September 2014

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GRFU 10s to conclude this weekend

Sep 13, 2014 KNews Sports Comments Off on GRFU 10s to conclude this weekend

The Guyana Rugby Football Union has planned two days of excitement and endurance to mark the end of its 10s Tournament which will conclude on Sunday, at the National Park. The tournament which is...

Three Guyanese on West Indies Blind team for World Cup in S/Africa

Sep 13, 2014 KNews Sports Comments Off on Three Guyanese on West Indies Blind team for World Cup in S/Africa

By Sean Devers Guyanese trio Anthony Robinson, Kevin Douglas and Leroy Phillips were selected on West Indies Blind Cricket team for this year’s visually impaired forty overs cricket World Cup in...

Elizabeth Styles U-19 50-Overs…Albion CC’s Baldeo’s 203 & Hardyal’s 105 highlight latest round

Sep 13, 2014 KNews Sports Comments Off on Elizabeth Styles U-19 50-Overs…Albion CC’s Baldeo’s 203 & Hardyal’s 105 highlight latest round

When the Elizabeth Styles Under-19, 50-Overs cricket competition in Berbice continued recently, defending champions Albion Community Centre were propelled into the quarterfinals on the back of...

Buxton teen awarded for exceptional performance at CSEC

Sep 13, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Buxton teen awarded for exceptional performance at CSEC

In honour of his late grandmother Annie Daniels, overseas-based Guyanese Professor Kerwin Kofi Charles continues to support youth and community development at Buxton, East Coast Demerara. Mr....

Entities being granted concessions regardless of performance is a national disgrace – Greenidge

Sep 13, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Entities being granted concessions regardless of performance is a national disgrace – Greenidge

By Kiana Wilburg When it comes to the operations of foreign companies in Guyana, particularly those from China, A Partnership for National Unity’s (APNU) Shadow Minister of Finance, Carl Greenidge...

Sooba has usurped the authority of the democratically elected Council- Bulkan

Sep 13, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Sooba has usurped the authority of the democratically elected Council- Bulkan

By Abena Rockcliffe The A Partnership for National Unity (APNU) is of the opinion that no good can come to the City until Local Government Elections are held. This, the coalition contends, is mainly...

Herdmandson Annex being used as Marriott office

Sep 13, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Herdmandson Annex being used as Marriott office

The Guyana Sugar Corporation (GuySuCo) building on Lamaha Street better known as the “Herdmandson Annex” is now being used by the Marriott Hotel as their “Pre-Opening Office”. A sign has been...

Clinical Chikungunya Virus on the increase – Senior Health Visitor

Sep 13, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Clinical Chikungunya Virus on the increase – Senior Health Visitor

– at least 60 persons seen daily with symptoms at C/Ville Health Centre alone There can be no denying, even at the level of the Ministry of Health that there has been a massive surge in the...

Health sector launches NCDs Commission

Sep 13, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Health sector launches NCDs Commission

– intended to help combat daunting implications Guyana has taken an ambitious step to launch a National Commission on the Prevention and Control of Non Communicable Diseases (NCDs), an...

Piracy, electricity, street lights dominate Prime Minister’s Berbice outreach

Sep 13, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Piracy, electricity, street lights dominate Prime Minister’s Berbice outreach

Prime Minister Samuel Hinds wrapped up a region- wide outreach to Berbice this past week while making several stops and holding interactions with residents and various stakeholders. He was...

Local Government Ministry hands over brush cutters to Region Three NDCs

Sep 13, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Local Government Ministry hands over brush cutters to Region Three NDCs

Minister of Local Government and Regional Development, Norman Whittaker, on Wednesday, handed over 10 brush cutters to the ten Neighbourhood Democratic Councils (NDCs) at the Regional Democratic...

Over 300 families benefit from housing ministry’s ‘one stop shop’ exercise

Sep 13, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Over 300 families benefit from housing ministry’s ‘one stop shop’ exercise

More than 300 families were yesterday counting their good fortune as they moved one step closer to realizing the dream of owning their homes through the Ministry of Housing and Water’s annual...

GUYANA DOES NOT HAVE AN UNEMPLOYMENT PROBLEM

Sep 13, 2014 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on GUYANA DOES NOT HAVE AN UNEMPLOYMENT PROBLEM

Does Guyana have an unemployment problem? The answer is no. If there is high unemployment, then how does one explain the fact that the cost of labour is so prohibitive? Even your ordinary handyman is...

Pensioner found dead in house

Sep 13, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Pensioner found dead in house

The body of an elderly woman, with no marks of violence, was discovered at her Lot 319 East Street, Georgetown, home around 16:30 hrs yesterday by police. Neighbours said that Sheila James, who was...

Jeweler on $1.5M bail for causing M&CC handyman’s death in midnight crash

Sep 13, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Jeweler on $1.5M bail for causing M&CC handyman’s death in midnight crash

Managing Director of Sanjay’s Jewellery, Bishnarine “Sanjay” Persaud who was behind the wheels of the sports car which killed a Mayor and City Council (M&CC) handyman in a midnight crash,...

APNU places General Elections on back burner

Sep 13, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on APNU places General Elections on back burner

By Abena Rockcliffe “Let us deal with one election at a time,” is what Opposition Leader, David Granger told the media yesterday when asked if his party is prepared for both Local Government and...

A country which has lost its way

Sep 13, 2014 KNews Editorial Comments Off on A country which has lost its way

There is no indication that the volte-face by the government in terminating the Surendra specialty hospital contract will make any lasting impression on the administration. Coming as it were after...

National Wellness Warriors Club officially launched

Sep 13, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on National Wellness Warriors Club officially launched

The Ministry of Health’s Wellness Warriors Club was yesterday officially launched by President Donald Ramotar in the presence of Prime Minister Samuel Hinds, visiting Director of the Pan American...

Schools in Linden Closed for concert in honour of Monique Amsterdam

Sep 13, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Schools in Linden Closed for concert in honour of Monique Amsterdam

By Jacquey Bourne Despite the inclement weather schools were closed in Linden and parents, teachers and students braved the rain and attended the benefit concert for thirteen year old Monique...

Taxi driver, miner, remanded for robbing woman

Sep 13, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Taxi driver, miner, remanded for robbing woman

A taxi driver and a miner were remanded to prison yesterday after they were charged with cornering a woman in Campbellville, Georgetown, and relieving her of over $100,000 worth of items at gunpoint....

Teen father remanded for snatching gold chains

Sep 13, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Teen father remanded for snatching gold chains

A 19-year-old father of one was yesterday remanded to prison after he was charged for snatching $200,000 in jewellery from a woman around the Stabroek Market area. Ricky Lakeram, a porter of Lot 40...

Patentia schoolboy killing …Police was not privy to DPP’s advice on the matter before charging accused – court hears

Sep 13, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Patentia schoolboy killing …Police was not privy to DPP’s advice on the matter before charging accused – court hears

A police witness testifying in the matter, in which Police Constable Quancy John is indicted for killing Patentia schoolboy Kelvin Fraser, admitted that he was not privy to the advice of the Director...

Empowerment through education

Sep 13, 2014 KNews Letters Comments Off on Empowerment through education

DEAR EDITOR, This month, the month of September, coincided with two important observances which in a way are interlocking and mutually reinforcing from a national development perspective –...

This nation needs alliance for the rule of law

Sep 13, 2014 KNews Letters Comments Off on This nation needs alliance for the rule of law

DEAR EDITOR, The Parliament is the nation’s supreme organ of democratic power in Guyana (Article 50 of the Guyana Constitution). The motion of no-confidence in the government, as brought to the...

Reading crisis: The continued failure by those in authority

Sep 13, 2014 KNews Features / Columnists, Letters Comments Off on Reading crisis: The continued failure by those in authority

DEAR EDITOR, The recent KN article dated 9/9/2014 and captioned; “Only three out of 10 pupils can read properly – Manickchand” must set off the alarm bells in our heads. I have written...

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Bigger is not necessarily better

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(Kaieteur News) – There is a particular danger when tourism people gather in a room to discuss the future of tourism. Before anybody notices, somebody is talking about luxury resorts, billion-dollar investments, global sporting events and infrastructure on a scale that would make Dubai look like...

The People’s Wars, Caribbean Bills

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By Sir Ronald Sanders (Kaieteur News) – The Caribbean did not start, or participate in, the war involving the United States, Israel and Iran, nor the other continuing conflicts in the Middle East. Yet millions of Caribbean people are paying a price for them every day. They pay it at petrol...

Pres. Ali- the mythmaker

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(Kaieteur News) – Pres. Ali has constructed a movie. He has a lot of help from former president, Jagdeo. Since both are into mythmaking, the movie they made presents an image to Guyanese. Perfection. PPP Govt. women made to look angelic. PPP men less demonic. Fantasy made to be...

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