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Conservation Int’l helps to boost Amerindian Villages, improve mining

Feb 20, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Conservation Int’l helps to boost Amerindian Villages, improve mining

In keeping with Guyana’s green economy efforts, the Ministry of Indigenous Peoples’ Affairs and the Guyana Gold and Diamond Miners’ Association (GGDMA) yesterday signed a Memorandum of...

Union pickets GuySuCo over lunch

Feb 20, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Union pickets GuySuCo over lunch

Members of the Guyana Agricultural and General Workers Union (GAWU) negotiating team yesterday picketed the Guyana Sugar Corporation Inc (GuySuCo) Ogle Head Office over the denial by the Corporation...

SHORT-DROP TAXI DRIVER ROBBED, CAR HIJACKED

Feb 20, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on SHORT-DROP TAXI DRIVER ROBBED, CAR HIJACKED

A short-drop taxi driver was on Friday robbed of his car and cash by armed bandits posing as passengers. Around 12:35, taxi driver, Riaz Baichan, 19, of Diamond, East Bank Demerara, was soliciting...

Region Nine teens to benefit from GPL apprenticeship

Feb 20, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Region Nine teens to benefit from GPL apprenticeship

When last week began, Andrew Abbensetts, Kenroy Robinson, and Esther Eusebio were leading somewhat normal lives for young adults in Guyana. Each day, Andrew would head further into the interior where...

Need for more discussions to appease UG Unions’ concerns – Professor Opadeyi

Feb 20, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Need for more discussions to appease UG Unions’ concerns – Professor Opadeyi

Professor Jacob Opadeyi’s tenure at the University of Guyana (UG) has come to an end; he leaves behind a legacy laced with bitter-sweet achievements. An improved financial situation can easily be...

M&CC undertaking improvement plans for Merriman Mall, markets

Feb 20, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on M&CC undertaking improvement plans for Merriman Mall, markets

– as part of Independence celebration preparation Approximately $1 million has already been expended by the Mayor and City Councillors of Georgetown (M&CC) to put measures in place to...

Govt., Guyana Goldfields work on deal for Kaieteur National Park

Feb 20, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Govt., Guyana Goldfields work on deal for Kaieteur National Park

Canada-based Guyana Goldfields, which opened large-scale mining operations last year in Region Seven, is working closely with the Ministry of Natural Resources and the Protected Areas Commission...

$12M Diamond well repairs could take three weeks

Feb 20, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on $12M Diamond well repairs could take three weeks

Guyana Water Incorporated (GWI) has commenced rehabilitation of the Diamond Well Station, East Bank Demerara. This well is currently experiencing technical difficulties after large amounts of clay...

Say yes to life and no to suicide – Mrs. Nagamootoo

Feb 20, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Say yes to life and no to suicide – Mrs. Nagamootoo

-As anti-suicide campaign reaches President’s College President’s College yesterday held its second annual career open day, with wife of Prime Minister, Moses Nagamootoo, Mrs. Sita Nagamootoo,...

Man found dead on Golden Grove mudflat

Feb 20, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Man found dead on Golden Grove mudflat

A man was found dead on the mudflat at the fisherman’s wharf in Golden Grove, East Bank Demerara, some time around 7:00hrs yesterday. Residents have identified the body as that of a fellow...

Origins of Mon Repos fire still unknown

Feb 20, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Origins of Mon Repos fire still unknown

Firefighters are still trying to determine the origin of a fire which completely destroyed a two-storey building at Mon Repos, East Coast Demerara (ECD) around 22:30 hrs on Thursday night. The upper...

14-year-old stabs schoolboy in the neck

Feb 20, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on 14-year-old stabs schoolboy in the neck

Police have detained a 14-year-old Eighth of May, Dartmouth student who stabbed a 13-year- old Charity Secondary School student in the region of his neck, Thursday afternoon, at Dartmouth Village....

A faulty administration

Feb 20, 2016 KNews Editorial, Features / Columnists Comments Off on A faulty administration

The Georgetown Public Hospital has long been the country’s referral hospital. Such has been its reputation that people, rather than visit the health centres, clinics and even hospitals in their...

Gunmen remove computers from Lodge Secondary School

Feb 20, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Gunmen remove computers from Lodge Secondary School

For the second time in two weeks, two security guards attached to the Lodge Secondary School, were tied up and beaten by armed bandits, who escaped with all of the facility’s computers. Reports are...

10-month baby chopping incident…Baby Omar returns home

Feb 20, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on 10-month baby chopping incident…Baby Omar returns home

After being allegedly chopped by his grandfather more than a week ago, 10-month-old Omar Jones was discharged from the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) yesterday. Omar’s mother, Maria...

Fear is the key: Policemen on motorbikes

Feb 20, 2016 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on Fear is the key: Policemen on motorbikes

The first four words in the caption of this column is the title of a famous 1961 Alistair Maclean novel made into a famous movie. Maybe Maclean was in Guyana during the violent sixties and that is...

Guyana/Jamaica body to sponsor medical symposium

Feb 20, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Guyana/Jamaica body to sponsor medical symposium

The Guyana-Jamaica Friendship Association (GJFA) in conjunction with Fly Jamaica Airways will be sponsoring a medical symposium in collaboration with the Ministry of Public Health, at the Arthur...

Former Mayor of Linden Gabby Haynes passes on

Feb 20, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Former Mayor of Linden Gabby Haynes passes on

Former Mayor of Linden, Patrick Raymond ‘Gabby’ Haynes of 537 Moraballi Street, Retrieve, Linden passed away quietly on his way to the Linden Hospital Complex around 15:00 hrs on Thursday. He was...

RPA accuses Gov’t of giving fertiliser contract to APNU/AFC campaign ‘financier’

Feb 20, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on RPA accuses Gov’t of giving fertiliser contract to APNU/AFC campaign ‘financier’

During a press conference yesterday, the Rice Producers’ Association (RPA), told media operatives that the government has “subverted” the Guyana Rice Development Board (GRDB) for the...

Region Four dominates choral presentation at Children Mash competition

Feb 20, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Region Four dominates choral presentation at Children Mash competition

National songs resonated from the National Cultural Centre yesterday as the finals of the Children’s Mashramani competition continued with choral presentations. The choir presentation saw students...

Prominent Attorney’s wife makes sad plea to the nation

Feb 20, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on Prominent Attorney’s wife makes sad plea to the nation

Dear Editor, I write to you because like so many citizens needing relief, one does not know in the present state of affairs in Guyana, to whom one should apply, who is the competent authority, to ask...

The media must be careful on matters like these

Feb 20, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on The media must be careful on matters like these

Dear Editor, The Childcare and Protection agency wishes to once again reaffirm its position regarding media reporting on matters involving children. We acknowledge the role that the media plays in...

Is the APNU+AFC regime anti-union?

Feb 20, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on Is the APNU+AFC regime anti-union?

Dear Editor, The protest by the workers on Thursday, 18th February at the Mayor and City Council (M&CC) Georgetown, against their union, the Guyana Labour Union (GLU) and its leader, Carvil...

Barbados-based lawyer appeals to the President

Feb 20, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on Barbados-based lawyer appeals to the President

Dear Editor, President Granger should do the right thing and immediately lay the Dr. Walter Rodney Commission of Enquiry Report before Parliament, and or make the contents public, and further ensure...

An entire school building is missing

Feb 20, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on An entire school building is missing

Dear Editor, On Monday, January 18, 2016 The Aurora Primary and Nursery Schools that once housed the Secondary School also was dismantled by a contactor in order that a new concrete and wooden...

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