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GWI water quality testing to be enhanced with ISO accreditation

Oct 14, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on GWI water quality testing to be enhanced with ISO accreditation

– Instruments, equipment used to meet international standards Guyana Water Incorporated (GWI) has commenced the process of ISO 17025:2005 accreditation of the company’s Scientific...

FREEDOM IS ON TRIAL

Oct 14, 2014 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on FREEDOM IS ON TRIAL

Glenn Lall is NOT on trial. Glenn Lall has been charged and placed before the courts, but this case is not about Glenn Lall; it is about freedom in Guyana. Freedom is on trial. Glenn Lall is but a...

First Remembrance Day held for Guyana’s independence martyr

Oct 14, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on First Remembrance Day held for Guyana’s independence martyr

Members of African cultural bodies and other citizens yesterday poured libation (ritual act) to commemorate the first of future Remembrance Day observances in honour of one of Guyana’s first...

Kaieteur News clutching at straws to mask alleged wrongdoings – says PPP

Oct 14, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Kaieteur News clutching at straws to mask alleged wrongdoings – says PPP

The People’s Progressive Party (PPP) is keenly following the issue regarding the Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) and the Publisher of the Kaieteur News, Mr. Glenn Lall. While we await the outcome of...

EU reaffirms commitment to abolition of death penalty

Oct 14, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on EU reaffirms commitment to abolition of death penalty

The European Union has once again confirmed its commitment to the abolition of the death penalty, even as Guyana continues to hold on to capital punishment. The EU’s position was reaffirmed three...

GNBS observes National Quality Week/World Standards Day

Oct 14, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on GNBS observes National Quality Week/World Standards Day

The Guyana National Bureau of Standards (GNBS) has designated October 13 -17 as National Quality Week. The period coincides with World Standards Day that will be commemorated today under the three...

Bottled water vendors challenge removal order

Oct 14, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Bottled water vendors challenge removal order

Bottled water vendors remain defiant in a bid to ply their trade despite orders by Minister of Public Works and Transportation, Robeson Benn, to have them removed from along the streets of...

Govt. investigators probing deadly rice factory explosion

Oct 14, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Govt. investigators probing deadly rice factory explosion

A team of investigators from the Ministry of Labour has journeyed to Berbice to probe Sunday’s horrific incident in which a boiler exploded and killed its operator. According to Minister of Labour,...

Horrific rice mill boiler accident…Dead man’s leg found next day

Oct 14, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Horrific rice mill boiler accident…Dead man’s leg found next day

This was not the first fatal accident to have occurred at John and Jason Tulshi Rice Mill at Number 49 Village, Corentyne. The owner had reportedly refused request to repair the boiler, said people...

PPP accuses GECOM of flawed employment policy

Oct 14, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on PPP accuses GECOM of flawed employment policy

The People’s Progressive Party (PPP) yesterday took another swipe at the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM), a move which has become popular in the face of looming elections. In recent times, PPP...

Former court cashier jailed for stealing child support money

Oct 14, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Former court cashier jailed for stealing child support money

A corrupt cashier who helped herself to over $3M while working at a city court, was jailed for 60 months yesterday. Tiffany Peters, 24, pinched $3,045,000 from the Maintenance Department at the...

Picture boy murder trial

Oct 14, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Picture boy murder trial

– Neighbour testifies to witnessing crime A witness testifying in the matter for which Cyon Collier, called ‘Picture Boy’ has been charged with the murder of Non Pareil businessman...

Guyana selects quarantine area for possible Ebola victims

Oct 14, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Guyana selects quarantine area for possible Ebola victims

The lower flat of the new inpatient facility of the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) has been identified as the Ebola quarantine area. And according to Chief Executive Officer, Michael...

East La Penitence brothers on bail for stealing cows

Oct 14, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on East La Penitence brothers on bail for stealing cows

Two accused cattle rustlers were granted bail after a brief hearing at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court yesterday morning. The brothers, Sean Garraway, 22, and Leon Garraway, 29, who appeared...

Overseas-based Guyanese charged for illegal ammo

Oct 14, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Overseas-based Guyanese charged for illegal ammo

A 30-year-old mechanic on vacation in Guyana was reportedly busted with rounds of illegal ammunition in his room last Friday. He was remanded to prison yesterday when he appeared at the Georgetown...

Chattergoon freed on sex charge after offering victim money

Oct 14, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Chattergoon freed on sex charge after offering victim money

Narine Chattergoon, called ‘Ken’, 49, the former senior government official who was embroiled in a number of sexual issues was charged, and placed before the courts on a matter of exposing his...

Two new attorneys admitted to the bar

Oct 14, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Two new attorneys admitted to the bar

Outstanding University of Guyana and Hugh Wooding Law School graduate, Tanicia Shanell Daniels, became the most recent addition to the list of female Guyanese attorneys. Daniels was admitted to the...

The view that these children’s human rights are being denied is quite unfounded

Oct 14, 2014 KNews Letters Comments Off on The view that these children’s human rights are being denied is quite unfounded

DEAR EDITOR, We at the Ministry of Culture, Youth and Sport have observed the recent surge of concern in the public domain regarding the New Opportunity Corps (NOC); we also have our concerns...

Thanks to the Owner and Editor-in-Chief of Kaieteur News for saving Guyana

Oct 14, 2014 KNews Letters Comments Off on Thanks to the Owner and Editor-in-Chief of Kaieteur News for saving Guyana

DEAR EDITOR, Guess what people? Kaieteur News is under a multi-million dollar attack campaign from the Ramotar/Jagdeo regime with full support from the PPP lackey news media, the Guyana Times and the...

Kaieteur News should file a complaint with ACCA (England)

Oct 14, 2014 KNews Letters Comments Off on Kaieteur News should file a complaint with ACCA (England)

DEAR EDITOR, As the evidence mounts and becomes starker, it is critical that certain steps should be taken to not only protect Kaieteur News, but also to protect the very foundation of the fifth...

Detailed tracking and surveillance is key to Ebola containment: learning from Nigeria

Oct 14, 2014 KNews Letters Comments Off on Detailed tracking and surveillance is key to Ebola containment: learning from Nigeria

DEAR EDITOR, I read with interest a recent news article about Guyana’s state of Ebola preparedness where Dr. Shamdeo Persaud, the Chief Medical Officer (CMO) of the Guyana Public Hospital...

No sane court will rule for reparations

Oct 14, 2014 KNews Letters Comments Off on No sane court will rule for reparations

DEAR EDITOR, When this reparations issue is finally taken to court, that court, any court, even our own Caribbean Court of Justice, will set certain parameters that such a case will be heard. Trying...

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