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Letter to the Sports Editor…Ministry of Education ready to engage all on structured approach to schools football

Nov 02, 2013 KNews Sports Comments Off on Letter to the Sports Editor…Ministry of Education ready to engage all on structured approach to schools football

Dear Editor, Within the structures of the school system, football is emerging as a very popular and well supported sport. At the Ministry of Education, we have seen a number of...

Letter to the Sports Editor…Dennis Clarke clears air on Chin Inter Ward basketball issue

Nov 02, 2013 KNews Sports Comments Off on Letter to the Sports Editor…Dennis Clarke clears air on Chin Inter Ward basketball issue

Dear Editor, We of the Trinity Grid Pacesetters Basketball Club would like to clear the air as it relates to a statement that was made by the President of the Guyana Basketball Officials...

ImmigrationINFO…Immigration News For Our Community

Nov 02, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on ImmigrationINFO…Immigration News For Our Community

Attorney Gail S. Seeram, [email protected] Through this “Question & Answer” column, our goal is to answer your immigration questions. We appreciate your comments and...

Absence of police records stalls Black Bush lover murder trial

Nov 02, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Absence of police records stalls Black Bush lover murder trial

The absence of the police records requested by defence attorney Senior Counsel Bernard De Santos stalled the Black Bush murder trial on Thursday. The trial is ongoing in the Berbice High Court...

Meter reading continues to be a challenge due to locked gates – GPL

Nov 02, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Meter reading continues to be a challenge due to locked gates – GPL

The Guyana Power and Light Company (GPL) is once again highlighting a major challenge associated with its billing process. The Power Company laments that Meter Readers are unable to read...

“Believe in your own products”

Nov 02, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on “Believe in your own products”

-Irfaan Ali urges at launch of Tourism Awareness Month 2013 “We need to stop offering tourists Kellogg’s Frosted Flakes for breakfast, and give them some bananas and star apples.”...

Reparations Now!

Nov 02, 2013 KNews Editorial Comments Off on Reparations Now!

Last June, in our editorial “Justice Denied”, we pointed out that even though the Organisation for African Unity (OAU) took up the call for Reparations in 1993 in its Abuja declaration,...

Twenty-year-old Mother takes blame for abandoning baby

Nov 02, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Twenty-year-old Mother takes blame for abandoning baby

– Toddler rescued by CCPA, now in the foster care After learning that her three-year-old son was taken into protective services by the Child Care and Protection Agency (CCPA), the...

BEYOND THE GOALPOST

Nov 02, 2013 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on BEYOND THE GOALPOST

Branding is an important part of business today. A good brand can stand any business in good stead and help the global competitiveness of a product or service. It can also do wonders for a...

IDB is government’s main external financial partner

Nov 02, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on IDB is government’s main external financial partner

Minister within the Ministry of Finance Juan Edghill has said that the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) has become one of Guyana’s main external financiers in developmental...

Epileptic drowns

Nov 02, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Epileptic drowns

Adjhoda Persaud, 56, died moments after he suffered a fit and fell into a trench at Reliance, on the Essequibo Coast onThursday. Residents said that Persaud was seen riding a bicycle...

Attorney moves to depose Govt. as owner of First Federations Building

Nov 02, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Attorney moves to depose Govt. as owner of First Federations Building

Attorney-at-Law, Saphier Husain, has moved to the Courts to render the 1988 order placing the Government by way of the Official Receiver/Public Trustee in the Ministry of Legal Affairs, as...

GT&T strengthens cellular coverage in West Coast Berbice

Nov 02, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on GT&T strengthens cellular coverage in West Coast Berbice

With the activation of a new cell site at Bush Lot, cellular coverage on the Guyana Telephone &Telegraph Company (GT&T) network has been further enhanced in the West Coast...

Government’s poor infrastructural management hampering growth

Nov 02, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Government’s poor infrastructural management hampering growth

A partnership of National Unity (APNU) is calling on the Government to better coordinate how it manages, plans and implements public infrastructural works. Opposition leader David Granger...

TVET programme gets $3.6M injection

Nov 02, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on TVET programme gets $3.6M injection

Technical institutes in Guyana are now in a better position to carry out their mandate after being recipients of a quantity of technical learning materials and equipment from the United...

Stalwart educator Anoopwattie Veeren passes on

Nov 02, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Stalwart educator Anoopwattie Veeren passes on

Educator and former head teacher of the Helena Primary School, Mahaica, Anoopwattie Veeren, died yesterday, at age 68, after a brief period of illness. Minister of Labour, Dr. Nanda Gopaul, expressed...

Biggest ever rice crop for Berbice – Armogan

Nov 02, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Biggest ever rice crop for Berbice – Armogan

Berbice is expected to produce a bumper rice crop. Region Six Chairman, David Armogan, it was revealed that more than 80 per cent of the crop has been extracted and harvested. Some farmers have also...

Transport sector deemed “largest consumer” of petrol

Nov 02, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Transport sector deemed “largest consumer” of petrol

– GEA implores public to be ‘Auto-smart’ The Guyana Energy Agency (GEA) is urging vehicular drivers to be more “Auto-smart” in light of the alarming fact that the transport...

Anti Money Laundering Bill…Passing of the Bill is not going to make things nice and dandy – Granger

Nov 02, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Anti Money Laundering Bill…Passing of the Bill is not going to make things nice and dandy – Granger

The government is using a lot of scare tactics to deceive people; therefore it is very important that the ordinary citizen understand what is going on. That was the concern expressed by A Partnership...

Government files High Court injunction against remigrant Guyanese

Nov 02, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Government files High Court injunction against remigrant Guyanese

The Guyana Government through Attorney General Mahabir Anil Nandlall, has filed an injunction against remigrant Guyanese Janak Jodhan also known as Jodan Boodram of lot 85 Tain Settlement...

By 2050, 140 million adults will reach retirement age – IDB

Nov 02, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on By 2050, 140 million adults will reach retirement age – IDB

– Four out of 10 saving for retirement Currently, only four out of 10 people over 65 are saving for retirement in Caribbean and Latin American countries and most pensions...

Govt. apologizes to Ronald Alli

Nov 02, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Govt. apologizes to Ronald Alli

Government has apologised to Ronald Alli, President of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Guyana (ICAG), for naming him as one of the person’s prejudicing investigations into the “conflict...

NOC student has pride of place

Nov 02, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on NOC student has pride of place

A female security guard attached at the New Opportunity Corps at Onderneming is offended by the actions of a “troublesome” 16-year-old New Opportunity Corps student who threw sand in her...

Professional Statisticians’ Association launched

Nov 02, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Professional Statisticians’ Association launched

The Caribbean Association of Professional Statisticians (CAPS) whose motto is ‘Promoting Statistics for Sustainable Development’ was launched on Monday in Basseterre, St. Kitts and Nevis....

Republic Bank launches Youth Link Apprenticeship Programme

Nov 02, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Republic Bank launches Youth Link Apprenticeship Programme

Twenty-nine apprentices will now prepare to embark upon a delightful journey that seeks to help them make a successful transition from school and into the work environment. The...