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Suspension or dismissal? Tensions flare over Skeldon arbitration decision

Dec 31, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Suspension or dismissal? Tensions flare over Skeldon arbitration decision

The Guyana Agricultural and General Workers’ Union (GAWU) is “flabbergasted” over an arbitration decision in which a Skeldon estate worker, believed to be on suspension, was ruled to be...

Providence fatal accident…Suspected getaway driver still on the run

Dec 31, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Providence fatal accident…Suspected getaway driver still on the run

The police have intensified their hunt for Asif Khan, the man said to be the driver who abandoned his vehicle two Sundays ago, after a teenage boy was killed and his friends were injured on the...

Kleptocrats dominate the leadership

Dec 31, 2014 KNews Letters Comments Off on Kleptocrats dominate the leadership

Dear Editor, Political Science, like any other science, is an evolving discipline. Apart from the conventional forms of government that we learnt about, Political Scientists are discovering new forms...

Where are the NIS increases?

Dec 31, 2014 KNews Letters Comments Off on Where are the NIS increases?

Dear Editor, I trust that you are well, enjoying good health. At the NIS 45th Anniversary message, the Chairman of the Insurance Scheme revealed that assets exceed $30 Billion and that it meets its...

NRE sector saw “significant inputs and improvements” in 2014

Dec 31, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on NRE sector saw “significant inputs and improvements” in 2014

The Ministry of Natural Resources and the Environment and its respective regulatory and supervisory agencies, in partnership with relevant stakeholders, reportedly performed well in 2014. According...

Parliament must follow up on the Ombudsman report

Dec 31, 2014 KNews Letters Comments Off on Parliament must follow up on the Ombudsman report

Dear Sir, Given the findings of the Ombudsman in his report which linked certain high ranking public officials in the trumped up charges against the Managers of NBS, Guyanese now wait with bated...

Roads from Eccles to Great Diamond for upgrades

Dec 31, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Roads from Eccles to Great Diamond for upgrades

For the construction and upgrading of roads from Eccles to Great Diamond, East Bank Demerara, region four, eight bids were tendered under the Ministry of Housing and Water. The bids were opened...

CPCE must fully embrace inclusive education – Ed Caesar

Dec 31, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on CPCE must fully embrace inclusive education – Ed Caesar

Even as the education sector basks in the glory of attaining universal primary education and nears the ambitious goal of universal secondary education, there yet remains a crucial need for particular...

The ghost ship passengers will waltz to “Senza Fine” tonight

Dec 31, 2014 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on The ghost ship passengers will waltz to “Senza Fine” tonight

The advertisement of the Marriott Hotel on the back cover of the 2014 telephone directory paints a most tragic canvas of a country with deeply disturbing rulers. This columnist will not avoid...

PERSON OF THE YEAR 2014

Dec 31, 2014 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on PERSON OF THE YEAR 2014

Today is the last day of what has been a very eventful year for the Guyanese people. The year began with the disclosure that the Guyana Sugar Corporation was in deep distress, but ended with reports...

A weary society demanding positive change

Dec 31, 2014 KNews Editorial Comments Off on A weary society demanding positive change

The society has been saying for many years that it has had enough with the fiercely divisive nature of politics in Guyana. Each party seems willing to score political points at the expense of the...

Cops rescue abducted woman, capture bandits after shootout

Dec 30, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Cops rescue abducted woman, capture bandits after shootout

Police anti-crime patrols in the city yesterday thwarted an alleged abduction and later traded bullets with bandits who had earlier committed a robbery. Their actions have come in for high praise. In...

Day Two: No sign of missing plane, crew

Dec 30, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Day Two: No sign of missing plane, crew

Search and rescue teams turned up empty handed yesterday following a 20-mile radius search for the missing Air Services Limited (ASL) aircraft that went down in the Mahdia, Region Eight area, two...

Woman’s body found floating in Sophia ‘Blacka’

Dec 30, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Woman’s body found floating in Sophia ‘Blacka’

– angry brothers ‘arrest’ husband The lifeless body of a 35-year-old woman was pulled from the Lama Canal in an area called the “Blacka” at the entrance of ‘B’ Field...

Father and son charged with Tuschen triple murder

Dec 30, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Father and son charged with Tuschen triple murder

Three days after he turned himself in to the police, triple murder suspect, Jerome Franklyn, appeared at the Vreed-en-Hoop Magistrate’s Court and was remanded to prison. Franklyn appeared...

Worker ruled dismissed; GAWU seeks legal advice

Dec 30, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Worker ruled dismissed; GAWU seeks legal advice

More than three months after an alleged slapping incident between an estate manager and a worker ended in crippling sugar industry strikes; there seems no clear way forward. This is because Sole...

Despite achieving target, GuySuCo continues to lose on sugar

Dec 30, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Despite achieving target, GuySuCo continues to lose on sugar

– cash shortage as world prices plunge by half There is some good news and then more bad news for the sugar industry this year. The industry has been able to, for the first time in nine...

Brassy was always crookish

Dec 30, 2014 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Brassy was always crookish

It ain’t got a day that dem boys ain’t learn something new bout some of de people who mekking decisions fuh dem. And de people who got nuff information is dem old teacher. Dem is de people...

West Indies collapse after big stand

Dec 30, 2014 KNews Sports Comments Off on West Indies collapse after big stand

ESPNcricinfo – Centuries from Kraigg Brathwaite and Marlon Samuels steered West Indies past the follow-on mark before a familiar collapse revived the possibility, albeit slight, of a South...

The Primacy of Violence

Dec 30, 2014 KNews Editorial Comments Off on The Primacy of Violence

Our Sunday cartoon captured it in a sense – Guyana as a wrestler bruised and battered by one opponent, the year 2014 personified, heading out of the ring as it has tagged its partner, 2015. While...

Cops release slain remigrant’s girlfriend, grandson

Dec 30, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Cops release slain remigrant’s girlfriend, grandson

Police are still searching for suspects and a motive for the murder of 66-year-old remigrant, Kingsley Joseph, whose badly chopped body was found last Saturday in a clump of bushes near his Phase...

Man dies while checking out of city hotel

Dec 30, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Man dies while checking out of city hotel

A 51-year-old Trinidadian man by the name of Randy Maycock, reportedly died while checking out of a city hotel, yesterday morning. Sources have informed Kaieteur News that Maycock came to the country...

T&HD Ferry Services Enhanced from Essequibo River Dredging

Dec 30, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on T&HD Ferry Services Enhanced from Essequibo River Dredging

The Transport & Harbours Department (T&H.D) Ferry Vessels Malali, Kanawan and Sabanto are now able to operate on their normal schedules on the Parika/Wakenaam/Supenaam services after a three...

Alarming rise in road fatalities…APNU calls for stricter enforcement and safer roads

Dec 30, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Alarming rise in road fatalities…APNU calls for stricter enforcement and safer roads

The main opposition coalition A Partnership for National Unity (APNU) is expressing its condolences to the relatives and friends of all those who died on our country’s roadways over the holiday...

Stalled Cath Lab work could put CHI out of operation

Dec 30, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Stalled Cath Lab work could put CHI out of operation

The continued operation of the Caribbean Heart Institute (CHI) may very well be in jeopardy if a new Cardiac Catherisation Laboratory (commonly referred to as a Cath Lab) is not completed in the very...

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