July 2015

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Former Magistrate named Director of Consumer Affairs body

Jul 04, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Former Magistrate named Director of Consumer Affairs body

Former Magistrate Dawn Holder-Alert has been named as Director of the Competition and Consumer Affairs Commission (CCAC) with effect from July 1. Holder-Alert’s appointment was announced by...

US awards outgoing acting Deputy Chief of Mission

Jul 04, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on US awards outgoing acting Deputy Chief of Mission

The United States of America on Thursday evening lauded the outgoing acting Deputy Chief of Mission, Peter Anthes, for his outstanding work in Guyana. In fact, the outgoing envoy was given an award...

Health Ministry gets needed FFTP support

Jul 04, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Health Ministry gets needed FFTP support

– as it beefs up fight against emerging diseases Even as the Ministry of Health ensures its preparedness to tackle emerging diseases, Moleson Creek, East Berbice, is one of the areas to...

Our Roads… ‘It is time for better roads – residents say

Jul 04, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Our Roads… ‘It is time for better roads – residents say

By: Phylicia Richardson Residents of Kuru Kururu, Soesdyke/Linden Highway, still await repairs to the main access road leading to the back of the village. They want repairs, too, to the cross streets...

Digicel Nationwide Schools Football Competition…Charity, 8th of May battle for Region Two title

Jul 04, 2015 KNews Sports Comments Off on Digicel Nationwide Schools Football Competition…Charity, 8th of May battle for Region Two title

Charity whip NOC in second semi final By Sean Devers in E’bo Defending Region Two Champions Charity Secondary School advanced to their fifth Zone Final in the five-year history of the Digicel...

Ramdin inspires Warriors to first 2015 Hero CPL win!

Jul 04, 2015 KNews Sports Comments Off on Ramdin inspires Warriors to first 2015 Hero CPL win!

CPL – The Guyana Amazon Warriors notched up their first win of the 2015 Hero Caribbean Premier League with a crushing seven-wicket victory over the St Kitts & Nevis Patriots at Warner Park...

Serena survives almighty Watson scare to advance

Jul 04, 2015 KNews Sports Comments Off on Serena survives almighty Watson scare to advance

LONDON (Reuters) World number one Serena Williams survived an almighty scare at Wimbledon on Friday, battling back to beat inspired Briton Heather Watson in three sets and stay on course for a 21st...

Digicel Nationwide Schools Football Competition… Khan and Sutherland lead Soesdyke Sec. to second win

Jul 04, 2015 KNews Sports Comments Off on Digicel Nationwide Schools Football Competition… Khan and Sutherland lead Soesdyke Sec. to second win

Soesdyke Secondary School continued their winnings ways when they recorded their second win in as many matches at the Timehri Red Ground when the 2015 edition of the Digicel Schools Football...

Slash in malaria cases being validated by Chief Medical Officer

Jul 04, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Slash in malaria cases being validated by Chief Medical Officer

The Ministry of Health is currently in the process of validating a massive drop in malaria cases as recorded by the Vector Control Services Unit. The Unit under the leadership of Vector Control...

GRA investigates Brooklyn’s coke-in-shrimp bust

Jul 04, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on GRA investigates Brooklyn’s coke-in-shrimp bust

As questions continue how some 268 kilos of cocaine in a shrimp shipment passed local authorities and ended up in a Brooklyn terminal where a drug sniffing dog detected it, the Guyana Revenue...

Kamla supports Guyana against Venez. territorial claims

Jul 04, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Kamla supports Guyana against Venez. territorial claims

– willing to help with oil exploration, energy Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago, Kamla Persad-Bissessar, says that her country is in full support of Guyana as it relates to recent decree...

AG 2013 report…Extra $35M spent on UG Project was used for grants, honorarium – Education Ministry

Jul 04, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on AG 2013 report…Extra $35M spent on UG Project was used for grants, honorarium – Education Ministry

The multimillion-dollar University of Guyana Science and Technology Support Project came under review in the 2013 Auditor General’s Report with the AG calling out some discrepancies between the...

Feral blast or Ferrol blast

Jul 04, 2015 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on Feral blast or Ferrol blast

Latchmansingh Drug store was at the corner of Louisa Row and D’Urban Street. I lived on D’Urban Street between Hardina and Haley Streets. I was the last of seven children so being the little goat...

Create those jobs

Jul 04, 2015 KNews Editorial, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Create those jobs

There are many things that have suddenly become problems in the society. Many of these can only be considered tests for a new administration battling with the remnants of the past administration in...

Ravi Outar execution…DPP says police failed to take dying declaration from victim

Jul 04, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Ravi Outar execution…DPP says police failed to take dying declaration from victim

Director of Public Prosecutions, Shalimar Ali-Hack, has ordered the Office of Professional Responsibility (OPR) to investigate why police ranks failed to take a dying declaration from shot...

Govt. denies Venezuela US$580M oil debt claim

Jul 04, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Govt. denies Venezuela US$580M oil debt claim

– Guyana owed US$194M at March 31 The Government of Guyana has denied a report in Venezuela news which put this country’s oil debts at a staggering US$580M. Yesterday, the Ministry of Finance...

THE CHAIRING OF CABINET

Jul 04, 2015 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on THE CHAIRING OF CABINET

Article 106 (3) is mandatory, not permissive. It provides that the President shall chair Cabinet. It also provides what should happen should the President be absent. In that instance, the Cabinet...

Bus drivers raise concerns over “touting” problem

Jul 04, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Bus drivers raise concerns over “touting” problem

Minibus operators of the Number 45 bus terminal are upset with what they describe as the “tout problem” which they claim has gotten out of hand. On any given day rush hour is probably the most...

NA Multi win NSBF Berbice Conference title

Jul 04, 2015 KNews Sports Comments Off on NA Multi win NSBF Berbice Conference title

New Amsterdam Multilateral Titans won the National Schools’ Basketball Festival (NSBF) 2015 Berbice Conference title yesterday afternoon at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall with a plethora of ‘big...

Payless Variety Store donates equipment to OrDis FC

Jul 04, 2015 KNews Sports Comments Off on Payless Variety Store donates equipment to OrDis FC

Payless Variety Store continued its recent programme of assisting entities by making a donation of sports equipment to the Order and Discipline Football Club (OrDis FC). Located on Wellington Street...

GAWA host successful Developmental C/ship in observance of Olympic Day

Jul 04, 2015 KNews Sports Comments Off on GAWA host successful Developmental C/ship in observance of Olympic Day

The Guyana Amateur Weightlifting Association (GAWA) in observance of Olympic Day 2015 held a school aged Developmental Championship on Sunday last where seven (7) youths braved the inclement weather...

Rain forces postponement of BCB Caricom C/ship 2015 fundraiser

Jul 04, 2015 KNews Sports Comments Off on Rain forces postponement of BCB Caricom C/ship 2015 fundraiser

As the organizers were busy putting things in place for the highly anticipated Berbice Cricket Board Fundraiser…..”Caricom Championship 2015″, the rains continued to pour and as result,...

Three remanded after market break-in

Jul 04, 2015 KNews Court Stories, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Three remanded after market break-in

Nelron Mc Bean, 23; Anthony Best 31; and Keron Ramcharran, 20; were remanded to prison on Thursday after they were jointly charged for robbery under arms. The trio appeared at the Suddie...

Eighteen year old remanded on wounding charge

Jul 04, 2015 KNews Court Stories, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Eighteen year old remanded on wounding charge

Eighteen year-old Mark Spencer is behind bars after he was arraigned before Magistrate Ann Mc Lennan on Thursday to answer a wounding charge. Particulars of the charge stated that on June 27 last, at...

Football player on bail for attempted murder

Jul 04, 2015 KNews Court Stories, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Football player on bail for attempted murder

Twenty-four year old football player, Dwayne Lawrence, of Lot 2499 Osamu Street, North Ruimveldt appeared before Magistrate Ann McLennan yesterday, after he was charged with attempting to commit...

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The politics of appointment

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(Kaieteur News) – The elections commission did not fall from heaven. It came from the messy compromises of men. The so-called Carter-Price formula, that tired but enduring offspring of the 1990s political crisis, was not meant to enshrine aloof neutrality; it was meant to broker peace between...

If the OAS did not exist, it could not be created today

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By Sir Ronald Sanders (Kaieteur News) – I have spent a decade in the councils of the Organization of American States. I have watched governments come and go, seen some crises handled well and others handled badly, sat through more commemorative meetings than sessions discussing pressing issues,...

Guyana Development Bank: Promise, Potential and Peril

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(Kaieteur News) – The PPP Govt-initiated $40B Guyana Development Bank (Bank) can be great. Ordinary Guyanese-poor, harbouring inspired ideas, but lacking capital-have opportunity beckoning. Opportunity to rise from where they are to what they envision could be, should be. Again,...

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