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Three held for truck driver’s murder, one reportedly confesses

Dec 02, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Three held for truck driver’s murder, one reportedly confesses

Police have reportedly nabbed the gang that ambushed and killed truck driver Aga Khan and wounded a porter last month during a robbery at Craig, East Bank Demerara. Sources said that the breakthrough...

“Operations Safe Parks” initiative benefits from security vehicles

Dec 02, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on “Operations Safe Parks” initiative benefits from security vehicles

The Ministry of Natural Resources and the Environment received two vehicles to enhance security measures at the Botanical Gardens and the National Park. Managing Director of G-Star...

Reoccupation of Queen’s College further postponed – Education Ministry

Dec 02, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Reoccupation of Queen’s College further postponed – Education Ministry

Moves towards the reoccupation of Queen’s College have been further postponed, according to a statement issued yesterday by the Ministry of Education. The Ministry in its statement sought to...

Brazilian businesswoman shot and robbed

Dec 02, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Brazilian businesswoman shot and robbed

A 44-year-old Brazilian businesswoman is currently nursing a gunshot wound to her hip which she sustained during a daring daylight robbery. The victim has been identified as Marcia Martins....

Wrong man, wrong idea, wrong time

Dec 02, 2012 KNews APNU Column, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Wrong man, wrong idea, wrong time

The crisis that is simmering in the National Assembly, the Supreme Court and the Cabinet ostensibly seems to surround the fate of Minister of Home Affairs Clement Rohee. It is difficult to imagine...

Sunday Cartoon

Dec 02, 2012 KNews Cartoons, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Sunday Cartoon

HIV-infected Amerindians among most discriminated

Dec 02, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on HIV-infected Amerindians among most discriminated

– Nat’l AIDS Committee While all HIV-positive persons are vulnerable, the most at-risk groups in terms of discrimination in Guyana are HIV-positive Amerindians, women and people with...

‘Corruption will not go with the click of a finger’

Dec 02, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on ‘Corruption will not go with the click of a finger’

– Ramotar touts improved evaluation of bids With persistent talk about corruption in high places and accusations that he has failed to act on the problem during the first year of his...

Tears fall as GMSA awards Dennis Morgan posthumously

Dec 02, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Tears fall as GMSA awards Dennis Morgan posthumously

– Lifetime Achievement accolade for L. Seepersaud Maraj & Sons By Leonard Gildarie It has become a fixture in the calendar year of the Guyana Manufacturing & Services...

The Baccoo Speaks

Dec 02, 2012 KNews Features / Columnists, The Baccoo Speaks Comments Off on The Baccoo Speaks

The Christmas season is upon us and with it should be peace and joy. Instead, there is a lot of anger in some quarters. A family is going to be warring all month and that war is going to...

Bernadette Persaud AA, inducted into Caribbean Hall of Fame

Dec 02, 2012 KNews Features / Columnists, The Arts Forum Comments Off on Bernadette Persaud AA, inducted into Caribbean Hall of Fame

Local Artist, Bernadette Indira Persaud, has been inducted into the Caribbean Hall of Fame for Excellence 2012. Mrs. Persaud received the Award for Excellence at The Jamaica Pegasus Hotel,...

Cliff – what Cliff?

Dec 02, 2012 KNews Features / Columnists, Ronald Sanders Comments Off on Cliff – what Cliff?

By Sir Ronald Sanders It is not only the people of the United States that should be praying that their political leaders have enough sense not to push themselves off the so-called...

The Elephant in the Room

Dec 02, 2012 KNews Features / Columnists, Ravi Dev Comments Off on The Elephant in the Room

Last week we wrote of the Ethnic Relations Committee being in limbo – but with the hope that it would soon be reconstituted to address the ‘ethnic-question’ which is the omnipresent subtext in...

THE AFC IS NOW INDISTINGUISHABLE FROM APNU

Dec 02, 2012 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on THE AFC IS NOW INDISTINGUISHABLE FROM APNU

One year ago, there was non-partisan elation in many quarters following the results of the last elections. Those elections saw, for the first time since 1964, no party holding a majority of...

Queen’s College never had any flea infestation

Dec 02, 2012 KNews Features / Columnists, My Column Comments Off on Queen’s College never had any flea infestation

I am angry and not because I like losing my temper. In fact, for years I have tried my utmost to avoid becoming angry, and with good reason. I happened to be sitting in the office of Dr Frank Beckles...

A strange case at Hog Island

Dec 02, 2012 KNews Features / Columnists, Murder and Mystery Comments Off on A strange case at Hog Island

By Michael Jordan Hog Island, Essequibo, is home to close to 300 hard-working, peace-loving souls, but once in a while, to loosely quote Shakespeare, something wicked that way comes. The inhabitants...

Don’t Wait

Dec 02, 2012 KNews Features / Columnists, Food For Thought Comments Off on Don’t Wait

This is a story that makes you see why you should live each day as if it were your last… There was a guy that was born with cancer. A cancer that has no known cure. He was 17 years old and...

Returning to themes that disgrace and destroy a nation

Dec 02, 2012 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on Returning to themes that disgrace and destroy a nation

Every so often I return to lamentations that any Guyanese that loves his/her country would find depressing. I have constantly revisited abominations like clogged drains that cause unbearable floods...

The Water Opossum (Chironectes minimus)

Dec 02, 2012 KNews Features / Columnists, Interesting Creatures in Guyana Comments Off on The Water Opossum (Chironectes minimus)

The water opossum (Chironectes minimus), also locally known as the yapok, is a marsupial of the family Didelphidae. It is the only member of its genus, Chironectes....

Man dies after falling from roof

Dec 02, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Man dies after falling from roof

A 53-year-old carpenter succumbed to his injuries after he fell from a two-storey house at Patentia, West Bank Demerara. Dead is Tulsiram Baichan, of Third Street, Patentia. According to...

Book Review…The Believers –An Intriguing Look into the World of the Occult

Dec 02, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Book Review…The Believers –An Intriguing Look into the World of the Occult

Reviewer: GHK.Lall The Believers –The Hidden World of West Indian Spiritualism in New York by Dr. Glenville C. Ashby is a regular ‘jumbie story’ and then some more. This always...

Motorcyclist dies after slamming into sand truck

Dec 02, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Motorcyclist dies after slamming into sand truck

Leroy Adams, 22, of Little Red Village, Sandpit on the Essequibo Coast, died on the spot after he reportedly slammed into an oncoming sand truck with his motorcycle on the Cullen Public Road,...

Elimination of Violence Against Women

Dec 02, 2012 KNews AFC Column, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Elimination of Violence Against Women

By Latchmin Punalall November 25th is a special day set aside when internationally, we examine the status of and re-commit to the Elimination of Violence Against Women. Within the Alliance For...

A Forgotten War

Dec 02, 2012 KNews Editorial Comments Off on A Forgotten War

The defining scene of Africa in the western imagination is from Conrad’s “Heart of Darkness”: Kurtz dies in the jungles of the Congo mumbling ‘The horror! The horror!” But the...

From the Diaspora…DECAPITATED SLAVES, A BURIAL, JOHN WRAY AND THE EMANCIPATION OF SLAVERY IN GUYANA

Dec 02, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on From the Diaspora…DECAPITATED SLAVES, A BURIAL, JOHN WRAY AND THE EMANCIPATION OF SLAVERY IN GUYANA

By Ralph Seeram ”Neither widow nor her friend was to allow to follow the coffin…..orders of his Excellency to detain them … (.which they will not follow)…. until the burial was...

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Are we better off today than we were before first oil?

Peeping Tom… Kaieteur News-If you had asked me ten years ago what I wanted for Guyana, I would have said a few things:... more