September 25, 2014

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NDCs receive $12M in computers and accessories from CRIP

Sep 25, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on NDCs receive $12M in computers and accessories from CRIP

During the past week, the Ministry of Housing and Water supplied computers and accessories totalling $12.272M to 12 Neighbourhood Democratic Councils (NDCs) in Regions Three, Four, Five and Six, in...

NDIA tenders for mini hydraulic excavators

Sep 25, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on NDIA tenders for mini hydraulic excavators

The National Drainage and Irrigation Authority (NDIA) under the Ministry of Agriculture has tendered for the procurement of mini hydraulic excavators. Six bids were opened Tuesday by the National...

Children in lock-ups…We did not breach the law – Police

Sep 25, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Children in lock-ups…We did not breach the law – Police

The Guyana Police Force says that it did not breach any law when it detained two juveniles overnight in the Cove and John Police Station lockups. This was in response to an article carried in the...

Education Ministry commissions $37.4M L’Aventure Secondary School replacement wing

Sep 25, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Education Ministry commissions $37.4M L’Aventure Secondary School replacement wing

After fire destroyed a wing of L’Aventure Secondary School, Canal Number One Polder, West Bank Demerara in September last year, Government set about its rebuilding. Yesterday, the new wing which...

GPL releases new load-shedding schedule for Demerara, Berbice

Sep 25, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on GPL releases new load-shedding schedule for Demerara, Berbice

The Guyana Power and Light Inc. (GPL) has released another load-shedding schedule in light of its continuing generation shortfall. The new schedule covered until tomorrow Friday. GPL, in a statement...

Medical Support from China…More than 100 eye surgeries scheduled over three days at GPHC

Sep 25, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Medical Support from China…More than 100 eye surgeries scheduled over three days at GPHC

The Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) has been identified as the venue for the completion of over 100 cataract surgeries within a three-day period. The procedures are being conducted by a...

Factories to be inspected for Panamanian rice deal

Sep 25, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Factories to be inspected for Panamanian rice deal

The inking of a deal earlier this year that will see Guyana supplying 5,000 tonnes of rice to Panama each month will see shipments beginning at the end of September. Minister of Agriculture, Dr....

EMAILGATE

Sep 25, 2014 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on EMAILGATE

Guyana now has its own Emailgate. This has created a crisis in public trust, one that must be addressed as a matter of urgency by the opposition parties in Guyana. Leaked documents reveal a plot to...

GPA hosts World Pharmacists Day

Sep 25, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on GPA hosts World Pharmacists Day

In observance of World Pharmacists Day, Guyana Pharmacists’ Association (GPA) hosted a week of activities to promote the role of the pharmacist in improving health sector in the Guyana. World...

GDF plane crashes, runs off interior airstrip

Sep 25, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on GDF plane crashes, runs off interior airstrip

Some four persons traveling onboard a Guyana Defence Force (GDF) aircraft walked away without injury yesterday, when the army carrier crashed on landing at Camp Jaguar, an interior airstrip. The...

Mo fyaah/slo fyaah, Indian style

Sep 25, 2014 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on Mo fyaah/slo fyaah, Indian style

How different we are when the shoe is on the other foot. In 1995, UG students staged the most torrid and angry protest in the history of the University. It was more all inclusive than the one when...

Re-examination of Grades Two and Four Assessments on Ministry’s agenda

Sep 25, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Re-examination of Grades Two and Four Assessments on Ministry’s agenda

The Ministry of Education is currently embracing a course of action that will see it seeking to re-examine the Grades Two and Four Assessments. This strategic move, according to Minister of...

Head Teacher charged for fondling female pupils

Sep 25, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Head Teacher charged for fondling female pupils

Head Teacher of Chinese Landing Primary School in Region One (Barima Waini), Learman Abrams, was placed on bail yesterday after he was charged for fondling two female students. Abrams, 52, of Region...

Corentyne businessman cries out after latest truck robbery incident

Sep 25, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Corentyne businessman cries out after latest truck robbery incident

… Over $2.4M stolen in past months Two bandits robbed a Demerara Distillers Limited (DDL) distributor truck of $500,000 around 12:30 hrs on Monday at Crabwood Creek, Corentyne. While the driver...

PNCR’s Elvin Mc David dies

Sep 25, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on PNCR’s Elvin Mc David dies

A key figure behind the establishment of the now defunct Guyana National Service has died. The People’s National Congress Reform (PNCR), Guyana’s largest opposition party, said that Elvin Mc...

Mowasie Backdam father of five charged with firearm possession

Sep 25, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Mowasie Backdam father of five charged with firearm possession

Fifty-year-old Oswald Europe, a father of five and miner from Mowasie Backdam, Konawaruk, appeared before Magistrate Fabayo Azore yesterday charged with unlawful possession of a firearm and...

Catching up in the medical field

Sep 25, 2014 KNews Editorial Comments Off on Catching up in the medical field

The world of medicine is not confined to any one country. There have been drugs that were manufactured to cure certain ailments and some of these are now commonplace. At the same time, new drugs are...

Rights of the Child Commission hosts empowerment workshop

Sep 25, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Rights of the Child Commission hosts empowerment workshop

The Rights of the Child Commission held a special empowerment workshop with students of the Sophia Training Centre on September 19, last. The workshop attracted more than 60 children and young people...

Lawyer briefs community on child abuse

Sep 25, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Lawyer briefs community on child abuse

Parents and Teachers within the Charity Community, were part of a Community outreach meeting, organized by the Child Protection Agency, on Wednesday, at the Charity Primary School. The issue was the...

Judge admits absent star witness’ evidence

Sep 25, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Judge admits absent star witness’ evidence

… as father and son Breezy Point 2002 murder trial continues The father and son being tried for a murder that occurred in 2002 on West Coast Berbice are expected to know their fate today when the...

Demerara Bank gives back to Dharm Shala

Sep 25, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Demerara Bank gives back to Dharm Shala

The Dharm Shala at Fort Canje, Berbice, recently benefitted from a tangible donation of several items from the Demerara Bank, Rose Hall Town Branch. The handing-over ceremony took place at the...

When a governing party is so cavalier about the institutional force at its disposal, it is time for all to do more than take note

Sep 25, 2014 KNews Letters Comments Off on When a governing party is so cavalier about the institutional force at its disposal, it is time for all to do more than take note

DEAR EDITOR, There comes a time when a nation must sit up and take note of where it is and do something to halt its deterioration. Sometimes a nation gets so tired of being abused, terrorized and...

An attempt to mislead the public

Sep 25, 2014 KNews Letters Comments Off on An attempt to mislead the public

DEAR EDITOR, The Guyana Police Force is responding to a Letter to the Editor published in the Kaieteur News of Wednesday September 24, 2014, under the caption “When the police replace the DPP for a...

No evidence of a breach of the law

Sep 25, 2014 KNews Letters Comments Off on No evidence of a breach of the law

DEAR EDITOR, The Guyana Police Force is responding to a Letter to the Editor published in the Kaieteur News of Wednesday September 24, 2014, under the caption “Bribery and Cover-ups”. The Force...

Jaya Manickchand reacts to the Welshman saga

Sep 25, 2014 KNews Letters Comments Off on Jaya Manickchand reacts to the Welshman saga

DEAR EDITOR, I have noted that in an affidavit to secure injunctive relief against allegations of sexual abuse made by Johnny Welshman, Raphael Trotman, Speaker of the National Assembly,...

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