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ONCE THERE IS A JURIDICAL SETTLEMENT, THE GENEVA AGREEMENT WILL HAVE TO BE REINTERPRETED

Oct 28, 2015 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on ONCE THERE IS A JURIDICAL SETTLEMENT, THE GENEVA AGREEMENT WILL HAVE TO BE REINTERPRETED

Is the government of Guyana backpedaling from its position that Guyana considers its borders with Venezuela settled? This is something that the government of Guyana has insisted; it has said that the...

WILL GUYANA-VENEZUELA RELATIONS IMPROVE?

Oct 28, 2015 KNews Editorial, Features / Columnists Comments Off on WILL GUYANA-VENEZUELA RELATIONS IMPROVE?

Since taking office four months ago, there has not been anything much to complain about Vice President and Minister of Foreign Affairs, Carl Greenidge in terms of how he has been conducting ...

GTU in support of Christian prayers in schools

Oct 28, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on GTU in support of Christian prayers in schools

President of the Guyana Teachers Union (GTU) Mark Lyte recently expressed his support for the reviewing of Christian prayers in public schools. He stated that the emersion of Christian prayers in...

LaPenitence men remanded for robbery at A. N. Electronics

Oct 28, 2015 KNews Court Stories, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on LaPenitence men remanded for robbery at A. N. Electronics

Two La Penitence men were yesterday remanded to prison after denying four counts of armed robbery when they appeared in the Georgetown Magistrates’ Courts. Alfred Hescott, 17, of 155 Middle Road La...

Confidential info leaked on accounts held by ex-Minister, Assistant

Oct 28, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Confidential info leaked on accounts held by ex-Minister, Assistant

-lawyer claims in letter to bank A lawyer for a former Minister and her Personal Assistant has written to a commercial bank claiming compensation and apologies for the leaking of information...

New GPC bids 200 times more than others to supply blood bags

Oct 28, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on New GPC bids 200 times more than others to supply blood bags

During yesterday’s opening of bids at the National Procurement and Tender Administration Board (NPTAB) under the Ministry of Health, several companies submitted bids for the supply of blood bags....

Social Protection Ministry plans awareness walk for Breast cancer

Oct 28, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Social Protection Ministry plans awareness walk for Breast cancer

In remembrance of those persons who lost their lives to Breast cancer, the Ministry of Social Protection will be hosting a grand walk and candle light vigil at the St. George’s Cathedral tomorrow....

GTU against government’s plans to ban Corporal punishment in schools

Oct 28, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on GTU against government’s plans to ban Corporal punishment in schools

The Guyana Teachers Union in recent years has always been very vocal about their disagreement whenever the issue of eradicating Corporal punishment in schools was brought up. In light of recent...

Zenita Nicholson: Philosophical questions

Oct 28, 2015 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on Zenita Nicholson: Philosophical questions

I first met Zenita Nicholson in 2012 when we shared the space of Rodneyite groundings we called People’s Parliament at the junction of High Street and Brickdam directly opposite the eastern face of...

Couple, friend arrested for Drinking Buddy’s death

Oct 28, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Couple, friend arrested for Drinking Buddy’s death

A Ruimzeight, West Coast Demerara couple and an alleged ‘Sweet-man’ are in police custody following the death of their rum drinking partner on Monday, a day after he was allegedly beaten. Dead is...

CHI is first in CARICOM to introduce newest pacemaker option

Oct 28, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on CHI is first in CARICOM to introduce newest pacemaker option

Taking advantage of the newest technologies to tackle prevailing heart conditions has become a regular feature at the Caribbean Heart Institute (CHI). In fact, just last week, CHI implanted one of...

FFTP food drive gets Carib Foods support

Oct 28, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on FFTP food drive gets Carib Foods support

Much needed support was last week forthcoming to Food for the Poor Guyana Inc. (FFTP) to help boost its food drive which is being undertaken as part of the observance of World Food Day earlier this...

Hundreds Gather at Wake for Slain Police Officer Randolph Holder

Oct 28, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Hundreds Gather at Wake for Slain Police Officer Randolph Holder

(New York Times) On a chilly Tuesday morning in Jamaica, Queens, hundreds of police officers gathered near a towering church. Florists delivered ornate bouquets. Every stoplight, streetlamp and tree...

Trinidadian medical team performs eye surgeries at GPHC

Oct 28, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Trinidadian medical team performs eye surgeries at GPHC

Ten patients recently benefitted from follow-up eye surgeries which were conducted at the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC). The surgeries were performed by a four-man team comprising two...

Dynamic Airways discusses increased flight schedules for 2016 & golden jubilee with Tourism Minister

Oct 28, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Dynamic Airways discusses increased flight schedules for 2016 & golden jubilee with Tourism Minister

Tourism Minister, Catherine Hughes had a cordial meeting with the visiting Chief Operations Officer (COO) of United States-based Dynamic International Airways, John Mullins on the periphery of the...

Police Corporal charged for prisoner’s escape

Oct 28, 2015 KNews Court Stories, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Police Corporal charged for prisoner’s escape

After 36 years of committed service to the Guyana Police Force (GPF), Corporal Noel Trotman, who is attached to the Mahdia Police Station, is being accused of allowing a prisoner to getaway....

Man jailed for exposing genitals in front neighbour

Oct 28, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Man jailed for exposing genitals in front neighbour

Maxwell Mona, 51, a self employed man was on Monday sentenced to 12 months in prison by Magistrate Rhondel Weever at the Blairmont Magistrate’s court, when he was found guilty on a charge of...

Water Street robbery/ murder…Taxi driver pleads guilty to manslaughter

Oct 28, 2015 KNews Court Stories, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Water Street robbery/ murder…Taxi driver pleads guilty to manslaughter

Joseph Williams, the lone accused implicated in the robbery/murder of handyman Victor Da Silva, has pleaded guilty. Williams, a taxi driver from Kitty pleaded guilty to the lesser count of...

2011 drug store owner’s murder…Defense counsel grills police witness over fingerprint precision

Oct 28, 2015 KNews Court Stories, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on 2011 drug store owner’s murder…Defense counsel grills police witness over fingerprint precision

Police witness Salish Roopnarine was subjected to a series of questions in relation to his role in the investigations into the murder of 84 year -old drug store owner, Harold Rachpaul. Rachpaul was...

Albouystown mason before court after alleged knife attack

Oct 28, 2015 KNews Court Stories, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Albouystown mason before court after alleged knife attack

Twenty-year-old Patrick Smith was remanded to prison on Monday after pleading not guilty to a charge of unlawful and malicious wounding when he appeared in the Georgetown Magistrates’ Courts....

For Zenita Nicholson- Our system failed

Oct 28, 2015 KNews Letters Comments Off on For Zenita Nicholson- Our system failed

Dear Editor, Every day we walk out streets, many smiling faces we meet…but beneath those smiles there is a lot of pain. Stress and ultimately depression…that dark hole that many slip...

Do we have to burn tires to get Government’s attention in these two villagers?

Oct 28, 2015 KNews Letters Comments Off on Do we have to burn tires to get Government’s attention in these two villagers?

Dear Editor, It seems like if you don’t burn tires, block roads or commit outrageous acts, our authorities may never get our message clear or right. These things happen when persons are not...

Why is the APNU-AFC making the same mistakes the PPP/C made?Why is the APNU-AFC making the same mistakes the PPP/C made?

Oct 28, 2015 KNews Letters Comments Off on Why is the APNU-AFC making the same mistakes the PPP/C made?Why is the APNU-AFC making the same mistakes the PPP/C made?

Dear Editor, I would like to continue my discussion on the changing behavior of the Guyanese society; basically how the Guyanese society works. However, on this occasion, we will examine the...

They want to sell out Guysuco

Oct 28, 2015 KNews Letters Comments Off on They want to sell out Guysuco

Dear Editor, THE king sits in Dunfermline town Drinking the blude-red wine; ‘O whare will I get a skeely skipper To sail this new ship o’ mine?’ O up and spak an eldern knight, Sat at the...

People have to wait for years for lands they applied for

Oct 28, 2015 KNews Letters Comments Off on People have to wait for years for lands they applied for

Dear Editor, Guyana is the land of many waters and it also has land. Thus citizens are fighting to acquire land and water, and the people of the land have to wait days and years before they acquire...

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