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OP increases number of super-salaried workers

Apr 14, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on OP increases number of super-salaried workers

– Guyana to spend $1.6B more on contract employees this year The number of contracted Presidential support staffers, which includes advisors, at the Office of the President (OP), is set to...

Mahdia stages protest over lengthy electricity shortage

Apr 14, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Mahdia stages protest over lengthy electricity shortage

For a thriving, round the clock mining location as Mahdia, being unable to access electricity is out of the question, and residents are quite upset over the situation. Yesterday, a...

Non-paying passenger shoots minibus driver

Apr 14, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Non-paying passenger shoots minibus driver

A man is now nursing a gunshot wound to his head after he was shot just after midnight on Friday by a passenger who refused to pay. The injured man is 59-year-old Desmond Marcus of Louisa Row,...

Mercury and Gold

Apr 14, 2013 KNews Editorial Comments Off on Mercury and Gold

In Boa Vista, just across the Brazilian border, there is a statue in the town centre in honour of the garimpero (the Brazilian equivalent of our porkknocker) because of his role in opening up...

Clinging to hope in the face of overwhelming odds

Apr 14, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Clinging to hope in the face of overwhelming odds

– A Sickle Cell patient tells her riveting story By Sharmain Grainger Medical professionals have over the years warned that life for patients diagnosed with full blown Sickle Cell...

The Baccoo Speaks

Apr 14, 2013 KNews Features / Columnists, The Baccoo Speaks Comments Off on The Baccoo Speaks

The number of teenaged criminals is astounding and the even the police would be surprised at the age of the new rash of them. For starters, they all have guns, so in a very short while there is bound...

The GPHC’s Burn Care Unit – a crucial lifeline in serious circumstances

Apr 14, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on The GPHC’s Burn Care Unit – a crucial lifeline in serious circumstances

By Sharmain Grainger Many were convinced that there was no hope for 39-year-old Asgar Mohamed when a power cable snapped in the vicinity of the Stabroek Market in Georgetown, causing him severe burns...

A Hindu Leader

Apr 14, 2013 KNews Features / Columnists, Ravi Dev Comments Off on A Hindu Leader

Reepu Daman Persaud was the preeminent Hindu leader of 20th century Guyana, along with Jang Bahadur Singh, who had founded and been chairman of the BG Sanaatan Dharma Maha Sabha (SDMS) between 1935...

The case for compensating the Caribbean

Apr 14, 2013 KNews Features / Columnists, Ronald Sanders Comments Off on The case for compensating the Caribbean

By Sir Ronald Sanders In 1838, British slave owners in the English-Speaking Caribbean received £11.6 (US$17.8) billion in today’s value as compensation for the emancipation of their...

Cardboard painted to look like concrete

Apr 14, 2013 KNews APNU Column, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Cardboard painted to look like concrete

(Extract from the Address presented on Tuesday 9th April 2013 by Brigadier David Granger, MP, Leader of the Opposition in the National Assembly, on the Motion by Dr. Ashni Kumar Singh, MP, Minister...

BIG BROTHER IS HERE!

Apr 14, 2013 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on BIG BROTHER IS HERE!

At the moment the centre of attention in the country is on the passage of the National Budget. Everyone wants to know whether the Budget will be passed or whether it will be rejected. Of...

Jagdeo studied the radio landscape

Apr 14, 2013 KNews Features / Columnists, My Column Comments Off on Jagdeo studied the radio landscape

When the news came that President Bharrat Jagdeo had liberalised radio, there were many happy faces. Guyana had at last moved away from being the only country with a solitary media house that...

The Yellow-faced Parrot (Alipiopsitta xanthops)

Apr 14, 2013 KNews Features / Columnists, Interesting Creatures in Guyana Comments Off on The Yellow-faced Parrot (Alipiopsitta xanthops)

The Yellow-faced Parrot (Alipiopsitta xanthops), also formerly known as the Yellow-faced Amazon, is the only species of the genus Alipiopsitta. It is a Neotropical parrot (tribe Arini), and...

A poetic call to Identity and Nationhood

Apr 14, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on A poetic call to Identity and Nationhood

By Dr Glenville Ashby Adrian Augier’s Navel String is a paradoxical treatise. A fine work that reveals the inexorable pain of displaced souls. It’s “Socratic,” didactic and...

Wastage and ‘fat’ in the budget taking money away from critical areas

Apr 14, 2013 KNews AFC Column, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Wastage and ‘fat’ in the budget taking money away from critical areas

The 2013 National Budget debate has concluded and now Members of the National Assembly will turn their attention to examining each line item, each allocation – and the government will...

From the Diaspora…LEAVE THOSE PORNOGRAPHIC MOVIES ALONE

Apr 14, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on From the Diaspora…LEAVE THOSE PORNOGRAPHIC MOVIES ALONE

By Ralph Seeram It was amusing to read a few days ago about the Guyana Police Force seizing hundreds of pornographic DVDs from the market and from street vendors in Georgetown. When you...

ImmigrationINFO Immigration News For Our Community

Apr 14, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on ImmigrationINFO Immigration News For Our Community

Immigration Bill Details Emerge – Introduced Next Week Attorney Gail Seeram, This past week, I was in Washington, D.C. meeting with various U.S. Congressional offices in my capacity as President of...

Sunday Cartoon

Apr 14, 2013 KNews Cartoons, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Sunday Cartoon

Destitute found dead, believed to have been beaten

Apr 14, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Destitute found dead, believed to have been beaten

The lifeless body of a destitute man was discovered early yesterday morning in an abandoned shop on Ketley Street, next to Humphrey’s Bakery. The man who is only known in the area by his...

Car dealer remanded for not delivering on alleged promises

Apr 14, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Car dealer remanded for not delivering on alleged promises

Gunraj Raghubeer, 24, of 26 Gordon Street Kitty appeared last Friday before Chief Magistrate, Priya Beharry at the Georgetown Magistrates’ court to answer a charge of fraudulent...

16-year-old escapes from court lockups

Apr 14, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on 16-year-old escapes from court lockups

A 16-year-old boy who had pleaded guilty earlier this week to stealing a car and was remanded has escaped police custody. Kaieteur News was told that the teenager was back at...

Police still searching for clues to elderly woman’s murder

Apr 14, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Police still searching for clues to elderly woman’s murder

Detectives on the East Coast of Demerara are still trying to come up with a motive and possible suspects in the murder of 89-year-old Millicent Cummings, whose battered body was...

Miner crushed by excavator

Apr 14, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Miner crushed by excavator

A 45-year-old father of two was killed at around 10:00 hrs on Thursday at Chi Chi, Mazaruni, after he was pinned by an excavator that was reportedly being manned by an unlicensed operator....

Why was this information not published in the ‘private print media’, when ‘Public’ monies are involved?

Apr 14, 2013 KNews Letters Comments Off on Why was this information not published in the ‘private print media’, when ‘Public’ monies are involved?

Dear Editor, The Sunday Chronicle earlier in March carried the following Notices, Vacancies and Advisories: # Agencies Page No. Notice Heading 1 Ministry of Health 11 Invitation For Bids 2 ...

I wish to encourage the people of Isseneru and Kako to stand their ground

Apr 14, 2013 KNews Letters Comments Off on I wish to encourage the people of Isseneru and Kako to stand their ground

Dear Editor, It is immensely distressing to learn that our Amerindian Community had to resort to writing the UN – their last refuge – to seek redress for mining-related...

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