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A quick response

Jul 01, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on A quick response

A few days after road users complained about the state of Saffon Street, a main link to the East Bank Demerara highway, the Ministry of Public Infrastructure responded to a recently published photo,...

Ed Ahmad’s secret recording played at US Senator’s corruption trial

Jul 01, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Ed Ahmad’s secret recording played at US Senator’s corruption trial

In a tense 2012 meeting at a Howard Beach Italian restaurant, state Senator John Sampson gave an associate cryptic instructions to withhold subpoenaed evidence from investigators but “not lie” if...

Former AG set to launch book on public accountability

Jul 01, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Former AG set to launch book on public accountability

Former Auditor General, Dr. Anand Goolsarran is set to launch another of his books on Friday, this time zeroing in the issue of public accountability. Goolsarran, who is a Public Financial Management...

Genetically and instinctively undemocratic

Jul 01, 2015 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on Genetically and instinctively undemocratic

I got two telephone calls from people who are in the leadership of district groups of the PPP on the lower East Coast. They contacted me after learning that Mr. Bharrat Jagdeo has been selected to...

C/wealth SG visits “home of democracy” in Guyana

Jul 01, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on C/wealth SG visits “home of democracy” in Guyana

– meets with Speaker Commonwealth Secretary General, Kamalesh Sharma yesterday paid a courtesy call on the Speaker of the National Assembly, Dr. Barton Scotland. Sharma visited Dr. Scotland at...

Husband and wife remain in custody for Coglan Dam fire

Jul 01, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Husband and wife remain in custody for Coglan Dam fire

Police continue to hold a city food vendor and his wife as they await the findings of investigators from the Guyana Fire Service, as to the cause of the blaze that destroyed a two-storey house at...

Skin grafting at GPHC’s Burn Care Unit to improve with expensive endowment

Jul 01, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Skin grafting at GPHC’s Burn Care Unit to improve with expensive endowment

Some may say that it was long overdue, but the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC)’s Burn Care Unit was yesterday the recipient of a dermatome, which will help improve the skin grafting...

Local Govt. Elections in November

Jul 01, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Local Govt. Elections in November

…once GECOM gives go-ahead – Minister of Communities Local Government Elections will be held in November once the go-ahead is given by the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM). This was...

Norman McLean is new PSC Chairman

Jul 01, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Norman McLean is new PSC Chairman

Former army chief, Major General (Ret’d), Norman McLean, has been elected Chairman of the Private Sector Commission (PSC). According to the commission, the elections were held on Monday at the...

Bandits kick down door, terrorise Glasgow family

Jul 01, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Bandits kick down door, terrorise Glasgow family

– one arrested, positively identified A Glasgow, East Bank Berbice family is now severely traumatised after bandits invaded their home on Monday evening and terrorised the occupants. According...

Body in septic tank at C/ville….Witness says he had nothing to do with woman’s death

Jul 01, 2015 KNews Court Stories, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Body in septic tank at C/ville….Witness says he had nothing to do with woman’s death

Winslow Smith, called ”Pastor Smith,” or “Elder Smith,” is the prosecution’s final witness in the murder trial of Anthony DePaul Hope and Ralph Tyndall. Smith concluded his testimony,...

Businessman on $150,000 bail after alleged cutlass attack

Jul 01, 2015 KNews Court Stories, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Businessman on $150,000 bail after alleged cutlass attack

A businessman who allegedly assaulted his shop assistant with a cutlass, over missing commodities, was yesterday released on $150,000 bail on a wounding charge. It is alleged that on June 18, at...

We can halt the crime wave

Jul 01, 2015 KNews Letters Comments Off on We can halt the crime wave

Dear Editor, Over the last six years, since my return from the USA, I have been noticing a huge void in the Public Security (formerly the Home Affairs) Ministry. The void is the lack of...

LINDEN EXPO WAS POORLY ORGANIZED

Jul 01, 2015 KNews Letters Comments Off on LINDEN EXPO WAS POORLY ORGANIZED

Dear Editor, As Chairman/Founder of RK’s Eco-Star Motos and RK’s Dragnet Satellite Tracking, we were excited over the invitation to participate in the above Expo, and even more so, when we...

There is Customs fraud in the export of forest products

Jul 01, 2015 KNews Letters Comments Off on There is Customs fraud in the export of forest products

Dear Editor, In response to the letter ‘Where is the fraud?’ (Kaieteur News, 24 June 2015), the following notes might help readers. Customs fraud has nothing to do with the ton-miles costs of...

No Place for Racist Behavior

Jul 01, 2015 KNews Letters Comments Off on No Place for Racist Behavior

Dear Editor, Leaders of all organizations and political leaders of all parties must publicly condemn “racist behaviour” (uttering and actions). The election campaign is long over. Now is the...

Improving UG is no mean task

Jul 01, 2015 KNews Letters Comments Off on Improving UG is no mean task

Dear Editor, It a relief that new interest is being taken about the unmitigated wreck that is University of Guyana. The recent editorial in KN that zoomed in on UG was spot on. The Honorable Dr....

The project that never was

Jul 01, 2015 KNews Letters Comments Off on The project that never was

Dear Editor, Since during the Burnham administration when Mr. Gavin Kennard was the Minister of Agriculture, we the residents of South Essequibo were told of the Government’s plans to empolder...

THE ANTI-MONEY LAUNDERING LAW WAS UNDESERVING OF PRIORITY

Jul 01, 2015 KNews Letters Comments Off on THE ANTI-MONEY LAUNDERING LAW WAS UNDESERVING OF PRIORITY

Dear Editor, I find it surprising that the APNU/AFC coalition has decided to fiddle around with this anti-money laundering law in the same way the PPP/C did. I find it even more surprising that the...

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The stakes are high in Guyana’s democracy

Peeping Tom… Kaieteur News- In any vibrant democracy, the mechanisms that bind it together are those that mediate differences,... more