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Consultations underway for improvement of Ferry stellings – Minister Benn

Apr 03, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Consultations underway for improvement of Ferry stellings – Minister Benn

Consultations are ongoing on the prospect of improving the condition of the current ferry stellings for the safety and efficiency of passengers. This is according to Minister of Public Works,...

Thieves snatch $$$ after torching open safe at Mahaicony Post Office

Apr 03, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Thieves snatch $$$ after torching open safe at Mahaicony Post Office

Thieves escaped with over a million dollars after torching open a safe at the Mahaicony Post Office early yesterday morning. Reports reaching this newspaper stated that the thieves gained entry into...

Allocation for countrywide clean up should be kept away from M&CC – Rohee

Apr 03, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Allocation for countrywide clean up should be kept away from M&CC – Rohee

General Secretary of the Peoples Progressive Party (PPP), Clement Rohee, is of the opinion that the recently announced $1Billion budgetary allocation by Government for a country-wide cleanup...

Allocation for Amaila Falls should be removed

Apr 03, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Allocation for Amaila Falls should be removed

…until all documentation is provided – 2014 budget does not reflect all the revenues Executive members of the Alliance For Change (AFC) disclosed yesterday that the 2014 budget presented by...

Smuggled goods putting strain on businesses in North West District

Apr 03, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Smuggled goods putting strain on businesses in North West District

Business owners operating in the North West District are complaining that smuggled items are flooding the markets there, causing internal sales to drop significantly. According to businessmen, the...

Despite talk of reform, police investigative tactics have not changed – Felix

Apr 03, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Despite talk of reform, police investigative tactics have not changed – Felix

-slams govt. for not prioritizing security Eight years after he retired as head of the Guyana Police Force, A Partnership for National Unity (APNU) Member of Parliament Winston Felix says he...

Housing ministry reassessing city zoning regulations

Apr 03, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Housing ministry reassessing city zoning regulations

Amidst numerous complaints over what some have described as indiscriminate and unconstitutional construction practices occurring around the city, the Ministry of Housing and Water says that it is in...

APA benefits from EU grant for better forest management

Apr 03, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on APA benefits from EU grant for better forest management

The European Union (EU) has provided the Amerindian Peoples Association (APA) with a 150,000 Euros grant to strengthen the active participation of civil society in the Voluntary Partnership Agreement...

Business woman accuses police of torching shop

Apr 03, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Business woman accuses police of torching shop

– injured brother thrown in lock-ups Treslyn Williams, a businesswoman of Courtland Village, is accusing the police of burning her shop down, arresting her brother and placing him in the lock-...

Assistant Commissioner Vyphuis retires

Apr 03, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Assistant Commissioner Vyphuis retires

Assistant Commissioner and A-Division Commander, George Vyphuis, who has commenced his pre-retirement leave, took his final salute yesterday. He is set to demit office in July. The Commander served...

APNU takes Local Gov’t campaign to Bartica

Apr 03, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on APNU takes Local Gov’t campaign to Bartica

…promises to make community a town, again The main political coalition, A Partnership for National Unity, (APNU) has promised to use whatever power it has in the National Assembly to make Bartica a...

Govt gearing to fully sustain own HIV/AIDS fight within three years

Apr 03, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Govt gearing to fully sustain own HIV/AIDS fight within three years

Government is gearing to take full responsibility for the local HIV/AIDS fight which is expected to see it, in a matter of years, plugging a sizeable sum in this direction. This notion was...

GECOM records 346 changes, corrections as sixth cycle continues

Apr 03, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on GECOM records 346 changes, corrections as sixth cycle continues

The Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) registered 881 people who are 18 years old and over, while the total number of changes and corrections to identification cards were 346, according to GECOM’s...

Gadgets could cause disqualification of NGSA candidates

Apr 03, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Gadgets could cause disqualification of NGSA candidates

Failure to adhere to the Ministry of Education’s caution to keep all cellular phones and other electronic devices out of examination rooms could see candidates of the National Grade Six Assessment...

Speed responsible for triple collision

Apr 03, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Speed responsible for triple collision

Two vehicles collided at the junction of North Road and Shiv Chanderpaul Drive, Bourda yesterday then one of them slammed into another vehicle to join the smash up. Reports are that a Toyota Car PSS...

ALL IN A DAY

Apr 03, 2014 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on ALL IN A DAY

A young boy lives in the countryside with his family. His father is a cow herder and also a farmer. This young lad is twelve years old. He awakes at 5:00 hours each day. Since his parents have...

63-year-old on trial for friend’s murder

Apr 03, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on 63-year-old on trial for friend’s murder

Murder accused, Renwick Alexander, is appearing before Justice Navindra Singh and a mixed 12 -member jury for the murder of his long-time friend, Carl Thomas, called ‘Dog’. On November 3, 2010...

The mentally ill among us

Apr 03, 2014 KNews Editorial Comments Off on The mentally ill among us

In this day and age there are many medical conditions that doctors diagnose and even treat. Some of these medical conditions are indiscernible to the eye but they are present. One of them is mental...

The Manickchand ban: The “moral” politics of Ramotar

Apr 03, 2014 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on The Manickchand ban: The “moral” politics of Ramotar

I was about sixteen years old when I began fighting madly to understand philosophy books. At the time I worked at the Michael Forde Bookshop. As my capacity for comprehension began to improve, there...

Three granted bail for burgling overseas-based Guyanese home

Apr 03, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Three granted bail for burgling overseas-based Guyanese home

Three men accused of burgling almost $3.7M in property from the residence of an overseas-based Guyana over a 13-day period, faced a city Magistrate yesterday, and were granted bail to the tune of...

Region Six gets roving elderly clinic

Apr 03, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Region Six gets roving elderly clinic

The Berbice Regional Health Authority [BRHA] last Sunday launched the first ever Dedicated ‘Care for the Elderly Clinic’ in Guyana at the Number 69 Village Mandir, Corentyne. The clinic attracted...

‘Region 3 needs another grader and less fancy vehicles’ – AFC Councillor

Apr 03, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on ‘Region 3 needs another grader and less fancy vehicles’ – AFC Councillor

Despite it being a farming district, the Region Three administration is in possession of only one grader which has been in use for close to 40 years now. This is according to the Region’s...

This country will only start to improve when we witness respect at the top

Apr 03, 2014 KNews Letters Comments Off on This country will only start to improve when we witness respect at the top

DEAR EDITOR, This an open letter to the below mentioned officials and all others in positions of authority… Dear President Ramotar, Dear Honorable Speaker Raphael Trotman, Hon Mr. Granger, Hon Mr....

Nothing to hide – The face of Senicide/Geronticide

Apr 03, 2014 KNews Letters Comments Off on Nothing to hide – The face of Senicide/Geronticide

DEAR EDITOR, Shock and dismay are inadequate words to describe the feelings that ravaged my mental faculties on reading about the demise of two septuagenarians in such quick succession. Guyana is...

These masqueraders do not have any interest in a stronger PPP

Apr 03, 2014 KNews Letters Comments Off on These masqueraders do not have any interest in a stronger PPP

DEAR EDITOR, I have always maintained that the PPP is not a perfect political party. In fact, no political party is perfect. The Party is not in Heaven, it is on earth. Usually it is those who leave...

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