February 2015

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New British High Commissioner expected soon

Feb 11, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on New British High Commissioner expected soon

The replacement for former British High Commissioner to Guyana, Andrew Ayre, is expected to arrive in Guyana during the last week of this month. This was confirmed yesterday by an official attached...

Nothing will prevent us from ensuring law and order during elections – Army Colonel

Feb 11, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Nothing will prevent us from ensuring law and order during elections – Army Colonel

By Kiana Wilburg While the political parties and the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) continue apace with preparations for the May 11 Regional and General Elections, so is the Guyana Defence Force...

GPSU not granted Local Observer Status – GECOM

Feb 11, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on GPSU not granted Local Observer Status – GECOM

The Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) has issued a statement indicating that it has not granted Local Observer Status to the Guyana Public Service Union (GPSU) for the upcoming Regional and General...

Integrity and exemplary character give legitimacy to authority, command

Feb 11, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Integrity and exemplary character give legitimacy to authority, command

– Pastor tells ensigns The Guyana Defence Force (GDF) held an inspiring commissioning service yesterday, at the auditorium of Base Camp Ayanganna, for 15 ensigns who will be promoted to the rank of...

Is Annette Singh the only sane magistrate?

Feb 11, 2015 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on Is Annette Singh the only sane magistrate?

By now, any consistent reader of this column would know how I feel about the magistracy. Most of them I believe are irrational with their sentencing policies and bail assignments, and have harmed the...

Accused had promised to tell investigators who killed Neesa Gopaul – police witness

Feb 11, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Accused had promised to tell investigators who killed Neesa Gopaul – police witness

A police witness testifying in the Neesa Gopaul murder trial told the court yesterday that one of the accused, Jarvis Small, had promised to tell investigators who murdered the teenager. Small and...

Guyana prepared to deal with prolonged symptoms of Chikungunya virus

Feb 11, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Guyana prepared to deal with prolonged symptoms of Chikungunya virus

Concerns about the potential lasting effects of the Chikungunya Virus have not escaped the keen attention of the Ministry of Health. The virus, which first invaded these parts early last year, is...

Serious crimes down 12 percent – Police

Feb 11, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Serious crimes down 12 percent – Police

The Guyana Police Force will certainly be hoping that the current downward trend of criminal activity continues, especially as they focus their energies on maintaining law and order in the run-up to...

Not landlocked, but still trapped

Feb 11, 2015 KNews Editorial Comments Off on Not landlocked, but still trapped

Economists for decades have been searching for an answer to a simple question: how to bring poor countries out of backwardness? The initial answer was as simple as the question itself. Societies were...

House lot awardees in Farm lament slow pace of infrastructure development

Feb 11, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on House lot awardees in Farm lament slow pace of infrastructure development

Allottees who were awarded house lots at Farm (Phase Two), on the East Bank of Demerara are becoming increasingly frustrated over the slow pace of infrastructural development, which is preventing...

Guyana-born man fighting extradition to Thailand in bizarre kidnap case

Feb 11, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Guyana-born man fighting extradition to Thailand in bizarre kidnap case

Florida (sun-sentinel.com) – A Palm Beach County man will stay in jail while he fights extradition to Thailand on criminal charges he kidnapped a wealthy U.S. businessman there and tried to...

Man gets two months in jail for fraud

Feb 11, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Man gets two months in jail for fraud

Deochan Raghubar was yesterday sentenced to two months in jail and fined $25,000 by City Magistrate Geeta Chandan-Edmond, after he pleaded guilty to the offence of fraudulent misrepresentation. The...

GPL is unscrupulous, why should I be forced to print my bills?

Feb 11, 2015 KNews Letters Comments Off on GPL is unscrupulous, why should I be forced to print my bills?

Dear Editor, Please permit me to highlight a situation which has, over time, become a burden to the taxpayers and in essence a way to rob citizens even further through perceived due process. The...

Kaieteur News is my teacher

Feb 11, 2015 KNews Letters Comments Off on Kaieteur News is my teacher

Dear Editor, I’m living abroad since 2002 but I always visit my home (beautiful Guyana) every year. While I’m here, I frequent all the newspapers especially (Kaieteur News) to acknowledge...

Student Reaction to Industrial Dispute at UG

Feb 11, 2015 KNews Letters Comments Off on Student Reaction to Industrial Dispute at UG

Dear Editor, As a student, I feel as though the current industrial dispute at the University of Guyana between Staff and Administration is adversely affecting my rights. My right to education and my...

The harsh reality that faces APNU

Feb 11, 2015 KNews Letters Comments Off on The harsh reality that faces APNU

Dear Editor, Whose Freedom at Midnight on May 11, 2015? “Discovery creates unity and unity is created in struggle….” – Walter Rodney (1974). We in the working and academic class must never be...

The Opposition Leader and his ‘no plan’ answer

Feb 11, 2015 KNews Letters Comments Off on The Opposition Leader and his ‘no plan’ answer

Dear Editor, A Partnership for National Unity APNU held a press conference on January 30, 2015 to berate the government for purportedly neglecting the youth of this country. Mr. David Granger:...

GPL commissions US$36M power station

Feb 10, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on GPL commissions US$36M power station

Guyana Power and Light (GPL) yesterday commissioned the company’s largest and most modern electricity generating plant at Vreed-en-Hoop, West Coast Demerara, yesterday. The US$36M power plant and...

Electricity rates to fall by 10% from March

Feb 10, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Electricity rates to fall by 10% from March

The country’s power company is set to lower its electricity rates by 10 per cent from next month, President Donald Ramotar has announced. The announcement came yesterday from the Head of State as...

Bandits terrorise E’bo family, escape with cash, jewelry

Feb 10, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Bandits terrorise E’bo family, escape with cash, jewelry

Four armed bandits beat and robbed Zorg businessman, Asif Khan, of cash, jewellery and a quantity of phone cards. The businessman’s wife, 37-year-old Shaneeza Khan, and her 11-year-old son were...

Woman resigns from Regional Education Office after alleged sexual assault

Feb 10, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Woman resigns from Regional Education Office after alleged sexual assault

Frustration and fear have been the two major factors that have led to an 18-year-old (name withheld) resigning her position within the Region Seven Department of Education. The woman’s decision,...

US court order seizure of jet used in cash smuggling

Feb 10, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on US court order seizure of jet used in cash smuggling

The US Government has filed applications in the District Court of Puerto Rico to seize the jet belonging to Guyanese pilot, Captain Khamraj Lall, which was reportedly used in the illegal transport of...

Brutal rape, murder of elderly Albion woman shocks Berbice

Feb 10, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Brutal rape, murder of elderly Albion woman shocks Berbice

It was a heinous and brutal crime committed on one of Guyana’s senior home alone citizens that sent shockwaves through the Corentyne and Berbice. It was the brutal murder, rape and robbery of a...

WPA Leader’s death was an act of state-sponsored terrorism – Rohee

Feb 10, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on WPA Leader’s death was an act of state-sponsored terrorism – Rohee

By Sunita Samaroo Testifying before the Commission of Inquiry (COI) into the death of Dr. Walter Rodney, General Secretary of the People’s Progressive Party (PPP), Clement Rohee, yesterday said...

Sam is a shameless Locknie

Feb 10, 2015 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Sam is a shameless Locknie

Sam Hinds is going to be one old maid. From de time Papa Cheddi pick he as de first Best man nobody ain’t even try fuh marry him. He is never de groom. Papa Cheddi pass on and fuh a short while he...

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By Sir Ronald Sanders (Kaieteur News) – I have spent a decade in the councils of the Organization of American States. I have watched governments come and go, seen some crises handled well and others handled badly, sat through more commemorative meetings than sessions discussing pressing issues,...

From Kamla to the U.S. – SOS

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