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GPSU contemplates industrial action…Disappointed with GPL’s failure to honour remuneration proposals

Dec 15, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on GPSU contemplates industrial action…Disappointed with GPL’s failure to honour remuneration proposals

The Guyana Public Service Union (GPSU) is prepared to take possible industrial action if efforts are not made by Guyana Power and Light Incorporated (GPL) to honour improved remuneration proposals...

Rodney COI findings set for release today

Dec 15, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Rodney COI findings set for release today

The findings of the Commission of Inquiry, (COI) into the death of Dr Walter Rodney are set to be released today. Kaieteur News understands that the findings will be submitted to the...

Murdered taxi driver’s car found at Mahaicony

Dec 15, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Murdered taxi driver’s car found at Mahaicony

-suspect reportedly fled to Suriname Exactly three weeks after he disappeared and a week after his decomposing body was discovered in a trench, taxi driver Colin Clarke’s missing Toyota Allion...

GUYSUCO exceeds 2015 target by 300 tonnes

Dec 15, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on GUYSUCO exceeds 2015 target by 300 tonnes

-first time it has exceeded 2nd crop target in 11 yrs Guyana Sugar Corporation (GuySuCo) has produced 300 tonnes of sugar over its production target. And since three estates are still grinding, the...

Search for missing 6-year-old Anna Regina student intensifies

Dec 15, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Search for missing 6-year-old Anna Regina student intensifies

…Father maintains his innocence, alleges police brutality A police source revealed yesterday that the search for six-year-old Anna Regina pupil, Daniel Adolphus, has intensified. The source...

New $700M hospital for Port Kaituma by next year end

Dec 15, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on New $700M hospital for Port Kaituma by next year end

– but need for more improvements in Region One needed A new $700 million hospital for Port Kaituma is slated for completion by next year end. Minister within the Ministry of Public Health, Dr....

A DEFINING MOMENT FOR THE PEOPLE

Dec 15, 2015 KNews Editorial, Features / Columnists Comments Off on A DEFINING MOMENT FOR THE PEOPLE

The long delayed Local Government Elections (LGEs) will finally be held on Friday March 18, 2016 in nine towns and 62 Neighbourhood Democratic Councils (NDCs). In 2006, then President Bharrat Jagdeo...

The “Oracle” is gone

Dec 15, 2015 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on The “Oracle” is gone

The “Oracle” is gone. It happens to all of us. Our authority goes one day. It is said that Roger Khan made thirty-four calls to him when Khan was hiding in Suriname. This is a tragic dimension of...

Detectives in hot water for forging bail receipt

Dec 15, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Detectives in hot water for forging bail receipt

-amount changed from $10,000 to $10,000,000 Two detectives placed themselves in hot water when they changed the amount on a bail receipt from $10,000 into $10,000,000 with the aim of extorting the...

Con-men dump bogus manager’s cheques on businessmen

Dec 15, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Con-men dump bogus manager’s cheques on businessmen

Confidence tricksters are using the busy Christmas season to dump bogus cheques on unsuspecting members of the business community. One popular auto spares dealer is said to have handed over some...

Guyana gets $15B all-inclusive resort

Dec 15, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Guyana gets $15B all-inclusive resort

Are you tired of working or being at home all the time? Do you want to get away from your everyday life for a day and relax, but just don’t know where to go or what to do? Well, there is no need to...

More than 11 taxi drivers lured to Craig Sideline Dam, robbed

Dec 15, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on More than 11 taxi drivers lured to Craig Sideline Dam, robbed

– Police urge drivers to be alert Over the past two weeks, more than 11 taxi drivers were lured to Craig Sideline Dam, East Bank Demerara (EBD) and robbed at knifepoint by a man of African...

Preparation begins for Guyana’s Climate Resilience Strategy

Dec 15, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Preparation begins for Guyana’s Climate Resilience Strategy

Minister of State, Joseph Harmon, yesterday said that Guyana’s Climate Resilience Strategy and Action Plan (CRSAP) will put to rest any leeway of disaster due to a lack of proper planning. Harmon...

A NEW PROCUREMENT PROCESS IS NECESSARY!

Dec 15, 2015 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on A NEW PROCUREMENT PROCESS IS NECESSARY!

I am flummoxed why everyone is flummoxed by the Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) signed between the Government of Guyana and Fedders Lloyd, an Indian company, to construct the Specialty Hospital....

Teen denies break and enter charge

Dec 15, 2015 KNews Court Stories, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Teen denies break and enter charge

– released on $200,000 bail Chief Magistrate Ann McLennan set bail to the tune of $200,000 for an 18-year-old, accused of break and enter and larceny, when he appeared yesterday in the...

Bail for Meadowbrook man accused of stealing CG bike

Dec 15, 2015 KNews Court Stories, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Bail for Meadowbrook man accused of stealing CG bike

Chief Magistrate Ann McLennan granted a fish cleaner bail in the sum of $100,000 after he was accused of stealing a CG motorcycle, when he appeared in the Georgetown Magistrates’ Courts yesterday....

Convicted sex offender remanded pending sentence

Dec 15, 2015 KNews Court Stories, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Convicted sex offender remanded pending sentence

A convicted sexual offender has been remanded to prison pending sentence. Murphy Noarhan was remanded to prison on Friday, after he was found guilty of two counts of sexual activity with a child...

Other hotels should be given same concessions Marriot got

Dec 15, 2015 KNews Letters Comments Off on Other hotels should be given same concessions Marriot got

Dear Editor, I am reading with great interest the revelations in bits and pieces regarding the various audit reports of State agencies and projects undertaken by the previous regime. Some are more...

Aiming the guns at technology

Dec 15, 2015 KNews Letters Comments Off on Aiming the guns at technology

Dear Editor, I was somewhat jolted by the Kaieteur News Editorial of December 13th, 2015 entitled, “Can Technology Replace Old-fashioned Teaching?” Not merely because it should have been a one...

Youths and police; mistrust on both sides

Dec 15, 2015 KNews Letters Comments Off on Youths and police; mistrust on both sides

Dear Editor, In many countries the relationship between youth and police has been described as negative by community and police leaders. Among the common problems in the relationship are: a lack of...

Double standards in criticizing religious intolerance

Dec 15, 2015 KNews Letters Comments Off on Double standards in criticizing religious intolerance

Dear Editor, I respond to Devanand Bhagwan’s letter, “Wesleyan pastor is guilty of Pharisaic blindness” (KN Dec 10). His was a response to two other letters (KN Nov 20 & Dec 7) written by...

Since 2006, my court case has not been heard

Dec 15, 2015 KNews Letters Comments Off on Since 2006, my court case has not been heard

Dear Editor, It is universally known and accepted that no man is perfect. The only perfect person is GOD ALMIGHTY. It therefore bothers me very much when I look at the newscast on TV and read the...

Innovative suggestion to save West Indies test cricket

Dec 15, 2015 KNews Letters Comments Off on Innovative suggestion to save West Indies test cricket

Dear Editor, I just read Ivan John’s letter, “West Indies Should Take A Sabbatical From Test Cricket.” (SN Monday 2015/12/14) and I can’t agree more. I remember I expressed those very...

One of the animal kingdom’s best friends has died

Dec 15, 2015 KNews Letters Comments Off on One of the animal kingdom’s best friends has died

Dear Editor, Some of us are lucky to meet a person who would change our life for the better. For me that person was Nicole Fitzsimmons. Nicole accompanied her husband to Guyana in the mid-1990’s...

The problem lies in the interpretation of the scriptures

Dec 15, 2015 KNews Letters Comments Off on The problem lies in the interpretation of the scriptures

Dear Editor, Devanand Bhagwan’s letter in your newspaper of December 10th (“Wesleyan pastor is guilty Pharisaic blindness”), aptly shows how religion today can divide people and spread hatred...

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