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Knock, Knock – It’s Immigration at the door!

Mar 03, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Knock, Knock – It’s Immigration at the door!

ImmigrationINFO Immigration News For Our Community By Attorney Gail S. Seeram This past week, while in conversation with a client in removal/deportation, she complained to me about how she was...

Murdered Guyanese was target with tenants, suspects charged

Mar 03, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Murdered Guyanese was target with tenants, suspects charged

New York (New York Daily News) – A plot to take out the residents of a Queens apartment house was thwarted Thursday — but not before the brutal death of a Guyanese man who was...

Beyond Linden

Mar 03, 2013 KNews Editorial Comments Off on Beyond Linden

The Linden Commission of Inquiry (L-CoI) has presented its report to the President, who has circulated it to the other two political parties in the National Assembly – APNU and the AFC. The two...

19 Traffic signals to be powered by solar energy

Mar 03, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on 19 Traffic signals to be powered by solar energy

– Public Works By the end of this month 19 traffic signals in and around Georgetown will be powered by solar energy. Energy from the Guyana Power and Light Company will be...

Choose Happiness

Mar 03, 2013 KNews Features / Columnists, Food For Thought Comments Off on Choose Happiness

What if you placed fewer conditions on your own happiness? What if you didn’t place destination markers on your own happiness? “I’ll be happy when I get home” or...

GPL pension fund facing $600M deficit

Mar 03, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on GPL pension fund facing $600M deficit

Even as, Guyana Power and Light Company’s employees represented by National Association of Agricultural, Commercial and Industrial Employees (NAACIE) are striking to have an eight percent...

Interesting Creatures… The Grey Brocket (Mazama gouazoubira)

Mar 03, 2013 KNews Features / Columnists, Interesting Creatures in Guyana Comments Off on Interesting Creatures… The Grey Brocket (Mazama gouazoubira)

The Grey Brocket (Mazama gouazoubira), also known as the Brown Brocket, is a species of brocket deer from northern Argentina, Bolivia, eastern and southern Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay. It...

Commission of Inquiry recommends … $3M each for Bouyea, Lewis, $1M for Somerset’s relatives

Mar 02, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Commission of Inquiry recommends … $3M each for Bouyea, Lewis, $1M for Somerset’s relatives

– Relatives dub compensation inadequate Orlando Lewis is now nineteen years old, out of school, and without a job. His dream was to attend the University of Guyana this year, but he...

GPL Countrywide strike continues … Labour Minister could invoke arbitration Monday

Mar 02, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on GPL Countrywide strike continues … Labour Minister could invoke arbitration Monday

Communities across the coast are bracing for blackouts as workers of the state-owned Guyana Power and Light (GPL) company plan to continue their strike action. Talks between GPL and the worker’s...

National Assembly wrong to gag Rohee – Chief Justice

Mar 02, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on National Assembly wrong to gag Rohee – Chief Justice

Chief Justice (ag) Ian Chang, in handing down his decision yesterday, ruled that the National Assembly, not being Parliament, cannot through any Bill or Motion be empowered to negate the powers of...

Dem boys seh… A jumbie lash waiting fuh Brazzy

Mar 02, 2013 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Dem boys seh… A jumbie lash waiting fuh Brazzy

Fuh de first time people get a chance to measure wha Brazzy really do to dem. People in Wakenaam and Leguan and de Essequibo Coast find out that Brazzy mek dem get blackout. De GPL workers ask fuh a...

“Rohee is the fly in the PPP’s soup” – AFC

Mar 02, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on “Rohee is the fly in the PPP’s soup” – AFC

– Parliament being made impotent by ignoring real issue “Rohee is the fly in the PPP’s soup, and the PPP must understand that the soup it wants to share with the opposition...

Sammy says World Champs will showcase style for home fans

Mar 02, 2013 KNews Sports Comments Off on Sammy says World Champs will showcase style for home fans

North Sound, Antigua – Darren Sammy has promised his West Indies team to play like true World Champions and entertain their home fans when they face Zimbabwe in the two-match T20 International...

GPL anticipates downward employment as modernisation takes effect

Mar 02, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on GPL anticipates downward employment as modernisation takes effect

With continuous moves being made towards the modernisation of its distribution network, the Guyana Power and Light Company Inc. (GPL) is likely to embrace a move to downgrade its staff. This comment...

Local aircraft must have tracking devices

Mar 02, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Local aircraft must have tracking devices

– Brazilian air show to highlight aviation’s 100 year in Guyana By Leonard Gildarie Authorities have introduced new measures that have mandated local operators to equip their aircraft...

No formal discussion was made to ban calypso songs

Mar 02, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on No formal discussion was made to ban calypso songs

– Robeson Benn Minister of Public Works Robeson Benn said that there was no formal discussion in Cabinet to ban any of this year’s anti- government calypso songs. According to him, after he...

Dragsters promising day of excitement, daredevilry tomorrow

Mar 02, 2013 KNews Sports Comments Off on Dragsters promising day of excitement, daredevilry tomorrow

Just one day remain for the staging of the Guyana Motor Racing & Sports Club (GMR&SC) International Drag Race Meet, at the South Dakota Circuit. According to a source close to the Club, the...

Army says Camp Groomes victims will return to payroll

Mar 02, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Army says Camp Groomes victims will return to payroll

The Guyana Defence Force (GDF), in a press statement yesterday, said that two ranks, who were injured in the 2000 Camp Groomes explosion and taken off the payroll wrongfully, last year, will be...

Muse or Amuse … Is there conflict of interest with the private sector bodies?

Mar 02, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Muse or Amuse … Is there conflict of interest with the private sector bodies?

The Chamber of Commerce is usually the premier organization for private sectors across the world. In Guyana there are many disparate bodies that represent private sector. Some of these bodies are...

Linden, G/town clash in epic b/ball battle tonight

Mar 02, 2013 KNews Sports Comments Off on Linden, G/town clash in epic b/ball battle tonight

By Edison Jefford Two old basketball foes will enrich a pre-existing rivalry tonight at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall in what is certainly a long-overdue contest among Guyana’s most formidable...

Lessons have negative impact on children

Mar 02, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Lessons have negative impact on children

– Chief Education Officer Chief Education Officer, Olato Sam, has stated that extra lessons are having a negative impact on students, especially those preparing for the Caribbean Secondary...

SAG completes study for modernization of Port Georgetown

Mar 02, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on SAG completes study for modernization of Port Georgetown

The Shipping Association of Guyana (SAG) is optimistic that the problem of a low draught at the mouth of the Demerara River which has been restricting the size of ships bringing in and taking out...

Exciting action anticipated as Milo U-20 Schools Football resumes

Mar 02, 2013 KNews Sports Comments Off on Exciting action anticipated as Milo U-20 Schools Football resumes

With the Georgetown segment of the Mashramani celebrations over, all systems are in place for today’s resumption of the exciting Milo / Petra Organisation Under-20 Schools Football Competition...

Suspended sentence for causing death driver

Mar 02, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Suspended sentence for causing death driver

The man who struck down a popular Jehovah’s Witness couple in August 2010 was yesterday handed a two-year suspended sentence. The driver Bahadoor Yogunauth, 27, was said to have been under the...

West Indies clinch tight win in low-scorer

Mar 02, 2013 KNews Sports Comments Off on West Indies clinch tight win in low-scorer

ESPNcricinfo – West Indies captain Merissa Aguilleira’s unbeaten 34 helped the team clinch a narrow two-wicket win off the last ball against Sri Lanka in the first of the three Twenty20s. In...

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This must not be our hour of humiliation

Peeping Tom… Kaieteur News- There are moments in the history of nations when fate lays before them a choice not of... more