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Govt. intention to purchase NBS building is senseless

Feb 27, 2013 KNews Letters Comments Off on Govt. intention to purchase NBS building is senseless

Dear Editor, I write to question, publicly, the sensibility of the intention of the Government to purchase the building that formerly housed the New Building Society Limited and to further question...

An inefficient Post Office

Feb 27, 2013 KNews Letters Comments Off on An inefficient Post Office

Dear Editor, I wish to bring the general public, and more so, the relevant personnel attached to the Guyana Post Office Corporation (GPOC) regarding the delivery of mails from the Reliance Post...

An abusive lotto agent

Feb 27, 2013 KNews Letters Comments Off on An abusive lotto agent

Dear Editor, On Saturday February 15, 2013 I visited Lottery Agent #103; Annie’s Variety located at Houston, East Bank Demerara. I purchased a combined ticket of five sets of numbers and upon...

Disregard for the electorate

Feb 27, 2013 KNews Letters Comments Off on Disregard for the electorate

Dear Editor, As our beautiful country continues to grow and develop it would be encouraging for Guyanese to see political maturity displayed by our politicians. I was deeply saddened by the ruckus...

Development ‘secret’

Feb 27, 2013 KNews Editorial Comments Off on Development ‘secret’

We continue with our discussion of the three elements of the “American System” of development, which were followed (with variations, of course) by every other country that successfully became...

APNU stands alone…Firmly rejects Speaker’s ruling to allow Rohee to speak

Feb 27, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on APNU stands alone…Firmly rejects Speaker’s ruling to allow Rohee to speak

By Abena Rockcliffe A Partnership for National Unity (APNU) yesterday announced the party’s stance of rejection towards the ruling by the Speaker of the National Assembly, Raphael...

NIS Chairman says…Revenue collection measures need to improve “a hundred times more”

Feb 27, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on NIS Chairman says…Revenue collection measures need to improve “a hundred times more”

To reach an acceptable level with respect to revenue collection, which has been a challenge for the National Insurance Scheme (NIS), current measures will have to improve “a hundred...

Popeyes on board at Giftland Mall

Feb 27, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Popeyes on board at Giftland Mall

MCG Investments (Giftland Office Max) Inc, announced yesterday that it has signed a licensing Agreement with Guyana Restaurant Inc. (Popeye’s), for the leasing of space at its...

Digicel cops top spots in Mash float parade

Feb 27, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Digicel cops top spots in Mash float parade

– Adrian Dutchin is Road March King again Telecommunications giant Digicel dominated positions in Saturday’s Mashramani float parade which saw a total of 30 bands competing,...

Calypso ban damaging to Mashramani and entire fraternity

Feb 27, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Calypso ban damaging to Mashramani and entire fraternity

– Mighty Rebel By Zena Henry Veteran Calypsonian Geoffrey Phillips, aka ‘the Mighty Rebel’, has taken offence over the recent banning of what was dubbed ‘anti- government’...

Speaker’s ruling on Rohee gag will be respected

Feb 27, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Speaker’s ruling on Rohee gag will be respected

– AFC The AFC’s leadership says they will respect the final ruling from Speaker of the National Assembly Raphael Trotman to halt the impasse which the earlier “gag-Rohee”...

The tragic political mistake of Clive Lloyd

Feb 27, 2013 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on The tragic political mistake of Clive Lloyd

The world knows about Clive Lloyd. His cricket history is elegant and admirable. Lloyd knows about cricket. But Lloyd thinks he knows about politics. And he has every right to think that he...

Addressing impact of co-morbid conditions needful in renal patients

Feb 27, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Addressing impact of co-morbid conditions needful in renal patients

– Dr. Doobay Renal failure is often compounded by other co-morbidity factors the likes of hypertension and diabetes, conditions which are very prevalent among patients here in Guyana....

THE WILL OF THE PEOPLE IS NOT EXERCISED BY PROXIES

Feb 27, 2013 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on THE WILL OF THE PEOPLE IS NOT EXERCISED BY PROXIES

The one-seat majority that the opposition parties gained at the last general elections seems to have triggered a great many political delusions. One of the most pronounced of which is...

Health care in the prisons system stigmatised

Feb 27, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Health care in the prisons system stigmatised

– Minister The provision of good quality health care within the confines of the prison system is an undertaking that is stigmatised by some medical practitioners. This deduction...

Are Chinese convicts working on Marriott? …Brassington offers “no comment”

Feb 26, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Are Chinese convicts working on Marriott? …Brassington offers “no comment”

With the government sealing its lips and banning the Chinese construction company from speaking, uncertainty over the Marriott Hotel project has now shifted to the identity of the workers. Reports...

Brassington blank on Guyana Stores subsidiaries

Feb 26, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Brassington blank on Guyana Stores subsidiaries

… saw no need to correct investor information The court received a string of “I don’t know” from Winston Brassington when he was questioned yesterday about the subsidiaries of Guyana...

Trial for EZjet’s boss delayed to April at lawyer’s request

Feb 26, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Trial for EZjet’s boss delayed to April at lawyer’s request

Embattled EZjet airline executive, Sonny Ramdeo, will now face an April trial after his new lawyer said that he is unable to proceed because of another case. Ramdeo, whose airline fell into financial...

EBD four-lane expansion … Contractor seeks new deadline

Feb 26, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on EBD four-lane expansion … Contractor seeks new deadline

Expansion of the East Bank Demerara Public Road from Providence to Diamond will not be completed this year. Instead, the multi-million-dollar project may conclude in the first quarter of 2014, says...

Guyana, CDB sign US$40M loan agreement

Feb 26, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Guyana, CDB sign US$40M loan agreement

Guyana signed two agreements with the Caribbean Development Bank (CDB), yesterday, totaling US$40.3M, one of which is for the seventh cycle of the Basic Needs Trust Fund (BNTF) or BNTF-7, and the...

Dem boys seh … Buy rope fuh Brazzy

Feb 26, 2013 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Dem boys seh … Buy rope fuh Brazzy

Brazzy is a troubled man. Dem boys watch he face de other day and de man look like if he realize that he sell he soul and that he can’t see St Peter face at de Pearly Gates. Of course that is why...

“Li’l Mark” murder accused set free

Feb 26, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on “Li’l Mark” murder accused set free

The heavens smiled on Dexter Marshall yesterday when a unanimous verdict of not guilty was returned by a 12-member mixed jury who heard the murder case of Mark Caesar, called ‘Lil Mark’. Marshall...

Guyanese shot, killed in Queens fire

Feb 26, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Guyanese shot, killed in Queens fire

A 43-year-old man was found bound in his bed and shot once in the head after firefighters extinguished a fire early Sunday in a Queens apartment building, a law-enforcement official said. More than...

Couple uplifts car with fake authorization

Feb 26, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Couple uplifts car with fake authorization

The Police are hunting for a couple who allegedly forged the signature of a young woman and collected a car from a city wharf. The woman had imported the car from Japan with the help of one of the...

Man disowns then owns ganja

Feb 26, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Man disowns then owns ganja

…to do community service Quincy King, a 21-year-old mason from Alberttown was yesterday sentenced to community service for three days along with a $5000 fine after he confessed to having two grams...

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The PPP/C’s greatest liability

Peeping Tom Kaieteur News- One might have expected that a ruling party basking in the largesse of oil wealth would chart... more