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HYSDA re-emerges with meeting scheduled for Friday

Aug 26, 2015 KNews Sports Comments Off on HYSDA re-emerges with meeting scheduled for Friday

The Hinterland Youth and Sport Development Association (HYSDA) that was founded in 2011, has re-emerged with a scheduled meeting to re-elect Executive Members set for Friday at 4pm at the Guyana...

Suicide prevention is indeed everyone’s business

Aug 26, 2015 KNews Letters Comments Off on Suicide prevention is indeed everyone’s business

DEAR EDITOR, Kudos to Mr. Annnan Boodram, Ms. Bibi Ahamad, Mrs Norkah Carter, Mr. Nazim Hussain, Yog Mahadeo and the young Divina Singh, Carol Lovell for a tremendous weekend Conference and Awards...

Body of unidentified male found at seawall round house

Aug 26, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Body of unidentified male found at seawall round house

Undertakers were summoned yesterday to remove the body of an unidentified man from the roundhouse situated on the Kingston seawall. It was transported to the Lyken Funeral Home just after 16: 30hrs....

Guyana has exhibited symptoms of flatlining since 2012, but we’re not dead yet, Mr. Jagdeo

Aug 26, 2015 KNews Letters Comments Off on Guyana has exhibited symptoms of flatlining since 2012, but we’re not dead yet, Mr. Jagdeo

Dear Editor, What is our community responsibility when deliberate misrepresentation of history arises? Do we remain silent? Or do we stand together and gently provide greater context to the...

GPF can probably learn from GDF in terms of attracting manpower

Aug 26, 2015 KNews Letters Comments Off on GPF can probably learn from GDF in terms of attracting manpower

DEAR EDITOR, It has probably escaped wide attention that on June 5, the Guyana Defence Force held the passing out parade for 270 recruits at the Colonel John Clarke Military School, Tacama, Upper...

A significant phenomenon is rapidly emerging in the country’s politics

Aug 26, 2015 KNews Letters Comments Off on A significant phenomenon is rapidly emerging in the country’s politics

DEAR EDITOR, The Stabroek News, in its editorial of August 24th, titled “A new Registrar of Lands”, has once again exposed its phobia over the presence of the PNCR in the coalition government....

Husband freed of manslaughter

Aug 26, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Husband freed of manslaughter

An evidently relieved Gavin Towler was yesterday freed of manslaughter, after the Court found that there was insufficient evidence against him. Towler was charged for the unlawful killing of his...

$150M project to restore birth certificate records

Aug 26, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on $150M project to restore birth certificate records

Government is moving ahead with plans to restore birth certificate records dating back almost 100 years ago. Answering questions on Monday during the 2015 National Budget considerations, Minister...

12 radio licences were issued in violation of the law, and this cannot be allowed to stand

Aug 26, 2015 KNews Letters Comments Off on 12 radio licences were issued in violation of the law, and this cannot be allowed to stand

DEAR EDITOR, I refer to a letter from my colleague Mr. Sherwood Lowe in yesterday’s (August 25) newspapers. I am not in agreement with Sherwood’s position. As a result of a letter from Mr....

Farewell, Benjie

Aug 26, 2015 KNews Letters Comments Off on Farewell, Benjie

DEAR EDITOR, I use this opportunity to briefly comment on the passing of Benjamin Gibson, the father of well-known activist-scholar, Kean Gibson. Benjie was a gentle giant who donated his services in...

Attempt to commit a felony lands man in jail for 18 months

Aug 26, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Attempt to commit a felony lands man in jail for 18 months

He stood for months before City Magistrate Judy Latchman professing his innocence on an attempted robbery charge. Representing himself, Ceon Maynard sat in the prisoner docks and listened to...

This lease arrangement must be rescinded forthwith

Aug 26, 2015 KNews Letters Comments Off on This lease arrangement must be rescinded forthwith

DEAR EDITOR, The recent revelations by the Honourable Minister of State Joseph Harmon of the lease arrangement for the Red House by a surrogate PPP organisation to house the Cheddi Jagan Resource...

Let not disclosures, contentions and misdemeanours hide the great progress of GPL

Aug 26, 2015 KNews Letters Comments Off on Let not disclosures, contentions and misdemeanours hide the great progress of GPL

DEAR EDITOR, I write this letter to put another side, (my side, which the public might have been expecting) on the dissensions at the top of GPL, which were being disclosed and discussed in the...

I hope Govt. is pursuing all aspects of this enigma – the Marriott Hotel

Aug 26, 2015 KNews Letters Comments Off on I hope Govt. is pursuing all aspects of this enigma – the Marriott Hotel

DEAR EDITOR, I hope that the present administration is pursuing all aspects of this enigma – the Marriott Hotel. First, the Jagdeo – Brassington duo took over the Luckhoo Swimming Pool Complex...

More $B bids opened for GWI upgrades

Aug 26, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on More $B bids opened for GWI upgrades

Under the Ministry of Communities, bids were submitted on behalf of Guyana Water Incorporated (GWI) for the design, supply and implementation of water treatment facilities and upgrade of reticulation...

Push cart operator on armed robbery charges

Aug 26, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Push cart operator on armed robbery charges

A teenage push cart operator was yesterday slapped with five armed robbery charges after he was accused of robbing several occupants of a motor vehicle that sustained a punctured tyre at West...

56 months for armed robber

Aug 26, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on 56 months for armed robber

For the year so far, there has been an alarming number of robbery under-arms cases heard at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Courts. Every day there are cases of such nature and most of the perpetrators...

Raksha Bandhan spreads love

Aug 26, 2015 KNews Letters Comments Off on Raksha Bandhan spreads love

DEAR EDITOR, The festival of Raksha Bandhan is one that spreads love and affection, not just for one self but for the peaceful existence of the human race. Raksha Bandhan or Rakhi in Sanskrit means...

The twist in monetary policy

Aug 26, 2015 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on The twist in monetary policy

It came as a surprise that the government, in the 2015 Budget, would treat as Budget agencies, the very institutions and constitutional commissions which it had committed as subvention agencies, so...

The Mephistophelean masturbation

Aug 26, 2015 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on The Mephistophelean masturbation

After the cremation of Mrs. Christobel Hughes, we went to Parliament. The budget criticism I heard from PPP parliamentarians is an exercise in psychological terror. It was frightening to see. Here is...

CHALLENGING TIMES

Aug 26, 2015 KNews Editorial Comments Off on CHALLENGING TIMES

For a week the budget debate has tested the boundaries of truth, honesty and Parliamentary decorum and while the approval of the estimates is in the homestretch, the public must be told of the...

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