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APNU criticises annual Pakaraima Safari as region faces continued hardship

Mar 26, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on APNU criticises annual Pakaraima Safari as region faces continued hardship

Parliament’s largest Opposition faction, A Partnership for National Unity (APNU), has criticised the holding of the annual Pakaraima Mountain Safari, saying the event is slap in the face of the...

$4.4B for housing sector

Mar 26, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on $4.4B for housing sector

Some $4.4B has been allocated to the housing sector this year with Government targeting 5,900 house lots and 4,100 land titles for distribution. According to Finance Minister, Dr. Ashni Singh, during...

MARAD/US Coast Guard seminar…Implementation of improved port security codes highlighted

Mar 26, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on MARAD/US Coast Guard seminar…Implementation of improved port security codes highlighted

Recommendations were made yesterday for the implementation of international maritime security measures, which will combat global acts of terrorism and preserve Guyana’s international trade and...

Europe-based cruise ship is first for 2014

Mar 26, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Europe-based cruise ship is first for 2014

A 437-foot long 12,500-ton Europe-based cruise ship, with 350 passengers on board, became the first of its kind to grace Guyana’s shores in 2014. The MV Minerva, which docked at the Guyana National...

East Ruimveldt man shot in stomach

Mar 26, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on East Ruimveldt man shot in stomach

A 25-year-old man was admitted to the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation at around 22.30 hrs last night after being shot in the stomach and leg. Relatives identified the victim as Kevin Rose of...

Remigrant rice farmer claims sabotage

Mar 26, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Remigrant rice farmer claims sabotage

– estimates losses in excess of $10M Pawan Pharsi returned to Guyana in 2013 and invested in excess of $10M to set up a 25-acre rice farm at Wash Clothes Mahaicony, East Coast Demerara. But...

AML/CFT Bill… CPC to ‘reformulate’ third draft of APNU’s proposed amendments

Mar 26, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on AML/CFT Bill… CPC to ‘reformulate’ third draft of APNU’s proposed amendments

The Parliamentary Select Committee on the Anti-Money Laundering and Countering the Financing of Terrorism (AMLCFT) Amendment Bill, met again last evening, but failed to make any positive headway as A...

Illegal vending targeted in US$1.5M waste management project

Mar 26, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Illegal vending targeted in US$1.5M waste management project

…Municipal markets, tarmacs to benefit By Zena Henry Minister within the Local Government Ministry Norman Whittaker, yesterday blamed the escalation of solid waste in the city on the growth of...

Eccles residents benefit from medical outreach

Mar 26, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Eccles residents benefit from medical outreach

Residents from the Eccles, East Bank Demerara (EBD) community were yesterday afforded the opportunity to sit and explain their health issues with members of a small medical outreach team from...

Six entities bid to procure lab equipment for Solid Waste prog.

Mar 26, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Six entities bid to procure lab equipment for Solid Waste prog.

The Georgetown Solid Waste Management programme received six bids yesterday for the procurement of laboratory equipment. The bids were opened at the National Procurement and Tender...

$338M budgeted for critical works on Harbour Bridge

Mar 26, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on $338M budgeted for critical works on Harbour Bridge

Minister of Finance Dr. Ashni Singh, declared on Monday during the reading of the $220B budget, that the feasibility study for the new Demerara River Bridge is complete, and as such, the government...

Anti-Money Laundering Legislation…Opposition ignoring the voices of the masses – PPP

Mar 26, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Anti-Money Laundering Legislation…Opposition ignoring the voices of the masses – PPP

The People’s Progressive Party Civic (PPP/C) has cast blame for the non-passage of the Anti Money Laundering and Countering the Financing of Terrorism Bill (AML/CFT) squarely at the feet of the...

Press ahead with overhaul of sugar industry

Mar 26, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Press ahead with overhaul of sugar industry

…but be mindful of social impact – IMF The International Monetary Fund (IMF) is encouraging the Government of Guyana to press ahead with the overhaul of the sugar industry. But while the...

US$2.5M Veterinary Lab scheduled to open Friday

Mar 26, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on US$2.5M Veterinary Lab scheduled to open Friday

A number of persons have already been identified and trained to carry out operations at the US$2.5M Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory, at Mon Repos, East Coast Demerara. In an invited comment,...

Second phase of Energy and Resources Institute study completed

Mar 26, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Second phase of Energy and Resources Institute study completed

– Report submitted to participating agencies An audit of Guyana’s potential for energy efficiency has been completed and findings and recommendations handed over to key stakeholders by The...

Will the AFC extend its walkout to the entire debate on the budget?

Mar 26, 2014 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on Will the AFC extend its walkout to the entire debate on the budget?

The Alliance For Change (AFC) has joined the theatrical bandwagon. Its representatives in the House have introduced their own brand of parliamentary melodrama, by walking out of the National Assembly...

CARICOM receives new Cuban envoy

Mar 26, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on CARICOM receives new Cuban envoy

Secretary General for the Caribbean Community (CARICOM), Ambassador Irwin LaRocque, yesterday accepted the credentials of the Cuban Ambassador to Guyana Julio Cesar Gonzalez Marchante, as the fourth...

Does the PPP honestly believe it is innocent or is it a deranged group?

Mar 26, 2014 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on Does the PPP honestly believe it is innocent or is it a deranged group?

Every year I would publish an analytical review of world politics. I did so for 2013 but it was never printed. And that is because I never submitted it. On the occasion when I was about to send it,...

“Space Head” remanded for burglary, armed robbery

Mar 26, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on “Space Head” remanded for burglary, armed robbery

An unemployed East Ruimveldt teenager who was nabbed by police ranks while cruising on the city streets with a motorcycle he allegedly stole was yesterday brought before the city court and arraigned...

Mason charged with $1.7M theft

Mar 26, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Mason charged with $1.7M theft

Two years after an alleged burglary, a 49-year-old mason was taken before the city court to face charges for allegedly making off with $1.7M from the house of another man. Deonauth Samaroo of 45...

Improving the country’s transportation network

Mar 26, 2014 KNews Editorial Comments Off on Improving the country’s transportation network

In our quest for development, every administration has stressed the remarkable potential that inheres in our nation because of the plethora of resources with which we have been endowed within our...

Some NIS doctors behave inhumanely

Mar 26, 2014 KNews Letters Comments Off on Some NIS doctors behave inhumanely

Dear Sir, Please allow me space in your paper to have my views expressed in relation to the operation of the NIS. I attended a Medical Board examination of a number of patients at the Croal Street...

A minibus driver who knows the law

Mar 26, 2014 KNews Letters Comments Off on A minibus driver who knows the law

Dear Editor, This is my first letter to your prestigious newspaper. I must take the time to congratulate you on the excellent job you always do for the nation. I am the owner of a minibus which I use...

The other side of a land dispute

Mar 26, 2014 KNews Letters Comments Off on The other side of a land dispute

Dear Editor, I, Margaret Abraham, am once again trying to resolve this long and frustrating stalemate. Previous Councilors and residents of the Santa Rosa Village who are knowledgeable of this issue,...

MPs must stop toying with the people’s lives

Mar 26, 2014 KNews Letters Comments Off on MPs must stop toying with the people’s lives

Dear Editor, Once again, it is Budget time, but would it make any difference in the lives of the people? Will the people’s interest be represented in Parliament? The fundamental flaw of Guyana’s...

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The third parties will not survive this year’s elections

Peeping Tom… Kaieteur News- The fate of third parties in this year’s general and regional elections is as predictable... more