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Concerns surface over possible increased airfares on GT-NY route

Oct 01, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Concerns surface over possible increased airfares on GT-NY route

By Zena Henry In less than a year, three new flight services have entered the market on the lucrative Georgetown-New York route. A few months later, only two airlines remain and passengers are...

Jamaican expert calls for attitude change to fully embrace TVET

Oct 01, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Jamaican expert calls for attitude change to fully embrace TVET

– emphasises importance of punctuality By Sharmain Grainger The need for a change in values and attitudes was cited as critical, before earnest agitation can be made Caribbean-wide towards...

US Embassy joins local fight against gender-based violence

Oct 01, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on US Embassy joins local fight against gender-based violence

By Latoya Giles Chargé d’Affaires of the United States Embassy, Byran Hunt, on Monday evening handed over grant aids totaling US$600,000 from the United States State Department to three Local...

GPL clips power to UG’s recently re-commissioned IT Centre

Oct 01, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on GPL clips power to UG’s recently re-commissioned IT Centre

Less than two weeks after the University of Guyana’s Centre for Information Technology (CIT) was commissioned by President Donald Ramotar, the Guyana Power and Light (GPL) yesterday disconnected...

$Prison fracas accused make another court appearance$

Prison fracas accused make another court appearance

Oct 01, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Prison fracas accused make another court appearance

– hunt for fourth man continues Police are still on the hunt for the fourth man who is wanted in the New Amsterdam Prison fracas that occurred on May 23, last, even as the other three accused...

Miller threatens to blow lid off rice industry

Oct 01, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Miller threatens to blow lid off rice industry

…after clash with Agri Minister A miller has clashed with Government over the rice industry following questions regarding the multi-billion-dollar Venezuela deal. The issue has now drawn in the...

Parliament gears to resume work on critical issues

Oct 01, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Parliament gears to resume work on critical issues

By Kiana Wilburg Speaker of the National Assembly, Raphael Trotman expressed during a press conference yesterday that the Parliament office is ready and rearing to resume the business of the National...

Relatives seek help in locating missing teen

Oct 01, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Relatives seek help in locating missing teen

Relatives of 18-year-old Karen Michelle Thomas are seeking the assistance of the public to locate her after she went missing last Saturday. The Sophia Special School student of Lot 136 South...

Schoolchildren do not need cell phones

Oct 01, 2014 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on Schoolchildren do not need cell phones

I see no reason why any schoolchild should have need for a cellular phone while in school. Over the past few days, I have been soliciting the views of children as to the need for this device. Most of...

Contractor was fired on Diamond koker project – Agri Ministry

Oct 01, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Contractor was fired on Diamond koker project – Agri Ministry

One day after the publication of a picture on the front page of the Kaieteur News questioning the operations of a new sluice at the New Diamond area, the Ministry of Agriculture says the project was...

Handyman caught “red handed” burgling city house remanded

Oct 01, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Handyman caught “red handed” burgling city house remanded

A handyman of Middle Road, La Penitence, Georgetown, charged with Break and Enter and Larceny, was ordered held without court bond when he appeared before Chief Magistrate Priya Sewnarine-Beharry...

Time is of the essence

Oct 01, 2014 KNews Editorial Comments Off on Time is of the essence

A 48-month sentence was recently meted out to a member of the Guyana Police Force (GPF) for his involvement in a shooting incident. Now Adrian Bishop is shot in questionable circumstances, raising...

Former Chronicle reporter on fraud charge

Oct 01, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Former Chronicle reporter on fraud charge

Mark Bradford was charged with fraudulent conversion on Monday last, when he appeared before Chief Magistrate Priya Sewnarine-Beharry at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court. It is alleged that...

Brutal Matthews Ridge rape…Human rights body condemns action of police, medical officials

Oct 01, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Brutal Matthews Ridge rape…Human rights body condemns action of police, medical officials

The Guyana Human Rights Association (GHRA) has strongly criticized the manner in which the police and medical officials in Matthews Ridge have handled the case involving an Amerindian woman who was...

No bail for construction worker on attempted robbery, illegal gun charges

Oct 01, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on No bail for construction worker on attempted robbery, illegal gun charges

A 26-year-old construction worker accused of pouncing on a patron with a gun at a popular fast food outlet at the Stabroek Market Square in a daring robbery attempt last Friday was remanded to prison...

Murder accused to face High Court trial

Oct 01, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Murder accused to face High Court trial

Kurt Clarke, the 34-year-old accused of stabbing a patron to death for using a gay slur against him, has once again been ordered to stand High Court trial on a murder charge. Clarke was, for the...

The return of blackouts

Oct 01, 2014 KNews Letters Comments Off on The return of blackouts

Dear Editor, We are just over two months away from the Christmas season and we are now greeted by blackouts for over eight to twelve hours on a daily basis. Last week I was officiating at a very big...

Conspirators in a housing fraud

Oct 01, 2014 KNews Letters Comments Off on Conspirators in a housing fraud

Dear Editor, I write with reference to a news story titled: “Home of US-based Guyanese burglarized” (Guyana Times Sept. 18th). The article reported that Jagdeo Persaud’s “sister . . . who...

The Hope Canal kokers have design problems

Oct 01, 2014 KNews Letters Comments Off on The Hope Canal kokers have design problems

Dear Editor, Earlier this month, Minister of Agriculture, Dr. Leslie Ramsammy, gave December 31 as the revised completion date for the Hope-Dochfour Canal Project (HCP) when flood waters from the...

Correcting a distortion of the facts

Oct 01, 2014 KNews Letters Comments Off on Correcting a distortion of the facts

Dear Editor, I wish to correct the misinformation stated in an article appearing in the Sunday Stabroek of September 28 and Kaieteur News of September 29, 2014 about the slaughtering of wild animals....

Ms Teixeira was selective

Oct 01, 2014 KNews Letters Comments Off on Ms Teixeira was selective

Dear Editor, Responding to Gail Teixeira’s outpouring on the accusation against Raphael Trotman, and her accusation that Red Thread and others are dealing with this differently than we did with the...

Why some protesters are the victims of police brutality

Oct 01, 2014 KNews Letters Comments Off on Why some protesters are the victims of police brutality

Dear Editor, Under the captioned heading ‘ Why this drum beat of doom when it comes to African Guyanese protests? Some of us are familiar with the otherization that is central to racist...

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Gimme de ting wah the doctor order me!

Peeping Tom… Kaieteur News- The government’s decision to go ahead with the universal healthcare voucher scheme is... more