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Specialized emergency doctors to boost health system

May 17, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Specialized emergency doctors to boost health system

For the first time, a batch of fourteen young doctors is undergoing intense training in the field of Emergency Medicine that can significantly benefit the local health sector. Dr. John Paul Rodee,...

Drivers allege senior police officer stole traffic fines

May 17, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Drivers allege senior police officer stole traffic fines

By Leon Suseran Four motorists have come forward with receipts for warrants of paid monies to the Station Sergeant attached to the Springlands Police Station. The receipts bore figures less than...

Conservancies water levels fall amidst dry weather

May 17, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Conservancies water levels fall amidst dry weather

Authorities have issued an El Nino watch as rainfall for the last three months remained below the expected average. The dry spell has led to a worrying drop in the water conservancies According to...

Govt. fails to disclose post 2011 spending on Jagdeo

May 17, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Govt. fails to disclose post 2011 spending on Jagdeo

The National Assembly met on Thursday and while the Government provided a number of answers to questions posed by members of the opposition it failed to give any answers in relation to queries on the...

Litter Wardens taking on litter bugs

May 17, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Litter Wardens taking on litter bugs

Litter Enforcement Wardens have thus far issued a total of 17 citations and cleanup orders to individuals and businesses within Georgetown. The Environmental Protection Agency recently recruited 12...

Electrocuted nine year- old…GPL says connection was illegal

May 17, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Electrocuted nine year- old…GPL says connection was illegal

The Guyana Power and Light Inc (GPL) has concluded that the exposed electrical wire that caused the demise of a nine-year-old Goed Fortuin, West Bank Demerara boy was an illegal connection. This is...

THE DEMERIT SYSTEM WILL CAUSE THE PPP TO LOSE POWER

May 17, 2014 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on THE DEMERIT SYSTEM WILL CAUSE THE PPP TO LOSE POWER

A demerit system is used in many jurisdictions in the developed world as means of dealing with road traffic violation. The demerit system however is far from perfect and has many drawbacks. The first...

Tripped transmission lines caused Demerara shutdown Thursday night- GPL

May 17, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Tripped transmission lines caused Demerara shutdown Thursday night- GPL

The Guyana Power and Light Inc. (GPL) is again asking for patience as the entire Demerara system went down Thursday, leaving consumers fuming. According to the state-owned GPL, around 22:32hrs, one...

Men trained in culinary arts for healthy living

May 17, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Men trained in culinary arts for healthy living

Thirty-three men graduated on Sunday after successfully completing a course in Food and Nutrition conducted by the Carnegie School of Home Economics. The programme resulted from a collaborative...

Conditions in the “Quiet Room” at NOC violate rights

May 17, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Conditions in the “Quiet Room” at NOC violate rights

By Latoya Giles Child Rights Activist, Nicole Cole, has said that the mere fact that children at the New Opportunity Corps are placed semi-nude in a “quiet room” is a violation of that child’s...

Trans Guyana aircraft ‘hard lands’ in interior

May 17, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Trans Guyana aircraft ‘hard lands’ in interior

Aviation officials are investigating the circumstances under which an aircraft damaged its landing gear during a rough landing yesterday in the hinterlands. According to the Guyana Civil Aviation...

Chief Justice denies that he “recused himself”

May 17, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Chief Justice denies that he “recused himself”

Chief Justice (ag) Ian Chang said, yesterday, that he never recused himself from hearing a quo warranto prerogative writ. The matter which was filed by a lawyer for the City Hall-elected Town Clerk...

Three arrested for the brutal hacking of security guard

May 17, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Three arrested for the brutal hacking of security guard

Three persons have been arrested following the vicious hacking of a 40-year-old Security guard at Pigeon Island, East Coast Demerara. The hacking occurred around 15:00hrs on Thursday. Two of those in...

Another person charged for death of Pegasus taxi driver

May 17, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Another person charged for death of Pegasus taxi driver

A new charge has been brought against Lorenzo Forde, the teenager who was detained several weeks ago for the murder of Pegasus taxi driver, Rudranauth Jeeboo. Yesterday, Forde reappeared at the...

When the police mock justice

May 17, 2014 KNews Editorial Comments Off on When the police mock justice

The conduct (or misconduct) of the police force has reached alarming proportions in the country; so much so that it is high time that civil society makes its position known publicly. One corporate...

Forty students given demonstration of Smart class

May 17, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Forty students given demonstration of Smart class

Forty students from the New Amsterdam Multilateral School were the first batch to be given a firsthand demonstration of a Samsung Smart class at the Starr Computers Inc. 59 Brickdam, Georgetown this...

Father and son on trial for murder

May 17, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Father and son on trial for murder

A man and his son who were implicated in the murder of a farmer in 2011 are on trial in the Berbice High Court. On trial are Krishna, called ‘John’, 50, a cattle and rice farmer of Alness and of...

It seems as if the tradition of the noble profession is being “watered down”

May 17, 2014 KNews Letters Comments Off on It seems as if the tradition of the noble profession is being “watered down”

DEAR EDITOR, It seems as if the tradition of the noble profession is being “watered down”. I read in the newspapers in Guyana that the Supreme Court has advertised for suitable candidates to...

The power of political precarity

May 17, 2014 KNews Letters Comments Off on The power of political precarity

DEAR EDITOR, This is the plain truth. The People’s Progressive Party is afraid of elections. Indeed, it is afraid of what any referendum on its rule – quantifiable or abstract – is going to...

Fight on, Ms. Carol Sooba, many are backing you!

May 17, 2014 KNews Letters Comments Off on Fight on, Ms. Carol Sooba, many are backing you!

DEAR EDITOR, Imagine this scenario for it is real, two antagonists; one understandable and the other fundamentally incapable, locked in a grim power struggle. One means good and the other has caused...

The challenge is to sustain our growth momentum in a hostile political environment

May 17, 2014 KNews Letters Comments Off on The challenge is to sustain our growth momentum in a hostile political environment

DEAR EDITOR, It was the German Philosopher and revolutionary Karl Marx who famously wrote that ‘philosophers have interpreted the world in various ways; the point however is to change it’....

Swift action must be taken against all rogue elements

May 17, 2014 KNews Letters Comments Off on Swift action must be taken against all rogue elements

DEAR EDITOR, The Georgetown Hub of the Global Shapers Community is a group of young Guyanese citizens whom – in many ways – are exceptional in their potential, and work to make meaningful...

Police brutality in Guyana is sickening

May 17, 2014 KNews Letters Comments Off on Police brutality in Guyana is sickening

DEAR EDITOR, The intentional use of verbal attacks and excessive force by an authority figure, which oftentimes ends with bloodshed, bruises, broken bones and sometimes even death, represents...

Appalled at the ghastly acts committed by the police

May 17, 2014 KNews Letters Comments Off on Appalled at the ghastly acts committed by the police

DEAR EDITOR, It is very difficult to fathom how Dameon Belgrave’s life was tragically ended on October 5, 2012, we believe by the police, and no one has been found guilty. That is, for a large...

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Need for Speed Karting Championship Shifted to Thomas Lands

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Georgetown, Guyana – Organizers of the Need for Speed Karting Championship have announced a change of venue for the opening round of the competition, which was originally scheduled to be held at...

A compromise is possible but not likely

Jun 07, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – Back in 2009, legislation was passed by the then PPP/C government giving former presidents a wide range of benefits and facilities. These included security, vehicles, staff, utilities, medical expenses and other support, many of which were not subject to clear limits. Critics...

Language is Infrastructure – Why Antigua and Barbuda’s...

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By Sir Ronald Sanders (Kaieteur News) – Antigua and Barbuda is one of the smaller countries of the Caribbean. Yet small states have often advanced ideas that have significance beyond their size. The decision by the Government of Antigua and Barbuda, led by Prime Minister Gaston Browne, to make...

The shell presidency

Jun 07, 2026

Hard Truths by GHK Lall (Kaieteur News) – What’s up, doc? Yeah, that’s the sad reflection of the state of the Guyana presidency. Dwindled to a cartoon. If it’s not shoveling snow, it’s shoveling that other four-letter word that stinks up the environment. The great office of...

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