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Linden special programme workers want community enhancement resuscitated

Oct 13, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Linden special programme workers want community enhancement resuscitated

The APNU/AFC government, fresh in the wake of nationwide criticisms regarding the recent salary hike for government officials, has now come under fire from officials of the Linden Community...

Govt. wants to cut electrical fires by 75 percent

Oct 13, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Govt. wants to cut electrical fires by 75 percent

Some 50 persons – contractors, engineers, lecturers and instructors– commenced a National Electrical Code (NEC) training workshop yesterday at the Regency Suites/Hotel, Georgetown. The...

CARICOM and the Venezuelan claim on Guyana

Oct 13, 2015 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on CARICOM and the Venezuelan claim on Guyana

Can CARICOM survive for the next 30 years? I doubt it. The zeitgeist that brought Carifta (which later became Caricom) into existence is dead. It died when the eighties were over. Its death was...

Lawyer still to receive $$$ millions for services rendered in Elections Petition

Oct 13, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Lawyer still to receive $$$ millions for services rendered in Elections Petition

Attorney – at – Law, Sapheir Hussain is demanding payment in taxation cost amounting to $11 million against the Guyana Elections Commission, (GECOM), for services rendered in the 1998 Elections...

Berbice River resident dies after cutlass fight

Oct 13, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Berbice River resident dies after cutlass fight

A Berbice River resident who is said to be an alcoholic is now dead following a cutlass fight on Saturday at his home. Curtis Harris 58, a cattle farmer of Gate Roy, Berbice River, was pronounced...

Barama signals $3B expansion programme

Oct 13, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Barama signals $3B expansion programme

Government and officials of Barama Company Limited (BCL) yesterday met to discuss, among other things, the renewal of its operational agreement which expires in October next year. In the meeting with...

More corneal transplants conducted at GPHC

Oct 13, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on More corneal transplants conducted at GPHC

-Head of Ophthalmology qualified to continue work Twelve corneal transplants were conducted over the weekend at the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC). The procedures, which were...

Joyce Sinclair advocates for continuous training for civil servants

Oct 13, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Joyce Sinclair advocates for continuous training for civil servants

Management and training consultant, Joyce Sinclair, is advocating for a public sector that is characterized by empathy, continuous training and recognition for service. Ms. Sinclair has worked as a...

Four cops back in court on corruption charge

Oct 13, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Four cops back in court on corruption charge

The four policemen who are on corruption charges returned to court yesterday. The men, Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP) Terrence Browne, Corporal Shawn McPhoy, of 174 Laing Avenue, West...

Dynamic files US$97M lawsuit against Air India

Oct 13, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Dynamic files US$97M lawsuit against Air India

Dynamic International Airways LLC has launched a US$97.7M breach of contract lawsuit against Air India, in a New York Federal Court. According to a new statement, carried on PRnewswire,...

AG visits Supreme Court Registry

Oct 13, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on AG visits Supreme Court Registry

Attorney General and Minister of Legal Affairs, Basil Williams, visited the Supreme Court Registry and charged the staff to continue executing their duty with diligence. They are providing a critical...

Jury finds man guilty of sodomising boy, 7

Oct 13, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Jury finds man guilty of sodomising boy, 7

A mixed 12-member Jury has found buggery accused, Kevin Jordan, guilty of sodomising a seven year- old boy. Jordan was charged with two counts of buggery. The incidents are said to have occurred on...

WORKING BACKWARDS

Oct 13, 2015 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on WORKING BACKWARDS

There are two sets of contrasting philosophies at work in the controversy concerning the award of huge salary increases to members of the Cabinet. This column discusses these contrasting sets of...

‘Hit and run’ river death has police fuming

Oct 13, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on ‘Hit and run’ river death has police fuming

Police are treating the death of 58-year-old, Nicholas Jacobus, as a “hit and run” river accident which occurred sometime Friday night in the Pomeroon River. No one has however been detained or...

Gov’t must push ahead with establishing local law school – PPP

Oct 13, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Gov’t must push ahead with establishing local law school – PPP

By Jarryl Bryan The recent statements by Attorney General Basil Williams that establishing a law school locally was not a priority is not sitting well with the Opposition People’s Progressive Party...

Rockstone Fish Festival 2015 kicks off…Tourism Ministry to boost event for international participation

Oct 13, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Rockstone Fish Festival 2015 kicks off…Tourism Ministry to boost event for international participation

The annual Rockstone Fish Festival was officially launched on Friday last at Rockstone Village, Region Ten, to the delight of residents there. The Tourism Ministry felt it would be more fitting to...

Govt delegation leaves Ministerial advisors in Canada

Oct 13, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Govt delegation leaves Ministerial advisors in Canada

By Lindsay Davidson The government on Monday announced the appointment of four Ministerial Advisors on the Diaspora during an Alliance For Change (AFC) Leadership Dinner Gala at the Woodbine Banquet...

MAKING ILLEGAL VENDING LEGAL

Oct 13, 2015 KNews Editorial, Features / Columnists Comments Off on MAKING ILLEGAL VENDING LEGAL

Illegal vending on the pavements on the busy streets and pavements in Georgetown has become a way of life in Guyana. Not only has illegal vending become one of the more upsetting problems for legal...

Guyanese killing in Barbados dubbed ‘senseless’

Oct 13, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Guyanese killing in Barbados dubbed ‘senseless’

Barbados (Barbados Nation) – A senseless killing. That’s how neighbours have described the murder of 59-year-old Brinsley Warde, who was fatally stabbed on Friday night in the City. It took...

The APNU+AFC must stock-take and recover quickly

Oct 13, 2015 KNews Letters Comments Off on The APNU+AFC must stock-take and recover quickly

Dear Editor, Last week was supposed to be a good week for the APNU+AFC government. The government should have been basking in its widely-praised diplomatic and public relations counterattack against...

Those involved in Guyana’s assets recovery ought to be cheered along and rewarded in advance

Oct 13, 2015 KNews Letters Comments Off on Those involved in Guyana’s assets recovery ought to be cheered along and rewarded in advance

Dear Editor, Please help me proffer another perspective on the issue of the increase in pay our Guyana legislators have granted themselves in these “worst of times”. Perhaps this POV could be...

The arrogance, insensitivity and inconsideration of the Ministers’ salary increase

Oct 13, 2015 KNews Letters Comments Off on The arrogance, insensitivity and inconsideration of the Ministers’ salary increase

Dear Editor, It is inevitable that government makes mistakes. And it is also a fact that oftentimes government attracts harsh criticisms when political prudence dictates that government engages an...

GUYSUCO – AN EMERGING DEBACLE

Oct 13, 2015 KNews Letters Comments Off on GUYSUCO – AN EMERGING DEBACLE

Dear Editor, In a Kaieteur News letter of Oct. 4, Mr. Oditt, a former Chairman of GuySuCo opined that recent letters and statements in the press had inferred a doomed fate for the Corporation and...

This is petty cash when compared to what was paid to the former CEO’s of GPL and Guysuco

Oct 13, 2015 KNews Letters Comments Off on This is petty cash when compared to what was paid to the former CEO’s of GPL and Guysuco

Dear Editor, I am appalled at the orchestrated outrage being vented against the Granger administration over the announced 50 % pay increase for Ministers. I am however consoled at the proven fact...

I do not mind paying people fair wages, but they need to deliver

Oct 13, 2015 KNews Letters Comments Off on I do not mind paying people fair wages, but they need to deliver

Dear Editor, With the furore surrounding pay increases for Government Ministers and Members of Parliament at full hilt, most of the urban based so-called interest groups are simply reacting to the...

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The PPP has started the intimidation

Peeping Tom… Kaieteur News- In politics, as in life, what goes around comes around. The People’s Progressive Party/Civic... more