March 2013

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HOLI MESSAGES

Mar 27, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on HOLI MESSAGES

GUYANA HINDU DHARMIC SABHA Holi or Phagwah is national in character. The festival has grown magnanimously and the celebration has truly captured the spirit of joy and happiness. Holi celebrates the...

Construction works at Farm, E.B.D., attract $B bids

Mar 27, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Construction works at Farm, E.B.D., attract $B bids

Under the Ministry of Housing and Water, billion dollar bids were received for the construction of roads, drains, structures and installation of a pure water distribution network at Farm, East Bank...

All roads lead to the National Stadium today

Mar 27, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on All roads lead to the National Stadium today

The National Stadium is all set for today’s Phagwah Festival 2013, a mega event which will feature popular local and international artistes. There will be free powder and T-shirts as well as...

No bail for nude intruder

Mar 27, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on No bail for nude intruder

Roscoe McIntyre, a 22-year-old resident of 19 Meadow Bank, was yesterday remanded when he appeared before Magistrate Judy Latchman at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court. The defendant...

17-year-old murder accused remanded

Mar 27, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on 17-year-old murder accused remanded

A 17-year-old appeared yesterday before Magistrate Judy Latchman at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court charged with the murder of 25-year-old Kumar Mohabir, who resided at 7 Fernandes...

Boy, 6, critical after Mabaruma accident

Mar 27, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Boy, 6, critical after Mabaruma accident

A six-year-old boy is now a patient in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) at the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC), nursing head injuries he sustained from an accident early yesterday at...

Linden schoolboy’s body retrieved from lake

Mar 27, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Linden schoolboy’s body retrieved from lake

By Enid Joaquin What should have been a day of celebration, on Monday, turned to tragedy for a South Amelia’s Ward mother who had planned to take her two children to dinner at Church’s...

A tragedy waiting to happen

Mar 27, 2013 KNews Letters Comments Off on A tragedy waiting to happen

Dear Editor, The death of the wheel chair-bound man at the Houston junction was almost predictable. Since the advent of the new traffic lights, motorists have been pestered by those...

Reversing a critical trend

Mar 27, 2013 KNews Letters Comments Off on Reversing a critical trend

Dear Editor, In the immortal words of former Leader of the Minority, Opposition Leader and late President of Guyana, Cheddi Jagan, “Things are happening but for whom?” in Guyana....

A view challenged and vanquished

Mar 27, 2013 KNews Letters Comments Off on A view challenged and vanquished

Dear Editor, I would like to challenge the misconception being peddled by some history revisionists who say that the Guyana economy collapsed during the 1970s and 1980s because of high...

Reaction: Budget 2013 is vanilla coated

Mar 27, 2013 KNews Letters Comments Off on Reaction: Budget 2013 is vanilla coated

Dear Editor, To no great surprise, Dr Ashni Singh’s latest Budget was yet more of the same – biggest budget ever rhetoric. This is just a plain vanilla tax, borrow and spend...

Sexual politics then and now

Mar 27, 2013 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on Sexual politics then and now

After he lost power in 1964, Dr. Cheddi Jagan wrote his memoirs which he mischievously named, “The West on Trial.” I say mischievously because by looking at the title, one would...

Three lawyers and ignorance abounds

Mar 26, 2013 KNews Letters Comments Off on Three lawyers and ignorance abounds

Dear Editor, I am not a lawyer but I do know a thing or two about the law. I know that a court ruling, unless and until it is set aside, is binding and enforceable. That the court...

Govt. unveils $208.8B budget…PAYE rate reduced to 30%; old age pension increased to $12,500 monthly

Mar 26, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Govt. unveils $208.8B budget…PAYE rate reduced to 30%; old age pension increased to $12,500 monthly

-tax break for new homeowners; NIS rate hiked 1% -assistance for senior citizens with GPL bills By Leonard Gildarie Several measures, including a $2,500 monthly increase in the old age pension and...

Grade Six Assessment gets underway

Mar 26, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Grade Six Assessment gets underway

Armed with the relevant tools, primary school pupils, both from public and private schools across the country, were out in their numbers yesterday to sit the National Grade Six...

Armed bandits caught after snatching $$$ in front GRA

Mar 26, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Armed bandits caught after snatching $$$ in front GRA

– Money returned to businessman Police nabbed two bandits yesterday, after a businessman’s bag containing over $4M was snatched from him in front of the recently shifted Guyana Revenue...

Dismal sugar industry…Govt. withheld billions in critical EU assistance to GuySuCo – Tony Vieira

Mar 26, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Dismal sugar industry…Govt. withheld billions in critical EU assistance to GuySuCo – Tony Vieira

-Finance Minister says $39.5B invested over the years Government is to be blamed for the sugar’s downward slide over the years, with billions of dollars of Europe’s assistance money never even...

Dem boys seh…Ash Knee try fuh soft soap old people

Mar 26, 2013 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Dem boys seh…Ash Knee try fuh soft soap old people

De budget is de biggest. Every budget bigger than de other one. It got to be that Guyana mekking nuff money or collecting nuff money. De old people get a top up and some of dem happy but Ash...

Guinness ‘Greatest of the Streets’ Futsal Competition…Six outrights wins and a draw set tone as Linden segment begins

Mar 26, 2013 KNews Sports Comments Off on Guinness ‘Greatest of the Streets’ Futsal Competition…Six outrights wins and a draw set tone as Linden segment begins

Seven exciting matches got the ball rolling in the Linden segment of the Guinness ‘Greatest of the Streets’ Futsal Competition on Sunday evening, at the Wisroc/Amelia’s Ward Bus Park. Attended...

Tiger Woods back as world number one after Bay Hill win

Mar 26, 2013 KNews Sports Comments Off on Tiger Woods back as world number one after Bay Hill win

BBC Sport – Tiger Woods returned to the top of the world rankings for the first time since October 2010 after winning the Arnold Palmer Invitational by two strokes. The 37-year-old...

Bakewell donated MVP prize as Cell Smart Super 8 Basketball Tournament concludes

Mar 26, 2013 KNews Sports Comments Off on Bakewell donated MVP prize as Cell Smart Super 8 Basketball Tournament concludes

Bakewell, under the stewardship of the late Nazir Mohammed, has always been in the forefront in rendering support for the sustenance of sports and other community oriented activities. Mr....

GFC gunning to down Alpha in Mayor’s KO Football quarterfinal today

Mar 26, 2013 KNews Sports Comments Off on GFC gunning to down Alpha in Mayor’s KO Football quarterfinal today

The Georgetown Football Club (GFC) Ground, Bourda is the place to be tonight when the opening quarterfinal round of matches in the annual Mayor’s knockout football tournament are...

Scrabble players to compete for top prizes in Phagwah Open tournament

Mar 26, 2013 KNews Sports Comments Off on Scrabble players to compete for top prizes in Phagwah Open tournament

National Scrabble Champion, Abigail McDonald has been out of the jurisdiction for a few weeks during which time top seed, James Krakowsky dominated the tournaments and twice relegated another...

Trophy Stall / WDFA 2012 U-17 Final…Eagles upset Den Amstel on sudden death Penalty Kicks to claim title

Mar 26, 2013 KNews Sports Comments Off on Trophy Stall / WDFA 2012 U-17 Final…Eagles upset Den Amstel on sudden death Penalty Kicks to claim title

When the tournament commenced in the last quarter of 2012, no one in their wildest dreams would have or could have predicted that the little known Eagles Football Club of Stewartville on the...

TTCB national premier league…Ferrier slams ton in Aranguez win

Mar 26, 2013 KNews Sports Comments Off on TTCB national premier league…Ferrier slams ton in Aranguez win

Guyanese all-rounder Deon Ferrier stroked a fine un beaten 109 as Aranguez took first innings points from Merry Boys in a drawn game when action in the Trinidad and Tobago National Premier...

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Workers should not settle for ‘leff-leff’

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Resolving CARICOM’s Leadership Impasse

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By Sir Ronald Sanders (Kaieteur News) –As with all my commentaries, this one is strictly in my personal capacity, drawing on more than fifty years of engagement with Caribbean affairs and a lifelong commitment to the cause of regional integration. I do not speak on behalf of any government or...

A minister, a head doctor, commended and celebrated

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Hard Truths by GHK Lall (Kaieteur News) – It’s a long-held mantra. The best policies and best procedures are nothing, if there are no people with the required energy, care, and ethos to breathe life into them. Minister of Health, Dr. Frank Anthony, made his moves, proved me right. He engaged,...

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