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Local Government Minister supports TC’s takeover of Mash spot sales

Feb 14, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Local Government Minister supports TC’s takeover of Mash spot sales

Minister of Local Government Norman Whittaker has expressed support for Town Clerk (Ag) Carol Sooba and her Administrative staff to take over the sale and distribution of vending spots for the...

GECOM warns against expecting 24 hr results of upcoming polls

Feb 14, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on GECOM warns against expecting 24 hr results of upcoming polls

The Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) has warned against expectations that results of the May 11 polls would be announced the next day. According to GECOM yesterday in a statement, it has the...

UG proposes fulltime status to cleaners to end industrial action

Feb 14, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on UG proposes fulltime status to cleaners to end industrial action

“It could very well be a ploy,” said President of the University of Guyana Senior Staff Association (UGSSA), Dr. Mellissa Ifill as she commented on a move by Vice Chancellor of the University of...

Uncertified abortions – an aberration that must be “crushed” – Health Minister

Feb 14, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Uncertified abortions – an aberration that must be “crushed” – Health Minister

Unlawful termination of pregnancies commonly referred to as abortions, should have long been a thing of the past in Guyana. At least this was the deduction of Minister of Health, Dr. Bheri Ramsaran,...

Decomposing body at Linden…Victim identified as armed robbery accused

Feb 14, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Decomposing body at Linden…Victim identified as armed robbery accused

He was a suspect in the chopping of a woman at Mahdia and a brutal attack on a Kara Kara family, and police are trying to find out how 43-year-old Richard Remington ended up dead in a clump of bushes...

Digicel spreads joy to special needs organizations

Feb 14, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Digicel spreads joy to special needs organizations

…As part of 8th anniversary celebration As part of Digicel Guyana’s eight anniversary celebration , it brought joy to two special needs organizations on Thursday by making timely donations of...

APNU-AFC coalition talks…Will Granger surrender Presidential Candidacy for the greater good of the nation?

Feb 14, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on APNU-AFC coalition talks…Will Granger surrender Presidential Candidacy for the greater good of the nation?

… Says his fate is in the hands of the APNU negotiating team There is a strong possibility, that “good news” regarding the possible alliance between the Alliance For Change (AFC) and the A...

Alleged police brutality …Meten-Meer-Zorg fisherman’s widow begs for justice; no charges to date

Feb 14, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Alleged police brutality …Meten-Meer-Zorg fisherman’s widow begs for justice; no charges to date

– DPP returns advice, file to be sent to OPR Thirty-five-year-old Soorsattie Chandrapaul, whose husband reached a brutal end after he was held in police custody for a few days last November, is...

Safety on the waterways, seminar held…..

Feb 14, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Safety on the waterways, seminar held…..

A seminar organized by Maritime Administrative Department (MARAD), has benefitted boat operators from Region Five (5) Mahaicony. The venue was the Mahaicony Health Centre. Twenty boat operators from...

Six homeless following South Ruimveldt Shopping Plaza blaze

Feb 14, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Six homeless following South Ruimveldt Shopping Plaza blaze

Pandemonium broke out yesterday morning after a fire started in an apartment at the South Ruimveldt Gardens shopping plaza. Persons were worried the blaze would have spread to other apartments that...

Inefficient money lenders

Feb 14, 2015 KNews Editorial Comments Off on Inefficient money lenders

When Forbes Burnham fashioned the Guyana National Insurance Scheme back in 1969 there were many critics. The then political opposition saw it as a means of further oppressing the working masses...

Have you heard the name Thomas Piketty?

Feb 14, 2015 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on Have you heard the name Thomas Piketty?

Do you know Harvard University Press has published countless scholarly works since it was founded in 1913? Some of the world’s earth shattering academic texts have been published by Harvard...

NIP leader vows to reverse “discriminatory” prescriptive title law

Feb 14, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on NIP leader vows to reverse “discriminatory” prescriptive title law

As the May 11 polls to choose a new Government looms, political parties contesting the elections have started to unveil some of their plans if they win. According to the National Independent Party...

Stunning final performances at the Mashramani Children’s Competition

Feb 14, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Stunning final performances at the Mashramani Children’s Competition

Stunning performances filled the National Cultural Centre yesterday, as the finals for Children’s Mashramani School competition concluded with Dramatic Poetry and captivating Calypso. Schools from...

E’bo farmers protest late rice payments

Feb 14, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on E’bo farmers protest late rice payments

Late payment to rice farmers among several other critical issues continues to be a common feature that the rice farming community, especially in Region Two (Pomeroon/Supenaam) continues to decry. On...

JSC sets inquiry for suspended Magistrate for next week

Feb 14, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on JSC sets inquiry for suspended Magistrate for next week

After spending nearly 70 days off the bench, embattled senior city Magistrate Chandra Sohan will finally be afforded a hearing before the Judicial Service Commission (JSC) next Wednesday. The five...

Former rural constable fingered in housing scam

Feb 14, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Former rural constable fingered in housing scam

The Central Housing and Planning Authority (CHPA) has issued a public warning against fraudsters who are in the practice of selling house lots while pretending to be employed with the CHPA. In a...

WHEN WILL MORE PRICES FALL?

Feb 14, 2015 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on WHEN WILL MORE PRICES FALL?

I cannot think of any time in the history of Guyana that electricity tariffs have come down. They always move in the opposite direction, never steeply but progressively enough to represent a real...

Inefficient money lenders

Feb 14, 2015 KNews Editorial Comments Off on Inefficient money lenders

When Forbes Burnham fashioned the Guyana National Insurance Scheme back in 1969 there were many critics. The then political opposition saw it as a means of further oppressing the working masses...

Neesa Gopaul murder trial…Witness maintains that Small implicated mother after arrest

Feb 14, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Neesa Gopaul murder trial…Witness maintains that Small implicated mother after arrest

Assistant Superintendent of Police, Mitchell Caesar, maintained that he is telling the truth regarding the statements made by murder accused Jarvis ‘Barry’ Small, and Bibi Shareema Gopaul, during...

Fifteen new cancer victims recorded this year

Feb 14, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Fifteen new cancer victims recorded this year

To date, 25 persons are accessing treatment for various types of cancer at the Cancer Institute of Guyana (CIG), located in the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) compound. Cancer is a...

Miss Renaissance contestants visit the Palms

Feb 14, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Miss Renaissance contestants visit the Palms

As the Miss Renaissance Pageant kicks into full swing, the contestants visited the Palms Geriatric Home on Thursday, where they presented the staff with toiletries, clothing and other articles to...

Miner Granted Bail on Assault Charge

Feb 14, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Miner Granted Bail on Assault Charge

A Lethem man on Thursday was placed on $100,000 bail after he pleaded not guilty to an assault charge. Mark Anthony Marks, 31, of 401 Tabatinga, Lethem, denied that on January 20, at Rupununi, he...

Three beverages earn thief a jail sentence

Feb 14, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Three beverages earn thief a jail sentence

A very thirsty man who admitted to stealing a Smalta, one Vita Malt and a Cream Soda all valued at $680, property of the Shell Service Station supermarket, was given a two-year suspended sentence...

May 11th has become more important than safeguarding our nation’s vault

Feb 14, 2015 KNews Letters Comments Off on May 11th has become more important than safeguarding our nation’s vault

DEAR EDITOR, As conversations continue on elections and minority or majority government/executive, one has to be mindful that in the desire to govern, such discussions do not lose focus of what makes...

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