January 30, 2014

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IDB Cultural Center launches call for proposals for cultural projects

Jan 30, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on IDB Cultural Center launches call for proposals for cultural projects

The Cultural Center of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) has launched a call for proposals addressed to arts and cultural institutions of civil society to fund cultural development projects...

CVC/COIN announces first round of HIV grants in Guyana

Jan 30, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on CVC/COIN announces first round of HIV grants in Guyana

The Caribbean Vulnerable Communities Coalition (CVC) and the Centre of Integral Orientation and Investigation (COIN) located in Jamaica and Dominica Republic respectively have joined forces to...

Top Cop targets Corentyne drug dealers

Jan 30, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Top Cop targets Corentyne drug dealers

Police Commissioner Leroy Brumell has said that his ranks will have to go after big drug dealers. He then mandated ‘B’ Division Commander, Brian Joseph, to pursue this issue. Inspector Khali...

Man claims police shot, robbed him

Jan 30, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Man claims police shot, robbed him

A father of two is calling on Police Commissioner Leroy Brumell and other relevant authorities to investigate an undercover policeman who shot him in the upper thigh while discharging several...

Two years of repairs…Parika Health Centre still not functional

Jan 30, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Two years of repairs…Parika Health Centre still not functional

After two years of renovation at a cost of $2M, the Parika Backdam Health Centre is yet to become functional. At present, residents are being attended to by a Medex who utilizes a part of the...

De-criminalise marijuana or revise sentencing policy – GHRA

Jan 30, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on De-criminalise marijuana or revise sentencing policy – GHRA

In alluding to the inconsistencies related to the sentencing of persons convicted of marijuana possession, the Guyana Human Rights Association (GHRA), in a statement issued yesterday, amplified its...

Inspire Inc hosts another gospel night

Jan 30, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Inspire Inc hosts another gospel night

Minister Hoszia Hinds, one of the headline performers at Inspire’s Gospel Festival 2014, has arrived in Guyana. The Inspire team has already uploaded photographs of the Minister and has also had an...

Two students stabbed near school, police mount probe

Jan 30, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Two students stabbed near school, police mount probe

Staff members of the Richard Ishmael Secondary School were yesterday reminded of the ‘schoolyard killing’ nine years ago. A student killed a woman on that occasion. The reminder came after two...

Berbician charged for forged passport stamps

Jan 30, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Berbician charged for forged passport stamps

A 37-year-old father of two accused of inserting false Guyana Immigration stamps in an Antigua and Barbuda passport appeared yesterday before Chief Magistrate, Priya Sewnarine-Beharry, at the...

Deborah Backer to make public announcement today

Jan 30, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Deborah Backer to make public announcement today

Deputy Speaker of the National Assembly, Deborah Backer, after a prolonged silence of her health status and future in the House, is expected to come public with a statement today. This is according...

Top Cop accepts Rohee’s recommendations, transfers Corentyne ranks

Jan 30, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Top Cop accepts Rohee’s recommendations, transfers Corentyne ranks

…only shifting problem to another place —says AFC In response to the complaints and “standoffs” of residents of Number 48 Village, Corentyne over what they described as police...

Case adjourned after prisoner collapses in courtroom

Jan 30, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Case adjourned after prisoner collapses in courtroom

In the courtroom of the Chief Magistrate yesterday, a prisoner collapsed and was sent for medical attention, even before the threatening language charge could have been read to him. Simon Madramootoo...

Every day you see the mediocrity that has descended on Guyana

Jan 30, 2014 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on Every day you see the mediocrity that has descended on Guyana

One of the dangerous things about a poor country that is wrecked by social and political decay is the loss of human resources. Good, intelligent, mature, educated, talented, skillful,...

ANOTHER MASTERCLASS FROM JUSTICE CHANG

Jan 30, 2014 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on ANOTHER MASTERCLASS FROM JUSTICE CHANG

Yesterday was an historic day in the struggle to protect the Constitution of Guyana from being violated by the country’s opposition parties. And rightly so. It was the judiciary, the ultimate...

The ability to forget

Jan 30, 2014 KNews Editorial Comments Off on The ability to forget

The human brain is an amazing part of the anatomy. Some say that it is the repository of life and indeed, all of the phases of life are stored in the brain. The memories are stored there as...

Pomeroon man freed of manslaughter

Jan 30, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Pomeroon man freed of manslaughter

A Pomeroon man who police had implicated in the murder of his dead friend, Alexis Smith, in 2010, at Warapana, Upper Pomeroon River, was freed on the lesser count of manslaughter by Justice Nareshwar...

Irresponsible spending of taxpayers’ money

Jan 30, 2014 KNews Letters Comments Off on Irresponsible spending of taxpayers’ money

DEAR EDITOR, Please permit me to respond to an article published in your 28th January edition ‘GPHC among five hospitals to get new ambulances’. The Health Minister reportedly said that Kwakwani...

We would like to see more tangible assistance from corporate citizens

Jan 30, 2014 KNews Letters Comments Off on We would like to see more tangible assistance from corporate citizens

DEAR EDITOR, We take this opportunity to make some suggestions to the way some of us treat our country. We believe there is need for corporate citizens; who have benefitted from the citizens of...

Everybody should have the same quality of life and protection under the law

Jan 30, 2014 KNews Letters Comments Off on Everybody should have the same quality of life and protection under the law

DEAR EDITOR, The headline in Stabroek News on Wednesday, January 29 reads “Top Cop sweeps No 51 station clean”. Sincere congratulations to the people of No. 48 village and surrounding...

What can bridge our differences?

Jan 30, 2014 KNews Letters Comments Off on What can bridge our differences?

DEAR EDITOR, Mr Elton McRae in a letter to SN of 1-26-14 titled “Burial sites linked to faith based organizations in BV-Triumph are managed by an established code”, seeks relief for alleged...

M&CC – Roads, Parks and Drainage

Jan 30, 2014 KNews Letters Comments Off on M&CC – Roads, Parks and Drainage

Dear Editor, When last I checked (a few years ago) the establishment of each of the Units of the M&CC mentioned, was as indicated below. It is in the context of all the overflowing debate about a...

Is it really Uncle Donald that put his foot down?

Jan 30, 2014 KNews Letters Comments Off on Is it really Uncle Donald that put his foot down?

DEAR EDITOR, The prevailing opinion in Guyana is that Donald Ramotar is the Jagdeoites’ Dmitry Medvedev. Messrs Dr. Asquith Rose and Harish S. Singh summed it up in their letter titled “Present...

Young people feel insecure in Guyana

Jan 30, 2014 KNews Letters Comments Off on Young people feel insecure in Guyana

DEAR EDITOR, We as young people don’t feel safe in Guyana to express ourselves. We are aware of cases where young people have been abused and violated in this country and the public...

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Just what is going on in Guyana?

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(Kaieteur News) – There was a time when the average Guyanese scandal involved a man stealing two plantains from a neighbour’s kitchen garden and then attending the same neighbour’s wake three weeks later pretending to be grief-stricken. We were a manageable people. Dysfunction arrived in...

The Caribbean’s Limits in Absorbing Other States’ Deportees

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By Sir Ronald Sanders (Kaieteur News) – Migration policy is a matter of sovereign control. Governments assert, rightly, their authority to regulate borders, determine who may enter, and enforce their laws. The United States has that right, as does every sovereign state. All Caribbean governments...

Anand Persaud calls out, castigates, the PPP Govt.

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Hard Truths by GHK Lall (Kaieteur News) – Governments govern. Leaders lead. Media reports on governance, leadership. People pronounce on the quality of both. I do. Anand Persaud did. As the former editor-in-chief of the much-praised, much-missed, Stabroek News, he would know about...

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