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Education Minister aims for enhanced partnership with GTU

Jul 29, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Education Minister aims for enhanced partnership with GTU

Minister of Education, Dr. Rupert Roopnaraine, is aiming to have what he described as an “enhanced partnership” with the Guyana Teachers’ Union (GTU). “The first people I met when I came into...

It was a dream that had to end

Jul 29, 2015 KNews Letters Comments Off on It was a dream that had to end

Dear Editor, If only Guyana can come together like it does at cricket games. Never before have I ever seen a more beautiful and comforting picture of Guyanese coming together as “One People, One...

Misleading the reading public

Jul 29, 2015 KNews Letters Comments Off on Misleading the reading public

Dear Sir, Please permit me a space in your newspaper to inform some folks in the media and in the former hierarchy that GUYANESE are not stupid and that the more you try to lie you look more foolish...

Role of Maternal and Child Health Unit to be expanded

Jul 29, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Role of Maternal and Child Health Unit to be expanded

..As Ministry announces attainment of MDGs Four and Five Rebranding of the Ministry of Public Health’s Maternal and Child Health Unit (MCH) to the Family and Health Unit is being mulled by head of...

Leadership is a lonely road

Jul 29, 2015 KNews Letters Comments Off on Leadership is a lonely road

Dear Editor, On the Saturday night (July 19), I visited the Congress Place to be part of the birthday celebrations for President, David Granger. I was there from early in the evening; the president...

Maduro asks for U.N. mediation in Guyana border controversy

Jul 29, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Maduro asks for U.N. mediation in Guyana border controversy

US (Reuters) – Venezuela’s President, Nicolás Maduro, said he asked U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon for U.N. mediation in his country’s century-old border controversy with neighbouring...

WHAT ABOUT THE AMNESTY?

Jul 29, 2015 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on WHAT ABOUT THE AMNESTY?

Last Monday 27th July 2015, marked the twenty-fifth anniversary of the attempted coup in Trinidad and Tobago. During the takeover of parliament and the holding of the then Prime Minister and others...

Accused in $120M fraud case granted $15M bail

Jul 29, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Accused in $120M fraud case granted $15M bail

Businessman Eon Ferrier who is accused of swindling $120M from Nazar Mohamed, proprietor of Mohamed’s Enterprise on Lombard Street, was granted bail in the sum of $15M by Chief Justice (ag) Ian...

Teenage phone snatcher jailed for two years

Jul 29, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Teenage phone snatcher jailed for two years

Three months ago, 18-year-old Dominic Morris was arraigned at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Courts on a criminal charge -larceny from the person. He proclaimed that he was innocent of the charge on...

CoI final submissions…Donald Rodney maintains PNC had hand in brother’s killing

Jul 29, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on CoI final submissions…Donald Rodney maintains PNC had hand in brother’s killing

A year after the official probe into Dr. Walter Rodney’s commenced, Donald Rodney , brother to the slain Working People’s Alliance (WPA) leader and lone eyewitness to his demise, maintained that...

Guyana prepares for validation of elimination of mother-to-child HIV transmission

Jul 29, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Guyana prepares for validation of elimination of mother-to-child HIV transmission

Guyana is currently in the process of preparing a report for the validation of the elimination of mother-to-child transmission of the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV). This disclosure was made...

Absolute power, undue influence

Jul 29, 2015 KNews Editorial Comments Off on Absolute power, undue influence

The primary goal of all political parties and politicians is to win elections and gain power at almost any cost. Politics is about power and power is influence. Power is about getting someone to do...

Sean Hinds’ ménage à trois: Who killed Axel Williams?

Jul 29, 2015 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on Sean Hinds’ ménage à trois: Who killed Axel Williams?

On Sunday night, the Alliance For Change had a wake for one of its activists, Denise Walcott. I knew Denise as my student at UG, many, many moons ago. A pleasant human being if there was ever one. I...

River defence works imminent at C’tyne

Jul 29, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on River defence works imminent at C’tyne

Under the Ministry of Public Works, bids were opened by the National Procurement and Tender Administration Board for river defence works at Scottsburg, Corentyne, Berbice (Region six). Nine companies...

DPP, former PSC head among Pradoville 2 beneficiaries

Jul 28, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on DPP, former PSC head among Pradoville 2 beneficiaries

– Jagdeo gave himself two plots Director of Public Prosecutions, Shalimar Ali-Hack, and former Head of the Private Sector Commission (PSC), Ramesh Dookhoo were among several persons who...

Granger assures: Rice not in crisis

Jul 28, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Granger assures: Rice not in crisis

– Farmers call for price guarantees, fuel subsidies By Jarryl Bryan In keeping with its hundred days plan, A Partnership for National Unity/Alliance for Change (APNU+AFC) Government held the...

Sean Hinds surrenders to police, silent on ‘death squad’ claims

Jul 28, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Sean Hinds surrenders to police, silent on ‘death squad’ claims

Self-confessed ‘death squad’ member, Sean Hinds, surrendered to police yesterday, but the man who has been spilling his secrets on television appears to have now gone silent. Hinds, accompanied...

Nothing is being offered to Sean Hinds – Ramjattan

Jul 28, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Nothing is being offered to Sean Hinds – Ramjattan

– “Nobody is going to have a free lunch in this country!” National Security Minister, Khemraj Ramjattan, has made it clear that self-confessed death squad member, Sean Hinds, may be in no...

Govt. appoints new GRDB Board of Directors

Jul 28, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Govt. appoints new GRDB Board of Directors

– Claude Housty named as Chairman, Nizam Hassan as GM Claude Housty is the new Chairman of the Guyana Rice Development Board. Kaieteur News understands that Nizam Hassan is to be the General...

Guyana’s TIP status unchanged

Jul 28, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Guyana’s TIP status unchanged

Only one conviction in past year, victims were re-trafficked – US report For the third consecutive year, the US has placed Guyana on Tier 2 Watch List, recommending in its latest Trafficking in...

A dark secret now come to light

Jul 28, 2015 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on A dark secret now come to light

There is an old saying that whatever happen in de dark does come to light one day. Padoville Two was a showpiece. It is oceanfront property that people would pay hundreds of millions fuh house lot....

Man breaks 13-year-old granddaughter’s hand

Jul 28, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Man breaks 13-year-old granddaughter’s hand

…threatened to have 14-year-old granddaughter raped More sordid tales are emerging on a daily basis of incompetence on the part of public officers. It is bad enough when a grandfather could...

Major improvement planned for City Hall – King

Jul 28, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Major improvement planned for City Hall – King

In his first address to the Council since his appointment, newly installed Town Clerk, Royston King, read from the Bible which was presented to Council in July 1889. “Except the LORD build the...

Boys need to be included in Teenage Pregnancy discussions – Men’s Affairs Officer

Jul 28, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Boys need to be included in Teenage Pregnancy discussions – Men’s Affairs Officer

Quite easily, when thought is given to teenage pregnancy, images of very young girls with swelling bellies come to mind. With the way the masses think, hardly ever does it immediately register that...

Some killers continue to be paid by the ones they violated – Solomon

Jul 28, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Some killers continue to be paid by the ones they violated – Solomon

– Calls on Guyana to sound its voice for Waddell, McKinnon, Shaw and Crum-Ewing Quoting the words of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., “Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things...

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Dem signs need calibrating

Dem Boys Seh… Kaieteur News- Dem boys bin pass one of dem fancy speed meter signs wah de guvament put up fuh tell drivers... more