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Narayan Ramdhani finishes 5th in Vancouver Island University U-23 Badminton tourney

Nov 21, 2016 KNews Sports Comments Off on Narayan Ramdhani finishes 5th in Vancouver Island University U-23 Badminton tourney

Guyana’s Sunburst Badminton Champion Narayan Ramdhani, who is currently on Scholarship in Vancouver, Canada, training in Badminton at Shuttlesport Badminton Academy and pursuing a degree in...

Bharrat Jagdeo could put his anger where the monkey put the nuts

Nov 21, 2016 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on Bharrat Jagdeo could put his anger where the monkey put the nuts

In my April 5 column for the year 2006, captioned, “Cuba’s medical assistance to Guyana; how genuine,” I questioned the sincerity of the Cuban medical scholarship programme to Guyana. That...

Maharaja Palace debuts Guyana Restaurant week culinary celebration

Nov 21, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Maharaja Palace debuts Guyana Restaurant week culinary celebration

Maharaja Palace Restaurant is making its official debut in the Guyana Restaurant Week (GRW) culinary celebration, but the fancy diner situated on the third floor of the Annjees building on Sheriff...

THE POPE AND YOU

Nov 21, 2016 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on THE POPE AND YOU

Guyanese love a scandal. They love, even more, concocting one. A Guyanese can speak ill of someone as if they had personal knowledge of that person. But on closer examination, they know very little....

Greater ecotourism initiatives for hinterland in 2017

Nov 21, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Greater ecotourism initiatives for hinterland in 2017

More emphasis will be placed on advancing ecotourism in the hinterland as part of an overall effort to exploit Guyana’s tourism potential, according to Director General of Tourism, Donald Sinclair....

EXTRAVAGANT PENSION

Nov 21, 2016 KNews Editorial Comments Off on EXTRAVAGANT PENSION

It seems that the authority is reneging on its promises it made to the nation during the election campaign. It had promised to be lean and mean, yet it has a cabinet of 27 ministers and has been...

WOTY HECK IS THIS?

Nov 21, 2016 KNews Features / Columnists, Tony Deyal column Comments Off on WOTY HECK IS THIS?

Oliver Wendell Holmes, the great American jurist, is quoted by Leslie Dunkling, the author of the Guinness Book of Curious Words, as saying, “When I feel to read poetry I take down my Dictionary. ...

The PPP regime was and the Coalition Govt. is politically tone deaf

Nov 21, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on The PPP regime was and the Coalition Govt. is politically tone deaf

Dear Editor; Tone deaf! Politically tone deaf! Nationalistically tone deaf! Patriotically tone deaf! That is how the United Republican Party (URP) wishes to describe both the PPP and the...

The Speaker and freedom to speak in the House

Nov 21, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on The Speaker and freedom to speak in the House

Dear Editor; Editor’s note; this concludes Mr. Nandlall’s missive carried in our pages yesterday During the course of my presentation in Parliament, I made reference to a newspaper article, which...

PPP needs to discipline Dharamlall for his unbecoming conduct

Nov 21, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on PPP needs to discipline Dharamlall for his unbecoming conduct

Dear Editor; There has been a call to Opposition leader Bharrat Jagdeo “to deal with Dharamlall” and to send a clear signal to party supporters that his behaviour is unacceptable. The editorial...

Look who is talking; Donald Ramotar

Nov 21, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on Look who is talking; Donald Ramotar

Dear Editor; I wish to respond to Mr. Donald Ramotar who wrote that “government should not take away legally held weapons from the population”. Mr. Ramotar did not say who made this decision and...

The fantastic four off to the Far East this time

Nov 21, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on The fantastic four off to the Far East this time

Dear Editor; So the ‘Fantastic Four’ of the Georgetown Municipality or at least most of them are off globe-trotting again, this time to the Far East. It would seem as though this Mayor is...

We are pleading for electricity at Plantation Farm

Nov 21, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on We are pleading for electricity at Plantation Farm

Dear Editor; I have decided to write because we, the residents of Plantation Farm, East Bank, Demerara have been suffering from the non-supply of electricity. Houses are being built and people are...

Trouble in Bath/Woodley Park NDC

Nov 21, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on Trouble in Bath/Woodley Park NDC

Dear Editor; We the residents of Bath Settlement, West Coast Berbice are concerned over the establishment of a Management Committee that was formed to manage the Bath Community Centre. We strongly...

Skeldon was the right investment decision at the time

Nov 21, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on Skeldon was the right investment decision at the time

Dear Editor; GUYSUCO and APNU+AFC are preparing the grounds to break the bad news – 2016 dismal production, the worst since 1990. In APNU+AFC’s first full year in sugar, they have to quickly...

Unmitigated disdain for people who commit such acts

Nov 21, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on Unmitigated disdain for people who commit such acts

Dear Editor; As a highly qualified professional of the Nightingalean genre, and one who holds her profession in high esteem, I was nevertheless forced to read the latest scandal surrounding the...

Former GuySuCo security rank talks about the PPP’s sabotage

Nov 21, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on Former GuySuCo security rank talks about the PPP’s sabotage

Dear Editor; I have noticed that this recurring subject of blame for GuySuCo’s state of decay is on the front burner again. The glaring fact that the previous Guyana Government administrators are...