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Tshanna Cort is Junior Calypso Monarch again

Feb 06, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Tshanna Cort is Junior Calypso Monarch again

By: Brushell Blackman For the second consecutive year, 20-year-old Tshanna Cort has been crowned Junior Calypso Monarch. Watched by a modest crowd, at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall on Saturday...

Second half of Stag Elite League Season 2 rescheduled

Feb 06, 2017 KNews Sports Comments Off on Second half of Stag Elite League Season 2 rescheduled

Georgetown: The second half of the Stag Elite League, originally scheduled to begin February 5, 2017, yesterday with the League Leaders Tournament, has been rescheduled to February 26, March 1 and 5,...

Pollution caused by mining will not be tolerated

Feb 06, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Pollution caused by mining will not be tolerated

– Min. Broomes Mining activities which adversely affect the livelihoods of residents will no longer be tolerated by authorities, particularly the Ministry of Natural Resources. Junior Minister of...

C6 crowned Tenth Street dominoes champs

Feb 06, 2017 KNews Sports Comments Off on C6 crowned Tenth Street dominoes champs

C6 marked 44 games to win the final of the Tenth Street Sports bar four-game Dominoes competition which was contested recently at Tenth Street Sports bar, Diamond, East Bank Demerara. Spartans placed...

Guyana National Referees Council receives sponsorship

Feb 06, 2017 KNews Sports Comments Off on Guyana National Referees Council receives sponsorship

Georgetown: The Guyana National Referees Council (GNRC) has received a donation of gears from the New Guyana Pharmaceutical Corporation Inc. (GPC) on Friday, 27th January, 2017. The donation was made...

Law school: The failure of 50 years of Independence

Feb 06, 2017 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on Law school: The failure of 50 years of Independence

The Attorney-General in commenting on the law school that soon will be established, remarked that UG receives 200 law applicants each year. That figure goes down because not all are accepted; just...

Linden Town Week officially launched

Feb 06, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Linden Town Week officially launched

“Reflect, refocus- moving forward with unity and strength for our development’ is the theme for Linden Town Week 2017. And members of VYBZ Entertainment are brimming with optimism that this...

ONCE UPON A PASTIME

Feb 06, 2017 KNews Features / Columnists, Tony Deyal column Comments Off on ONCE UPON A PASTIME

I suppose I should begin this with “Once upon a time…” but if that opening phrase preferred by story-tellers like Aesop and Hans Christian Anderson were mandatory, almost every political speech...

Advances are not loans

Feb 06, 2017 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on Advances are not loans

It is not unknown for a government ministry, department of corporation to grant advances to members of staff. The issuance of advances is a regular and common financial practice which has been...

Exxon Mobil and American oil interest in Guyana

Feb 06, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on Exxon Mobil and American oil interest in Guyana

Dear Editor, On Feb. 3, 2017 President Trump signed the Executive Order “Core Principles for Regulating the United States’ Financial System,” which is his way of “doing a big number” on the...

Pricing structure must reflect economic reality

Feb 06, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on Pricing structure must reflect economic reality

Dear Editor, I was originally only going to focus this letter on the “alternative facts” spread by Bharrat Jagdeo’s picayune ‘media empire’ (iNews/TVG/Radio Guyana/MTV) regarding the...

Former PPP official says PPP is not true to Marxism-Leninism

Feb 06, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on Former PPP official says PPP is not true to Marxism-Leninism

Dear Editor, Hyder Ally in a letter dated January 27th and captioned “My party, the PPP, is guided by the principles of Marxism-Leninism” tried to convince readers that the PPP post Jagan...

Mayor asserts that the parking meters will stay

Feb 06, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on Mayor asserts that the parking meters will stay

Dear Editor, On February 3, 2017 an allegedly People Progressive Party (PPP) sponsored protest was held on the northern side of City Hall, Regent Street, Lacytown. The protest was against the...

The protest last Friday is the rise of civil society

Feb 06, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on The protest last Friday is the rise of civil society

Dear Editor, For far too long we have been looking at our country’s future through the lens of politics and two political parties, the PPP and PNC (or whatever it’s called now). Like most former...

High praise for the Fire Service

Feb 06, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on High praise for the Fire Service

Dear Editor, I am writing to express my sincere appreciation to the Guyana Fire Service for the prompt and efficient service which undoubtedly contained the recent fire to the top flat at my home in...

A healthy body must accompany a healthy mind

Feb 06, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on A healthy body must accompany a healthy mind

Dear Editor, One boasts of never in his entire life putting a cigarette to his mouth – as if he is the only one. Another boasts of not eating meat for over the last 20/30 years. Still says; “I...

Ministry of Finance embarked on a wrong policy direction

Feb 06, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on Ministry of Finance embarked on a wrong policy direction

Dear Editor, It would be negligent of me, to let another example of poor public policy under the Granger administration pass without offering my remarks. The Guyana Chronicle of February 2, 2017,...

His defence of this imposition on citizens is misguided fanaticism

Feb 06, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on His defence of this imposition on citizens is misguided fanaticism

Dear Editor, Rickford Burke’s treatise on the goodness of parking meter revenue for development and the need for civic education is an excursion into obscurity and misguided fanaticism for bad...

AGE IS JUST A NUMBER

Feb 06, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on AGE IS JUST A NUMBER

Dear Editor, I wish to support the excellent letter written by Dr. David Hinds in KN of 1/2/17 making a strong case against terminating the services of proficient and effective officials on the basis...

TIME WILL TELL

Feb 06, 2017 KNews Editorial Comments Off on TIME WILL TELL

The next general election is constitutionally due in 2020, but only if the coalition government stays together. Elections could be held sooner if the AFC quits the coalition and joins the PPP in a no...

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Kaieteur Sports – Street football excitement is set to return to the capital city as the Guinness ‘Greatest of the Streets’ Championship resumes with its highly anticipated Georgetown leg,...

Mental illness does not always look like “madness”

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(Kaieteur News) – For many people, the idea of mental illness is tied to a very specific image: someone wandering the streets, talking to themselves, behaving in ways that are clearly “not normal.” Because of this, it can be difficult to accept that a person who looks calm, speaks clearly,...

The Cost of Netanyahu’s Wars

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By Sir Ronald Sanders (Kaieteur News) – When the two-week ceasefire between the United States and Iran was announced on 7th April, 2026, the immediate reaction across much of the world was relief. By 8th April, that relief was reflected in a sharp fall in oil prices after weeks in which conflict...

PPP’s special talent for partners – local and foreign

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(Kaieteur News) – Whatever gifts Guyana has, the PPP cohort holding the reins of government has better ones. It is astonishing the people that are engaged to deliver big projects for this country. One poor performing group, or a shorthanded one, I could understand. But rich, steady streams...

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Tshanna Cort is Junior Calypso Monarch again

Second half of Stag Elite League Season 2 rescheduled

Pollution caused by mining will not be tolerated

C6 crowned Tenth Street dominoes champs

Guyana National Referees Council receives sponsorship

Law school: The failure of 50 years of Independence

Linden Town Week officially launched

ONCE UPON A PASTIME

Advances are not loans

Exxon Mobil and American oil interest in Guyana

Pricing structure must reflect economic reality

Former PPP official says PPP is not true to Marxism-Leninism

Mayor asserts that the parking meters will stay

The protest last Friday is the rise of civil society

High praise for the Fire Service

A healthy body must accompany a healthy mind

Ministry of Finance embarked on a wrong policy direction

His defence of this imposition on citizens is misguided fanaticism

AGE IS JUST A NUMBER

TIME WILL TELL

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