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Turfites prepare for Kennard’s Memorial Turf Club Boxing Day horserace extravaganza

Dec 08, 2013 KNews Sports Comments Off on Turfites prepare for Kennard’s Memorial Turf Club Boxing Day horserace extravaganza

Time has flown and it seems as only yesterday that the administrators of the Kennard’s Memorial Turf Club have staged their Xmas race meeting at their Bush Lot Farm Corentyne, Berbice...

Slippers human torch succumbs

Dec 08, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Slippers human torch succumbs

The mother of four who was set alight by her stepbrother over a pair of slippers almost three weeks ago at ‘D’ Field Sophia, succumbed to her injuries around 12:30 hrs yesterday in...

La Belle Sports Bar Dominoes set to kick start tomorrow

Dec 08, 2013 KNews Sports Comments Off on La Belle Sports Bar Dominoes set to kick start tomorrow

La Belle Sports Club, Hotel and Bar Dominoes competition is slated to commence tomorrow at Dynasty Sports Bar. Twenty seven teams are expected to take part and games will be played on a...

K&S Secondary School Football Championships set for grand kickoff today

Dec 08, 2013 KNews Sports Comments Off on K&S Secondary School Football Championships set for grand kickoff today

All roads lead to the Georgetown Football Club Ground this afternoon when the 24th edition of the K&S Secondary School Football Championships gets underway at the Georgetown Football Club...

Agricultural expansion in the Canji Basin without an environmental study is criminal negligence

Dec 08, 2013 KNews Letters Comments Off on Agricultural expansion in the Canji Basin without an environmental study is criminal negligence

Dear Editor I am sorry that I am becoming a chronic letter writer, but I am only trying to help. In yesterday’s Stabroek News I noted that there were questions about Patil and China...

Internal, external barriers have detrimental effects on trade in Guyana

Dec 08, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Internal, external barriers have detrimental effects on trade in Guyana

Non-tariff barriers as well as certain in-country conditions have been identified as the ‘evils’ which continue to hinder lucrative trade between Guyana and exporters on the international market....

Ramotar needs to define his own vision

Dec 08, 2013 KNews Editorial Comments Off on Ramotar needs to define his own vision

The second anniversary of the swearing-in of President Donald Ramotar passed almost unnoticed earlier this week. Indeed there was not even an acknowledgment of the anniversary from the...

ImmigrationINFO …Immigration News For Our Community

Dec 08, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on ImmigrationINFO …Immigration News For Our Community

Immigration Bond & Detention Issues Attorney Gail S. Seeram Detention has become more prevalent for undocumented individuals in the United States. If an undocumented individual is...

Berbice Campus Autonomy a damp squib

Dec 08, 2013 KNews Letters Comments Off on Berbice Campus Autonomy a damp squib

Dear Editor, What was to have been fireworks and sparks turned out to be a damp squib. Three meetings scheduled for the Berbice Campus on the weekend 29-30th November, 2013, rejected any and...

Public servants take protest to Public Service Ministry

Dec 08, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Public servants take protest to Public Service Ministry

Members from the Guyana Public Service Union (GSPU) and other supporters were on Friday continuing their protest over the five percent increase that was touted by the Government. The...

Book of Condolence opens

Dec 08, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Book of Condolence opens

President Donald Ramotar and First Lady Deolatchmee Ramotar were the first to sign the Book of Condolence for the late Former South African President. Nelson Mandela, yesterday morning. The...

Cop wins Courts car prize

Dec 08, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Cop wins Courts car prize

A 26-year-old Police constable became the first person to walk away with the keys to a brand new “Mazda Demio” motorcar in this year’s Courts Guyana Inc. TLC, promotion. On...

No comprehensive explanation as to why workers can’t get more than five percent

Dec 08, 2013 KNews Letters Comments Off on No comprehensive explanation as to why workers can’t get more than five percent

Dear Editor, Rising income dispersion in Guyana is a cause for deep worry. It will be one of the primary reasons for a political explosion in Guyana. Yet the weak Ramotar Government cannot...

This Minister must give details of how the sum was legally expended

Dec 08, 2013 KNews Letters Comments Off on This Minister must give details of how the sum was legally expended

Dear Editor, I am surprised at the extent of coverage awarded by the Stabroek News to the Ministry of Finance phantom spokesperson in the article “Government denies withholding budgeted...

Cataract surgery available at Linden Eye Clinic

Dec 08, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Cataract surgery available at Linden Eye Clinic

The Eye Clinic at the Linden Hospital Complex recently commenced offering cataract surgery. After a year of waiting, residents of Linden requiring cataract surgery could now access this...

From the Diaspora…LIFE DOES HAVE AN EXPIRY DATE FOLKS

Dec 08, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on From the Diaspora…LIFE DOES HAVE AN EXPIRY DATE FOLKS

By Ralph Seeram “She had not talked to me for a year,” the e-mail said to which I replied, ‘The individual needs to grow up and realize life. “Life has an expiry date” I am sure...

High rise buildings should have own parking facility- Traffic Chief

Dec 08, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on High rise buildings should have own parking facility- Traffic Chief

Inclusion of parking facilities in new high rise structures that are being erected in and around Georgetown, is the practical solution to the growing traffic congestion plaguing commuters...

Housing and You…Applying for a mortgage

Dec 08, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Housing and You…Applying for a mortgage

By Leonard Gildarie Because of the many requests and over time repeating some of the things we have been publishing, I have been asked to consider, again, addressing a number of issues that...

Public servants’ woes at Christmas

Dec 08, 2013 KNews AFC Column, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Public servants’ woes at Christmas

By Sheba Thomas RN Dedicated Public Servant In reference to the announcement of a five percent pay hike for public servants made by the Cabinet Secretary Dr. Roger Luncheon on November 20,...

Citizens deserve better social protection from the NIS

Dec 08, 2013 KNews APNU Column, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Citizens deserve better social protection from the NIS

Guyana’s National Insurance Scheme (NIS) is in jeopardy. For the first time in more than four decades of its existence, the scheme recorded a deficit of $371 million in 2011. The 8th Actuarial...

The Falcon

Dec 08, 2013 KNews Features / Columnists, Interesting Creatures in Guyana Comments Off on The Falcon

A falcon is any one of 37 species of raptor in the genus Falco, widely distributed on all continents of the world. Adult falcons have thin tapered wings, which enable them to fly at high...

The great divide between Mandela and the others

Dec 08, 2013 KNews Features / Columnists, My Column Comments Off on The great divide between Mandela and the others

The death of Nelson Mandela took everyone by surprise. Of course there had been false alarms. Mandela had been sick for some time and as was the case of Yasser Arafat, a death watch...

The Baccoo Speaks

Dec 08, 2013 KNews Features / Columnists, The Baccoo Speaks Comments Off on The Baccoo Speaks

Guyana is doing everything to prove that life is cheap. For one, road users are bent on treating all public roads as private property. They ignore other vehicles and that is why a...

Book Review… An Author’s Refreshing look at Jamaican life in Britain

Dec 08, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Book Review… An Author’s Refreshing look at Jamaican life in Britain

Book: Pardner Money Stories by Deanne Heron Critic: Dr Glenville Ashby Deanne Heron has produced a blaring narrative – a compilation of short stories, replete with witty jabs, atmospheric...

Nelson ‘Madiba’ Mandela: Gravity, gravitas and greatness

Dec 08, 2013 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on Nelson ‘Madiba’ Mandela: Gravity, gravitas and greatness

My article for this issue of the paper was already completed. It was based on a speech President Obama gave to a liberal think tank, the Centre for American Progress, last week. In my humble...

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Jagdeo’s illogical rejection of the World Bank’s Commodity Market Outlook

…Peeping Tom (Jagdeo’s illogical rejection) Kaieteur News- Vice President Bharrat Jagdeo’s recent comments on the... more