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Robert Persaud writes to stone suppliers

Feb 03, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Robert Persaud writes to stone suppliers

Following a Kaieteur News’ article published last Thursday, reports of possible shortages in quarry material (stones) on the local market, Minister of Natural Resources and the Environment, Robert...

The removal of cataract at GPHC

Feb 03, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on The removal of cataract at GPHC

By Romila Boodram The eye is an organ that detects light and sends signal along the optic nerve to the brain. Cataract is the clouding of the natural lens, which lies behind the iris and the pupil....

Gold miner pleaded with gunmen before execution

Feb 03, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Gold miner pleaded with gunmen before execution

– Top Cop says investigators pursuing leads Gold miner Jason Wills was heard pleading with the gunmen who executed him last Thursday. This is the information that investigators have received...

ASL boss charged after ruckus at Ogle

Feb 03, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on ASL boss charged after ruckus at Ogle

Mazahar Ally appeared in court on Thursday and pleaded not guilty to five charges including threatening behavior to cause a breach of the peace, assaulting an officer in the execution of his duties,...

The Amerindians do have rights but these rights are subject to the rights of others

Feb 03, 2013 KNews Letters Comments Off on The Amerindians do have rights but these rights are subject to the rights of others

Dear Editor, Following Justice Insanally’s recent decision that a mines officer of GGMC had not shown cause why an order nisi to quash a cease work order should not be made absolute and that the...

Why not just abolish the murder charge so that society can decay faster?

Feb 03, 2013 KNews Letters Comments Off on Why not just abolish the murder charge so that society can decay faster?

Dear Editor, Much has happened recently in Guyana in so far as the administration of justice is concerned. While not listing them in chronological order, there were news about death penalties being...

Are there no local policemen with the ability to oversee this strategic plan?

Feb 03, 2013 KNews Letters Comments Off on Are there no local policemen with the ability to oversee this strategic plan?

Dear Editor, I sometimes wonder what is going through the minds of officials when I read some of their public utterances. The Ministry of Home Affairs has just contracted Capita-Symonds for a...

Guyanese woman makes significant mark in the UK

Feb 03, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Guyanese woman makes significant mark in the UK

By Rehanna Ramsay With a humble beginning in Anna Catherina, West Coast Demerara, just a stone’s throw from the backdoor of the Methodist Church, Alift Harewood nee Allman defied social,...

Moleson Creek All Age School left to rot for one year

Feb 03, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Moleson Creek All Age School left to rot for one year

….to be dismantled and moved, but when After expending millions of dollars in 2011 on the reconstruction and complete rehabilitation of the Moleson Creek all age school on the upper...

Two post-Independence generations know no other way of life

Feb 03, 2013 KNews Letters Comments Off on Two post-Independence generations know no other way of life

Dear Editor, “Hope springs eternal in the human breast” and “The cat is to be belled but who’s to bell the cat”? Those were my thoughts on reading the plea in the recent letter headed ...

Bandits tie up cop’s wife in Lusignan home invasion

Feb 03, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Bandits tie up cop’s wife in Lusignan home invasion

Two bandits invaded the home of a policeman, tied up his wife and relieved her of more than $80,000 in an early morning attack yesterday in Grass Field, Lusignan, East Coast Demerara....

Stop the Murders and Serious Crimes

Feb 03, 2013 KNews Letters Comments Off on Stop the Murders and Serious Crimes

Dear Editor, Like other concerned Guyanese, I cannot help but be concerned about the number of criminal commissions that have occurred in Guyana, since the commencement of the New Year. Along with...

Kings in the Arab Spring

Feb 03, 2013 KNews Editorial Comments Off on Kings in the Arab Spring

The world has been transfixed during the last two years by the upheaval in North Africa and the Middle East as ordinary citizens seized powers from autocratic rulers and began to select their own...

Sunday, February 03, 2013

Feb 03, 2013 KNews Cartoons, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Sunday, February 03, 2013

It is clear that the PPP is on a propaganda offensive

Feb 03, 2013 KNews Letters Comments Off on It is clear that the PPP is on a propaganda offensive

Dear Editor, An erroneous and lamentable article was published in the Guyana Chronicle of February 1, 2013 under the caption “Kumar charges Opposition with frustrating local government elections”...

U.S. gives $172M to fight corruption, drug trade

Feb 02, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on U.S. gives $172M to fight corruption, drug trade

In two agreements signed yesterday Guyana and the United States agreed to ramp up their cooperation in the areas of anti-corruption, law enforcement and information sharing. The agreements valued at...

Gold miner’s execution… Cops question occupants of Meadow Brook Gardens house

Feb 02, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Gold miner’s execution… Cops question occupants of Meadow Brook Gardens house

Police are questioning two people who were in the Pine Grove, Meadow Brook Gardens house when gunmen shot and killed gold miner Jason Wills, called ‘Teddy’, on Thursday night. One of the...

Controversy brews over “illegal” land sale in Lamaha Gardens

Feb 02, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Controversy brews over “illegal” land sale in Lamaha Gardens

By Zena Henry Lamaha Gardens residents are peeved over what they say is the recent illegal sale of a huge plot of land used as a public playfield and community relaxation area for decades to a...

Final witness testifies at Linden COI

Feb 02, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Final witness testifies at Linden COI

By Latoya Giles The second phase of the Linden Commission of Inquiry ended yesterday, with Chairman of the Inquiry Justice Lensley Wolfe promising to have the full report completed and presented on...

Dem boys seh… Bar Bee sharing out Whizz

Feb 02, 2013 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Dem boys seh… Bar Bee sharing out Whizz

Because dem got sorry mek li’l boy does mash big man toe. De Burke boy find out that somebody thief he identity and commit nuff traffic violation. But somebody who vex wid Burke because he always...

Starc splinters West Indies

Feb 02, 2013 KNews Sports Comments Off on Starc splinters West Indies

Twenty years ago, almost to the day, Allan Border won the toss and batted before Curtly Ambrose obliterated Australia at the WACA ground in a spell of 7 for 1. Whirring the ball down with speed and...

Russia cancels Guyana debts… Writes off 1984 helicopter $57M loans

Feb 02, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Russia cancels Guyana debts… Writes off 1984 helicopter $57M loans

Russia has cancelled almost $57M in debt owed by Guyana. Yesterday, Finance Minister, Dr. Ashni Singh, and Nikolay Smirnov, Ambassador of the Russian Federation to Guyana, exchanged official...

MARAD launches speedboat safety campaign… Inspectors to patrol E’bo River, 20 defaulters nabbed

Feb 02, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on MARAD launches speedboat safety campaign… Inspectors to patrol E’bo River, 20 defaulters nabbed

The Guyana Maritime Administration Department (MARAD) has embarked on an aggressive safety campaign on river transportation following two deadly boat collisions in the past two months. These...

Milo U-20 Schools Football action all weekend

Feb 02, 2013 KNews Sports Comments Off on Milo U-20 Schools Football action all weekend

– Sizzling encounters anticipated Action in the Milo Under-20 Schools Football Competition, which is being organised by Petra Organisation, continues over the weekend with six more matches, at...

$Zeeburg beat Independence Sports Club to take Barakat Brothers T\20 title$

Zeeburg beat Independence Sports Club to take Barakat Brothers T\20 title

Feb 02, 2013 KNews Sports Comments Off on Zeeburg beat Independence Sports Club to take Barakat Brothers T\20 title

Zeeburg Beat Independence SC by two wickets off the final ball to win the 2013 Barakat Brothers 20/20 final played at Uitvlugt last Sunday. Batting first after winning the toss, Independence...

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“One Guyana” is no less a national slogan than “Green Guyana”

Kaieteur News- The notion that “One Guyana” is a partisan slogan is pure poppycock. It is a desperate fiction... more