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Amerindian communities to benefit from US$16.7M over next three years

Apr 05, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Amerindian communities to benefit from US$16.7M over next three years

Government’s agenda for titling and demarcating Amerindian village lands remains a priority. As such, US$10.7M has been allocated to be expended over the next three years to address outstanding...

No free pass for GUYSUCO $6B bailout

Apr 05, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on No free pass for GUYSUCO $6B bailout

…APNU calls for viable plan, forensic audit before any vote ….Minister must account for how previous billons were spent A Partnership for National Unity (APNU) has demanded that Agriculture...

Govt anticipates favourable response on access to Hugh Wooding

Apr 05, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Govt anticipates favourable response on access to Hugh Wooding

Government is anticipating a reversal of the decision made earlier this year by the Council of Legal Education (CLE) to not renew an agreement to have the top graduates of the University of...

2014 Budget debate…Sugar union boss begs for GuySuCo lifeline

Apr 05, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on 2014 Budget debate…Sugar union boss begs for GuySuCo lifeline

Head of Guyana Agricultural and General Workers Union, (GAWU) Komal Chand, has said that the Budget 2014 identifies some steps that should be taken into consideration, when addressing the challenges...

Human Services Ministry voices concern over child tragedies

Apr 05, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Human Services Ministry voices concern over child tragedies

– slams irresponsible reporting Recent child-related tragedies, coupled with irresponsible reporting in this regard, have led the Ministry of Human Services and Social Security to issue a...

MISS INDIA GUYANA HEADS FOR FRENCH GUIANA

Apr 05, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on MISS INDIA GUYANA HEADS FOR FRENCH GUIANA

Miss India Guyana 2013; Miss India worldwide Most Beautiful Skin Awardee, and now the reigning Miss Universe Guyana, Katherina Roshana, left Guyana last evening for French Guiana. There, she will...

Guyana Hebrew Family ushers in New Year

Apr 05, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Guyana Hebrew Family ushers in New Year

A ‘New Moon’ Service last week Monday evening (March 31) was the occasion to usher in the Hebrew New Year. The venue was The Hebrew Family of Guyana Cultural Center located at 3619 Christiani...

WHAT IS HARDER TO FIND THAN LOVE?

Apr 05, 2014 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on WHAT IS HARDER TO FIND THAN LOVE?

My first job interview required that I produce some form of identification and proof that I was of working age. Since I did not have a Guyana identification card at the time, I took along my...

Drug convict nabbed

Apr 05, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Drug convict nabbed

Detectives on Tuesday apprehended 27-year-old Devon Romero, the Lima resident, who was at large when he was sentenced to three months for the trafficking in narcotics. He was arrested at a liquor...

Secretariat for Rodney CoI still accepting statements

Apr 05, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Secretariat for Rodney CoI still accepting statements

The Secretariat for the Walter Rodney Commission will continue to accept statements from persons who are still interested in testifying at the hearings of the Commission. The Secretariat had earlier...

Musician granted $100,000 bail on theft charge

Apr 05, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Musician granted $100,000 bail on theft charge

Bail was yesterday set to the tune of $100,000 for a 20-year-old musician who appeared before Chief Magistrate Priya Sewnarine-Beharry accused of stealing a laptop computer. Nicose Clarke of Lot 30...

Teen remanded on drug peddling charge

Apr 05, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Teen remanded on drug peddling charge

A teenage boy who was busted with marijuana hidden in his crotch two days ago was brought before Chief Magistrate Priya Sewnarine-Beharry and remanded to prison on a drug peddling charge yesterday....

Innocent until proven guilty

Apr 05, 2014 KNews Editorial Comments Off on Innocent until proven guilty

There are some tenets that every society observes and they do so for good reason. One tenet is that everyone deserves a hearing before anyone could pass judgement. All too often we in the society are...

Teen charged with torching mother’s kitchen

Apr 05, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Teen charged with torching mother’s kitchen

A self-employed teenaged boy who hails from Wiruni in the Upper Berbice River was yesterday brought before the courts charged with setting his mother’s kitchen afire. Eighteen-year-old Dwayne Jones...

Stabbed prisoner recovering at GPHC

Apr 05, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Stabbed prisoner recovering at GPHC

Terry Joseph, the prisoner who was stabbed to his upper chest by another inmate around 13:30 hrs on Thursday, remains hospitalized at the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) in a stable...

Driver charged five months after killing pedestrian

Apr 05, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Driver charged five months after killing pedestrian

The family of the late Bimchan Ramphal of Lot 63 No 19 village, East Coast Berbice is now breathing a sigh of relief. Ramphal was killed on Saturday November 16, last year on the No.19 Public Road by...

Foreign-based doctors donate drugs to Linden

Apr 05, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Foreign-based doctors donate drugs to Linden

A quantity of medications and other medical supplies was presented to Regional Health Officer Dr. Pansy Armstrong, earlier this week, for distribution to Health Centres in and around Region Ten. The...

Three granted bail for interior shop break-ins

Apr 05, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Three granted bail for interior shop break-ins

Three middle aged men were yesterday brought before the city court charged with a number of interior shop break-ins. Troy Leacock, Morris Davis and Sherwin Leonard appeared before Chief Magistrate...

Man, 38, to face judge, jury for raping stepdaughter, 11

Apr 05, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Man, 38, to face judge, jury for raping stepdaughter, 11

A 38-year-old-man who in 2012 was accused of having sex with his 11-year-old stepdaughter eighteen months ago is now set to face a Judge and Jury for the offence. Yesterday, Frank Cur was committed...

The best way of ensuring that these victims are not abandoned

Apr 05, 2014 KNews Letters Comments Off on The best way of ensuring that these victims are not abandoned

DEAR EDITOR, In her explanation of her refusal to apologise to MP Jaipaul Sharma, which we saw on Wednesday, the Minister of Education said that if she apologized she would be betraying the victims...

Mohamed’s false propaganda cannot stand the test of careful scrutiny

Apr 05, 2014 KNews Letters Comments Off on Mohamed’s false propaganda cannot stand the test of careful scrutiny

DEAR EDITOR, Permit me to respond to Mr. Sultan Mohamed’s letter published in the Kaieteur News of Thursday April 3rd, 2014, captioned “Sincere remorse must of necessity be followed by sincere...

Govt. should consider Mr. Harmon’s suggestion

Apr 05, 2014 KNews Letters Comments Off on Govt. should consider Mr. Harmon’s suggestion

DEAR EDITOR, With the Rodney Commission of Inquiry (RCOI) on track, anyone with the belief that Rodney being dead served the best interests of some in a PNC-WPA conspiracy to eliminate the historian,...

Empowerment through education

Apr 05, 2014 KNews Letters Comments Off on Empowerment through education

DEAR EDITOR, There is a saying that one cannot be educated and poor at the same time. There is a considerable amount of truth in this saying. Implicit in this saying is the fact that an educated...

BREAKING NEWS…MASSIVE FUEL EXPLOSION AT PORT KAITUMA

Apr 04, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on BREAKING NEWS…MASSIVE FUEL EXPLOSION AT PORT KAITUMA

SEVERAL BOATS, HOUSES DESTROYED A raging fire, caused by a fuel explosion, destroyed at least five boats and a number of houses at around 07.45 today at Port Kaituma. Residents said that at...

Ailing Skeldon Factory to benefit from $6B bailout

Apr 04, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Ailing Skeldon Factory to benefit from $6B bailout

“Sugar will not be exchanged for ethanol” – Ramsammy After relating to the House the success story of the rice industry in 2013, Minister of Agriculture Dr. Leslie Ramsammy announced that...

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A flawed interpretation of international law

Peeping Tom… Kaieteur News – The assertion that “under international law, Venezuela is responsible for... more