January 13, 2012

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Govt pulls plug on Amaila Falls Road Contract

Jan 13, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Govt pulls plug on Amaila Falls Road Contract

Fip Motilall to pay US$120,000 per day in liquidated damages, Govt seizes all equipment Government yesterday announced the cancellation of the US$15.4 million Amaila Falls Hydro Project...

AFC Leader Raphael Trotman elected Speaker of the National Assembly

Jan 13, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on AFC Leader Raphael Trotman elected Speaker of the National Assembly

Leader of the Alliance for Change (AFC) Raphael Trotman was yesterday elected Speaker of the National Assembly for Guyana’s 10th Parliament and A Partnership for National Unity’s (APNU) Deborah...

WTO Adrift

Jan 13, 2012 KNews Editorial Comments Off on WTO Adrift

The eighth ministerial of the WTO held in Geneva Dec 15-17 passed almost without comment, much less the conflict that had characterized its meetings over the last decade. The sad reality is...

A jumbie is threatening people outside the Gafoor villa

Jan 13, 2012 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on A jumbie is threatening people outside the Gafoor villa

I never professed to be a neutral commentator since I started doing social analysis in the Stabroek News and the Catholic Standard in the late eighties. There was nothing to be neutral about. I...

UNCLE DONALD HOTTING UP THEIR TRACKS

Jan 13, 2012 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on UNCLE DONALD HOTTING UP THEIR TRACKS

Change is not taking place at break-neck pace. And quite rightly so. When change is too rapid, it can lead to a great deal of confusion and any progress made can be quickly reversed....

Dem boys seh…Fip should get jail

Jan 13, 2012 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Dem boys seh…Fip should get jail

Old people does seh that moon does run till day ketch it. Fip run till he time run out. He get ketch and is Robeson, de man wid de hammer that ketch he. Ever since Ash Knee and Brazzy...

Living in dread of the police

Jan 13, 2012 KNews Letters Comments Off on Living in dread of the police

Dear Sir/Madam, I wrote many letters concerning my situation and I pleaded with someone high in authority to investigate the harassment that I am facing from the La Grange police. I...

Bisram is erractic

Jan 13, 2012 KNews Letters Comments Off on Bisram is erractic

Dear Editor, The results of the November 28 polls has so shattered the credibility of Vishnu Bisram and exposed his suspected manufactured biasness towards the incumbent PPP/C...

The lot of a legitimate businessman

Jan 13, 2012 KNews Letters Comments Off on The lot of a legitimate businessman

To Editor, I would like to comment on an article that was published in the Sunday Chronicle January 8, 2012. Vendors are reluctant to occupy tarmacs; they fear losing business. I think...

NTN needs to decide which constituency it wants to serve

Jan 13, 2012 KNews Letters Comments Off on NTN needs to decide which constituency it wants to serve

Dear Editor, I reference you to NTN Television, mainly to emphasize my displeasure with NTN Channel 18 programme scheduling. The station advertised that it would be carrying the matches...

Ravi Dev’s ethnic dilemma

Jan 13, 2012 KNews Letters Comments Off on Ravi Dev’s ethnic dilemma

Dear Editor, I refer to a section of your columnist Ravi Dev’s article “Background to the Present Imbroglio II” in Sunday’s Kaieteur News, more specifically, his conclusion...

This road is a death trap

Jan 13, 2012 KNews Letters Comments Off on This road is a death trap

Dear Editor, I am employed with an Institution located in Kingston and to get to work I have to drive through Water Street aback the Ministry of Public Works and Communications. Of...

Please appoint another

Jan 13, 2012 KNews Letters Comments Off on Please appoint another

Dear Editor, All the best for the New Year. Berbicians are looking forward for great things in 2012. We are situated behind God’s back; we are a very proud people, but it appears as...

Expectations abound for Tenth Parliament

Jan 13, 2012 KNews Letters Comments Off on Expectations abound for Tenth Parliament

Mr Editor, Yesterday the 10th parliament of the Cooperative Republic of Guyana was officially convened. I had hoped that this would have been not only a celebration of the end of “winner...

Remembering Dr Moti Lall

Jan 13, 2012 KNews Letters Comments Off on Remembering Dr Moti Lall

Dear Editor, I wish to convey my deepest condolences to the wife, children and other relatives of the late Dr. Moti Lall who passed away on January 10 at his Republic Park, East Bank...

Jamaica demolish Sharks

Jan 13, 2012 KNews Sports Comments Off on Jamaica demolish Sharks

North Sound, Antigua – Jamaica followed up a steady half-century from Nkrumah Bonner with purposeful bowling to sweep to a 50-run victory over Sussex in the Caribbean Twenty20 tournament yesterday....

Government has not reached consensus with WICB

Jan 13, 2012 KNews Sports Comments Off on Government has not reached consensus with WICB

– Ministry of Foreign Affairs Contrary to a report in another section of the press The Government of Guyana has not reached any consensus with the West Indies Cricket Board “concerning the...

CONCACAF Under-20 Women’s Championship – Cuba…Lady Jags needle Puerto Rico; Cuba, Jamaica advance to finals

Jan 13, 2012 KNews Sports Comments Off on CONCACAF Under-20 Women’s Championship – Cuba…Lady Jags needle Puerto Rico; Cuba, Jamaica advance to finals

Guyana’s Lady Jags closed out competition in the CONCACAF Under-20 Women’s Championship on Wednesday with a 1-0 win over Puerto Rico at the Estadio Pedro Marrero Ciudad de La Habana, Cuba. The...

GFA supports the late Shawn Bishop’s daughter – Promises more assistance

Jan 13, 2012 KNews Sports Comments Off on GFA supports the late Shawn Bishop’s daughter – Promises more assistance

The Georgetown Football Association (GFA) in memory of the late Shawn ‘Fatso’ Bishop has arranged a benefit game for sometime next week where all the proceeds will go to his mother...

Boxing Coach feels Pocket Rocket Boxing Gym has made credible strides in 2011

Jan 13, 2012 KNews Sports Comments Off on Boxing Coach feels Pocket Rocket Boxing Gym has made credible strides in 2011

By Samuel Whyte As the Annual General Meeting of the Pocket Rocket Boxing Gym (PRBG) looms, Coordinator and Coach Orland ‘Pocket Rocket’ Rogers has lauded the efforts of his boxers...

Beck’s Lumber Yard assists ‘Jumbie’ Wiltshire Birthday Dominoes

Jan 13, 2012 KNews Sports Comments Off on Beck’s Lumber Yard assists ‘Jumbie’ Wiltshire Birthday Dominoes

Beck’s Lumber Yard of Norton Street became the latest entity to add its support to the Mark ‘Jumbie’ Wiltshire Birthday Nationwide Dominoes Competition which got underway over the...

Fun and frolic as Berbice lawmen holds day of Interaction

Jan 13, 2012 KNews Sports Comments Off on Fun and frolic as Berbice lawmen holds day of Interaction

Police Officers, comprising members of the Station Management Committee of the Central Police Station, New Amsterdam will collaborate with the Berbice Chamber of Commerce and Boxing...

Letter to the Sport Editor…Benjamin is ill-informed

Jan 13, 2012 KNews Sports Comments Off on Letter to the Sport Editor…Benjamin is ill-informed

Dear Editor, It is rather unfortunate that once again I have to devote precious time to respond to an inaccuracy in the sport pages of the Kaieteur News, which sadly, happens to be from...

The 10th Parliament…Two preachers, an ex-commissioner and an herbalist

Jan 13, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on The 10th Parliament…Two preachers, an ex-commissioner and an herbalist

It was never going to be straightforward or easy. A meeting of the National Assembly to elect a Speaker of the House following the November 28th General and Regional Elections was going to be...

President blazes opposition over Trotman’s election as Speaker

Jan 13, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on President blazes opposition over Trotman’s election as Speaker

-says opportunity squandered for new era of cooperation The election of leader of the Alliance For Change, Raphael Trotman, as Speaker of the House, has been slammed by government with President...

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Cash or Kind?

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(Kaieteur News) – In policy debates, especially in developing and small open economies, it has become fashionable to argue that in-kind grants are preferable to cash grants because they supposedly create less instability in macroeconomic fundamentals. The claim sounds responsible, even prudent....

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By Sir Ronald Sanders (Kaieteur News) – When powerful states act, small states are tempted to personalize the action. When small states fragment, powerful states do not need to explain themselves. That is the lesson CARICOM should draw from the recent U.S. decision to impose partial visa...

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If I were a rich man… I’d build a big tall house with rooms by the dozen… I’d fill my yard with chicks and turkeys and ducks and geese… I see my wife…looking like a rich man’s wife… (Kaieteur News) – Those lines cobbled together from Fiddler on the Roof announce to the world the...

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