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Guyana Foundation distributes Solar-powered light kits at Breezy Point

Mar 12, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Guyana Foundation distributes Solar-powered light kits at Breezy Point

Over the past weekend, a team from the Guyana Foundation visited ‘Breezy Point’ where solar-powered light kits were donated to needy families in the area. Breezy Point is a village situated on...

CARICOM moves to address local law students’ issue

Mar 12, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on CARICOM moves to address local law students’ issue

There appears to be a resolution towards the issue of accommodating Guyanese law students at the Hugh Wooding Law Faculty for the upcoming academic year, Legal Affairs Minister and Attorney General...

Minister Webster represents CARICOM at UN Forum on Women

Mar 12, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Minister Webster represents CARICOM at UN Forum on Women

…tells of gender equality challenges The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) has recorded significant progress as it relates to achieving the Millennium Development Goals set for women and girls. This is...

Overpayments to contractors unacceptable – APNU

Mar 12, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Overpayments to contractors unacceptable – APNU

– Shadow Minister to write AG on status of Engineering Act Shadow Minister of the political opposition coalition, A Partnership for National Unity (APNU), Joseph Harmon, has condemned the...

CCJ hosts sixth annual mooting competition this week

Mar 12, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on CCJ hosts sixth annual mooting competition this week

Students from CARICOM law institutions will compete in the 6th Annual Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) International Law Moot 2014, scheduled to take place on Friday at the CCJ Headquarters in Port...

APNU execs to boycott AML consultation

Mar 12, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on APNU execs to boycott AML consultation

– say “just another attempt at political mischief” Members of the political opposition coalition, A Partnership for National Unity (APNU), will not be attending government’s...

Woman mistakenly charged with robbery gets High Court bail

Mar 12, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Woman mistakenly charged with robbery gets High Court bail

A woman, who was ‘mistakenly’ charged and remanded to prison seven days ago by a City Magistrate, on an armed robbery allegation, secured bail at the High Court yesterday. Alana Taylor, 32, of...

GPSU rejects denial of its meetings on Ministry’s premises

Mar 12, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on GPSU rejects denial of its meetings on Ministry’s premises

By Zena Henry The Guyana Public Service Union (GPSU) has expressed discontent over the denial of union meetings being held on Ministry property. As part of the continuing “fan out” exercise in...

Gunmen beat taxi driver, steal his car

Mar 12, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Gunmen beat taxi driver, steal his car

Just six months ago Colin Williams purchased a silver grey Toyota Premio motorcar to try his hand in the taxi business. On Monday he had to run and leave it behind after receiving a beating at the...

Tattoo may help cops identify headless body

Mar 12, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Tattoo may help cops identify headless body

Police are still appealing for help to identify the man whose headless body was found near the abandoned section of the Vreed-en-Hoop wharf last week Tuesday. They have not ruled out the possibility...

Revenue Authority unveils online, telebanking payment options

Mar 12, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Revenue Authority unveils online, telebanking payment options

The Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) yesterday unveiled its online and telephone banking (telebanking) payment option systems. Speaking on the new online banking system was GRA’s Public Relations...

APNU has no regard for sugar workers and their families – PPP

Mar 12, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on APNU has no regard for sugar workers and their families – PPP

The People’s Progressive Party (PPP) in a statement issued late last night has criticized what it called “the callous and insensitive comments of A Partnership for National Unity’s (APNU) in...

GTUC, Russians trade barbs over BCGI ‘violations’

Mar 12, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on GTUC, Russians trade barbs over BCGI ‘violations’

The Guyana Trades Union Congress (GTUC) has for several years now been accusing the Bauxite Company of Guyana Inc (BCGI), owned by Russian company RUSAL, of breaching local laws and violating...

Former Uitvlugt Estate cook turns 100!

Mar 12, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Former Uitvlugt Estate cook turns 100!

Amid many trials and tribulations, a still bubbly Monica Cornelia Janniere has recently joined the much-admired group of persons who have managed to conquer the age of 100. Born on March 2,...

Work on GGMC’s new head office to commence soon

Mar 12, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Work on GGMC’s new head office to commence soon

…bids in for supervision and construction of High St. building By Zena Henry The Guyana Geology and Mines Commission (GGMC) is moving ahead with plans to use in excess of US$3M ($600M) to...

CCJ hosts sixth annual mooting competition this week

Mar 12, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on CCJ hosts sixth annual mooting competition this week

APNU urges citizens to denounce Govt.’s “politics of division”

Mar 12, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on APNU urges citizens to denounce Govt.’s “politics of division”

A Partnership for National Unity (APNU)’s Shadow Minister of Public Works and Telecommunications, Joseph Harmon, is calling on citizens to “condemn the politics of division which was being...

US Company bids to supply electromagnetic equipment for GWI

Mar 12, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on US Company bids to supply electromagnetic equipment for GWI

Bids from six entities, including one from Florida, USA, were opened yesterday at the National Procurement and Tender Administration Board (NPTAB) for the supply and delivery of electromagnetic...

Another retrial for Festival City murder accused

Mar 12, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Another retrial for Festival City murder accused

Charles Anthony Woolford is scheduled to face a second retrial for the murder of his wife, Latoya Conway-Woolford, after a mixed 12 –member jury, failed to reach a verdict on the matter yesterday...

Basdeo Panday, Ralph Ramkarran, Henry Jeffrey and…

Mar 12, 2014 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on Basdeo Panday, Ralph Ramkarran, Henry Jeffrey and…

Quite often, people would say to me; “Maan, Fredaay, yuh ain’t writing about Ramkarran and Jeffrey; wheh deh bin all de time?” What they mean is that they would like to hear my views on...

Lower C’tyne positively impacted by GDF Medical Outreach

Mar 12, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Lower C’tyne positively impacted by GDF Medical Outreach

Scores of residents of the lower Corentyne benefitted from a medical outreach conducted by the Guyana Defence Force on Sunday last. The outreach was conducted in partnership with the Berbice Cricket...

Appealing to the politically apathetic

Mar 12, 2014 KNews Editorial Comments Off on Appealing to the politically apathetic

Greek philosopher Aristotle once famously remarked that man was by nature a “political” animal; he also pointed out that those societies that chose not to educate their citizens about politics...

SUCH A BIG COUNTRY…

Mar 12, 2014 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on SUCH A BIG COUNTRY…

Guyana has the tenth lowest population density of all the countries in the world. And when it comes to small countries – those with a land mass of under 100,000 square miles – Guyana is...

The “Qack” pollster has returned

Mar 12, 2014 KNews Letters Comments Off on The “Qack” pollster has returned

Dear Editor, Unlike Kaieteur News, I am completely baffled as to why a reputable paper such as Stabroek News would publish such bogus polls by Bisram. Bisram claims to be a school teacher but can...

Freddie, what mistakes did Hoyte make?

Mar 12, 2014 KNews Letters Comments Off on Freddie, what mistakes did Hoyte make?

Dear Editor, In his drivel (Mar 7), Freddie Kissoon penned: “Mr. Hoyte made some fatal mistakes that allowed the PNC to lose power and he was psychologically lacerated by those errors which haunted...

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