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Guyana must never accept the GAWU formula

Nov 21, 2015 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on Guyana must never accept the GAWU formula

Long, long ago, the trade union, GAWU, pulled out of the Trade Union Congress because it argued that it had thirty five thousand members, and yet in elections competition all the time, it failed to...

THE GOLDEN RULE

Nov 21, 2015 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on THE GOLDEN RULE

I have always argued that even in the days in Guyana when a party card could guarantee you a job in the state sector, if you did not have a party card but you were really bright and hardworking you...

Walter Rodney Creative Writing Awards Ceremony

Nov 21, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Walter Rodney Creative Writing Awards Ceremony

The Awards Ceremony for the “2015 Walter Rodney Creative Writing Awards” was held on Wednesday at the Moray House, which is considered as “hallowed ground” for creative persons. The winners...

Assistant Superintendent, traffic ranks visit road accident victims at GPHC

Nov 21, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Assistant Superintendent, traffic ranks visit road accident victims at GPHC

Assistant Superintendent of Police, Dennis Stephens, traffic ranks and officials of the Guyana Road Safety Council (GRSC), on Thursday visited road accident victims at the Georgetown Public Hospital...

UG Tain campus set to graduate 168 students today

Nov 21, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on UG Tain campus set to graduate 168 students today

A total of 186 students are slated to graduate from the University of Guyana Tain campus today. The event will mark the 14th Convocation Exercise and will be convened on the lawns of the Tain campus...

UG integration of Maths and Environment education project yielding success

Nov 21, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on UG integration of Maths and Environment education project yielding success

Combined efforts to protect the environment with things mathematics and the outcome could be some innovative ways of helping to save our earth. In fact, this was the very outcome that was envisioned...

Robb Street Granny murder trial…Defence presents closing arguments, another lawyer fined for lateness

Nov 21, 2015 KNews Court Stories, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Robb Street Granny murder trial…Defence presents closing arguments, another lawyer fined for lateness

Attorneys representing the four accused on trial for the murder of 72-year- old Robb Street, resident Clementine Feidtkou-Parris have made their closing arguments. In their closing presentations...

18 Teachers graduate from Management Programme

Nov 21, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on 18 Teachers graduate from Management Programme

… Those with 25 years of service, honoured in Linden “At its most basic level, in my opinion, a necessary requisite is the need to really love what you do. I can see a distinct difference in the...

Attorney wants an apology from Kaieteur News for offensive journalism

Nov 21, 2015 KNews Letters Comments Off on Attorney wants an apology from Kaieteur News for offensive journalism

Dear Editor, “Coke in Poke” was the headline in Kaieteur News (KN – November 20, 2015) referencing an article about two St Lucian women attempting to smuggle cocaine out of Guyana. ...

No one in Guyana seems safe from criminals

Nov 21, 2015 KNews Letters Comments Off on No one in Guyana seems safe from criminals

Dear Editor, In January 2013, the PNCR General Secretary was shot during a home invasion and robbery. Last July, a judge and her husband were viciously beaten in a home invasion and robbery. In...

Public Officer’s Facebook page has racist undertones

Nov 21, 2015 KNews Letters Comments Off on Public Officer’s Facebook page has racist undertones

Dear Editor, I notice with interest the refusal of a notable newspaper to publish a letter I submitted a few days ago regarding the legitimacy of Ruel Johnson in his position as Cultural Policy...

Some people want rights that they deny to other humans

Nov 21, 2015 KNews Letters Comments Off on Some people want rights that they deny to other humans

Dear Editor, The likely Court case, Garaj versusTeixiera ( KN 19/11/2015, Chronicle 19/11/2015, Stabroek News 19/11/2015), will be a spectacle indeed if it proceeds. Two former PPP Ministers of Home...

Corruption loopholes exist at GRO, Immigration – Minister Felix

Nov 20, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Corruption loopholes exist at GRO, Immigration – Minister Felix

– Govt. mulls written exams for persons seeking citizenship – suspicious birth registrations spike in hinterland around election time noticed Minister with responsibilities...

Govt. denies BaiShanLin granted 2-yr extension for processing plant

Nov 20, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Govt. denies BaiShanLin granted 2-yr extension for processing plant

– company was blocked from exporting logs Government has not yet granted Chinese-owned logging company, BaiShanLin International Forest Development, an extension of two years to complete...

Another Amaila Falls project review likely – Finance Minister

Nov 20, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Another Amaila Falls project review likely – Finance Minister

Finance Minister Winston Jordan admitted to members of the business community on Wednesday night that cheap energy is undoubtedly needed to open the “floodgates of prosperity”, particularly in...

Demerara Timbers workers down tools for more pay

Nov 20, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Demerara Timbers workers down tools for more pay

Workers of Demerara Timbers Limited yesterday downed tools and took to the streets demanding a twelve percent increase in wages and salaries. According to sources, the placard-bearing workers...

NIS opens up system to public scrutiny

Nov 20, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on NIS opens up system to public scrutiny

– Launches programme for online checking of contributions By Kiana Wilburg The National Insurance Scheme (NIS) has now opened its system to public scrutiny, with the initiation of a...

St. Lucian cocaine mules jailed

Nov 20, 2015 KNews Court Stories, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on St. Lucian cocaine mules jailed

– Convict tells court, “The devil took control of me. I didn’t want to do it”. Two St. Lucians busted with cocaine concealed in the form of dildos in their vaginas were yesterday jailed...

Two suspects held for robbery at former Crime Chief’s home

Nov 20, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Two suspects held for robbery at former Crime Chief’s home

Two days following the brazen home invasion and robbery of former Crime Chief, Assistant Commissioner Leslie James and his family; two suspects have been detained. Crime Chief Wendell Blanhum...

UN team arrives for more talks on Venezuela border controversy

Nov 20, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on UN team arrives for more talks on Venezuela border controversy

A special United Nations (UN) team that is working to help discuss options of resolutions into the Venezuela border controversy was set to return last evening for a second round of talks with...

GTT Round Robin / Knockout Football Competition…Topp XX joins Winners Connection at the top of the table

Nov 20, 2015 KNews Sports Comments Off on GTT Round Robin / Knockout Football Competition…Topp XX joins Winners Connection at the top of the table

Kings also in winners row Linden’s Topp XX joined compatriots Winners Connection as the two leading teams in the respective groups of the GTT Round Robin / Knockout Football Competition which...

Digicel is major sponsor of National Schools’ Championships

Nov 20, 2015 KNews Sports Comments Off on Digicel is major sponsor of National Schools’ Championships

Digicel Guyana Inc. has disclosed its sponsorship of Guyana’s most prestigious schools’ sports event, the National Schools’ Cycling, Swimming and Track and Field Championships, for a fifth year...

Successful day of Table Tennis in Berbice as BHS win team competition

Nov 20, 2015 KNews Sports Comments Off on Successful day of Table Tennis in Berbice as BHS win team competition

Although the national players from Georgetown and the President of the Guyana Table Tennis Association did not show up as promised, the fourth annual Berbice Table Tennis competition...

GCC are Hadi’s World City Mall Inc first division champs

Nov 20, 2015 KNews Sports Comments Off on GCC are Hadi’s World City Mall Inc first division champs

Georgetown Cricket Club (GCC) amassed 154 points to win the Georgetown Cricket Association/Hadi’s World Inc City Mall first division round robin two day tournament which concluded recently....

GFF sponsors ticket for Daniel Wilson MLS tryout

Nov 20, 2015 KNews Sports Comments Off on GFF sponsors ticket for Daniel Wilson MLS tryout

The Guyana Football Federation (GFF) yesterday sponsored the airline ticket for the National U23 and Alpha United’s Captain Daniel Wilson, to attend a tryout with Major League Soccer (MLS) club...