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Apology

Dec 19, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Apology

This is Ingrid Griffith Kaieteur News apologizes for inadvertently publishing the wrong photo of Ms. Ingrid Griffith the Acting Deputy Commissioner-General. This is the true likeness of Ms. Griffith...

These are death traps waiting to harm people

Dec 19, 2015 KNews Letters Comments Off on These are death traps waiting to harm people

Dear Editor, This bridge is located on the Industry access road between the railway embankment and the main East Coast highway. It has been in this state for over 11 months and many vehicles have had...

No judge in the Berbice Assizes since October

Dec 19, 2015 KNews Letters Comments Off on No judge in the Berbice Assizes since October

Dear Editor, Pursuant to a published letter titled, “sister wants justice for brother, crippled by shotgun violence,” on page 4 of Wednesday December t6, 2015 edition, please be informed of the...

Seven suggestions that will make rice farmers smile

Dec 19, 2015 KNews Letters Comments Off on Seven suggestions that will make rice farmers smile

Dear Editor, Rice is in crisis. The cost of production is high. The government must urgently assist rice farmers to minimize cost of production. Here are my suggestions; 1) Fertilizers: The...

Rats are on the rampage where I live

Dec 19, 2015 KNews Letters Comments Off on Rats are on the rampage where I live

Dear Editor, The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) had assured residents and businesses that live near that new garbage site in Eccles will not be affected by the new dump site. This assurance is...

Put the Retention of Capital Punishment to a Referendum

Dec 19, 2015 KNews Letters Comments Off on Put the Retention of Capital Punishment to a Referendum

Dear Editor, On an almost daily basis we are treated to reports of very violent and even macabre crimes being committed in our country. Along with these heinous acts of criminality, are also the very...

A Christmas Appeal

Dec 19, 2015 KNews Letters Comments Off on A Christmas Appeal

Dear Editor, It is good to see the Public Servants being remembered with a gift of cash this Christmas. What about the pensioners, will we be forgotten? Should Auld acquaintance be forgot, And...

People who identify with thieves

Dec 19, 2015 KNews Letters Comments Off on People who identify with thieves

Dear Editor, Have we reached a new low? I still cannot believe the article in your newspaper of Friday, 18th December, 2015 in which you reported that some cleaners forced a security guard to release...

Politics/cricket analogy

Dec 19, 2015 KNews Letters Comments Off on Politics/cricket analogy

Dear Editor, The partnership between Shivnarine Chanderpaul and Brian Lara ,(WI vs. England, Antigua, 1994), which resulted in Lara, breaking Garfield Sobers’ record of 365runs not out;...

Explanation for the gradual decline in sugar production

Dec 19, 2015 KNews Letters Comments Off on Explanation for the gradual decline in sugar production

Dear Editor, As a former employee of the Guyana Sugar Corporation, I have been following with keen interest the imbroglio between the state corporation and the main Union, GAWU on the former refusal...

NICIL expenditure claims deceitful

Dec 18, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on NICIL expenditure claims deceitful

– Linden IMC Chairman By Enid Joaquin Linden Interim Management Committee (IMC) Chairman, Orrin Gordon, reflecting on the findings of a recent forensic audit report of NICIL, has echoed the...

Anti Money Laundering Bill passed

Dec 18, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Anti Money Laundering Bill passed

The Anti-Money Laundering and Countering the Financing of Terrorism (AML/CFT) (Amendment) Bill of 2015 was passed in a tranquil environment yesterday in the National Assembly. Bringing the Bill...

GRA Boss sent on leave

Dec 18, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on GRA Boss sent on leave

… to facilitate audit by int’l firm After 12 years as Commissioner-General, Khurshid Sattaur, was yesterday sent on leave with immediate effect. A unanimous decision was made by the Governing...

Suspected serial knife robber nabbed…after snatching bag, wounding woman

Dec 18, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Suspected serial knife robber nabbed…after snatching bag, wounding woman

Women living between Alberttown, Queenstown and Kitty may now have a safer Christmas, following the capture yesterday of a man suspected of carrying out a spate of knifepoint attacks on women in...

Opposition walk out after heated debate in Parliament

Dec 18, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Opposition walk out after heated debate in Parliament

By Kiana Wilburg After much mudslinging and over an hour of debate, the Opposition walked away with a hollow victory yesterday in the National Assembly, as it was able to get the Government Members...

506 trained teachers added to education system

Dec 18, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on 506 trained teachers added to education system

Just over 500 teachers received their certificates at the Cyril Potter College of Education (CPCE)’s 81st graduation exercise, yesterday, at the National Cultural Centre. When the final roll was...

Fatal shooting of mentally-ill man…$150,000 bail each for accused cops

Dec 18, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Fatal shooting of mentally-ill man…$150,000 bail each for accused cops

Two police constables who were involved in the fatal shooting of a mentally challenged man at Cane Grove, Mahaica, five months ago made their first court appearance on Wednesday before Magistrate...

Public health sector benefits from visiting Chinese team’s support

Dec 18, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Public health sector benefits from visiting Chinese team’s support

In the quest to continue decades of bilateral relations, a visiting Chinese medical team on Monday arrived in Guyana to offer welcomed support to the public health sector. Led by Dr. Shu Yusheng, the...

Jail time is real time

Dec 18, 2015 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Jail time is real time

Everybody know de saying that what goes around does come around. What you sow is that wha you does reap. When CANU ketch dem two women wid cocaine dem women defence was that de devil mek dem fetch de...

2nd Stag Super XVI…West Dem. teams flawless on first night; Uitvlugt and Beavers advance

Dec 18, 2015 KNews Sports Comments Off on 2nd Stag Super XVI…West Dem. teams flawless on first night; Uitvlugt and Beavers advance

West Demerara Football Association (WDFA) celebrated their debut in the Stag Super XVI knock-out competition in fine style when both their teams, Uitvlugt Warriors and Beavers FC won their matches on...

50 graduate from Aeronautical Engineering School

Dec 18, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on 50 graduate from Aeronautical Engineering School

Along with hosting its 22nd anniversary celebration, the Art Williams and Harry Wendt Aeronautical Engineering School, hosted its 17th graduation and prize-giving ceremony yesterday afternoon. The...

Digicel continues to support KMTC Boxing Day Horse Race Meet

Dec 18, 2015 KNews Sports Comments Off on Digicel continues to support KMTC Boxing Day Horse Race Meet

Digicel continued its long association with the Kennard Memorial Turf Club (KMTC) after pleding its support for the entity’s Annual Boxing Day Horse Race Meet scheduled to be staged, at the...

CGI Local Franchise 50-over League …Foo, Fudadin spurs U/C’tyne to tomorrow night final at Albion

Dec 18, 2015 KNews Sports Comments Off on CGI Local Franchise 50-over League …Foo, Fudadin spurs U/C’tyne to tomorrow night final at Albion

By Sean Devers West Indies left-hander Assad Fudadin and Jonathon Foo led Upper Corentyne to a seven-wicket win over Georgetown in the play-off of the Cricket Guyana Inc. Local Franchise League...

Sugar workers picket estates for increase, API payment

Dec 18, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Sugar workers picket estates for increase, API payment

Sugar workers, this week, picketed several of the estates in Berbice and Demerara to push for a salary increase and payment of the annual production incentive (API). According to the Guyana...

James’ ton guides T&T Academy to first win on Guyana trip

Dec 18, 2015 KNews Sports Comments Off on James’ ton guides T&T Academy to first win on Guyana trip

Berbice go down by 90 run at Albion Led by 104 from Trevon James and 93 from Keagan Simmons the Trinidad & Tobago Academy Under-19s registered their first win on their four-match tour to Guyana...

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Baksh half century inspires Herstelling’s 50-run victory

Hope is what you rely on when you do not have a plan

Peeping Tom… Kaieteur News- I don’t know about you, but I’ve never been comforted by something named “Hope”... more