October 2015

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Equal educational opportunities must be available for all – Pres. Granger

Oct 10, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Equal educational opportunities must be available for all – Pres. Granger

By Desilon Daniels “Education is not for rich people. We have an education system that will allow all children, regardless of their circumstances, to reach to the highest level of society and...

Fire destroys house at Crane, four homeless

Oct 10, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Fire destroys house at Crane, four homeless

Four persons are now homeless after a fire destroyed a two-flat house at Crane Housing Scheme, West Coast Demerara. The origin of the fire, which started around 02.00 hrs yesterday, was not...

Orthopaedic Surgeon touts knowledge-sharing as a crucial asset

Oct 10, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Orthopaedic Surgeon touts knowledge-sharing as a crucial asset

The most important aspect of any health care worker’s job should be pride. This is the firm belief of Orthopaedic Surgeon, Dr. Fawcett Jeffrey. Dr. Jeffrey, who has been operating in this very...

Guyanese illegals among 314 arrested by US immigration crime sweep

Oct 10, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Guyanese illegals among 314 arrested by US immigration crime sweep

Florida (SouthFloridaReporter.com) – U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers arrested 314 criminal aliens last month in an enforcement action targeting individuals who pose a threat...

Ministerial salary increases: The runner stumbles

Oct 10, 2015 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on Ministerial salary increases: The runner stumbles

Context is everything in life. Context underlies the movement of life in the world and individual action in it. Every action has a context. One of the greatest, phenomenal explanations of the...

Courts hosts employees appreciation week

Oct 10, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Courts hosts employees appreciation week

The Courts Main Street, Georgetown branch, this week celebrated its annual “Staff-appreciation week” which saw entertaining displays and performances from the staff. The initiative is aimed at...

Red Thread to protest against ‘Fat Cat politrickians’

Oct 10, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Red Thread to protest against ‘Fat Cat politrickians’

The Red Thread women’s group recently made its intentions clear that it will stage a protest against the recent pay hike awarded to Government officials. The protest will be held in front of...

New York Diaspora announces plans to commemorate Guyana’s 50th

Oct 10, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on New York Diaspora announces plans to commemorate Guyana’s 50th

NEW YORK CITY: Guyana’s Consulate General in New York City and the 50th Independence Anniversary Celebration Committee in New York have announced elaborate plans to celebrate Guyana’s 50th...

Businessman jailed for three years on causing death charge

Oct 10, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Businessman jailed for three years on causing death charge

A businessman who drove away from the scene after he struck down and killed a labourer will now have to send the next three years behind bars. Roopnarine Samaru, 25, of Rosignol, West Bank...

Tourism Ministry’s boosts capacity to market Guyana -New Director General appointed

Oct 10, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Tourism Ministry’s boosts capacity to market Guyana -New Director General appointed

Donald Sinclair has assumed duties as Director General of the Ministry of Tourism. His appointment became effective October 1, 2015. Minister of Tourism, Catherine Hughes, made this disclosure to...

CANU busts Canadian with 25 pounds of Cocaine

Oct 10, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on CANU busts Canadian with 25 pounds of Cocaine

Guyana’s Customs Anti Narcotics Unit (CANU), has made another drug bust at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport (CJIA). This publication was told that a Canadian citizen was busted with over 25...

New Demerara Bridge could be funded by UK

Oct 10, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on New Demerara Bridge could be funded by UK

…the single largest bilateral donor in Caribbean By Abena Rockcliffe There are still lots of details to be worked out; but Guyana is set to benefit tremendously from a hefty grant made by the...

Man allegedly threatens to have wife killed

Oct 10, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Man allegedly threatens to have wife killed

…if she returns to Guyana In a country where killers are offered an airline ticket or given snow-cone money to “take out” people at the request of their rivals, a desperate mother of two is...

Region 9 residents ask for deeper wells amidst drought woes

Oct 10, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Region 9 residents ask for deeper wells amidst drought woes

Minister of State, Joseph Harmon, has committed the government’s support to Region Nine, to ensure that the impact of the dry season is vastly minimised and that long term solutions are found. This...

Argentina to help boost NBTS’s capacity

Oct 10, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Argentina to help boost NBTS’s capacity

– to offer postgraduate training to local physicians The National Blood Transfusion Services (NBTS) of the Ministry of Public Health is poised for some much needed capacity building. This...

Olive Green turtle washes up, dies

Oct 10, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Olive Green turtle washes up, dies

On Wednesday, a sea turtle found in distress under the Rubis wharf in the Demerara River subsequently died after efforts to save its life proved futile. Help at the time of its spotting was...

Increase of private water distributors linked to unsafe State-provided water – Cole

Oct 10, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Increase of private water distributors linked to unsafe State-provided water – Cole

The privately operated water distribution industry is one that was “unnecessarily allowed to be proliferated.” This state of affairs has been directly linked to the fact that the water produced...

GRA forensic auditors to be procured after Tax Commission Inquiry- Sharma

Oct 10, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on GRA forensic auditors to be procured after Tax Commission Inquiry- Sharma

By Jarryl Bryan The Ministry of Finance is likely to begin procuring auditors for the much anticipated forensic audit into the GRA from December 31st, after the Tax Commission Inquiry lays its...

Book Review… Cheddi Jagan and the Politics of Power: British Guiana’s Struggle for Independence

Oct 10, 2015 KNews Book Review…, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Book Review… Cheddi Jagan and the Politics of Power: British Guiana’s Struggle for Independence

Author: Colin A. Palmer Reviewer: Dr. Lomarsh Roopnarine The following is a review of Cheddi Jagan and the Politics of Power: British Guiana’s Struggle for Independence by Colin A. Palmer....

That 100% pay increase

Oct 10, 2015 KNews Letters Comments Off on That 100% pay increase

Dear Editor, That the regime gave itself a more than 100 percent pay increase so early in the government is a clear indication of the real nature of the administration we are dealing with. This is...

Compensation for Parliamentarians

Oct 10, 2015 KNews Letters Comments Off on Compensation for Parliamentarians

Dear Editor, It is interesting how bellicose the persons have been about salary increases for current Ministers and MPs; but have at – the same time been eloquently silent about the meagre salaries...

We weren’t ‘thiefing money all over the place’, we were developing our country

Oct 10, 2015 KNews Letters Comments Off on We weren’t ‘thiefing money all over the place’, we were developing our country

Dear Editor, I want to express how deeply hurt we were, I and my many, many colleague Ministers, of the twenty three years of PPP/C in office, by those words of the Honourable Joseph Harmon – ‘...

Is Harmon saying they are all corrupt unless they are paid more?

Oct 10, 2015 KNews Letters Comments Off on Is Harmon saying they are all corrupt unless they are paid more?

Dear Editor, As I was preparing this letter, I came across a video on Facebook by CNN that profiled the CEO of one of the world’s top 10 Airlines (Japan Airlines). The CEO commutes with his workers...

Local entertainer, Dwidth Ferguson, on the run as … Illegal drugs, gun smuggling operations smashed in Canada

Oct 09, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Local entertainer, Dwidth Ferguson, on the run as … Illegal drugs, gun smuggling operations smashed in Canada

-22 firearms, US$12M in cocaine, vehicles seized A year-long international investigation into drugs trafficking and gun-running has resulted in the arrest of several persons in Canada. An...

Elderly woman brutally raped, sodomised and murdered by relative

Oct 09, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Elderly woman brutally raped, sodomised and murdered by relative

The village of Hopetown, West Coast Berbice, is in shock following the brutal raping, and strangling of one of their senior citizens. The suspect is believed to be one of the woman’s own relatives....

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(Kaieteur News) – Santa Rosa Secondary and defending champions Chase’s Academic Foundation sit primed on seven points as action continues today in the Republic Bank Secondary School Football...

A capital city beyond redemption?

Nov 08, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – Georgetown has become so dysfunctional, so hopelessly disorganised and so resistant to correction that one must ask whether the effort to save it is worth the trouble. The greatest mistake successive governments have made is not recognising that Georgetown should have long been...

A Divided World: A Commonwealth Opportunity

Nov 01, 2026

By Sir Ronald Sanders (Kaieteur News) – When Commonwealth leaders gather in Antigua and Barbuda from 1st to 4th November, they should address a question that reaches beyond their association: how can countries of different size, wealth and outlook sustain cooperation in a world increasingly...

The epitaph on Mr. Gavin Douglas’ tombstone should read: Murdered...

Nov 08, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – Another Guyanese dead, and in degraded fashion, at the hands of State agents. A State that now stands as a monument to how much the PPP Govt. has criminalized it. When not one alleged rogue cop, with blood in his eye, but four of them, can deliver blows on a man that’s...

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