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Streetlight installation ongoing at WCB

May 08, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Streetlight installation ongoing at WCB

Cummings Electrical is in the process of installing 181 more streetlights along the populated villages between No.12 Village and Cotton Tree, West Coast Berbice. Nigel Erskine, Traffic/Road Safety...

Immigration TALK: Travel limitations for U.S. citizens and Green Card Holders

May 08, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Immigration TALK: Travel limitations for U.S. citizens and Green Card Holders

As the holiday season approaches and many people travel back to their home country, it is important to understand travel limitations. Many lawful permanent residents (green card holders) and...

GUYANA’S OVERSEAS RECORD AT THE CBC LEVEL (1982 TO 2000)

May 08, 2011 KNews Sports Comments Off on GUYANA’S OVERSEAS RECORD AT THE CBC LEVEL (1982 TO 2000)

Dear Editor, Guyana will return to the Regional Basketball scene since their last outing in Puerto Rico in 2007. This year’s Championship will be hosted by the Bahamas and it will be Guyana’s...

Monkey Mountain to Karasabai to benefit from $331M road works

May 08, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Monkey Mountain to Karasabai to benefit from $331M road works

The Ministry of Public Works and Communications recently awarded three contracts to the tune of $331M for the execution of road works and bridge construction from Monkey Mountain to Karasabai, Region...

Claude Raphael responds to K. Mangal’s letter

May 08, 2011 KNews Sports Comments Off on Claude Raphael responds to K. Mangal’s letter

Dear Editor, Under normal circumstances I would not respond to K. Mangal since I have recognized that he is deliberately misleading the public in his now regular attacks on my ability. ...

Rosignol face Cougars @ Burnham Park today; NA United play Rosignol in U-17 clash

May 08, 2011 KNews Sports Comments Off on Rosignol face Cougars @ Burnham Park today; NA United play Rosignol in U-17 clash

Competition in the Berbice Football Association Senior League will motor on today at Burnham Park Ground, New Amsterdam. In the lone fixture, Cougars will match skills with Rosignol United from...

Mysterious fire razes TravelSpan building

May 08, 2011 knews News Comments Off on Mysterious fire razes TravelSpan building

Fire mysteriously erupted at the King Solomon building, damaging three flats and displacing two businesses on Main Street in the wee hours of Saturday morning. Reports revealed that the fire of...

Building your home? Think again! (Final Part)

May 08, 2011 knews News Comments Off on Building your home? Think again! (Final Part)

By Leonard Gildarie Doing some things yourself… This week, as we bring the curtain down on what has been an enlightening experience for the past 12 weeks or so, the news is good. Minister of...

Citizens must learn and appreciate the good graces of life and living

May 08, 2011 KNews Letters Comments Off on Citizens must learn and appreciate the good graces of life and living

Dear Editor, The inherent deficiencies in our whole country come from a general lack of pride, civility and common good graces, which state dominance and Party politics have helped to destroy over...

Chanderpaul to face Pakistanis today at Bourda

May 08, 2011 KNews Sports Comments Off on Chanderpaul to face Pakistanis today at Bourda

Sarwan will play in practice match at DCC By Sean Devers Local cricket fans will have the chance of seeing the experienced Shivnarine Chanderpaul bat against Pakistan today at Bourda five days before...

Cartoon Sun. May 08, 2011

May 08, 2011 knews Cartoons, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Cartoon Sun. May 08, 2011

The Antbird

May 08, 2011 knews Features / Columnists, Interesting Creatures in Guyana Comments Off on The Antbird

Antbirds are of a large family called Thamnophilidae, of passerine birds found across subtropical and tropical Central and South America ranging from Mexico to Argentina. There are more than 200...

What’s all the big fuss about Ramotar’s appointment?

May 08, 2011 KNews Letters Comments Off on What’s all the big fuss about Ramotar’s appointment?

Dear Editor, Much has been said about the recent appointment of PPP’s presidential candidate Donald Ramotar as President Jagdeo’s Political Advisor, and I wish to add my input to this debate. Of...

Dominica: The world’s leading Eco-Tourism Destination?

May 08, 2011 knews Features / Columnists, Ronald Sanders Comments Off on Dominica: The world’s leading Eco-Tourism Destination?

By Sir Ronald Sanders Of the 249 places in the world in which human beings live and work, the small Caribbean island of Dominica (751 sq km) ranks at 187 in size. Even so, it is bigger than...

The Office of the President/Ramotar saga is highly unethical

May 08, 2011 KNews Letters Comments Off on The Office of the President/Ramotar saga is highly unethical

Dear Editor, Recent statement by the PPP/C that Donald Ramotar will not be paid for his new position in the Office of the President, amounts to nothing but ‘bare hogwash’. Do Ramotar, Jagdeo and...

Facilitating a robust private sector: Our vision

May 08, 2011 knews AFC Column, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Facilitating a robust private sector: Our vision

(This week we feature an excerpt from the speech delivered by Presidential candidate Mr. Khemraj Ramjattan at a luncheon hosted by the Guyana Manufacturers and Services Association at the Pegasus on...

Today is special in more ways than one

May 08, 2011 knews Features / Columnists, My Column Comments Off on Today is special in more ways than one

By Adam Harris Today is Mother’s Day, a day that is even more special than Valentine’s Day when people profess their love for each other. It is not that people are not professing their love...

Denying maternity leave is discrimination against women

May 08, 2011 knews Features / Columnists, Stella Says Comments Off on Denying maternity leave is discrimination against women

Today is Mother’s Day in the U.S. and my readers know I cannot allow any opportunity to slip by to honour women. However, I want to use this holiday to highlight an untenable situation recently...

Is this journalistic deception and ‘deferred integrity’

May 08, 2011 KNews Letters Comments Off on Is this journalistic deception and ‘deferred integrity’

Dear Editor, Brother Tacuma Ogunseye recently made two ‘out of character’ and untrue statements on Christopher Ram’s weekly Sunday TV show just over a week ago. While being purposefully...

Mother’s Day Gift

May 08, 2011 KNews Editorial Comments Off on Mother’s Day Gift

If there is one truism that should escape any form of argumentation, it is that everyone has or had a mother. We may want to assert that from the laws of biology, we each also have a father but in...

When cricket and politics merge into a clownish act of desperation

May 08, 2011 knews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on When cricket and politics merge into a clownish act of desperation

Under President Burnham, Guyana was looked down upon by its Caribbean neighbours. The essential reason was the economic collapse that manifested itself in ugly ways. Two such features encouraged...

Let the Tiger be!

May 08, 2011 KNews Letters Comments Off on Let the Tiger be!

Dear Editor, The current administration of West Indies cricket – the Board, the Selectors , the Coach – appear to be hell bent on hammering the final nails in the coffin that the West Indies...

The Baccoo speaks

May 08, 2011 knews Features / Columnists, The Baccoo Speaks Comments Off on The Baccoo speaks

There will be more of the same on the roads. These past few days we saw just as I said, motorists doing whatever they pleased. They drove head on into people and killed two. In one case a man lost...

Flawed Premises

May 08, 2011 knews Features / Columnists, Ravi Dev Comments Off on Flawed Premises

Dr. David Hinds responded to my article of last week, “Bullyism”. Tacuma Ogunseye had urged African Guyanese to “fight and bring Guyana to a halt” to guarantee their representatives a share...

THE LABOUR MOVEMENT IS LIMPING AFTER SHOOTING ITSELF IN THE FOOT

May 08, 2011 knews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on THE LABOUR MOVEMENT IS LIMPING AFTER SHOOTING ITSELF IN THE FOOT

Labour is NOT at the crossroads. It has long detoured into the woods of obscurity. And please, it was not the PPP which was responsible for this development. Long before 1992, the labour movement had...