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Ravi Dev Column – Independence and the National Question

May 25, 2008 KNews Ravi Dev Comments Off on Ravi Dev Column – Independence and the National Question

I’ve always had mixed emotions when I think about our “independence”. I am old enough to have experienced firsthand the violent wrenching apart of our peoples that preceded this supposedly...

The Baccoo speaks

May 25, 2008 KNews The Baccoo Speaks Comments Off on The Baccoo speaks

There was the electrocution of which I spoke the other day and there is going to be yet another. It is as if people are not interested in living to see the end of the year because they are trying to...

Ronald Sanders – Dominica: Poverty and Potential (Part 2)

May 25, 2008 KNews Ronald Sanders Comments Off on Ronald Sanders – Dominica: Poverty and Potential (Part 2)

By Sir Ronald Sanders A few years ago, Hugh O’Shaughnessy, an English journalist writing about the Caribbean island of Dominica, said that it was the only territory that Christopher Columbus would...

Freddie Kissoon – “Senza Fine” and the flight of money

May 25, 2008 KNews Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on Freddie Kissoon – “Senza Fine” and the flight of money

“Senza Fine” (pronounced sensa finay) is one of Italy’s great love songs only sung (as far as I know) in English by Connie Francis. It means, ‘never ending.’ Monica, the daughter of the...

Mr Bisram is not forthcoming in his answers to questions

May 25, 2008 KNews Letters 1

Dear Editor, I refer to Mr. Vishnu Bisram’s letter of May 21, captioned “Freddie should hate the message and not the messenger.” Mr. Bisram is not going to wear me down. I have every intention...

THE ARTS FORUM

May 25, 2008 KNews The Arts Forum Comments Off on THE ARTS FORUM

The Arts Forum offers an occasional page of related topics intended to sensitize students and the general readership to neglected areas of our social history and our rich and diverse cultural...

The Roop Column – GUYANA AT 42 – A Midlife Crisis

May 25, 2008 KNews Peeping Tom Comments Off on The Roop Column – GUYANA AT 42 – A Midlife Crisis

INTRODUCTION: Many public speakers like to use the phrase “Children are our Future” but in reality I believe children are our today. We have to nurture them in this disconnected world and teach...

Acting Chief Justice Chang’s remarks reinforce the concept of separation of powers

May 25, 2008 KNews Letters Comments Off on Acting Chief Justice Chang’s remarks reinforce the concept of separation of powers

Dear Editor, I’m hoping GINA’s Head, Dr. Prem Misir, who once wrote a letter supporting the right of the executive branch of Government to question the decisions or rulings of the judicial...

Peeping Tom – Just Let them Say It

May 25, 2008 KNews Peeping Tom Comments Off on Peeping Tom – Just Let them Say It

I have said it privately and I will now say it publicly. I do not believe that we need any polygraph machine to help us decide whether the President withdrew from the Cabinet Meeting when the Sanata...

The world food crisis — we reap what we sow

May 25, 2008 KNews Letters Comments Off on The world food crisis — we reap what we sow

Dear Editor, Big shots in suits are now talking about agriculture in a new way. For a couple of decades or more, international movers and shakers — the people who want to cause seismic changes in...

Food crises and Guyana

May 25, 2008 KNews Letters Comments Off on Food crises and Guyana

Dear Editor, The country’s Government doesn’t really care about its poor people. The high cost of food is going to hurt our country badly. There will be a significant rise in crime, more families...

AFC Column – Independence – fears and tears…Guyana 42 years on

May 25, 2008 KNews AFC Column Comments Off on AFC Column – Independence – fears and tears…Guyana 42 years on

By Cathy Hughes, Executive Member I know what an emotional time it was, the end of a long and bitter struggle against colonial domination, the culmination of a bitter fight by our valiant forefathers...

Murder and Mystery – Death on a ship of secrets

May 25, 2008 KNews Murder and Mystery Comments Off on Murder and Mystery – Death on a ship of secrets

– Someone lured Jean Khan to her doom at the Bartica foreshore a decade ago… By Michael Jordan If you were to visit Bartica, you would see an ancient, half-sunken vessel jutting out of the...

My column – Fear stalks the land

May 25, 2008 KNews My Column Comments Off on My column – Fear stalks the land

A man is never aware of his situation until he sees himself against others; an athlete is not at his best unless and until he competes with others of his class. These thoughts crossed my mind when I...

The hilarious antics of the PNC, AFC, and GAP

May 25, 2008 KNews Letters 1

Dear Editor, Having lost the last general elections convincingly to the PPP/C, the PNCR is up to yet renewed tricks. It was hilarious to read that PNCR’s Robert Corbin has now recruited AFC’s...

A rainforest to save

May 25, 2008 KNews Editorial Comments Off on A rainforest to save

By Robert Semple (Taken from the New York Times) The other day I went to a meeting to hear Harrison Ford talk about saving the rainforests and ended up listening to a man who has a rainforest to...

The move by the joint Parliamentary Opposition

May 25, 2008 KNews Letters Comments Off on The move by the joint Parliamentary Opposition

Dear Editor, I wish to applaud the move made by the joint Parliamentary Opposition to work together to ensure that the plight of the Guyanese people, during these recent times, is highlighted and...

Blame the Government – Corbin is shifting the goal post

May 25, 2008 KNews Peeping Tom Comments Off on Blame the Government – Corbin is shifting the goal post

Any decision, once unexplained or unannounced, seems to be a crime, and this has been the case with two transfers effected by the Police. Two ranks have been transferred to hinterland locations, and...

Rains cause mudslide in Linden, house threatened

May 24, 2008 KNews News Comments Off on Rains cause mudslide in Linden, house threatened

$24M committed for emergency works The rainy season seems to be in full swing and to date the mining town of Linden is the hardest hit. Despite the fact the town is relatively higher than the coast,...

Lalchan nabbed, remanded for Berlin’s murder

May 24, 2008 KNews News Comments Off on Lalchan nabbed, remanded for Berlin’s murder

More than two months after a Laing Avenue shooting death, a 27-year-old man was yesterday charged with the March 30 murder of George Barton.

Has a new gang of gunmen emerged?

May 24, 2008 KNews News Comments Off on Has a new gang of gunmen emerged?

By Michael Jordan The revelation that the gunning down of two men this year and recent attacks around the city were executed with firearms that were never identified before has raised speculation...

CNS Channel Six licence suspension hearing…

May 24, 2008 KNews News Comments Off on CNS Channel Six licence suspension hearing…

Judge out of jurisdiction Justice William Ramlal was expected to make a ruling on whether President Bharrat Jagdeo has absolute immunity from prosecution and whether the court has jurisdiction to...

Local counter narcotics activities stymied by outdated legal system

May 24, 2008 KNews News Comments Off on Local counter narcotics activities stymied by outdated legal system

… law enforcement agencies hamstrung by meager personnel budgets Guyana’s counter narcotics activities are encumbered by the peculiarities of a British colonial-era legal system that has not been...

CJ explains decision to allow murder accused bail

May 24, 2008 KNews News Comments Off on CJ explains decision to allow murder accused bail

Acting Chief Justice Ian Chang has cited several case laws to defend his decision to grant bail to a man accused of murder. Murder accused Hemchand Persaud was granted bail on Monday after a...

Guyana’s donation to China tops $6M mark

May 24, 2008 KNews News Comments Off on Guyana’s donation to China tops $6M mark

…trade, financial assistance not affected-Chinese Ambassador As China’s death toll from the recent catastrophic earthquake passes a horrific 51,000 mark with almost 30,000 persons still missing,...

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Guyana’s oil bonanza is being squandered by political duels

Kaieteur News – In Guyana, politics and economics have always danced an ill-fated tango. It is difficult to say which... more