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NGOs called on to submit entries

Feb 21, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on NGOs called on to submit entries

– As film festival deadline nears The organizers of the Loyola Documentary Film Festival are hoping for further success and improved participation, particularly from non-governmental...

UG Economics student gives worrying analysis of ongoing industrial action

Feb 21, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on UG Economics student gives worrying analysis of ongoing industrial action

Even as workers of the University of Guyana (UG) maintain their striking stance in order to have their demands for better salaries and improved working conditions met, students have been increasingly...

Woman jailed for brutalizing man who courted daughter

Feb 21, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Woman jailed for brutalizing man who courted daughter

The East Bank Berbice woman who was accused of brutalizing a young man who was in love with her daughter has been jailed for six months. The woman, Shurlin De Chuna, 44 of Brothers Village, East Bank...

Students forced out of city nursing school building

Feb 21, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Students forced out of city nursing school building

– Facility to be converted into a doctors’ quarters Scores of students from the Georgetown School of Nursing located on East Street, Georgetown, were forced out of the building early...

The world in 2014: Some goodness, some sadness

Feb 21, 2015 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on The world in 2014: Some goodness, some sadness

As a daily columnist, I think it is expected that some readers, even if they are a tiny set, would like to read something about the world in the year that just went into history. I had every...

Abandoning morality for Mash

Feb 21, 2015 KNews Editorial Comments Off on Abandoning morality for Mash

This is carnival season, even if carnival is the street fete and parade by which Trinidad’s celebration is named. There is the Brazil carnival which attracts thousands from all over the world....

Another elderly woman raped and murdered

Feb 21, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Another elderly woman raped and murdered

Police are probing the murder of yet another elderly woman who lived alone. Suroogpattie Ramlakan, 73, called Auntie Carmen, of Richmond Village, Essequibo was found lying on the floor of her...

We are not changing our names – APNU/AFC

Feb 21, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on We are not changing our names – APNU/AFC

By Nicholas Peters A week after signing the historic Cummingsburg Accord, A Partnership for National Unity (APNU) and the Alliance For Change (AFC) have confirmed they will not be changing the name...

Work of local NGOs involved in HIV prevention reviewed

Feb 21, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Work of local NGOs involved in HIV prevention reviewed

The HIV Prevention efforts of a number of local Non Governmental Organisations (NGOs) recently came under strategic evaluation with the aim of bettering the crucial services that they offer. In a...

Govt demolishes Vreed-en-Hoop vendors’ stalls

Feb 21, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Govt demolishes Vreed-en-Hoop vendors’ stalls

There was miscommunication – says Robeson Benn Vreed-en-Hoop, West Coast Demerara vendors, yesterday stood back and watched as their stalls were demolished by men who claimed to be acting on orders...

NO NECESSARY SAFEGUARDS

Feb 21, 2015 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on NO NECESSARY SAFEGUARDS

The AFC has ceded the presidential candidate to APNU. In return it has been given a promise that if the combined opposition wins, there will be constitutional change that will see the presidency...

South Road execution…Survivor to have bullet removed on Tuesday

Feb 21, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on South Road execution…Survivor to have bullet removed on Tuesday

Debert Mohamed, who according to police sources was at the wrong place at the wrong time on Wednesday night and ended up being shot, is expected to undergo surgery at the Georgetown Public Hospital...

Don’t use children for school protests, Manickchand urges

Feb 21, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Don’t use children for school protests, Manickchand urges

Minister of Education, Priya Manickchand, says that it is wrong for people to use children to protest at schools across the country. The Minister was speaking on Thursday at Port Mourant, Corentyne,...

School children’s road march- a grand success

Feb 21, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on School children’s road march- a grand success

As we anxiously wait for Monday’s festivities to arrive, students from the Nursery and Primary schools across Guyana had their taste of the “Mashramani fever” yesterday. An early Friday morning...

Father, sons slapped with two charges of gun, ammo possession

Feb 21, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Father, sons slapped with two charges of gun, ammo possession

Magistrate Priya Sewnarine-Beharry remanded a father and his two sons to jail after it was alleged they had in their possession an illegal firearm. It is alleged that on February 18, at Kuru Kuru,...

Kuru Kururu Primary hosts Culture Day

Feb 21, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Kuru Kururu Primary hosts Culture Day

In recognition of Mashramani 2015, the Parent Teachers Association (PTA) of Kuru Kururu Primary School hosted its third annual Culture Day on Wednesday, and according to Head teacher Miss Linda Paul...

Malaysian man fined for forging date on passport

Feb 21, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Malaysian man fined for forging date on passport

Malaysian National Kenching Anakbesi was yesterday fined $100,000 by Magistrate Ann McLennan when he appeared at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court. Anakbesi, 41, admitted that between December 24,...

Murder suspect gets 4 years on gun and ammo charge

Feb 21, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Murder suspect gets 4 years on gun and ammo charge

Kelvin Alfred will be spending the next four years behind bars after he was found guilty of having in his possession a semi automatic pistol, even though he is not a licensed firearm holder....

Coke swallower jailed for four years

Feb 21, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Coke swallower jailed for four years

A joiner, who was busted with 850 grams of cocaine, was given a four year sentence when he appeared at the Sparendaam Magistrate’s Court yesterday. Stephen James Watson, 28 of Lot 86 Stanleytown,...

The youths are frustrated and will not vote for the PPP

Feb 21, 2015 KNews Letters Comments Off on The youths are frustrated and will not vote for the PPP

DEAR EDITOR, The continuing collapse of the economy, health care, education and the social systems in Guyana that has evolved from the failures of the incompetent PPP regime has affected the vast...

The AFC/APNU alliance is neither credible nor pro-democratic

Feb 21, 2015 KNews Letters Comments Off on The AFC/APNU alliance is neither credible nor pro-democratic

DEAR EDITOR, I would like to respond to the misguided and one-sided arguments presented supporting the Alliance for Change/A Partnership for National Unity so called pro-democratic alliance. From my...

Democracy has new meaning in Mabaruma

Feb 21, 2015 KNews Letters Comments Off on Democracy has new meaning in Mabaruma

DEAR EDITOR, My attention was drawn to a post on Facebook by a PPP supporter from the Mabaruma area who is expressing his thanks for the party that brought democracy to our dear land. The individual...

A commendable performance

Feb 21, 2015 KNews Letters Comments Off on A commendable performance

DEAR EDITOR, A release by the Caribbean Development Bank (CDB) placed Guyana among the lowest in the Caribbean in terms of debt to GDP ratio. According to the release, Guyana’s debt ratio stands at...

Over the years, I’ve tried to right a wrong and to recognize and support the PPP/C for good governance

Feb 21, 2015 KNews Letters Comments Off on Over the years, I’ve tried to right a wrong and to recognize and support the PPP/C for good governance

DEAR EDITOR, I have no clue of the identity of Punti Peraud, the author of a letter “Harry Gill now speaks from the other side of his mouth” (Kaieteur News, February 20). I also have no clue of...

PREV 12

President’s College upstage Santa Rosa to advance into Quarters

Anticipation without preparation

Peeping Tom… Kaieteur News- The Vice President of Guyana, ever the sagacious observer of the inevitable, has reassured... more