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CPCE introduces pastoral care initiative

Jan 19, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on CPCE introduces pastoral care initiative

– hopes to help arrest worrying societal trends “Why would somebody look at another human being in the eye and kill that person? Why would a young man get into a house of an aged woman and...

NO LEGAL LIMB TO STAND ON

Jan 19, 2016 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on NO LEGAL LIMB TO STAND ON

This is an edited version of a column published three and one half years ago in these pages. It is resurrected because there are reports that the police are being asked to investigate alleged...

Robbery/home invasion on land court judge…Witnesses maintain stories under intense cross-examination

Jan 19, 2016 KNews Court Stories, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Robbery/home invasion on land court judge…Witnesses maintain stories under intense cross-examination

The trial of the five men accused of robbing and terrorizing Land Court Judge, Nicola Pierre and her husband, Mohamed Chand, continued yesterday with the prosecution witnesses being cross-examined by...

Body found in Mahaica Canal…Man charged with wife’s murder

Jan 19, 2016 KNews Court Stories, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Body found in Mahaica Canal…Man charged with wife’s murder

A Mahaica East Coast Demerara (ECD) man was yesterday remanded to prison, on being charged with the murder of his reputed wife, whose lifeless body was found in a canal at Helena, Mahaica, ECD four...

Traffic Task Force credited with reducing road fatalities

Jan 19, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Traffic Task Force credited with reducing road fatalities

A Task Force set up by the Police Traffic Department continues its crackdown on errant motorists, especially those who are inclined to drink and drive. The Task Force which is made up of ranks from...

Rohee pushes Gov’t to seek international help for Zika virus

Jan 19, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Rohee pushes Gov’t to seek international help for Zika virus

The People’s Progressive Party (PPP) has called for the government to request a team of Pan American Health Organization/ World Health Organization (PAHO/WHO) experts to assess the country’s...

Tackling the scourge of suicide and Murder is PATOIS

Jan 19, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Tackling the scourge of suicide and Murder is PATOIS

It is only January 19 and Guyana has already witnessed a rash of suicides, six attempted suicides, ten murders along with ten attempted murders. Some may say that our country has entered the leap...

There is no shortage of dentists- Dr. Ali

Jan 19, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on There is no shortage of dentists- Dr. Ali

Every year, the dental sector is being boosted with an addition of 10 dental surgeons which means that there is no shortage in the area of dentistry in the country. This is according to the Director...

I disagree yet agree with Royston King

Jan 19, 2016 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on I disagree yet agree with Royston King

The Town Clerk, Mr. Royston King, in a telephone conversation, expressed some disappointment with two critical columns that looked at the City Council operations against market vendors and the East...

Norton: New procurement system cause delays in drugs purchase

Jan 19, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Norton: New procurement system cause delays in drugs purchase

-shortage to be resolved in a month The late delivery of medical supplies which is currently affecting several Regions is being addressed, assures Minister of Public Health, Dr. George Norton....

Tremendous response to GDF recruitment drive

Jan 19, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Tremendous response to GDF recruitment drive

More than 500 youths have responded positively to the Guyana Defence Force’s recruitment drive. A release from force headquarters revealed that the ongoing recruitment process to date has thus far...

DELUSIONAL!

Jan 19, 2016 KNews Editorial, Features / Columnists Comments Off on DELUSIONAL!

Since losing the election on May 11, 2015, Bharrat Jagdeo, the leader of the opposition, has predictably been relentless in his attacks on a government which has been in office for only eight months....

Government reviewing public sector employees’ wages

Jan 19, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Government reviewing public sector employees’ wages

Government is in the process of reviewing the national minimum wage, with a view to raising it, through the law, for private sector workers. The current minimum wage paid to public servants stands at...

Santa Rosa becoming technologically advanced

Jan 19, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Santa Rosa becoming technologically advanced

Moruca is a small community in Santa Rosa situated in the Barima-Waini Region of Northern Guyana. It has a population of approximately 10,000 and entered into the technological age last year, with...

Canada further supports GECOM’s LGE

Jan 19, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Canada further supports GECOM’s LGE

– related endeavours The Guyana Elections Commission’s (GECOM) ongoing voter education campaign is set to be further enhanced through foreign provisions. The body has been given funding...

Man wanted for wounding turns self in

Jan 19, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Man wanted for wounding turns self in

A man wanted for stabbing another in New Amsterdam on Saturday has surrendered to the police. Mark Bender, called ‘Tall Man’, of Lot 54 Stanleytown, New Amsterdam, Berbice, turned himself over to...

Rights of children get attention at UNICEF conference

Jan 19, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Rights of children get attention at UNICEF conference

“Guyana means business’, is the mantra of the Ministry of Business. But according to Minister with responsibility for that Ministry, Mr. Dominic Gaskin, “When business interests clash with the...

Kaikan Toshao debunks version of Venezuela helicopter landing

Jan 19, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Kaikan Toshao debunks version of Venezuela helicopter landing

Claude Anselmo, Toshao of Kaikan village, in Essequibo, Region Seven, has debunked an article in January 5 Stabroek News, titled ‘Gov’t team visits Kaikan’, stating the incident was distorted....

Murder at Cool Square Hotel …Accused had provided investigators with an alibi

Jan 19, 2016 KNews Court Stories, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Murder at Cool Square Hotel …Accused had provided investigators with an alibi

Police Detective Mitchell Caesar testified yesterday that murder accused, Leon Duncan, supplied investigators with an alibi after he was arrested for killing businessman Intaz Roopnarine. Roopnarine...

Wife beater remanded to jail

Jan 19, 2016 KNews Court Stories, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Wife beater remanded to jail

Balram Collins, 39, of Lot 35 Number Three Village, West Coast Berbice, was on Friday remanded to jail by Magistrate Rhondell Weaver when he appeared before her at the Fort Wellington Magistrate’s...

Vendors remanded for one gram of cocaine

Jan 19, 2016 KNews Court Stories, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Vendors remanded for one gram of cocaine

One gram of cocaine was the cause of two men being remanded to prison yesterday by Chief Magistrate Ann McLennan, when they appeared in the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court. Shemroy Robertson, a...

The lady says the police charging the wrong drivers

Jan 19, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on The lady says the police charging the wrong drivers

Dear Editor, Please permit a little space for this important and far-reaching topic affecting all law abiding citizens as regards to the conduct and law affecting the populace. I was driving at 59km...

Is GTT doing a disservice to these children?

Jan 19, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on Is GTT doing a disservice to these children?

Dear Editor, It is pellucid that GT&T seems to be reluctant in expanding the landline telephone service in this country. It seems to have been an eternity since residents of the De Hoop Branch...

Dr. Bulkan asking questions about Bai Shan Lin

Jan 19, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on Dr. Bulkan asking questions about Bai Shan Lin

Dear Editor, I begin with a question -If there is no FDI document for Bai Shan Lin, how could there be fiscal concessions for more than ten years? Minister with some responsibility for the Natural...

Region 5 REO must show allegiance to Berbice not the PPP

Jan 19, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on Region 5 REO must show allegiance to Berbice not the PPP

Dear Editor, It is ashamed that the opposition party PPP is saying that they want to represent the people of Guyana especially those that voted for them at the last elections. His Excellency...

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Peeping Tom… Kaieteur News- I once thought Freedom of Information meant you could, well, access information freely.... more