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Is President Ramotar changing his opinion of me?

Jan 27, 2013 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on Is President Ramotar changing his opinion of me?

A strange thing happened in the Chronicle last week that may be interpreted as President Ramotar changing his negative opinion of me. We will come to that thing which I didn’t know about until a...

Caribbean Optometrists recognized internationally

Jan 27, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Caribbean Optometrists recognized internationally

Dr. Michele Ming, President of the Guyana Association of Optometrists (GAO), has been elected President of Caribbean Association of Optometrists (CARIOA) for 2013-2014. The Caribbean Association of...

An Integrative Nation

Jan 27, 2013 KNews APNU Column, Features / Columnists Comments Off on An Integrative Nation

The PNCR column this week presents an edited version of the address by Brigadier David Granger, Leader of the Opposition on the Motion to Establish a National Commemoration Commission that was passed...

The Baccoo Speaks

Jan 27, 2013 KNews Features / Columnists, The Baccoo Speaks Comments Off on The Baccoo Speaks

I hear the awe in people’s voices as they remark on the happenings. There have been the boat accidents that claimed many lives and people know about the deadly fire. Well all the bad things are not...

Sunday, January 27, 2013

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Interventionist Industrial policy

Jan 27, 2013 KNews Features / Columnists, Ravi Dev Comments Off on Interventionist Industrial policy

The Minister of Finance and his Budget team are putting the finishing touches on this year’s budget as they take on board suggestions from the Opposition and other stakeholders. Quite commendably,...

THE PAC SHOULD EXAMINE THE PREQUALIFICATION SYSTEM

Jan 27, 2013 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on THE PAC SHOULD EXAMINE THE PREQUALIFICATION SYSTEM

All is not well with the procurement of drugs in the local health system. All has not been well for some time now. However, instead of the government attempting to treat the aliment, its defence is...

NEW Provisional Waivers Allow Illegals to File Waivers in U.S. (Part 1)

Jan 27, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on NEW Provisional Waivers Allow Illegals to File Waivers in U.S. (Part 1)

ImmigrationINFO Immigration News For Our Community Attorney Gail Seeram, [email protected] Beginning March 4, 2013, certain immediate relatives of U.S. citizens who are physically present in the...

Berbice sweeper/cleaners still without pay

Jan 27, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Berbice sweeper/cleaners still without pay

Sweeper/Cleaners in Berbice have not yet been paid for January. To their surprise, too, their names have been removed from the respective schools’ pay sheets and they were told that manual pay...

Another miner buried alive as pit caves in

Jan 27, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Another miner buried alive as pit caves in

The gold fields of Guyana have claimed another life; this time that of 44-year-old Mark Wilson of Supply, Mahaica, East Coast Demerara. Wilson was pulled from a mining pit at Puruni after the walls...

Farmers’ groups share $10.3M

Jan 27, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Farmers’ groups share $10.3M

Five groups of farmers received $10.3M funding from the Ministry of Agriculture’s READ project on Friday. At the presentation ceremony, Mr. Ramesh Persaud, Chief Executive Officer of...

From the Diaspora…Justice delayed, justice denied – the drug scandal that won’t go away

Jan 27, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on From the Diaspora…Justice delayed, justice denied – the drug scandal that won’t go away

Dr Roger Luncheon must have a very low opinion of the intelligence of the Guyanese public. I wrote once that the good doctor has outlived his usefulness. I suggested that the doctor retire and...

Robbers shoot dance instructor in Sophia

Jan 27, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Robbers shoot dance instructor in Sophia

Bandits shot a 24-year-old dance instructor around 20:30hrs Friday during a robbery attempt in ‘A’ Field Sophia. The victim, identified as Reyan Baird, of East Ruimveldt Housing Scheme,...

Police nab trio with cocaine and ganja in drug house

Jan 27, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Police nab trio with cocaine and ganja in drug house

– Placed on $125,000 bail each Police raided a drug house at St John Street in New Amsterdam and nabbed three men who were in the house, reportedly with cocaine and marijuana. The men...

Shot Enterprise man battles for life in ICU

Jan 27, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Shot Enterprise man battles for life in ICU

A 33-year-old man is battling for his life at the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC)’s Intensive Care Unit (ICU) after he was shot in his abdomen by gunmen on Thursday....

Women Miners’ organization gains support from US, Canadian missions

Jan 27, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Women Miners’ organization gains support from US, Canadian missions

The dream of a woman to have equal opportunities in Guyana’s mining industry is slowly becoming a reality, thanks to the Guyana Women Miners’ Organisation (GWMO). For decades women...

Man gets 4 yrs, six strokes for felonious wounding charge

Jan 27, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Man gets 4 yrs, six strokes for felonious wounding charge

A man who pleaded guilty to a charge of felonious wounding has been sentenced to four years’ imprisonment together with six strokes. The man, 17-year-old Eric Nurse was charged on January 4,...

Woman recalls abduction, murder attempt

Jan 27, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Woman recalls abduction, murder attempt

Lilawattie Das, the injured woman, whose lover William Johnson, stabbed her five times in her back, is being carefully monitored as doctors continue to extract contaminated blood from her...

Intensive efforts being made to improve GPHC service

Jan 27, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Intensive efforts being made to improve GPHC service

– Dr Derkenne The capacity of the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) has been significantly bolstered through various residency programmes all geared at helping to foster...

60 world leaders in Chile for summit

Jan 27, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on 60 world leaders in Chile for summit

The Santiago summit, which opened yesterday, between the European Union and the new Community of Latin American and Caribbean States, will bring together leaders from 60 countries in...

Speaker to probe “lying” report by online news outfit

Jan 27, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Speaker to probe “lying” report by online news outfit

Speaker of the House, Raphael Trotman, is probing reports of unfair reporting by an online news outfit on Friday night, during a sitting of the National Assembly. Moses Nagamootoo,...

Cummings Lodge residents appeal for street light

Jan 27, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Cummings Lodge residents appeal for street light

Residents of Cummings Lodge, East Coast Demerara, are calling for the installation of street lights in the area in the face of numerous robberies and murders. Recounting the latest...

A regional tourism summit is not likely to generate new initiatives or strategies

Jan 27, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on A regional tourism summit is not likely to generate new initiatives or strategies

By Ian Francis The Caribbean Hotel Tourism Association (CHTA) recently assembled in the Nassau ambience of comfort and pomp that gave the weak-kneed participants some renewed energy to...

Deforestation appears to rise again in Brazil’s Amazon

Jan 27, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Deforestation appears to rise again in Brazil’s Amazon

(Reuters) – After years of gains against destruction of the Amazon rainforest, Brazil appears to be suffering from an increase in deforestation as farmers, loggers, miners and...

Choice Hotels to open upscale Ascend in Guyana

Jan 27, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Choice Hotels to open upscale Ascend in Guyana

Choice Hotels International will debut in Guyana with its upscale Ascend Hotel Collection in early 2013. The global lodging company announced that construction on a boutique 25-room...