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Housing and You…Those gated communities

Oct 06, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Housing and You…Those gated communities

By Leonard Gildarie In recent months, we have been receiving quite a number of queries on house lot applications, contractors and new housing schemes. I have attempted to answer the questions based...

The Baccoo Speaks

Oct 06, 2013 KNews Features / Columnists, The Baccoo Speaks Comments Off on The Baccoo Speaks

I spoke about the madness and there was this so-called contract for a killing. This is just one. There is another in the works, but the problem is that the person contracted is a policeman who...

Teachers – crucial factors in nation-building

Oct 06, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Teachers – crucial factors in nation-building

It was William Butler Yeats, an Irish poet and one of the foremost figures of 20th century literature, who said that “education is not the filling of a pail but the lighting of a fire.”...

Today is a significant anniversary

Oct 06, 2013 KNews Features / Columnists, My Column Comments Off on Today is a significant anniversary

Today is an anniversary that seems to have paled into insignificance, perhaps because it comes one day after the ruling party acceded to Government sixteen years after the incident that...

Guyanese artist wins New York award

Oct 06, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Guyanese artist wins New York award

A well known Guyanese artist Merlene Ellis was recently honoured with an award by the Guyana Cultural Association of New York for her work on “Originality and Production of Cultural Themes in the...

Will ‘Deportee’ make it to the big screen?

Oct 06, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Will ‘Deportee’ make it to the big screen?

By Michael Jordan As a boy growing up in the country, one of Harold Bascom’s favourite pastimes was going to the cinema. And, as boys often do, he would surely have fantasized about...

A national’s legal nightmare

Oct 06, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on A national’s legal nightmare

Book: Guilty: America’s Conquest Critic: Dr Glenville Ashby Norman Garrett’s Guilty: America’s Conquest chronicles an incredulous tale of Governmental overreach and excess....

US Republicans using weapons of mass financial destruction

Oct 06, 2013 KNews Features / Columnists, Ronald Sanders Comments Off on US Republicans using weapons of mass financial destruction

By Sir Ronald Sanders There will be a lot of rubbish in Washington over the next few days. And, that rubbish is not only the garbage that is steadily piling up in the nation’s capital because of...

FROM SELLOUT TO BUYOUT?

Oct 06, 2013 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on FROM SELLOUT TO BUYOUT?

The question of nationalization of the Berbice River Bridge does not arise. There is no need for the government to be taking hundreds of millions of dollars to have returned to the people of...

For Christ’s sake, President Ramotar, be statesmanlike!

Oct 06, 2013 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on For Christ’s sake, President Ramotar, be statesmanlike!

Why President Ramotar says the things he says that lowers him in the eyes of Guyana and the world is not an easy analysis to undertake. First, people will laugh. Secondly, people will...

Darkness has eclipsed the Dawn of a New Era

Oct 06, 2013 KNews AFC Column, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Darkness has eclipsed the Dawn of a New Era

This weekend Guyanese will be bombarded by the propaganda associated with “The Dawn of a New Era,” and although there have been notable achievements that we recognize, at this time it is equally...

The PPP: effete and exhausted after 21 years

Oct 06, 2013 KNews APNU Column, Features / Columnists Comments Off on The PPP: effete and exhausted after 21 years

The People’s Progressive Party, after 21 years in office, is exhausted. Taken together with its seven-year tenure from 1957 to 1964, the Party has wielded executive power over the people of this...

The Scarlet Ibis (Eudocimus ruber)

Oct 06, 2013 KNews Features / Columnists, Interesting Creatures in Guyana Comments Off on The Scarlet Ibis (Eudocimus ruber)

The Scarlet Ibis (Eudocimus ruber) is a species of ibis in the bird family Threskiornithidae. It inhabits tropical South America and islands of the Caribbean. In form it...

Fly Jamaica virgin NY-Guyana flight was impressive

Oct 06, 2013 KNews News 1

By Lin-Jay Harry-Voglezon Minutes after 8am on September 27, 2013 I booked in at the JFK Airport for Fly Jamaica’s virgin New York flight to Guyana. I soon learnt that I was the first to do...

From the Diaspora…SUGGESTIONS FROM READERS IN THE DIASPORA

Oct 06, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on From the Diaspora…SUGGESTIONS FROM READERS IN THE DIASPORA

By Ralph Seeram He had retained a lawyer in Guyana to “pass a transport” on a property which he said was bequeathed to him by his late parents. His other siblings took objection, occupied the...

Mentally unstable man jailed

Oct 06, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Mentally unstable man jailed

Andrew Barker, 37, a father of three of Betsy Ground, Canje and who is said to be of unsound mind, was on Friday sentenced to four months in jail by Magistrate Sherdel Isaacs-Marcus when he...

Accused gunman freed of murder

Oct 06, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Accused gunman freed of murder

Clyde Brown, a resident of Troolie Island, was acquitted of the murder of Karia Karia shop owner, Paul John, by Justice William Ramlal at the Suddie High court. Brown was freed on a unanimous verdict...

Estonian teacher on intriguing world travel

Oct 06, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Estonian teacher on intriguing world travel

– Journey began two years ago, 38 countries already seen “Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do, rather than by the ones you did, so...

ImmigrationINFO…Immigration News For Our Community

Oct 06, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on ImmigrationINFO…Immigration News For Our Community

U.S. Government Shutdown Impact on Immigration Attorney Gail Seeram The information below is intended as an advisory and is subject to change without notice – please keep yourself updated...

1980s ‘Continent to Continent’ hitchhikers still trekking to Africa

Oct 06, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on 1980s ‘Continent to Continent’ hitchhikers still trekking to Africa

By Zena Henry It is undoubtedly one of the most hated transgressions that can be committed against a people, and for many, the mere thought of the torturous journey endured by Africans during...

Deplorable Good Hope New Scheme roads

Oct 06, 2013 KNews Letters Comments Off on Deplorable Good Hope New Scheme roads

Dear Editor, Please grant me a space in your newspaper to highlight a plight that is facing the residents of the Good Hope New Scheme phase three (the village is located at the back of the existing...

Sunday Cartoon

Oct 06, 2013 KNews Cartoons, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Sunday Cartoon

Pro-Guyana Movement Welcomed

Oct 06, 2013 KNews Letters Comments Off on Pro-Guyana Movement Welcomed

Dear Editor I applaud the Pro-Guyana Movement. This is one of the better news that has hit our national newspapers over the last two years since the last election. We all respect folks...

This is the worst pizza I have ever tasted

Oct 06, 2013 KNews Letters Comments Off on This is the worst pizza I have ever tasted

Dear Editor, I thought long and hard about writing this letter. In the end I believe I owe it to the Guyanese people as an opinion-maker to offer my view on what happens in my country. Every...

Time for all of our people to take a stronger line against dishonesty

Oct 06, 2013 KNews Letters Comments Off on Time for all of our people to take a stronger line against dishonesty

Dear Editor, Nearly thirty years ago I asked a hinterland villager, who had sold me some handicraft but had not received the payment I had sent through an agent, “What do Amerindian people...