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Tony’s Auto Spares launches new promotion for 25th anniversary

Mar 15, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Tony’s Auto Spares launches new promotion for 25th anniversary

After being in business for the past 25 years, Tony’s Auto Spares will be giving away a Mazda RX-8 sports car manufactured by Mazda to any customer who enters this promotion which begins Monday. To...

The blight of addiction

Mar 15, 2015 KNews Editorial Comments Off on The blight of addiction

A major culprit for crime and corruption is addiction to drugs and alcohol. Addiction starts with the repeated experience of the same sense object and this creates a sense of craving for it. Leaving...

City nursing school building will be used as a University- CMO

Mar 15, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on City nursing school building will be used as a University- CMO

Days after nurses protested outside the Ministry of Health Brickdam, Georgetown Office, against being forced out of the city nursing school building, Chief Medical Officer, Dr. Shamdeo Persaud has...

Air Services Limited Flight School- pioneering local aviation

Mar 15, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Air Services Limited Flight School- pioneering local aviation

By Jarryl Bryan Air Services Limited Flight Training School (ASLFTS), which happens to be Guyana’s only flight training school and the only English speaking one in South America, has through the...

Men’s Affairs Bureau to wrap up workshops on gender- based violence in Region four

Mar 15, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Men’s Affairs Bureau to wrap up workshops on gender- based violence in Region four

The Ministry of Human Services Men’s Affairs Bureau (MAB) is expected to conclude its gender -based seminars in Region four, later this month. According to MAB Administrator, Diego Alphonso, an...

A glimpse of old Georgetown

Mar 15, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on A glimpse of old Georgetown

Georgetown as our fore-parents knew it has changed dramatically, with fires and a taste for modernity replacing elegant wooden buildings, a tradition from our colonial era, with high-rise concrete...

Collecting child support at the court is an unbearable hassle

Mar 15, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Collecting child support at the court is an unbearable hassle

– says frustrated mothers By Feona Morrison It’s a hot weekday morning; a mother sits on a hard wooden bench, her baby crying loudly in her arms as she struggles to quiet him. Around her,...

Fire destroys Plaisance home, two homeless

Mar 15, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Fire destroys Plaisance home, two homeless

Dozens of Plaisance residents watched as an early morning fire left two siblings homeless even as they were making final preparations to bury their father. Reports are that at approximately...

Little evidence local jobs created during Marriott’s construction

Mar 15, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Little evidence local jobs created during Marriott’s construction

Government-built Marriott Hotel is nearing completion and set to open mid next month. It had promised hundreds of jobs during its construction phase, and later in its operation. But more than three...

Girls Stand #UpForSchool campaign launched

Mar 15, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Girls Stand #UpForSchool campaign launched

In an effort to raise global awareness on the reintegration of female school dropouts, the Guyana Responsible Parenthood Association (GRPA) launched the Girls Stand #UpForSchool campaign, last...

NIS allegedly compromises pensioner’s claims

Mar 15, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on NIS allegedly compromises pensioner’s claims

Mahadeo Singh, 72, a pensioner of 72 Village Corentyne, Berbice, is alleging that his rights to receive pension payments have been compromised by a dishonest senior staff member of the NIS...

Sunday Cartoon

Mar 15, 2015 KNews Cartoons, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Sunday Cartoon

Is the Local Government Ministry now stationed at Mabaruma?

Mar 15, 2015 KNews Letters Comments Off on Is the Local Government Ministry now stationed at Mabaruma?

Dear Editor, Well the PPP is running scared. The Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Local Government is on a real tight mission, since it seems his office is now moved to Mabaruma in the North...

Who is right, Jagdeo or Ramjattan?

Mar 15, 2015 KNews Letters Comments Off on Who is right, Jagdeo or Ramjattan?

Dear Editor So Babu Jaan has come and gone and that pesky “cuss bird” who calls himself doctor to the “filth” power, is at it again. This person really has a talent – a world-class...

This crime affords the Commissioner a glorious opportunity to rebuild confidence in the force

Mar 15, 2015 KNews Letters Comments Off on This crime affords the Commissioner a glorious opportunity to rebuild confidence in the force

Dear Editor, So our President, His Excellency Donald Ramotar at the Annual Police Conference, has called on the Police to find the killers of Courtney Crum-Ewing. He went further to talk about the...

From the Diaspora…GUYANESE ARE NOT AS DIVIDED AS POLITICIANS WOULD LIKE US TO BELIEVE

Mar 15, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on From the Diaspora…GUYANESE ARE NOT AS DIVIDED AS POLITICIANS WOULD LIKE US TO BELIEVE

By Ralph Seeram It’s a ritual, every afternoon when I picked up my grandson from his nursery school; he has to give each of his friends a body hug, boys and girls before leaving. His friends are...

President Ramotar should be forthright about perceived corruption of all public officers

Mar 15, 2015 KNews Letters Comments Off on President Ramotar should be forthright about perceived corruption of all public officers

Dear Editor, President Ramotar must have good reason to address the Guyana Police force as published in the Kaieteur NEWS of MARCH 13, 2015, But should President Ramotar not be as forthright with...

You are special, don’t ever forget it!!!!

Mar 15, 2015 KNews Features / Columnists, Food For Thought Comments Off on You are special, don’t ever forget it!!!!

A well known speaker started off his seminar by holding up a $20 bill. In the room of 200, he asked, “Who would like this $20 bill?” Hands started going up. He said, “I am going to give this...

Why wait until National Elections to upgrade the Maternity Unit?

Mar 15, 2015 KNews Letters Comments Off on Why wait until National Elections to upgrade the Maternity Unit?

Dear Editor, I happened to be in the vicinity and on checking, there was the grandiose turning of the sod event for the expansion of the Maternity Ward in Georgetown Hospital. Then it was flipped...

Which Queen’s College tradition will we stand for?

Mar 15, 2015 KNews Letters Comments Off on Which Queen’s College tradition will we stand for?

Dear Editor, In October 2014, the media released a private conversation in which the current Attorney-General Anil Nandlall is heard making threats against the Kaieteur News for critical coverage,...

E’bo CPG celebrates 39th anniversary

Mar 15, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on E’bo CPG celebrates 39th anniversary

The community policing group (CPG) which was formed over three decade ago celebrated its 39th anniversary. Activities to compliment the anniversary was held in Region Two(Pomeroon/Supenaam) under the...

Southland International Inc…$1M top prize for “Moussy Colour Your Life Drawing”

Mar 15, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Southland International Inc…$1M top prize for “Moussy Colour Your Life Drawing”

Since its second edition launch, scores of Guyanese have been sent into a frenzy to enter the Moussy Colour Your Life promotion eyeing the grand cash prize of $1M and other exciting prizes such as...

GHRA dubs Crum-Ewing killing a political act

Mar 15, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on GHRA dubs Crum-Ewing killing a political act

The shooting to death of Courtney Crum-Ewing on the night of Tuesday March 10, has sent a shock-wave through Guyanese society, fine-tuned as it is to detect political violence, said the Guyana Human...

In-service midwifery training for nurses imminent

Mar 15, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on In-service midwifery training for nurses imminent

The Ministry of Health and the Pan American Health Organisation (PAHO) will soon be introducing in-service training for nurses in Guyana. This is according to Minister of Health Dr. Bheri Ramsaran,...

Bajan appeals court dismisses appeal for convicted drug running Guyanese

Mar 15, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Bajan appeals court dismisses appeal for convicted drug running Guyanese

Barbados – THREE JUSTICES OF APPEAL on Friday dismissed an application led by Sir Richard Cheltenham QC after he and four fellow attorneys faced a harsh rebuttal from Director of Public...

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