on ‘Policy Dialogues

Now that everyone agrees that our politicians have wasted a whole year in fighting over who should control power rather than how to use that power for the development of our country, maybe in this...

The Baccoo Speaks

Dec 09, 2012 KNews Features / Columnists, The Baccoo Speaks Comments Off on The Baccoo Speaks

There are many cars on the roads to the extent that those who become impatient easily will exhibit impatient behaviour to the point that they will cause serious accidents. This will be the case along...

Two blows for Whales

Dec 09, 2012 KNews Features / Columnists, Ronald Sanders Comments Off on Two blows for Whales

By Sir Ronald Sanders The policy of the Japanese government to slaughter thousands of whales every year in the name of “science”, suffered two major blows in recent weeks. Before...

Revitalising Caribbean economies

Dec 09, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Revitalising Caribbean economies

By Ian Francis There is indeed a continuing conversation in many global quarters pertaining to the type of prescription necessary for the revival of the Caribbean economies. In Washington, the...

Multiracial Politics

Dec 09, 2012 KNews Features / Columnists, Ravi Dev Comments Off on Multiracial Politics

Mr Ralph Ramkarran recently interrogated the reasons for the PPP’s loss of a parliamentary majority. Positing that this was primarily due to the dwindling number of its Indian “core support”,...

Politics and big business in Guyana

Dec 09, 2012 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on Politics and big business in Guyana

We live in the age of neo-liberalism. The economic mantra of this ideology limits the role of the government in the economy and encourages it to get out of the economic sphere and leave this space...

UNASUR proposes single South American citizenship

Dec 09, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on UNASUR proposes single South American citizenship

By Odeen Ishmael The sixth summit of the Union of South American Nations (UNASUR), held in Peru’s capital Lima concluded on November 30 with a firm proposal to create a single South American...

There is a lot wrong with the NIS

Dec 09, 2012 KNews Features / Columnists, My Column Comments Off on There is a lot wrong with the NIS

The season of Christmas is here, and with it comes the time when I want to remember those things that made me enjoy my childhood and actually fashioned my life. It is the time when I look at the less...

The man who vanished on Christmas Day

Dec 09, 2012 KNews Features / Columnists, Murder and Mystery Comments Off on The man who vanished on Christmas Day

The pepper-pot and black-cake were on the table…but where was Michael Harris? By Michael Jordan I guess you know about the Marie Celeste, but if you don’t, that was the American...

GT&T introduces ‘Call Home Card’ for the holidays

Dec 09, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on GT&T introduces ‘Call Home Card’ for the holidays

The Guyana Telephone and Telegraph Company (GT&T) is promising crystal clear, reliable and cost effective connections, through its recently introduced Guyana Call Home card. The new and...

The Macrauchenia

Dec 09, 2012 KNews Features / Columnists, Interesting Creatures in Guyana Comments Off on The Macrauchenia

Macrauchenia (“long llama”, based on the now superseded Latin term for llamas, Auchenia, from Greek terms which literally mean “big neck”) was a long-necked and long-limbed,...

Author’s witty assault on T&T Healthcare hits mark

Dec 09, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Author’s witty assault on T&T Healthcare hits mark

Book Review By Dr Glenville Ashby [email protected] Trinidadian novelist Lyndon Baptiste is no stranger to exploring uncanny, if not, off-the-cuff subjects. But this one is a gem –...

How corruption keeps us poor and vulnerable

Dec 09, 2012 KNews AFC Column, Features / Columnists Comments Off on How corruption keeps us poor and vulnerable

Transparency International in its latest report ranked Guyana at 133 out of 176 countries surveyed. This is within the lowest range out of all the countries surveyed and for the English-speaking...

Census enumerators get shortchanged

Dec 09, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Census enumerators get shortchanged

Enumerators (census-takers) expressed their disgust and dismay yesterday after turning up at the Bureau of Statistics Annex, High Street, only to receive half of their contracted...

Corentyne driver suffers broken leg after three-vehicle accident

Dec 09, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Corentyne driver suffers broken leg after three-vehicle accident

An Alness, Corentyne man, Shaun Ahmad, 31, sustained a broken leg and other injuries after he swerved his vehicle into a trench in order to avoid a head-on collision with a Banks DIH beverage...

EBD four-lane road taking shape

Dec 09, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on EBD four-lane road taking shape

– still behind schedule The transformation of the East Bank Demerara main carriage way into the four-lane road is beginning to take shape. Though the overall project is behind...

Police receive donation from GGMC/Natural Resources Ministry

Dec 09, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Police receive donation from GGMC/Natural Resources Ministry

The Guyana Police Force has received a spanking new All Terrain Vehicle (ATV) and two satellite phones, courtesy of the Guyana Geology and Mines Commission and the Ministry of Natural Resources. The...

PPP suffers another panic attack

Dec 09, 2012 KNews APNU Column, Features / Columnists Comments Off on PPP suffers another panic attack

Ralph Ramkarran published a nearly five thousand-word thesis entitled “The PPP and the challenges ahead” last Sunday. The article appeared quite coincidentally, only one day before...

BACIF takes cheer to children of West Ruimveldt community

Dec 09, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on BACIF takes cheer to children of West Ruimveldt community

More than 400 children from West Ruimveldt got early Christmas presents, compliments of Brass Aluminium and Cast Iron Foundry (BACIF), which feted them yesterday, at the Company’s...

The PPP, with the help of a lazy opposition, continues to circumvent the public procurement process

Dec 09, 2012 KNews Letters Comments Off on The PPP, with the help of a lazy opposition, continues to circumvent the public procurement process

Dear Editor, I will try to hit two birds with one stone here. First, in your news article, “NIS operating in the red- GM tells consultation,” (December 8), nothing was ever mentioned about...

Hope Canal consultants respond to Alli, Sohan

Dec 09, 2012 KNews Letters Comments Off on Hope Canal consultants respond to Alli, Sohan

Dear Editor, Response by Consultants to Comments made by Charles Sohan/Malcolm Alli on works undertaken on the EDWC Northern Relief Channel at Hope /Dochfour The recent observations by Mr. Charles...

The PNCR vociferous about CLICO, but silent on Globe Trust

Dec 09, 2012 KNews Letters Comments Off on The PNCR vociferous about CLICO, but silent on Globe Trust

Dear Editor, Well, the final nail has been placed in the coffin of Globe Trust and Investment Company Limited. Along with the final nail, some pertinent revelations emerged on the Trust’s fall. I...

The “C” in PPP/C now, on empirical evidence, unmistakably stands for Corruption

Dec 09, 2012 KNews Letters Comments Off on The “C” in PPP/C now, on empirical evidence, unmistakably stands for Corruption

Dear Editor, In his presentation at the awards dinner of the Georgetown Chamber of Commerce and Industry last Thursday Mr. Clinton Urling, the Chamber’s President included in his wish list for...

I was so mentally hurt, I could have cried

Dec 09, 2012 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on I was so mentally hurt, I could have cried

Last Tuesday, I took Linsday Moriah, a policeman stationed at the High Court, to the Georgetown Public Hospital for treatment for pain in his left shoulder. Mr. Moriah is a policeman who is soft...

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SBM Offshore Guyana & VFMA launch Girls in Football Development Program 2025

You cannot borrow your way to prosperity

Peeping Tom… Kaieteur News-The Jagdeo Doctrine is an absurd, reckless, and fundamentally shortsighted economic fallacy.... more