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How can citizens reduce their carbon footprint when they are being suppressed by Govt.?

Dec 19, 2010 knews Letters 0

Dear Editor, All this talk about the LCD’s and how each citizen can contribute towards the reduction of Greenhouse gases in Guyana is bull. Here we have a Government that is forcing the citizens of...

This was no comical demonstration

Dec 19, 2010 knews Letters 0

Dear Editor. I salute Mark Benschop for his concern for the environment and the residents being affected by the dumpsite in Cemetery Road. However, Mr. Benschop’s frequent acts of bravado –...

Wakenaam businessmen, motorists hit by ferry decision

Dec 19, 2010 KNews News 0

Wakenaam businessmen met Friday evening at the Wakenaam Neighbourhood Democratic Council Office to plan a course of action to have Minister of Works, Robeson Benn, rescind a decision that came into...

“Giving cricket credit where credit is due”

Dec 19, 2010 KNews Sports 0

Colin E. H. Croft Whence they are this 2010 Christmas season, Clive Lloyd, former West Indies captain, Deryck Murray, his long-time deputy, and on-and-off-the-field ambassador, and prominent Trinidad...

2010 – A flourishing & rewarding year for Rose Hall Town Youth & Sports Club

Dec 19, 2010 KNews Sports 0

Over 100 projects and programmes accomplished The year 2010, a challenging one the world over, was a very productive and successful one for the Rose Hall Town Youth & Sports Club (RHTY&SC)...

What is fact, fiction about MSC Court?

Dec 19, 2010 KNews Sports 0

-Basketball in Linden at its lowest point By Edison Jefford One of the elementary lessons of journalism propagates that facts are superior to fiction and where facts are established there should be...

The element of trust versus the element of time are at the heart of the Norway-WB-Guyana impasse

Dec 19, 2010 knews Letters 0

Dear Editor, On his return to Guyana after Cancun, Mexico, President Bharrat Jagdeo said he was not agitated about Guyana not having the money from Norway via the World Bank (WB), but about the time...

Chattergoon replaces Deonarine in Guyana T20 team

Dec 19, 2010 KNews Sports 0

Sewnarine Chattergoon will replace his injured Albion teammate Narsingh Deonarine in the Guyana team which will play three practice matches in the Trinidad and Tobago Cricket Board (TTCB) four-team...

Record stores unhappy with DVDs street vendors

Dec 19, 2010 KNews News 0

– City Council says they will be gone by January 5th Tensions have risen between a number of music shops in the city and street vendors over their proximities to each other. Already, Mayor of...

Guyana’s highways: A Myth

Dec 19, 2010 knews Letters 0

Dear Editor, This commentary is not designed to belittle the efforts of our government to improve Guyana’s roads. It is designed to inform all that the misuse of terminology can lead, in some...

The University of Guyana ‘mess’

Dec 19, 2010 knews Letters 0

Dear Editor, It is incumbent upon me to angrily pen this condensed missive. I speak on behalf of the hard working and humble sanitation workers at the University of Guyana (UG), namely the cleaners....

Jessica Stephenson cops Guyana’s 1st gold; Niall Roberts claims silver

Dec 19, 2010 KNews Sports 0

Guyana’s Jessica Stephenson earned her second medal of the Marlins Invitational Swim Meet in Trinidad and Tobago with a gold medal on Friday in the 200m breast stroke – swimming a 2:46.88 –...

Is GuySuCo another Ministry Of National Development???

Dec 19, 2010 knews Letters 0

Dear Editor, In the 1974 Declaration of Sophia the then Prime Minister and subsequently President of Guyana Mr. LFS Burnham indicated that Guyana was proceeding along the Socialist path and that the...

Bartica Football Festival to kick off tomorrow

Dec 19, 2010 KNews Sports 0

Banks DIH has contributed the first Prize Cash Incentive of $500,000 to the winner of the 2nd annual Bartica Football Festival to be staged at the Bartica Community Centre this coming week. The...

Cartoons Sun. Dec. 19, 2010

Dec 19, 2010 knews Cartoons, Features / Columnists 0

Guyana’s Windies girls eager to play on return from overseas duties

Dec 19, 2010 KNews Sports 0

June Ogle Thomas, Sabrina Munroe, Tremayne Smartt and Shemaine Campbelle, the four Guyanese selected to play for the West Indies in India, will leave on Jan 1 and return Jan 26. They recently...

Hetmyer (70) Ishwar Singh (65) and Austin (4-10) propel Y/ Warriors to semis

Dec 19, 2010 KNews Sports 0

Young Warriors of Cumberland, East Canje and West Canje of Lochaber, West Canje earned the last two semifinal berths after they both won their quarterfinal matches of the New Building Society Second...

The Great Tinamou

Dec 19, 2010 knews Features / Columnists, Interesting Creatures in Guyana 0

The Great Tinamou (Tinamus major), also called Mountain hen is a species of tinamou ground bird native to Central and South America. There are several subspecies, mostly differentiated by their...

Restrained revelations of a Caribbean Prime Minister

Dec 19, 2010 knews Features / Columnists, Ronald Sanders 0

By Sir Ronald Sanders Now that the general elections in St Vincent and the Grenadines are over I can safely comment on the recently published book, “The Making of The Comrade: The political journey...

Don’t blame the GuySuCo Board

Dec 19, 2010 KNews Letters 0

Dear Editor, I observed recently that a lot has been written about GuySuCo as result of its unfortunate current situation, in which it has found itself – chief among them the Skeldon Factory...

Grant leads Achievers to victory

Dec 19, 2010 KNews Sports 0

Grisean Grant’s brilliant all-round performance led Achievers of West Berbice to an easy 10-wicket win over Rosignol United as the 2010 Ricks & Sari Agro Industries Under-13 Cricket Competition...

Manhattans and Chi Lites promise to wow Guyana tonight

Dec 19, 2010 KNews News 0

Have you seen them? Well they are in Guyana and only a few have seen them so far but that does not alter the fact that the Manhattans and the Chi Lites have arrived for two spectacular nights of...

Cool, Sweet Water

Dec 19, 2010 knews Features / Columnists, The Arts Forum 0

A Short Story By Julie Jailall This short story is from a collection of five short stories by Julie Jailall entitled Sharda. A World-Caribbean-Guyana Literature Series. Publisher: Roraima Publisher,...

A Foreign Policy Agenda (A presentation to the AFC’s National Executive)

Dec 19, 2010 knews AFC Column, Features / Columnists 0

By Dr. Rishi Thakur AFC Member The recent confusion over the putative Norwegian payments that are owed Guyana, with the usual strident and arrogant claims, once again exposes the disorder and...

Christmas is here and so am I

Dec 19, 2010 knews Features / Columnists, My Column 0

By Adam Harris In less than a week it will be Christmas. I am therefore going to share some of the things I did in Christmases of yore. Not that they were very different from today. Of course, in...

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THE BIG SHAFT

Oil production has not yet commenced but Guyana is already saddled with a bill for US$11B. Of this amount, US$960 M is pre-contract... more