February 2014

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Two in custody after robbery and high speed chase

Feb 16, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Two in custody after robbery and high speed chase

Quick response by police led to the arrest of two suspected bandits and to their car being impounded after high speed chase over the Berbice River Bridge. Two men are in custody. The police are now...

Singing “De Truth” enables “De Professor” to retain calypso crown

Feb 16, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Singing “De Truth” enables “De Professor” to retain calypso crown

In one of the most competitive competitions in recent years Lester ‘De Professor’ Charles once again reigned supreme, delivering a sterling lesson in kaiso to retain his calypso monarchy. Such...

Bus driver accused of biting cop, trial commences

Feb 16, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Bus driver accused of biting cop, trial commences

The trial of a bus driver accused of biting a police officer in his efforts to resist being arrested, on Friday commenced before Magistrate Geeta Chandan-Edmond at the Georgetown Magistrates’...

New CPG executives elected for “A” Division

Feb 16, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on New CPG executives elected for “A” Division

Following the split of the “A” Division Community Policing Group, Division Two which runs from Eccles, East Bank Demerara to Long Creek, Soesdyke/Linden Highway held its Annual General...

“This is a dark time, my love”

Feb 16, 2014 KNews AFC Column, Features / Columnists Comments Off on “This is a dark time, my love”

By Sheba Thomas Youth For Change member “This is the dark time, my love; it is the season of oppression, dark metal, and tears. It is the festival of guns, the carnival of misery”. These words...

The Panamanian night monkey (Aotus zonalis)

Feb 16, 2014 KNews Features / Columnists, Interesting Creatures in Guyana Comments Off on The Panamanian night monkey (Aotus zonalis)

The Panamanian night monkey or Chocoan night monkey (Aotus zonalis) is a species of night monkey formerly considered a subspecies of the grey-bellied night monkey of the...

I had a scary week

Feb 16, 2014 KNews Features / Columnists, My Column Comments Off on I had a scary week

Every child is scared of the dark, of death and of the unknown. As we grow older we hear that there is really nothing to be afraid of, but fear itself. Yet many of us, perhaps because of the...

“Too black to be Prime Minister”: the shackles of mental slavery

Feb 16, 2014 KNews Features / Columnists, Ronald Sanders Comments Off on “Too black to be Prime Minister”: the shackles of mental slavery

By Sir Ronald Sanders Of all the offensive – and unintelligent – statements made in the politics of the post-independence Caribbean, an assertion, that Dr Keith Rowley, the leader of the...

These individuals have failed to represent the teachers they were elected to serve

Feb 16, 2014 KNews Letters Comments Off on These individuals have failed to represent the teachers they were elected to serve

Dear Editor, With respect to a not so recent publication in last Sunday’s edition of your dailies, 9th February 2014. I pen these words to bring attention to the “Notice” which read Guyana...

Upgraded Zoological Park to feature animals in Guyana’s eco-types

Feb 16, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Upgraded Zoological Park to feature animals in Guyana’s eco-types

The Guyana Zoological Park was established in 1952 and today serves as a sanctuary for injured wild animals and remains an important nature-based recreational facility. Situated in the heart of...

The Baccoo Speaks

Feb 16, 2014 KNews Features / Columnists, The Baccoo Speaks Comments Off on The Baccoo Speaks

Berbice will be in the news again. A determined police division will be making life tough for the criminals who until recently had a field day. They are going to stage a raid and nab a group of men...

GPHC’s disposal system “serving its intended purpose”

Feb 16, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on GPHC’s disposal system “serving its intended purpose”

By Romila Boodram After nearly two years of operation, health officials are satisfied that the state-of-the-art disposal system at the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) is “serving its...

Desinco Trading, CAL join forces to aid ailing child

Feb 16, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Desinco Trading, CAL join forces to aid ailing child

Dealing with an ill child is very difficult for any parent, but no one is prepared to hear that their two-year-old has been diagnosed with a deadly, flesh-eating bacteria. Life for Sandra...

Housing and You…Fire safety in home construction

Feb 16, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Housing and You…Fire safety in home construction

By Leonard Gildarie Until I built my home over three years ago, as a practising journalist I would treat fires as just another story. After a while, unless you want to run the risk of becoming...

The kidnapping of Roy Bell

Feb 16, 2014 KNews Features / Columnists, Murder and Mystery Comments Off on The kidnapping of Roy Bell

– A brutal unsolved case from the crime wave era By Michael Jordan On Saturday, April 12, 2003, 16-year-old School of the Nations student Roy Bell and a brother entered a car outside...

The PNCR does not subscribe to public brawls via the media

Feb 16, 2014 KNews Letters Comments Off on The PNCR does not subscribe to public brawls via the media

Dear Editor, Please permit me the opportunity to respond to a letter penned by Mr. Bevon Curry dated Thursday 13th February 2014 under the caption ‘An unequivocal apology must be demanded...

A bout of constitutional heresy

Feb 16, 2014 KNews Letters Comments Off on A bout of constitutional heresy

Dear Editor, I do not usually engage in exchanges in the press, with non-lawyers on matters of law. I extend this rule to some lawyers as well, when the content of what they espouse is devoid of...

On the absence of a succession policy in political parties

Feb 16, 2014 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on On the absence of a succession policy in political parties

“Men ought either to be well treated or crushed, because they can avenge themselves of lighter injuries, of more serious ones they cannot; therefore the injury that is to be done to a man ought to...

Police cricket and Fun Day were super

Feb 16, 2014 KNews Letters Comments Off on Police cricket and Fun Day were super

Dear Editor, I ashamedly must admit that it is the first time I attended the Police Cricket 10/0 and Fun day, titled: “Leroy Brumell 10/10 Cricket Finals and Fun Day at Eve Leary on Sunday, 9th...

A technological evolution we should embrace

Feb 16, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on A technological evolution we should embrace

By Dwijendra Rooplall It’s amazing when you juxtapose a developing country such as Guyana against some of its more, highly developed counterparts like India, China the United States, and you find...

Guyana is sleepwalking into narco-statehood

Feb 16, 2014 KNews APNU Column, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Guyana is sleepwalking into narco-statehood

Revelations in the international media of a Guyana-Italy cocaine conspiracy are ominous. Evidence that Guyanese narco-traffickers are working hand-in-hand with Italian Mafiosi confirms fears that...

Book Review…A showcase of talent, grit and politics

Feb 16, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Book Review…A showcase of talent, grit and politics

Book: Great Jamaican Athletes by Mark A. Jones Dr Glenville Ashby, Contributor Mark A. Jones’ Great Jamaican Athletes is an abbreviated encyclopedia on the enthralling world of Track and Field....

I had a heart attack and almost died in Austin’s Bookstore

Feb 16, 2014 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on I had a heart attack and almost died in Austin’s Bookstore

A sempiternal wish I have is to meet all my readers and ask them what days, weeks and months are like in their individual lives in Guyana. This is an intriguing, bewildering, unpredictable country....

Auto dealer shot in execution attempt

Feb 15, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Auto dealer shot in execution attempt

– cops detain biker Popular auto dealer Deokaran Sanasie, called ‘Ram’, was shot in the chest at around 18:30 hrs yesterday in the vicinity of Light and Fourth Street, Alberttown, by a...

Govt. flouts new deadline ahead of CFATF review

Feb 15, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Govt. flouts new deadline ahead of CFATF review

…say amendments must be passed by month end Following the non-review by the Financial Action Taskforce (FATF) this past week, which had been predicted by Government, they have now announced...

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(Kaieteur News) – Santa Rosa Secondary and defending champions Chase’s Academic Foundation sit primed on seven points as action continues today in the Republic Bank Secondary School Football...

A capital city beyond redemption?

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(Kaieteur News) – Georgetown has become so dysfunctional, so hopelessly disorganised and so resistant to correction that one must ask whether the effort to save it is worth the trouble. The greatest mistake successive governments have made is not recognising that Georgetown should have long been...

A Divided World: A Commonwealth Opportunity

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By Sir Ronald Sanders (Kaieteur News) – When Commonwealth leaders gather in Antigua and Barbuda from 1st to 4th November, they should address a question that reaches beyond their association: how can countries of different size, wealth and outlook sustain cooperation in a world increasingly...

The epitaph on Mr. Gavin Douglas’ tombstone should read: Murdered...

Nov 08, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – Another Guyanese dead, and in degraded fashion, at the hands of State agents. A State that now stands as a monument to how much the PPP Govt. has criminalized it. When not one alleged rogue cop, with blood in his eye, but four of them, can deliver blows on a man that’s...

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