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Young steel pan player killed in freak accident

May 26, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Young steel pan player killed in freak accident

A 14-year-old steel pan player, who was slated to perform at the flag-raising ceremony last night, was killed in a freak accident on Tuesday evening in front of the North Ruimveldt Multilateral...

City Hall declares, ‘No new vendors’

May 26, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on City Hall declares, ‘No new vendors’

The Mayor and City Council (M&CC) has reiterated that no new vendors are permitted within the city. It was recognized that new persons are applying to become vendors, while others seem to be...

We have fulfilled all our obligations to Guyana

May 26, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on We have fulfilled all our obligations to Guyana

– says Indian logging company The Vaitarna Holding Private Incorporated (VHPI) – a subsidiary of the Indian-owned, Coffee Day— is insisting that it has fulfilled its commitment to Guyana to set...

Police Commander takes hands on approach at troubled school

May 26, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Police Commander takes hands on approach at troubled school

Envisaging that a lot more has to be done at a much earlier age to tackle the scourge of social ills plaguing the society at this time, the police in Berbice ‘B’ Division led by Commander...

Halim Majeed presents credentials in Cuba

May 26, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Halim Majeed presents credentials in Cuba

On April 21, last, Halim Majeed, Ambassador to the Republic of Cuba, was received by Ms. Gladys Maria Bejerano Portela, Vice President of the Council of State, and Bruno Rodriguez Parrilla, Foreign...

NATIONAL PRIDE

May 26, 2016 KNews Editorial, Features / Columnists Comments Off on NATIONAL PRIDE

Fifty years ago, today, Guyana broke free from the Monarchy to chart its own destiny. There was no golden handshake as has been the case with countries like Suriname that gained its independence from...

King’s Jewellery presents President with Golden Jubilee pin

May 26, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on King’s Jewellery presents President with Golden Jubilee pin

President David Granger yesterday received the first gold pin from a limited edition collection, featuring the Golden Jubilee logo, from King’s Jewellery World. The pin was presented to the...

GPHC doctors attend Zika Management meeting in Barbados

May 26, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on GPHC doctors attend Zika Management meeting in Barbados

Two doctors of the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) will from today be attending a Zika management meeting in Barbados. The Pan American Health Organisation/World Health Organisation...

Multi-billion bids for GPL’s smart metering, new transformers being assessed

May 26, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Multi-billion bids for GPL’s smart metering, new transformers being assessed

The Guyana Power and Light Inc. (GPL) is embarking on one of its biggest upgrades, with several bids being assessed at the moment for the installation of a medium and low voltage distribution network...

Great thoughts of freedom on the 50th Independence Anniversary

May 26, 2016 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon 1

When I was leaving Guyana to study abroad, one of my favourite persons, my history professor, Catholic nun Dr. Mary Noel Menezes, gave me a little volume and told me to always keep it by my side. It...

Covent Garden Primary turns 50

May 26, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Covent Garden Primary turns 50

…Guyoil to construct $2M music facility for students The cornerstone for the Covent Garden Primary School was laid on May 26, 1966. The school will be celebrating with Guyana as the nation...

Hotels, local businesses cash in on visitor arrival

May 26, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Hotels, local businesses cash in on visitor arrival

Guyana‘s 50th Independence Anniversary and Golden Jubilee celebrations has brought thousands of overseas -based Guyanese and tourists to these shores. During a typical walk in downtown Georgetown,...

Alleged cocaine trafficker for High Court trial, co-accused freed

May 26, 2016 KNews Court Stories, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Alleged cocaine trafficker for High Court trial, co-accused freed

A man was yesterday committed to stand trial in the High Court for the offence of trafficking in narcotics; while his co-accused was freed after they made an appearance before Chief Magistrate Ann...

Guyana has resources to banish poverty forever –President Granger

May 26, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Guyana has resources to banish poverty forever –President Granger

President David Granger has called on all Guyanese to begin the mission now to expand Guyana’s economy, to ensure equality, to improve education, to protect the environment and to provide...

Telephone conmen strike again…15-year-old victim relieved of mother’s jewellery

May 26, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Telephone conmen strike again…15-year-old victim relieved of mother’s jewellery

Not everyone gets a call to go down to the Guyana Telephone and Telegraph Company (GTT) to uplift $1M in promotional money, so when a 15-year-old girl heard that her father was that lucky person, she...

President Obama’s representative meets with President David Granger

May 26, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on President Obama’s representative meets with President David Granger

Mr. Juan Gonzalez, Deputy Assistant Secretary, Bureau of Western Hemisphere Affairs, United States Department of State, met with President David Granger, yesterday, at the Ministry of the Presidency....

Guyanese must take pride in country’s achievements

May 26, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Guyanese must take pride in country’s achievements

– Dr. Norton tells Region Five Fort Wellington, Region Five, came alive yesterday, as scores of persons gathered at the Regional Democratic Council’s compound to partake in a flag-raising...

Soldier remanded for robbing 13-year-old

May 26, 2016 KNews Court Stories, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Soldier remanded for robbing 13-year-old

An army man accused of robbing a 13-year-old girl of her cell phone, was remanded to prison yesterday when he appeared at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court. Niassi Jones, 18, of 118 Mitchel Street,...

Father of three jailed for causing death

May 26, 2016 KNews Court Stories, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Father of three jailed for causing death

A 44-year-old father of three will have to spend the next four years in prison after he was found guilty of causing death by dangerous driving when he appeared before Magistrate Rondell Weaver at the...

Is there conflict of interest at this Ministry?

May 26, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on Is there conflict of interest at this Ministry?

Dear Editor, On the matter of conflict of interest in government ministries, another ministry I am urging the anti-corruption watchdog group Transparency Institute of Guyana (TIGI) to investigate is...

Region 8 REO should be commended

May 26, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on Region 8 REO should be commended

Dear Editor, Please allow us a number of residents of Mahdia, Kato and Kopinang to voice our pleasure and satisfaction with the numerous positives that continues to grace us through the evident hard...

Panic has set in with the Coalition Govt.

May 26, 2016 KNews Letters 1

Dear Editor, It is becoming quite clear, based on a series of revealing comments from some senior government ministers over the past month that panic and despair are starting to take hold within the...

Where is the Coalition?

May 26, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on Where is the Coalition?

Dear Editor, This time the feisty elderly citizen was irrepressible. He stood in my way and, as if, contradictorily, it was I who was blocking his path–his emaciated hands akimbo of body too frail...

More criticisms of Mae’s schools

May 26, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on More criticisms of Mae’s schools

Dear Editor, Allow me to shed some light on the following article ‘Two Dept. Heads support Mae’s School’ in your paper on 22nd of May 2016. Let me make it absolutely clear that these two...

The mischievous intentions of Donald Ramotar

May 26, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on The mischievous intentions of Donald Ramotar

Dear Editor, Ex-president Donald Ramotar wrote an article under the heading “The racist tactics of the APNU/AFC regime” I am convinced after reading this article that the aim is mischievous in...

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The PPP has started the intimidation

Peeping Tom… Kaieteur News- In politics, as in life, what goes around comes around. The People’s Progressive Party/Civic... more