December 28, 2014

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Bartica official resigns from IMC

Dec 28, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Bartica official resigns from IMC

– as IMC, BCCI echo concerns over lack of political dialogue The Bartica Interim Management Committee (IMC) is likely to start the New Year looking for a new officer. According to reports...

Visually impaired woman, children rescued from burning building

Dec 28, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Visually impaired woman, children rescued from burning building

A 91-year-old visually impaired woman and her four grandchildren were pulled from their burning two-storey house at Lot 76 Sixth Street, Alberttown, Georgetown, yesterday. The fire which started a...

Good Success and Sans Souci clash in Persaud Memorial T20 final today

Dec 28, 2014 KNews Sports Comments Off on Good Success and Sans Souci clash in Persaud Memorial T20 final today

Good Success will take on archrivals Sans Souci in final of the Badri Prasad Memorial T20 tournament today at the Wakenaam Community Centre ground. Action is expected to get under way at 10:00 hrs...

The Time Has Already Been Set

Dec 28, 2014 KNews Features / Columnists, Food For Thought Comments Off on The Time Has Already Been Set

In life, oftentimes we are waiting for something; waiting for a dream to come to pass, waiting to meet the right person, waiting for a problem to turn around. When things aren’t happening as fast...

The need for law school in Guyana amplified – UGLS

Dec 28, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on The need for law school in Guyana amplified – UGLS

The need for the establishment of a law school in Guyana has been amplified given that there is some uncertainty surrounding the decision of the Council of Legal Education, (CLE) over the...

Vector Control Services in 2014

Dec 28, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Vector Control Services in 2014

(From the desk of the Vector Control Director, Dr Reyaud Rahman) The Vector Control Services of the Ministry of Health has put lots of effort into its malaria Control/Vector Control activities...

Two die in separate river accidents

Dec 28, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Two die in separate river accidents

Two Pomeroon families are currently making preparations to bury their dead mere days after two separate boat accidents were recorded in the Pomeroon River, on Christmas day. Dead are two-year-old...

Ramotar to be guest of honour at Indian ceremony

Dec 28, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Ramotar to be guest of honour at Indian ceremony

NEW DELHI: Ahead of the annual Pravasi Bhartiya Diwas (PBD), the government on Monday assured the NRI (non resident Indian) community that it is working on providing them voting rights. “EC is...

Essequibo businessman arrested for road fatality

Dec 28, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Essequibo businessman arrested for road fatality

Police are seeking advice from the chambers of the Director of Public Prosecution in connection with the recent death of 19-year-old, Davendra Jaipaul, a/k “Davin”, formerly of Dunkel,...

MY NEW YEAR RESOLUTION WISHES, WHAT’S YOURS

Dec 28, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on MY NEW YEAR RESOLUTION WISHES, WHAT’S YOURS

By Ralph Seeram So a New Year is on us once again; it’s time to reflect on the past year. Did we achieve anything in our personal lives? Did we make some progress or was it retrograde? Did our...

Guyana Baseball League extends New Year’s wishes

Dec 28, 2014 KNews Sports Comments Off on Guyana Baseball League extends New Year’s wishes

Guyana Baseball League (GBL) Georgetown, Guyana – President of the Guyana Baseball League Mr. Robin Singh has extended New Year’s wishes to the baseball/softball community of Guyana. He thanked...

Family believes relative found dead at Good Hope Backdam was kidnapped, murdered

Dec 28, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Family believes relative found dead at Good Hope Backdam was kidnapped, murdered

…says death message delivered on day relative went missing The family of 20-year-old Lassell Duke, whose decomposing body was found at Good Hope Backdam last Tuesday, believes that their...

Pensioner dies in inferno on Corentyne

Dec 28, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Pensioner dies in inferno on Corentyne

The life of an 80 year old woman came to a tragic ended on Wednesday (Christmas Eve Day) when she was burnt in a fire which engulfed her home. According to reports, the elderly woman, Norma Moore,...

Police nab former cop, two ex soldiers in rented car

Dec 28, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Police nab former cop, two ex soldiers in rented car

The police in Berbice intercepted a car with four suspects inside, including one of their former colleagues and two ex soldiers. Four men were intercepted in a rented taxi and are in custody. They...

US-based Guyanese remember less fortunate villagers

Dec 28, 2014 KNews Sports Comments Off on US-based Guyanese remember less fortunate villagers

By Dale Andrews It must be the closest thing to how Santa Claus operates, except that he did not come on a reindeer-led sleigh or did he sneak down a chimney. He rode in a car with three of his...

COUNTRYMAN – Stories about life, in and out of Guyana, from a Guyanese perspective

Dec 28, 2014 KNews Countryman, Features / Columnists Comments Off on COUNTRYMAN – Stories about life, in and out of Guyana, from a Guyanese perspective

Christmas ‘spirit’, pagan gods, and the Guyanese spirit By Dennis Nichols Some years ago I told a friend of mine I was concerned about some of the pagan elements of popular holidays and...

The Baccoo speaks

Dec 28, 2014 KNews Features / Columnists, The Baccoo Speaks Comments Off on The Baccoo speaks

There is a mad rush to maintain the tradition of road fatalities. Over the Christmas holidays there were nine, certainly a record. There will be three more fatalities before the year ends, because...

President Ramotar, daughter spread Christmas cheer at GPHC Paediatric Ward

Dec 28, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on President Ramotar, daughter spread Christmas cheer at GPHC Paediatric Ward

Though in their own pain and distress, having to be away from home and their families, the smiles were evident on the faces of children at the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation’s (GPHC)...

Too many drunkards in our society

Dec 28, 2014 KNews Letters Comments Off on Too many drunkards in our society

Dear Editor, Our society is plagued by young and old rum drinkers from all walks of life including men, women, young boys and girls and even children as young as ten years old. We are also the...

The tradition of wishing away the Old Year continues

Dec 28, 2014 KNews Features / Columnists, My Column Comments Off on The tradition of wishing away the Old Year continues

The New Year is fast approaching and there are things that some of us would like to forget. We all want to forget those murders and road accidents that left so many families in mourning; we want to...

The man who vanished on Christmas Day – The pepper-pot and black-cake were on the table…but where was Michael Harris?

Dec 28, 2014 KNews Features / Columnists, Murder and Mystery Comments Off on The man who vanished on Christmas Day – The pepper-pot and black-cake were on the table…but where was Michael Harris?

By Michael Jordan I guess you know about the Marie Celeste, but if you don’t, that was the American ship whose captain, passengers and seven-man crew vanished without a trace back in December 1872....

The horrible side of Guyana that didn’t make the news before Christmas

Dec 28, 2014 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on The horrible side of Guyana that didn’t make the news before Christmas

I parked outside the Opus Hotel on Croal Street on December 23 to wait for Leonard Craig to have lunch with. While waiting, I walked up Bourda Street to pick up a few fruits. As soon as I crossed...

Donald Ramotar: ‘Man of the year’

Dec 28, 2014 KNews APNU Column, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Donald Ramotar: ‘Man of the year’

President Donald Ramotar deserves to be selected as Guyana’s ‘Man of the Year.’ He has succeeded, after only three years in office, in outpacing all previous presidents in terms of personal...

The importance of democratisation

Dec 28, 2014 KNews Editorial Comments Off on The importance of democratisation

Democratisation is one of the most important concepts and trends in modern political science, one whose significance is just beginning to be understood by conflict-resolution practitioners. On one...

The Chinese at Bai Shan Lin treat Guyanese with disrespect

Dec 28, 2014 KNews Letters Comments Off on The Chinese at Bai Shan Lin treat Guyanese with disrespect

Dear Editor, I am asking you to speak to the.Chinese at Bai Shan Lin to treat Guyanese with respect and decency. The Chinese are in the habit of insulting the Guyanese, especially when they have to...

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