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Guyana: The longest war

Dec 17, 2013 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on Guyana: The longest war

I believe if there is any indication that President Donald Ramotar is not going to break, even in a minor way, with the long, ancient distrust and permanent tragedy that characterize...

Report on Camal Home COI to be released in January

Dec 17, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Report on Camal Home COI to be released in January

The Commission of Inquiry (COI) appointed by the Ministry of Human Services and Social Security to investigate allegations of maltreatment at the Camal International Home for Abused Women and...

PURCHASING POWER IS BEING ERODED BY DEVALUATION

Dec 17, 2013 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on PURCHASING POWER IS BEING ERODED BY DEVALUATION

The amount that a government decides to pay or to offer workers as an annual salary increase is not determined by any voted provision in the Budget. In fact, it is the other way around, the...

PSC defends position on Berbice bridge toll reduction

Dec 17, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on PSC defends position on Berbice bridge toll reduction

Chairman of the Private Sector Commission (PSC) Ronald Webster, confirmed yesterday that a few persons may not have been aware of the recently issued statement warning the Opposition parties that...

Gang hacks, stabs fisherman in squatting area dispute

Dec 17, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Gang hacks, stabs fisherman in squatting area dispute

A 23-year-old seaman was in a critical condition at the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation last night after he was viciously hacked and stabbed by three men at Pigeon Island Squatting...

Cheshire home gets more assistance for Christmas

Dec 17, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Cheshire home gets more assistance for Christmas

Every year around this time a group of individuals who make up the Enterprise Road Safety Association gives true meaning to the spirit of Christmas by donating from their modest earnings to...

Police will deal condignly with those bent on breaking the law – Commander

Dec 17, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Police will deal condignly with those bent on breaking the law – Commander

Those bent on breaking the law and disturbing the peace in Berbice, especially over the Christmas season are in for some tough times. Commander of the police Berbice ‘B’ Division,...

Saturday funeral for former Commander Josiah

Dec 17, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Saturday funeral for former Commander Josiah

The body of former Police Divisional Commander Derrick Josiah will be laid to rest with full military honours on Saturday. A senior police officer yesterday confirmed that the Force in consultation...

‘Bamboo’ and Cash thieves rampant in Stabroek Bazaar

Dec 17, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on ‘Bamboo’ and Cash thieves rampant in Stabroek Bazaar

Three separate stallholders in the Stabroek Bazaar have been robbed by bandits who apparently are targeting Cigarette “bamboo” wrappers (wrappings used to smoke cigarettes and other substances)...

Collapsing structures

Dec 17, 2013 KNews Editorial Comments Off on Collapsing structures

Guyana had long prided itself as being outside the earthquake and hurricane belt. Indeed, the country has not been known to suffer from any earthquake but in recent times it has felt...

Soldiers’ Day

Dec 17, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Soldiers’ Day

Colonel George Lewis serves a soldier during the annual ‘Soldiers’ Day’ celebrations at Base Kanuku, Lethem, last Sunday.

$12 int’l call rate to US approved

Dec 17, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on $12 int’l call rate to US approved

Regulators of the telephone industry have approved reduced international rates to Canada and the United States. According to an advisory of the Public Utilities Commission (PUC), the promotion on the...

Digicel continues to spread Christmas cheer

Dec 17, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Digicel continues to spread Christmas cheer

Digicel Guyana brought Christmas cheer to the children of the Ptolemy Reid Rehabilitation Centre (PRRC) over the weekend when they were given a treat, complete with Santa Claus and his elves....

A research agreement that benefits all Guyanese

Dec 17, 2013 KNews Letters Comments Off on A research agreement that benefits all Guyanese

DEAR EDITOR, It has been with great consternation that I have been reading the past week’s Stabroek News and now the Kaieteur News in relation to the utterings over the award of a Permission of...

Crude stubbornness at City Hall

Dec 17, 2013 KNews Letters Comments Off on Crude stubbornness at City Hall

Dear Editor, During and after our rains I visited several areas in Georgetown, listening to concerns expressed by various persons. Conditions were horrible, certainly unacceptable for the...

Patients left to fend for themselves as ‘sick out’ escalates

Dec 16, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Patients left to fend for themselves as ‘sick out’ escalates

Patients from various wards at the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) have been left to fend for themselves since Saturday after more than 300 nurses at the institution reported...

Triangle love affair leaves man dead, rival wounded

Dec 16, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Triangle love affair leaves man dead, rival wounded

A father of four was stabbed to death at around 19:30hrs yesterday, during a brawl with his estranged wife’s fiancé who sustained a chop wound to the head. Dead is 42-year-old Carl Garnett of Lot...

The greatest son of the 21st century laid to rest

Dec 16, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on The greatest son of the 21st century laid to rest

QUNU, South Africa (Reuters) – South Africa buried Nelson Mandela yesterday, leaving the multi-racial democracy he founded without its living inspiration and still striving for the “Rainbow...

New River Triangle debacle…Mursi deal will pose a threat to National Security

Dec 16, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on New River Triangle debacle…Mursi deal will pose a threat to National Security

…GDF had objected to a previous attempt – Chris Ram The Permission granted by Minister of Natural Resources and the Environment, Robert Persaud, to Muri Brasil Ventures Inc, to survey...

Huge waves sink barge, sailor feared dead

Dec 16, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Huge waves sink barge, sailor feared dead

A sailor is missing and feared dead after the barge that he was on sank in the Atlantic Ocean during the wee hours of yesterday morning. The missing man has been identified as ‘Christopher’, a...

Wild, Wild North West…Cops shoot drunk,gun-toting miner

Dec 16, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Wild, Wild North West…Cops shoot drunk,gun-toting miner

There was yet another shooting incident Saturday in the increasingly lawless North-West District, with police wounding a gun-toting, 27-year-old miner, who was discharging a firearm and...

Dem boys seh…Parbattie aka Carol was a night nurse

Dec 16, 2013 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Dem boys seh…Parbattie aka Carol was a night nurse

De name Parbattie knock dem boys like a brick. People talk de name and dem seh that is a powerful woman; that she is a big thing in Georgetown. Well dem boys never hear de name suh dem decide to do...

Kwakwani Secondary outplay LTI, UG too hot for Bishop’s in YBG Titan Bowl semis

Dec 16, 2013 KNews Sports Comments Off on Kwakwani Secondary outplay LTI, UG too hot for Bishop’s in YBG Titan Bowl semis

Kwakwani Secondary School outplayed Linden Technical Institute (LTI) for a 70-53 win on Saturday evening at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall to clinch a berth in the final of the Youth Basketball...

Farfan & Mendes Junior Christmas Tournament concludes

Dec 16, 2013 KNews Sports Comments Off on Farfan & Mendes Junior Christmas Tournament concludes

Wiltshire clan dominate on Final day The Guyana Squash Association in collaboration with its number one sponsor Digicel concluded with exciting play in the Farfan & Mendes Junior Christmas...

3rd GBA/DDL Gatorade/Pepsi/Diamond Mineral Water, U-16 Boxing C/ship…Isaiah Moore is DDL/GBA Best boxer as championships conclude

Dec 16, 2013 KNews Sports Comments Off on 3rd GBA/DDL Gatorade/Pepsi/Diamond Mineral Water, U-16 Boxing C/ship…Isaiah Moore is DDL/GBA Best boxer as championships conclude

Two days of fistic fury concluded yesterday morning and boxing buffs were treated to several interesting bouts when the curtains came down on the 3rd edition of the GBA/DDL Gatorade/Pepsi/Diamond...

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A lesson from the bread lines of America

…Peeping Tom Kaieteur News- If the American elections of 2024 delivered any one lesson to the rest of the world, it... more