October 2015

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Guyana Foundation launches suicide workshop

Oct 15, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Guyana Foundation launches suicide workshop

– Aims to prepare national mental health strategy With the ultimate aim of preparing a national mental health strategy, local nongovernmental organisation (NGO), The Guyana Foundation...

INCREASE THE SALARIES OF MINISTERS FURTHER

Oct 15, 2015 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on INCREASE THE SALARIES OF MINISTERS FURTHER

The government needs to stop making explanations for the increases in salaries paid to Ministers. If the government has nothing to apologize over, it should not have anything to explain also. The...

Mussolini and Tennessee Williams in the PPP

Oct 15, 2015 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on Mussolini and Tennessee Williams in the PPP

I saw a photograph of a PPP press conference. Sitting at the table were four senior PPP leaders, three of whom served the PPP for “millions” of years. The three were Clement Rohee, Donald Ramotar...

Bushy park tragedy…Boy, 14, died from drowning- PM

Oct 15, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Bushy park tragedy…Boy, 14, died from drowning- PM

A Post Mortem Examination on the body of 14-year-old Charles Anthony Pross, who was allegedly left to die on the floor of the Leonora Cottage Hospital, has revealed that he died by drowning. The...

OUR YOUNG MEN SHOULD BE EMPOWERED

Oct 15, 2015 KNews Editorial, Features / Columnists Comments Off on OUR YOUNG MEN SHOULD BE EMPOWERED

In Guyana, our young people are in trouble of becoming a lost generation. The government has to take decisive action to address the crisis facing youths in general and young men in particular. It is...

Turkish-acquired ambulances handed over to Skeldon, New Amsterdam hospitals

Oct 15, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Turkish-acquired ambulances handed over to Skeldon, New Amsterdam hospitals

The Ministry of Public Health on Saturday handed over two fully equipped ambulances to the Berbice Regional Health Services (BRHS). The vehicles, outfitted with modern equipment, including monitors,...

September records drop in road deaths, accidents

Oct 15, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on September records drop in road deaths, accidents

Statistics released by the Guyana Police Force (GPF) have shown further decreases in road accidents as 2015 progresses, with September recording an 18 percent decrease when compared to the same...

Mahdia miner on bail for threatening cop with gun, firing shots

Oct 15, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Mahdia miner on bail for threatening cop with gun, firing shots

City Magistrate Ann McLennan released a 27-year-old miner on $25,000 bail after he denied discharging a firearm and threatening a policeman with a gun. His denial came during his appearance in the...

Corneal transplant – intricate as building a ship in a bottle – Surgeon

Oct 15, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Corneal transplant – intricate as building a ship in a bottle – Surgeon

While orthopaedic surgeons are like carpenters, corneal transplant surgeons are like model builders. This is according to Corneal Transplant surgeon of many years, Dr. Joseph Pasternak. He said of...

Mason remanded for ‘weed’ in milk tin

Oct 15, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Mason remanded for ‘weed’ in milk tin

City Magistrate Judy Latchman remanded a Charlestown mason to prison on Tuesday after he pleaded not guilty to a drug trafficking charge when he appeared in the Georgetown Magistrates’ Courts. Paul...

Sanjay’s owner granted bail pending appeal against jail sentence

Oct 15, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Sanjay’s owner granted bail pending appeal against jail sentence

Just five days after he was convicted on a Causing Death by Dangerous Driving charge, prominent city jeweler, Bishnarine ‘Sanjay’ Persaud, has been granted bail. Persaud, proprietor of...

Bath Settlement farmers examine water rationing amidst dry spell

Oct 15, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Bath Settlement farmers examine water rationing amidst dry spell

Residents of Bath Settlement, West Berbice, are considering measures to optimise the use of water from the Guyana Water Incorporated (GWI), as a dry spell continues to affect the country. According...

We need to learn some things from Singapore

Oct 15, 2015 KNews Letters Comments Off on We need to learn some things from Singapore

Dear Editor, We have seen a lot of commentary on the recent increases given to the Guyanese government Ministers. There is really never a good time in any country for those at the top of the public...

CARICOM will not only survive but will become more relevant to its people

Oct 15, 2015 KNews Letters Comments Off on CARICOM will not only survive but will become more relevant to its people

Dear Editor, Your columnist Freddie Kissoon in his column on Tuesday, October 13 argues that the zeitgeist (spirit of the era) which brought CARICOM (earlier CARIFTA) into existence is dead and that...

Freddie makes mistakes too

Oct 15, 2015 KNews Letters Comments Off on Freddie makes mistakes too

Dear Editor, I am currently conducting research on Berbice and my Google search took me to many interesting hits and findings, which I am using for my upcoming book. But I also came across some...

This madness has to stop

Oct 15, 2015 KNews Letters Comments Off on This madness has to stop

Dear Editor, I could not believe my eyes , when I read in the in the October 3 edition of the Official Gazette that the Mayor of Georgetown Hamilton Green has been appointed as Chairman of the Board...

Solar eclipse of corruption

Oct 15, 2015 KNews Letters Comments Off on Solar eclipse of corruption

Dear Editor, There is a solar eclipse of corruption that has been in existence for many years in Guyana. Apparently, the populace have adapted to the darkness and resorted to night vision goggles,...

The City Council needs to be audited from top to bottom

Oct 15, 2015 KNews Letters Comments Off on The City Council needs to be audited from top to bottom

Dear Editor, The Georgetown Municipality is in need of not just a straightforward financial audit, but rather a complete forensic audit of all its departments. Of course in the Finance Department,...

The Guyana elderly will have to make their own play

Oct 15, 2015 KNews Letters Comments Off on The Guyana elderly will have to make their own play

Dear Editor, I read the interesting, thought-provoking, letter from Mr. Prince headed “Developed USA uses elderly experienced workers, backward Guyana discards them”. Guyana is not...

Government’s actions are typically authoritarian

Oct 15, 2015 KNews Letters Comments Off on Government’s actions are typically authoritarian

Dear Editor, The APNU/AFC Government is planning to reward itself with a substantial fifty percent salary increase amid funding cuts for children (Government Voucher – $10,000.00 GY), low wages...

Read the tea leaves and act accordingly

Oct 15, 2015 KNews Letters Comments Off on Read the tea leaves and act accordingly

Dear Editor, Public service is about delivering for the people by way of making appropriate sacrifices. Some view public service as the highest form of service to humanity, outside of religion. The...

Govt should stagger the 50% salary increase for Ministers

Oct 15, 2015 KNews Letters Comments Off on Govt should stagger the 50% salary increase for Ministers

Dear Editor, The Government’s proposed 50% increase in salaries for Government Ministers has generated the first wave of ill-will towards the new administration. Many persons and organisations that...

Police Applauded on Recovering Stolen Cattle

Oct 15, 2015 KNews Letters Comments Off on Police Applauded on Recovering Stolen Cattle

Dear Editor, I applaud the police for taking swift action to recover Mrs. Gordon’s stolen cattle taken from West Berbice to East Coast Demerara. Cattle rustling has been a serious problem since the...

Finance Minister justifies salary increases

Oct 14, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Finance Minister justifies salary increases

– Govt. will not reverse decision By Kiana Wilburg Finance Minister, Winston Jordan, said yesterday that the salary increases for Members of Parliament were necessary for three reasons; to...

Trinidad, with an economy 8 times Guyana’s, pays PM less

Oct 14, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Trinidad, with an economy 8 times Guyana’s, pays PM less

– teachers , police there earn more By Abena Rockcliffe Trinidad and Tobago (TT), which has an economy eight times that of Guyana’s, pays its Prime Minister less than what is now...

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