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Prime Minister hears concerns of Black Bush, West Canje residents

Sep 16, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Prime Minister hears concerns of Black Bush, West Canje residents

….wants defaulting contractor blacklisted Prime Minister Samuel Hinds visited Berbice on Friday and interacted with residents and rice farmers at Black Bush Polder on the Corentyne. Further...

Greenhouse gas levels hit record high

Sep 16, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Greenhouse gas levels hit record high

– Calls being made for international action A surge in the level of carbon dioxide drove greenhouse gas levels in the atmosphere to a record high last year, a recent study claims....

Council will continue struggle to restore democracy – Mayor Green

Sep 16, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Council will continue struggle to restore democracy – Mayor Green

City Mayor, Hamilton Green, has noted that members of the Georgetown Mayor and City Council (M&CC) will advance with their efforts to restore integrity and decency to City Hall. Last Monday,...

$Administrative measures taken after New Amsterdam Prison fracas$

Administrative measures taken after New Amsterdam Prison fracas

Sep 16, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Administrative measures taken after New Amsterdam Prison fracas

– New standing order for Guyana Prison Service at AG Chambers Investigations are continuing into the fracas during which four high profile remand prisoners were brutally chopped and...

The Working Class President

Sep 16, 2014 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on The Working Class President

You cannot please the Guyanese people. Each afternoon, hundreds of Guyanese are left stranded for hours at our bus parks and along the bus routes. Workers for example, who work in the center of the...

Canadian mining company looks to extract US$105M in Guyana Gold

Sep 16, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Canadian mining company looks to extract US$105M in Guyana Gold

Days after securing a multi-million-dollar loan facility, Canada-based, Guyana Goldfields Inc., has announced that it is looking to bring in cash flows from its mining operations locally to the tune...

Dead bandit was shot once – post mortem

Sep 16, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Dead bandit was shot once – post mortem

A post mortem report on the remains of Orlando Fredericks, called “Bull Dog”, whose body was found minutes after he and two of his accomplices robbed a man at a shop in Albouystown Saturday...

Mental Health services – a crucial aspect of Health Care – Clinical Social Worker

Sep 16, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Mental Health services – a crucial aspect of Health Care – Clinical Social Worker

While Social Work may be seen as a simple enough task that many persons may opt to embrace, Clinical Social Work on the other hand is viewed as an advanced level of social work that incorporates...

Ban Ki-Moon calls on youths to lead a major push for inclusive democracy

Sep 16, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Ban Ki-Moon calls on youths to lead a major push for inclusive democracy

– Justice Trotman wants Guyana to take up challenge As international Day of Democracy was observed yesterday under the theme, “Engaging Young People on Democracy,” United Nations...

Kitty Post Office scheduled for $10.7M reconstruction

Sep 16, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Kitty Post Office scheduled for $10.7M reconstruction

The Kitty Post Office building located at Alexander and Pike Streets, Kitty is to undergo reconstruction. Earlier this year, Post Master General, Henry Dundas, had explained that a step by step...

Chikungunya Virus will continue to spread – says CARPHA Director

Sep 16, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Chikungunya Virus will continue to spread – says CARPHA Director

– reveals plans to improve Regional preparedness with ‘expert consultation’ By Sharmain Grainger The sustained transmission of dengue fever with more frequency and severity over the years...

Guyana reissuing civil aviation legislation and regulations

Sep 16, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Guyana reissuing civil aviation legislation and regulations

By Zena Henry Officers of the Guyana Civil Aviation Authority (GCAA) are currently working on a new draft to replace the current Civil Aviation Act of 2000 and its attendant regulations. The...

Vandals desecrate tomb, remove murdered man’s skull

Sep 16, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Vandals desecrate tomb, remove murdered man’s skull

Ursulla Allicock and her family were preparing to commemorate the first death anniversary of her son Chris’s death, but vandals beat them to the punch and desecrated his tomb and removed his skull...

National Breastfeeding Week commences…Emphasis to be placed on the importance of breastfeeding and a mother’s intake

Sep 16, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on National Breastfeeding Week commences…Emphasis to be placed on the importance of breastfeeding and a mother’s intake

Breastfeeding Coordinator at the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC), Marjorie Arjune, says that during this week, the health institution will be intensifying its focus on educating mothers...

Commuters stranded as Parika Stelling priority system is misused

Sep 16, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Commuters stranded as Parika Stelling priority system is misused

Commuters seeking to transport goods from the Parika Stelling to Bartica, Wakenam and Leguan are feeling the brunt of a priority/ booking system which they allege is being misused for financial gain....

PI gets underway for woman killed in bucket of water

Sep 16, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on PI gets underway for woman killed in bucket of water

The Preliminary Inquiry (PI) of a 31-year-old man charged with killing his reputed wife by strangling and suffocating her in a bucket of water, got underway before Chief Magistrate Priya...

Miner, 21, on murder charge

Sep 16, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Miner, 21, on murder charge

Twenty-one-year-old Levy La Cruz, the man, who allegedly killed miner, Raphael Danns, last week Tuesday, at Mariborough, in the Lower Pomeroon River, was slapped with the capital charge of murder and...

Nagamootoo’s skeletons

Sep 16, 2014 KNews Editorial, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Nagamootoo’s skeletons

One should not read too much into the promised expose of Moses Nagamootoo’s skeletons by the General Secretary of the People’s Progressive Party, Clement Rohee. That is the nature of politics...

Patentia Schoolboy murder… Victim died from shock and haemorrhage due to gunshot injury – Gov’t Pathologist

Sep 16, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Patentia Schoolboy murder… Victim died from shock and haemorrhage due to gunshot injury – Gov’t Pathologist

Prosecution witness, State Pathologist Dr. Vivekananda Bridgemohan told the court, yesterday that murdered schoolboy Kelvin Fraser died from shock and haemorrhage due to the gunshot injury he...

Father and son being tried again for 2002 Breezy Point murder

Sep 16, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Father and son being tried again for 2002 Breezy Point murder

A father, Roy Pestano Snr, and his son Raymond Pestano of Number 41 Village, West Coast Berbice, are once again on trial in The Berbice High Court, for the murder of fellow villager Davanand...

The time a donkey rigged a country’s national election

Sep 16, 2014 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on The time a donkey rigged a country’s national election

Opposition Leader, David Granger, said last week that Donald Ramotar is the weakest President Guyana has produced since Independence. You don’t need a high school education to understand what he...

I need a refund of my taxes

Sep 16, 2014 KNews Letters Comments Off on I need a refund of my taxes

DEAR EDITOR, I am absolutely frustrated and angry at the utter disregard shown by my fellow Guyanese for the welfare of others and the environment. For many years I have been plagued by a host of...

ECHO supports Granger’s call for local govt. elections

Sep 16, 2014 KNews Letters Comments Off on ECHO supports Granger’s call for local govt. elections

DEAR EDITOR, The Environmental Community Health Organization (Echo) supports the call by Leader of the opposition Mr. David Granger for local government elections. This call, we believe, is not only...

It is difficult in this environment to push for a serious discussion on an interim govt. of national unity

Sep 16, 2014 KNews Letters Comments Off on It is difficult in this environment to push for a serious discussion on an interim govt. of national unity

DEAR EDITOR, I refer to Dr. David Hinds’ letter to the editor in your Monday September 15 edition entitled “Unimaginative politics”. I have noted Dr. Hinds’ reference to the paucity of...

The police must stop and search these suspicious elements

Sep 16, 2014 KNews Letters Comments Off on The police must stop and search these suspicious elements

DEAR EDITOR, Armed robbery is an everyday occurrence in Guyana today. One has to just tune into the various media fora and you get the morbid report of another fatal armed robbery. It never ends,...

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Peeping Tom… Kaieteur News- The United States has spoken. Reacting to the conviction of Marine Le Pen in a French... more