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Food for the Poor built houses, nursery school for communities in 2015

Mar 22, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Food for the Poor built houses, nursery school for communities in 2015

– contributions also made to Health Sector Food for the Poor (FFTP), the charitable organization which has been serving Guyana for the past 34 years, is continuing to make lives better for the...

Business magnate funds US$1 million facility at GPHC

Mar 22, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Business magnate funds US$1 million facility at GPHC

– part of process to regain int’l accreditation of UG’s School of Medicine A state of the art facility at the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) to cater to the instruction of...

Sexual harassment, access to health services still challenging issues for women

Mar 22, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Sexual harassment, access to health services still challenging issues for women

On Thursday March 17, the Society Against Sexual Orientation Discrimination (SASOD) and the Advancing Partners and Communities (APC) – Guyana Project, held their seventh monthly “Lunch Talk”...

Berbice farmers embroiled in new legal battle for lease lands

Mar 22, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Berbice farmers embroiled in new legal battle for lease lands

Rice farmers of Seafield, West Coast Berbice (WCB) are embroiled in yet another court battle over lease lands. According to court documents, the Seafield Cooperative Land Society (SCLS) has filed a...

Another Camp Street fire…Inmate starts fire in cell to get rid of mosquitoes

Mar 22, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Another Camp Street fire…Inmate starts fire in cell to get rid of mosquitoes

Three weeks after the deadly riot at the Camp Street Prison which claimed the lives of 17 inmates, another fire broke out at another section of the detention centre, yesterday. This time the fire was...

Camp Street prison fire deaths…Eyewitnesses set to testify at COI

Mar 22, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Camp Street prison fire deaths…Eyewitnesses set to testify at COI

Inmates of the Georgetown Prisons, who are said to have witnessed the inferno which claimed the lives of 17 prisoners on March 3, last, will be given an opportunity to present their evidence to the...

Local Government Election results represent victory for the people — Communities Minister

Mar 22, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Local Government Election results represent victory for the people — Communities Minister

Minister of Communities, Ronald Bulkan, says that the results of the recently held Local Government Elections “represent victory for the people of Guyana and not for any political party”....

President Granger celebrates with Herstelling centenarian

Mar 22, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on President Granger celebrates with Herstelling centenarian

President David Granger presented two hampers to Charles Allicock of Herstelling, East Bank Demerara, when he joined with him to celebrate his 100th birthday. Mr. Allicock, who was born on March 21,...

2016 LGE had 47% total voter turnout- GECOM

Mar 22, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on 2016 LGE had 47% total voter turnout- GECOM

-recount in District 6, Region 3 produce unchanged results The recount sought by the People’s Progressive Party in Berbice and parts of Region Three did not affect the final results of the...

Robbery victim pleads with police for assistance

Mar 22, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Robbery victim pleads with police for assistance

Imagine trying to earn an honest dollar at the age of 62. For a man, it might seem normal but when a woman that age has to stay awake all night to guard someone else’s property, it can be...

Lions’ Club distributes kites to Diamond-Grove Children

Mar 22, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Lions’ Club distributes kites to Diamond-Grove Children

Easter came early on Saturday for the children in the Diamond/Grove area, as the Lions’ Club held a kite distribution and interactive session at the G3 Building in the Diamond New Housing Scheme,...

Microcephaly is of international, concern not Zika virus- Dr. Ado Krow

Mar 22, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Microcephaly is of international, concern not Zika virus- Dr. Ado Krow

The mosquito borne Zika Virus is not of international concern; it is the number of babies that are being born with microcephaly that is worrying. This is according to Pan-American Health Organization...

THE PPP ACHIEVED ONE OF ITS OBJECTIVES

Mar 22, 2016 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on THE PPP ACHIEVED ONE OF ITS OBJECTIVES

The PPP, as expected, dominated the elections for the sixty-two Neighbourhood Democratic Councils (NDCs). Its margin of victory in the NDCs demonstrated that in a number of areas the ruling APNU+AFC...

Motorcyclist dies weeks after road accident

Mar 22, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Motorcyclist dies weeks after road accident

A young Lima Sands resident has died from serious injuries he sustained after colliding with a cow several weeks ago while heading home. Traveal Green died early Sunday morning at a hospital in...

Bus driver gets bail on another car theft charge

Mar 22, 2016 KNews Court Stories, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Bus driver gets bail on another car theft charge

Raymond Samaroo, a former patient of the National Psychiatric Hospital, Fort Canje, Berbice who had appeared in court on offence of car theft was once again granted bail for allegedly stealing...

Soesdyke man jailed for cultivating ganja

Mar 22, 2016 KNews Court Stories, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Soesdyke man jailed for cultivating ganja

A Soesdyke, East Bank Demerara man was yesterday jailed for a total of seven years by City Magistrate Dylon Bess, after he was convicted for cultivating marijuana and possession of illegal firearm...

Woman acquitted of attempted murder

Mar 22, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Woman acquitted of attempted murder

Justice Jo Ann Barlow yesterday admonished Stacy James to stay out of trouble at all cost after the woman was acquitted of an attempted murder charge at the Georgetown High Court, yesterday. The...

Sister Fyffe Turns 100

Mar 22, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Sister Fyffe Turns 100

On March 16, 1916, Philip and Christina Fraser, of Golden Fleece, West Coast Berbice, experienced the joy of welcoming their first child into the world. She was to be followed by four others...

Confronting the factors that give rise to suicide

Mar 22, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on Confronting the factors that give rise to suicide

Dear Editor, During my cross country visits and talking to youths, teachers, parents and community leaders in various communities, a few commonalites stood out as it relates to the suicide problem in...

Name a part of the Homestretch landscape after “Lightweight”

Mar 22, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on Name a part of the Homestretch landscape after “Lightweight”

Dear Editor, I cannot vividly recall, seeing in the print media an artist impression/sketch; photograph, plan and last but not least and most importantly a budget of expenditure, which in my...

In Guyana, power habits do not die

Mar 22, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on In Guyana, power habits do not die

Dear Editor, The letter of March 20th 2016 “The Education Ministry has a favourite printer” was not a startling one as it speaks to reality. The beast might change but the basic nature remains!...

Random traffic stops are out of control on the East Bank

Mar 22, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on Random traffic stops are out of control on the East Bank

Dear Editor, I write in connection with the utter disgust that is senselessly being perpetrated on hapless motorists on the East Bank of Demerara by policemen. It is now the norm rather than the...

Land of many waters but only for some

Mar 22, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on Land of many waters but only for some

Dear Editor, In a news media letter of March 20, Mr. Ganga Persaud, a rice farmer from Hague on the West Coast of Demerara claimed that GuySuCo has been hogging the available irrigation water from...

Walter Rodney’s family is yet to receive the report

Mar 22, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on Walter Rodney’s family is yet to receive the report

Dear Editor, The Justice for Walter Rodney Committee took President Granger at his word, when he announced on March 2, 2016 that the report would be laid before Cabinet, given to the political...

Minister Jordan says salary increase can be unsustainable

Mar 22, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on Minister Jordan says salary increase can be unsustainable

Dear Editor, I refer to Mr. Lincoln Lewis’s letter captioned ‘Finance Minister is bordering on double standards’ (KN, March 20). In the opening sentence of his salvo, he states erroneously,...

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…Peeping Tom Morally Right. Legally wrong Kaieteur News- The situation concerning the disputed parliamentary seat held... more