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Addressing the Prime Minister’s contention

Feb 20, 2013 KNews Letters Comments Off on Addressing the Prime Minister’s contention

Dear Editor, As predicted, the Prime Minister has taken the route that CCTV is not the Broadcaster; it is the Guyana Governments’ owned and controlled NCN. I had written elsewhere that “The...

Is Guyana the Titanic, moving towards Marriott Hotel, the iceberg of decadence?

Feb 20, 2013 KNews Letters Comments Off on Is Guyana the Titanic, moving towards Marriott Hotel, the iceberg of decadence?

Dear Sir, Let us move this detractor:”Titanic” out of the way. As far as the ex-British Caribbean Colonies are concerned, Guyana is indeed a “Titanic” in respect to its size, compared to...

Faced with the reality

Feb 20, 2013 KNews Letters Comments Off on Faced with the reality

Dear Editor, In the Stabroek News of 17 February a cartoon depicting a drunken person, sprawled on the ground, apparently just jolted out of drunken stupor by an irate employer, has apparently...

What role did Mr. Gerry Gouveia play with endorsing Marriott?

Feb 20, 2013 KNews Letters Comments Off on What role did Mr. Gerry Gouveia play with endorsing Marriott?

Dear Editor, Over recent years, the local independent newspapers, Kaieteur News and Stabroek News, have been increasing their focus on the number of privatization deals by the government. As a...

The black intelligentsia out foxed by Bharrat Jagdeo and Goons

Feb 20, 2013 KNews Letters Comments Off on The black intelligentsia out foxed by Bharrat Jagdeo and Goons

Dear Editor, It is time for Afro Guyanese to hold the opposition accountable by vehemently exuding their anger and frustration upon the gang of black leaders who continue to vacillate forestalling in...

Premature memory loss

Feb 20, 2013 KNews Letters Comments Off on Premature memory loss

Dear Sir, Poor Freddie Kissoon seems to be suffering premature memory loss. We have met twice-once at the Cuffy Statue (Me with David Dabydeen and the Fredster in his car) and once at the Georgetown...

Time is going by for the truth commission

Feb 20, 2013 KNews Letters Comments Off on Time is going by for the truth commission

Dear Editor, The Prime Minister, by the President’s grace, Mr Samuel Hinds, OE, recently called for Truth and Reconciliation Commission in Guyana. The former President, Mr. Jagdeo had said once...

China in Guyana – the new imperialism?

Feb 20, 2013 KNews Letters Comments Off on China in Guyana – the new imperialism?

Dear Editor, From the banks of the Berbice River — Bai Shan Lin Investments, stretching across to the Potaro-Kuribrong Rivers — the Amalia Hydroelectric project, going on to Corriverton—...

This mentality seeks to condone and promote ethnic supremacy

Feb 20, 2013 KNews Letters Comments Off on This mentality seeks to condone and promote ethnic supremacy

Dear Editor, While reading the opinion columns of KN Feb. 11, 2013, I came across a contemptible piece of hackneyed treachery under the name Devanand Bhagwan bearing the head words, “Freddie’s...

The soldiers violated UG

Feb 20, 2013 KNews Letters Comments Off on The soldiers violated UG

DEAR EDITOR, It is appalling to see that the military authority of the Guyana Defence Force is attempting to justify the illegal and unlawful acts of its members by entering into the Turkeyen campus...

The good life

Feb 20, 2013 KNews Editorial Comments Off on The good life

As we brace ourselves for the battles that will accompany the presentation of the next budget, it might be useful to remind the politicians why they were elected to office in the first instance. It...

Mahaicony fatal crash… GDF Officer remains in hospital, charges on hold

Feb 20, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Mahaicony fatal crash… GDF Officer remains in hospital, charges on hold

Police on the East Coast of Demerara are patiently awaiting the discharge from hospital of a Guyana Defence Force Second Lieutenant so that charges resulting from a fatal accident last Saturday could...

GGMC investigating illegal shops, landings in gold districts

Feb 20, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on GGMC investigating illegal shops, landings in gold districts

Scores of shops believed to have been set up illegally in the mining districts, and especially along the landings, are to be regularized, government said yesterday. According to the...

Marriott Hotel protest… Govt. statement is nothing but nasty politics

Feb 20, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Marriott Hotel protest… Govt. statement is nothing but nasty politics

– protesters Protesters yesterday dismissed claims by Presidential Advisor on Governance, Gail Teixeira, who, during a press conference by the ruling People’s Progressive Party...

CARICOM’s restructuring, indebtedness dominate Haiti meeting

Feb 20, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on CARICOM’s restructuring, indebtedness dominate Haiti meeting

The need for the urgent restructuring of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) and its various agencies, regional security, particularly gang violence and trafficking in firearms and drugs, as...

Trotman decision on Rohee imminent

Feb 20, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Trotman decision on Rohee imminent

House Speaker Raphael Trotman is just about ready to release what is expected to be his definitive ruling on Minister Clement Rohee in relation to his right to speak in the National Assembly. At the...

STEM has important role in national development

Feb 20, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on STEM has important role in national development

– Science Coordinator While attaining the title of bread basket of the Caribbean is not out of Guyana’s reach, such a feat may not be attainable without the application of Science, Technology,...

Guyanese captain faces jail time after US$6M marijuana haul

Feb 20, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Guyanese captain faces jail time after US$6M marijuana haul

Florida (kewsnews.com) – A Guyanese boat captain accused of smuggling three tons of pot worth US$6M out of Jamaica will face up to 40 years in prison. He was nabbed by the Key...

Boy’s drowning in reservoir…Cops seek 15 yr-old who fled scene

Feb 20, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Boy’s drowning in reservoir…Cops seek 15 yr-old who fled scene

– relative suspects foul play Police are searching for a 15-year-old male of Sheet Anchor Village, East Canje, Berbice who was in the company of the 8-year-old boy who drowned in an...

St Margaret’s hands over report to Education Ministry

Feb 20, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on St Margaret’s hands over report to Education Ministry

– following probe into pupil’s death The Ministry of Education is now in receipt of a report from the St Margaret’s Primary School, which follows on the heels of a post...

Guyanese murdered after leaving Suriname casino with winnings

Feb 20, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Guyanese murdered after leaving Suriname casino with winnings

Members of a Lancaster, Mahaica family are heading to neighbouring Suriname to recover the body of 23-year-old Clayton Jones, who was reportedly stabbed to death by one of his...

Parika Façade residents complain of collapsing roadways

Feb 20, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Parika Façade residents complain of collapsing roadways

Very soon the roadways at Parika Façade will be impassable to vehicular traffic as a result of continuous deterioration. However, as it is, the partially collapsed road poses a threat to...

Guyanese sworn in as appellate judge in Belize

Feb 20, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Guyanese sworn in as appellate judge in Belize

Belize – Guyana-born, Justice Minnet Hafiz-Bertram, was on Monday sworn in as a Justice of the Belize Court of Appeal by Belize’s Governor General, Sir Colville Young, at Belize House, Belmopan....

Rebranded Miss Bartica Regatta Pageant set to thrill

Feb 20, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Rebranded Miss Bartica Regatta Pageant set to thrill

– $1M in cash, incentives for the winner It has traditionally been one of the marquee events at the Bartica Easter Regatta and according to many, it is one of the oldest pageants...

THE AFC’s WINDMILLS

Feb 20, 2013 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on THE AFC’s WINDMILLS

There is a new tailor in town! One that is so excited that there is a hurried readiness to make the cut even before the measurements are known. The details of Budget 2013 are not yet public;...

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The end is near for local trade unions

…Peeping Tom Kaieteur News- Within the next twenty years, the trade union movement in Guyana is going to disappear.... more