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Residents, contractor differ on dust pollution

May 26, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Residents, contractor differ on dust pollution

Repairs along the East Bank Berbice Public Road are long overdue. The inconvenience is causing residents to complain against having to traverse a road which is in such a deplorable state. The...

Persaud says he apologized to GGMC Commissioner

May 26, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Persaud says he apologized to GGMC Commissioner

Brazilian given permission to mine 25 miles of Mazaruni River Minister of Natural Resources and the Environment, Robert Persaud offered an apology to Head of the Guyana Geology and Mines...

Guyana, EU sign multi-billion-dollar boost for sugar, hinterland electrification

May 26, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Guyana, EU sign multi-billion-dollar boost for sugar, hinterland electrification

The Government of Guyana and the European Union signed two Financing Agreements valued at a total of Euro 27.4 Million (approximately $ 7.1 Billion), yesterday, for a...

Corporal punishment has its place in schools, teachers say at MOE consultation

May 26, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Corporal punishment has its place in schools, teachers say at MOE consultation

By Leon Suseran Corporal Punishment does have a place in schools in Guyana. This was the collective view of several teachers and Head Teachers at the Government of Guyana/Ministry of Education...

Berbice PTAs want “full force” of corporal punishment in schools

May 26, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Berbice PTAs want “full force” of corporal punishment in schools

Berbice Parent-teachers’ Associations (PTAs) are calling for corporal punishment to be administered in “full force” in all schools. They believe “licks” is the only means of...

Teen succumbs after delivering twins

May 26, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Teen succumbs after delivering twins

A young mother died at the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC)’s Intensive Care Unit (ICU) one day after giving birth to twins. Samantha James, 18, of Soesdyke reportedly gave...

ImmigrationTALK: Questions & Answers

May 26, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on ImmigrationTALK: Questions & Answers

By: Attorney Gail S. Seeram Through this “Question & Answer” column, our goal is to answer your immigration questions. Many of you have questions on backlog time and eligibility –...

Independence Day messages

May 26, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Independence Day messages

From the PNCR On this significant milestone of the 46th Anniversary of Guyana’s Independence, the People’s National Congress Reform salutes all Guyanese, both here at home as well...

Guyanese films feature at EU Film Festival

May 26, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Guyanese films feature at EU Film Festival

Cultural richness, one of the unique characteristics that Europe can be proud of, was on display in Georgetown at the Theatre Guild Playhouse in Kingston Georgetown during the last two weeks....

Diamond fire…Businessman refuses to believe gas stove finding

May 26, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Diamond fire…Businessman refuses to believe gas stove finding

Although Fire Chief, Marlon Gentle, had concluded that the Diamond, East Bank Demerara fire was caused by a four-burner gas stove, the owner of the property says it is impossible for...

Moen McDoom new NBS Chairman

May 26, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Moen McDoom new NBS Chairman

– McDonald is Vice-Chairman Mortgage giant, the New Building Society, has named Attorney at Law Moen McDoom as its new Chairman of the Board of Directors. McDoom once served in that capacity...

Driver placed on $400,000 for wanton driving, victim faints in court

May 26, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Driver placed on $400,000 for wanton driving, victim faints in court

A man was yesterday charged with the offence of wanton driving when he appeared before Magistrate Hazel Octave-Hamilton at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court. Otis Straughn, of James...

CDC trains 38 in Disaster Risk Management in Region Two

May 26, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on CDC trains 38 in Disaster Risk Management in Region Two

Thirty-eight persons in Region Two, representing six entities, were trained in Disaster Risk Reduction and Management by the Civil Defence Commission (CDC) from May 15, 2012 last at Anna...

Brassington buys 50,000 shares for NICIL, and 2.25 million shares in brother’s name

May 25, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Brassington buys 50,000 shares for NICIL, and 2.25 million shares in brother’s name

NICIL take over of GNCB Trust Executive Director of the National Industrial and Commercial Investments Limited (NICIL) Winston Brassington, just one day after challenging the opposition...

Dumped body of US-based citizen…Third woman held with slain man’s wedding ring

May 25, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Dumped body of US-based citizen…Third woman held with slain man’s wedding ring

– victim laid to rest at Blankenburg Police have detained a third woman as they step up efforts to apprehend the remaining suspects in the murder of US-based Guyanese Abdool Shakeel Majid,...

Two get 30 years each for female taxi operator’s murder

May 25, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Two get 30 years each for female taxi operator’s murder

Two men, who were accused of killing a female taxi operator along Ogle Road, East Coast Demerara, on February 10, 2006, yesterday each received 30-year prison sentences, when they...

Cop ambushed, shot with arrow after arresting drug suspect

May 25, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Cop ambushed, shot with arrow after arresting drug suspect

A police constable stationed at Monkey Mountain, Potaro, is currently at a city hospital after being ambushed and shot with an arrow after he arrested a suspect in a drug matter. The...

Murder suspect escapes from Brickdam lock-ups

May 25, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Murder suspect escapes from Brickdam lock-ups

Fear has gripped a Mahaica family following the reported escape of a prisoner from the Brickdam lock-ups. The man, Naitram Persaud, who was being held for questioning into murder and robbery...

Govt. not disposed to independent audit of NICIL accounts

May 25, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Govt. not disposed to independent audit of NICIL accounts

– Auditor General says his independence could be threatened The Government of Guyana through the Finance Minister, Dr. Ashni Singh, has said that the administration is not disposed to an...

Send in the clowns!

May 25, 2012 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on Send in the clowns!

Why can’t high-level employees who acquired their position because of loyalty to the PPP explain themselves without coming across as foolish people? There does not seem to be any top bureaucrat or...

Facebook Stocks

May 25, 2012 KNews Editorial Comments Off on Facebook Stocks

The Facebook high-profile stock market launch offers us an opportunity to examine this much neglected facet of modern business practice in our country. In Guyana, for any number of reasons,...

Dem boys seh…Para Batty gearing up fuh sadaaring

May 25, 2012 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Dem boys seh…Para Batty gearing up fuh sadaaring

Same thing dem boys seh, once de Waterfalls paper highlight something de people does get vex and dem does threaten fuh sue. A man get vex because he was wukking at GuySuCo and he get...

THE POLICE FORCE ALSO NEEDS REFORM

May 25, 2012 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on THE POLICE FORCE ALSO NEEDS REFORM

Corruption has always been the bane of the Guyana Police Force and has consistently undermined its effectiveness. In the days when flour was all but in law a prohibited item, a running joke was if...

The Ministry of Contract Workers

May 25, 2012 KNews Letters Comments Off on The Ministry of Contract Workers

Dear Editor, The recent debate about contract workers made me think about the Ministry of Education and contract workers. I did not think about contract workers in the Ministry of...

Lionel Lowe is writing falsehoods

May 25, 2012 KNews Letters Comments Off on Lionel Lowe is writing falsehoods

Dear Editor, Mr. Lionel Lowe needs to stop perpetuating falsehoods about our political history (KN May 19) in seeking to defend the PNC’s track record on the abuse of democracy and human...

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