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NGOs picket Amerindian Affairs Ministry over hinterland rapes

Oct 16, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on NGOs picket Amerindian Affairs Ministry over hinterland rapes

The Red Thread Organisation, Society Against Sexual Orientation Discrimination (SASOD) and Guyana Trans United staged a picketing exercise in front of the Ministry of Amerindian Affairs yesterday to...

Overseas Guyanese launch Environmental group at Palmyra

Oct 16, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Overseas Guyanese launch Environmental group at Palmyra

By Leon Suseran Overseas-based Guyanese and Environmental Activist, Maureen Regan, recently launched a group that aims to be environmentally friendly and execute projects that can sustain a greener...

Chile to open embassy in Guyana

Oct 16, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Chile to open embassy in Guyana

Non-resident Chilean Ambassador, Fernando Scmith yesterday presented his Letters of Credence to President Donald Ramotar, at the Presidential Complex. His appointment was welcomed by the President...

Avon commits to sustaining breast cancer awareness

Oct 16, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Avon commits to sustaining breast cancer awareness

– gets financial support from Digicel With a keen focus on raising breast cancer awareness, the Avon Committee Help Fund (ACHF) yesterday announced the commencement of its ninth annual Breast...

Senior Bartica police rank helping to combat underage drinking

Oct 16, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Senior Bartica police rank helping to combat underage drinking

The Ministry of Health is currently waging an all-out war on chronic Non-Communicable Diseases (NCDs) which has been claiming the lives of far too many citizens. This phenomenon which is not unique...

GAVI observes White Cane Safety Day

Oct 16, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on GAVI observes White Cane Safety Day

In observance of “White Cane Safety Day” held yesterday, The Guyana Association for the Visually Impaired (GAVI) conducted a walking exercise from the Georgetown Public Hospital to the Promenade...

Youth involvement in crime

Oct 16, 2014 KNews Editorial Comments Off on Youth involvement in crime

Youth involvement in crime has reached unprecedented proportions. In fact, just about every country in the English-speaking Caribbean seems to be grappling with this problem. Of course, young people...

Digicel to build multi-million dollar rehabilitation Centre in Linden

Oct 16, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Digicel to build multi-million dollar rehabilitation Centre in Linden

The sod was yesterday turned for the erection of a spanking multi-million dollar facility at Spieghtland to house approximately sixty differently able children in Linden. Upon completion, the...

GECOM swears in Assistant Commissioner of National Registration

Oct 16, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on GECOM swears in Assistant Commissioner of National Registration

The new Assistant Commissioner of National Registration (ACNR) of the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM), Nolan Jervis, took his oath of office at a simple swearing in ceremony held in the chambers...

‘Million Man March’ 19th Anniversary comes to the Caribbean

Oct 16, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on ‘Million Man March’ 19th Anniversary comes to the Caribbean

…HBTV to provide live streaming The annual observances of the historic ‘Million Man March’ of October 16, 1995, will for the first time be held outside of the United States Jamaica will today...

Injunction against Trotman’s accuser stands

Oct 16, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Injunction against Trotman’s accuser stands

…Trotman granted time to respond to affidavit The injunction which prevents a 22-year-old man from publishing any material relating to the sexual assault allegations he has made against Speaker of...

Blood Bank not working at Suddie Hospital

Oct 16, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Blood Bank not working at Suddie Hospital

Persons, who are willing to donate blood for patients in need of the precious commodity at the Suddie Public Hospital, are currently unable to do so voluntarily. There is no trained Blood technician...

Medication concerns at Leonora diagnostic Centre gaining RDC’s attention

Oct 16, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Medication concerns at Leonora diagnostic Centre gaining RDC’s attention

If the disclosures emanating from the most recent Region Three Health Committee meeting are to be accepted as gospel, the Leonora Diagnostic Centre is in dire straits. But although the minutes of the...

Plans in place to address road, electricity woes at Port Kaituma

Oct 16, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Plans in place to address road, electricity woes at Port Kaituma

Residents of Port Kaituma expect to get an upgrade of their community roads, while the ongoing electricity problem is to be addressed. The residents told Kaieteur News that currently, they only...

HAS THE OBJECTIVITY OF THE GRA BEEN COMPROMISED?

Oct 16, 2014 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on HAS THE OBJECTIVITY OF THE GRA BEEN COMPROMISED?

The litmus test for a conflict of interest was established in the Pinochet Case. In that case, it was discovered that the presiding judge had once been a member of Amnesty International, an...

4th National Drama Festival opens

Oct 16, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on 4th National Drama Festival opens

….Minister Anthony acknowledges growth The emergence of the National Drama Festival has brought with it an increase of the number of play writes, plays and drama groups, and this realization is an...

Casreep remanded on murder charge, son still on the run

Oct 16, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Casreep remanded on murder charge, son still on the run

A man who along with his son ambushed and brutally murdered another man before escaping, and being on the run has been captured and remanded to jail. Harrynarine Mathura, called Casreep, 49, of...

GLEN LALL & KURSHID SATTAUR MOVIE

Oct 16, 2014 KNews Cartoons Comments Off on GLEN LALL & KURSHID SATTAUR MOVIE

Church’s Chicken food court opens at UG

Oct 16, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Church’s Chicken food court opens at UG

Church’s Chicken now officially has a presence on the University of Guyana, Turkeyen Campus. After several months of delays, Camex Restaurants Inc. opened its Church’s Chicken Food Court last...

The PPP has fallen in popularity all across the country

Oct 16, 2014 KNews Letters Comments Off on The PPP has fallen in popularity all across the country

DEAR EDITOR, In Guyana like in many other countries, life has many good things for one to enjoy. The problem is that most of these good things can be acquired only by sacrificing other good things....

Pragmatic approach needed to rid the world of Ebola

Oct 16, 2014 KNews Letters Comments Off on Pragmatic approach needed to rid the world of Ebola

DEAR EDITOR, No one is certain of the specific reasons countries are allowing people in from West Africa, but it probably has to do with maintaining international trade and diplomatic relations....

A touching story to remind us that our desires don’t always come as we expect

Oct 16, 2014 KNews Letters Comments Off on A touching story to remind us that our desires don’t always come as we expect

Dear Editor, Please permit me space in your daily to share a touching story which will remind us that not everything we desire may appear as we expect. A friend sent me a short story and I felt...

Shame on the Gov’t and Sattaur!

Oct 16, 2014 KNews Letters Comments Off on Shame on the Gov’t and Sattaur!

DEAR EDITOR, Your article exposes this evil plot of the Government and the Commissioner General of the Guyana Revenue Authority, Mr. Khurshid Sattaur, to destroy Kaieteur News, and its owner, Mr....

I shall miss Rafiq Ahmad Khan

Oct 16, 2014 KNews Letters Comments Off on I shall miss Rafiq Ahmad Khan

DEAR EDITOR, My wife Lorna and I were shocked and dismayed when we came home last Friday evening to receive a message on our machine that Rafiq had died on Friday morning. The day before I was...

US Gov’t should investigate Ed Ahmad to see if he breached the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act

Oct 16, 2014 KNews Letters Comments Off on US Gov’t should investigate Ed Ahmad to see if he breached the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act

DEAR EDITOR, Has the US government investigated whether Ed Ahmad’s actions and the actions of those connected to him in Guyana breached any provisions of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act? The US...