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Building your home? Tiling, PVC ceilings and ‘International Building Expo Two’

Jun 05, 2011 knews News Comments Off on Building your home? Tiling, PVC ceilings and ‘International Building Expo Two’

This week has been an eventful one in many ways as far as housing is concerned. On Friday, last, the government launched its second ‘International Building Expo’ at the National Stadium. If we...

Local businesses invited to T&T’s C’bean/China trade show

Jun 05, 2011 knews News Comments Off on Local businesses invited to T&T’s C’bean/China trade show

The Guyana Manufacturing & Services Association (GMSA) is teaming up with the Private Sector Commission (PSC), the Guyana/China Business Commission and the Guyana/China Friendship Society to...

GuySuCo confident about 2011 targets

Jun 05, 2011 knews News Comments Off on GuySuCo confident about 2011 targets

The news in the sugar industry has been dismal at best for the last five years and a recent comment by Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of GuySuCo, Paul Bhim, seems to add to that perception. According...

Banks urged to reduce interest rates, liquidity

Jun 05, 2011 knews News Comments Off on Banks urged to reduce interest rates, liquidity

…as ‘International Building Expo Two’ launched By Leonard Gildarie Government has announced that it is getting ready to distribute 3,500 more house lots before year end with 1,000 at Eccles...

The Peccary (Pecari maximus)

Jun 05, 2011 knews Features / Columnists, Interesting Creatures in Guyana Comments Off on The Peccary (Pecari maximus)

A peccary (Pecari maximus) (plural peccaries; also javelina and skunk pig) is a medium-sized mammal of the family Tayassuidae, or New World Pigs. Peccaries are members of the artiodactyl suborder...

Cartoons Sun. June 05, 2011

Jun 05, 2011 knews Cartoons, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Cartoons Sun. June 05, 2011

Anguilla – independence within CARICOM dimmed?

Jun 05, 2011 knews Features / Columnists, Ronald Sanders Comments Off on Anguilla – independence within CARICOM dimmed?

By Sir Ronald Sanders The Chief Minister of Anguilla, Hubert Hughes, has repeated a call for his small Caribbean island of 90 sq km and 13,600 people to become independent from Britain whose colony...

For A Renewed Guyana

Jun 05, 2011 knews AFC Column, Features / Columnists Comments Off on For A Renewed Guyana

(This week we feature the first installation of a presentation made by Presidential candidate Mr. Khemraj Ramjattan at a meeting of the IDB’s – CIVIL SOCIETY CONSULTATIVE COMMITTEE, 25th May,...

The perils of peer pressure

Jun 05, 2011 knews Features / Columnists, My Column Comments Off on The perils of peer pressure

By Adam Harris I have known about peer pressure for some time and I know that more often than not the parents’ influence would determine whether a child would bow to peer pressure or do what...

A victim’s story about surviving domestic violence

Jun 05, 2011 knews Features / Columnists, Stella Says Comments Off on A victim’s story about surviving domestic violence

My friend and colleague Sukree Boodram handed me a signed copy of her book, “Break Out: Surviving Abuse and Alcoholism,” in March when it was fresh from the publisher and we were in New York for...

A brave judge stands tall on the floor of legal tragedies

Jun 05, 2011 knews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on A brave judge stands tall on the floor of legal tragedies

If there was anytime that the potency of failure pierced my mind since the PPP came to power in 1992, it was the day I walked on water. Adolf Hitler was the only human being that has been recorded as...

The Kanaima and Charles George

Jun 05, 2011 knews Features / Columnists, Murder and Mystery Comments Off on The Kanaima and Charles George

By Michael Jordan I have heard some strange stories in my time, but even I wasn’t prepared for the one that Laura George had to tell me. I had thought that I was dealing with the ordinary unsolved...

The Baccoo speaks

Jun 05, 2011 knews Features / Columnists, The Baccoo Speaks Comments Off on The Baccoo speaks

The lawlessness has reached a proportion that is unprecedented. Squatters are bent on taking possession of what is not theirs, but fuelled by the good nature of the society they are going to make a...

The Legitimate State

Jun 05, 2011 knews Features / Columnists, Ravi Dev Comments Off on The Legitimate State

There is a debate on whether we have the requisite quantum of “trust” for power sharing in Guyana. The thrust for trust rests on a presumption of affinity for ideal societies: if Guyana were not...

IS THE ONE LAPTOP PROJECT AT RISK OF DEFAULT?

Jun 05, 2011 knews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on IS THE ONE LAPTOP PROJECT AT RISK OF DEFAULT?

In an unprecedented development, the government called a press conference to announce that it was re-tendering for the supply of laptops for the One Laptop Per Family project (OLPF). Never before has...

GT&T FastBall registration gaining momentum

Jun 04, 2011 knews Sports Comments Off on GT&T FastBall registration gaining momentum

June 17 is close off date; action to kick off July 2 Established football teams (male & female) in the Ten Regions of Guyana as well as other groups of individuals harbouring the confidence and...

Big names in regional Drag Racing expected for June 26 Meet

Jun 04, 2011 knews Sports Comments Off on Big names in regional Drag Racing expected for June 26 Meet

Some of the biggest names in regional drag racing will be on show when the Guyana Motor Racing & Sports Club (GMR&SC) hosts its ‘Clash of the Supermotos’ International Meeting on...

Trophy Stall sponsors overall trophy

Jun 04, 2011 knews Sports Comments Off on Trophy Stall sponsors overall trophy

As preparations continues at a brisk pace ahead of the 2nd annual Fitness Express/Total Fitness Mania Bodybuilding and Biggest Loser competitions, the Trophy Stall of Bourda Market has chipped in by...

Pompey says Medal of Service is personal

Jun 04, 2011 knews Sports Comments Off on Pompey says Medal of Service is personal

Arguably Guyana’s most successful track athlete, Aliann Pompey, says that the Medal of Service Award that will be conferred on her at an official ceremony is personal after she has been...

Domino Competition on at Strikers SC today

Jun 04, 2011 knews Sports Comments Off on Domino Competition on at Strikers SC today

Strikers Sports Club will be holding a 21-team 20/20 Domino Competition today at the club’s Headquarters, Meadow Brook Drive, starting from 14:00 hrs. According to a release from the Organisers,...

Keen contest envisaged as Cavalier’s Sports and Tour Club stages 10K race walk

Jun 04, 2011 knews Sports Comments Off on Keen contest envisaged as Cavalier’s Sports and Tour Club stages 10K race walk

The cream of the country’s race walkers will be in action this Sunday June 5 when the Cavalier’s Sports and Tour Club (CSTC) presents a 10K race walk from Abi’s Fish Shop, Back Road Soesdyke...

Stag & El Dorado softball finals postponed indefinitely

Jun 04, 2011 knews Sports Comments Off on Stag & El Dorado softball finals postponed indefinitely

The Guyana Floodlight Softball Cricket Association is notifying all softball fans and all teams qualified, that the Stag & El Dorado softball finals billed for the GCC Ground Bourda this Sunday,...

Sankar (5-39) spins Demerara to 1st innings points against E’bo

Jun 04, 2011 knews Sports Comments Off on Sankar (5-39) spins Demerara to 1st innings points against E’bo

By Sean Devers at Providence Malteenoes leg-spinner Steven Sankar grabbed 5-39 as Demerara took first innings points from Essequibo on the final day of their drawn two-day under-15 Inter-County...

Windies beat HPC in practice match

Jun 04, 2011 knews Sports Comments Off on Windies beat HPC in practice match

West Indies got a good work out against the Sagicor High Performance Centre, winning a Twenty20 warm-up match by 11 runs on Thursday at the Sir Frank Worrell National Cricket Centre in Trinidad....

E/Coast, GT name teams for today’s match at Stadium

Jun 04, 2011 knews Letters Comments Off on E/Coast, GT name teams for today’s match at Stadium

The Demerara Inter Association 50-overs under-19 cricket competition bowls off today with two first round matches and two of the Associations have announced their teams for the four-team tournament....

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The PPP/C needs a heavy dose of Internal Democracy

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(Kaieteur News) – The photographs told the story before a single word was spoken. At the recent meeting between the General Secretary of the People’s Progressive Party and party activists from the East Bank of Demerara, Linden and reportedly other areas, the arrangement of the room itself...

The OAS faces a moral test in Panama

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By Sir Ronald Sanders (Kaieteur News) – An attempt is now being made by a few member states of the Organization of American States (OAS), using procedural manoeuvres, to prevent a proposed “Declaration on the Rights of Persons and Peoples of African Descent” from proceeding to the OAS...

OPR: Can it deliver

May 18, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – When a member of the New York Police Department hears mention of the IAD, red madness takes over. IAD stands for Internal Affairs Division. IAD is not respected by its cop constituency. It is feared. Feared like the Grim Reaper’s chainsaw. IAD snoops around, builds files, can...

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