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Child Advocacy Centre working briskly to provide services

Oct 30, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Child Advocacy Centre working briskly to provide services

Efforts by the Child Advocacy Centre (CAC) are moving apace, to adequately address the needs of children, who have been sexually and physically abused. CAC is a US-based organization designed...

Agri Minister reiterates call for safe handling of pesticides

Oct 30, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Agri Minister reiterates call for safe handling of pesticides

…as schools receive awards for awareness corners Proper storage and sale of chemicals in Guyana remain causes for concern for the Ministry of Agriculture, and in an effort to raise even...

Farmer faces charges for illegal possession of firearm

Oct 30, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Farmer faces charges for illegal possession of firearm

Agard Moses, a farmer, appeared yesterday before Chief Magistrate Priya Sewnarine-Beharry at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court, where he faced charges of unlawful and malicious wounding as...

Landlord fined $20,000 for threatening to lash tenant

Oct 30, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Landlord fined $20,000 for threatening to lash tenant

A 63-year-old landlord who threatened to “lash” his tenant was yesterday fined $20,000 by Magistrate Judy Latchman at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court. Clyde Morris Trotman pleaded...

Who cares more for their citizens – Jamaica or Guyana?

Oct 30, 2013 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on Who cares more for their citizens – Jamaica or Guyana?

After Rupert Murdoch was exposed and brought down from his powerful throne by the Guardian (I honestly think it is the world’s best newspaper over and above the New York Times) over the...

Teen rushed to hospital after being struck on head whilst playing cricket

Oct 30, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Teen rushed to hospital after being struck on head whilst playing cricket

Sherquelly Caesar called “Catty’, a 19-year-old of Penitentiary Walk, New Amsterdam and a second year student at the New Amsterdam Technical Institute (NATI) is said to have been...

Remove powers from NICIL now – Gaskin

Oct 30, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Remove powers from NICIL now – Gaskin

Financial analyst, Ramon Gaskin is saying that the Opposition should have three conditions before the Amendments to the Anti-Money Laundering and Countering the Financing of Terrorism Act 2009...

Guyana is disordered

Oct 30, 2013 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on Guyana is disordered

I hate to sound like V. S. Naipaul, but it is problem enough when you are a small country. Imagine, therefore, the problems that arise when you are a small, disordered society. Guyana is a country...

OP sources solar panels, nine entities bid

Oct 30, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on OP sources solar panels, nine entities bid

The Office of the President (OP) is apparently planning to improve its energy efficiency since the National Procurement and Tender Administration Board (NPTAB) opened nine (9) bids yesterday for the...

Sinking in filth

Oct 30, 2013 KNews Editorial Comments Off on Sinking in filth

The recurrence of a garbage crisis does not surprise us. The corrective methods have always been inadequate. The wrangling at City Hall hasn’t helped. It is also no longer newsworthy. The citizens...