June 2014

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Teenager returns money from failed TIP venture

Jun 10, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Teenager returns money from failed TIP venture

A Partnership for National Unity (APNU) Regional Councillor, Wazeer Latiff, is imploring the relevant authorities and residents of Essequibo to report people who are in the habit of soliciting young...

“Idle” Surendra pumps will be installed by next month – NDIA says

Jun 10, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on “Idle” Surendra pumps will be installed by next month – NDIA says

The National Drainage and Irrigation Authority (NDIA) expects to complete the installation of a pump at Paradise, East Coast Demerara by next month. The revelation came in the aftermath of the...

Local Govt. Elections not as urgent as AML/CFT Bill – PPP

Jun 10, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Local Govt. Elections not as urgent as AML/CFT Bill – PPP

By Gary Eleazar The Peoples Progressive Party (PPP) does not believe that there is much urgency for the holding of Local Government Elections, but rather, that the average Guyanese is more interested...

142nd Anglican Synod opens in Guyana

Jun 10, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on 142nd Anglican Synod opens in Guyana

The 142nd Session of Synod of the Anglican Diocese is underway in Guyana. The highest decision- making forum of the Anglican Church in Guyana got underway with a Grand Pontifical Mass at St....

WHERE IS THE GOLD?

Jun 10, 2014 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on WHERE IS THE GOLD?

For the first five months of this year there was a precipitous decline in gold declarations. Gold declarations were 20 per cent below the corresponding period last year. This is highly unusual. It...

Selective application of a policy

Jun 10, 2014 KNews Editorial Comments Off on Selective application of a policy

The decision by the West Indies Cricket Board to remove the third Test between West Indies and New Zealand is going to have far-reaching implications for the future of the game. According to...

GPSU calls for meeting with Govt. in five days over wages and salaries

Jun 10, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on GPSU calls for meeting with Govt. in five days over wages and salaries

The Guyana Public Service Union (GPSU) is insisting that the Government meet with the organization within five days to discuss the longstanding issue of public servants wages and salaries. In a...

Street dweller murder trial

Jun 10, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Street dweller murder trial

– accused to know fate today Prosecutor Judith Gildharie-Mursalin has closed the case against street dweller, Omesh Chaitram, called “Black Boy”. Chaitram is on trial in the High...

WANTED FOR DRUG TRAFFICKING

Jun 10, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on WANTED FOR DRUG TRAFFICKING

The police are looking for 54-year-old Dion Shurwin Layne whom they want to question in relation to a matter of Trafficking in Narcotics which is presently under investigation. Layne was described as...

Low level of HIV discrimination among health care workers – survey

Jun 10, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Low level of HIV discrimination among health care workers – survey

A Client Satisfaction Survey has dispelled reports that patients infected by the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) are highly discriminated against by health care workers. This disclosure was made...

The Matthias Constitutional Blunders

Jun 10, 2014 KNews Letters Comments Off on The Matthias Constitutional Blunders

Dear Editor, As far as I know, the members of the so-called “Breakaway Congress” of the Guyana Football Federation (GFF), that brought a vote of No Confidence against the GFF President,...

There is something troubling about the theme of this conference

Jun 10, 2014 KNews Letters Comments Off on There is something troubling about the theme of this conference

DEAR EDITOR, There is a public invitation in the Sunday Chronicle of 8 June, 2014 to the First Assembly of God Men’s Conference which has a theme “Retaking the man’s position of influence”....

Focus should be on prevention and primary healthcare, not specialty hospital

Jun 10, 2014 KNews Letters Comments Off on Focus should be on prevention and primary healthcare, not specialty hospital

DEAR EDITOR, I recently read a news article in which President Ramotar was quoted as saying that “Only someone who is mad or has another agenda will oppose a specialty hospital when you [have]...

Dr Roopnaraine will become the WPA fall guy

Jun 10, 2014 KNews Letters Comments Off on Dr Roopnaraine will become the WPA fall guy

DEAR EDITOR, At the PNC’s Third Biennial Congress of August 22-26 of 1979, Prime Minister Forbes Burnham addressing delegates on the WPA threat told them: “While we number thousands, they number...

The reality is that we are still living in a wonderful and beautiful country

Jun 10, 2014 KNews Letters Comments Off on The reality is that we are still living in a wonderful and beautiful country

DEAR EDITOR, Because of the present state of affairs in our country there seems to be among our citizenry a pervading atmosphere of depression and lack of hope in the future of our country, evoking...

Those unused accounting modules…Jagdeo deceived the nation – Ramjattan

Jun 09, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Those unused accounting modules…Jagdeo deceived the nation – Ramjattan

“The analogy on point here is like the lawyer who is asked to draft a law to provide for certain offences, but who knowing that those provisions will sooner catch him, then proceeds to...

A deliberate act meant to perpetuate a lack of accountability

Jun 09, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on A deliberate act meant to perpetuate a lack of accountability

…a serious indictment on the Auditor General’s Office – Ram By Gary Eleazar It was not by accident but rather deliberate that the Guyana Government did not operationalise two very...

AG reports expose weaknesses of Gov’t.’s manual tracking

Jun 09, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on AG reports expose weaknesses of Gov’t.’s manual tracking

– Ministries still to provide evidence to account for millions expended President Donald Ramotar at a recent press conference had stated that he is not too worried that billions in...

Bandit shoots accomplice during Corentyne robbery

Jun 09, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Bandit shoots accomplice during Corentyne robbery

An attack on a Number Eleven Village, Corentyne family went badly wrong for a gang of bandits last night, after one robber accidentally shot another, while attempting to kill a housewife whose home...

Dem boys seh…Jagdeo hide way de pit bulls

Jun 09, 2014 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Dem boys seh…Jagdeo hide way de pit bulls

Guyana got a machine that got de right name IFMAS. If it set up right then it gun ketch nuff crook but when Jagdeo buy it, he nah set it up right. He lef out de two most important part. This system...

Pressure mounts for telecoms liberalization…Digicel readies for landline competition, 4G rollout

Jun 09, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Pressure mounts for telecoms liberalization…Digicel readies for landline competition, 4G rollout

With just about two months left before Parliament moves into recess on August 10, pressure is mounting for the passage of new telecoms legislations that will pave the way for new players to enter the...

Rights of the Child Commission addresses concerns at NOC

Jun 09, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Rights of the Child Commission addresses concerns at NOC

While noting its concerns for the student population of the New Opportunity Corps (NOC), the Rights of the Child Commission (RCC) in collaboration with the Ministry of Culture, Youth and Sport...

Ninety one years later…GPSU has made enemies and encountered hostility in pursuit of justice

Jun 09, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Ninety one years later…GPSU has made enemies and encountered hostility in pursuit of justice

In the 91 years that the Guyana Public Service Union (GPSU) has been serving Civil Servants, it has made enemies along the way and encountered hostility in the stand for justice, head of the...

City Constabulary CANNOT remove my bodyguard

Jun 09, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on City Constabulary CANNOT remove my bodyguard

– Acting Town Clerk A show down is looming at City Hall with the City Constabulary threatening to deny access into the compound to Sean Hinds, the controversial bodyguard of embattled...

THE UNITED STATES AGENDA AND CIVIL SOCIETY IN GUYANA

Jun 09, 2014 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on THE UNITED STATES AGENDA AND CIVIL SOCIETY IN GUYANA

The United States is keen to support the emergence of civil society groupings. This is true in Iraq as it is true in Venezuela and in Guyana where the United States Embassy is keen to provide...

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The great rediscovery

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(Kaieteur News) – There are few things more moving than a sudden conversion. Saul had his road to Damascus. St. Augustine heard a divine voice. And now thousands of overseas-based Guyanese are experiencing their own spiritual awakening. After decades of living in Brooklyn, Toronto, Miami,...

If the OAS did not exist, it could not be created today

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By Sir Ronald Sanders (Kaieteur News) – I have spent a decade in the councils of the Organization of American States. I have watched governments come and go, seen some crises handled well and others handled badly, sat through more commemorative meetings than sessions discussing pressing issues,...

Local tolerance for bull-a beauty to behold

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Hard Truths by GHK Lall (Kaieteur News) – Guyanese should get first prize for their tolerance for bull, their bottomless reservoir of docility. And humour. They have grown in those respects relative to their head-of-state. Whatever has taken over his head, the astonishing is what...

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