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Over 3000 feet GPL wiring seized at scrap metal dealership

Sep 22, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Over 3000 feet GPL wiring seized at scrap metal dealership

The Guyana Power Light (GPL) Company unearthed 3000 feet of service wire from a scrap metal dealership located at Princes and Bishop Streets yesterday. These wires include duplex and triplex...

Fly Jamaica hopes for positive word on non-stop GT/NY flights after 60-90 -day deadline

Sep 22, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Fly Jamaica hopes for positive word on non-stop GT/NY flights after 60-90 -day deadline

Fly Jamaica (FJ) officials are keeping their fingers crossed that after the stipulated 60-90 day time period has elapsed, there would be a positive outcome of the new airline’s permission to travel...

AFC debunks accusations of party corruption

Sep 22, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on AFC debunks accusations of party corruption

The Alliance For Change, (AFC) has debunked accusations of widespread corruption within the party. AFC, Councillor for Region Six, Haseef Yusuf, is alleging, that members of the...

APNU calls for more “forceful response” to Venezuelan army invasion

Sep 22, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on APNU calls for more “forceful response” to Venezuelan army invasion

Leader of the Opposition, Brig David Granger, has said that the Government of Guyana should have been more forceful in its response to the recent invasion of the country by Venezuelan...

Thirteen year-old appeals for help to save her life

Sep 22, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Thirteen year-old appeals for help to save her life

Urgent financial assistance is needed to save the life of a thirteen year old girl, who is diagnosed with a rare tumor of the brain. Local doctors diagnosed Gabrellia Motayne, a student...

Cop under close arrest for beating up family in police station

Sep 22, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Cop under close arrest for beating up family in police station

A Unity, Mahaica couple wants the police to take stern action against one of its ranks who they allege assaulted them in the presence of his colleagues at the Mahaica Police Station during a drunken...

Reparations Now!

Sep 22, 2013 KNews Editorial Comments Off on Reparations Now!

Last June, in our editorial “Justice Denied”, we pointed out that even though the Organisation for African Unity (OAU) took up the call for Reparations in 1993 in their Abuja declaration,...

Relatives of missing plumber call on Taxi driver for info

Sep 22, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Relatives of missing plumber call on Taxi driver for info

Almost one year after elderly plumber, Desmond Gillis, disappeared without a trace, relatives are still hopeful of receiving some closure to the situation so as to move on. Gillis, of...

ImmigrationINFO…Immigration News For Our Community

Sep 22, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on ImmigrationINFO…Immigration News For Our Community

U.S. Visa Lottery Open from Oct 1 – Nov 2 Attorney Gail Seeram The visa lottery programme will be accepting applications for the 2015 Diversity Visa Lottery programme from October 1,...

Regulate the market

Sep 22, 2013 KNews Features / Columnists, Ravi Dev Comments Off on Regulate the market

Last week was the fifth anniversary of the collapse of the US investment firm Lehman Brothers, which at the time everyone thought would have resulted in a massive shakeup of the neo-liberal go-go...

Will racial tribalism forever dominate Guyana?

Sep 22, 2013 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on Will racial tribalism forever dominate Guyana?

Guyana is enduring a syndrome of violent robberies. It has been going on for years and it touches every part of Guyana and every race. Our Chinese and Brazilian residents have witnessed brutal...

There are problems at GPHC, Michael

Sep 22, 2013 KNews Features / Columnists, My Column Comments Off on There are problems at GPHC, Michael

In the past two weeks I have been receiving complaints about the operations at the Georgetown Public Hospital, which to my mind is the best health institution in Guyana. I arrive at that conclusion...

The case of the murdered goatherd

Sep 22, 2013 KNews Features / Columnists, Murder and Mystery Comments Off on The case of the murdered goatherd

On October 12, 2001, as she had done since her husband’s death, Savitri Prasad left her home to collect her herd of goats. But this time, she did not return. It was unusual for Prasad, called...

Guyana’s social civil restlessness

Sep 22, 2013 KNews APNU Column, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Guyana’s social civil restlessness

Guyana is facing relentless restlessness as a result of the People’s Progressive Party Civic (PPPC)’s chronic maladministration. Simmering civil unrest has become part of the prevalent pattern of...

High time indeed to review marijuana policies

Sep 22, 2013 KNews Features / Columnists, Ronald Sanders Comments Off on High time indeed to review marijuana policies

By Sir Ronald Sanders On September 17, the Bureau of the Heads of Government of the 15-nation Caribbean Community (CARICOM) discussed the decriminalisation of marijuana and its production for...

THE AFC MELTDOWN IN NEW YORK

Sep 22, 2013 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on THE AFC MELTDOWN IN NEW YORK

The Alliance for Change, itself a creature of political defections, has now become a victim of political defections, with some figures from its New York grouping opting to leave the...

Child Care Protection week 2013…“We want communities more involved” – Ann Greene

Sep 22, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Child Care Protection week 2013…“We want communities more involved” – Ann Greene

By Javone Vickerie With its mission to stamp out violence against children in Guyana, The Child Care and Protection Agency will be looking at ways to get communities more involved as Child...

Mrs. Osborne celebrates 101 in style

Sep 22, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Mrs. Osborne celebrates 101 in style

By Kiana Wilburg The person who said 40 is the new 30 certainly never met centenarian Margaret Irene Osborne; a feisty lover of “good music”, and the wonders of life. Osborne, who...

From the Diaspora…BAD HABITS OF GUYANESE AT HOME

Sep 22, 2013 KNews News 4

By Ralph Seeram I could not believe what I was seeing, the woman opened a large handbag and packed three boxes of the food in her handbag. I am not sure if I was shocked or surprised but I was about...

The Baccoo Speaks

Sep 22, 2013 KNews Features / Columnists, The Baccoo Speaks Comments Off on The Baccoo Speaks

The more people think that they have a grip on a situation the more they find that nothing has changed. Everybody believes that the crime wave of 2002 and 2006 was over until they awoke to find that...

Housing and You…Electrical wiring and what can go wrong

Sep 22, 2013 KNews News 4

By Leonard Gildarie I do believe that quite a few critical things are overlooked in the process of building a home. And these can prove disastrous in the long run and costly, if not deadly. I am...

The Greater Bulldog Bat (Noctilio leporinus)

Sep 22, 2013 KNews Features / Columnists, Interesting Creatures in Guyana Comments Off on The Greater Bulldog Bat (Noctilio leporinus)

The greater bulldog bat or fisherman bat (Noctilio leporinus) is a type of fishing bat native to Latin America. The bat uses echolocation to detect water ripples made by the fish upon...

Democracy delayed is democracy denied

Sep 22, 2013 KNews AFC Column, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Democracy delayed is democracy denied

By Khemraj Ramjattan, AFC Leader The results of the 1992 Regional and General Elections in Guyana which saw the PPP/Civic gaining power was heralded by that Party and its supporters as, ‘A Return...

Book Review…The Cayman Islands: Behind the Veil

Sep 22, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Book Review…The Cayman Islands: Behind the Veil

By Dr Glenville Ashby: Contributor J.A. Roy Bodden’s “Patronage, Personalities and Parties: Caymanian Politics from 1950-2000” requires detailed study. It is a chronicle, a political...

Responding to a political grasshopper

Sep 22, 2013 KNews Letters Comments Off on Responding to a political grasshopper

Dear Editor, Mr Kit Nascimento has once more lived up to his reputation of defending any cause for a fee. On Thursday, he was the moderator at a press conference hosted by Winston...

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