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CXC to manage regional nursing examination

Feb 23, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on CXC to manage regional nursing examination

– meeting held at Caricom Secretariat to plot way forward Discussions are apace to ensure that regional nursing education falls under the management of the Caribbean Examinations Council (CXC)...

Fire destroys Barama sawmill

Feb 23, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Fire destroys Barama sawmill

A businessman has suffered major losses, along with his Chinese counterparts. They were all granted concession to operate a lumbering enterprise at Barama, a Malaysian-owned company, located in the...

The Marriott hotel is at a bad site – Engineering expert

Feb 23, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on The Marriott hotel is at a bad site – Engineering expert

While Guyana’s Marriott Hotel may be moving apace in construction, at least one engineer is contending that when one takes certain factors into consideration, “the hotel is certainly not in an...

Complement of High Court Judges increased to 20

Feb 23, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Complement of High Court Judges increased to 20

Government announced yesterday that they have increased the High Court complement of Puisne Judges to the twenty; the maximum amount. Attorney General Anil Nandlall, in a statement explained that...

Riverain community turns to NGOs for help

Feb 23, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Riverain community turns to NGOs for help

– FFTP and SFCD to streamline development By Samuel Whyte Seemingly neglected by the Government and other relevant authorities, residents of the riverain community of Barakara, some 75 miles up...

New eating house opens in New Amsterdam

Feb 23, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on New eating house opens in New Amsterdam

Berbicians and those visiting the Ancient county, especially New Amsterdam, now have an added option in terms of choice of eating houses. This is because a new eating facility was recently opened in...

Air Services Limited grants stranded mother free flight back to her Region Eight home

Feb 23, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Air Services Limited grants stranded mother free flight back to her Region Eight home

20-year-old Veronica Francis was reminded that even in the most trying circumstances there are still people who are willing to be that shoulder you can lean on. Francis who is a resident of...

Tug captain vanishes under puzzling circumstances

Feb 23, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Tug captain vanishes under puzzling circumstances

A Mocha, East Bank Demerara family is anxiously awaiting word about the fate of a 74-year-old tug and pontoon captain, who disappeared under mysterious circumstances at Itaballi, Cuyuni/Mazaruni some...

Mashramani Greetings

Feb 23, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Mashramani Greetings

Mashramani Greetings from John Kerry, Secretary of State Washington, DC On behalf of President Obama and the people of the United States, I am delighted to extend best wishes to the people of...

Juice Power murder trial…Two freed of killing US-based businessman

Feb 23, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Juice Power murder trial…Two freed of killing US-based businessman

Earlier this week, Georgetown Supreme Court Judge Navindra Singh upheld a no case submission, which led to the dismissal of a case against two men, who were charged with the murder of US-based...

Sunday Cartoon

Feb 23, 2014 KNews Cartoons, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Sunday Cartoon

Drop the Cooperative from the Republic

Feb 23, 2014 KNews Editorial Comments Off on Drop the Cooperative from the Republic

In the forty-four years since Guyana became a republic this country has undergone many changes, including the transformation from a state in transition to cooperative socialism to that of a heavily...

Cane Cutter jailed for 11 years after pleading guilty to killing mason

Feb 23, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Cane Cutter jailed for 11 years after pleading guilty to killing mason

Cane cutter Rakash Janak called ‘Rakesh’, 22, of Zorg-en-Hoop Scheme, Blairmont West Bank Berbice, was on Thursday sentenced to 11 years in jail by Justice Diana Insanally. He was charged with...

Set Times of Favour

Feb 23, 2014 KNews Features / Columnists, Food For Thought Comments Off on Set Times of Favour

On January 8, 1986 at 4:00 in the afternoon, I walked into a jewelry store to buy a battery for my watch. Out walked the most beautiful girl I had ever seen. It was Victoria. I didn’t tell her, but...

From the Diaspora…RUSH TO JUDGMENT, AND THREE SIDES OF THE COIN

Feb 23, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on From the Diaspora…RUSH TO JUDGMENT, AND THREE SIDES OF THE COIN

By Ralph Seeram In that classic movie Casablanca, whenever a crime was committed the police would ‘round up the usual suspects’. Back in the PNC days any murder that had some sort of political...

Annandale shooting…Shot bandit recovering at GPHC

Feb 23, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Annandale shooting…Shot bandit recovering at GPHC

Dunstan La Fleur, the alleged bandit who was shot by an Annandale, East Coast Demerara businessman on January 17, last, is slowly recovering in the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC)’s...

Is Peter Persaud still the leader of The United Force?

Feb 23, 2014 KNews Letters Comments Off on Is Peter Persaud still the leader of The United Force?

Dear Editor, I have been seeing many letters to the press written by Peter Persaud and always supporting everything that the PPP does. Recently, he has been targeting Janette Bulkan and John Palmer....

There is a method to the pecking order in legislature politics

Feb 23, 2014 KNews Letters Comments Off on There is a method to the pecking order in legislature politics

Dear Editor, The brouhaha over MP Vanessa Kissoon’s reassigned seating in the National Assembly matters in the context of how such a decision was taken and what it can mean for future speaking...

What kind of mental attitude allows this to happen? What kind of society permits this?

Feb 23, 2014 KNews Letters Comments Off on What kind of mental attitude allows this to happen? What kind of society permits this?

Dear Editor, I live obliquely opposite where construction is taking place at 447 Fordyce Street, Phase 11 Republic Park. Yesterday, several loads of sand were dropped off at the site which covered...

Mahaica farmer murder trial continues

Feb 23, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Mahaica farmer murder trial continues

Deputy Superintendent of Police, (DSP) Michael Kingston told the court on Friday that he was stationed at Cove and John three years ago, when he arrested Orin David called ‘Plait Hair or Malik’...

The Baccoo Speaks

Feb 23, 2014 KNews Features / Columnists, The Baccoo Speaks Comments Off on The Baccoo Speaks

There will always be more of the same. With things at a low in the hinterland more miners are going to be taking chances. The result is another disaster. There will be reports of miners suffering...

Let the revellery continue

Feb 23, 2014 KNews Features / Columnists, My Column Comments Off on Let the revellery continue

Today is the forty-fourth anniversary of Guyana becoming a Republic. It is the day when forty-four years ago many people did not understand what becoming a republic meant. To make matters worse, the...

ImmigrationINFO …Immigration News For Our Community

Feb 23, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on ImmigrationINFO …Immigration News For Our Community

Is Immigration Reform likely in 2014? By Attorney Gail Seeram There were high hopes for passage of a comprehensive immigration bill in 2013 but it did not become reality due to the lack of action by...

Requiem for a playboy

Feb 23, 2014 KNews Features / Columnists, Murder and Mystery Comments Off on Requiem for a playboy

By Michael Jordan Had we followed this case more intensely, we surely would have tracked down Trevor Johnson’s secret lover, and the man whom they said killed him back in February 2002. But that...

National priorities

Feb 23, 2014 KNews AFC Column, Features / Columnists Comments Off on National priorities

By Dominic Gaskin AFC Treasurer There is politics and there are people, and the realities of civilization have imposed the former on the latter in a way that potentially allows societies to develop...

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