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Guyana featured in bad light…Tourism Ministry eying ‘performance bond’ for entertainment promoters

Mar 30, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Guyana featured in bad light…Tourism Ministry eying ‘performance bond’ for entertainment promoters

By Rehana Ahamad In light of four Indian soap opera stars claiming to have been robbed by promoters in Guyana, the Ministry of Tourism, Industry, and Commerce is now looking to institute a...

Kamla Bissessar: A Caribbean leader of enviable integrity

Mar 30, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Kamla Bissessar: A Caribbean leader of enviable integrity

“There must be no compromise on integrity, no allowance for arrogance…no sacrifice of values on the altar of political expediency” Last Wednesday Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago Kamla...

CARICOM Chairman to address reparations forum

Mar 30, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on CARICOM Chairman to address reparations forum

Chairman of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) grouping, Prime Minister Dr. Ralph Gonsalves, of St. Vincent and the Grenadines will address an international forum on reparations in the United States...

Guyana Stockfeeds unfairly targeted by Securities Council – says Robert Badal

Mar 30, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Guyana Stockfeeds unfairly targeted by Securities Council – says Robert Badal

The makers of animal feed, Guyana Stockfeeds Inc. (GSI), have blasted the Guyana Securities Council (GSC) on what the company says is a delay to retract an erroneous advisory which placed that...

Increased NIS subsidy to help fund studies for long term viability – President

Mar 30, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Increased NIS subsidy to help fund studies for long term viability – President

More than $226M is earmarked for the National Insurance Scheme (NIS) this year, and a significant portion of the money will be used for studies that will help chart the way forward in making the fund...

Leroy Brumell – A policeman who almost never was

Mar 30, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Leroy Brumell – A policeman who almost never was

By Dale Andrews “Started from the bottom, now we’re here!!!” The words from the hit song by American rapper Drake kept ringing in my head after I finished my interview with Commissioner of...

Lack of Magistrate stalls PI, lawyers to seek High Court intervention

Mar 30, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Lack of Magistrate stalls PI, lawyers to seek High Court intervention

Meten-Meer-Zorg grocer murder … Six months after being accused of murdering a Meten-meer-Zorg grocer, the eight persons charged are still to hear the State’s case against them. The absence...

Guyana suffered US$141.1M decrease in remittances in 2013

Mar 30, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Guyana suffered US$141.1M decrease in remittances in 2013

– situation worries GCCI President President of the Georgetown Chamber of Commerce and Industry (GCCI), Clinton Urling, said during a recent press conference that there is need to keep a...

Essequibo Technical Institute introduces heavy duty training programme

Mar 30, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Essequibo Technical Institute introduces heavy duty training programme

Principal of the Essequibo Technical Institute, Michael Turner, is convinced that with the recent introduction of the Heavy Duty Equipment Programme, the new subject area introduced to the curriculum...

Arson the cause of Family Planning Building fire – Fire Chief

Mar 30, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Arson the cause of Family Planning Building fire – Fire Chief

Fire Chief Marlon Gentle has confirmed that arson was behind an early morning fire at the Family Planning Association Building on Croal Street, Georgetown. Kaieteur News understands that the fire...

Time to stop worrying about global warming?

Mar 30, 2014 KNews Editorial, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Time to stop worrying about global warming?

Surface temperatures may not be rising as quickly as they were, but that’s just one small part of a much bigger and more troubling picture. Climate skeptics are finding it even harder to persuade...

Hero seaman recalls risky boat cruise

Mar 30, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Hero seaman recalls risky boat cruise

…urges stronger oversight By Zena Henry Veteran international seaman, Hugh Brian ‘Magic’ October, is an accomplished sailor having spent several decades at sea working on general purpose...

Alumnus gifts Bath Primary School Computer Lab

Mar 30, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Alumnus gifts Bath Primary School Computer Lab

– noble gesture expected to help bridge technological gap Many people are today owners of technological devices that allow them to access the internet. Moreover, it could easily be...

To equate this genocide with Wismar is not the divisive path to follow

Mar 30, 2014 KNews Letters Comments Off on To equate this genocide with Wismar is not the divisive path to follow

Dear Editor, Vassan Ramracha’s article “Reparations for slavery justifies equal reparations for Wismar massacre” (Kaieteurn News 28 March) offers the reading public an interesting insight as...

Govt. builds TB treatment facility in Dr. Moti Lall’s honour

Mar 30, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Govt. builds TB treatment facility in Dr. Moti Lall’s honour

Government will be dedicating the Tuberculosis (TB) treatment and care facility recently constructed at the West Demerara Regional Hospital in honour of the late Dr. Moti Lall. The facility is...

Believe in your Bloodline

Mar 30, 2014 KNews Features / Columnists, Food For Thought Comments Off on Believe in your Bloodline

One time, I saw a documentary on championship racehorses; the kind you see running the Kentucky Derby. It’s not a coincidence that those horses end up being the fastest horses in the world....

African Revitalization Movement forum today for Bagotville Community Centre

Mar 30, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on African Revitalization Movement forum today for Bagotville Community Centre

The Cuffy 250 Committee, in collaboration with La Retraite/Stanleytown Development Group, Bagotville Cultural Circle and Good Intent-Sisters African Revitalization Movement, will hold a forum on...

From the Diaspora…Kaldor Budget and Black Friday February 16, 1962

Mar 30, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on From the Diaspora…Kaldor Budget and Black Friday February 16, 1962

By Ralph Seeram Mr. Forbes Burnham dealt with the harsh tax measures introduced by what was known as the Kaldor Budget and ended his speech by working on the emotions of his audience in the manner of...

Sunday Cartoon

Mar 30, 2014 KNews Cartoons, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Sunday Cartoon

Shed falls on schoolboy

Mar 30, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Shed falls on schoolboy

Kelon Fredericks, a 12-year-old pupil of the Suddie Primary School is now nursing a broken leg after a shed housed in the compound of the Suddie Public Hospital fell around him. Fredericks can count...

The Baccoo Speaks

Mar 30, 2014 KNews Features / Columnists, The Baccoo Speaks Comments Off on The Baccoo Speaks

The local drug situation is becoming a serious thing. There is a lot of cocaine in Guyana waiting to be shipped to locations where the money rests, but so many things are in the way. For one, the...

Beware of those Public-Private Partnerships!

Mar 30, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Beware of those Public-Private Partnerships!

“P3s should be called P12s, Public-Private Partnerships to Plunder the Public Purse to Pursue Policies of Peril to People and the Planet for all Posterity.” – Canadian impressionist Greg...

Housing and You…Attempting to rein in those runaway costs

Mar 30, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Housing and You…Attempting to rein in those runaway costs

By Leonard Gildarie Most folks I know are working class and never had the opportunity to hold three or four million dollars at any one time. It is an intimidating situation. The money looks a whole...

Degu (Octodon degus)

Mar 30, 2014 KNews Features / Columnists, Interesting Creatures in Guyana Comments Off on Degu (Octodon degus)

The degu (Octodon degus) is a small caviomorph rodent that is endemic to the matorral ecoregion of central Chile. It is sometimes referred to as the brush-tailed rat, and is also...

ELEVEN IN ONE TERM

Mar 30, 2014 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on ELEVEN IN ONE TERM

The Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago has become a folk hero for some in Guyana. Is it that they so much admire the Prime Minister? If so, they have been strangely silent on her performance. Not...

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The stakes are high in Guyana’s democracy

Peeping Tom… Kaieteur News- In any vibrant democracy, the mechanisms that bind it together are those that mediate differences,... more