June 2014

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More than three months after sexual harassment claim…Probe of Govt. Official at standstill

Jun 23, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on More than three months after sexual harassment claim…Probe of Govt. Official at standstill

Despite numerous complaints of sexual harassment and more than three months since being questioned by the police, a senior Regional Six official at the centre of the allegations has not been charged,...

Banishing the punishing

Jun 23, 2014 KNews Letters Comments Off on Banishing the punishing

Dear Editor, Permit me to be the first perhaps to congratulate or hail the passing of a Bill to eradicate corporal punishment in schools. I am sure that I will be among a long list of so many. Today,...

This minority government must compromise with the Opposition

Jun 23, 2014 KNews Letters Comments Off on This minority government must compromise with the Opposition

Dear Editor, The season of anti-money laundering “betise” continues and the usual suspects are making the rounds at press conferences advocating for a case that clearly exposes the duplicity of...

It is time citizens take the floor in demanding more effective leadership

Jun 23, 2014 KNews Letters Comments Off on It is time citizens take the floor in demanding more effective leadership

Dear Editor, The failure to pass the Anti Money Laundering and Countering the Finance of Terrorism legislation exposes a glaring lack of effective political leadership and validates concerns about...

Idea of a local law school is not one which can be too long resisted

Jun 23, 2014 KNews Letters Comments Off on Idea of a local law school is not one which can be too long resisted

Dear Editor, Our great son of the Caribbean, Grenada-born economist and former Vice Chancellor of the University of the West Indies, Sir Meredith Alister McIntyre said that, “The idea of...

This confounded nonsense has got to stop

Jun 23, 2014 KNews Letters Comments Off on This confounded nonsense has got to stop

Dear Editor, In recent times there has been one sex scandal after another, involving high-ranking government officials. With the exception of the much publicised NOC affair, none of these officials...

Bourne one-sided on ethnic change agent in Guyana

Jun 23, 2014 KNews Letters Comments Off on Bourne one-sided on ethnic change agent in Guyana

Dear Editor, Mr. Rayvonne P. Bourne (KN Jun 21) is largely correct in his analysis about ethnic voting in Guyana but he ends it abruptly largely blaming Indians for the pattern of ethnic voting. He...

This is unprecedented and unusual

Jun 23, 2014 KNews Letters Comments Off on This is unprecedented and unusual

Dear Sir, The Minister of Local Government, Mr. Norman Whittaker continues to interfere with the operations of a duly elected City Council. According to reports, this time, rather than allowing the...

Restore the city’s canals

Jun 23, 2014 KNews Editorial Comments Off on Restore the city’s canals

The rains came and within hours parts of the city were literally under water. When things like this happen one must either believe in global warming because over the decades that people had been...

Jittery gold miners set to meet over crackdown, poor declarations

Jun 22, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Jittery gold miners set to meet over crackdown, poor declarations

Amidst a disturbing 20% decline in gold declarations for the first five months of this year, Government has called gold miners and dealers to a meeting tomorrow to discuss the implications....

Thirty-three days later…Prison escapee recaptured in Omai

Jun 22, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Thirty-three days later…Prison escapee recaptured in Omai

Keiron Cummings, the last of the four prisoners, who had escaped from the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court more than a month ago, had his freedom cut short by members of the joint services after 33...

New York case…Ramroop gifted Sanata complex despite failing employment requirement

Jun 22, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on New York case…Ramroop gifted Sanata complex despite failing employment requirement

Court papers trace linkages between New GPC, TVG, Guyana Times The veil of secrecy over New GPC Inc. is slowly lifting with the company admitting in a New York court this month that it was employing...

Land giveaways…Guyana has lost faith in NICIL to negotiate state deals – APNU

Jun 22, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Land giveaways…Guyana has lost faith in NICIL to negotiate state deals – APNU

A Partnership for National Unity’s (APNU) Shadow Minister of Public Works and Telecommunications, Joseph Harmon, has said that the recent revelation of NICIL gifting two prime pieces of lands to a...

An exceptional servant of education and sports… Lancelot Baptiste is a ‘Special Person’

Jun 22, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on An exceptional servant of education and sports… Lancelot Baptiste is a ‘Special Person’

“I can boast that I came right through from Pupil teacher to Headmaster, and [in the] GTU from member right up to the Presidency. I love representing teachers and I still do, up to this day.” By...

Dem boys seh…All of a sudden climate change dead

Jun 22, 2014 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Dem boys seh…All of a sudden climate change dead

People does seh one thing and do another. And is things like that does mek people watch dem full in dem face and tell dem how dem lie. Bout five or six years ago, Jagdeo find some documents that...

4th Annual Digicel Schools Football Competition…Peters slams in five for Cotton Field

Jun 22, 2014 KNews Sports Comments Off on 4th Annual Digicel Schools Football Competition…Peters slams in five for Cotton Field

– Charity also advance By Rawle Welch Diminutive Cotton Field striker Hosea Peters slammed in five goals to lead his team into the next round on the 4th Annual Digicel Schools Football...

GABF shortlists National Men’s Basketball team

Jun 22, 2014 KNews Sports Comments Off on GABF shortlists National Men’s Basketball team

– Burnett omitted, GT&T commits $500,000 By Edison Jefford The Guyana Amateur Basketball Federation (GABF) shortlisted the National Men’s Basketball team that will compete at the...

Messi wonder goal saves Argentina against Iran

Jun 22, 2014 KNews Sports Comments Off on Messi wonder goal saves Argentina against Iran

BELO HORIZONTE Brazil (Reuters) – Lionel Messi spared Argentina’s blushes with a wonderful last-gasp winner against unheralded Iran at the World Cup on Saturday to give the South Americans a...

Cricket For Unity Match; Wärtsilä adds liquid power

Jun 22, 2014 KNews Sports Comments Off on Cricket For Unity Match; Wärtsilä adds liquid power

With operations in nearly 200 locations in 70 countries, Wärtsilä Operations in Guyana Inc. (WOGI) has joined forces with the organisers of the Cricket For Unity T20 match that is slated for July 5...

Little Light Domino team prevails in Turkeyen Sports Committee tournament

Jun 22, 2014 KNews Sports Comments Off on Little Light Domino team prevails in Turkeyen Sports Committee tournament

Little Light Domino team won 82 games to take top honours when the South Turkeyen Sports Committee and Guyana Veteran’s Legion recently staged a 6 teams dominoes competition at the Veteran’s...

Youth in Focus…Ninvalle brothers, table tennis marksmen

Jun 22, 2014 KNews Sports Comments Off on Youth in Focus…Ninvalle brothers, table tennis marksmen

By Zaheer Mohamed Guyana has seen its fair share of siblings who have represented this country in sports disciplines. Brothers Khalil Jaffar Ninvalle and Kaysan Jamil Ninvalle are the latest to join...

Scotiabank congratulates Kiddy Cricket Alumnus Kraigg Brathwaite

Jun 22, 2014 KNews Sports Comments Off on Scotiabank congratulates Kiddy Cricket Alumnus Kraigg Brathwaite

Scotiabank has congratulating Kiddy Cricket alumnus and West Indies batsman Kraigg Brathwaite on making his first test century. The Barbadian opener scored a patient 129 on the second day of...

Buddy’s Pool Hall on Cue competition fixed for today

Jun 22, 2014 KNews Sports Comments Off on Buddy’s Pool Hall on Cue competition fixed for today

Buddy’s Pool Hall will stage their on Cue Pools competition today at their Sheriff Street location. Some $500,000 in prizes are on offer for the top performers including a Jailing motorcycle for...

GNA seek to resuscitate the sport

Jun 22, 2014 KNews Sports Comments Off on GNA seek to resuscitate the sport

– meeting in Berbice planned for today The Guyana Netball Association (GNA) in an effort to bolster the prominence of one of the world’s most prolific female oriented sports will be meeting...

Devers latest casualty from ‘Cricket Bill’

Jun 22, 2014 KNews Sports Comments Off on Devers latest casualty from ‘Cricket Bill’

Guyanese International Radio Cricket Commentator Sean Devers is the latest casualty from the Guyana Cricket Administration Bill which was recently passed in Parliament and is awaiting the signature...

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An insult to our intelligence

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(Kaieteur News) – We are told that the reason regular government press conferences have disappeared is because the administration has moved from “campaign mode” into “implementation mode.” In other words, governing has apparently become too demanding an occupation to permit the...

The Caribbean’s Limits in Absorbing Other States’ Deportees

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By Sir Ronald Sanders (Kaieteur News) – Migration policy is a matter of sovereign control. Governments assert, rightly, their authority to regulate borders, determine who may enter, and enforce their laws. The United States has that right, as does every sovereign state. All Caribbean governments...

Sanctity of contract

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Hard Truths by GHK Lall (Kaieteur News) – Sanctity of contract has a resonant ring. In isolation. Sanctity of contract placed next to sanctity of sovereignty doesn’t have a leg on which to stand. It pales. It must fade. For what does sanctity of contract do to sanctity of...

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