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Permission granted to local firm for medium-scale mining at Eagle Mountain

Aug 27, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Permission granted to local firm for medium-scale mining at Eagle Mountain

The Guyana Geology and Mines Commission (GGMC) has granted a local company, Kilroy Mining Inc., a Medium Scale Mining Permit for a 250-hectare concession at Eagle Mountain, Potaro Mining District, in...

Community support necessary to help tackle maternal mortality – CMO

Aug 27, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Community support necessary to help tackle maternal mortality – CMO

The local health sector is looking to considerably lessen the prevalence of teenage pregnancy to help reduce its maternal mortality rate. According to Chief Medical Officer, Dr Shamdeo Persaud,...

Court Supt. obtains approval for legal studies at Hugh Wooding

Aug 27, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Court Supt. obtains approval for legal studies at Hugh Wooding

If all goes well, in two years’ time, the Guyana Police Force will have within its ranks a qualified attorney at law. This follows the administration’s granting of approval for Deputy...

South G/town telephone services down after GWI excavation

Aug 27, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on South G/town telephone services down after GWI excavation

Wireline telephone and data services in Meadowbrook, Durban Backlands, Lodge Housing Scheme, Tucville, Stevedore and Postal Housing Scheme, and Guyhoc have been severely disrupted as a result of...

Mining Week celebrations…Govt. reviewing tax waiver recommendations for miners – President Ramotar

Aug 27, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Mining Week celebrations…Govt. reviewing tax waiver recommendations for miners – President Ramotar

Government is reviewing recommendations for tax waivers for Double Cab Pickups for miners since this would promote efficient and safer travel, according to President Donald Ramotar in his feature...

18 entities bid for countrywide market contracts

Aug 27, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on 18 entities bid for countrywide market contracts

The Ministry of Local Government and Regional Development received bids from 18 entities for the procurement of works for major rehabilitation and extension of markets. The bids were opened...

A return to the way we are

Aug 27, 2014 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on A return to the way we are

What happens if general and regional elections are called within three months after the passage of a no-confidence motion? There are a number of theoretical possibilities, one of which is a return to...

Abandoned Perseverance boys…Mother fails to turn-up for court hearing

Aug 27, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Abandoned Perseverance boys…Mother fails to turn-up for court hearing

Having been arrested, charged with neglect and released on $10,000 bail on Monday, the mother of the five boys who were abandoned at a Perseverance, Essequibo Coast, house, was yesterday scheduled to...

US-based Guyanese to face new PI

Aug 27, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on US-based Guyanese to face new PI

…as CJ quashes murder committal Chief Justice Ian Chang has quashed a murder committal against a US-based Guyanese, paving the way for a new preliminary inquiry (PI) to be conducted. This follows a...

Town Clerk saga continues…Sooba forced to break into office after being sent on leave

Aug 27, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Town Clerk saga continues…Sooba forced to break into office after being sent on leave

A personal bodyguard employed by Town Clerk (ag) Carol Sooba was forced to remove reinforcements from her office doors, hours after a decision by the Georgetown Mayor and City Council (M&CC) was...

Kaneville fatal shooting…Suspect no older than 17 – Police

Aug 27, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Kaneville fatal shooting…Suspect no older than 17 – Police

Police are hunting for a teenager whom they claimed shot and killed 24-year-old Mark Drexel London, during an alleged attempted robbery more than two weeks ago at Kaneville, on the East Bank of...

Society is its own enemy

Aug 27, 2014 KNews Editorial Comments Off on Society is its own enemy

Society can sometimes be its worst enemy. It fashion laws to achieve certain ends, but given that laws are for people, those who dare defy the laws then put society against itself. There are laws...

The Indian middle class voted against the PPP in 2011

Aug 27, 2014 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on The Indian middle class voted against the PPP in 2011

Mr. Ralph Ramkarran wrote that the AFC drove its way into the PPP’s working class space in Berbice and received electoral support from such a class in 2011, thus reducing the PPP’s majority. Mr....

Accomplished E’bo musician turns 100

Aug 27, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Accomplished E’bo musician turns 100

One of the latest centenarians from Essequibo is an accomplished musician. Clement Carrington Abrahams, known as “Uncle Clemmie” or “AB”, was born on August 7, 1914 and `hails from Adventure...

North R/veldt man refused bail for illegal gun

Aug 27, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on North R/veldt man refused bail for illegal gun

A North Ruimveldt man allegedly nabbed with an illegal gun last week was remanded to prison when he appeared in court yesterday. Robin Corbin, 25, was taken before Magistrate Judy Latchman at the...

Forklift driver on causing death charge granted $1M bail

Aug 27, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Forklift driver on causing death charge granted $1M bail

A forklift driver has been charged with causing death by dangerous driving following a crash on Dennis Street, Campbellville, Georgetown, which claimed the life of a senior bookbinder attached to the...

Mansoor Nadir’s statement on the validity of the no confidence motion shows the PPP is clutching onto straws to hold on to power

Aug 27, 2014 KNews Letters Comments Off on Mansoor Nadir’s statement on the validity of the no confidence motion shows the PPP is clutching onto straws to hold on to power

Dear Editor, So the People’s Progressive Party Civic [PPP/C] is once again out to besmirch the integrity of the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) since their man is no longer in charge to...

A Week-end with some PPP ministers

Aug 27, 2014 KNews Letters Comments Off on A Week-end with some PPP ministers

Dear Editor The PPP’s ministers were counting their money again last week-end. “25 million US,” one said. “48 million US,” said another. “Five hundred and forty-million US. And I’m...

PPP’s National Alliance is a strategy to win back 1-Parliamentary Majority – Where is the intellectual class?

Aug 27, 2014 KNews Letters Comments Off on PPP’s National Alliance is a strategy to win back 1-Parliamentary Majority – Where is the intellectual class?

Dear Editor Once of the things Guyanese academics and the intellectual class ought to be doing is to speak truth to power; this simply means sharing analyses and observations about the core...

A Message of Thanks to the PPP

Aug 27, 2014 KNews Letters Comments Off on A Message of Thanks to the PPP

Dear Editor It finally seems as if the PPP is coming around to our perspective on things that they have run out of ideas. So badly now they are looking to form some coalition with a Gullible Crew...

GuySuCo is turning anything except belly up

Aug 27, 2014 KNews Letters Comments Off on GuySuCo is turning anything except belly up

Dear Editor, Reference an article in the Stabroek News of 25th August 2014 captioned “Inadequate, pricey and not in demand, low sugar supply slows Enmore packaging plant” I had in a previous...

In whose interest are GFC and Govt. acting…Bai Shan Lin or Guyana? – Chris Ram…Company selling to itself; forcing loggers to export in their names

Aug 26, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on In whose interest are GFC and Govt. acting…Bai Shan Lin or Guyana? – Chris Ram…Company selling to itself; forcing loggers to export in their names

As Government continues to vehemently defend the operations of a number of foreign logging companies, there are new revelations that suggest more wrongdoings in the Upper Berbice, Region 10 area....