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Letter to the Sports Editor …Bissoondyal Singh is misleading the public

Nov 13, 2014 KNews Sports Comments Off on Letter to the Sports Editor …Bissoondyal Singh is misleading the public

Dear Editor, I had to ensure that the facts were available before penning this letter as Mr. Bissoondyal Singh may very well drag me before the court as he had done on so many occasions to others,...

BCB, NBS second division 40-over cricket competition in Berbice…Port Mourant, Hopetown United through to playoffs

Nov 13, 2014 KNews Sports Comments Off on BCB, NBS second division 40-over cricket competition in Berbice…Port Mourant, Hopetown United through to playoffs

– Corriverton also advance Port Mourant of Zone C (Lower Corentyne/Central) and Hopetown United of Zone A (West Berbice/West) both scraped through to the playoffs of the 2014 New Building...

GPHC, West Demerara Hospital collaborate – Health Minister

Nov 13, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on GPHC, West Demerara Hospital collaborate – Health Minister

Plans were in the pipeline for a number of years for the West Demerara Regional Hospital to be twinned with the country’s premier health facility, the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC)....

Nine homeless after Corriverton Fire

Nov 13, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Nine homeless after Corriverton Fire

Seven children including a three-month-old baby are among nine person left homeless after fire of unknown origin on Tuesday afternoon destroyed their two-storey wood and concrete home. The house...

Son of late millionaire doctor dies in motorcycle accident

Nov 13, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Son of late millionaire doctor dies in motorcycle accident

Two years after returning to Guyana to take control of the vast wealth that his dead father left, 43-year old Canadian Jonathon Validen died in a motorcycle accident early yesterday morning. Police...

Unidentified male patient at GPHC’s Intensive Care Unit

Nov 13, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Unidentified male patient at GPHC’s Intensive Care Unit

The Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) is requesting the assistance of the public to identify a male patient who has been in the Intensive Care Unit for the last 14 days. According to a...

THERE HAS BEEN NO BREACH OF CONSTITUTIONAL ORDER

Nov 13, 2014 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on THERE HAS BEEN NO BREACH OF CONSTITUTIONAL ORDER

The opposition parties are making out as if the decision of the President to prorogue parliament has unilaterally shut down parliament and silenced the voice of the people. This is not exactly true....

CMO bids farewell to the Linden Hospital Complex

Nov 13, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on CMO bids farewell to the Linden Hospital Complex

…after 29 years Amidst tears and laughter last Friday at J.C. Renaissance Banquet Hall in Amelia’s Ward, the Linden Hospital bid farewell to Dr. Mohamed Riyasat after 29 years. Chairman of the...

New British High Commissioner appointed

Nov 13, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on New British High Commissioner appointed

Head of the Presidential Secretariat (HPS), Dr. Roger Luncheon, yesterday announced the appointment of a new High Commissioner to Guyana from the United Kingdom. According to the Government...

Businessman to rehab damaged road in South R/veldt

Nov 13, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Businessman to rehab damaged road in South R/veldt

Following months of complaining, residents of South Ruimveldt have been promised that they will finally be able to have proper use of the damaged David Rose Street again. The area was subjected to...

APNU opposes fuel tax hike at this time

Nov 13, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on APNU opposes fuel tax hike at this time

A Partnership for National Unity (APNU), Parliament’s largest Opposition faction, is opposing a hike of the fuel tax in light of the current political situation. The faction, which controls 26...

MV Malali back in service

Nov 13, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on MV Malali back in service

The MV MALALI is back in service after dry docking and extensive rehabilitation at the E.C Vieira Investment Ltd Dry Docking facility. According to the Maritime Administration Department, MARAD, the...

Guyana headed for dictatorship

Nov 13, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Guyana headed for dictatorship

The following was published in the November 12, 2014 issue of the Jamaica Observer. We reprint for the benefit of those who did not see it. Guyana is a country where democracy has traditionally been...

Prorogued Parliament exposes need for constitutional reform

Nov 13, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Prorogued Parliament exposes need for constitutional reform

…provisions being used for the wrong reasons – Trotman By Gary Eleazar The decision to prorogue the Guyana Parliament is provided for in the Guyana Constitution but the time has come when...

Man insists he was holding son’s hand when car struck child

Nov 13, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Man insists he was holding son’s hand when car struck child

The father of the six-year-old boy, who was killed in an accident at Parika last Sunday, is again insisting that he was holding the child’s hand when the vehicle struck him. Police have stated that...

Sanitation worker brutalised by reputed spouse

Nov 13, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Sanitation worker brutalised by reputed spouse

A Banks DIH sanitation worker was brutally assailed with a broken bottle by her common law husband on Sunday although the two had separated due to domestic problems. Following her discharge from the...

Prorogued Parliament places Guyana in ‘uncharted territory’ – Catholic Bishop

Nov 13, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Prorogued Parliament places Guyana in ‘uncharted territory’ – Catholic Bishop

Roman Catholic Bishop, Francis Alleyne, has been the first religious figure to state publicly his dismay with President Donald Ramotar’s decision to prorogue the National Assembly. Bishop Alleyne...

Deputy Clerk of National Assembly appointed

Nov 13, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Deputy Clerk of National Assembly appointed

President Donald Ramotar on Monday formally appointed Hermina Gilgeours as the Deputy Clerk of the National Assembly. The President issued the instrument of appointment to Gilgeours, who has been...

Prison officer in custody for murder

Nov 13, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Prison officer in custody for murder

Taxi driver taken off life support It was a difficult but necessary decision to take 28-year-old Anthony Narine off life support Tuesday afternoon at the Woodlands Hospital, said family members of...

Witness tied to Guyanese death squad, testifies in NY murder trial

Nov 13, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Witness tied to Guyanese death squad, testifies in NY murder trial

Staten Island, NY- After a trial that included testimony from a killer with ties to a Guyanese death squad, a jury is now weighing the evidence against three brothers accused of killing a rival drug...

Human traffickers deserve more than jail terms – GWMO Head

Nov 13, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Human traffickers deserve more than jail terms – GWMO Head

…accomplices should not escape prosecution By Sunita Samaroo Although grateful that Guyana has seen another human trafficker behind bars, the Guyana Women Miners Organisation (GWMO) is calling on...

General elections inevitable if talks with opposition fail – Luncheon

Nov 13, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on General elections inevitable if talks with opposition fail – Luncheon

By Zena Henry Despite the Opposition parties emphatically stating their intentions not to hold any more talks with the government if Parliament is prorogued, the People’s Progressive Party (PPP)...

Chinese Medical Brigade performs successful spinal decompression surgery

Nov 13, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Chinese Medical Brigade performs successful spinal decompression surgery

Leader of the eleventh Chinese Medical Brigade, Dr. Wang Yong Xiang, recently spearheaded a successful spinal decompression surgery on a patient at the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC)....

Ramotar said; ‘Bring it on’ but when it came, he fell heavily

Nov 13, 2014 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on Ramotar said; ‘Bring it on’ but when it came, he fell heavily

The Attorney General, Mr. Nandlall was facilitated by his boss, the President, to present the $10,000 voucher to the parents of school children in public schools. This was the beginning of...

Avoid any query of governmental actions

Nov 13, 2014 KNews Editorial Comments Off on Avoid any query of governmental actions

The PPP government has lived up to the expectations of every right thinking Guyanese; it has proven itself to be rogues clothed in a tattered democracy. Reasonable persons are loathe to believe...

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A warning to President Ali on U.S. Overtures

Peeping Tom… Kaieteur News- It remains unknown what President Ali told the U.S. Secretary of State during their recent... more