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6-year-old stabbed in eye prepares for surgery in Trinidad

May 21, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on 6-year-old stabbed in eye prepares for surgery in Trinidad

Naresh Ramotar, the six-year-old boy who was stabbed in the eye with a pencil, is currently in Trinidad and Tobago preparing for surgery. According to the child’s aunt, Savitrie Benjamin, he is...

THE COURT IS THE ULTIMATE ARBITER

May 21, 2014 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on THE COURT IS THE ULTIMATE ARBITER

What is happening at City Hall, in the National Assembly, and in the relations between our political parties, is no joke. Some persons may find it funny but as old people forewarn, not all skin-teeth...

Dr. Yesu Persaud launches autobiography

May 21, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Dr. Yesu Persaud launches autobiography

It has been described a must-read book that chronicles some critical points in Guyana’s history leading up to nationalization, in 1976. The autobiography by business mogul, Dr. Yesu Persaud, was...

Wide-ranging issues on agenda at 17th COFCOR meeting

May 21, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Wide-ranging issues on agenda at 17th COFCOR meeting

“The Caribbean is connected with the international world but is still to be connected with itself”- T&T Foreign Minister By Abena Rockcliffe Yesterday saw the opening ceremony of the...

Almost $50M difference in proposals to supply Education Ministry

May 21, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Almost $50M difference in proposals to supply Education Ministry

The Ministry of Education yesterday received bids for several supply and delivery services. The bids were submitted yesterday at the National Procurement and Tender Administration Board...

Aussie gold-mining firm offloads billion-dollar mill

May 21, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Aussie gold-mining firm offloads billion-dollar mill

Executives of Troy Resources Limited, an Australian gold-mining Company, on Monday took members of the media on tour of the old Omai Wharf facility, at Christianburg, Wismar, Linden, where they...

Female MPs form Steering Committee to focus on critical issues

May 21, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Female MPs form Steering Committee to focus on critical issues

Guyana’s female Members of Parliament, at a special meeting convened by Speaker of the National Assembly, Raphael Trotman, on Monday at the Public Buildings, discussed the possibility of...

IDB invites proposals for $$M community projects

May 21, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on IDB invites proposals for $$M community projects

The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) is seeking proposals from local civil society and non-government organisations to fund innovative, community-based projects, starting from US$300,000 ($60M)...

World Metrology Day…Metrological control linked to energy consumption – GNBS

May 21, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on World Metrology Day…Metrological control linked to energy consumption – GNBS

Under the theme “Measurements and the Global energy challenge” the Guyana National Bureau of Standards (GNBS) joined with other Metrology institutions across the world to commemorate World...

Third suspect in brutal hacking of guard found

May 21, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Third suspect in brutal hacking of guard found

The police yesterday picked up a third suspect in the brutal hacking of a 40-year-old Pigeon Island, East Coast Demerara (ECD) resident. The suspect, a labourer, was arrested around 15:30 hrs at a...

Not learning from past experiences

May 21, 2014 KNews Editorial Comments Off on Not learning from past experiences

Life is such that people often learn from past experiences. Rational people know that if they commit a crime they would be punished and if indeed they do commit the crime, rest assured that they...

Dr. Lomarsh Roopnarine and Dr. Compton Bourne

May 21, 2014 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on Dr. Lomarsh Roopnarine and Dr. Compton Bourne

When you study world cultures you don’t get depressed, simply because there is so much that is hilarious about the countries of the world, their peoples and their traditions. If you are on a...

The plight of an unwanted child

May 21, 2014 KNews Letters Comments Off on The plight of an unwanted child

Dear Editor, Once again there have been an outrage, and rightly so by some concern voices over the manner in which the 14-year-old boy, Andy, met his death. It is alleged that the boy had his head...

The police appear to sanction littering in Beterverwagting

May 21, 2014 KNews Letters Comments Off on The police appear to sanction littering in Beterverwagting

Dear Editor, Last Saturday (17th May) I was a guest of the Police at the Beterverwagting Police Station for just under an hour. This happened because on Saturday morning I decided to protest against...

Allocate resources where they are due

May 21, 2014 KNews Letters Comments Off on Allocate resources where they are due

Dear Editor, There is a typical case here in the Rupununi of misplaced priorities by the PPP government. There is an intense campaign, almost an obsession by the party, to convert all and sundry to...

Pity the man who would eat the rich

May 21, 2014 KNews Letters Comments Off on Pity the man who would eat the rich

Dear Editor, On May 1, 2014 (Labor Day) at the G.T.U.C rally a man held a placard that stated this pathetic comment “One day the poor will have nothing to eat but the rich”. The holder of the...

A desire to meet with the Culture Minister

May 21, 2014 KNews Letters Comments Off on A desire to meet with the Culture Minister

Dear Editor, A few weeks ago, the Minister of Culture committed, in Parliament, to undertake a more expansive, consultative and cooperative approach in managing the cultural policy aspect of his...

The “Get Modi” brigade

May 21, 2014 KNews Letters Comments Off on The “Get Modi” brigade

Dear Editor, For over a decade, Congress and the western media have conducted a well-orchestrated “Get Modi” campaign, that evokes all the lessons of the Goebbelsian propaganda principles: create...

Calvin Benn faults Chronicle reporting

May 21, 2014 KNews Letters Comments Off on Calvin Benn faults Chronicle reporting

Dear Editor, I am responding with much hesitation to the article captioned “Deputy CEO Calvin Benn opts not to renew contract with GECOM”. It was published in the Chronicle Newspaper of...

A call to Brig David Granger

May 21, 2014 KNews Letters Comments Off on A call to Brig David Granger

Dear Editor, I have been in active politics for fifty-seven years, and not a supporter of a political party but as an executive member and front bencher for my party, T.U.F. I would like Mr. David...

No relief from noise nuisance

May 21, 2014 KNews Letters Comments Off on No relief from noise nuisance

Dear Editor, For years now we as residents of Land of Canaan, East Bank Demerara, are going through lots of problems with noise nuisance. The source is Black Stone music set. Almost every month there...

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Peeping Tom… Kaieteur News-The American humorist Will Rogers once remarked that the best investment on earth is earth... more