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The disappearance of Chikungunya…Self-prescription sees lowered reported CHIKV cases

Jun 04, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on The disappearance of Chikungunya…Self-prescription sees lowered reported CHIKV cases

By Desilon Daniels A year after Guyana recorded its first confirmed cases of the Chikungunya virus (CHIKV), the virus has seemingly slipped into the shadows. For months, CHIKV made headlines in...

Local aquaculture, environmental programmes reviewed…As part of regional project

Jun 04, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Local aquaculture, environmental programmes reviewed…As part of regional project

The primary stakeholders in fisheries, aquaculture and environment yesterday gathered at the Regency Hotel to give their input on an important assessment project, addressing the issue of improving...

Live streaming of National Assembly sittings to start next week- Canadian High Commissioner

Jun 04, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Live streaming of National Assembly sittings to start next week- Canadian High Commissioner

The ways in which Canada can continue to support Guyana’s sustainable development was one of the issues discussed when High Commissioner Dr. Nicole Giles paid a courtesy call on President David...

The Rodney Commission was born with a political sarcoma

Jun 04, 2015 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on The Rodney Commission was born with a political sarcoma

The Walter Rodney Commission was a con game by the PPP from the beginning. It started with invidious and insidious intentions and by the time it was two-thirds on the way of its journey, the pathways...

Festival City man faces second retrial for killing beautician wife

Jun 04, 2015 KNews Court Stories, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Festival City man faces second retrial for killing beautician wife

Charles Anthony Woolford, is facing his second retrial for the murder of his beautician wife, Latoya Conway-Woolford, before Justice Brassington Reynolds and a mixed twelve -member jury at High Court...

Education Ministry launches probe into students’ sex act at city school

Jun 04, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Education Ministry launches probe into students’ sex act at city school

Sex Education was taken to a troubling level on Monday when students of a city secondary school decided that they would put their knowledge into action. This publication was able to view at least two...

DUE PROCESS IS DUE

Jun 04, 2015 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on DUE PROCESS IS DUE

On election night there was a mini riot in Sophia. The property of a man was set alight by a crowd. The television flashed scenes of the incident. It showed young men jumping up in glee, high fiving...

Police detective recalls discovery of corpse in septic tank

Jun 04, 2015 KNews Court Stories, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Police detective recalls discovery of corpse in septic tank

Trio on trial for murder at Campbellville … Police Detective Kevin Herbert told the court yesterday, that on January 6, 2008, he conducted an investigation, which led to the discovery of...

Man fined for possession of dangerous weapon, resisting arrest

Jun 04, 2015 KNews Court Stories, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Man fined for possession of dangerous weapon, resisting arrest

A man was yesterday given the alternative of spending four weeks in jail or posting a fine of $40,000, after pleading guilty to three offences in the Georgetown Magistrates’ Courts. Levi Williams...

Truck driver charged with Kaneville murder

Jun 04, 2015 KNews Court Stories, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Truck driver charged with Kaneville murder

Magistrate Leron Daly remanded a Kanveille truck driver to prison yesterday, on a charge of murder. Appearing at the Providence Magistrate’s Court, Ryan VanLange, 31, of 96 First Field, Kaneville,...

Man jailed for trafficking cocaine, marijuana

Jun 04, 2015 KNews Court Stories, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Man jailed for trafficking cocaine, marijuana

A drug trafficker was relocated to the Camp Street prison, after he was found guilty of trafficking in a quantity of marijuana and cocaine, when he appeared at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Courts...

Guyanese cultural and religious practitioners should consider certain cautionary practices

Jun 04, 2015 KNews Letters Comments Off on Guyanese cultural and religious practitioners should consider certain cautionary practices

DEAR EDITOR, All cultural and religious practitioners in Guyana and its diaspora should be aware that Guyanese culture is today what Jamaican, Cuban and Haitian culture was in the 1940’s and...

Toshaos’ elections and questionable governance – hopefully this will be treated with urgency

Jun 04, 2015 KNews Letters Comments Off on Toshaos’ elections and questionable governance – hopefully this will be treated with urgency

DEAR EDITOR, Communities throughout Guyana have many questions surrounding elections of new village councils which had the statutory deadline of April 2015. While some contributors both on print and...

Agriculture can play a greater role in the country’s development

Jun 04, 2015 KNews Letters Comments Off on Agriculture can play a greater role in the country’s development

DEAR EDITOR, How can Agriculture play a greater role in the development of Guyana? For the longest while, it has been said that Guyana can be the bread basket of the Caribbean. Along the way, many...

A clean Guyana reflects you; what is your reflection?

Jun 04, 2015 KNews Letters Comments Off on A clean Guyana reflects you; what is your reflection?

DEAR EDITOR, It overwhelms my conscience to see Guyanese in their numbers aiding in making their homes a better place, to make their communities cleaner and by extension ‘restore’ our nation to...

Restoration of the dismantled arch should be a priority

Jun 04, 2015 KNews Letters Comments Off on Restoration of the dismantled arch should be a priority

DEAR EDITOR, The commendable gesture by His Excellency President David Granger in restoring the Independence Arch, on Brickdam, upon assuming office, a day after his swearing-in ceremony, indeed...

Can the PPP rise from the ashes like a Phoenix?

Jun 04, 2015 KNews Letters Comments Off on Can the PPP rise from the ashes like a Phoenix?

DEAR EDITOR, Ever since his assumption to the highest office in the land, President Granger, in realpolitik form, has moved swiftly to provide effective leadership and institutional changes. As a...

Post turtles in our govt. departments

Jun 04, 2015 KNews Letters Comments Off on Post turtles in our govt. departments

DEAR EDITOR, The previous government had hired a great many post turtles during its time of trying to govern this country, most likely due to the turtles’ contribution to the party. Thankfully, the...

Three questions for former PM Hinds

Jun 04, 2015 KNews Letters Comments Off on Three questions for former PM Hinds

DEAR EDITOR, I noticed former Prime Minister Sam Hinds in the PPP’s picket line in front of GECOM. I have three questions for Mr Hinds. First, what is the current status of the Civic? Second, can...

There is a grey area that needs to be cleared up about this system

Jun 04, 2015 KNews Letters Comments Off on There is a grey area that needs to be cleared up about this system

DEAR EDITOR, I read with great interest in the Kaieteur News of Monday June 1st, 2015 (page 15) “Police Complaints Authority gets own investigative team – Retired cops, former Army captain...

Leonora ‘torture cop’ kicked out of Force

Jun 03, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Leonora ‘torture cop’ kicked out of Force

– Ramjattan also pushing for dismissal of colleague “We are remedying a situation that had gone horrendously bad…We are going to cleanse the Guyana Police Force of those bad cops…” ...

Guyana has been living beyond its means – Anand Goolsarran

Jun 03, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Guyana has been living beyond its means – Anand Goolsarran

– $86B accumulated in debts – Consolidated Fund overdraft could exceed $60B By Kiana Wilburg With respect to Treasury Bills, Guyana has accumulated over $80B in debt. And the Consolidated...

Cash-strapped NCN in hot water for paying OP’s phantom bloggers

Jun 03, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Cash-strapped NCN in hot water for paying OP’s phantom bloggers

Some of the persons hired to work in a shadowy unit reportedly spearheaded by Kwame Mc Coy, former Press Liaison of the Office of the President, were not even stationed there, as shocking details...

Collymore, Region Nine REO sent home

Jun 03, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Collymore, Region Nine REO sent home

Former ministerial advisor, Clinton Collymore is among the latest casualties as the new Government continues its transition into office. Collymore reportedly had his services terminated after failing...

MFK murder probe… Prison Director assures stepped-up security for whistleblower

Jun 03, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on MFK murder probe… Prison Director assures stepped-up security for whistleblower

Director of Prisons Welton Trotz has assured that he will personally look at measures to ensure the safety of murder accused Lennox Wayne called ‘Two Colours’. Wayne, the whistleblower in the...

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Waramuri stuns Vreed-en-Hoop 7-1, as Bush Lot topple Ann’s Grove

Development for whom?

Peeping Tom… Kaieteur News- The Vice President of Guyana, Bharrat Jagdeo, has declared with great confidence that there... more