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THE GOOD LIFE IS HERE

Jun 18, 2015 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on THE GOOD LIFE IS HERE

Guyanese do not appreciate just how good they have it. They may not have all the things that they want but judging from what is seen, the good life is here already. People just have to learn how to...

Dismissal of Matron sparks protest at GPHC

Jun 18, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Dismissal of Matron sparks protest at GPHC

– CEO says sacking due to “gross insubordination” Several nurses of the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) yesterday halted the delivery of health care in order to protest what...

300 youths to benefit from 2015 YEST programme

Jun 18, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on 300 youths to benefit from 2015 YEST programme

The Youth Entrepreneurial Skills Training (YEST) programme is back and this time 300 Guyanese youths are expected to benefit when the programme kicks off. The young people from across the country...

Shifting of CXC exams…Government gets $4M discount

Jun 18, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Shifting of CXC exams…Government gets $4M discount

Government has been granted a US$20,000 discount on the amount payable to the Caribbean Examination Council (CXC) for shifting the dates that were set for the administering of Caribbean Secondary...

Govt to review scholarship for top performers

Jun 18, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Govt to review scholarship for top performers

– programme likely to include other deserving students While Government is gearing to review a scholarship programme initiated by the previous administration for top performing students,...

Annandale woman succumbs two weeks after setting self ablaze

Jun 18, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Annandale woman succumbs two weeks after setting self ablaze

Jasodra Mangoor, the woman who had allegedly set herself ablaze two weeks ago, died on Tuesday after fighting for her life in the Intensive Care Unit of the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation...

Jamaican charged with attempted murder of ex-policeman

Jun 18, 2015 KNews Court Stories, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Jamaican charged with attempted murder of ex-policeman

A Jamaican national who has been domiciled in Guyana for about three years, has been charged with attempted murder. The man, Rovin Mickey McLean, called ‘Jamaky’ 41, of Lot 103 ‘B’...

Men busted with cocaine at Tabatinga

Jun 18, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Men busted with cocaine at Tabatinga

At around 16:00hrs on Monday, last, the Joint Services conducted a raid in the Tabatinga area, Central Rupununi that resulted in a house being searched. Five men were found inside the house with a...

Education Ministry looking to expand strategic tactics

Jun 18, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Education Ministry looking to expand strategic tactics

– in quest for overall improved performances While strides are being made by the Ministry of Education to improve performances across the board, the results of the 2015 National Grade Six...

Kuru Kuru man chopped, likely to lose arm

Jun 18, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Kuru Kuru man chopped, likely to lose arm

Glenford Kitt, of Lot 383 Kuru Kuru Soesdyke/Linden Highway, is now at the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) nursing a severe chop to one of his arms following a confrontation with...

GPHC patients unaffected by nurses protest

Jun 18, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on GPHC patients unaffected by nurses protest

Operations at the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) were unaffected yesterday despite the protest which was staged by nurses at the hospital. Several nurses yesterday halted the delivery...

Gov’t to assist trade unions to better represent workers

Jun 18, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Gov’t to assist trade unions to better represent workers

Prime Minister, Moses Nagamootoo, on June 16, reiterated Government’s aim to provide subventions to the country’s trade unions in order that they are in a better position to address workers’...

Argentina pledges closer ties with Guyana

Jun 18, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Argentina pledges closer ties with Guyana

Efforts are underway to ensure that closer ties are established between Guyana and Argentina. In this regard, Agriculture Minister Noel Holder received a courtesy call from Argentine Ambassador to...

PU&GWU making unrealistic demands…. OCGI

Jun 18, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on PU&GWU making unrealistic demands…. OCGI

The Oldendorff Carriers Guyana Inc. (OCGI) in a response to various allegations by the People’s United and General Workers Union (PU&GWU) has said that “the union is making unrealistic...

Greenidge meets US Assistant Secretary of State

Jun 18, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Greenidge meets US Assistant Secretary of State

Minister of Foreign Affairs, Mr. Carl B. Greenidge, has agreed with his US counterparts to intensify bilateral co-operation with a renewed emphasis on deepening Guyana’s Democratic processes,...

The problem with human trafficking

Jun 18, 2015 KNews Editorial, Features / Columnists Comments Off on The problem with human trafficking

As a people, Guyanese have not apparently come to grips with that ugly aspect of one of the worst crimes in human existence — human trafficking. According to Guyana’s Trafficking in Persons (TIP)...

Father of one jailed for causing death of elderly pedestrian

Jun 18, 2015 KNews Court Stories, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Father of one jailed for causing death of elderly pedestrian

Magistrate Judy Latchman, sentenced a 28-year-old father of one, to two years imprisonment yesterday after he was found guilty of causing death by dangerous driving. Ravin Singh, of 46 North East...

An argument driven by fallacious reasoning

Jun 18, 2015 KNews Letters Comments Off on An argument driven by fallacious reasoning

DEAR EDITOR, I read an article in the Guyana Chronicle of June 17, 2015, which sought to explain the circumstances surrounding recent repairs carried out on the access road which leads to the...

Another urgent call for GPL’s help

Jun 18, 2015 KNews Letters Comments Off on Another urgent call for GPL’s help

Dear Editor, I am a pensioner and live at 93 Prince William Street, Plaisance, East Coast Demerara. A post is erected in my yard where a GPL wire comes from the road to the post and then to my house....

For any ex-offender rehabilitation to be successful, it must be systematic and holistic

Jun 18, 2015 KNews Letters Comments Off on For any ex-offender rehabilitation to be successful, it must be systematic and holistic

DEAR EDITOR, It is a known fact among Criminologists that persons who have been incarcerated for any length of time develop what we call a “Prison Mentality” or a “Jail-house Mentality”. It...

Needing a new act for a known fact

Jun 18, 2015 KNews Letters Comments Off on Needing a new act for a known fact

DEAR EDITOR, Like Mr. Bostwick (Kaieteur News, June 13, 2015), I am a product of an educational system that was second to none, and of which I remain eternally grateful and forever indebted to the...

This is all nonsense

Jun 18, 2015 KNews Letters Comments Off on This is all nonsense

DEAR EDITOR, In your letter column, June 14, you published a letter which included a falsehood that I owned a three story house on Durban and Palm Streets. Please be advised that I never had such a...