July 2015

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The good ol’ days coming back again

Jul 12, 2015 KNews Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on The good ol’ days coming back again

By Leonard Gildarie This week, I had promised to speak more on value-added and customer service in Guyana. I do believe these are critical areas that the country needs to concentrate on pretty...

PPP IN DEATH THROES, JAGDEO RETURN TO PERFORM FINAL RITES

Jul 12, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on PPP IN DEATH THROES, JAGDEO RETURN TO PERFORM FINAL RITES

BY Ralph Seeram I was saying the man’s ego was bigger than his mansion, when another passenger in the car chimed in, that his ego was bigger than Guyana. The man has no shame; some would argue that...

Religious body, Minister condemn alleged rape by pandit

Jul 12, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Religious body, Minister condemn alleged rape by pandit

The family of the 22-year-old lady from the Upper Corentyne area who was reportedly raped by a playboy pandit of No. 57 village, Corentyne is expressing fear. They say that the pandit has begun...

Police figures confirm fewer robberies but more murders

Jul 12, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Police figures confirm fewer robberies but more murders

As was expected, the Guyana Police Force has released figures that confirm an increase in criminal activities from the beginning of this year to June month end, with murders up to last monthend...

Capped benefits for former Presidents will still cost Treasury a ‘pretty penny’ – Finance Minister

Jul 12, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Capped benefits for former Presidents will still cost Treasury a ‘pretty penny’ – Finance Minister

– Cites $7.4M ticket claim by Jagdeo By Abena Rockcliffe As the House positioned itself on Thursday last to pass the Former Presidents (Benefits and Other Facilities) Bill, Minister of...

Let’s talk service…Companies that embrace serviced, quality

Jul 12, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Let’s talk service…Companies that embrace serviced, quality

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...

HAVE OUR CHILDREN GONE ASTRAY?

Jul 12, 2015 KNews Editorial Comments Off on HAVE OUR CHILDREN GONE ASTRAY?

For far too long, our children have been going astray and no one seems to care or know how to bring them back. Now that we have a change of government that is moving Guyana forward in the right...

Four Guyanese students get UWC scholarships to study overseas

Jul 12, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Four Guyanese students get UWC scholarships to study overseas

Four Guyanese students will be completing high school on scholarships across the world, after the first successful selections cycle of UWC Guyana. UWC are United World Colleges – 15 highly...

Over 60 million displaced by crisis

Jul 12, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Over 60 million displaced by crisis

…UN highlights World Population Day By Shyon Hoppie United Nation’s (UN) General Secretary, Ban Ki-moon, has said that the world is seeing a record number of people displaced by crises. Their...

The future of humanity depends on three conferences

Jul 12, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on The future of humanity depends on three conferences

The outcome of three upcoming global UN Conferences will determine the future of humanity and the environment over the next decades. The UN Secretary-General has called for ‘transformative...

Shot-in-head Canje businesswoman released from hospital

Jul 12, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Shot-in-head Canje businesswoman released from hospital

Businesswoman Angela Hussain, 41, of Neezam Grocery and Haberdashery store of lot 62 Second Street, Palmyra, East Canje, Berbice who was shot in the head last Monday has been released from hospital....

Rohee has resurrected an old “enemy of the state” bogeyman

Jul 12, 2015 KNews Letters Comments Off on Rohee has resurrected an old “enemy of the state” bogeyman

Dear Editor, I read a letter by Clement Rohee in Guyana Times (2015-07-09) in defence of Bharat Jagdeo as the new leader of the PPP. It is nothing short of a newly packaged “feral blast” against...

The CJ’s ruling has raised more questions and uncertainties than answers

Jul 12, 2015 KNews Letters Comments Off on The CJ’s ruling has raised more questions and uncertainties than answers

Dear Editor, I would summarise my understanding of the Chief Justice’s ruling on the term limit case thus: Act 17 of 2001 (amending Article 90 of the 1980 constitution), which imposes term limits...

This Act of Economic Oppression by Venezuela must be resisted by ALL Guyanese

Jul 12, 2015 KNews Letters Comments Off on This Act of Economic Oppression by Venezuela must be resisted by ALL Guyanese

Dear Editor, To claim what’s not yours is an act of misplaced aggression. To continue to want to grab what has been settled by international arbitration is a show of contempt for the rule of law....

I love my Guyanese ID card. I don’t want a Venezuelan ID card

Jul 12, 2015 KNews Letters Comments Off on I love my Guyanese ID card. I don’t want a Venezuelan ID card

Dear Editor, I read in your newspaper dated July 11, 2015 with utter dismay and terrible shock that Venezuela is planning to issue ID cards to us Essequibians. This I consider to be an abominable act...

Sunday Cartoon

Jul 12, 2015 KNews Cartoons, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Sunday Cartoon

Is there a deliberate attempt to unleash a new crime wave on Guyana?

Jul 12, 2015 KNews Letters Comments Off on Is there a deliberate attempt to unleash a new crime wave on Guyana?

Dear Editor, There’s a rather baffling dimension to some of the recent spate of robberies. I’m no detective, but I feel that it’s a dimension that the police and Minister of Public Securities...

CONSUMER CONCERNS…Beautification of towns enhances quality of life

Jul 12, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on CONSUMER CONCERNS…Beautification of towns enhances quality of life

PAT DIAL Now that the Central Government and the town councils, including Georgetown have shown some commitment and enthusiasm for clearing the accumulations of garbage and improving drainage, it is...

Granger joins over 190 Heads of States in Ethiopia

Jul 12, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Granger joins over 190 Heads of States in Ethiopia

President David Granger has joined Heads of State, Ministers and representatives from more than 190 countries in Ethiopia for a conference at which decisions will be made on a financial framework to...

Guyana, Venezuela to corporate for amateur boxing, scholarships on the cards too

Jul 12, 2015 KNews Sports Comments Off on Guyana, Venezuela to corporate for amateur boxing, scholarships on the cards too

Head of the Guyana Boxing Association, Steve Ninvalle, who is also an Executive of World Governing Body AIBA, is on his way back from that organisation’s Congress held in Dubai during last week....

MPS Independence Champion of Champions Dominos… Clinton Forsythe crowned winner

Jul 12, 2015 KNews Sports Comments Off on MPS Independence Champion of Champions Dominos… Clinton Forsythe crowned winner

Clinton Forsythe of the General Registrar’s Office was crowned winner of the Ministry of Public Security Inter Department Independence Champion of Champions Dominos competition. Forsythe tallied a...

Mattai’s unbeaten 25 lead Guyana Floodlight to NYSCL Legends Cup title

Jul 12, 2015 KNews Sports Comments Off on Mattai’s unbeaten 25 lead Guyana Floodlight to NYSCL Legends Cup title

In an exciting end to the final of the New York Softball Cricket League 2015 Legends Cup, the two teams traveling from Guyana to compete in the competition both made it to the final but it was Guyana...

Kevin Beaton on scholarship at USA College

Jul 12, 2015 KNews Sports Comments Off on Kevin Beaton on scholarship at USA College

“Players must be willing to work with GFF for Football to progress” says National forward By Sean Devers At 24, Kevin Orlando Emmanuel Beaton, who hails from the mining Town of Linden, has been...

Does circumcision decrease your risk of acquiring HIV?

Jul 12, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Does circumcision decrease your risk of acquiring HIV?

By Dr Zulfikar Bux, Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine Male circumcision is the procedure where the foreskin of the penis is surgically removed. In Guyana it is mostly done for religious...

A YEAR OF DEADLY CARJACKINGS

Jul 12, 2015 KNews Features / Columnists, Murder and Mystery Comments Off on A YEAR OF DEADLY CARJACKINGS

It was a sunny Friday in February 1998, that 22-year-old taxi driver Davo Narine left home to pay an electricity bill at the Guyana Power and Light’s Main Street, Georgetown office. He told his...

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A Mid-Year Report is a report card not an audit

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(Kaieteur News) – Christopher Ram is right to demand accountability for the spending of public money. He is also right that figures are most useful when they tell a coherent story about what Government has spent, what it has achieved and what remains to be done. But to ask for all of these...

Crime thrives on weak justice, illegal guns and dirty money

Sep 20, 2026

By Sir Ronald Sanders (Kaieteur News) – Crime in Latin America and the Caribbean is no longer only a matter for the police. It is weakening societies, draining economies and obstructing development. It is also testing public confidence in courts, governments and democratic institutions. The...

The Guyana-China card- Pt 1

Sep 24, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – In his 201st Oil and Gas column, the tireless Chris Ram, man of law and man of numbers, introduced a thought-provoking element in Guyana’s oil weaknesses and struggles. It’s one with explosive potential. One, if acted upon, that is sure to trigger some huge ripples...

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