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D’urban Park Project for May 12 completion

Apr 22, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on D’urban Park Project for May 12 completion

Minister of Public Infrastructure, David Patterson, revealed at a press conference and tour of the incomplete D’urban Park Project yesterday, that contractors will be required to work double shifts...

India plugs US$1M for start-up of ICT training centre at UG

Apr 22, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on India plugs US$1M for start-up of ICT training centre at UG

The Government of Guyana, through the Minister of State, Joseph Harmon, on Wednesday signed a US$1M Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Indian Government via its High Commissioner in Guyana,...

Gunmen drink milk, coconut water during one-hour home invasion

Apr 22, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Gunmen drink milk, coconut water during one-hour home invasion

Six gunmen early yesterday stormed the home of a popular rice farmer/miller at Toevlugt, West Bank Demerara. At the end of an almost hour-long ordeal, the masked invaders, who were armed with three...

Teaching students with disabilities is sometimes “a thankless task”

Apr 22, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Teaching students with disabilities is sometimes “a thankless task”

– Education Official Delivering special needs education is sometimes a thankless task. This assertion was on Wednesday made by Chief Planning Officer within the Ministry of Education, Ms. Evelyn...

Tax sites opened at GRA H/Q, City Mall, Muneshwers

Apr 22, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Tax sites opened at GRA H/Q, City Mall, Muneshwers

The Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) officially commenced tax sites operations from yesterday with locations at Muneshwers Limited, Water Street (Opposite Fogarty’s); City Mall, Regent and Camp...

Police deny Attorney was ordered from station

Apr 22, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Police deny Attorney was ordered from station

The Guyana Police Force says that at no time was Attorney-at-Law Patrice Henry ordered out of the Sparendaam Police Station and denied his client the right to his attorney. The police were responding...

Meeting future demands

Apr 22, 2016 KNews Editorial, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Meeting future demands

In Guyana, the supply of electricity is dominated by Guyana Power and Light (GPL), the state-owned vertically integrated utility. Although the country has significant potential for hydropower, and...

Granger and Nagamootoo have to be careful who and what they defend

Apr 22, 2016 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on Granger and Nagamootoo have to be careful who and what they defend

In politics, friendship runs deep. It is a worldwide behavioural pattern. Presidents and Prime Ministers cannot bring themselves to openly criticize people that they swam with in murky waters and...

COI recommendations will be implemented – Education Minister

Apr 22, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on COI recommendations will be implemented – Education Minister

Failure to implement the forthcoming recommendations of a Commission of Inquiry (COI) will not be an option. This assertion was made by Minister of Education Dr. Rupert Roopnaraine who, speaking to...

Man fatally struck down at Diamond

Apr 22, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Man fatally struck down at Diamond

The East Bank Demerara roadway has claimed yet another life. Its latest victim has been identified as Sew Persaud. While little is known of the man and what transpired that lead to his demise, staff...

Water levels no longer critical

Apr 22, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Water levels no longer critical

For the first time in the past three months, the water levels at the Guyana Water Inc. Shelter Belt, and East Demerara and Boerasirie Conservancies, are above the critical line. In these facilities,...

GRA finds cocaine in plywood

Apr 22, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on GRA finds cocaine in plywood

Officials of the Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) yesterday busted a shipment of cocaine secreted in plywood. The shipment was destined for Florida and three persons have since been arrested. According...

Public Health Ministry hosts forum on Neglected Infectious Diseases

Apr 22, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Public Health Ministry hosts forum on Neglected Infectious Diseases

The Public Health Ministry yesterday held a joint stakeholder meeting at the Arthur Chung Convention Centre in Liliendaal, East Coast Demerara, to review the existing National Action Plan for...

Prison deaths COI…Facility was not designed to house 1000 inmates

Apr 22, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Prison deaths COI…Facility was not designed to house 1000 inmates

– Officer in Charge tells commissioners As the Commission of Inquiry (COI) into the death of 17 inmates at the Camp Street Prison continues, Officer in Charge Superintendent Kevin Pilgrim took...

Defendant maintains was at home when Land Court judge robbed

Apr 22, 2016 KNews Court Stories, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Defendant maintains was at home when Land Court judge robbed

Damien Millington, one of the five men accused of robbing Land Court judge Nicola Pierre, has maintained that he was at home at the time of the robbery which occurred in the gated community of...

President Granger visits centenarian as 105th birthday approaches

Apr 22, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on President Granger visits centenarian as 105th birthday approaches

Mrs. Olive Blackmore, one of the oldest persons in Guyana, yesterday morning received a visit from President David Granger at her Cummings Street home. Mrs. Blackmore affectionately called Aunt Olive...

Shortcomings of the Aurora Post Office

Apr 22, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on Shortcomings of the Aurora Post Office

Dear Editor, On Monday 4th April, 2016, I left my work place, braving the weather travelling about eight miles to get to the Bartica Post Office, having arrived there they were about fifteen persons,...

Criminal rampage in Guyana

Apr 22, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on Criminal rampage in Guyana

Dear Editor, The brutal burning to death of a rice farming family (Munir and Jamila) on Sunday night, April 17, 2016 at Good Hope East Bank Essequibo is a grim reminder of the degenerated culture of...

Some people didn’t fight for any form of justice

Apr 22, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on Some people didn’t fight for any form of justice

Dear Editor, I am forced to reply to an editorial in the Guyana Chronicle of April 20 in which I was named (the State newspaper). One of the things I have learned in my years of activism is never to...

COTED is insincere and hypocritical

Apr 22, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on COTED is insincere and hypocritical

Dear Editor, The Council for Trade and Economic Development (COTED) is currently holding its meeting in Guyana. Normally their meetings would be hosted at the Pegasus Hotel. This time around, it is...

City Council officer who travels often to China

Apr 22, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on City Council officer who travels often to China

Dear Editor, Over the last few weeks, there has been quite a brouhaha about Minister Harmon’s trip to the People’s Republic of China and his association with some Chinese companies and investors...

Opportunists have taken over Paradise sporting facilities

Apr 22, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on Opportunists have taken over Paradise sporting facilities

Dear Editor, I was born in the village of Bachelors Adventure on the East Coast of Demerara, where I lived and played as a youth. From the age of sixteen I began teaching at the Paradise Primary...

I am so glad I left Guyana

Apr 22, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on I am so glad I left Guyana

Dear Editor, When I read of the horrifying experience of the four women, confronted by burglars who gained entry “by prising out a grill from a window in the bottom flat of the two-storey...

Sugar Unions grinds away at GuySuco

Apr 22, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on Sugar Unions grinds away at GuySuco

Dear Editor, The Guyana Agricultural and General Workers Union (GAWU) and the National Association of Agricultural, Commercial and Industrial Employees (NAACIE) are perplexed by the highly misleading...

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Chilling reminders that we are not safe

Peeping Tom… Kaieteur News- Georgetown was plunged into shock and terror last week after two heinous incidents laid... more