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Living in Guyana is a living hell

Mar 06, 2017 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on Living in Guyana is a living hell

Let me be pellucid so there can be no ambiguous lines. For the past ten days, where I live at Turkeyen right next door to the Caricom Secretariat, we have been enduring sessions of blackout each day....

RHTY&SC, M.S hosts successful 13th Biannual General Meeting

Mar 06, 2017 KNews Sports Comments Off on RHTY&SC, M.S hosts successful 13th Biannual General Meeting

– Executives elected for new two years term The Rose Hall Town Youth and Sports Club on Thursday 3rd of March held its 13th bi-annual General Meeting at the J.C. Chandisingh Secondary School. ...

Lindeners celebrate Mashramani in March

Mar 06, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Lindeners celebrate Mashramani in March

Lindeners yesterday took to the streets in their numbers, some to gyrate and flounce behind the few floats and others to line the roadways to watch the colorful spectacle. Beginning a bit late due to...

Mandy Mangru! A little player with big dreams

Mar 06, 2017 KNews Sports Comments Off on Mandy Mangru! A little player with big dreams

By Sean Devers At just 17 years-old, National Women’s cricketer Mandy Mangru is a little player with big dreams and she has all the tools to make them come true once she works hard and remains...

Lucrative prizes on offer for Benjamin Sports store and Fitness Gym Cycle road race

Mar 06, 2017 KNews Sports Comments Off on Lucrative prizes on offer for Benjamin Sports store and Fitness Gym Cycle road race

The fourth annual ‘Benjamin Sports Store’ open cycle race which is organised by the Flying Ace Cycle club is all set and ready to ride off on Monday 13th March on the Corentyne Highway. The 50...

Agard for OECS Championship

Mar 06, 2017 KNews Sports Comments Off on Agard for OECS Championship

Ramona Agard, Guyana’s leading boxing referee/judge affiliated to the Guyana Boxing Association has been invited to officiate in the Organization of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS) championship...

GT at night…Culinary delights bountiful around Stabroek Market

Mar 06, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on GT at night…Culinary delights bountiful around Stabroek Market

The Stabroek Market area normally comes alive in the evening with the sounds of music blaring, people bustling up and down getting about their business and a host of food vendors who are ready to...

DCC elections set for today, but all is not well at club

Mar 06, 2017 KNews Sports Comments Off on DCC elections set for today, but all is not well at club

The membership of the Demerara Cricket Club (DCC), one of the older and more established clubs in the country, are scheduled to meet at 6:00pm to hold elections for an executive to run the affairs of...

NSC Mash Badminton winners to receive prizes today

Mar 06, 2017 KNews Sports Comments Off on NSC Mash Badminton winners to receive prizes today

The National Sports Commission Mashramani junior badminton tournament was played off on Saturday last at the National Gymnasium in the Under-11, 13 & 15 Boys and Girls Singles. The Guyana...

Private education is not a cash cow

Mar 06, 2017 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on Private education is not a cash cow

Politics and taxes do not mix. The politician makes the tax laws; the tax man implements these laws. Any other relationship is bound to become toxic. This is why Guyana must be worried when in the...

THE REMAINING THREE YEARS

Mar 06, 2017 KNews Editorial Comments Off on THE REMAINING THREE YEARS

In Guyana, as in most other countries, it seems that democracy only exists at elections when the people exercise their democratic right to vote. After elections they are ignored and treated as if...

Policies that are not grounded in social consciousness

Mar 06, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on Policies that are not grounded in social consciousness

Dear Editor, The more society listens to Finance Minister Winston Jordan on the issue of taxation, it is recognised his fiscal policies are not grounded in social consciousness. Education and health...

Why the deafening silence from the Ministry of Business?

Mar 06, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on Why the deafening silence from the Ministry of Business?

Dear Editor, I thank your newspaper for its indulgence of this follow-up to my letter on the parking meter situation of March 3. For one thing, the Town Clerk blundered seriously when he failed to...

The AFC has not reached out to help the youths of Guyana

Mar 06, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on The AFC has not reached out to help the youths of Guyana

Dear Editor, Please permit me space in your letter column to express my dissatisfaction with the APNU+AFC coalition government more so one of its main partners the Alliance For Change (AFC). One of...

An open letter to President Granger

Mar 06, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on An open letter to President Granger

Dear Editor, I write this letter so it can reach the President’s eyes. I see it as a letter openly addressed to President Granger so I will address him directly. Firstly I hope for and wish you...

The analysis of the Attorney-General is manifestly mediocre

Mar 06, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on The analysis of the Attorney-General is manifestly mediocre

Dear Editor, I submit the conclusion re; my letter of Saturday, March 04, 2017 captioned, “The mental gymnastics of the Attorney-General.” I take the opportunity to reiterate that the ejusdem...

Congratulations to the Chief Justice (ag) and Chancellor (ag)

Mar 06, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on Congratulations to the Chief Justice (ag) and Chancellor (ag)

Dear Editor, All of Guyana ought to be proud of the milestone realised by our judiciary on account of the simultaneous recent elevation of two of our outstanding female legal luminaries the Honorable...

Much more can be saved by not using envelopes at all

Mar 06, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on Much more can be saved by not using envelopes at all

Dear Editor, It is good that Government is identifying ways and means to become more efficient and cost-effective in the use of its material and human resources. In reflecting on its intention to...

Those who are guilty will hate the SARA legislation

Mar 06, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on Those who are guilty will hate the SARA legislation

Dear Editor, Before I discuss the subject of SARA, let us examine a few trends and observations that should help in rearranging the ignorance of some minds. I, like many others who silently...

President Granger continues to show interest in the youths

Mar 06, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on President Granger continues to show interest in the youths

Dear Editor, Kindly allow me to respond to a letter that was published in your newspaper on the 2nd March, 2017 captioned ‘President Granger is bypassing young people’; in this letter the case...

Gross negligence and inefficiency in Mr. Jordan’s own ministry

Mar 06, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on Gross negligence and inefficiency in Mr. Jordan’s own ministry

Dear Editor, I have been taken aback by the Government’s attempts to justify and rationalize its decision to levy a 14% VAT on the purchasers of private education services. The claims attributed to...