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Letter to the Sports Editor…How effective is the GFF’s P.R Department?

Mar 23, 2016 KNews Sports Comments Off on Letter to the Sports Editor…How effective is the GFF’s P.R Department?

Dear Sports Editor, Editor, this question I pose publicly, since to the best of my knowledge the term/usage of “Sub-Association (s) have ceased forthwith, way back in 1999, if my memory serves me...

Taxi driver perishes after losing control while overtaking

Mar 23, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Taxi driver perishes after losing control while overtaking

Kathleen Elexey had just dished out her husband’s dinner and was waiting for him to come home from his work as a taxi driver when she suddenly dozed off to sleep. She was awakened by the sound of...

Security is top priority for 50th Jubilee

Mar 23, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Security is top priority for 50th Jubilee

Ensuring the security of the thousands of persons expected to attend events for Guyana’s 50th Independence Anniversary celebration is a top priority for the organisers. In an interview with the...

UN Diplomat, George Talbot, named as Guyana’s Ambassador to Brazil

Mar 23, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on UN Diplomat, George Talbot, named as Guyana’s Ambassador to Brazil

Experienced Diplomat, George Talbot, will be the next Ambassador of Guyana to Brazil, Government announced yesterday. According to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, it has received the Agrément...

Prison deaths COI…Inmates recall desperate cries for help, seeing headless remains

Mar 23, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Prison deaths COI…Inmates recall desperate cries for help, seeing headless remains

Desperate cries for help, dead bodies, and the headless remains of fellow inmates are some of the chilling scenarios which occurred during the deadly March 3rd fire at the Camp Street Prisons, and...

Bidders vie to reconstruct $$M dam for Demerara conservancy

Mar 23, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Bidders vie to reconstruct $$M dam for Demerara conservancy

During yesterday’s session at the National Procurement and Tender Administration Board (NPTAB), Ministry of Finance, nine bids were opened for the reconstruction of the North Eastern dam of the...

Murdered bus driver’s family in disbelief

Mar 23, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Murdered bus driver’s family in disbelief

– Wife too distraught to speak By Enid Joaquin “I can’t believe my father is gone,” were the painful words of Mary Lorrimer as she sadly reflected on the gruesome killing of her father...

THE LEADERS OF CARIBBEAN INDEPENDENCE WERE REFORMISTS

Mar 23, 2016 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on THE LEADERS OF CARIBBEAN INDEPENDENCE WERE REFORMISTS

There is something called false equivalence. This is when two things are presented as the same when in fact they are not. False equivalence is a fallacy, and this fallacy was exemplified by equating...

Linden Hospital Complex gets help from business entity

Mar 23, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Linden Hospital Complex gets help from business entity

At a simple presentation ceremony in the Linden Hospital Complex Boardroom yesterday, businesswoman Simone Hodge, of Bernard’s Variety Store presented 20 floor fans to the Linden Hospital Complex....

City Hall ready to lend support to areas tagged for township status

Mar 23, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on City Hall ready to lend support to areas tagged for township status

A new and improved mode of operation is being encouraged at City Hall that could very well be extended to other sections of the country. And Town Clerk, Mr. Royston King, is prepared to lead the way....

‘Nominal’ fee for National Park, Botanical Gardens, Joe Vieira Park on Easter Monday

Mar 23, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on ‘Nominal’ fee for National Park, Botanical Gardens, Joe Vieira Park on Easter Monday

On Easter Monday, a nominal fee will be charged by the National Parks Commission for vendors and patrons wishing to take their vehicles – buses, cars, SUVs, motorcycles – into the...

Jubilee Festival launched

Mar 23, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Jubilee Festival launched

– Be prepared for an economic boost, says Tourism Minister The Minister of Public Telecommunications with Responsibility for Tourism, Catherine Hughes during her remarks at the launch of the...

Audit shows $35M missing from Sugar Welfare Fund

Mar 23, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Audit shows $35M missing from Sugar Welfare Fund

– years of no audited financial statements – opportunities for investment squandered by management By Jarryl Bryan The forensic audit conducted into the Sugar Industry Welfare Fund...

Youths to get int’l human rights exposure through strategic YCG partnership

Mar 23, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Youths to get int’l human rights exposure through strategic YCG partnership

With the primary aim of advancing human rights education among young people, Youth Challenge Guyana (YCG) was recently able to forge a strategic partnership with the Intercultural Institute of...

The ignominious defeat of Mark Benschop

Mar 23, 2016 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on The ignominious defeat of Mark Benschop

Mr. Benschop’s local government sojourn was doomed before it started. Why Benschop would choose to defy one of the most historical moments in Guyana’s evolution was bizarre and silly. But maybe...

Pepsi franchise under threat locally from smuggling

Mar 23, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Pepsi franchise under threat locally from smuggling

– DDL complains to Govt. The new administration is facing pressure to address smuggling, with one beverage company warning recently that a major franchise is under threat. Demerara Distillers...

Contravening the Public Service Act

Mar 23, 2016 KNews Editorial, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Contravening the Public Service Act

In Guyana, the continued hiring of contract workers by the government has been making the headlines in the media in that it came under scrutiny by the opposition during the budget debate. Although...

Trio remanded for murder of Soesdyke re-migrant

Mar 23, 2016 KNews Court Stories, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Trio remanded for murder of Soesdyke re-migrant

A week after the lifeless body of re-migrant agriculturalist, Anthony Breedy was found in his Hill Foot, Soesdyke residence, three men accused of killing him were yesterday remanded to prison after...

WHY IS ONE-THIRD OF OUR PRISON POPULATION ON REMAND?

Mar 23, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on WHY IS ONE-THIRD OF OUR PRISON POPULATION ON REMAND?

THE VOICE OF THE LIBERAL DEMOCRATS By Sase Singh A remand prisoner is one who has been charged but not convicted by the judicial system and is being detained pending a FAIR TRIAL. Six years ago,...

Man, 78, found strangled in Crabwood Creek home

Mar 23, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Man, 78, found strangled in Crabwood Creek home

The body of a 78-year-old man, with wounds to the head and plastic handcuffs wrapped tightly around the throat, was found at Crabwood Creek, Berbice at around 21.30 hrs last night. The victim’s...

Gunman executed bus driver

Mar 23, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Gunman executed bus driver

– cops seek motive Elvin Lorrimer, the minibus driver who was shot on Monday night, appeared to have been “deliberately targeted” by the gunman who ambushed him at the Linden bus park...

Four Miles’ land issues to be resolved in three months

Mar 23, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Four Miles’ land issues to be resolved in three months

Residents of Four Miles Community, Port Kaituma, Region One were assured that their outstanding land issues would not only be investigated but, completed within three months. This assurance came from...

Youth Vision pickets Linden Enterprise Network

Mar 23, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Youth Vision pickets Linden Enterprise Network

The youth group, Linden Youth Vision, picketed the Linden Enterprise Network (LEN) Building on Monday morning after the group was locked out. LEN claimed no rent was paid since May 2015. According to...

Rice miller slams ‘secret’ GRDB deal with Jamaica

Mar 23, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Rice miller slams ‘secret’ GRDB deal with Jamaica

The Guyana Rice Development Board (GRDB) earlier this month managed to secure a three-year agreement to sell rice to Jamaican market, but the deal has been slammed by local millers. According to...

O’Riley Small execution…Cops detain ‘mastermind,’ find gunpowder traces in alleged killer’s car

Mar 23, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on O’Riley Small execution…Cops detain ‘mastermind,’ find gunpowder traces in alleged killer’s car

Police have detained an individual they have described as a “known drug dealer” who is suspected of ordering last Saturday’s execution of 31-year-old O’Riley Small. Crime Chief Wendell...

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The reciprocal tariffs

Peeping Tom… Kaieteur News- Vice President Bharrat Jagdeo has once again proven his talent for making the indefensible... more