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$100M Canada boost for Guyana’s Criminal Justice System

Jan 09, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on $100M Canada boost for Guyana’s Criminal Justice System

Minister of Legal Affairs and Attorney General, Basil Williams, and Canada’s Chargé d’Affaires, Sharmini Poulin, met with police, court prosecutors and state prosecutors, yesterday. They are...

ChildLink signs $75.7M grant with EU to implement a child rights project.

Jan 09, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on ChildLink signs $75.7M grant with EU to implement a child rights project.

Managing Director of the “ChildLink” organization, Omattie Madray, yesterday signed a $75.7M grant agreement with the European Union Ambassador Jernej Videtiè, to implement the Child Rights...

21 Region Seven students get bicycles under President’s ‘3 Bs’ initiative

Jan 09, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on 21 Region Seven students get bicycles under President’s ‘3 Bs’ initiative

-boats, bus expected to be added soon Twenty-one students of Bartica, Region Seven, received bicycles from the government, yesterday, as part of President David Granger’s ‘Buses, Boats and...

Govt to up the ante to curb TIP

Jan 09, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Govt to up the ante to curb TIP

Government, through the Ministry of Social Protection and other agencies, will up the ante in its efforts to stamp out human trafficking. Minister of Social Protection, Volda Lawrence said that...

GWI disconnection team attacked, contract Employee severely injured

Jan 09, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on GWI disconnection team attacked, contract Employee severely injured

A female employee of Guyana Water Incorporated (GWI) was severely injured to her head, when two disconnection teams of contracted employees were attacked in the course of their duties. According to...

Woman alleges rape at GPHC

Jan 09, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Woman alleges rape at GPHC

A 25-year-old woman is accusing a member of staff attached to the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) of raping her while she was a patient at the hospital. The woman stated that last...

APNU+AFC is smelling like the PPP

Jan 09, 2016 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on APNU+AFC is smelling like the PPP

Enough has been said and written about the totally unprofessional conduct of the Guyana Revenue Authority in its humiliating treatment of its Commissioner-General Khurshid Sattaur. What needs to be...

Affected Berbice bus drivers meet Govt. on water taxi service

Jan 09, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Affected Berbice bus drivers meet Govt. on water taxi service

Bus drivers of the Route 56 Minibus Association yesterday met with Minister of Public Infrastructure, David Patterson, and Minister within the Ministry, Hon. Annette Ferguson, to voice their concerns...

Spike in social problems gaining Social Protection Ministry’s attention

Jan 09, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Spike in social problems gaining Social Protection Ministry’s attention

There was a noticeable increase in the volume of social problems during the past year. This was the informed disclosure of Chief Probation and Social Services Officer within the Ministry of Social...

Digicel visits Mahaica Children’s Home

Jan 09, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Digicel visits Mahaica Children’s Home

Several staff members from Digicel Guyana, paid a visit to the Mahaica Children’s Home to deliver school packs and grocery items for the girls living at the home. Digicel in November 2013 handed...

Agriculture Ministry and Texas University, ink MoU

Jan 09, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Agriculture Ministry and Texas University, ink MoU

…Drone device handed over to Ministry The Ministry of Agriculture and the University of Texas, Dallas (UT Dallas) has recently signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to improve the Ministry’s...

Perception of corruption in gold, logging industries must change -Trotman urges

Jan 09, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Perception of corruption in gold, logging industries must change -Trotman urges

The Ministry of Natural Resources on Friday held its first Strategic Sector Review aimed at identifying the problems facing the various sectors, challenging managers to improve their performance in...

House passes Budget allocations for 16 Constitutional offices, other agencies

Jan 09, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on House passes Budget allocations for 16 Constitutional offices, other agencies

By Kiana Wilburg Tempers flared in the National Assembly on Thursday as the Opposition passionately objected to Government using its proverbial scissors to cut most of the proposed budget...

Berbice mother beaten, burnt to death…Cops turn attention to daughter

Jan 09, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Berbice mother beaten, burnt to death…Cops turn attention to daughter

Detectives, in pursue of the theory that insurance might have been the motive behind the death of the Berbice mother, who was bound, gagged, beaten and left to die in her burning house last Sunday,...

GWI implements programme to improve service to Bartica, environs

Jan 09, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on GWI implements programme to improve service to Bartica, environs

– Four and Five Miles, Carabese Hill and Byderabo receive higher levels of service Guyana Water Incorporated (GWI) has commenced the implementation of a programme to improve the quality of...

Remigrant wants compensation from Cable Company

Jan 09, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Remigrant wants compensation from Cable Company

Re-migrant, Sybil Mingo, of Henrietta Village, Essequibo Coast, is asking a cable company for a replacement of her 60-inch Mitsubishi flat screen television set. The cable company is “Premium...

Lindener on bail for assault

Jan 09, 2016 KNews Court Stories, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Lindener on bail for assault

A Lindener was yesterday released on bail by Chief Magistrate Ann McLennan in the Georgetown Magistrates Court for assault. Curt Mingo, 29, a labourer who resides on the Soesdyke-Linden Highway,...

Miner refused bail for attempted murder charge

Jan 09, 2016 KNews Court Stories, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Miner refused bail for attempted murder charge

Kelroy McPherson, a miner was yesterday remanded by Chief Magistrate Ann McLennan in the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court on an attempted murder charge. The 33-year-old who resides at Lot 14...

Pork-knocker remanded for robbery with assault

Jan 09, 2016 KNews Court Stories, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Pork-knocker remanded for robbery with assault

Yesterday a pork-knocker was remanded on a charge of robbery with assault, after he made his appearance before Chief Magistrate Ann McLennan in the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court. Kevin Anthony, 28,...

Why can’t I enter with my firearm on me?

Jan 09, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on Why can’t I enter with my firearm on me?

Dear Editor, I write in relation to a self-imposed mandate that is arbitrarily being applied by various Government and other agencies, including the GPL, GRA, GT&T, NIS, etc. I refer to the...

Exchange on cooperatives in Guyana

Jan 09, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on Exchange on cooperatives in Guyana

Dear Editor, Please allow me to respond to an article written by Mr. B. Balkarran which was published in the Stabroek News and the Kaieteur News on Thursday, January 7, 2016, in relation to...

Urgent need for parenting classes

Jan 09, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on Urgent need for parenting classes

Dear Editor, I am convinced more and more every day that my desire to see an inaugural ex-offender rehabilitation center established in Guyana is rooted in logic and basic commonsense. My vision was...

Unfolding drama at Hope Estate

Jan 09, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on Unfolding drama at Hope Estate

Dear Editor, Please allow me to respond to Mr. Ed Singh’s letter published in K-News January 07 2016 edition. Firstly who is Ed Singh? Ed Singh is the Administrator of Dr Iamei Aowmathi’s...

Royston King is wearing the King’s new clothes

Jan 09, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on Royston King is wearing the King’s new clothes

Dear Editor, Re: M&CC Should Cease Hoodwinking the Public Forthwith! In the words of my late mother, who was devoid of a secondary education, but nevertheless ensured all of her children,...

Christopher Ram says there was no such deposit

Jan 09, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on Christopher Ram says there was no such deposit

Dear Editor, Some time ago, Messrs. Ronald and Rustum Bulkan, Joint Managing Directors of Precision Woodworking Limited (PWL) called to request a meeting with me. Although we had brought the...

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