April 2, 2016

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HONORIFIC

Apr 02, 2016 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on HONORIFIC

The government has gone overboard in its handling of the controversy involving the granting of an honorific title to a businessman. The government has reacted impulsively and hastily in rescinding...

Facebook threat suspect released on station bail

Apr 02, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Facebook threat suspect released on station bail

Police have released the 52-year-old woman, who is believed to have posted racially-inciting social media comments about African Guyanese, and what appeared to be a threat to President David Granger....

Guyana becomes member of Islamic bank

Apr 02, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Guyana becomes member of Islamic bank

…eyes concessionary financing Guyana has acceded to membership of the Islamic Development Bank (IDB). This information was transmitted via an official correspondence to the Government of Guyana on...

40th Anniversary of CPGs…Groups to undergo training – says Ramjattan

Apr 02, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on 40th Anniversary of CPGs…Groups to undergo training – says Ramjattan

At a conference held at the Ministry of Public Security, Brickdam, Georgetown yesterday, Minister Khemraj Ramjattan, announced that the Community Policing Groups (CPGs), over the next year, will be...

Eighteen graduate from Operating Room Technician Programme

Apr 02, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Eighteen graduate from Operating Room Technician Programme

The Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) yesterday held a graduation ceremony for 18 health workers who successfully completed the Operating Room Technician Programme. The course which...

Demerara High Court complete 40 matters, backlog stands at 144

Apr 02, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Demerara High Court complete 40 matters, backlog stands at 144

Jail delivery was done on Friday by Madam Justice Priya Sewnarine-Beharry bringing to an end the January 2016 Criminal Assizes which commenced on Tuesday January 12, 2016. The Demerara January 2016...

Carlton Beckles is Lethem Mayor, Deputy is Maxine Welsh, 19

Apr 02, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Carlton Beckles is Lethem Mayor, Deputy is Maxine Welsh, 19

In a surprise pairing, Carlton Beckles has been elected Mayor of Lethem, while 19-year-old Maxine Ann Welch is the new Deputy Mayor. They were both voted into office by their fellow councillors...

Ninth edition of ‘Guyana where and what’ Guidebook launched

Apr 02, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Ninth edition of ‘Guyana where and what’ Guidebook launched

The ninth edition of the “Guyana where and what”, the premier pocket size guide book on Guyana, is now available for visitors to Guyana and Guyanese alike. The first edition was published in...

The political divide

Apr 02, 2016 KNews Editorial, Features / Columnists Comments Off on The political divide

The local media houses are not known for conducting surveys. For one there are not many with the capability to prepare the surveys. Having found someone who could do that then there is the task of...

Berbice businessmen want government to remove unfair competition

Apr 02, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Berbice businessmen want government to remove unfair competition

Region Six businessmen want the government to remove the unfair competition which they say is affecting their businesses. They also want the government to be more forthright when dealing with...

Mabaruma municipality—a case of Family Matters in the PPP

Apr 02, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Mabaruma municipality—a case of Family Matters in the PPP

Nepotism is at its best in the selection of Council members for the Mabaruma Municipality. Three members from one family – Leslie Robinson, his son-in law, Mark Persaud, and his...

Shot welder remains hospitalized, businessman discharged

Apr 02, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Shot welder remains hospitalized, businessman discharged

A father of two, who was shot twice when bandits tried to carry out a daring robbery outside of a general store on Regent Street, Georgetown on Thursday, is in the Georgetown Public Hospital...

Starr Computer launches Samsung S7

Apr 02, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Starr Computer launches Samsung S7

STARR Computer yesterday launched the new Samsung flagship phone, the Galaxy S7. The much anticipated launch saw technology enthusiasts visiting the Authorised Samsung Experience Store to test the...

What the Raphael Trotman tape reveals

Apr 02, 2016 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on What the Raphael Trotman tape reveals

On Thursday evening I was liming with friends at Nicky’s Fish Shop at Drury Lane in Campbellville having Guyanese fries (plantain fries) with fried fish. As the evening wore on, one of the leaders...

Rabindranauth Mohan is Mayor of Anna Regina

Apr 02, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Rabindranauth Mohan is Mayor of Anna Regina

Elected councillors representing the coalition government and the opposition People’s Progressive Party on Friday attended a ceremony which led to the installment of a Mayor and a Deputy to...

PPP, RPA want “imposed” VAT on heavy-duty, farming equipment removed

Apr 02, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on PPP, RPA want “imposed” VAT on heavy-duty, farming equipment removed

The People’s Progressive Party/Civic (PPP/C) on Friday registered its concern, and called for the removal of what they claimed to be an imposition—the application of Value Added Tax (VAT) on...

Linden gets new Mayor after 22 years

Apr 02, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Linden gets new Mayor after 22 years

Yesterday was an historic day in the mining town of Linden. After an absence of local Government elections for 23 years, a 38-year-old former journalist and businessman, Carwyn Holland, was elected...

Two drug dealers nabbed with ganja in car

Apr 02, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Two drug dealers nabbed with ganja in car

Two men who were nabbed in a car with a quantity of drugs in their possession have been remanded to jail. The men Jaiprakash Raghbeer, called “Lipstick Batty”, 39, a labourer of 32 Reliance...

Glad that a Guyanese has won the title

Apr 02, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on Glad that a Guyanese has won the title

Dear Editor, First, the for the good news. So proud and pleased to learn that one of our country-women has won the title of Mrs. New York, and now has a chance to try later in the year for the...

Restoring the graveyard of our Dutch ancestors

Apr 02, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on Restoring the graveyard of our Dutch ancestors

Dear Editor, Though I cannot be considered a Taphophile by any stretch of the imagination, I have always had an abiding interest in the Bourda Cemetery which is an eighteenth-century graveyard...

Royston King must accept criticism with an open mind

Apr 02, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on Royston King must accept criticism with an open mind

Dear Editor, Constructive criticism must be accepted with the deserved smile and strive towards rectifying the situation, since self-criticism is just a phase of appraisal or evaluation. As a...

We must at all times patronage local industries

Apr 02, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on We must at all times patronage local industries

Dear Editor, It was lovely to see the smiles on the faces of the children in the picture in the papers, as they received the kites from the Government Ministers. But how lovlier a picture it would...

Tribute to a fine Guyanese who has died

Apr 02, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on Tribute to a fine Guyanese who has died

Dear Editor, The Special Committee on Constitutional Reform convened by the Honourable Prime Minister was plunged into a state of shock and deep mourning when we leant of the very tragic passing of...

Georgetown must be almost impeccable for the Jubilee visitors

Apr 02, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on Georgetown must be almost impeccable for the Jubilee visitors

Dear Editor, In the press recently there have been reports that Guyanese nationals residing in the United States who plan to travel home for the celebration of the nation’s Golden Jubilee of...

This lady should be careful with her rhetoric

Apr 02, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on This lady should be careful with her rhetoric

Dear Editor, We in the Rupununi get our news very late, hence my belated comments on the ongoing debate concerning Mr. Eric Phillips’ letter. I read Ms. Texiera’s dangerously ethnic oriented...

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