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Trophy Stall/EBFA U-15 League …Double header at Grove today

Mar 15, 2014 KNews Sports Comments Off on Trophy Stall/EBFA U-15 League …Double header at Grove today

Competition in the Trophy Stall sponsored, East Bank Football Association Under-15 League will continue today at the Grove Playfield with the final two matches in the first round. The unbeaten Grove...

A MAN WHO CANNOT FEED HIS FAMILY IS LESS OF A MAN

Mar 15, 2014 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on A MAN WHO CANNOT FEED HIS FAMILY IS LESS OF A MAN

In 1980, there were close to 100,000 workers in the public sector. This meant that one in every four employable Guyanese worked for the government. However by 1986, the total number of workers in the...

GTU adopts ‘zero tolerance’ stance to sexual teacher/student relations

Mar 15, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on GTU adopts ‘zero tolerance’ stance to sexual teacher/student relations

A zero tolerance stance has been assumed by the Guyana Teachers Union (GTU) regarding sexual teacher/student relationships that has in recent years escalated to disturbing proportions. During an...

Anti Money Laundering Law …Opposition bent on taking Guyana back to 1964/1992 era- Whittaker

Mar 15, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Anti Money Laundering Law …Opposition bent on taking Guyana back to 1964/1992 era- Whittaker

The combined Opposition seems bent once again on taking Guyana back to the epoch of the 1964 to 1992 era by their failure to pass the Anti Money Laundering and Countering the Financing of Terrorism...

APNU says poor physical infrastructure due to PPP power centralism

Mar 15, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on APNU says poor physical infrastructure due to PPP power centralism

…says Local Government Elections is the answer A Partnership for National Unity (APNU) is blaming the People’s Progressive Party/Civic (PPP/C) for failing to improve and invest in...

A Bill under siege

Mar 15, 2014 KNews Editorial Comments Off on A Bill under siege

What is really the issue with the modifications to the Anti-money Laundering and Countering Financial Terrorism Bill? This Bill has been languishing in Guyana for a long time, so long that the...

Jagdeo/Kissoon libel case…Lawyer seeks to amend defence, judge to rule

Mar 15, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Jagdeo/Kissoon libel case…Lawyer seeks to amend defence, judge to rule

Lawyers in the Jagdeo/Kissoon libel case are awaiting a decision by presiding Supreme Court Judge, Brassington Reynolds, on the amendments to the defence case. These amendments were submitted by...

Agriculture Ministry’s 2013/2020 strategic plan to focus on technological advancement

Mar 15, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Agriculture Ministry’s 2013/2020 strategic plan to focus on technological advancement

The Ministry of Agriculture will soon launch its 2013/2020 Strategic Plan highlighting the priority works to accelerate agricultural development and by extension Guyana, since the country is largely...

E’bo Wartsila engine repairs completed – GPL

Mar 15, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on E’bo Wartsila engine repairs completed – GPL

Repairs to a key generator on the Essequibo Coast are completed and there are plans to add another unit shortly, the Guyana Power and Light (GPL) announced yesterday. That Region Two area has been...

IAC prepares for symposium to address suicide trend

Mar 15, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on IAC prepares for symposium to address suicide trend

In light of the high suicide rate in the country, the Indian Arrival Committee (IAC) is looking to host a national symposium to tackle the growing issue. At a press conference held on Wednesday at...

Propagandizing will not pass the AML Bill – AFC

Mar 15, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Propagandizing will not pass the AML Bill – AFC

– Gov’t needs to engage Parliamentary Opposition The Anti-Money Laundering and Countering the Financing of Terrorism Bill which Government is hoping to get the House’s majority vote on will...

Anti Money Laundering Bill…APNU amendments in violation of Parliamentary Standing Orders-Dr Singh

Mar 15, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Anti Money Laundering Bill…APNU amendments in violation of Parliamentary Standing Orders-Dr Singh

Finance Minister Dr Ashni Singh has accused the political Opposition of operating outside of the Parliamentary Standing Orders with the submissions of its amendments to the Special Select Committee...

Essequibo hosts Science, Mathematics and Technology Fair

Mar 15, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Essequibo hosts Science, Mathematics and Technology Fair

The Region Two Department of Education in conjunction with the Anna Regina Multilateral Secondary School, hosted a Science, Mathematics and Technology fair, yesterday. Under the theme “Providing...

EBD Public Road expansion…Contractors seek to maximize dry season

Mar 15, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on EBD Public Road expansion…Contractors seek to maximize dry season

Transforming the East Bank Demerara Public Road into a four-lane highway from Providence to Diamond is moving apace with contractors trying to complete as much work as possible in the dry season,...

Questions arise again over GECOM’s independence

Mar 15, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Questions arise again over GECOM’s independence

The question of the independence of the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) may again be rearing its head as Local Government polls becomes a real possibility after more than almost two...

E’bo rice farmers continue protest action over outstanding payments

Mar 15, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on E’bo rice farmers continue protest action over outstanding payments

Essequibo rice farmers are resilient in their call to have an audience with the Ministry of Agriculture to air their concerns of the low prices being offered for paddy and outstanding payments owed...

Government signs another component of Trinidad land MoU

Mar 15, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Government signs another component of Trinidad land MoU

Government has signed another component of its initial land deal with sister Caricom country Trinidad and Tobago. The deal is intended to advance the agreement between the two countries to develop an...

Bitter sugar politics…Cane Farming Committee blazes political Opposition

Mar 15, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Bitter sugar politics…Cane Farming Committee blazes political Opposition

The National Cane Farming Committee (NCFC) has lashed out at the political Opposition, accusing them of attempting to use the ailing sugar industry as part of their political schemes. Through a...

$5000 note rejected by some sections of the business sector

Mar 15, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on $5000 note rejected by some sections of the business sector

-Deputy Governor insists the new note is serving its purpose The $5,000 was put into circulation on December 9, 2013. While the note has been accepted by large companies and commercial banks, shops,...

Guyanese construction worker falls to death in Trinidad

Mar 15, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Guyanese construction worker falls to death in Trinidad

A Guyanese man working on a house in California, Trinidad and Tobago reportedly fell to his death Wednesday, news reports said. The deceased was identified as Junior Sammy, who had been staying at...

Chikungunya virus reaches South America

Mar 15, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Chikungunya virus reaches South America

— Guyana prepared to act accordingly says Vector Control Director Even as the local Health Ministry remains on heightened alert for the Chikungunya virus, recent reports out of the European Centre...

Cuban Five…René González refused visa to enter UK

Mar 15, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Cuban Five…René González refused visa to enter UK

Just a few hours before he was due to fly from Havana to London, René González, was refused a visa to enter the UK, according to President of the Guyana/Cuba Solidarity Movement (GCSM) Haleem Khan....

Key witness takes stand in Tain murder trial

Mar 15, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Key witness takes stand in Tain murder trial

Legal arguments continue to dominate the murder trial of the two Corentyne men accused of murdering another. A key prosecution witness was on the stand, yesterday. On trial for the capital offence...

Repeat offender jailed for burglary

Mar 15, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Repeat offender jailed for burglary

Magistrate Judy Latchman yesterday handed down a 24 -month jail sentence to 32 year- old Patrick Smith of Lot 1 Dennis Street Turkeyen Sophia, after he was found guilty of break and enter and larceny...

Duo to face retrial for murder of Mahaica rice farmer

Mar 15, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Duo to face retrial for murder of Mahaica rice farmer

A deadlock on the part of the jury has resulted in the High Court retrial of Shawn Thom and Orin David called ‘Plait Hair or Malik’, who were both facing the court for the August, 2010 murder of...

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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