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Boat collision victims to be buried today

Dec 23, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Boat collision victims to be buried today

Four of the six victims involving a boat collision, on Wednesday, will be laid to rest at Charity, today. Vincent Singh, 40; boat Captain Harrinarine Bhagwandeen, both of Abrams Creek, Upper...

ACDA prepares for the 250th anniversary of Berbice Slave Rebellion

Dec 23, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on ACDA prepares for the 250th anniversary of Berbice Slave Rebellion

This year is the 250th anniversary of the often forgotten 1762 slave rebellion in Berbice, then a Dutch colony. Thirty-six male and female slaves rose up against inhuman treatment and after...

Halt Sugar Travails

Dec 23, 2012 KNews Editorial Comments Off on Halt Sugar Travails

News that GuySuCo will not reach its revised target of 237,000 tonnes (from 270,000 tonnes) this year has not surprised industry observers. But the constant cavilling over the causes of the shortfall...

Sunday Cartoon

Dec 23, 2012 KNews Cartoons, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Sunday Cartoon

The Baccoo Speaks

Dec 23, 2012 KNews Features / Columnists, The Baccoo Speaks Comments Off on The Baccoo Speaks

Madness knows no bounds. There are many cars on the streets to the extent that people have difficult parking. People will therefore park some distance from their final destination and with the...

Rum, Rivalry, Resistance

Dec 23, 2012 KNews Features / Columnists, Ronald Sanders Comments Off on Rum, Rivalry, Resistance

By Sir Ronald Sanders The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Trade Ministers issued a statement on 11 December stating that “CARICOM countries continue to have serious concerns about the threat...

Guiding principles

Dec 23, 2012 KNews Features / Columnists, Ravi Dev Comments Off on Guiding principles

Ralph Ramkarran has asked for the PPP to relook at the question of its ideology: I believe that all the political parties ought to do so. At a minimum it will force them to examine the...

THE MARRIOTT HOTEL MOTION IS NOT ILLEGAL

Dec 23, 2012 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on THE MARRIOTT HOTEL MOTION IS NOT ILLEGAL

The government is not lawfully compelled to abide with a motion passed by the National Assembly. They may be morally bound to so do, but there is no legal compulsion for the government to...

The confusion continues

Dec 23, 2012 KNews Features / Columnists, My Column Comments Off on The confusion continues

This season brings out the best and the worst in people. All through the year I watched women in stilettos going to work. I always find this amusing because in the places where they designed...

What do people like to read in this season?

Dec 23, 2012 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on What do people like to read in this season?

I went to the online editions of several newspapers around the world to see what subjects social commentators dwell on during the Christmas season. I was thinking that it may be burdensome on readers...

The Blue-throated Macaw (Ara glaucogularis)

Dec 23, 2012 KNews Features / Columnists, Interesting Creatures in Guyana Comments Off on The Blue-throated Macaw (Ara glaucogularis)

The Blue-throated Macaw (Ara glaucogularis; previously Ara caninde) is a macaw endemic to a small area of north-central Bolivia, Brazil, known as Los Llanos de Moxos. Recent population and...

Book Review: Who shot the Sheriff?

Dec 23, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Book Review: Who shot the Sheriff?

Celebrity and law enforcement collide in crime drama By Dr Glenville Ashby [email protected] Follow me on Twitter @glenvilleashby Vincentian John Andrews’ Who shot the Sheriff takes...

PEACE & JOY – TWO ESSENTIALS FOR GUYANA

Dec 23, 2012 KNews AFC Column, Features / Columnists Comments Off on PEACE & JOY – TWO ESSENTIALS FOR GUYANA

By Dr. Sewnauth Punalall AFC Executive Member The Christmas celebration is just a few days away and the AFC extends joyous Christmas greetings to all Guyanese as well as all foreign...

ImmigrationINFO: Immigration News For Our Community

Dec 23, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on ImmigrationINFO: Immigration News For Our Community

Adam Walsh Act Prohibit Certain Types of Petitioners Attorney Gail S. Seeram, The Adam Walsh Child Protection and Safety Act (“Adam Walsh Act”) became law on July 27, 2006. It contains...

From the Diaspora…IT’S CHRISTMAS, DON’T FORGET THE ORPHANS

Dec 23, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on From the Diaspora…IT’S CHRISTMAS, DON’T FORGET THE ORPHANS

By Ralph Seeram Religion aside, Christmas is for children. Now we adults have hijacked it from them, and the business community has commercialized it. Today, Christmas is celebrated universally; it...

President Ramotar goes to Cane Grove

Dec 23, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on President Ramotar goes to Cane Grove

President Donald Ramotar travelled to Cane Grove as part of the programme by Office of the President to extend Christmas cheer to the less fortunate and the elderly. Here he presents this senior...

An Education Nation

Dec 23, 2012 KNews APNU Column, Features / Columnists Comments Off on An Education Nation

The People’s National Congress Reform column today is the text of the charge delivered by Brigadier David Granger, Leader of the Opposition in the National Assembly, to graduates of the...

Woman jailed, fined for Marijuana possession

Dec 23, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Woman jailed, fined for Marijuana possession

A woman who was found with 333 grams of marijuana at the Central Police Station after she was arrested and taken there on suspicion of drugs runnings, was on Friday jailed for two years after she was...

PPP’s bungling strategy with a plethora of IMCs

Dec 23, 2012 KNews Letters Comments Off on PPP’s bungling strategy with a plethora of IMCs

Dear Editor, We have been without local government elections for the past 19 years and the ruling party is not in the least bothered by this sorry state of affairs and the impact it has on the...

Two constables arrested with ganja

Dec 23, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Two constables arrested with ganja

…lead police to ‘Rasta man’ Berbice Police moving swiftly and acting on information were able to nab two market constables with a bag full of ganja. Police acting on information and...

I Issue a challenge to President Ramotar and the PPP regime

Dec 23, 2012 KNews Letters Comments Off on I Issue a challenge to President Ramotar and the PPP regime

Dear Editor, Abraham Lincoln defined a hypocrite as the man who murdered both of his parents and then pleaded for mercy on the ground that he was an orphan. And he must have had some measure...

It is a tragedy that our private sector cannot reject the sexism in their advertising

Dec 23, 2012 KNews Letters Comments Off on It is a tragedy that our private sector cannot reject the sexism in their advertising

Dear Editor, As Guyana continues to witness increasing levels of violence against women and girls, we read of an ‘Ole British Pub’ in the new Giftland Mall. The Stabroek News of Friday 21...

The government openly flouts the laws for workers in the traditional public service

Dec 23, 2012 KNews Letters Comments Off on The government openly flouts the laws for workers in the traditional public service

Dear Editor, The issue of contract workers again surfaced for debate in the National Assembly. This issue should not be confined to the question of payment but should be addressed within the...

Serious problems with CPCE’s Associate Degree programme

Dec 23, 2012 KNews Letters Comments Off on Serious problems with CPCE’s Associate Degree programme

Dear Editor, We the teachers of the Cyril Potter College of Education, First Batch of Associate Degree Teachers would like to share a burning issue with the media and the public and hope we will get...

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Guyana Beverage Inc. on board with Petra to host 8th Annual Girls U11 Football Tournament

Poor Power Planning (PPP)

…Peeping Tom Kaieteur News- Planning has long been the PPP/C government’s pride and joy. The PPP/C touts it at rallies,... more