May 26, 2015

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Granger holds first Cabinet meeting

May 26, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Granger holds first Cabinet meeting

President David A Granger held his first meeting with his Ministers of the Cabinet for the first time since they have been sworn in. The meeting was held in the Credentials Room of Office of the...

The task ahead

May 26, 2015 KNews Editorial Comments Off on The task ahead

There is always a period when a new government enjoys a honeymoon. It is as if the people are saying that they welcome the change and that they expect the government to do better than its...

We are nearing that magical number of fifty

May 26, 2015 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on We are nearing that magical number of fifty

One of the most offensive political expressions I encountered in my long, long examination of politics in Guyana came from Dr. Henry Jeffrey. He wrote in the Stabroek News of January 29, 2010, the...

Girl, 17, charged with murdering best friend

May 26, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Girl, 17, charged with murdering best friend

Accompanied by a police officer, 17-year-old Angelique Williams was yesterday escorted into the Vreed-en-Hoop Magistrate’s Court, to face charges of murdering her best friend. She appeared before...

Granger to pardon 60 minor offenders

May 26, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Granger to pardon 60 minor offenders

…says ‘young people should be in school, not jail’ Families and friends of young, non-violent offenders, who have been incarcerated, can look forward to their return home with the hope that...

Guyanese mom, 26, murdered in Trinidad

May 26, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Guyanese mom, 26, murdered in Trinidad

Trinidad (Trinidad Express) – IMRAZ Seunarine said that it may be jealousy that led to the murder of his wife at their home in Princes Town on Saturday. Seunarine said that he and his wife,...

West Berbice farmer found dead in trench

May 26, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on West Berbice farmer found dead in trench

The police are investigating the circumstances surrounding the death of Deonarine Ramsarran who was on Monday fished out of a trench with his motorcycle alongside him. His body was found by a...

Cleanup campaign…Puran Bros to dispatch trucks for seven days

May 26, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Cleanup campaign…Puran Bros to dispatch trucks for seven days

As Guyana celebrates its 49th Independence Anniversary and the efforts to restore the city to its original state progress, Puran Bros Disposal Services has announced that they will be dispatching...

Museum exhibition highlights 49th Independence anniversary

May 26, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Museum exhibition highlights 49th Independence anniversary

As Guyana celebrates 49 years of independence, there was yesterday’s opening of the Independence Day archives at the National Museum as part of the scheduled activities. Since it was a...

All systems say go

May 26, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on All systems say go

… As finishing touches applied to Independence Arch Preparations were in full swing last night at the Independence Monument for Guyana’s 49th Independence celebrations slated for today. Several...

PPP boycotting Independence wreath-laying ceremony

May 26, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on PPP boycotting Independence wreath-laying ceremony

– to celebrate at Berbice public meeting The People’s Progressive Party (PPP) said yesterday it will not be attending this morning’s 49th Independence Anniversary celebrations at the...

Current and past Education Ministers have similar views on “value for money”

May 26, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Current and past Education Ministers have similar views on “value for money”

A number of infrastructural contracts were awarded by the Ministry of Education in the past year in the quest to improve a number of schools across the country. But according to recently appointed...

All set for President Granger’s inauguration

May 26, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on All set for President Granger’s inauguration

The official Inauguration Ceremony of the eighth Executive President of Guyana, David Granger, will take place today, Independence Day, at the Guyana National Stadium, Providence, East Bank Demerara....

17-year-old goes missing

May 26, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on 17-year-old goes missing

Over the past few years a number of persons have been reported missing. They have not been confined to any one sex. The latest is 17-year-old Stacy Marshall of Number One Canal, West Bank Demerara....

Independence Day Messages

May 26, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Independence Day Messages

On the 26th of May 1966, Guyana became an independent country. Today marks the 49th observance of our Independence. Below are some messages that were issued to commemorate this Independence...

Happy Independence Anniversary, Guyana!

May 26, 2015 KNews Letters Comments Off on Happy Independence Anniversary, Guyana!

DEAR EDITOR, How truly magnanimous of President Granger to extend a formal and personal invitation to former Presidents Ramotar & Jagdeo to attend today’s Independence Day celebrations. ...

I am still very skeptical that GuySuCo has made any significant improvement

May 26, 2015 KNews Letters Comments Off on I am still very skeptical that GuySuCo has made any significant improvement

DEAR EDITOR, GuySuCo has declared that they have completed an extended first crop in 2015 of 81,194 tonnes. Only 5000 tonnes, they tell us, below the estimate of 86,201 tonnes. Again I have to point...

Factual Correction

May 26, 2015 KNews Letters Comments Off on Factual Correction

DEAR EDITOR, I refer to Mr Frederick Kissoon’s column entitled “Venality and Vendetta: Educating a Nation” which was published in the May 22nd edition of your newspaper. In paragraph nine (9)...

The Guyanese people are smart and they are signaling how they want the country to be governed

May 26, 2015 KNews Letters Comments Off on The Guyanese people are smart and they are signaling how they want the country to be governed

DEAR EDITOR, The Guyanese electorate has made another important decision about how they want to be governed, following the recent 2015 general and regional elections. As you may recall, the people of...

Making the right choice: Learning from Gandhi and Martin Luther King in the context of Guyana’s future

May 26, 2015 KNews Letters Comments Off on Making the right choice: Learning from Gandhi and Martin Luther King in the context of Guyana’s future

DEAR EDITOR, On June 7th, 1893, Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, the father of the modern Indian independence movement was unceremoniously kicked off the first class section of a...

The Coalition government and reducing fear among Guyanese

May 26, 2015 KNews Letters Comments Off on The Coalition government and reducing fear among Guyanese

DEAR EDITOR, All societies are constructed and therefore can be deconstructed and reconstructed. I think that the new APNU+AFC government has an excellent opportunity to deconstruct many aspects of...

Lionel Peters must be smiling in Heaven

May 26, 2015 KNews Letters Comments Off on Lionel Peters must be smiling in Heaven

DEAR EDITOR, My late friend Lionel Peters must be smiling in heaven that our comrade in political struggle Moses Nagamootoo has been sworn in as Prime Minister of Guyana. Moses and Khemraj Ramjattan...

Looking away after elections

May 26, 2015 KNews Letters Comments Off on Looking away after elections

DEAR EDITOR, The long awaited elections have come and gone. The results, though not a foregone conclusion, have been pleasing to many. It’s now time for the new government to set the agenda of...

There is an urgent need to reconstruct GECOM

May 26, 2015 KNews Letters Comments Off on There is an urgent need to reconstruct GECOM

DEAR EDITOR, Looking past the euphoria surrounding the validity of the elections results, there were many apprehensions about the time taken for the declaration – from May 11 – five days....

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Just what is going on in Guyana?

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(Kaieteur News) – There was a time when the average Guyanese scandal involved a man stealing two plantains from a neighbour’s kitchen garden and then attending the same neighbour’s wake three weeks later pretending to be grief-stricken. We were a manageable people. Dysfunction arrived in...

The Caribbean’s Limits in Absorbing Other States’ Deportees

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By Sir Ronald Sanders (Kaieteur News) – Migration policy is a matter of sovereign control. Governments assert, rightly, their authority to regulate borders, determine who may enter, and enforce their laws. The United States has that right, as does every sovereign state. All Caribbean governments...

Anand Persaud calls out, castigates, the PPP Govt.

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Hard Truths by GHK Lall (Kaieteur News) – Governments govern. Leaders lead. Media reports on governance, leadership. People pronounce on the quality of both. I do. Anand Persaud did. As the former editor-in-chief of the much-praised, much-missed, Stabroek News, he would know about...

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