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Revised Automatic Promotion Policy will be effective next year

Jul 31, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Revised Automatic Promotion Policy will be effective next year

– Ministry considering promoting students on probation By Sharmain Grainger Although moves have been made by the Ministry of Education to temporarily halt its Automatic Promotion Policy,...

Guyanese students witness rocket launch

Jul 31, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Guyanese students witness rocket launch

A group of local science students got to witness the launch of an Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV) into space of an Ariane 5 ES rocket from Europe’s Spaceport, Centre Spatial Guyanais in Kourou,...

PNC/R says Congress was “free, fair and transparent”

Jul 31, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on PNC/R says Congress was “free, fair and transparent”

…disruption was “well organized, well financed” Addressing ongoing criticisms over the conduct of the People’s National Congress Reform’s (PNC/R) 18th Biennial Delegates Congress over...

Rodney Inquiry hears of more missing documents

Jul 31, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Rodney Inquiry hears of more missing documents

… R. Corbin received Army weapons By Latoya Giles As the Walter Rodney Commission of Inquiry (COI) continued yesterday, another rank from the Guyana Defence Force (GDF) testified about several...

Mahdia gold miners to withhold royalties over poor roads

Jul 31, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Mahdia gold miners to withhold royalties over poor roads

Realizing that picketing exercises do not influence changes in Guyana, workers of Mining District No.2 have threatened to stop paying royalties to the Guyana Gold Board until needed infrastructural...

“GDF document” tendered to Rodney Commission probably fake – Colonel West

Jul 31, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on “GDF document” tendered to Rodney Commission probably fake – Colonel West

– By Latoya Giles A document which allegedly showed the movement of weapons from the Guyana Defence Force (GDF) to the People’s National Congress may not be authentic after all. The document...

Justice (rtd) Claudette Singh appointed Legal Advisor to Police Force

Jul 31, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Justice (rtd) Claudette Singh appointed Legal Advisor to Police Force

Former Justice of Appeal, Claudette Singh, has been appointed to the post of Legal Advisor to the Guyana Police Force. Head of the Presidential Secretariat, Dr. Roger Luncheon, made the...

Bartica power outage…Upheaval linked to lack of communication – REO

Jul 31, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Bartica power outage…Upheaval linked to lack of communication – REO

By Sharmain Grainger Although it has been experiencing an economical boom in recent years, Bartica has been seeing its fair share of challenges as well. And according to Regional Executive Officer...

More reprehensible nursing results

Jul 31, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on More reprehensible nursing results

Only three pass from 28 As the blame game continues about whom or what is responsible for the failing health situation in Guyana, more scandalous results have surfaced. More than 90 per cent of the...

Chief Elections Officer commissions GECOM Corriverton office

Jul 31, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Chief Elections Officer commissions GECOM Corriverton office

The Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) now has an official presence on the Upper Corentyne after the recent commissioning of its refurbished building at Corriverton. On Friday July 25, the...

Dead jaguar at Berbice

Jul 31, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Dead jaguar at Berbice

…Berbice doctor says he is responsible The mystery surrounding the circumstances that led to a large jaguar being found dead on the roadway leading to the Berbice River Bridge has been solved....

Miner seeks justice for injuries caused by ‘reckless driver’

Jul 31, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Miner seeks justice for injuries caused by ‘reckless driver’

A gold miner was admitted to the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) on Friday last after public-spirited citizens came to his rescue, after he suffered severe injuries when his motorcycle...

Vandals spray painted seawall monument

Jul 31, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Vandals spray painted seawall monument

The Ministry of Culture, Youth and Sport is asking the public to refrain from defacing and vandalizing the monuments and historic sites around the city. The most recent monument defaced is the 1823...

Coping with the crisis

Jul 31, 2014 KNews Editorial Comments Off on Coping with the crisis

Guyanese would be hard pressed to accept that the Guyana some politicians speak of is the same country that the rest of the population know and experience on a daily basis. These high government...

You can squeeze the cow but who says milk will come

Jul 31, 2014 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on You can squeeze the cow but who says milk will come

I wrote yesterday that the PPP will sing the song about the disastrous PNC 2014 Congress until the next general election and will beat it to death at bottom house meetings deep in the Indian...

THE PPP AND BIG BUSINESS

Jul 31, 2014 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on THE PPP AND BIG BUSINESS

I do not think it would be fair to ask the Guyana Office for Investment (GOINVEST) to monitor and assess the benefits that are accrued as a result of the incentives and concessions that are given to...

Miner fails to wake up after drinking spree

Jul 31, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Miner fails to wake up after drinking spree

– relatives suspect foul play The relatives of a 52 -year-old miner whose body was found on Saturday morning, are convinced that they are not being told the truth about how he met his death....

Adequate Govt. resources will have to be set aside to cater for drainage interventions

Jul 31, 2014 KNews Letters Comments Off on Adequate Govt. resources will have to be set aside to cater for drainage interventions

DEAR EDITOR, The Conservancy Adaptation Project (CAP) Report with respect to the East Demerara Water Conservancy (EDWC) has been completed and selectively released but the Government has considered...

PNC and PPP members deserve the mistreatment they suffer at hand of party leadership

Jul 31, 2014 KNews Letters Comments Off on PNC and PPP members deserve the mistreatment they suffer at hand of party leadership

DEAR EDITOR, It is time to tell it like it is. There are rights and wrongs. We must be prepared to state the truth, wherever the chips may fall. The PPP’s congress in 2013 at Port Mourant was a...

Is it right to create special conditions for certain entities when so much is at stake?

Jul 31, 2014 KNews Letters Comments Off on Is it right to create special conditions for certain entities when so much is at stake?

DEAR EDITOR, I refer to two letters in yesterday’s Kaieteur News: one is written by Suresh Ganesh captioned “Ansa Mc Al is dodging the issue”. In his letter, Ganesh tells us that “whilst I am...

We must pursue the path of compromise

Jul 31, 2014 KNews Letters Comments Off on We must pursue the path of compromise

DEAR EDITOR, The rift is evident and the harshness is pronounced, the spirit among the supporters of Mr. Aubrey Norton seemed subdued, the supporters of Mr. David Granger were victorious, ecstatic...

Guyana grants $$B in concessions, but unable to track benefits

Jul 30, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Guyana grants $$B in concessions, but unable to track benefits

Billions of dollars in concessions have been granted over the last two decades, but there are very few mechanisms in place by the various agencies and ministries to gauge how the country has been...

Legal moves to block future “minority” presidents

Jul 30, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Legal moves to block future “minority” presidents

…allow coalitions after elections By Leonard Gildarie Attorney-at-law Saphier Husain-Subedar is moving to effect legal changes that will pave the way for political parties to form coalitions and do...

Three C’tyne fishermen still missing

Jul 30, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Three C’tyne fishermen still missing

…located body ‘disappears’ at sea Days after their boat was discovered abandoned at the Whim Foreshore, three of the five fishermen that were on board are still missing. Two bodies were...

Bandit shoots female bus passenger in stomach

Jul 30, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Bandit shoots female bus passenger in stomach

A lone gunman shot a female minibus passenger in the stomach and reportedly stripped her of jewellery during a brazen robbery in Plaisance, East Coast Demerara, at around 20.00 hrs last night....

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Diamond Mineral Water Indoor Hockey Festival returns for 19th edition

Let us not be silent witnesses!

…Peeping Tom kaieteur News- Ray Daggers walked from Corriverton to Charity. It was a journey so epic it might have... more