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THE MIDNIGHT TRAIN TO GEORGETOWN

Jun 18, 2011 knews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on THE MIDNIGHT TRAIN TO GEORGETOWN

Guyana is planning to build a railway so as to move large numbers of persons who will soon begin to occupy some of the new housing schemes in the country. The railway is thus seen as solving the...

West Dem. GT&T FastBall Awareness Games now at Uitvlugt

Jun 18, 2011 knews Sports Comments Off on West Dem. GT&T FastBall Awareness Games now at Uitvlugt

Football fans on the West Demerara will be introduced to the new and innovative GT&T FastBall, it’s not just football, tomorrow afternoon at the Uitvlugt Community Centre Ground from 15:00hrs....

Prominent PNCR leaders isolating themselves from Granger

Jun 18, 2011 knews Letters Comments Off on Prominent PNCR leaders isolating themselves from Granger

Dear Editor, Even with the newly formed alliance between the PNCR and other parties, it seems that the PNC/R is internally divided. There seems to be no unity among PNCR party members, as evidenced...

Advertising is a con game

Jun 18, 2011 knews Letters Comments Off on Advertising is a con game

Dear Editor, In this fast pace, leaping, competitive modern worlds of business/commerce, advertisement has become a sine qua non. It is near inconceivable to think of entering a business minus...

There may well be a case for employers to expand their human resources services

Jun 18, 2011 knews Letters Comments Off on There may well be a case for employers to expand their human resources services

Dear Editor, There are, of course, a number of lessons to be learnt from the event organised at the Pegasus Hotel, Thursday, June 9, 2011, to present the documentary on “Breakout”, the book which...

Sugar concerns in GuySuCo

Jun 18, 2011 knews Letters Comments Off on Sugar concerns in GuySuCo

Dear Editor, Recently, it was claimed that the current sugar crop produced by GuySuCo was the largest in recent years. In a previous article, it was reported that the European Union (EU)...

No sandalwood in Guyana

Jun 18, 2011 knews Letters Comments Off on No sandalwood in Guyana

Dear Editor, On 17 June you reproduced (‘Forestry exports earnings down by US$2M’) from the fortnightly Tropical Timber Market Report 16-11 (1-15 June 2011) of the International Tropical Timber...

The Enmore Martyrs’ remains should be duly relocated

Jun 18, 2011 knews Letters Comments Off on The Enmore Martyrs’ remains should be duly relocated

Dear Editor, Please permit me to briefly express my appreciation to Dr. Tota Mangar for his lucid article (GC, June 17, 2011) on the Enmore Martyrs for non-historians like me. The behaviour of our...

How long can we continue without a comprehensive crime fighting strategy?

Jun 18, 2011 knews Letters Comments Off on How long can we continue without a comprehensive crime fighting strategy?

Dear Editor, The prison breakout on Saturday June 11, 2011 is another unfortunate event, which can only remind us of the grave crime and security threats Guyana continues to face, for lack of a...

GuySuCo will not be privatised under a PPP/C govt is a clear policy statement

Jun 18, 2011 knews Letters Comments Off on GuySuCo will not be privatised under a PPP/C govt is a clear policy statement

DEAR EDITOR, One thing about the PPP is that it has always been rich in policy directions and in programs to lift Guyana to heights people do not expect out of a country ravished by centuries of...

A country of contradictions

Jun 18, 2011 knews Editorial Comments Off on A country of contradictions

Guyana is a country of contradictions. On the one hand there are the positive signs of development. Infrastructure development is unprecedented; there is a focus on education improvement to the...

Manhunt launched for murder suspect sitting in jail for another killing

Jun 17, 2011 knews News Comments Off on Manhunt launched for murder suspect sitting in jail for another killing

By Michael Jordan While police were hunting for him, the prime suspect in the murder of Clifton Bonus was already behind bars in the Camp Street jail—on another murder charge. Police and prison...

Thief caught in trench

Jun 17, 2011 knews News Comments Off on Thief caught in trench

– had pounced on couple in Botanical Gardens A brazen thief got more than he bargained for in the Botanical Gardens early yesterday morning, shortly after he had pounced on a young couple....

Over 800 lbs of ganja found in container at city wharf

Jun 17, 2011 knews News Comments Off on Over 800 lbs of ganja found in container at city wharf

– Two in custody Just one week after a massive drug find at Batavia Island, in the Cuyuni River, ranks from the Customs Anti-Narcotics Unit (CANU) yesterday found over 393 kilos (866 lbs) of...

Foreign Affairs Ministry denies abuse of free movement facility

Jun 17, 2011 knews News Comments Off on Foreign Affairs Ministry denies abuse of free movement facility

Guyana has written to the Trinidadian authorities since April over media reports that there was abuse of the free movement facility that Caribbean territories had introduced some time ago. Yesterday,...

GAWU boss’ speech upsets Jagdeo

Jun 17, 2011 knews News Comments Off on GAWU boss’ speech upsets Jagdeo

The annual memorial ceremony was held at the site of the monument dedicated to the five Enmore Martyrs yesterday in recognition of the brave sacrifice made by five sugar workers. One of the pivotal...

Fisherman flees into Atlantic after sodomising stepson, 10

Jun 17, 2011 knews News Comments Off on Fisherman flees into Atlantic after sodomising stepson, 10

Members of an East Coast Demerara community policing group, using a boat captured a man who had fled into the Atlantic Ocean after sodomising his 10-year old stepson. Kaieteur News understands that...

Severance payout set for Sunday

Jun 17, 2011 knews News Comments Off on Severance payout set for Sunday

– workers get another shot at serving GuySuCo Sugar workers from Diamond, East Bank Demerara, who are opting for a pay-off, may get another shot in serving the industry. According to the Guyana...

Independent inquiry launched into Enmore sugar worker’s death

Jun 17, 2011 knews News Comments Off on Independent inquiry launched into Enmore sugar worker’s death

Weeks after the death of Jainarine “Derrick” Singh, officials of the Guyana Sugar Corporation (GuySuCo) have announced that the commission of inquiry into his demise, plans to commence a full...

Vandalism hits GT&T for over US$2M

Jun 17, 2011 knews News Comments Off on Vandalism hits GT&T for over US$2M

– delays 350 new services, repair of faults Several acts of vandalism on telephone cables have left a number of communities without service and the Guyana Telephone and Telegraph Company...

Fisherfolk call for special squad, colour-coding for engines

Jun 17, 2011 knews News Comments Off on Fisherfolk call for special squad, colour-coding for engines

Fisherfolk and regulators alike are contemplating the establishment of a special squad to fight the incidence of piracy. A key meeting on Wednesday between government and a special stakeholders’...

Man relieved of illegal shotgun after threatening family

Jun 17, 2011 knews News Comments Off on Man relieved of illegal shotgun after threatening family

A fall out over a minor drug deal led police in Berbice to recover a 12-gauge shotgun and several cartridges on the Corentyne on Tuesday night. The police also arrested two brothers, one of whom has...

Flood waters receding at Rockstone

Jun 17, 2011 knews News Comments Off on Flood waters receding at Rockstone

– Region to supply potable water by weekend The Region Ten Administration is expected to dispatch ’Tuff’ tanks containing potable water this weekend to Rockstone’s residents in light of...

Knife-wielding bandit attack ‘Cell Point’

Jun 17, 2011 knews News Comments Off on Knife-wielding bandit attack ‘Cell Point’

City businessman Davenand Singh is at his wits’ end given the number of times his business, and most importantly his employees, have been attacked by thieves. Singh, who is proprietor of the Cell...

Guyana agreed to deportees for cash – WikiLeaks

Jun 17, 2011 knews News Comments Off on Guyana agreed to deportees for cash – WikiLeaks

According to an article in the Jamaica Gleaner, a confidential diplomatic cable accessed by the Press through WikiLeaks reveals that the government of Guyana agreed to a progamme which would have...

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The politics of appointment

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(Kaieteur News) – The elections commission did not fall from heaven. It came from the messy compromises of men. The so-called Carter-Price formula, that tired but enduring offspring of the 1990s political crisis, was not meant to enshrine aloof neutrality; it was meant to broker peace between...

If the OAS did not exist, it could not be created today

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By Sir Ronald Sanders (Kaieteur News) – I have spent a decade in the councils of the Organization of American States. I have watched governments come and go, seen some crises handled well and others handled badly, sat through more commemorative meetings than sessions discussing pressing issues,...

Guyana Development Bank: Promise, Potential and Peril

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(Kaieteur News) – The PPP Govt-initiated $40B Guyana Development Bank (Bank) can be great. Ordinary Guyanese-poor, harbouring inspired ideas, but lacking capital-have opportunity beckoning. Opportunity to rise from where they are to what they envision could be, should be. Again,...

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