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We need to prepare, groom young people

Jan 05, 2011 KNews Letters Comments Off on We need to prepare, groom young people

Dear Editor, Over the past years young people in our country have been told that they are either not responsible enough, not politically involved enough or not ready enough to take on many challenges...

Incident on Monday, January 3, makes for a terrible future in Guyana

Jan 05, 2011 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on Incident on Monday, January 3, makes for a terrible future in Guyana

Are the police afraid of the political directorate in Guyana? The answer is yes. By political directorate we do not mean the bosses themselves but the families, relatives and friends. But it is not...

Carl Greenidge a victim of PPPC vindictiveness

Jan 05, 2011 KNews Letters Comments Off on Carl Greenidge a victim of PPPC vindictiveness

Dear Editor, Systematically this government has weakened the public servants, bullied the teachers, rendered penniless the TUC, conspired with RUSAL to de-unionise the bauxite workers, sidelined...

The futility of only teaching abstinence to our teens

Jan 05, 2011 KNews Features / Columnists, Stella Says Comments Off on The futility of only teaching abstinence to our teens

In a December 15 report in Kaieteur News, Minister of Health, Dr. Leslie Ramsammy, said that in the New Year his Ministry would be accelerating its prevention efforts against HIV as it affects...

GPL trainee suffers electrical shocks on utility pole

Jan 05, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on GPL trainee suffers electrical shocks on utility pole

A young Guyana Power and Light Incorporated (GPL) trainee was rushed to a city hospital yesterday morning after receiving electrical shocks, while carrying out repairs on a utility pole in the...

Guyana’s cricket will get worse

Jan 05, 2011 KNews Letters Comments Off on Guyana’s cricket will get worse

Dear Editor, Two pages in your edition of Saturday January 1, 2011, paint a graphic picture of the state of hopelessness of Guyana’s cricket and maybe its terminal decline. On page 62 there is a...

Education Ministry striving to maintain child-friendly environment in schools

Jan 05, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Education Ministry striving to maintain child-friendly environment in schools

Although concerted efforts have been made over the past three years to reform the education system, whereby there is decentralisation of education management, there is dire need to continually...

Attracting better jobs

Jan 05, 2011 KNews Editorial Comments Off on Attracting better jobs

If this year is to be any better than the last, the bottom line is that we will have to attract companies that will pay better wages than presently prevails. The present dominant employers will just...

GETTING TO THE FOUNDATION OF THIS LATEST DEAL

Jan 05, 2011 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on GETTING TO THE FOUNDATION OF THIS LATEST DEAL

One can only hope that the Economic Services Commission of the National Assembly is following closely the development as regards the procurement by the Guyana Power and Light of additional...

Last four months of 2010 upset maternal health drive – Dr Ramsammy

Jan 05, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Last four months of 2010 upset maternal health drive – Dr Ramsammy

“A good job in the case of maternal and child health is not good enough. We have to do a perfect job,” said Minister of Health, Dr Leslie Ramsammy, as he commented on the spate of maternal deaths...

The cricketing public needs to know

Jan 05, 2011 KNews Letters Comments Off on The cricketing public needs to know

Dear Editor, I noted with some concern, that in your letters column in your publication of January 3, 2011, there was an observation by a letter writer that the contents of Dr. Anthony’s...

Robert Persaud keeps repeating a falsehood

Jan 05, 2011 KNews Letters Comments Off on Robert Persaud keeps repeating a falsehood

Dear Editor, I find it disingenuous that Minister Robert Persaud, among others, can keep repeating a falsehood so frequently in the press, hooping like Joseph Goebbels that “if you tell a lie big...

YCG records successful 2010

Jan 05, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on YCG records successful 2010

-plans innovative ventures for new year Innovative plans geared at improving the services offered by Youth Challenge Guyana (YCG) are being streamlined for this year. This disclosure was made by...

Correct this road work before it is too late

Jan 05, 2011 KNews Letters Comments Off on Correct this road work before it is too late

Dear Editor, Please permit me a space in your newspaper to highlight our dissatisfaction with the current construction of an ‘All-Weather’ road on the Right Bank of the Mahaicony River, between...

The PNCR’s presidential candidate selection process brings great political value to Guyana

Jan 05, 2011 KNews Letters Comments Off on The PNCR’s presidential candidate selection process brings great political value to Guyana

Dear Editor, Recent developments in the PNCR, with regard to the identification of its presidential candidate have signaled a new direction for political parties in Guyana. With the PNCR’s new...

Man kills wife, hangs self

Jan 04, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Man kills wife, hangs self

– sends relatives ominous text message By Leonard Gildarie A Tuschen man who only returned from Trinidad last Thursday, hanged himself last night after murdering his estranged common-law wife...

Jealous ‘child-father’ attacks woman’s lover

Jan 04, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Jealous ‘child-father’ attacks woman’s lover

…drags wounded victim out of ambulance, chops him again Ivelaw Archer, a 59-year-old man of 45 Half Mile, Wismar, Linden, yesterday found out to his dismay that a hospitable nature can sometimes...

Businessman, wife identify gunman

Jan 04, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Businessman, wife identify gunman

… Robbery Murder at Stanleytown The prime suspect who was arrested hours after a robbery murder at the Mars Gas station at 45 Stanleytown New Amsterdam, has been positively identified. An...

Thieves use cutting torch to rob Mahaica Post Office

Jan 04, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Thieves use cutting torch to rob Mahaica Post Office

Pensioners were unable to collect their pensions at the Mahaica Post Office yesterday after the safe in the entity was burglarised by ‘blow torch carrying bandits’. According to reports, thieves...

Gunman shoots, robs Linden businessman

Jan 04, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Gunman shoots, robs Linden businessman

Prominent Linden Businessman, Albert Joseph, well known as Bolo, owner of Bolo’s Variety and Furniture Store on Sunflower Street in Wismar, was yesterday afternoon shot in the abdomen and left...

Dem boys seh… Nuff people dance done

Jan 04, 2011 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Dem boys seh… Nuff people dance done

Is madness. De year just start and nuff people dead already and some barely miss death. A man build a house fuh a woman who beg he fuh leh she child father live inside. De man agree but things get...

Greenidge joins PNCR Pres. race

Jan 04, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Greenidge joins PNCR Pres. race

says ‘lawlessness’ in Guyana allows ‘economic predators’ Former Finance Minister Carl Greenidge, who has lost his job as a lead negotiator with the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) after a...

CJIA declares highest ever revenues in 2010

Jan 04, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on CJIA declares highest ever revenues in 2010

– self check-in terminals to be introduced shortly Guyana’s main port of entry, the Cheddi Jagan International Airport (CJIA), has announced its highest revenue year in 2010 with $635M earned...

$3.4 M disappears from Police finance

Jan 04, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on $3.4 M disappears from Police finance

… Monies ready to be paid to pensioners- Henry Greene Pensioners who were made to wait almost one year to uplift their monies from the Police Finance Office can now do so because the money has been...

Cops leaving no stone unturned to locate Barbita Sarjou – Assistant Commissioner Vyphuis

Jan 04, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Cops leaving no stone unturned to locate Barbita Sarjou – Assistant Commissioner Vyphuis

… Two months on and still missing It is now two months since 28-year-old Barbita Sarjou disappeared under mysterious circumstances, but Assistant Police Commissioner George Vyphuis says that...