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Defunct Co-operatives illegally selling lands – Dr. Luncheon

Aug 02, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Defunct Co-operatives illegally selling lands – Dr. Luncheon

Several defunct Friendly Societies and Co-operatives are illegally selling off lands, a practice that has been rapidly accelerating and has since been drawn to the attention of Cabinet which has...

Grace Kennedy revenues boosted by strong Western Union showing in Guyana

Aug 02, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Grace Kennedy revenues boosted by strong Western Union showing in Guyana

Jamaica (Jamaican Observer) – Grace Kennedy Group is reporting revenues of $37.2 billion, a 13.9% or $4.5 billion increase over the corresponding period for 2013. Net profit attributable to owners...

Four survive Mandela Ave accident

Aug 02, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Four survive Mandela Ave accident

A man, woman and two children, yesterday escaped what appeared to be certain death, following a horrific accident on Mandela Avenue. According to reports, the driver of a Spacio PRR 6652 was speeding...

More to be done to tackle NCDs – PAHO Representative

Aug 02, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on More to be done to tackle NCDs – PAHO Representative

The threat of Non-Communicable Diseases (NCDs) has long been recognised as a challenge to not only the local health sector but to those across the globe as well. Moreover, fervent measures have been...

WHAT IS THE INTEREST IN TAKING PHOTOGRAPHS OF KAIETEUR NEWS?

Aug 02, 2014 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on WHAT IS THE INTEREST IN TAKING PHOTOGRAPHS OF KAIETEUR NEWS?

I trust that President Ramotar will investigate the reports that a government-owned vehicle assigned to a Minister in his Cabinet was undertaking suspicious actions outside of Kaieteur News. This...

Mason survives fall from two- storey building

Aug 02, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Mason survives fall from two- storey building

A 30-year-old mason miraculously escaped with minor injuries yesterday after plummeting from a 20ft, two -storey building he was working on. Horrace Thompson was rushed to the Georgetown Public...

Martin Luther King Jnr, Nelson Mandela remembered

Aug 02, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Martin Luther King Jnr, Nelson Mandela remembered

…at pre-emancipation day Libation Ceremony Calls for unity and an appeal for the maintenance of Afro-Guyanese culture were sounded as spiritual and cultural activities ushered in Emancipation Day....

Tapakuma women get US$42,000 tractor

Aug 02, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Tapakuma women get US$42,000 tractor

Small scale farmers, who have established the Tapakuma Women’s Agricultural Diversification Project (TWADP) on Wednesday, received a brand new tractor, courtesy of the Department of Foreign...

Queenstown is Emancipation village

Aug 02, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Queenstown is Emancipation village

The Village of Queenstown, Essequibo Coast, is featured nationally as ongoing activities unfold in observance of Emancipation 2014. Yesterday, members of the Queenstown Development Association,...

Police B Division continues community outreach

Aug 02, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Police B Division continues community outreach

…fetes elderly citizens in East Canje By Samuel Whyte The ‘B’ Division police led by Assistant Commissioner and Commander Brian Joseph, continues to provide new initiatives in the quest to do...

Gains in education sector not proportionate to spending – Minister

Aug 02, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Gains in education sector not proportionate to spending – Minister

– measures apace to address shortcomings By Sharmain Grainger Although Government’s investment in education has been sizeable over the years allowing for significant improvements in the...

Orphanage scandal…Victim back in protective custody

Aug 02, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Orphanage scandal…Victim back in protective custody

…father wants children back at Orphanage Since the publication of the story about the boy at the centre of the scandal which rocked the Berbice Anjuman Orphanage in New Amsterdam, the Child Care...

The UG fees situation

Aug 02, 2014 KNews Editorial Comments Off on The UG fees situation

The news that the University of Guyana will be introducing an increase in new student fees has been met with some consternation among students and some lecturers at the premier institution of...

Emancipation Day Messages

Aug 02, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Emancipation Day Messages

Madame Deolatchmee Ramotar, First Lady I extend heartfelt Emancipation greetings to all Guyanese but especially to Guyanese of African origin for whom this time resonates with so much significance....

The situation at City Hall has further deteriorated

Aug 02, 2014 KNews Letters Comments Off on The situation at City Hall has further deteriorated

DEAR EDITOR, The situation at City Hall has further deteriorated, and though the public as expected quite rightly look to that body for action, the elected Mayor and Councillors are in no position to...

Dreadful services and conditions at N/A Hospital

Aug 02, 2014 KNews Letters Comments Off on Dreadful services and conditions at N/A Hospital

DEAR EDITOR, I am thankful for the opportunity to vent my frustration about the slothfulness in the services offered by the New Amsterdam Hospital. Recently I visited the hospital while accompanying...

The PNCR is a divided and weak party

Aug 02, 2014 KNews Letters Comments Off on The PNCR is a divided and weak party

DEAR EDITOR, The bitter and angry outcries that rang out at the PNC Congress last weekend have driven the final nail into the party’s chances of defeating the PPP and forming the next government....

‘Opportunistic policing’ offered by crazy road signs in Berbice

Aug 02, 2014 KNews Letters Comments Off on ‘Opportunistic policing’ offered by crazy road signs in Berbice

DEAR EDITOR, Among others, I have been writing about the crazy, nonsensical and misleading road signs in Berbice with the hope that the responsible authorities will take the necessary corrective...

Deserving condemnation of slaughter of the innocent

Aug 02, 2014 KNews Letters Comments Off on Deserving condemnation of slaughter of the innocent

DEAR EDITOR, The slaughter of innocent men, women and children by the Israeli military deserves the full condemnation of the international community. The fact that such slaughter took place recently...

Man urinates on bus, stabs driver to death

Aug 01, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Man urinates on bus, stabs driver to death

A 31-year-old father of two, with another child on the way, was last evening fatally stabbed after he confronted a man who was urinating on the wheel of his minibus. Dead is Gavin Fiffee, of 93...

Intimidation of K/News staff…Leave the PS out of this

Aug 01, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Intimidation of K/News staff…Leave the PS out of this

– says Legal Affairs Ministry official While Attorney General and Minister of Legal Affairs Anil Nandlall has assured that an investigation will be launched into the attempts to...

E.C.D road-widening…Slothful works irritating, but delays justifiable

Aug 01, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on E.C.D road-widening…Slothful works irritating, but delays justifiable

– Public Works The Ministry of Public Works is once again expressing displeasure with the slow execution of works on the East Coast Demerara Public Road four-lane widening project, but, it...

Alleged gunman charged with threatening behaviour

Aug 01, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Alleged gunman charged with threatening behaviour

Two days after being nabbed while preparing to board a flight destined for the United States of America (USA), the man suspected to have discharged a firearm at Congress Place – the...

Guyanese woman appointed to top UN post

Aug 01, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Guyanese woman appointed to top UN post

A Guyanese has been elected to serve as President to the Caribbean Organisation of Tax Administrators (COTA) Executive Council for the third time in its history. The country recently hosted the 23rd...

Control yuh tongue

Aug 01, 2014 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Control yuh tongue

Dem got a saying that de Creatah does protect li’l children, drunk man and idiots. De Hanna Rebel is two of de three and de whole country know that. When a man bed always wet and he can open he...

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The burden of proof rests on the asserting party

Peeping Tom… Kaieteur News- In recent days there have been serious assertions made and associations implied without... more