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Regional teachers urged to place emphasis on standards

Aug 06, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Regional teachers urged to place emphasis on standards

…as Biennial confab gets underway Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Secretary-General, Ambassador Irwin LaRocque, has urged teachers to place emphasis on standards to meet demands for a...

INDISCIPLINE IS THE ROOT OF OUR PROBLEMS

Aug 06, 2013 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on INDISCIPLINE IS THE ROOT OF OUR PROBLEMS

We can have cheap hydro power. We can have a wonderful five-star hotel. We can have all the other great plans that the government has in store for us. It still would not make a...

Guard severely beaten at worksite succumbs

Aug 06, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Guard severely beaten at worksite succumbs

Well known Berbice resident, security guard and former Berbice cricketer Frederick Nathaniel Minty, 78, of 4 Cumberland, East Canje, died around 21:00 hrs on Sunday evening at the Intensive...

Pensioner succumbs after bee attack

Aug 06, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Pensioner succumbs after bee attack

A 73-year-old Bartica woman died Saturday after a swarm of African bees attacked her at her Potaro Road residence. The victim, Evelyn Clay, was sitting on her verandah at the time. Reports emerging...

I’m glad my libel defence reduced PPP votes in 2011

Aug 06, 2013 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on I’m glad my libel defence reduced PPP votes in 2011

In the General Secretary’s report read by Mr. Donald Ramotar in his capacity as leader of the PPP at his party’s Congress in Port Mourant, Mr. Ramotar told the delegates that the libel suit that...

Vice Chancellor issues “no comment” response to UG concerns

Aug 06, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Vice Chancellor issues “no comment” response to UG concerns

“We are not going to run the University through the media,” said a relatively calm sounding Professor Jacob Opadeyi yesterday in response to a series of question posed to him by...

Former CCWU President Hughes dies in the US

Aug 06, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Former CCWU President Hughes dies in the US

Former president of the Clerical and Commercial Workers’ Union (CCWU) Roy Hughes died yesterday in the United States of America following a brief illness. He was 67. Hughes’s wife Debra...

Mahaica murder/suicide… Woman chopped 33 times, husband drank pesticide – PM

Aug 06, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Mahaica murder/suicide… Woman chopped 33 times, husband drank pesticide – PM

A post mortem examination of the body of 26-year-old Vanessa Richmond-James has revealed the brutality inflicted on her by her now dead husband. The post mortem, which was performed by Dr....

Local MBA programme gets National Accreditation

Aug 06, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Local MBA programme gets National Accreditation

Touted as a passport to a management career, the Masters of Business Administration (MBA) offered locally by the Nations University (NU) has not only gained a highly recognised status among...

Autopsy reveals mining camp watchman was murdered

Aug 06, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Autopsy reveals mining camp watchman was murdered

The police are currently investigating the murder of a 64-year-old watchman, Darnley King, of Ann’s Grove, East Coast Demerara, who was allegedly beaten to death at a mining camp at White...

Uncle Eddie’s resident scores 100!

Aug 06, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Uncle Eddie’s resident scores 100!

Scoring 100 not out in the game of life yesterday was Gladys La Roach; a current resident of the well-known Uncle Eddie’s Caring Home. Ms. La Roach, born on August 5, 1913, started life in the...

WANTED!

Aug 06, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on WANTED!

Five days after he hacked his two children to death and critically wounded their mother, a wanted bulletin has been issued for Richard Lord. The suspect is wanted by the police for questioning...

Mandela Avenue Killing…Duo remanded for concealing murder weapon

Aug 06, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Mandela Avenue Killing…Duo remanded for concealing murder weapon

Two men were yesterday refused pretrial liberty after the indictable charge of concealing a murder weapon that was used in a Mandela shooting was read to them by Magistrate Judy Latchman at the...

The theft of pharmaceuticals

Aug 06, 2013 KNews Editorial Comments Off on The theft of pharmaceuticals

We hear of people stealing drugs from the hospitals; we hear of doctors providing people with prescriptions to purchase drugs from dispensaries not connected to the government; and we hear of...

The use of technology will be valuable in sectors that are rife with corruption

Aug 06, 2013 KNews Letters Comments Off on The use of technology will be valuable in sectors that are rife with corruption

Dear Editor In the age of technology Guyana is lagging behind. Go to any one of the public offices and you find that their processes involve pens and large record books. It must be...

Only the PPP is right on Amaila Falls Project, everyone else is wrong

Aug 06, 2013 KNews Letters Comments Off on Only the PPP is right on Amaila Falls Project, everyone else is wrong

Dear Editor, Like most Guyanese, we are encouraged by the opposition, especially the AFC’s oversight assessment that the Amaila Falls Hydro Project is the most expensive in the world...

The constitution has failed by virtue of its inability to force or sustain its own implementation

Aug 06, 2013 KNews Letters Comments Off on The constitution has failed by virtue of its inability to force or sustain its own implementation

Dear Editor, Mr. Lincoln Lewis, in letters in KN of August 4 and SN of August 5, writes, with his usual admirable eloquence and insight, on the inadequacies of African leadership and, in...

Mr Boodoo has not denied going on jaunts across Guyana’s contiguous borders

Aug 06, 2013 KNews Letters Comments Off on Mr Boodoo has not denied going on jaunts across Guyana’s contiguous borders

Dear Editor, Reference is hereby made to a letter by Mr Boodoo which was printed in the Stabroek News of July 29, 2013. Right at the onset, allow me to state the following: Firstly, Mr Boodoo...

Sithe Global will be forced to withdraw if there is no consensus among the Government and opposition

Aug 06, 2013 KNews Letters Comments Off on Sithe Global will be forced to withdraw if there is no consensus among the Government and opposition

Dear Editor, Sithe Globalwould like to thank the members of Parliament and the members of the Guyanese public that attended our Amaila Falls Hydropower Project (“Project”) information workshops,...

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Teen arrested over uncle’s murder after sharing burial plan with relative

Kaieteur News- A teenager of Tabatinga, Lethem, Central Rupununi, Region Nine was arrested for murder on Friday after he... more