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Engineers “will soon be held accountable” for substandard work

Mar 05, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Engineers “will soon be held accountable” for substandard work

By Kiana Wilburg The government will not be made to face the blame on its own, as it relates to the inferior work produced by some contracted engineers, since moves are being made to have the...

Grove residents to petition for new bridge

Mar 05, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Grove residents to petition for new bridge

Irate residents of Block ‘Y’ Section ‘C’ Grove New Scheme, East Bank Demerara will now be formally applying to the Ministry of Public Works for the permission to rebuild a bridge, which was...

AG sues Kaieteur News over ‘Dem Boys Seh’ articles

Mar 05, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on AG sues Kaieteur News over ‘Dem Boys Seh’ articles

Attorney General and Minister of Legal Affairs, Anil Nandlall, has filed a lawsuit in the Supreme Court against Kaieteur News’ Publisher Glenn Lall, Editor-in-Chief Adam Harris, and the National...

Basdeo Panday to speak at GM&SA awards ceremony

Mar 05, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Basdeo Panday to speak at GM&SA awards ceremony

Former Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago, Basdeo Panday, is slated to be the keynote speaker at tomorrow’s 18th Annual Awards Presentation and Dinner (APAD) of the Guyana Manufacturing and...

GWI launches ‘Operation Reconnect’

Mar 05, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on GWI launches ‘Operation Reconnect’

The Guyana Water Incorporated (GWI) has launched a new programme titled ‘Operation Reconnect’ to offer disconnected customers the opportunity to reconnect their service without penalty fees....

Public demand returns CN Sharma to the airwaves

Mar 05, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Public demand returns CN Sharma to the airwaves

Still very much in the recovery stage after suffering multiple strokes, veteran broadcaster Chandra Narine (C.N.) Sharma is back on the airwaves, following numerous demands from the public . Sharma...

Procurement Commission can review objections by Cabinet – Nandlall

Mar 05, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Procurement Commission can review objections by Cabinet – Nandlall

The Constitution of Guyana provides for establishment of the Public Procurement Commission with the caveat that it be, “independent, impartial and shall discharge its functions fairly.” Attorney...

AML Bill being “held hostage” in select committee – Gail Teixeira

Mar 05, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on AML Bill being “held hostage” in select committee – Gail Teixeira

The government and the political opposition remain gridlocked over the Anti-Money Laundering and Countering the Financing of Terrorism (AML/CFT) Bill, with neither prepared to budge from their...

Alleged victim of police harassment seeks Minister’s intervention

Mar 05, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Alleged victim of police harassment seeks Minister’s intervention

Expressing a total lack of trust in law enforcement officers, Ricky Ramdhani, a victim of alleged police harassment, intensified his call for justice as he picketed the Brickdam office of Home...

Understanding the PPP’s epistemology

Mar 05, 2014 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on Understanding the PPP’s epistemology

Epistemology may sound like a big word, but it is such an important concept that all humans that live under authoritarian, totalitarian, tyrannical or even semi-dictatorial governments need to...

Frustrating sources of our underdevelopment

Mar 05, 2014 KNews Editorial Comments Off on Frustrating sources of our underdevelopment

The international community seeks to measure the development of countries by the number of schools, the quality of skilled people (teachers, nurses, doctors, artisans and the like) medical...

GWI supervisor on bail for alleged sex with minor

Mar 05, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on GWI supervisor on bail for alleged sex with minor

A supervisor attached to Guyana Water Incorporated in Region Nine was on Monday brought before the courts to be indicted for allegedly having sex with a 15-year-old schoolgirl. At the Lethem...

ASHNI’S ACCIDENT

Mar 05, 2014 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on ASHNI’S ACCIDENT

In one of the most memorable scenes from the movie ‘And Justice for All’, the defence lawyer, Arthur Kirkland, played by Al Pacino, is making his opening remarks to the jury. He accuses the...

Woman fined $150,000 for 24 gallons of smuggled fuel

Mar 05, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Woman fined $150,000 for 24 gallons of smuggled fuel

An Essequibo court has fined a woman $150,000 after she was caught with 24 gallons of smuggled fuel at her residence. According to the Guyana Energy Authority (GEA), the conviction was the first for...

Process commences for shot man to have bullet removed overseas

Mar 05, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Process commences for shot man to have bullet removed overseas

Overseas medical care may soon be on the horizon for 28-year-old Jason Fraser, who has for more than a month been moving around with a bullet lodged in his abdomen. A letter from the Georgetown...

Lima woman freed of killing partner

Mar 05, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Lima woman freed of killing partner

Forty-three year-old, Joylyn Benn, of Lima Dam, Essequibo Coast, was on Monday freed of a manslaughter charge at the Suddie High Court by Justice Nareshwar Harnarnan, after a jury’s unanimous...

NOC cops first place in Region 2 Mash and Float Parade

Mar 05, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on NOC cops first place in Region 2 Mash and Float Parade

Students and staff at the New Opportunity Corps (NOC) in Onderneeming, Region 2 planned and executed several activities with the aim of celebrating Guyana’s 44th Republic Anniversary. The two weeks...

Repeat offender jailed for stealing pig

Mar 05, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Repeat offender jailed for stealing pig

A labourer of Princes Street, Lodge was yesterday sentenced to one year imprisonment by a city Magistrate after he confessed to stealing his neighbour’s pig. Calvin Francis at first insisted that...

Bus conductor in court for drug store owner’s murder

Mar 05, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Bus conductor in court for drug store owner’s murder

Almost three years after a renowned city drug store owner was found dead at his home, the newly-acquired Automated Fingerprinting Identification System (AFIS) has landed a minibus conductor before...

GPL will make the most pious of us blaspheme

Mar 05, 2014 KNews Letters Comments Off on GPL will make the most pious of us blaspheme

Dear Editor, Toward the end of October of 2013 electricity service to my home was fittingly disconnected by GPL for non-payment of charges. On November 01, 2013 I paid the current charges, all...

Mr. Ramkarran should show us that he stands for the national interest

Mar 05, 2014 KNews Letters Comments Off on Mr. Ramkarran should show us that he stands for the national interest

Dear Editor, I have seen Mr. Ralph Ramkarran’s article in the “Stabroek News”. He has once again returned to his favourite theme of compromise. This man seems to have nothing that he is...

Seeing workers only as units to maximise financial returns

Mar 05, 2014 KNews Letters Comments Off on Seeing workers only as units to maximise financial returns

Dear Editor, I would like to send a message to all employers who may be having problems with their employees in that they feel these are not contributing enough to their business. I have seen a lot...

PM’s troubling utterances about Minister Ashni Singh’s driving accident

Mar 05, 2014 KNews Letters Comments Off on PM’s troubling utterances about Minister Ashni Singh’s driving accident

Dear Editor, Permit me to make two very important observations which I believe are directly related to Finance Minister Ashni Singh’s purported reckless driving, and subsequent accident. The first...

How many viewers knew that the Chief Justice of Belize was also a Guyanese

Mar 05, 2014 KNews Letters Comments Off on How many viewers knew that the Chief Justice of Belize was also a Guyanese

Dear Editor, One couldn’t help wondering how many of the various generations of those who would have witnessed the very recent celebration of Guyanese Justice Desiree Bernard’s contribution to...

My son is the victim of police harassment

Mar 05, 2014 KNews Letters Comments Off on My son is the victim of police harassment

Dear Editor, I write to publicize the constant and unrelenting harassment, victimization and abuse perpetrated on my son, Marlon Dolphin, by the Guyana Police Force. The police, and the media, have...

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The stakes are high in Guyana’s democracy

Peeping Tom… Kaieteur News- In any vibrant democracy, the mechanisms that bind it together are those that mediate differences,... more