April 2013

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Unintended budget cuts were avoidable – APNU

Apr 25, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Unintended budget cuts were avoidable – APNU

The major Parliamentary Opposition bloc, APNU, yesterday suggested that the so-called “slip rule” could have been applied at midnight Tuesday and avoid budget cuts which were not...

Several injured after Number 19 Road collision

Apr 25, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Several injured after Number 19 Road collision

Several persons sustained injuries when two vehicles collided on the Number 19 Public Road yesterday morning, in the vicinity of Borlam Turn. It was raining heavily at the time. The accident...

Of arrogance and disrespect

Apr 25, 2013 KNews Editorial Comments Off on Of arrogance and disrespect

A tale of disrespect, complacency and arrogance has emerged out of the National Communications Network. The result is that the government is paying another television station for a service that...

Tumatumari Hydro electric plant on the cards

Apr 25, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Tumatumari Hydro electric plant on the cards

The Hydro plant at Tumatumari is very much on the cards. Managing Director of Dynamic Engineering Mr.Lloyd Rose, said last week that arrangements are being finalized for the commencement of...

Attempts being made to undermine electricity upgrade – PM Hinds

Apr 25, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Attempts being made to undermine electricity upgrade – PM Hinds

A transmission upgrade complete with seven new substations catering to the national electricity grid is expected to be completed by this yearend or at the latest at the beginning of next year. At...

Scrap metal dealers create woes for East Canje

Apr 25, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Scrap metal dealers create woes for East Canje

Scrap metal operators are causing millions of dollars in damage to newly constructed roads and the residents of Fort Ordnance Housing scheme say authorities are turning a blind eye. The...

Row erupts over the confiscation of GGMC building

Apr 25, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Row erupts over the confiscation of GGMC building

While the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment has comfortably taken up residence at the newly constructed Guyana Geology and Mines Commission (GGMC) building, at Brickdam, senior...

Gold Board faces huge losses as a result of sudden drop in gold prices

Apr 25, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Gold Board faces huge losses as a result of sudden drop in gold prices

The Guyana Gold Board is reportedly facing losses amounting to millions of dollars as a result of being caught with more than 60,000 ounces of gold which it had bought when prices were high....

Hururu residents maintain protests over road blocked by RUSAL

Apr 25, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Hururu residents maintain protests over road blocked by RUSAL

Hururu residents who launched a protest in their Upper Berbice community have vowed to remain firm in their demand for RUSAL to reopen a blocked road which leads to millions of dollars worth of ...

GuySuCo workers injured after bridge collapses

Apr 25, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on GuySuCo workers injured after bridge collapses

A number of sugar workers from the Wales Sugar Estate had to be rushed to the West Demerara Regional Hospital yesterday after an access bridge at Canal Number Two Polder, West Bank...

Puruni trafficking in persons….14-year-old was lured to interior by older sister

Apr 25, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Puruni trafficking in persons….14-year-old was lured to interior by older sister

One of the teenagers rescued from a shop in the interior last Sunday was lured there by her older sister. This is according to sources at the Ministry of Human Services which has provided them...

City officials discuss the restoration of City Hall with experts

Apr 25, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on City officials discuss the restoration of City Hall with experts

By Rehanna Ramsay City Officials yesterday met with Grenadian building consultant experts, of TVA architecture and design, Nigel Renwick and Ihosvany De Oca Morales to map out suitable techniques to...

Essequibo rice farmers insist on meeting with Ramotar

Apr 25, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Essequibo rice farmers insist on meeting with Ramotar

During a peaceful picketing exercise outside of the Parliament Building yesterday, rice farmers from the Essequibo Coast insisted that President Donald Ramotar meet with them and listen to...

IMC ‘injustice’ causes strike in Bartica

Apr 25, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on IMC ‘injustice’ causes strike in Bartica

Truck and sandpit operators in Bartica are currently on strike to demonstrate their frustration against the injustice that is being meted out to residents of the community by the Interim Management...

Den Amstel resident turns 102!

Apr 25, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Den Amstel resident turns 102!

Ursula Victoria Forbes was the centre of attraction yesterday. Relatives and friends who had travelled from overseas to be with her, as well as close friends, flocked her Den Amstel,...

Man who claims to be God, jailed for 3 years

Apr 25, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Man who claims to be God, jailed for 3 years

A 40-year-old man who proclaimed to be God who has been living on the earth for 18,000 years, yesterday pleaded guilty to the possession of narcotics for the purpose of trafficking at the...

Teens charged with raping 13-year-old

Apr 25, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Teens charged with raping 13-year-old

Three teens who took advantage of a 13-year-old and raped her almost a year ago were on Monday charged with the crime. The teens, two of them aged 17 and one of them aged 16, all of New Amsterdam...

Two significant milestones for Guyana

Apr 25, 2013 KNews Letters Comments Off on Two significant milestones for Guyana

DEAR EDITOR: This year marked two significant milestones for Guyana – the 50th anniversary of the establishment of the University of Guyana and also the 50th anniversary of the establishment...

Christopher Ram should know that sometimes he would be confronted and exposed

Apr 25, 2013 KNews Letters Comments Off on Christopher Ram should know that sometimes he would be confronted and exposed

Dear Editor, GPL would like to respond to the letter from Christopher Ram in the Stabroek News issue of April 24th titled “Only $1,000M was requested for GPL’s operations and the...

Four murder accused charged with beating fellow inmate

Apr 25, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Four murder accused charged with beating fellow inmate

On Tuesday, four men who are currently remanded on a charge of murder appeared before Magistrate Judy Latchman at the Georgetown Magistrates’ court. According to Police reports,...

Health issues and those tower sites

Apr 25, 2013 KNews Letters Comments Off on Health issues and those tower sites

DEAR EDITOR: Two recent news items drew attention to a situation which seems to cause a great deal of concern to very many people. One centred on, among other things, “the glaring...

What about my constitutional rights?

Apr 25, 2013 KNews Letters Comments Off on What about my constitutional rights?

Dear Editor: I am using this medium to highlight the total disdain this government and its representatives demonstrate when it comes to the constitutional rights of the populace. I have sent...

Uitvlugt workers down tools from today …

Apr 25, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Uitvlugt workers down tools from today …

– Over nonpayment of salaries Workers from the Uitvlugt Sugar estate are threatening strike action after they were told that they would not be paid for this month. Workers told...

An open letter to the Prime Minister

Apr 25, 2013 KNews Letters Comments Off on An open letter to the Prime Minister

Hon. Member Samuel Hinds Leader of the Government Business in the National Assembly Tuesday, 23rd April, 2013 Hon. Member: The National Budget is soon to be approved by the National Assembly. And...

Not so fast, Barama

Apr 25, 2013 KNews Letters Comments Off on Not so fast, Barama

Dear Editor: Perhaps the FAO Country Representative, Dr Lystra Paul, could clarify her remarks reported in ‘Pact signed for US$65,000 forest law enforcement programme’ (SN, 24 April...

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(Kaieteur News) – There was a time when the average Guyanese scandal involved a man stealing two plantains from a neighbour’s kitchen garden and then attending the same neighbour’s wake three weeks later pretending to be grief-stricken. We were a manageable people. Dysfunction arrived in...

The Caribbean’s Limits in Absorbing Other States’ Deportees

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By Sir Ronald Sanders (Kaieteur News) – Migration policy is a matter of sovereign control. Governments assert, rightly, their authority to regulate borders, determine who may enter, and enforce their laws. The United States has that right, as does every sovereign state. All Caribbean governments...

Anand Persaud calls out, castigates, the PPP Govt.

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Hard Truths by GHK Lall (Kaieteur News) – Governments govern. Leaders lead. Media reports on governance, leadership. People pronounce on the quality of both. I do. Anand Persaud did. As the former editor-in-chief of the much-praised, much-missed, Stabroek News, he would know about...

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