March 3, 2015

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Bomb scare disrupt classes at East Street schools

Mar 03, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Bomb scare disrupt classes at East Street schools

Hundreds of students from the ISA Islamic Private School, and Winfer Gardens Primary were forced to evacuate their school premises on East Street, Cummingsburg, because of a bomb scare at the ISA...

Government committed to development of Amerindian communities

Mar 03, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Government committed to development of Amerindian communities

“Being able to connect the coastland to hinterland regions is a major factor in developing Amerindian communities. It is vital to their advancement.” This point was highlighted by Minister of...

Granger promises “24/7” power supply for Region One

Mar 03, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Granger promises “24/7” power supply for Region One

Presidential Candidate, Brigadier David Granger, has promised residents of the Barima-Waini Region One that the incoming A Partnership for National Unity-Alliance For Change (APNU-AFC) coalition...

Retirement looms for leaders of all three parliamentary parties

Mar 03, 2015 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on Retirement looms for leaders of all three parliamentary parties

The 2015 general election in Guyana will be a defining one for the three main political parties but not necessarily for the country. All of the three parliamentary political parties will undergo a...

Divorce rate on rise as Family Court remains dormant

Mar 03, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Divorce rate on rise as Family Court remains dormant

– more than 1,300 cases filed for 2014 By Rabindra Rooplall Statistics from the Supreme Court show that 1,334 divorce matters were filed between January and December 2014. This year, to date,...

Sun halo leaves Lethem residents in awe

Mar 03, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Sun halo leaves Lethem residents in awe

…community struck by severe dry spell Lethem residents said it was “quite a phenomenon” when just before mid-day yesterday, as the sun rose to its highest point in the sky, it became...

The race against the grave

Mar 03, 2015 KNews Editorial Comments Off on The race against the grave

To die of old age is a death rare, extraordinary, and singular, and therefore so much less natural than the others. ’Tis the last and extremest sort of dying, and the more remote the less to be...

Health workers commence Operating Room Technician programme

Mar 03, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Health workers commence Operating Room Technician programme

Eighteen health workers from across the country now have the opportunity to undergo extensive training as Operating Room Technicians. The trainees were inducted into a training programme during a...

Anjandai Chan is going blind

Mar 03, 2015 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on Anjandai Chan is going blind

My January 19 column was captioned, “Face to Face with evil in Berbice, Saturday evening”. In that column, I mentioned how cheap life is in the rural parts of Guyana. I related the story of two...

Cash-strapped GuySuCo sells East Coast lands for $3B

Mar 03, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Cash-strapped GuySuCo sells East Coast lands for $3B

– Contemplates sale of Skeldon’s co-gen plant The first sugar crop for the year has started with the state-owned Guyana Sugar Corporation (GuySuCo) reportedly attempting to raise some...

Unit starts monitoring media houses to ensure fair elections coverage

Mar 03, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Unit starts monitoring media houses to ensure fair elections coverage

One key elections watchdog body is operational, the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) announced yesterday. The recently launched Media Monitoring Unit (MMU) started its work since Sunday, March...

Attacking Jagdeo’s pension is a racist act – Rohee

Mar 03, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Attacking Jagdeo’s pension is a racist act – Rohee

Instead of carping at nauseam on the Former President’s Pension and other entitlements, said People’s Progressive Party, Clement Rohee, Leader of A Partnership for National Unity (APNU) David...

Thief nabbed by police in house

Mar 03, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Thief nabbed by police in house

Around 10:30 hrs yesterday police arrested a man in a house at Thomas Street, South Cummingsburg, Georgetown, while he was trying to remove a sink from the property. The house has been vacant for the...

DPP defends against challenge to her professionalism

Mar 03, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on DPP defends against challenge to her professionalism

Once again, Director of Public Prosecutions Shalimar Ali-Hack has been moved to defend the integrity of her office, against criticism from political circles. Yesterday, the DPP made it clear that all...

Mexican Movie Cycle continues today

Mar 03, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Mexican Movie Cycle continues today

The Embassy of Mexico in Guyana announced that it is to co-host with the National Library, the 9th Mexican Movie Cycle in Guyana, which will extend from today to Wednesday. The Ninth Cycle celebrates...

GECOM Secretariat is overstepping authority- Rohee

Mar 03, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on GECOM Secretariat is overstepping authority- Rohee

– Suggests it is facilitating foreign “interference” By Abena Rockcliffe The People’s Progressive Party (PPP) is against the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) collaborating with the...

Guyana-born singer of R&B group, Brownstone, dies after freak fall

Mar 03, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Guyana-born singer of R&B group, Brownstone, dies after freak fall

Denmark – Charmayne Maxwell, better known as Maxee, a member of the Grammy-nominated ’90s R&B group Brownstone, died Saturday after a mysterious fall. She was 46. According to TMZ,...

Higher pay, improved entry requirements needed to rescue police force – Felix

Mar 03, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Higher pay, improved entry requirements needed to rescue police force – Felix

Former Commissioner of Police and APNU Parliamentarian, Winston Felix, yesterday outlined the need for reform in the police force, citing the poor salaries, poor police standards and poor facilities...

WOW loans to single parent women makes life easier – beneficiary

Mar 03, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on WOW loans to single parent women makes life easier – beneficiary

As a single mother with a dream of becoming an entrepreneur, Petrina Chandro, who easily understood the needs of working parents, had no difficulty in deciding what to venture out in. Without much...

Water shortage prompts riot, fire at Camp Street Prison

Mar 03, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Water shortage prompts riot, fire at Camp Street Prison

Fire erupted at the Camp Street Georgetown Prisons last evening, after a number of inmates set fire to a mattress in an ongoing unrest that resulted from a water shortage in the Capital division of...

New British High Commissioner accredited

Mar 03, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on New British High Commissioner accredited

Talks of renewed friendship and an “unbreakable bond” were heard yesterday as the new High Commissioner of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, James Quinn presented his...

Hundreds trained by mining school since launch

Mar 03, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Hundreds trained by mining school since launch

– More expected as training continues today Nearly two years after the Guyana Mining School hosted its inaugural training, more than 400 persons have benefited from training. This number will...

Body fished out from canal at Square of the Revolution

Mar 03, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Body fished out from canal at Square of the Revolution

The body of an unidentified male was fished out of a canal in the vicinity of Square of the Revolution, home to the 1763 Monument, yesterday afternoon by police. According to reports, at...

Why I support President Ramotar and the PPP/C

Mar 03, 2015 KNews Letters Comments Off on Why I support President Ramotar and the PPP/C

DEAR EDITOR, I can give a hundred reasons why I support President Ramotar and the PPP/C, but the letter would be much too long for publication and no editor would carry it. Guyana today, is by far...

Does Mr. Moses Nagamootoo share the views and sentiments expressed by his political boss

Mar 03, 2015 KNews Letters Comments Off on Does Mr. Moses Nagamootoo share the views and sentiments expressed by his political boss

DEAR EDITOR, APNU Leader and Presidential Candidate David Granger is reported to have said during a recent interview with the Stabroek News that there is nothing to apologise about during the period...

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‘Need For Speed’ meet and greet set for West Central Mall this...

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Kaieteur Sports – Karting action returns this month with bigger and better prizes, following the announcement that Jumbo Jet Events is staging the Need for Speed event, where over GYD $17 million...

The law of numbers is catching up with us

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(Kaieteur News) – Every day you pick up the newspaper and you are greeted by another tragedy on our roads. It has become so routine that we scarcely have time to absorb one horrific accident before another takes its place. Just two days ago, three persons lost their lives in a devastating road...

Not Charity, but Repair: a Response to Pope Leo’s Slavery Apology

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By Sir Ronald Sanders (Kaieteur News) – Signed on 15th May, 2026 and released on 25th May, 2026, Pope Leo XIV’s first encyclical, Magnifica Humanitas, marks a significant moment in the long reckoning with slavery. It contains the clearest papal acknowledgment to date of the Holy See’s role...

God’s gift to Guyanese

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Hard Truths by GHK Lall (Kaieteur News) – No! It’s not oil. It’s bigger. It’s neither mountains nor minerals, seas and forests. Grand, indeed; but wrong again. None of those even come close to God’s greatest gift to Guyanese. All of them. Whoever is such a Gulliverian figure...

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