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Correction/Apology

Jan 13, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Correction/Apology

In a letter published on Sunday January 11, 2015, Mr Freddie Kissoon wrote of Dr. Prem Misir, “This is a man who worked for the past fifteen years in a full time job as a propagandist for the...

ETHNIC BALANCING OF THE GUYANA POLICE FORCE

Jan 13, 2015 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on ETHNIC BALANCING OF THE GUYANA POLICE FORCE

In 1964, East Indians comprised just over half of the population of Guyana, while Africans were just under one third of the population. Yet, more than seventy per cent of the Guyana Police Force was...

GGMC workers intensify strike action

Jan 13, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on GGMC workers intensify strike action

Given the procrastination on the part of management to reach an agreement for increases in wages and salaries, workers of the Guyana Geology and Mines Commission, (GGMC) have intensified strike...

Teachers who request furniture from parents will be disciplined – says Armogan

Jan 13, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Teachers who request furniture from parents will be disciplined – says Armogan

…$14M spent on furniture in 2014 The Region Six Chairman, David Armogan, has stated that teachers, who request furniture from parents for school children, will be disciplined. The warning came...

Police employing strategies to halt road carnage

Jan 13, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Police employing strategies to halt road carnage

Three persons have already lost their lives so far in the first 12 days of the year and the police traffic department is hoping that there won’t be a repeat of last year when the carnage on the...

Six charged as cops bust Corentyne gang

Jan 13, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Six charged as cops bust Corentyne gang

Following the armed robbery that occurred last Wednesday on the Black Bush Polder Access Road where a couple was ambushed and robbed, the police have seemingly broken up a major crime gang on the...

Guyanese third person extradited by TT in three days

Jan 13, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Guyanese third person extradited by TT in three days

Trinidad – Ravindranauth Roopnarine, a fugitive wanted in the United States for financial and fraud-related crimes, is the latest criminal to be extradited from Trinidad and Tobago, according...

Boom and boomerang in 2015

Jan 13, 2015 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on Boom and boomerang in 2015

The holiday season is over and people have settled into the routine of life. On the agenda of every Guyanese as January gets older will be the results of the forthcoming General Elections. For most...

New study shows positive link between female leadership, business performance – ILO

Jan 13, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on New study shows positive link between female leadership, business performance – ILO

While women are still under-represented in top management, the number of women in senior and middle management positions has increased over the last 20 years, a new study by the ILO Bureau for...

Bacchus returned unopposed as ECB head

Jan 13, 2015 KNews Sports Comments Off on Bacchus returned unopposed as ECB head

Fizul Bacchus was re-elected unopposed as president of the Essequibo Cricket Board when the body held its Bi-Annual General Meeting on Sunday last at its hostel in Anna Regina. The other executive...

Letter to the Sports Editor… Phantom Cricket Clubs voted at BCB Elections, the Ombudsman must investigate

Jan 13, 2015 KNews Sports Comments Off on Letter to the Sports Editor… Phantom Cricket Clubs voted at BCB Elections, the Ombudsman must investigate

Dear Editor, Please allow me a space in your sports column to share with the public some malpractice that took place during the recent so-called Berbice Cricket Board elections whereby a new...

Nepalese fined for ‘back track’ entry

Jan 13, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Nepalese fined for ‘back track’ entry

A Nepalese man, who claims he came to these shores for a vacation, was fined $30,000 on an illegal entry charge when he appeared at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court yesterday. Twenty...

Rice farmer accused of burgling mother-in-law’s house granted bail

Jan 13, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Rice farmer accused of burgling mother-in-law’s house granted bail

A rice farmer accused of breaking into his mother-in-law’s house and swiping over $5M in jewellery was granted bail to the tune of $200,000 yesterday. Khemraj Ramcharran of Anna Regina, Essequibo...

Mother of one gets 3 years, fine on drug trafficking charge

Jan 13, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Mother of one gets 3 years, fine on drug trafficking charge

Althea Candace Timmerman, a 21-year- old mother of one, has been jailed for trafficking cocaine. Receptionist of a West Coast Demerara hotel, Timmerman yesterday confessed to Chief Magistrate Priya...

RHTY&SC Silver Jubilee 1990 – 2015: Cricket teams donate scorebooks to BCB

Jan 13, 2015 KNews Sports Comments Off on RHTY&SC Silver Jubilee 1990 – 2015: Cricket teams donate scorebooks to BCB

The cricket teams of Guyana’s leading youth and sports organisation, the Rose Hall Town Youth and Sports Club (RHTY&SC) on Thursday last presented $100,000 worth of cricket scorebooks to the...

Flying Ace Cycle Club to hold AGM and Election of Office Bearers today

Jan 13, 2015 KNews Sports Comments Off on Flying Ace Cycle Club to hold AGM and Election of Office Bearers today

The Flying Ace Cycle Club of Berbice is set to hold their Annual General Meeting today at the Club’s Office in New Amsterdam beginning at 16:00 hrs. High on the agenda is the reports of the...

Those statements attributed to AFC’s Vice Chairman are disappointing, confusing and tragicomic

Jan 13, 2015 KNews Letters Comments Off on Those statements attributed to AFC’s Vice Chairman are disappointing, confusing and tragicomic

DEAR EDITOR, The statements attributed to AFC Vice Chairman, Moses Nagamootoo, on President Donald Ramotar’s securing a US$50 million line of credit from the Republic of India for the execution of...

Roguing vs. Proroguing

Jan 13, 2015 KNews Letters Comments Off on Roguing vs. Proroguing

DEAR EDITOR, The name Guyana means ‘Land of Many Waters’, and seemingly that appellation has been extended to a new nomenclature ‘Land of Many Fools”. In 2011, a British analysis and...

A step in the right direction

Jan 13, 2015 KNews Letters Comments Off on A step in the right direction

DEAR EDITOR, I wish to commend the National Commission on Disability and the Guyana Elections Commission for discussing new modalities that will allow for persons with disabilities to cast their...

It’s frustrating when a potential technical solution in Guyana is met with derision and then made-up facts

Jan 13, 2015 KNews Letters Comments Off on It’s frustrating when a potential technical solution in Guyana is met with derision and then made-up facts

DEAR EDITOR, Your kind permission to respond to Mr. Tony Vieira’s latest missive in the Stabroek News (SN 12 January, 2012) is again sought. Whilst it is tiring to keep reminding your readers of...

Entertaining Violence

Jan 13, 2015 KNews Letters Comments Off on Entertaining Violence

DEAR EDITOR, It would be difficult to determine which is the greater preference – the abhorrence of violence in the streets, or enjoyment of the entertainment it provides in our homes, on our TV...

Press freedom and people’s rights are dwindling in Guyana

Jan 13, 2015 KNews Letters Comments Off on Press freedom and people’s rights are dwindling in Guyana

DEAR EDITOR, Deep in their hearts, the ruling cabal believes that they have perfected the art of political distraction by demonstrating how easy it is to change the national...

Windies fined for slow over-rate in second South Africa T20

Jan 13, 2015 KNews Sports Comments Off on Windies fined for slow over-rate in second South Africa T20

Jamaica Observer – KINGSTON, Jamaica – West Indies has been fined for maintaining a slow over-rate during the second Twenty 20 International (T20I) against South Africa in Johannesburg...

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