February 2016

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Three Rivers willing to help fund local medical care for children

Feb 27, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Three Rivers willing to help fund local medical care for children

More support is likely to be forthcoming to local children in the area of medical conditions. This is based on discussions between The Three Rivers Kids Foundation, a Canada-based Charitable...

Mother seeks ‘mentally-ill’ daughter

Feb 27, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Mother seeks ‘mentally-ill’ daughter

Roshaunna Fraser, 27, of 37 David and Alexander Streets, Kitty, has been declared missing by her mother, Anita Andrews. According to Andrews, her daughter is mentally ill and would usually visit her...

Cost of human safety is too high

Feb 27, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Cost of human safety is too high

– President tells Police Officers – challenges them to come up with strategies without building more police stations The cost of human safety today is too high, according to...

Courtney Crum-Ewing’s murder…Police zero in on four for Crum-Ewing murder

Feb 27, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Courtney Crum-Ewing’s murder…Police zero in on four for Crum-Ewing murder

…hopes to complete investigation by next week – Crime Chief The Guyana Police Force (GPF) is hoping to complete the investigation into social activist, Courtney Crum-Ewing’s killing as...

Guyana now possesses technology to automatically track aircraft

Feb 27, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Guyana now possesses technology to automatically track aircraft

The Guyana Civil Aviation Authority (GCCA) has positioned itself to be transformed into an oversight body on par with those of its Caribbean counterparts. The National Assembly recently approved...

More traffic, street lights to be erected for 2016

Feb 27, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on More traffic, street lights to be erected for 2016

Apart from aiding in road safety, street lights also play an integral role in improving the vigilance by the relevant authorities in their aim to minimise criminal activities in communities. Over the...

A SOCIAL CONTRACT IS A SERIOUS COMMITMENT

Feb 27, 2016 KNews Editorial, Features / Columnists Comments Off on A SOCIAL CONTRACT IS A SERIOUS COMMITMENT

In Guyana, the consensus is that the government is slowly but surely making progress towards its goal of developing the country and provide a better life for all. Despite being in office for only...

THE YOUTH VOTE

Feb 27, 2016 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on THE YOUTH VOTE

The ruling coalition rode to power on the youth vote. Promises were made to the young people. The young people may feel that the promises which were made have not been delivered. The youth vote is...

Controversial property dispute leads to…Man’s home destroyed, belongings taken to dumpsite

Feb 27, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Controversial property dispute leads to…Man’s home destroyed, belongings taken to dumpsite

By Suraj Narine What residents of Tabatinga in Region Nine are describing as an act of indiscretion, has resulted in a family of three seeking refuge under a tree in a neighbour’s backyard while...

Guyana wants Canada to detain former GPL Deputy – Crime Chief

Feb 27, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Guyana wants Canada to detain former GPL Deputy – Crime Chief

The Guyana Police Force (GPF) has already expressed its interest to Canadian Law Enforcement officers in having former Deputy Chief Executive Officer at the Guyana Power and Light Company (GPL),...

Barbarians at the gate

Feb 27, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on Barbarians at the gate

Dear Editor, It may be dangerous to be an enemy of the United States, but in recent times it often has been almost as risky to be a friend. The uncomfortable truth is that America has too often...

Childcare and Protection Agency says sorry for a terrible lapse

Feb 27, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on Childcare and Protection Agency says sorry for a terrible lapse

Dear Editor, I wish to respond to a letter published in the Wednesday February 24, 2016 edition of your newspapers, subjected ‘The system failed these abused children’ which was written by Mr....

President Granger’s choice of hearsay testimony

Feb 27, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on President Granger’s choice of hearsay testimony

Dear Editor, Yesterday, February 24, President David Granger, in person, let the world know that he considered the Report of the Walter Rodney Presidential Commission of Inquiry established by his...

The long and winding dusty road that Guyanese leaders do not see

Feb 27, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on The long and winding dusty road that Guyanese leaders do not see

Dear Editor, I have been using the East Bank Berbice public road to access my cane farm and for about five years I actually lived in a most beautiful house at Edinburgh which I had built as my...

Complaint against rum shop in Dundee, Mahaicony

Feb 27, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on Complaint against rum shop in Dundee, Mahaicony

Dear Editor, I am hereby making a complaint of a rum shop and barber shop in my village. This is so disturbing. I am living in Dundee Novar Primary School Rd. This rum shop (owner’s name supplied)...

Maintaining the Maintenance Department

Feb 27, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on Maintaining the Maintenance Department

Dear Editor, Even though Wales Factory may be considered “obsolete’’, this plant if properly maintained can still be efficient and reduce the cost of cane sugar recovery. However, in order for...

Long-standing activist from Guyana dies in New York

Feb 27, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on Long-standing activist from Guyana dies in New York

Dear Editor, It is with deep sadness that I announce the passing of a former UG lecturer Kenneth Persaud who was a prominent WPA activist and colleague of Dr Walter Rodney passed away. He was an...

What fancy training are you talking about?

Feb 27, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on What fancy training are you talking about?

Dear Editor, Having read the letter headed “Guyanese teachers need to be more qualified”, I am left wondering how is it that the pupils/students of my 1930s/40s generation and for several years...

Massive corruption unearthed…Smuggled fuel accounts for more than half of local consumption

Feb 26, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Massive corruption unearthed…Smuggled fuel accounts for more than half of local consumption

Guyana has to depend heavily on oil imports to meet its energy and transportation needs. Regulating the oil imports for the country is the Guyana Energy Authority (GEA). The authority has been...

Bandit shoots accomplice dead during robbery

Feb 26, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Bandit shoots accomplice dead during robbery

A robbery at Arif’s Service Station at Onderneeming, West Coast Berbice went badly wrong for the perpetrators last night when a gun-toting bandit shot his partner dead, while trying to shoot the...

Cameraman gets 25 years for raping teen relative

Feb 26, 2016 KNews Court Stories, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Cameraman gets 25 years for raping teen relative

Television cameraman and former reporter, Andre Hetsberger, was yesterday jailed for 25 years by Justice Navendra Singh, on a charge of having sex with a minor female relative – a 13-year-old who...

President Granger to Co-chair CARICOM

Feb 26, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on President Granger to Co-chair CARICOM

-security of small states, disaster preparedness and response among priority issues President David Granger will be serving as the Co-Chairman of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) when the Heads of...

AG appeals Chang’s ruling on Technocrat Ministers

Feb 26, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on AG appeals Chang’s ruling on Technocrat Ministers

The government has made good on its promise to appeal the decision handed down by Chief Justice (ag) Ian Chang, which bars the Ministers Winston Felix and Keith Scott from sitting in the National...

Community Policing should not be an army of vigilantes -President Granger

Feb 26, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Community Policing should not be an army of vigilantes -President Granger

President David Granger has made it clear that Community Policing is not a substitute but a supplement to regular policing. Addressing police officers, other heads of the Disciplined Services, as...

There is nothing like a perfect crime

Feb 26, 2016 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on There is nothing like a perfect crime

SOCU is de new kid on de block who playing police, running in people place lef, right and centre. Normally, dem woulda never do that but a white man come and tell dem fuh run here and run there like...

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The great rediscovery

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(Kaieteur News) – There are few things more moving than a sudden conversion. Saul had his road to Damascus. St. Augustine heard a divine voice. And now thousands of overseas-based Guyanese are experiencing their own spiritual awakening. After decades of living in Brooklyn, Toronto, Miami,...

If the OAS did not exist, it could not be created today

Jun 21, 2026

By Sir Ronald Sanders (Kaieteur News) – I have spent a decade in the councils of the Organization of American States. I have watched governments come and go, seen some crises handled well and others handled badly, sat through more commemorative meetings than sessions discussing pressing issues,...

Local tolerance for bull-a beauty to behold

Jun 21, 2026

Hard Truths by GHK Lall (Kaieteur News) – Guyanese should get first prize for their tolerance for bull, their bottomless reservoir of docility. And humour. They have grown in those respects relative to their head-of-state. Whatever has taken over his head, the astonishing is what...

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