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Govt. seeks additional $2.4B for housing projects, drainage

Jan 04, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Govt. seeks additional $2.4B for housing projects, drainage

Minister of Finance, Dr. Àshni Singh yesterday asked the National Assembly for an additional $2.4B. In the first financial paper, government is asking for a supplementary capital provision for $2B...

House votes for end to Cuban embargo

Jan 04, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on House votes for end to Cuban embargo

By Abena Rockcliffe Guyana yesterday stepped up the pressure for the United States to remove what it described as the “unjust” economic and financial embargo against Cuba. That blockade was...

Pomeroon River tragedy…Police, DPP will decide whether Reg. Chairman, captain are charged – Minister Benn

Jan 04, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Pomeroon River tragedy…Police, DPP will decide whether Reg. Chairman, captain are charged – Minister Benn

Did a senior regional official and others fail to render assistance to victims of the tragic boat accident on the Pomeroon River back in December that left six persons dead? The subject of the...

Guyana’s coconut in vast demand

Jan 04, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Guyana’s coconut in vast demand

– Agri Ministry promises to make industry a priority There is now great demand for coconut locally, regionally, and internationally. This is according to Minister of Agriculture, Dr....

Ministry’s strategic plan to help refine health care delivery

Jan 04, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Ministry’s strategic plan to help refine health care delivery

Aided by its Strategic Plan which is being dubbed ‘Health Vision 20/20’, the Ministry of Health is poised to renew its delivery of health care premised on the two main pillars of primary health...

Sculptor Ivor Thom completes 1823 monument

Jan 04, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Sculptor Ivor Thom completes 1823 monument

Guyanese sculptor Ivor Thom has completed work on the 1823 rebellion monument. During a media briefing yesterday, Thom revealed that he has finished the bronze structure, even as works are...

APNU calls for review of school feeding programmes

Jan 04, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on APNU calls for review of school feeding programmes

– MP claims students “prostituting themselves” for food By Abena Rockcliffe While government has indicated that it has invested a whopping $1.2B in school feeding programmes, an...

Rohee’s elaborate “security” plan has nothing new, govt. is desperate – APNU

Jan 04, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Rohee’s elaborate “security” plan has nothing new, govt. is desperate – APNU

By Latoya Giles “That elaborate security plan which was outlined in a statement by Minister of Home Affairs Clement Rohee, on Old Year’s Day was something on the cards for about 21 months, it...

Parliament off to stormy start in 2013…Opposition refuses to back down on Rohee “gag”

Jan 04, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Parliament off to stormy start in 2013…Opposition refuses to back down on Rohee “gag”

The 2013 sittings of the National Assembly got off to a stormy start yesterday, with government and the Opposition steadfastly standing their ground over matters related to Minister of Home Affairs,...

ETHNIC ISSUES SHOULD BE HANDLED WITH SENSITIVITY

Jan 04, 2013 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on ETHNIC ISSUES SHOULD BE HANDLED WITH SENSITIVITY

There is a dispute about the monument which the government is constructing to commemorate a past slave uprising. The dispute has nothing to do with location but everything to do with who is...

Democracy, the public and welfare

Jan 04, 2013 KNews Editorial Comments Off on Democracy, the public and welfare

This year, we begin our third decade of governance under ‘free and fair” elections. The arrangement of democratic life, especially in political aspects, has been established. The...

C’bean countries to benefit from extension of zero-interest loans – IMF

Jan 04, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on C’bean countries to benefit from extension of zero-interest loans – IMF

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) says that low-income countries face the slow pace of the global recovery and increased volatility in food and fuel prices. However, a number of Caribbean...

Remove barriers that endanger, restrict persons with disabilities – PAHO/WHO

Jan 04, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Remove barriers that endanger, restrict persons with disabilities – PAHO/WHO

The Pan American Health Organization/World Health Organization (PAHO/WHO) is calling for the removal of barriers that endanger the health and restrict the participation of the estimated...

City Hall dismissals…Implement recommendations to avert future mismanagement – Burrowes

Jan 04, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on City Hall dismissals…Implement recommendations to avert future mismanagement – Burrowes

The sacking of several officers of the Georgetown Municipality comes as a direct result of the findings that were unearthed by the Keith Burrowes-led Implementation Committee. The Committee had found...

Scotiabank unveils another range of services

Jan 04, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Scotiabank unveils another range of services

Scotiabank has added another range of services to its wide array, making Guyana more current with trends worldwide. The financial institution yesterday disclosed that it has introduced Scotia Online,...

Provision of transportation greatly aids development in Amerindian villages – Minister

Jan 04, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Provision of transportation greatly aids development in Amerindian villages – Minister

With the advent of vehicles entering Amerindian communities, ‘smoke signals’ will be a thing of the past. This is according to the Minister of Amerindian Affairs, Pauline Sukhai. At a...

Bag snatcher relieves ‘Fowl Cock’ of currency, documents

Jan 04, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Bag snatcher relieves ‘Fowl Cock’ of currency, documents

…reward offered Businessman and contractor, Roopan Ramotar, popularly known as ‘Fowl Cock’ became the victim of a snatch-and-grab robbery yesterday at Cornelia Ida, West Coast...

Unidentified male in GPHC

Jan 04, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Unidentified male in GPHC

On December 18, last, a male of East Indian descent and aged about 35 years of age, was dropped off at the Accident and Emergency Department. He was unconscious at the time with wounds to...

Does ‘wench’ have a new meaning?

Jan 04, 2013 KNews Letters Comments Off on Does ‘wench’ have a new meaning?

Dear Editor, The word ‘wench’, which has been cropping up so much of late, reminded me of a misogynistic boss I once had. He had inherited five assistants, one of whom was a...

A worthwhile partnership

Jan 04, 2013 KNews Letters Comments Off on A worthwhile partnership

Dear Editor, I would like to commend the Georgetown Football Association (G.F.A.) and Banks D.I.H. for running off another tremendously successful end-of-year football competition....

Exposing a dictatorship in the Rupununi

Jan 04, 2013 KNews Letters Comments Off on Exposing a dictatorship in the Rupununi

Dear Editor, Please permit me space in your letters column to highlight two issues-that were discussed at the last sitting of the Regional Democratic Council Meeting of December 14,...

RANDAL BUTISINGH’s TRIBUTE OMITTED HE FLED BUXTON

Jan 04, 2013 KNews Letters Comments Off on RANDAL BUTISINGH’s TRIBUTE OMITTED HE FLED BUXTON

Dear Editor, In the Stabroek News Diaspora series written by Ms Alicia Trotz in the SN of 31-12-12 titled “A constant teacher, a constant student: A collective tribute to Randal Mohan...

COMPROMISE AND POLITICAL WILL NEEDED IN NEW YEAR

Jan 04, 2013 KNews Letters Comments Off on COMPROMISE AND POLITICAL WILL NEEDED IN NEW YEAR

Dear Editor, The political climate for 2012 was one of confrontation and staunch resistance between the Government and the combined opposition (APNU/AFC) following the latter’s...

A serious omission

Jan 04, 2013 KNews Letters Comments Off on A serious omission

Dear Editor, May I introduce myself as Sam Vijay Kumar from India. I recently came across your website and was very impressed with the variety of news that you publish. I was also so...

GPL can be most disinterested

Jan 04, 2013 KNews Letters Comments Off on GPL can be most disinterested

Dear Editor, My new year started with my first visitor being a guy from GPL disconnection crew. He was there to inform me that he will be back tomorrow to disconnect my electricity if...

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Development requires more than oil revenues

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