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45 E’bo teachers graduate with management skills

Dec 18, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on 45 E’bo teachers graduate with management skills

Forty-five teachers tasked with responsibilities of manning schools across Region Two received certificates upon completion of an Education management course offered by the National Centre for...

OLPF Programme slowed in 2012

Dec 18, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on OLPF Programme slowed in 2012

The One Laptop Per Family Programme (OLPF) slowed significantly in 2012, because it had become a victim of the budget cuts. But other ways were found to procure more computers and accelerate the...

First Lady visits Red Cross Children’s Convalescent Home

Dec 18, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on First Lady visits Red Cross Children’s Convalescent Home

First Lady, Mrs. Deolatchmee Ramotar, visited the Guyana Red Cross Society Children’s Convalescent Home in Durban Backlands, yesterday, to spread Christmas cheers. While there, Mrs Ramotar...

Wanton killings and mental illness

Dec 18, 2012 KNews Editorial Comments Off on Wanton killings and mental illness

The news media were all abuzz with reports of a shooting in a small community in Connecticut. A 20-year-old, who was said to be a victim of Asperger’s Syndrome, took a gun to his mother, twenty...

Kitty man committed to High Court for 2010 motorcycle murder

Dec 18, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Kitty man committed to High Court for 2010 motorcycle murder

Murder accused, Terry Kissoon, was yesterday committed to stand trial at the next appropriate sitting of the Supreme Court. The man is accused of murdering 34-year-old Troy Smith of Lot 108 Thomas...

Rosignol murder accused to know fate today

Dec 18, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Rosignol murder accused to know fate today

The Number Two accused, Sean Benjamin, called “Blacka” or “Blackboy” of Rosignol, West Bank Berbice, who is on trial for the murder of Ian Adonis called “Safo” or “Iron” of Lot 30...

West Berbice man gets 13 years for butchering wife

Dec 18, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on West Berbice man gets 13 years for butchering wife

…says he is remorseful and a born again Christian. The West Berbice farmer and butcher Anderson Nicholson called “Andy” and “Cowboy” of D’ Edward Village, West Bank Berbice, was...

The Linden Water System Rehabilitation is a major investment and a transformative project

Dec 18, 2012 KNews Letters Comments Off on The Linden Water System Rehabilitation is a major investment and a transformative project

Dear Editor, The Linden community must urgently adopt a new, collective approach to, and narrative on water, if it is to protect and conserve this valuable resource. In more recent history,...

A solution to this scourge in our society

Dec 18, 2012 KNews Letters Comments Off on A solution to this scourge in our society

DEAR EDITOR, A few weeks ago, a letter captioned “Violence against Women, The Islamic Perspective” attempted to furnish a solution to this scourge that continues to plague our...

Confirm the Chancellor, Chief Justice

Dec 18, 2012 KNews Letters Comments Off on Confirm the Chancellor, Chief Justice

DEAR EDITOR, A state heading to war with itself should at least have effective and appropriate equipment to monitor the anticipated engagements. Article 122 of the Constitution of the...

A ‘power trip’ at the Passport Office

Dec 18, 2012 KNews Letters Comments Off on A ‘power trip’ at the Passport Office

Dear Editor, I was waiting in line at the passport office and I noticed there were no windows, just these sorts of display glass. Why I’m mentioning this is because of the lack of...

Incentives and disincentives for investment in Guyana, and the Presidential smokescreen

Dec 18, 2012 KNews Letters Comments Off on Incentives and disincentives for investment in Guyana, and the Presidential smokescreen

Dear Editor, Stabroek News reported President Ramotar as telling Go-Invest that he ‘would like to see it more institutionally driven and become a [stronger organisation],’ (‘Ramotar urges...

Murderous men on camels and snipers on rooftops

Dec 18, 2012 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on Murderous men on camels and snipers on rooftops

As the Egyptian protest intensified, Mubarak did a horrible thing. Mubarak sent men with swords on camels and they waded into the protestors with resulting deaths. From thereon, lines were crossed...

Govt. should stop ‘runaround’ and engage opposition

Dec 17, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Govt. should stop ‘runaround’ and engage opposition

“approach to OAS will get nowhere” – AFC The Alliance for Change (AFC) has rejected government claims that the opposition was abusing its one seat majority, describing it as...

Chainsaw operator crushed by tree

Dec 17, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Chainsaw operator crushed by tree

A father of five died yesterday after being pinned by the tree he was cutting in the Clonbrook Polder, East Coast Demerara. According to reports, 43 year-old Deaplall Muakelall of 13 Section ‘B’...

Dem boys seh…Sonny getting wha he call for

Dec 17, 2012 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Dem boys seh…Sonny getting wha he call for

Dem got all kind of promotion going on. Dem promotion got people answering dem phone in some ways that does got de people who calling raising dem eyebrows. De Waterfalls boss man call one of he staff...

PM Hinds opens Banks Beer/GFA Cup

Dec 17, 2012 KNews Sports Comments Off on PM Hinds opens Banks Beer/GFA Cup

Director of Sport, Mayor also in attendance Before a fair-sized crowd that defied the inclement weather in support of the second annual Banks Beer/Georgetown Football Association (GFA) Cup, Prime...

Attorney General directs all queries to judiciary

Dec 17, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Attorney General directs all queries to judiciary

Collapsing New Amsterdam courthouse… Attorney General Anil Nandlall in an invited comment yesterday explained that the issues surrounding the New Amsterdam...

Caribbean T20 ticket sales start in Trinidad on Monday

Dec 17, 2012 KNews Sports Comments Off on Caribbean T20 ticket sales start in Trinidad on Monday

Port-of-Spain, Trinidad – Cricket fans will get the opportunity to secure early-bird tickets for the West Indies Cricket Board’s Caribbean T20 2013 when the ticket booths in Trinidad open on...

Controversy seems to be brewing in horseracing circle

Dec 17, 2012 KNews Sports Comments Off on Controversy seems to be brewing in horseracing circle

Stakeholders blame Government for present situation By Samuel Whyte Controversy seems to be headed for the horseracing fraternity and the blame is being laid at the feet of the government, with the...

Basketball player Juan Richardson succumbs after suffering stroke

Dec 17, 2012 KNews Sports Comments Off on Basketball player Juan Richardson succumbs after suffering stroke

Members of the basketball fraternity, especially those in Albouystown, were thrown into mourning following the sudden passing of player, 37-year-old Juan Richardson, who suffered what is been said as...

Giftland spreads Christmas cheer in Tiger Bay

Dec 17, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Giftland spreads Christmas cheer in Tiger Bay

– launches “12 deals of Christmas” Giftland Officemax in spreading the Christmas cheer visited the Tiger Bay community yesterday where they donated $300,000 in gifts. Present...

Less Holiday Spirits

Dec 17, 2012 KNews Editorial Comments Off on Less Holiday Spirits

With the Christmas season in full swing, leading up to the frenzy of the final year-end festivities, Guyanese will once again be doing what they do best at this time of the year: “eat, drink and be...

Britton wins Table Association ‘C’ class competition

Dec 17, 2012 KNews Sports Comments Off on Britton wins Table Association ‘C’ class competition

Shemar Britton on Saturday won the Guyana Table Tennis Association ‘C’ class competition when he turned back the challenges of 47 other players to come out victorious when the tournament was held...

SWEET BREAD, SALTFISH AND SITAR

Dec 17, 2012 KNews Features / Columnists, Tony Deyal column Comments Off on SWEET BREAD, SALTFISH AND SITAR

The evening started with my friend Kamal and me talking about heredity and the fact that it is not just hair or skin colour that passes from one generation to the other but intangibles like musical...

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Following one’s conscience rather than the crowd

Peeping Tom… Kaieteur News- “They’re certainly entitled to think that, and they’re entitled to full respect... more