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Carnegie School ready for Nat’l technology fair

Mar 21, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Carnegie School ready for Nat’l technology fair

– As winning piece is chosen at in-house competition By Desilon Daniels The Carnegie School of Home Economics, on Thursday, held a preliminary competition to determine the school’s submission...

Doerga join E’bo rice farmers in protest

Mar 21, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Doerga join E’bo rice farmers in protest

With support from two professional experts who have thorough knowledge of the rice industry, Essequibo rice farmers, who continue to decry late and non-payments, as well as poor storage and the...

EDUCATION IS NOT THE DRIVER OF ECONOMIC TRANSFORMATION

Mar 21, 2015 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on EDUCATION IS NOT THE DRIVER OF ECONOMIC TRANSFORMATION

A Partnership for National Unity (APNU) is making politically correct sound bites. But what is politically correct is not always right. Indeed if a policy prescription is based on a misanalysis of a...

Gregory Smith’s sister to testify in Rodney COI

Mar 21, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Gregory Smith’s sister to testify in Rodney COI

Two persons are expected to testify when the Commission of Inquiry, (COI) into the death of renowned Guyanese Scholar, Dr. Walter Rodney, resumes on Monday. According to an official attached to the...

GRA urges public to report suspicious behavior by ‘staffers’

Mar 21, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on GRA urges public to report suspicious behavior by ‘staffers’

Recording concern over allegations of a Berbice man that was duped by an off-duty Customs Officer and claims that persons are engaging in various nefarious activities whilst impersonating officers of...

Lennox Cornette launches book on the change of technology

Mar 21, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Lennox Cornette launches book on the change of technology

Lennox W. Cornette, late yesterday afternoon launched his book ‘The Development of Telecommunications in Guyana 1884-1994’ in a very simple ceremony at the National Library’s Conference Room,...

Baby dies after visit to Plaisance Clinic

Mar 21, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Baby dies after visit to Plaisance Clinic

Medex allegedly urged mother to keep silent from media A family is claiming that a nurse at the Plaisance Health Centre is responsible for their son’s death, although preliminary post-mortem...

Base Camp Stephenson gets new Commanding Officer

Mar 21, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Base Camp Stephenson gets new Commanding Officer

Command of one of the main bases of the Guyana Defence Force, Camp Stephenson changed hands from Colonel Wilbert Lee to Lieutenant Colonel Terry Benn on March 18, 2015. Lee, who served the Force for...

Four Bajan-Guyanese coke case heads to CCJ

Mar 21, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Four Bajan-Guyanese coke case heads to CCJ

Barbados (Barbados Today) – Four Guyanese nationals who were appealing their 2009 conviction in the Court of Appeal have been told to take their case to the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ). The...

Continued funding for National AIDS programme not a concern –Dr. Shanti Singh

Mar 21, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Continued funding for National AIDS programme not a concern –Dr. Shanti Singh

Although there are reports of dwindling funds for the National AIDS Programme, Programme Manager of the Ministry of Health’s National AIDS Programme Secretariat (NAPS), Dr. Shanti Singh, is however...

Rural Constable protest Courtney Crum-Ewing slaying in Berbice

Mar 21, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Rural Constable protest Courtney Crum-Ewing slaying in Berbice

Well known in Berbice, Dion Thomas on Friday began a one-man protest, yesterday, in memory of the fallen Guyanese hero Courtney Crum-Ewing. He said that he hopes to continue until the elections on...

Sugar will never succeed in Guyana – former MP

Mar 21, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Sugar will never succeed in Guyana – former MP

…proposes quinoa as viable alternative The direction that the global market is taking coupled with reports showing that the sugar industry has been burdening the local economy, are among factors...

In pursuit of roads in Guyana

Mar 21, 2015 KNews Editorial Comments Off on In pursuit of roads in Guyana

Roads provide for the cheapest and most efficient communication means. All over the world the powers ensure that there are roads to take people to anywhere in the country. Today the United States...

Guyana signals interest in another forest deal

Mar 21, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Guyana signals interest in another forest deal

– briefs Norway on protection systems, development projects As a five-year, US$250M forest deal with Norway nears end, Guyana has signaled its interest in continuing similar programmes. Top...

LAPOP Survey…Negative review caused by opposition action – Gail Teixeira

Mar 21, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on LAPOP Survey…Negative review caused by opposition action – Gail Teixeira

By Desilon Daniels Weeks after the Latin American Public Opinion Poll (LAPOP) was published which showed a number of declining trends in Guyana, Presidential Advisor Gail Teixeira has said that the...

Prison officer heads to jail

Mar 21, 2015 KNews Court Stories, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Prison officer heads to jail

Chief Magistrate Priya Sewnarine-Beharry remanded a prison officer to jail yesterday after it was alleged he had a quantity of marijuana in his possession. The charge laid before Clayton Johnson, of...

Cocaine exporter remanded

Mar 21, 2015 KNews Court Stories, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Cocaine exporter remanded

Yesterday at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court, a rank from the narcotics division of the Guyana Police Force (GPF) alleged that an exporter attempted to traffic a large quantity of cocaine to the...

Homeless car washer remanded to jail

Mar 21, 2015 KNews Court Stories, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Homeless car washer remanded to jail

A homeless man was remanded to prison on an accusation that he was an armed robber. Kwame Bruce, also known as “Gully Bapp”, of 65 Cross and Leopold Streets, denied the allegation which stated...

Cattle farmer charged with murder

Mar 21, 2015 KNews Court Stories, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Cattle farmer charged with murder

A man who allegedly ripped open another man’s belly during a drinking spree in the wee hours of Monday morning has been charged with murder. Romel Sanichar, called “Junior”, 24, a cattle farmer...

Intoxicated man refused bail on wounding charge

Mar 21, 2015 KNews Court Stories, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Intoxicated man refused bail on wounding charge

An elderly man appeared at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court yesterday to answer to a charge of wounding. The court heard that on October 25, 2014, at Kitty, Lionel Klass, unlawfully and...

Man accused of sex with six-year-old heads to High Court

Mar 21, 2015 KNews Court Stories, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Man accused of sex with six-year-old heads to High Court

Naurayan, 41, a labourer of Cooper’s Lane New Amsterdam, Berbice is on trial in the Berbice High Court before Justice Brassington Reynolds and a mixed jury, for allegedly sexually molesting a...

The Economics of Bharrat Jagdeo

Mar 21, 2015 KNews Letters Comments Off on The Economics of Bharrat Jagdeo

DEAR EDITOR, Lest we repeat the errors of the past, the following is an earlier letter which has much relevance today as when it was first published. As someone immersed in the economics of Guyana, I...

Let us redouble our efforts to leave a better world for our children

Mar 21, 2015 KNews Letters Comments Off on Let us redouble our efforts to leave a better world for our children

DEAR EDITOR, Guyana is a country with great potential. But as Desmond Hoyte said in Washington DC in 1988, potential is not real wealth. Next year, in 2016, we will be celebrating 50 years of...

Road Signage

Mar 21, 2015 KNews Letters Comments Off on Road Signage

DEAR EDITOR, Because of the faded No Entry signs painted on the twin roads connecting Garnett Street and Durabana Square in Lamaha Gardens, indifferent motorists have been ignoring what was intended...

Jagdeo, Rohee and the PPP are in panic mode

Mar 21, 2015 KNews Letters Comments Off on Jagdeo, Rohee and the PPP are in panic mode

DEAR EDITOR, If ever an ideal setting was created for a naïve person to etch his/her name in the annals of bunkum in Guyana, it was the General Secretary of the PPP. That he enjoys the unique...

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Merry Christmas, Ya Filthy Animals!

Peeping Tom… Kaieteur News- Ah, Christmas—the season of goodwill, good cheer, and, let’s not forget, good riddance!... more