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GWI contains gas leak after area evacuation

Jun 14, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on GWI contains gas leak after area evacuation

A potentially deadly situation was averted yesterday after the Guyana Water Inc. contained a chlorine gas leak at its Better Hope, East Coast Demerara Water Treatment Facility. The gas leak was first...

Out of school athletes should be priorities – Junior Education Minister

Jun 14, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Out of school athletes should be priorities – Junior Education Minister

When it comes to the education system and the integration of sports, a certain level has been provided by the government of Guyana over the years. Indeed, in-school youths who are interested in...

GDYD hosts fundraiser to help less fortunate

Jun 14, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on GDYD hosts fundraiser to help less fortunate

The Members of the Grove/Diamond Youths in Development (GDYD) hosted a cake sale, which is one of the group’s annual fund-raising activities. The sale was held in front of M&S Mattai...

CHANGE IS COMING!

Jun 14, 2015 KNews Editorial Comments Off on CHANGE IS COMING!

In his first inaugural address at the ceremonial opening of Guyana’s 11th Parliament on June 10, 2015, the Head of State Brigadier David Granger touted Guyana’s development potential and promised...

Guyana to send contingent to Carifesta XII

Jun 14, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Guyana to send contingent to Carifesta XII

Guyana will be sending a contingent to Haiti to participate in the Caribbean Festival of Arts (Carifesta) XII, set to take place from August 21 to 30. According to a release from the Ministry of...

LET’S TALK SERVICE…Helping Each Other in Business

Jun 14, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on LET’S TALK SERVICE…Helping Each Other in Business

As business owners, providing assistance to other businesses should be a natural extension of our responsibilities. Many business owners are quite engrossed in their operations or daily tasks to...

PetroCaribe fund…PPP/C explanation about PetroCaribe funds ‘pathetic’ – Doerga

Jun 14, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on PetroCaribe fund…PPP/C explanation about PetroCaribe funds ‘pathetic’ – Doerga

General Secretary of the People’s Progressive Party/Civic (PPP/C), Clement Rohee, recently offered an explanation why the PetroCaribe fund is not there. But rice industry experts have come out in...

GT&T takes customer to court over Skype

Jun 14, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on GT&T takes customer to court over Skype

…matter reaches CCJ The Caribbean Court of Justice heard arguments on June 2, last, in the matter of James Samuels v. GT&T. Samuels filed an appeal that included arguments concerning the...

NDIA estimates August completion of $3.6B Hope Canal project

Jun 14, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on NDIA estimates August completion of $3.6B Hope Canal project

….as test conducted to reduce Conservancy levels by Nicholas Peters The $3.6B Hope Canal project along East Coast Demerara is estimated to be completed in August, following years of delays....

From the Diaspora…PLEASE DON’T TERM PROSTITUTION TRAFFICKING

Jun 14, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on From the Diaspora…PLEASE DON’T TERM PROSTITUTION TRAFFICKING

By Ralph Seeram Bai dem gyals does do more than dem gyal here does do. Dem Spanish gyal can suck “cane” good. My friend on the other end of the phone was calling me from the heart of the jungle...

GPHC Maternal death…Husband outraged by hospital’s decision to withhold post mortem results

Jun 14, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on GPHC Maternal death…Husband outraged by hospital’s decision to withhold post mortem results

Following the death of 41-year-old, Carol Bollers, of Festival City, South Ruimveldt, a post mortem (PM) was done at the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) last week to set the minds of...

Education Minister preparing to meet NGSA top one per cent

Jun 14, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Education Minister preparing to meet NGSA top one per cent

– has plans to “rapidly” improve output of low performers A total of 15,225 pupils participated in the National Grade Six Assessment (NGSA) this year. It is therefore understandable that...

Sunday Cartoon

Jun 14, 2015 KNews Cartoons, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Sunday Cartoon

Freddie Kissoon accuses Ramon Gaskin of hypocrisy

Jun 14, 2015 KNews Letters Comments Off on Freddie Kissoon accuses Ramon Gaskin of hypocrisy

Dear Editor, One day in March I picked up the Stabroek News to find a letter by Ramon Gaskin that made hair-raising criticism of my character. Titled, “Kissoon has behaved like the rest of them,”...

The Mandate of the Guyana Revenue Authority

Jun 14, 2015 KNews Letters Comments Off on The Mandate of the Guyana Revenue Authority

Dear Editor, It is noted with grave concern the numerous missives, published in both the local newspapers and broadcast in the social media, which attempt to cast an incorrect and negative view of...

Face Difficulties Positively

Jun 14, 2015 KNews Features / Columnists, Food For Thought Comments Off on Face Difficulties Positively

This parable is told of a farmer who owned an old mule. The mule fell into the farmer’s well. The farmer heard the mule praying or whatever mules do when they fall into wells. After carefully...

Special Miracles Ministries celebrates establishment of new sanctuary

Jun 14, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Special Miracles Ministries celebrates establishment of new sanctuary

It is often said that the church is the extension of the Kingdom of God on earth and from the beginning of time, the establishment and consecration of places of worship has been practiced by men of...

More of the recent past is retrogressive

Jun 14, 2015 KNews Letters Comments Off on More of the recent past is retrogressive

Dear Editor, Ruel Johnson’s letter to me, June,6 [D-Day] 2015 brought home to me the reality of CARIFESTA X11. Since I had concluded the discourse on Paloma, realising that truth and reason would...

Trio on trial for Campbellville murder … Court hears statement procured from accused

Jun 14, 2015 KNews Court Stories, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Trio on trial for Campbellville murder … Court hears statement procured from accused

The caution statement of Ralph Tyndall, the number one accused in the murder of Colleen Forrester has been admitted into evidence before the court. The statement was read aloud in court on Thursday....

Port Kaituma residents are indeed struggling for water

Jun 14, 2015 KNews Letters Comments Off on Port Kaituma residents are indeed struggling for water

Dear Editor, Reference is made to an article penned by frustrated residents of Port Kaituma titled “ Port Kaituma struggling for water “ captured in today’s (June 13, 2015) edition of...

ImmigrationINFO Immigration News For Our Community …DS-260 Problems with Online System

Jun 14, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on ImmigrationINFO Immigration News For Our Community …DS-260 Problems with Online System

By Attorney Gail Seeram The National Visa Center has reported experiencing technical difficulties with their online system related to the access of electronic immigrant visa applications (Form...

Understanding Deep Vein Thrombosis (DVT)

Jun 14, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Understanding Deep Vein Thrombosis (DVT)

By Dr Zulfikar Bux Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine Our veins are responsible for returning blood to our heart for re-circulation. Disruption in this blood flow can lead to catastrophic...

The Caribbean Press has never published three books by Dr. Paloma Mohamed

Jun 14, 2015 KNews Letters Comments Off on The Caribbean Press has never published three books by Dr. Paloma Mohamed

Dear Editor, The Law Firm,Ibis Law Chambers has been retained by Dr. Paloma Mohamed-Martin, Senior Lecturer at the University of Guyana, to do all things necessary in relation to certain libellous...

Of children, water and wildlife

Jun 14, 2015 KNews Countryman, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Of children, water and wildlife

COUNTRYMAN – Stories about life, in and out of Guyana, from a Guyanese perspective By Dennis Nichols The somewhat cryptic title to this week’s Countryman episode tells a story. It is about some...

The Buff-tailed sicklebill (Eutoxeres condamini)

Jun 14, 2015 KNews Features / Columnists, Interesting Creatures in Guyana Comments Off on The Buff-tailed sicklebill (Eutoxeres condamini)

The buff-tailed sicklebill (Eutoxeres condamini) is a species of hermit hummingbird from the lower Andes and adjacent west Amazonian lowlands from southern Colombia and northern...