April 2013

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Budget debates…“Oh what a tangled web the government has weaved …” – APNU’s Basil Williams

Apr 06, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Budget debates…“Oh what a tangled web the government has weaved …” – APNU’s Basil Williams

By Latoya Giles A Partnership for National Unity (APNU) frontbencher Attorney at law Basil Williams has described this year’s budget as a “tangled web” which the government has weaved. Williams...

Don’t take chances with your chances!

Apr 06, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Don’t take chances with your chances!

This canter truck’s owner gambled on a makeshift bridge and lost

Exerting significant influence on public opinion

Apr 06, 2013 KNews Editorial Comments Off on Exerting significant influence on public opinion

Letters to the editor in the daily newspapers in Guyana exert significant influence on public opinion, but there are certain suspicious aspects of this influence that are worth a closer look....

Stalled Diamond road project on Auditor General’s radar

Apr 06, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Stalled Diamond road project on Auditor General’s radar

– CH&PA yet to submit documents Stalled rehabilitative roadwork on Avenues ‘A’ and ‘B’ of Diamond Housing Scheme, East Bank Demerara, has attracted the attention of the...

Air Services Flight School hosts “Open Day”

Apr 06, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Air Services Flight School hosts “Open Day”

In yet another effort to help aspiring pilots follow their dreams, the Air Services Limited (ASL) Flight School yesterday hosted an ‘Open Day’ activity at its location in the...

Guyanese accused of killing stepson, 2, to face trial in Trinidad

Apr 06, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Guyanese accused of killing stepson, 2, to face trial in Trinidad

(Trinidad Guardian) Three years after he was charged with beating his two-year-old stepson, Etean George Smith, to death, Guyanese national Kamaldeo Singh has been committed to stand trial at...

Corentyne accident victim claims buses were racing

Apr 06, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Corentyne accident victim claims buses were racing

– Drivers arrested A post mortem performed on 43-year-old Nandkumar ‘Renny’ Pooran of Lot 98 Number 69 Village, Corentyne, on Thursday, revealed that he died of a broken neck. Dr....

Estate worker crushed to death by lorry

Apr 06, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Estate worker crushed to death by lorry

– driver detained Yet another home is without a breadwinner, a housewife is in grief, and a dangerous overtaking move leads to a vehicle crushing someone to death. This time an estate...

Caneloader operator drowns after vehicle topples into canal

Apr 06, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Caneloader operator drowns after vehicle topples into canal

A 55-year-old cane loader operator of the Skeldon Estate drowned in a canefield canal in the Number 79 Village backdam last Friday, after the machine which he was operating, reportedly toppled into...

Housewife’s ‘suspicious’ death…Man claims cops ignored High Court Order for second post mortem

Apr 06, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Housewife’s ‘suspicious’ death…Man claims cops ignored High Court Order for second post mortem

Despite his suspicions that his daughter was the victim of foul play, the father of Mahaica housewife Tharmattie Ramsaram has decided to have her buried, rather than adhere to a High Court...

Chopping victim battling for life

Apr 06, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Chopping victim battling for life

A 27-year-old is now a patient in the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC)’s Intensive Care Unit (ICU) – after he was reportedly beaten and chopped by the owner of a city taxi...

Unidentified body found beneath GNIC wharf

Apr 06, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Unidentified body found beneath GNIC wharf

The body of an unidentified male of African descent was found beneath the Guyana National Industrial Corporation (GNIC) wharf yesterday. According to reports, staffers made the discovery and...

Burglary accused blames it on drunkenness

Apr 06, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Burglary accused blames it on drunkenness

– Jailed for 3 years A 23-year-old Eccles, East Bank Demerara man yesterday told Magistrate Faith Mc Gusty at the Providence Magistrate’s Court that he was drunk when he ended up in his...

Sophia man faces attempted murder, robbery charges

Apr 06, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Sophia man faces attempted murder, robbery charges

A Sophia resident has been remanded on an attempted murder charge. Darrel Gilkes, 22, of Lot 19 Block E, Sophia, faced Magistrate Sueanna Lovell yesterday accused of discharging a loaded gun...

Alleged ganja trafficking trio refused bail

Apr 06, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Alleged ganja trafficking trio refused bail

Three persons appeared before Magistrate Sueanna Lovell at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court yesterday on a joint charge of possession of narcotics for the purpose of trafficking. Nigel...

Remove immunity for officials guilty of wrongdoing

Apr 06, 2013 KNews Letters Comments Off on Remove immunity for officials guilty of wrongdoing

DEAR EDITOR, In reference to “Stripped of presidential immunity” (KN April 5), I am pleased to read that former Minister Rashleigh Jackson is very supportive of actions to prosecute two...

We seem to be a very liberal-minded nation in some respects!

Apr 06, 2013 KNews Letters Comments Off on We seem to be a very liberal-minded nation in some respects!

Dear Editor, Guyana seems to be full of surprises. About the Irish-born young man who has been charged with “serious threatening behaviour”. Given his age, should he have been allowed...

Dr. Bisnauth certainly made his contribution to the cause of a better Guyana

Apr 06, 2013 KNews Letters Comments Off on Dr. Bisnauth certainly made his contribution to the cause of a better Guyana

Dear Editor: I wish to join with others to express my condolences to the family and friends of the late Dr. Dale Bisnauth who passed away recently. I had the privilege of serving as his...

Clueless about the role of the private media

Apr 06, 2013 KNews Letters Comments Off on Clueless about the role of the private media

Dear Editor, Today one can easily tell that things are rapidly slipping away for the PPP. The most current example of this came in the National Assembly from the ruling party’s...

First responders are an integral part of the health care system

Apr 06, 2013 KNews Letters Comments Off on First responders are an integral part of the health care system

DEAR EDITOR, What happened to A Partnership for National Unity (APNU) Member of Parliament Richard Allen, who collapsed in the National Assembly on Thursday, exposed some glaring...

WICB Regional Super 50 tourney…Deonarine hits half century as Guyana beat CCC by 3 wickets

Apr 05, 2013 KNews Sports Comments Off on WICB Regional Super 50 tourney…Deonarine hits half century as Guyana beat CCC by 3 wickets

By Zaheer Mohamed Left hander Narsingh Deonarine stroked a patient 51 as Guyana defeated the Combined Campuses and Colleges by three wickets in their West Indies Cricket Board Regional Super...

Banks DIH Ltd donates hefty sum as Chess players battle at Tain Campus

Apr 05, 2013 KNews Sports Comments Off on Banks DIH Ltd donates hefty sum as Chess players battle at Tain Campus

The nation’s top chess players have been engaged in intense battle in several competitions that have netted the top three players beautiful trophies. Those players will now battle for real...

Athletics road race and day of sprints carded for Berbice

Apr 05, 2013 KNews Sports Comments Off on Athletics road race and day of sprints carded for Berbice

The newly formed Rose Hall Town Athletic Club is continuing with its quest to organise athletics activities in Berbice in its effort to revitalize the sport in the ancient county. The...

Letter to the Sports Editor…Sealey was not so clever after all

Apr 05, 2013 KNews Sports Comments Off on Letter to the Sports Editor…Sealey was not so clever after all

Dear Editor, The clandestine attempt by Lester Sealey to appear as though he was not carbon copying the earlier efforts made by Kashif and Shanghai to denigrate my character was not so...

Everest beat PYO Masters by 8 wkts

Apr 05, 2013 KNews Sports Comments Off on Everest beat PYO Masters by 8 wkts

Everest Masters defeated the PYO Masters of Trinidad and Tobago by 8 wickets in a feature Twenty/20 game played on last Sunday at the Everest Cricket Club ground. Batting first after...

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The politics of appointment

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(Kaieteur News) – The elections commission did not fall from heaven. It came from the messy compromises of men. The so-called Carter-Price formula, that tired but enduring offspring of the 1990s political crisis, was not meant to enshrine aloof neutrality; it was meant to broker peace between...

If the OAS did not exist, it could not be created today

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By Sir Ronald Sanders (Kaieteur News) – I have spent a decade in the councils of the Organization of American States. I have watched governments come and go, seen some crises handled well and others handled badly, sat through more commemorative meetings than sessions discussing pressing issues,...

Guyana Development Bank: Promise, Potential and Peril

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(Kaieteur News) – The PPP Govt-initiated $40B Guyana Development Bank (Bank) can be great. Ordinary Guyanese-poor, harbouring inspired ideas, but lacking capital-have opportunity beckoning. Opportunity to rise from where they are to what they envision could be, should be. Again,...

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