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Aiming above the subsistence level

Nov 20, 2015 KNews Editorial, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Aiming above the subsistence level

When people talk about resource-rich Guyana, they talk about a country that seems to have been blessed with everything necessary for its survival and the continued existence of its people at an...

Essequibo rapist caught in the act

Nov 20, 2015 KNews Letters Comments Off on Essequibo rapist caught in the act

Residents of Richmond Housing Scheme are relieved after a rapist who was creating havoc in that area was caught red-handed violating a mentally challenged woman on Wednesday night. According to...

Third man remanded for America St. robbery

Nov 20, 2015 KNews Court Stories, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Third man remanded for America St. robbery

Another man was yesterday charged for allegedly ambushing and robbing two America Street money-changers earlier this month. Calvin Johnson, 34, of Lot 154 East Ruimveldt Housing Scheme, Georgetown,...

Teen remanded for stabbing man with screw driver

Nov 20, 2015 KNews Court Stories, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Teen remanded for stabbing man with screw driver

Eighteen year-old Akeem Dazzell was yesterday remanded to prison on a charge of intent to commit murder, after he was arraigned before City Magistrate Judy Latchman in the Georgetown Magistrates’...

FITUG is driven by a conspiratorial concept of numbers

Nov 20, 2015 KNews Letters Comments Off on FITUG is driven by a conspiratorial concept of numbers

Dear Editor, FITUG was re-established out of the instigation of and direction from the PPP to further and gave support to this party’s policy of domination and anti-working class agenda. Their...

President Granger knows why he chose Majeed for Cuba

Nov 20, 2015 KNews Letters Comments Off on President Granger knows why he chose Majeed for Cuba

Dear Editor, Kindly permit me to comment on Freddie Kissoon’s column captioned “The APNU-AFC Government is becoming inscrutable” In his column, Mr. Kissoon attempts to question the recent...

There is no decent leadership in key institutions in Guyana

Nov 20, 2015 KNews Letters Comments Off on There is no decent leadership in key institutions in Guyana

Dear Editor, Guyana has undoubtedly descended into a state of perpetual lawlessness over the last decade or so, as is evidenced by the decadence we see daily in the family, schools, in public and...

Clinton Williams enumerate his CEO’s achievements

Nov 20, 2015 KNews Letters Comments Off on Clinton Williams enumerate his CEO’s achievements

Dear Editor, On November 16, 2015, writing under the name of Donald Alexander, someone apparently in pursuit of a personal agenda, wrote a letter titled: “Many things are not right at the Board of...

Admired Indian religious leaders in New York pass on

Nov 20, 2015 KNews Letters Comments Off on Admired Indian religious leaders in New York pass on

Dear Editor, Ashok Singhal, an iconic Hindu Leader, who has deep admiration for Indo-Guyanese and other Indo-Caribbean people has passed on. Singhal-ji, held in great esteem by Hindus worldwide, was...

Do teachers really have friends in high places since the May 2015?

Nov 20, 2015 KNews Letters Comments Off on Do teachers really have friends in high places since the May 2015?

Dear Editor, In 1987 in a march from Buxton to Kitty organized by the Patriotic Coalition for Democracy (PCD), the current Minister of Education Dr. Rupert Roopnarine made a stirring speech on behalf...

Why did the police allow this lawlessness on November 11?

Nov 20, 2015 KNews Letters Comments Off on Why did the police allow this lawlessness on November 11?

Dear Editor, Diwali, for the first time in Guyana was observed for two days. For the first day people lit diyas and hardly were there any firecrackers. This day was largely peaceful, but the next...

Some suggestion for the police on crime-fighting

Nov 20, 2015 KNews Letters Comments Off on Some suggestion for the police on crime-fighting

Dear Editor, On Wednesday the 18th of November your editorial caption, ”The crime-fighting effort must be strategic” and in today’s editorial caption, ”The police and the crime fight”....

This type of religious intolerance in Guyana is dangerous

Nov 20, 2015 KNews Letters Comments Off on This type of religious intolerance in Guyana is dangerous

Dear Editor, I consider it my paramount duty to share with the public a very disturbing and unfortunate incident which occurred within the Wesleyan Church located at Maria’s Pleasure, Wakenaam...

An-Afro-Guyanese male puts a question to Hindus

Nov 20, 2015 KNews Letters Comments Off on An-Afro-Guyanese male puts a question to Hindus

Dear Editor, The dust have seemingly settled on the Diwali controvery with the Minister of Public Security, Hon. Khemraj Ramjattan, a Hindu, having the Constitutional and Ministerial power to declare...

Wikileaks revelations…Ex-PPP Minister, Gajraj, sues Teixeira, Chronicle

Nov 19, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Wikileaks revelations…Ex-PPP Minister, Gajraj, sues Teixeira, Chronicle

By Jarryl Bryan Former Home Affairs Minister, Ronald Gajraj, has sued Gail Teixeira, a senior member of the People’s Progressive Party (PPP), over her alleged statements contained in leaked US...

Ex-Presidents Jagdeo, Ramotar, Hinds also received tax free salaries – says Spokesman

Nov 19, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Ex-Presidents Jagdeo, Ramotar, Hinds also received tax free salaries – says Spokesman

As criticisms continue over salary increases granted to senior Government officials and Parliamentarians, the administration yesterday insisted that former Presidents Bharrat Jagdeo, Sam Hinds and...

Quarrel ends in Festival City shooting death

Nov 19, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Quarrel ends in Festival City shooting death

(By Mondale Smith) Residents of Buggy Peak Street, Festival City, are stumped following the shooting death of one of their neighbours yesterday. Dead is father of one, Christopher Wharton, called...

St. Lucian women busted with ‘coke in poke’

Nov 19, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on St. Lucian women busted with ‘coke in poke’

The Customs Anti-Narcotics Unit seems to be on top of cocaine smuggling out of Guyana. Over the past few weeks its officers have been nabbing just about everybody who attempts to smuggle cocaine....

Granger dismisses Ramotar’s calls for army to join crime fight

Nov 19, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Granger dismisses Ramotar’s calls for army to join crime fight

President David Granger has dismissed a call from former Head of State, Donald Ramotar, for the Guyana Defence Force to be deployed on the streets to help the police tackle criminal activity. “I...

Teen arrested after burying foetus in yard

Nov 19, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Teen arrested after burying foetus in yard

Police yesterday discovered a five-month-old fetus buried in a yard at La Bonne Intention, East Coast Demerara (ECD). The mother- a teenager has been arrested and is assisting with the investigation....

Samsung launches US$40,000 e-learning school pilot project

Nov 19, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Samsung launches US$40,000 e-learning school pilot project

Samsung Electronics yesterday rolled out its Samsung Smart School Programme at the North Ruimveldt Multilateral Secondary school. This programme will see some 120 students benefiting from an...

Nuff confusion deh round

Nov 19, 2015 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Nuff confusion deh round

When Donald? That is wha dem boys want to know. From de time Papa Cheddi dead was Donald who was de man to control de party. He get de highest office—de General Secretary. He still alive and he...

GTT Round Robin / Knockout Football Competition …Linden dominates East Coast, win both engagements

Nov 19, 2015 KNews Sports Comments Off on GTT Round Robin / Knockout Football Competition …Linden dominates East Coast, win both engagements

Led by a brace from the prolific Marmarlaque Davidson Winners Connection recovered from being one-goal down at the break to repel a stubborn Golden Grove unit by a 4-3 margin as play in the GTT Round...

All Blacks legend Lomu dies aged 40

Nov 19, 2015 KNews Sports Comments Off on All Blacks legend Lomu dies aged 40

WELLINGTON (Reuters) New Zealand rugby legend Jonah Lomu, who revolutionised wing play to become the sport’s first global superstar, died on Wednesday in Auckland at the age of 40, prompting a...

Mayor Green’s Inter-ward Football action moves to Den Amstel Sunday

Nov 19, 2015 KNews Sports Comments Off on Mayor Green’s Inter-ward Football action moves to Den Amstel Sunday

The Den Amstel ground on the West Coast of Demerara will be a hive of activity on Sunday when action in the annual 7-a-side Inter-ward Football competition to mark the occasion of Mayor Hamilton...