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The TUC dictatorship is ruining Critchlow Labour College

Mar 09, 2014 KNews Features / Columnists, PPP Column Comments Off on The TUC dictatorship is ruining Critchlow Labour College

The People’s Progressive Party is aghast that Mr. Lincoln Lewis, on behalf of the Guyana Trades Union Congress (GTUC), so swiftly (within twenty-four hours) denounced the National Assembly which...

Standard of living must be measured in more than one dimension

Mar 09, 2014 KNews Letters Comments Off on Standard of living must be measured in more than one dimension

Dear Editor, Because I make a yearly trip to this country I may be in a better position than most Guyanese to look at what is going on in our society and make an objective evaluation. On this...

Who killed the old fruit-seller?

Mar 09, 2014 KNews Features / Columnists, Murder and Mystery Comments Off on Who killed the old fruit-seller?

By Michael Jordan The man who came to kill 74-year-old Khirul Najidam seemed to know her routine well. He sneaked into her Lot 1215 Gaulding Place, South Ruimveldt home after midday, when the...

Housing and You…Use of Guyanese hardwood in construction

Mar 09, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Housing and You…Use of Guyanese hardwood in construction

By Leonard Gildarie We have been examining the National Building Codes as published by the Guyana National Bureau of Standards over the last few weeks. After taking a break last week to talk about a...

The development of Cultural Industries rests with National policies that will benefit all

Mar 09, 2014 KNews Letters Comments Off on The development of Cultural Industries rests with National policies that will benefit all

Dear Editor, In January 2012 ACDA held a symposium on the Theme ‘The way Forward.’ I headed a work group on the organizing of Artistic Talents and gifts into functioning Cultural Industries, a...

Is Caricom delivering on its economic promises?

Mar 09, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Is Caricom delivering on its economic promises?

– Former T&T PM weighs in By Kiana Wilburg “All that CARICOM has meant to us after 30 years, in terms of economic activity, is 1.8 per cent. And you see it in our merchandise figures…...

~DEATH~ …WHAT A WONDERFUL WAY TO EXPLAIN IT ..

Mar 09, 2014 KNews Features / Columnists, Food For Thought Comments Off on ~DEATH~ …WHAT A WONDERFUL WAY TO EXPLAIN IT ..

A sick man turned to his doctor as he was preparing to Leave the examination room and said, ‘Doctor, I am afraid to die. Tell me what lies on the other side.’ Very quietly, the doctor said, ‘I...

This story has several weak points that take away from the integrity of the report

Mar 09, 2014 KNews Letters Comments Off on This story has several weak points that take away from the integrity of the report

Dear Editor, The Stabroek News item in the Wednesday, March 5 edition, “Freed accomplice was 13 during Lusignan massacre –sources,” have failed to capture some angles in the saga of Dwane...

Are Berbicians still blind after than twenty-one years of proof?

Mar 09, 2014 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on Are Berbicians still blind after than twenty-one years of proof?

Today, the PPP leaders will address Berbicians on the death anniversary of Cheddi Jagan, and more certain than night following day, more certain than one and one make two, more certain that when you...

Cheddi Jagan on budget cuts: 17 years later

Mar 09, 2014 KNews AFC Column, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Cheddi Jagan on budget cuts: 17 years later

By Moses Nagamootoo MP Lawyers for Speaker of the National Assembly, Hon. Raphael Trotman, have appealed the decision of the Acting Chief Justice in the so-called Budget Cut Case. In effect, the...

Home schooling

Mar 09, 2014 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on Home schooling

Private education is expanding in Guyana. Thousands of parents can now afford to send their children to private schools. Private schools which charge fees are able, once licenced, to play their...

In Guyana: political negotiations an opportunity for real democracy

Mar 09, 2014 KNews Features / Columnists, Ronald Sanders Comments Off on In Guyana: political negotiations an opportunity for real democracy

By Sir Ronald Sanders The governing Peoples Progressive Party/Civic (PPP) and the opposition parties in Guyana are locked in a unique governance struggle in which two combined opposition parties...

NBTS aims at 100% voluntary donation

Mar 09, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on NBTS aims at 100% voluntary donation

By Romila Boodram and Tiffanne Ramphal “One pint of my blood can save a life and it feels good to know someone is alive because of me, and I will continue donating my blood and I encourage all...

UG’s Education Faculty hosts second Honour Roll

Mar 09, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on UG’s Education Faculty hosts second Honour Roll

– outstanding 10 per cent ‘make the cut’ The “cream of the crop” of the School of Education and Humanities were duly recognised when the Faculty hosted its second Student’s Honour...

Sunday Cartoon

Mar 09, 2014 KNews Cartoons, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Sunday Cartoon

The Baccoo Speaks

Mar 09, 2014 KNews Features / Columnists, The Baccoo Speaks Comments Off on The Baccoo Speaks

The country seems awash with gunmen who are content to take a small fee to do the bidding of a rich and vindictive official. The police caught up with some of them recently and managed to get a...

The Patagonian mara (Dolichotis patagonum)

Mar 09, 2014 KNews Features / Columnists, Interesting Creatures in Guyana Comments Off on The Patagonian mara (Dolichotis patagonum)

The Patagonian mara, Dolichotis patagonum, is a relatively large rodent in the mara genus (Dolichotis). It is also known as the Patagonian cavy, Patagonian hare or dillaby. This...

Buxton $78M sluice given new deadline for completion

Mar 09, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Buxton $78M sluice given new deadline for completion

After being delayed for almost two years, the $78M sluice being constructed at Buxton, East Coast Demerara may finally be completed by June. Chief Executive Officer of the National Drainage and...

Electrician collapses and dies while fixing machine

Mar 09, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Electrician collapses and dies while fixing machine

A 47-year-old electrician collapsed at his worksite around 08:30hrs yesterday and was pronounced dead on arrival at a City hospital. The dead man has been identified as Shaeed Khan of Grove Public...

US$123M needed to develop East Dem. Conservancy – Agri. Minister

Mar 08, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on US$123M needed to develop East Dem. Conservancy – Agri. Minister

– Govt. eyes int’l donor partners By Keeran Danny Significant development of the East Demerara Water Conservancy would cost an estimated US$123M (G$26B), an amount Government does not...

Pork-knocker dies after punching glass window

Mar 08, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Pork-knocker dies after punching glass window

… Wife in custody A 44-year-old man died yesterday morning at the West Demerara Regional Hospital (WDRH), hours after he reportedly punched a glass window and cut his hand. Dead is Dennis...

Gov’t stands by position on appointing Jairam on Rodney’s COI

Mar 08, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Gov’t stands by position on appointing Jairam on Rodney’s COI

– says APNU clutching at straws Government stands by its position to appoint Trinidadian Jurist, Senior Counsel Seenauth Jairam as a Commissioner on the Commission of Inquiry (COI) into Walter...

Body of Beehive farmer found in canal

Mar 08, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Body of Beehive farmer found in canal

Investigators are probing the circumstances surrounding the death of a 47-year-old farmer whose body was discovered in a canal at Beehive Backdam on the East Coast of Demerara (ECD). The body of...

24 murders in two months, gun robberies up by 62 percent

Mar 08, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on 24 murders in two months, gun robberies up by 62 percent

The New Year has brought police no respite from the disturbing rise in serious crimes, with the Force’s Public Relations arm recording a 20 percent rise in murders and a 65 percent rise in firearm...

GM&SA Annual Awards Ceremony… Pritipaul Singh Investments cops coveted accolade

Mar 08, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on GM&SA Annual Awards Ceremony… Pritipaul Singh Investments cops coveted accolade

The Guyana Manufacturing and Services Association (GM&SA) held its annual presentation of awards and dinner ceremony on Friday night at the Pegasus Hotel. The engaging event saw the presence of...