December 10, 2015

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Chant down Babylon!

Dec 10, 2015 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on Chant down Babylon!

The crescendo to change the marijuana laws is occurring alongside some strange, unusual, mysterious actions by Magistrates who loved to jail people for a few grams of marijuana. But first, the man...

ADVOCATING THE RIGHTS OF ABUSED CHILDREN

Dec 10, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on ADVOCATING THE RIGHTS OF ABUSED CHILDREN

Two little girls aged five and seven, were sexually abused by their mother’s boyfriend and subsequently taken into local authority care. The trauma of being taken away from everything they knew as...

Agricola man gets 80 years for taxi driver’s murder

Dec 10, 2015 KNews Court Stories, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Agricola man gets 80 years for taxi driver’s murder

Agricola resident Balram Singh has been jailed for 80 years for the murder of taxi driver Bhomeshwar Sukdeo. He was sentenced yesterday, after more than four hours of deliberation, by a mixed jury,...

Truck driver dies after slamming into utility pole

Dec 10, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Truck driver dies after slamming into utility pole

Reckless driving on the Good Hope, East Coast Demerara (ECD) Public Road, allegedly caused the death of 50-year-old Youghraj Singh of Lot 30 B Coverden, on the East Bank Demerara (EBD) early...

MPI installs streetlights in Timehri North

Dec 10, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on MPI installs streetlights in Timehri North

The Ministry of Public Infrastructure (MPI) has installed streetlights in Timehri North, a week after Minister David Patterson visited the area. The action was taken in an attempt to make the...

RESTORING HOPE TO THE HOPELESS

Dec 10, 2015 KNews Editorial, Features / Columnists Comments Off on RESTORING HOPE TO THE HOPELESS

Guyana’s economy is slowing down. Based on the Poverty Index Indicator range from zero to ten where zero is the lowest and ten is the highest, Guyana, a year ago was rated at seven. Today, it is...

First Bauxite gets two-year extension on Bonasika project

Dec 10, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on First Bauxite gets two-year extension on Bonasika project

Government has granted First Bauxite Corporation a two-year extension to the construction commencement date under the Bonasika Mining Licence (“BML”), the company announced yesterday. The period...

After years in limbo…Linden Enterprise Network to be officially launched today

Dec 10, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on After years in limbo…Linden Enterprise Network to be officially launched today

By Enid Joaquin Entrepreneurs across Linden and Region 10 will finally be afforded the opportunity to access loans to further expand or consolidate their businesses, when the Linden Enterprise...

GPHC records zero mortality rate after a year of paediatric heart surgeries

Dec 10, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on GPHC records zero mortality rate after a year of paediatric heart surgeries

After a year of paediatric heart surgery, the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) has been able to boast of a zero per cent mortality rate. A total of 42 cases were conducted during the...

GTT confirms Justin Nedd as new CEO

Dec 10, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on GTT confirms Justin Nedd as new CEO

The country’s largest telecoms company, GTT, has confirmed Justin Nedd as its new Chief Executive Officer. Nedd, the entity, disclosed, was formerly the company’s Chief Financial Officer. He has...

Guyana, US sign MOU for counter-narcotic initiative

Dec 10, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Guyana, US sign MOU for counter-narcotic initiative

Vice-President and Minister of Public Security, Khemraj Ramjattan, and Ambassador of the United States of America, Perry Holloway, yesterday signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) regarding the...

Former Guyana Ambassador urges talks with new Venezuelan legislature

Dec 10, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Former Guyana Ambassador urges talks with new Venezuelan legislature

A former Guyanese Ambassador to Venezuela said Tuesday, that his Government should engage with the opposition parties who just won control of the Venezuelan legislature to assess their view on the...

Cubans fined for forging United States passports

Dec 10, 2015 KNews Court Stories, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Cubans fined for forging United States passports

Five Cubans were fined a total of $500,000 for uttering forged United States (US) passports at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport (CJIA). The fine was imposed when they made appearances before...

Timehri woman found guilty on narcotics charge, mother freed

Dec 10, 2015 KNews Court Stories, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Timehri woman found guilty on narcotics charge, mother freed

After 10 months of trial, Magistrate Leron Daly found a Timehri woman guilty of trafficking in narcotics and remanded her to prison. Attorney Nigel Hughes had requested that his client be sentenced...

Wesleyan pastor is guilty of Pharisaic blindness

Dec 10, 2015 KNews Letters Comments Off on Wesleyan pastor is guilty of Pharisaic blindness

Dear Editor, I read the letter “Are Wesleyan Christians true Christians?” (Nov. 7), with disappointment and sadness. The KN letter, written by Ganesh Mahipaul, related an incident that occurred a...

The police force is a runaway train of corrupt behaviour

Dec 10, 2015 KNews Letters Comments Off on The police force is a runaway train of corrupt behaviour

Dear Editor, As I write this letter, I am also trying to quell the plethora of thoughts that continue to ravage my mind. A multiplicity of enigmas looms on the mental horizon. When and where will...

GGMC is a corrupt state agency

Dec 10, 2015 KNews Letters Comments Off on GGMC is a corrupt state agency

Dear Editor, The recent allegations of over $200,000 monthly being spent on food and drinks for GGMC is just the beginning of many secrets GGMC as the custodian of the mining industry in Guyana...

Why did two Ministers snub this man?

Dec 10, 2015 KNews Letters Comments Off on Why did two Ministers snub this man?

Dear Editor, On September 7th 2015, in a lead story in Kaieteur News, prominent mining advocate and Bartica resident, Sherwyn Delano Downer, was featured in the article where he called for the...

Four methods to use to exorcise racism from Guyana

Dec 10, 2015 KNews Letters Comments Off on Four methods to use to exorcise racism from Guyana

Dear Editor, The most important question we should be asking ourselves is what do we do to build a better Guyana? And the real answer is a yet to be realized in actions. Since we are not able to make...

GRA still trying to reimburse taxpayers who over-paid

Dec 10, 2015 KNews Letters Comments Off on GRA still trying to reimburse taxpayers who over-paid

Dear Editor, The Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) wishes to assure the general public, more particularly the individual who penned a letter of concern in the December 3 edition of Stabroek News that...

Unfortunately, it is low-income parents that beat their children

Dec 10, 2015 KNews Letters Comments Off on Unfortunately, it is low-income parents that beat their children

Dear Editor, I refer to Mr Malcolm Alves’s letter: “The Debate on Corporal Punishment” in which he defends its use and this prompts my letter. I fully support a ban and respectfully...

Live illegally wired lines threaten lives of school children

Dec 10, 2015 KNews Letters Comments Off on Live illegally wired lines threaten lives of school children

Dear Editor, I am a driver of a 42 Route bus on the E.B.D and I wish to let the public and those in authority know about the danger that chauffeurs and vehicles, pedestrians, school children, the...

Can there be such a thing as an inter-denominational prayer?

Dec 10, 2015 KNews Letters Comments Off on Can there be such a thing as an inter-denominational prayer?

Dear Editor, We welcome the Government’s initiative to review Christian prayers in public schools. As secularists, we believe that religion is a private matter. When it comes to educational...

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