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Sunday Cartoon – Sept. 21, 2008

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Guyana records highest dengue fever cases in ten years

Sep 21, 2008 knews News Comments Off on Guyana records highest dengue fever cases in ten years

– maintains intense monitoring of the situation Following an outbreak of dengue fever in Trinidad, the Ministry of Health has intensified its surveillance of the infection across the...

Video foaotage of Fine Man Gang… It never existed, Jagdeo got to be kidding – Norton

Sep 21, 2008 knews News Comments Off on Video foaotage of Fine Man Gang… It never existed, Jagdeo got to be kidding – Norton

“Rohee and Jagdeo got to be kidding,” said People’s National Congress Reform executive member Aubrey Norton recently in responding to questions on the purported clandestine video footage...

Game City Arcade clerk robbed by knife-wielding bandit

Sep 21, 2008 knews News Comments Off on Game City Arcade clerk robbed by knife-wielding bandit

Sixteen-year-old Shontel Li-A-Ping was yesterday treated at the Georgetown Pubic Hospital for cuts about her hands after she was reportedly attacked by a knife-wielding bandit at the City Mall....

Man almost loses sight in power saw accident

Sep 21, 2008 knews News Comments Off on Man almost loses sight in power saw accident

A 76-year-old man almost lost sight in his right eye after his face was ripped open by a power saw, of which he somehow lost control while cutting wood at his home, which is under renovation. As a...

Commissioner orders investigation into alleged plot to assassinate Benschop

Sep 21, 2008 knews News Comments Off on Commissioner orders investigation into alleged plot to assassinate Benschop

Acting Police Commissioner Henry Greene has expressed concerns over allegations of persons being contracted to kill others. The top cop has since launched investigations into such allegations. This...

Winners awarded in Lotto’s ‘Big Money Thing’ promotion

Sep 21, 2008 knews News Comments Off on Winners awarded in Lotto’s ‘Big Money Thing’ promotion

Several lucky Lotto players wore beaming smiles on Friday after they were handsomely rewarded in the Lotto ‘Big Money Thing’ promotion. At the grand drawing, held outside of the Lotto...

Jonestown residents concerned with high prices for animal feed

Sep 21, 2008 knews News Comments Off on Jonestown residents concerned with high prices for animal feed

…Grow More food campaign extends to Mahaica Complaints of unattended canals, water problems, damaged bridges and roads, need for financial support, access to land, and high prices for animal...

Rotary $3M project handed over to Kuru Kururu

Sep 21, 2008 knews News Comments Off on Rotary $3M project handed over to Kuru Kururu

On Thursday, The Rotary Club of Demerara officially handed over a library and a basketball court to the village of Kuru Kururu, a project that the Club said would be used as a model for others on the...

Irfan Ally to be confirmed as Housing Minister

Sep 21, 2008 knews News Comments Off on Irfan Ally to be confirmed as Housing Minister

— Govt. source Irfan Ally has been confirmed as Minister of Housing and Water. A Government source yesterday said that he will take up the post as soon as former Housing Minister Harrinarine...

Non Pariel resident seeks legal intervention on environmental issue

Sep 21, 2008 knews News Comments Off on Non Pariel resident seeks legal intervention on environmental issue

– says furniture factory operating in violation of residential guideline A resident of Non Pariel, East Coast Demerara, has moved to the courts seeking an injunction to suspend the operations...

What manner of men and women are we as Guyanese?

Sep 21, 2008 knews Letters Comments Off on What manner of men and women are we as Guyanese?

DEAR EDITOR, While the media have reported that CARICOM is sending aid to the countries ravaged by the recent tropical storms and hurricanes, we have heard nothing about the government, the...

Murder and Mystery…The man who knew too much

Sep 21, 2008 knews News Comments Off on Murder and Mystery…The man who knew too much

By Michael Jordan I first met him at around 1993. He just walked into the Chronicle’s Editorial Department like he owned it; this tallish, slim, bearded man with a sheaf of papers in one hand, and...

Time is now to put an end to this indignity

Sep 21, 2008 knews Letters Comments Off on Time is now to put an end to this indignity

DEAR EDITOR, A pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty – Winston Churchill. Forty two years have passed (from the time it came to...

Two-year-old girl needs urgent heart surgery

Sep 21, 2008 knews News Comments Off on Two-year-old girl needs urgent heart surgery

– Mother amplifies appeal for public assistance A sum of $65,000 has been donated by several concerned persons to Patricia Springer towards the amount needed to finance a crucial surgery in...

Just another nameless letter writer

Sep 21, 2008 knews Letters Comments Off on Just another nameless letter writer

DEAR EDITOR, I don’t know who is Errol Arthur and I don’t want to know based on the racist terminologies that this man writes on a discussion forum that is based in New York and kept alive by a...

A new capital can grow on trees

Sep 21, 2008 knews Letters Comments Off on A new capital can grow on trees

DEAR EDITOR, Your editorial of 19 September, 2008 “Coping with climate change” held out no hope that Guyana plans to shift its capital to higher, safer ground. I firmly believe that the...

PROFITING FROM MISFORTUNE

Sep 21, 2008 knews Editorial Comments Off on PROFITING FROM MISFORTUNE

We believe that certain things must be said, however discomforting they may prove. We believe that Guyana is a beautiful place to live in, with citizens who know how to be their brother’s keepers....

Skills shortage is hurting

Sep 21, 2008 knews Features / Columnists Comments Off on Skills shortage is hurting

Guyana lost its skilled personnel to other countries over the past few years, and today the effect is being felt. Many projects that this country once undertook in the days gone by cannot be...

Someone is walking on my grave

Sep 21, 2008 knews Features / Columnists, My Column Comments Off on Someone is walking on my grave

This past month I was forced to take a look at the thing we call life; its ups and downs, its uncertainties and its end, sometimes brutal, sometimes peaceful in some quiet corner. I was also forced...

The Baccoo speaks

Sep 21, 2008 knews Features / Columnists, The Baccoo Speaks Comments Off on The Baccoo speaks

The horror is still to ease as another murder takes place. This time the killing would be rooted in a passion of love as one individual finds that the shock of discovering infidelity would be too...

Noble House Seafoods Handicap Indoor Hockey Competition…Old Fort ‘A’, GCC Spartans claim titles

Sep 21, 2008 knews Sports Comments Off on Noble House Seafoods Handicap Indoor Hockey Competition…Old Fort ‘A’, GCC Spartans claim titles

By Rawle Welch It was a night of breathtaking hockey that produced two of the finest goals scored in recent memory, but at the end of it all only one team could have carried home the coveted prize...

19-year-old Greaves destroys rivals at Laparkan cycle meet

Sep 21, 2008 knews Sports Comments Off on 19-year-old Greaves destroys rivals at Laparkan cycle meet

Laps entire field to underline number 1 status By Franklin Wilson He is certainly still the man to beat on the circuit and streets in Guyana. National cycling king and Carlton Wheelers...

Our society has become numb

Sep 21, 2008 knews AFC Column, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Our society has become numb

By Sheila Holder TOLERANCE LEVELS It has struck me that as a people we are behaving very much like the laboratory frog in the experiment in which scientists placed a frog in water that they heated up...

The Caterpillar

Sep 21, 2008 knews Features / Columnists, Interesting Creatures in Guyana Comments Off on The Caterpillar

Reports of them having hairs that could sting so severely they could be lethal to humans is just as true as those reports that suggest that they can transform into one of the most interesting...

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The PPP/C also drank the IMF/ World Bank Cool-Aid

Kaieteur News – The curious thing about politicians is how easily they forget their own past while presenting a revisionist... more