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Ensuring quality through product inspection essential – GNBS

Mar 09, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Ensuring quality through product inspection essential – GNBS

Through routine inspection practices, manufacturing companies worldwide are managing to control the quality of their products offered to their customers, according to the Guyana National Bureau of...

Guyanese, Jamaicans top list of CARICOM nationals denied entry to Barbados

Mar 09, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Guyanese, Jamaicans top list of CARICOM nationals denied entry to Barbados

Jamaica (Jamaica Gleaner) – Jamaican and Guyanese citizens account for the vast majority of CARICOM nationals who have been refused entry into Barbados over the last five years,...

Nine midwives honoured on International Women’s Day

Mar 09, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Nine midwives honoured on International Women’s Day

Nine midwives attached to the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) were yesterday honoured by officials at the facility after they were successful at a neonatal resuscitation training...

Fuel monopoly ends at Ogle Airport…ASL invests $150M in new fuel facilities

Mar 09, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Fuel monopoly ends at Ogle Airport…ASL invests $150M in new fuel facilities

A fuel handling monopoly at the Ogle Airport Inc, East Coast Demerara, has reportedly been lifted and one company is about to cash in. According to one of Guyana’s oldest aircraft operators,...

There is more than meets the eye

Mar 09, 2013 KNews Editorial Comments Off on There is more than meets the eye

From recent utterances by the Minister of Home Affairs and the government it would seem that there is a concerted effort by the political opposition and the criminal elements to direct their...

GPL labour dispute…Arbitration tribunal to meet Monday

Mar 09, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on GPL labour dispute…Arbitration tribunal to meet Monday

The arbitration tribunal setup to arbitrate the labour dispute between Guyana Power and Light Company (GPL) and the National Association of Agricultural, Commercial and Industrial Employees...

PPP/C Councillor forced to resign

Mar 09, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on PPP/C Councillor forced to resign

… others reprimanded in Essequibo night tickets fraud A councillor was forced to resign and several others have been reprimanded following investigative findings into fraudulent...

Expect blackouts, GPL warns

Mar 09, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Expect blackouts, GPL warns

– as infrastructural works on substations, transmission lines continue Activities under GPL’s Infrastructure Development Project are progressing, with various substations and...

Contractor occupation of Enmore playfield illegal – Minister Whittaker

Mar 09, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Contractor occupation of Enmore playfield illegal – Minister Whittaker

– must relocate swiftly along with squatters The contractor at the heart of a land dispute at Logwood, Enmore, East Coast Demerara, as well as squatters in that area have all been...

Woman blames herbalist for son’s bloody vomit

Mar 09, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Woman blames herbalist for son’s bloody vomit

Another complaint about a popular herbalist that goes by the name of ‘Sister Lynn’ has surfaced. This time, a Corentyne woman is claiming that her son started to vomit blood one day after using...

IDB President Joins Action Call to End Violence against Women

Mar 09, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on IDB President Joins Action Call to End Violence against Women

The theme for this year´s International Women’s Day is “A promise is a promise: Time for action to end violence against women”. This message echoes the need to eliminate violence...

Carnegie Hospitality Institute honours contributors

Mar 09, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Carnegie Hospitality Institute honours contributors

– launches magazine Celebrating 80 years of training persons in the field of hospitality and improving family life is no minor accomplishment. Thus, the Carnegie School of Home Economics...

ImmigrationINFO …Immigration News For Our Community

Mar 09, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on ImmigrationINFO …Immigration News For Our Community

Attorney Gail S. Seeram Through this “Question & Answer” column, our goal is to answer your immigration questions. We appreciate your comments and questions. If you have a question...

Court regular jailed for four years on break and enter and larceny charge

Mar 09, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Court regular jailed for four years on break and enter and larceny charge

Tony Lucius, 42, of no fixed place of abode, was sentenced to four years in jail by Magistrate Adela Nagamootoo on Friday at the New Amsterdam Magistrate’s court. He pleaded guilty to two...

APNU dismisses Linden Commission report as ‘wishy washy’

Mar 09, 2013 KNews APNU Column, Features / Columnists Comments Off on APNU dismisses Linden Commission report as ‘wishy washy’

– Roopnarine says slams compensation as “disgraceful” – says “Justice has not been done” The country’s main opposition coalition, APNU, yesterday, described as...

Man jailed for hitting wife with rum bottle

Mar 09, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Man jailed for hitting wife with rum bottle

A man who assaulted his reputed wife with a rum bottle was yesterday sentenced to nine months’ imprisonment by Chief Magistrate Priya Sewnarine-Beharry. On March 7, last, at River...

Sylvester Joseph said police planted drugs on him

Mar 09, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Sylvester Joseph said police planted drugs on him

… but heads to jail Sylvester Joseph, called “Squeaky”, 24, of Victoria Street, Cumberland, East Canje, Berbice was on Friday jailed for three years and fined $51,600 by Magistrate Adela...

Muslim Organisations unite for renowned visit by scholar

Mar 09, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Muslim Organisations unite for renowned visit by scholar

Guyanese from all walks of life and throughout the country were treated to some of the most inspiring and enlightening lectures from one of the world’s most renowned and respected Muslim...

Army Officer injured during paratrooping practice

Mar 09, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Army Officer injured during paratrooping practice

Germaine Whyte, a 27-year-old Guyana Defence Force paratrooper was injured yesterday during a paratrooping exercise. According to the Army’s statement the incident occurred at Base Camp Stephenson...

Propaganda and empty rhetoric commemorate the life of Dr. Jagan at Babu John

Mar 09, 2013 KNews Letters Comments Off on Propaganda and empty rhetoric commemorate the life of Dr. Jagan at Babu John

Dear Editor, There is much to be said about President Ramotar’s recent lacklustre address at Babu John to commemorate the life of the late Cheddi Jagan. Instead of honouring Cde. Cheddi’s...

UG’s policy-makers should reconsider this late penalty on students

Mar 09, 2013 KNews Letters Comments Off on UG’s policy-makers should reconsider this late penalty on students

Dear Editor, I find it wacky that the first thing that the newly appointed University of Guyana (UG) Vice Chancellor, Professor Jacob Opadeyi will give to students is a two-week...

A dysfunctional nation

Mar 09, 2013 KNews Letters Comments Off on A dysfunctional nation

DEAR EDITOR, Over the past decades we have seen the repeated malaise coming from those in the Guyanese society that have been elected to serve with the distinction and guile that...

President Ramotar played the race card with respect to my letter

Mar 09, 2013 KNews Letters Comments Off on President Ramotar played the race card with respect to my letter

DEAR EDITOR, Nothing shocks me anymore from the PPP, but I am very disturbed at two things reportedly uttered by President Ramotar at former President Cheddi Jagan’s memorial at Babu John. In his...

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Traditional media is still king

…Peeping Tom Kaieteur News-Election campaigns are a battle for attention, persuasion, and votes. In this digital age,... more