March 2013

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Victoria Village celebrates 175 years

Mar 03, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Victoria Village celebrates 175 years

…and houses the national mangrove project They have successfully planted nine kilometers of black and white mangroves along the East Coast Demerara. And, Annette Arjoon, Chairperson of the...

From the Diaspora … IS THE PPP NOW INTO CENSORSHIP?

Mar 03, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on From the Diaspora … IS THE PPP NOW INTO CENSORSHIP?

By Ralph Seeram The phone calls were coming in from powerful people of the day, some abusive, some threatening and some accusing me of being an “enemy of the state”. The term “enemy of the...

Prisoner awaiting trial for murder found with ganja in jail

Mar 03, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Prisoner awaiting trial for murder found with ganja in jail

A man who is in prison since 2007 on a charge of murder, and who was committed to stand trial in the high court, in 2012 was nabbed with a quantity of marijuana. He was said to be a drug dealer in...

Duo on bail for Popeye’s thievery allegation

Mar 03, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Duo on bail for Popeye’s thievery allegation

A father of nine and a mother of five faced the court on Tuesday on a joint charge of simple larceny. Shawn Reid, a building contractor and former security guard at Popeye’s Chicken and Seafood,...

Weekend diary: The Pope, Fazal Khan, Raul Castro and Rohee

Mar 03, 2013 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on Weekend diary: The Pope, Fazal Khan, Raul Castro and Rohee

The first thing I read last Thursday morning was a Reuters news item on the Pope who has just retired. The writer of the story could not have missed a most journalistic contradiction. It said that in...

EPA gives permission for noise and dust polluting joinery shop

Mar 03, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on EPA gives permission for noise and dust polluting joinery shop

An elderly Berbice resident suffering from asthma and bronchitis is peeved that the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) gave permission for a joinery shop to operate adjacent to his residence...

Chief Co-operative officer requests seven days to respond to charges of illegal land sale

Mar 03, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Chief Co-operative officer requests seven days to respond to charges of illegal land sale

… seeks lawyers’ intervention As drama continues over an alleged illegal land sale in Lamaha Gardens, that now has Chief Co-operative Development Officer, Kareem Abdul-Jabar in hot...

Prisoners being raped by jail system, comprehensive audit needed – Former staff

Mar 03, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Prisoners being raped by jail system, comprehensive audit needed – Former staff

– System designed to help trafficking, corruption By Rabindra Rooplall After working for the Guyana Prison Service for five years, and being gagged under the Prison Act, Chapter 11:01 of the...

Caricom 14-point security strategy will complement local plan – Home Affairs Ministry

Mar 03, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Caricom 14-point security strategy will complement local plan – Home Affairs Ministry

The 24th Inter-Sessional Meeting of the Conference of Heads of Government of CARICOM recently adopted a “Regional Crime and Security Strategy”. The Strategy resulted from consultations among...

Surinamese accused of stealing $7M, shot dead on Corentyne

Mar 03, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Surinamese accused of stealing $7M, shot dead on Corentyne

A Suriname national, 30-year-old Lucien Agard, who lived with his Guyanese wife, Tricia, at Number 59 Village Corentyne, was shot in his head by unknown persons, Friday night. According to his widow,...

The fish exporter’s execution

Mar 03, 2013 KNews Features / Columnists, Murder and Mystery Comments Off on The fish exporter’s execution

– Why did a professional hit-man kill ‘Motie’ Sonilall? By Michael Jordan At around 19:30 hrs on April 9, 2010, a female resident of Second Street, Mon Repos, East Coast Demerara, was...

The Baccoo Speaks

Mar 03, 2013 KNews Features / Columnists, The Baccoo Speaks Comments Off on The Baccoo Speaks

A prominent individual is going to make the news for all the wrong reasons. He is going to be caught up in a confrontation with a citizen. Things would turn ugly and the police would intervene....

THE ELECTROMAGNETIC SPECTRUM IS NOT FINITE

Mar 03, 2013 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on THE ELECTROMAGNETIC SPECTRUM IS NOT FINITE

Guyana’s problem is not the finite nature of the electromagnetic spectrum; Guyana’s problem is not the overcrowding of this space. Guyana’s problem is just how many carriers can be accommodated...

Man tells court…‘I cultivated “weed” instead of food to provide for family’

Mar 03, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Man tells court…‘I cultivated “weed” instead of food to provide for family’

Yesterday, Roland Hosea appeared before Magistrate Sueanna Lovell at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court to answer to the charge of cultivating a prohibited plant. According to police...

UG’s Nursing Degree Programme sound – Health Sciences Dean

Mar 03, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on UG’s Nursing Degree Programme sound – Health Sciences Dean

Although there were some concerns when it was first introduced in 2002 by nurse Gwendelyn Tross, the Bachelors of Sciences (BSc) in nursing offered at the University of Guyana was yesterday deemed a...

Albouystown resident remanded for $6 million breakage

Mar 03, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Albouystown resident remanded for $6 million breakage

A 20 year old Albouystown resident has been charged for the July 2011 Household Plus Store break-in. He appeared at the Georgetown Magistrates’ court before Magistrate Leron Daly on Wednesday last....

Scrap metal industry exports 32,000 tons in 2012

Mar 03, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Scrap metal industry exports 32,000 tons in 2012

– ban still in place Guyana’s restricted scrap metal industry saw the exportation of 32,000 tons of metal last year. That figure includes the 15,000 tons of metal packed in containers on the...

Strike not responsible for power failure

Mar 03, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Strike not responsible for power failure

Power failure in several communities yesterday morning along the coastland was not related to the current industrial relations problems facing the Guyana Power and Light Company (GPL). Between 11:00...

What a comical showdown!

Mar 03, 2013 KNews Letters Comments Off on What a comical showdown!

Dear Editor, I refer to the current impasse between the Guyana Power and Light Ltd (GPL) and the National Association of Agricultural, Commercial and Industrial Employees (NAACIE), and also the...

After the no-confidence vote, the President should have replaced Rohee

Mar 03, 2013 KNews Letters Comments Off on After the no-confidence vote, the President should have replaced Rohee

Dear Editor, I think that is wrong for anyone to rule that Clement Rohee should remain a Member of Parliament (and Minister of government) just so that he can represent the people who elected him....

Ignorance, or distortion by intent?

Mar 03, 2013 KNews Letters Comments Off on Ignorance, or distortion by intent?

Dear Editor, One would think that there’s a school of thought dedicated to historical and social distortion active in our national ethos when reading some letters in the media. Perhaps it’s a...

Corruption is rampant among those entrusted to serve and protect the citizens

Mar 03, 2013 KNews Letters Comments Off on Corruption is rampant among those entrusted to serve and protect the citizens

Dear Editor, Reading the SN article caption “Nappi Resident calls for an end to police harassment” is just a timely reminder that law and order have all but broken down in Guyana. While the...

The Chief Justice, Nigel Hughes and opposition supporters

Mar 03, 2013 KNews Letters Comments Off on The Chief Justice, Nigel Hughes and opposition supporters

Dear Editor, Many, many times in my long career as a public commentator, I was tempted to wild chauvinism by publicly proclaiming that I was the first person in Guyana to direct the nation to this...

Why wasn’t I surprised to read about the poor performance of the Chinese tyre pump and sander belts?

Mar 03, 2013 KNews Letters Comments Off on Why wasn’t I surprised to read about the poor performance of the Chinese tyre pump and sander belts?

Dear Editor, I experienced much the same thing with their umbrellas and clocks in the 1990s. The umbrellas looked attractive on the outside, the clocks had pretty faces, but 3 outings with the...

Was Janet Jagan the controlling force behind Cheddi Jagan?

Mar 03, 2013 KNews Letters Comments Off on Was Janet Jagan the controlling force behind Cheddi Jagan?

Dear Editor, I personally feel that Janet Jagan was the biggest reason for Cheddi Jagan’s ideological inexorability and the biggest reason why the PPP and its supporters ended up in the wilderness...

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(Kaieteur News) – Every school day in the city, in almost every ward, you can see scores of school children – dressed in their uniforms – ambling to school after 9:00am. The casualness of these children suggests that punctuality is no longer important to them or to their parents. But it does...

Why the Commonwealth Matters Again

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By Sir Ronald Sanders (Kaieteur News) – Small and medium-sized states, from the most vulnerable island nations to more diversified middle‑income economies, have always faced a difficult reality. They have to navigate a world in which power is unevenly distributed and in which the decisions of...

UGGI Survey: Pt. IV

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(Kaieteur News) – This is the last commentary on the University of Guyana Green Institute (UGGI) Independence 60 Survey titled: Guyana at 60: Trust, Oil, and the Society being Built. Today’s focus goes beyond the two bottom performing areas of “national government” and “foreign oil...

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