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Local contractors buckle on Amaila Falls road

Apr 03, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Local contractors buckle on Amaila Falls road

– China Rail moving in With local contractors buckling on the construction of the road to Amaila Falls, the government has secured a deal with China Railway First Group Co. Ltd...

GEA highlights fuel smuggling reduction amidst corruption allegations

Apr 03, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on GEA highlights fuel smuggling reduction amidst corruption allegations

By Zena Henry Amidst numerous allegations made against Guyana Energy Agency (GEA) officials by its staffers, administrators of that entity have rebuffed and dismissed allegations that a fuel...

A TEST FOR THE OPPOSITION

Apr 03, 2013 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on A TEST FOR THE OPPOSITION

The recourse to cutting the Budget may be the opposition’s way of compensating for not being able to offer constructive criticisms and feasible alternatives to the government’s...

National Budget 2013 debates… APNU calls GuySuCo, GPL ‘black holes’

Apr 03, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on National Budget 2013 debates… APNU calls GuySuCo, GPL ‘black holes’

A Partnership for National Unity (APNU) has rejected budgetary allocations for the Guyana Sugar Corporation (GuySuCo) and Guyana Power and Light (GPL) deeming them ‘black holes’....

Gold Board’s $102B tops list of govt. agencies with large budgets

Apr 03, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Gold Board’s $102B tops list of govt. agencies with large budgets

– Sports Commission hoping for $1B The Guyana Gold Board (GGB) and its sister agency, Guyana Geology and Mines Commission (GGMC) have topped government’s statutory bodies with the...

Chronicle reporter detained after forcing way into West Dem. Hospital

Apr 03, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Chronicle reporter detained after forcing way into West Dem. Hospital

A Chronicle newspaper reporter and a cameraman were detained briefly by ranks of the Vreed-en-hoop Police Station over an alleged gun-pulling incident. Reports are that on Saturday night,...

Marudi beating incident…Assault charges likely for police officer, ‘illegal’ miners could also face court

Apr 03, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Marudi beating incident…Assault charges likely for police officer, ‘illegal’ miners could also face court

The Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) has instructed that the police Corporal in the Marudi miners beating incident be charged with assault. The officer who used physical force against...

High Court concludes 28 matters during January 2013 Assizes

Apr 03, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on High Court concludes 28 matters during January 2013 Assizes

The three Judges who presided over the 2013 January Demerara Assizes – Madam Justice Dawn Gregory, Madam Justice Roxanne George and Justice Navindra Singh, were able to conclude 28 cases out of...

Punitive measure could be next move to curtail public health threats – Minister

Apr 03, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Punitive measure could be next move to curtail public health threats – Minister

Punitive measures could be the next move embraced by the Ministry of Health, if moves at education and suasion are not readily accepted by residents to ensure that public health regulations...

Research seen as a crucial factor to aid nurses’ development

Apr 03, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Research seen as a crucial factor to aid nurses’ development

By Sharmain Grainger Critical thinking coupled with a more holistic approach aided by research should encompass the way nurses within the local health sector operate. At least this is the...

Big Pharma vs. Third World

Apr 03, 2013 KNews Editorial Comments Off on Big Pharma vs. Third World

Monday might have been “April Fool’s Day” but a decision announced that day by the Indian Supreme Court was no joke. In a landmark ruling that is sure to redound to the benefit of the entire...

Ramotar plans meeting with foreigners working in Guyana

Apr 03, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Ramotar plans meeting with foreigners working in Guyana

President Donald Ramotar has called a meeting with foreign nationals living and working in Guyana. The meeting is scheduled for April 15 at the International Conference Centre, East Coast...

Rice mill administrator found hanging

Apr 03, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Rice mill administrator found hanging

Jenelle Ramnarine, a 24-year-old Assistant Administrator assigned to the Caricom Rice Mills Ltd Firm, at Anna Regina, was discovered hanging by a rope in her living room at her Richmond...

UG student arraigned on $$M armed robbery charge

Apr 03, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on UG student arraigned on $$M armed robbery charge

A public management student from the University of Guyana was yesterday arraigned on a charge of armed robbery. The accused, 17-year-old Sean Rodrigues, is accused of a multi-million-dollar robbery...

Tucville youth shot during altercation

Apr 03, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Tucville youth shot during altercation

A Tucville youth was shot in the right arm during an altercation with three other young men at around 14:15 hrs yesterday. Police identified the victim as Leon Daniels, 21, while...

ECD fatal accident…Cop likely to face charges for cause of death

Apr 03, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on ECD fatal accident…Cop likely to face charges for cause of death

A policeman is likely to face charges in relation to the death of one of his colleagues in a horrific accident on the Strathspey Railway Embankment on the East Coast Demerara (ECD) on Phagwah...

$200,000 bail for man accused of chopping woman over mango

Apr 03, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on $200,000 bail for man accused of chopping woman over mango

Travis Millington, who was guarding a mango tree with a passion, appeared in the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court yesterday, after severely chopping Odessa Grant for picking one of the...

Alleged unlawful assault on cop lands Grove man in court

Apr 03, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Alleged unlawful assault on cop lands Grove man in court

Yesterday, 28-year-old Jermaine Alexander of Grove, East Bank Demerara, appeared before Magistrate Judy Latchman at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court to answer to the charge of...

Tackling the socio-economic problems of Georgetown

Apr 03, 2013 KNews Letters Comments Off on Tackling the socio-economic problems of Georgetown

Dear Editor, The entire population, especially, the dwellers of Georgetown, should welcome the news of a plan to restore this Capital City to its former pristine state. In any country,...

Pointless to make NIS contributions

Apr 03, 2013 KNews Letters Comments Off on Pointless to make NIS contributions

Dear Editor, As a concerned citizen and contributor to the National Insurance Scheme, I find it necessary to write this letter. I started making contributions through my employers in...

Nandlall’s April Fool politics

Apr 03, 2013 KNews Letters Comments Off on Nandlall’s April Fool politics

Dear Editor, I cannot help casting my mind back to the air of expectancy on the one hand and the cloud of doom and despair on the other which blew over Guyana in October 1992 with the...

GBTI responds to Mr. Craig

Apr 03, 2013 KNews Letters Comments Off on GBTI responds to Mr. Craig

Dear Editor, Reference is made to an article printed in your newsprint dated 28th March 2013 and submitted by Mr Lenno Craig under the caption of “An Illegal, Illogical and Repressive...

On a Point of Order

Apr 03, 2013 KNews Letters Comments Off on On a Point of Order

Dear Editor, An article in the Guyana Times newspaper of Tuesday March 5 headlined ‘Aircraft body roasts KN over article on Gouveia’ is so petty, it is disgusting. However, a...

A most disgraceful attack

Apr 03, 2013 KNews Letters Comments Off on A most disgraceful attack

Dear Editor, The PPP and its economic sponsors at the Hard Times newspapers are low-class and disgraceful with no sense of dignity, respect or moral fortitude. Under a column named...

GECOM is still open on the Boodoo issue

Apr 03, 2013 KNews Letters Comments Off on GECOM is still open on the Boodoo issue

Dear Editor, It is a unanimous decision of GECOM that all appointments/renewals of Contracts for Senior Level Staff must come before the Full Commission for its evaluation and...