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Guyana’s solar energy potential lauded as investors meet with MPI Ministers

Jan 14, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Guyana’s solar energy potential lauded as investors meet with MPI Ministers

Representatives from the Canadian company, Greenheart Tree Energy, lauded Guyana’s solar energy potential during a meeting with the Ministers of the Ministry of Public Infrastructure yesterday. A...

Indian court allows embattled Iwokrama chief travel to Guyana

Jan 14, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Indian court allows embattled Iwokrama chief travel to Guyana

New Delhi (The Asian Age) : An India court has allowed TERI Director, General R. K. Pachauri, who is facing sexual harassment allegations from a former woman colleague, to travel later this week to...

GWI helping to address water woes at Mabaruma Hospital

Jan 14, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on GWI helping to address water woes at Mabaruma Hospital

The Guyana Water Incorporated (GWI) is throwing its water providing support behind the Ministry of Public Health. According to information from the Ministry a new arrangement between the Regional...

Carifesta Avenue fatal crash…Pyles laid to rest

Jan 14, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Carifesta Avenue fatal crash…Pyles laid to rest

There was much weeping among the ranks of the military and the medical professionals, along with relatives and friends as they gathered to bid farewell to the couple who lost their lives following a...

New Kuwait Ambassador invites Guyana to submit project proposals

Jan 14, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on New Kuwait Ambassador invites Guyana to submit project proposals

Guyana has a new non-resident Kuwait Ambassador in the person Ayadah M. Alsaidi. He presented his letters of credence to President David Granger from the State of Kuwait yesterday morning at the...

Zika virus fears force Health Ministry to offer priority care to pregnant mothers

Jan 14, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Zika virus fears force Health Ministry to offer priority care to pregnant mothers

…reports say virus causes deformities in fetuses Although no case of Zika virus has been reported in Guyana, Minister of Public Health (MOPH), Dr. George Norton, has announced that priority care is...

Guyana winning ‘war on crime’

Jan 14, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Guyana winning ‘war on crime’

-but much more work to be done While there is still a lot of work to be done, President David Granger believes that Guyana is beginning to win the war on crime. The Head of State made these...

Linden benefits from street lights

Jan 14, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Linden benefits from street lights

Eighty-four street lights were recently installed and activated between Burnham Drive, Mackenzie and the Wismar section, in Linden, Region Ten. Kester Hinds, Senior Project Engineer within the...

Donald Trump does better than Rohee

Jan 14, 2016 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on Donald Trump does better than Rohee

We may not like Donald Trump but as a politician, Trump is way ahead of Clement Rohee in the adumbration of his beliefs and the willingness to defend those beliefs. I saw Rohee do an act a few days...

Trial begins for Cool Square murder accused

Jan 14, 2016 KNews Court Stories, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Trial begins for Cool Square murder accused

Justice Priya Sewnarine-Beharry is set to hear the case against Leon Duncan for the murder of businessman, Intaz Roopnarine. Duncan, called ‘Whistle’, was indicted for murder in the course...

Fire destroys Kaneville house, three homeless

Jan 14, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Fire destroys Kaneville house, three homeless

Carpenter Lennox Clarke, his wife Carol, and their adopted daughter Nizanne, are now homeless after fire destroyed their lot 356, Fourth Street, Second Red Road Kaneville, East Bank Demerara home...

UG revises admission requirements

Jan 14, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on UG revises admission requirements

The University of Guyana (UG) has decided to effect changes to its admission requirements. The decision was one that was made when the University’s Academic Board convened a special meeting during...

Guyana Fire Service awaits electrical report into the Liana Cane fire

Jan 14, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Guyana Fire Service awaits electrical report into the Liana Cane fire

The Guyana Fire Service is awaiting an Electrical Inspector’s report into the Liana Cane Furniture Factory fire, which occurred on Tuesday morning, Fire Chief Marlon Gentle said. The fire, which...

Repsol asks for drilling extension

Jan 14, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Repsol asks for drilling extension

Officials from global energy company, Repsol, yesterday met with President David Granger, seeking permission to continue exploratory work in the Kanuku Block. Minister of Natural Resources, Raphael...

Health Minister pleased with Dental Centre services

Jan 14, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Health Minister pleased with Dental Centre services

Last year, 39,987 patients were seen at the Cheddi Jagan Dental Center. Of these, 85 underwent maxillofacial surgeries. Maxillofacial is the area of surgery that deals with problems of the face,...

Assault on Land Court judge…Husband recalls brutal beating, assault on his wife

Jan 14, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Assault on Land Court judge…Husband recalls brutal beating, assault on his wife

Mohamed Chand, the husband of Land Court Judge Nicola Pierre has positively identified two of the men that beat him and his wife during a vicious home invasion, last July at their home in the...

Women and Gender Equality Commission receives C’dn$20,000

Jan 14, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Women and Gender Equality Commission receives C’dn$20,000

The Canada High Commission, through the Canada Fund for Local Initiatives, yesterday poured C’dn$20,000 into a Women and Gender Equality Commission initiative to increase female leadership in...

Health facilities countrywide to offer efficient emergency medicine care

Jan 14, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Health facilities countrywide to offer efficient emergency medicine care

In the quest to improve the delivery of emergency medicine in the public health sector, a number of strides have been made. This has included the training of doctors to specialise in this crucial...

2013 Old Year’s night murder …Victim’s relatives recall deadly shooting

Jan 14, 2016 KNews Court Stories, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on 2013 Old Year’s night murder …Victim’s relatives recall deadly shooting

Relatives of Old Year’s night murder victim, Carlissa Mathews, have testified to witnessing the shooting incident which resulted in her death. Mathews was allegedly shot in the head in the...

New Year’s morning murder accused remanded

Jan 14, 2016 KNews Court Stories, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on New Year’s morning murder accused remanded

The suspect in the brutal killing of a Corentyne man, which occurred just 10 minutes into the new year, has been remanded to jail. Moses Samuel, 55, a labourer of Lot 72 Grant 1780, Crabwood Creek,...

Correction to article on eGovernment in Kaieteur News

Jan 14, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on Correction to article on eGovernment in Kaieteur News

Dear Editor, An unfortunate error appeared in Kaieteur News on January 12, 2016 written by Yannason Duncan, titled “Free Internet looms for Essequibo”. It included misleading information about...

Incident in Ithaca is reason to postpone LGE

Jan 14, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on Incident in Ithaca is reason to postpone LGE

Dear Editor, On a daily basis the newspapers and the television stations supply the people of Guyana with news covering aspects of their own concerns. I cannot help but noticing the fact that our...

That canal between Goedverwagting and Sparendam

Jan 14, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on That canal between Goedverwagting and Sparendam

Dear Editor, A canal exists between the villages of Goedverwagting and Sparendaam in the lndustry/Plaisance District. That canal stretches – north to south – from the Public road to a...

Is there evil behavior at the Hosororo Primary School?

Jan 14, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on Is there evil behavior at the Hosororo Primary School?

Dear Editor, The new school term has begun. I must thank you for high lightening what the Hosororo Primary School administration is doing with parent’s money. While it may be true that the Minister...

Arguments justifying action against Kurshid Sattaur

Jan 14, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on Arguments justifying action against Kurshid Sattaur

Dear Editor, I refer to a letter by Christopher Ram (SN 2016-01-05 “Treatment of Sattaur by persons from the GRA is not acceptable;” KN, 2016-01-05 “Christopher Ram is concerned about treatment...

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