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New Vice-Chancellor has 12-point plan for more UG resources

May 28, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on New Vice-Chancellor has 12-point plan for more UG resources

President David Granger yesterday met with Professor Ivelaw Griffith at the Ministry of the Presidency. Professor Griffith, who was recently appointed the tenth Vice-Chancellor of the University of...

‘Bottom house’ rum shops will not be condoned – GRA

May 28, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on ‘Bottom house’ rum shops will not be condoned – GRA

…Urges persons to report illegalities With the number of unlicensed liquor restaurants/‘bottom house rum-shops” seemingly on the rise, business operatives who follow the rules and...

ALL IS NOT WELL AFTER 50 YEARS

May 28, 2016 KNews Editorial, Features / Columnists Comments Off on ALL IS NOT WELL AFTER 50 YEARS

While Guyanese at home and in the diaspora have celebrated the country’s 50th Independence Anniversary, they must stay focused on the fundamental issues facing the country and not be side-tracked...

May is Internal Audit Awareness Month

May 28, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on May is Internal Audit Awareness Month

May is International Internal Audit Awareness Month. This year marks 75 years of existence of the Institute of Internal Auditors (IIA) as a global voice for internal auditing. Today the IIA is...

Essequibo celebrates Guyana’s 50th anniversary

May 28, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Essequibo celebrates Guyana’s 50th anniversary

Patriotic Essequibians, Regional councillors and students who attended a ceremony to mark Guyana’s 50th, anniversary organised by executives of Region Two Democratic Council (Pomeroon/ Supenaam)...

Burnham Educational Scholarship Trust (BEST) fund gets $1M donation

May 28, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Burnham Educational Scholarship Trust (BEST) fund gets $1M donation

The Guyana Action Committee (GAC) on Friday presented the Burnham Educational Scholarship Trust (BEST) fund with $1 million in the presence of Attorney General Basil Williams. The presentation took...

Motorcyclist killed in Good Hope accident

May 28, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Motorcyclist killed in Good Hope accident

A 44-year-old motorcyclist was killed in an accident around 19:30 hrs on Thursday while he was on his way home from a birthday party. The dead man has been identified as Karamchand Singh, a father of...

Incident-free 50th anniversary celebrations

May 28, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Incident-free 50th anniversary celebrations

The National Flag Raising Ceremony and the Jubilee Float Parade organized as part of our 50th Anniversary Celebrations were generally incident free. This was according to the Ministry of Public...

Guyanese in Canada hoist the Golden Arrowhead

May 28, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Guyanese in Canada hoist the Golden Arrowhead

By Lindsay Davidson Scores of Toronto-based Guyanese gathered along with members of the Caricom Diplomatic Corps at City Hall yesterday to witness the hoisting of Guyana’s Golden Arrowhead to mark...

Rupert Craig’s WW1 sword presented to Granger

May 28, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Rupert Craig’s WW1 sword presented to Granger

President David Granger yesterday received a sword that once belonged to the late Rupert Berchmans Craig, one of the country’s earliest engineers in whose honour the ‘Rupert Craig Highway’ was...

Forensic audit on NFMU…Auditors recommend strict measures to improve frail financial systems

May 28, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Forensic audit on NFMU…Auditors recommend strict measures to improve frail financial systems

Given the weaknesses in financial systems at the National Frequency Management Unit, forensic auditors from Ram and McRae, Chartered Accountants, have recommended a number of drastic changes and...

Survey to determine official unemployment rate in 2017

May 28, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Survey to determine official unemployment rate in 2017

…PPP government was unconcerned — Jordan declared Bureau of Statistics Chief Statistician, Lennox Benjamin, on Monday revealed that an official unemployment rate will be assessed next year...

Obama’s rep. talks oil with Nagamootoo

May 28, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Obama’s rep. talks oil with Nagamootoo

Representative of President of the United States, Barack Obama, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Western Hemisphere Affairs for the Caribbean and Central America, Juan Gonzalez, on Thursday paid a...

Bajan PM conferred with Order of Roraima

May 28, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Bajan PM conferred with Order of Roraima

President David Granger, who is Chancellor of the Orders of Guyana, on Thursday conferred Prime Minister of Barbados, Freundel Stuart, with the Order of Roraima, Guyana’s second highest National...

Coalition Govt: The danger of power-sharing

May 28, 2016 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon 1

Why were the Stabroek Square vendors removed? The official explanation was that it was part of the determined effort after May 2015 to get Georgetown back to its pristine self. If that was the honest...

Ogle Networking Administrator gets $160,000 bail for forgery

May 28, 2016 KNews Court Stories, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Ogle Networking Administrator gets $160,000 bail for forgery

A Networking Administrator of Ogle International Airport Inc was granted $160,000 bail yesterday after he denied forging another man’s signature on a deed of gift and transfer three years ago....

E’bo Technical Institute is 15

May 28, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on E’bo Technical Institute is 15

Principal of the Essequibo Technical Institute, Michael Turner, addressing mostly secondary school students in observance of the institute’s 15th Anniversary, emphasised the importance of...

‘Drug addict’ remanded for father’s murder

May 28, 2016 KNews Court Stories, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on ‘Drug addict’ remanded for father’s murder

A 37-year-old unemployed man was remanded to prison for the murder of his father when he appeared before Magistrate Zamilla Ally-Seepaul yesterday, in the Sparendaam Magistrate’s Court. Kumey...

Charity has become like the Wild West

May 28, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on Charity has become like the Wild West

Dear Editor, We the residents of Charity need URGENT help and government’s intervention. I wish to bring to your attention a situation which continues to be a major problem for the legitimate...

The media did not report on this speech of President Granger

May 28, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on The media did not report on this speech of President Granger

Dear Editor, As we approach our 50th anniversary of Independence, the media needs to take a serious look at itself. Last Friday, the President of Guyana made a very important foreign policy speech as...

Residents of Charity protest noise nuisance

May 28, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on Residents of Charity protest noise nuisance

Dear Editor, We the residents of Charity and surrounding areas, serves to give attention to the authorities responsible for maintaining and safeguarding the rights of the Guyanese nation. It is truly...

The tragic death of Patricia Mitchell King

May 28, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on The tragic death of Patricia Mitchell King

Dear Editor, I wish you could have met Patricia Mitchell King. That woman! Never without a smile always laughing, at 45 she was already a proud grandmother, fluent in Spanish working in a reputable...

Fireworks harm and even kill certain animals

May 28, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on Fireworks harm and even kill certain animals

Dear Editor, On Monday May 23, 2016 during a rehearsal for the Independence Flag-Raising Ceremony in Georgetown, the organizers of the event saw it fit to set off fireworks at Durban Park. Now this...

Tremendous losses because GPL’s poor monitoring of projects

May 28, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on Tremendous losses because GPL’s poor monitoring of projects

Dear Editor, I have taken note, with interest and raised eyebrows, news from your well-read newspaper that there are a number of bids currently being assessed for a major contract with the Guyana...

Police Harassment and Corruption

May 28, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on Police Harassment and Corruption

Dear Editor, With reference to the above mentioned subject, I wish to relate to you my experiences with a traffic rank, (name supplied) at Mahaica Police Station. On July 26, 2015 the rank stopped me...

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Guyana recorded over 10 000 dengue cases in 2024

Kaieteur News- Guyana recorded just over 10,000 dengue cases in 2024, Health Minister Dr. Frank Anthony revealed during an... more