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Preliminary report on Drop-In Centre fire handed over to Minister Harmon

Jul 23, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Preliminary report on Drop-In Centre fire handed over to Minister Harmon

The Preliminary Report of the Commission of Inquiry (COI) established to probe the fire at the Hadfield Street Drop In Centre, which resulted in the deaths of two young children, was yesterday handed...

Cevons further accuses Govt of favouritism

Jul 23, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Cevons further accuses Govt of favouritism

…points to improper award of $221M contract “This matter is bigger than Cevons (Waste Management) and its partners; it is about ensuring that the procurement process is transparent, democratic...

Missing miner’s leg turns up, relatives identify limb

Jul 23, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Missing miner’s leg turns up, relatives identify limb

First there was a severed arm. Now, another limb that is believed to be from missing miner Shawn Clarke has turned up in the Mahdia area where he disappeared. Police said that a leg was found...

Can Amerindian traditions help us reverse climate change?

Jul 23, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Can Amerindian traditions help us reverse climate change?

By Patricia Scotland, Commonwealth Secretary-General From above, Guyana’s Iwokrama tropical rainforest reserve is a feast for the eyes; acres and acres of lush, green vegetation, interrupted by...

Lindeners pleased with Guyana Watch visit

Jul 23, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Lindeners pleased with Guyana Watch visit

The United States-based Guyana Medical Watch team continued their one-week tour of Guyana with a visit to the Mackenzie Primary School in the bauxite mining Town of Linden yesterday. The team offered...

Guyana gets 203 more police ranks

Jul 23, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Guyana gets 203 more police ranks

“You are being deployed now at a very important time in the life of the Guyana Police Force. You are being deployed at a time when the society is friendlier to the police. That is not something...

Customs House to undergo $123.5M in renovations -Trotman

Jul 23, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Customs House to undergo $123.5M in renovations -Trotman

–to serve as Bureau of Statistics Head Office Cabinet has granted its no objection to a contract worth $123.5M to renovate the old Customs House located on Main Street. Minister of Natural...

Open Letter to EU Ambassador

Jul 23, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on Open Letter to EU Ambassador

Dear Editor; With reference to the caption above, I wish to bring to your agencies’ attention a troubling development which involves the use of taxpayers’ monies within the European Union and...

Anil Nandlall says SOCU has an infamous list

Jul 23, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on Anil Nandlall says SOCU has an infamous list

Dear Editor; Just last week, I examined the causal connection between taxation and fear and economic decline in the context of the Guyanese economy. In so doing, I made reference to the operations of...

CXC set to launch Green Engineering syllabus

Jul 23, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on CXC set to launch Green Engineering syllabus

The Caribbean Examinations Council (CXC) will launch its latest New Generation Caribbean Advanced Proficiency Examination (CAPE) subject, Green Engineering, on Thursday 28 July in Guyana. The Green...

Dem boys seh…De madness tekking over

Jul 23, 2016 KNews Dem Boys Seh, News Comments Off on Dem boys seh…De madness tekking over

It looks like if de whole world going mad. Since dem boys wake up dem hear somewhere that some crazy people doing some bad things to people. One morning dem hear suicide bombers blow up some airport...

Condolences continue to pour in for Bishop Randolph George

Jul 23, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Condolences continue to pour in for Bishop Randolph George

The Office of the Leader of the Opposition by way of a statement, said that it is saddened by the news of the passing of Bishop Randolph George. Bishop George was one of the first Guyanese to lead a...

Plea of help from Corentyne fishermen

Jul 23, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on Plea of help from Corentyne fishermen

Dear Editor Please grant me space in your newspaper to publish this open letter from the CARRIBBEAN NETWORK OF FISHERFOLK ORGANISATION, the GUYANA NATIONAL FISHERFOLK ORGANISATION and the SURINAME...

Bandits elude police after exchange of gun fire

Jul 23, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Bandits elude police after exchange of gun fire

Three armed masked bandits on Wednesday, eluded capture, after exchanging gunshots with police moments after committing an armed robbery at Palmyra, East Coast Berbice. According to information,...

The Coalition Govt. has lost steam

Jul 23, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on The Coalition Govt. has lost steam

Dear Editor; The URP took a team to the Black Bush Polder last week and what we saw and learned were saddening. We saw broken dams and damaged roads. We saw a proliferation of unemployed youths and...

A look at the death penalty

Jul 23, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on A look at the death penalty

By Oscar Ramjeet To hang or not to hang has been a topic in Guyana, the Caribbean and the entire free world for several decades. It became a hot debate in Guyana following the visit of Justice Navi...

Rex McKay wants the Augean Stables cleaned

Jul 23, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on Rex McKay wants the Augean Stables cleaned

Dear Editor; The residents of Queenstown who own and live in their properties East of Oronoque Street, Queenstown, Georgetown, await anxiously and welcome the decision of the City Councillors to set...

MILITARIZATION OF THE STATE

Jul 23, 2016 KNews Editorial Comments Off on MILITARIZATION OF THE STATE

We are a democratic nation, and regardless of our differences of opinion or party affiliations, the people have a specific and vital role in the governance of the country. Whether or not they have...

Student Loan Agency audit report submitted to Cabinet …Recommendations made to enable agency to recover balances

Jul 23, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Student Loan Agency audit report submitted to Cabinet …Recommendations made to enable agency to recover balances

The audit report on students’ loan that was revealed a few months ago had caused a stir among the populace since the names of several prominent Guyanese including lawyers and politicians had...

The pleasure and reward of reading

Jul 23, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on The pleasure and reward of reading

Dear Editor, There is not a better time for me, as an individual when I pick up a book or newspaper and sink myself so deeply, that I become transfixed in that moment of delight, where the author...

Rename the bridge after my father

Jul 23, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on Rename the bridge after my father

Dear Editor; My interest peaked recently with Phillip Allsopp’s letter to the Editor. It was published on July 4, 2016. It dealt with the renaming of the Denham Bridge and who authorised the...

Bandits elude police after exchange of gun fire

Jul 23, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Bandits elude police after exchange of gun fire

Three armed masked bandits on Wednesday, eluded capture, after exchanging gunshots with police moments after committing an armed robbery at Palmyra, East Coast Berbice. According to information,...

Suggestions for naming the Providence stadium

Jul 23, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on Suggestions for naming the Providence stadium

Dear Editor; The ongoing responses by Regional crowds to the Caribbean Premier League (CPL) has once again, if there was any doubt, unequivocally demonstrated the passion West Indians have for...

Things stagnate then they fall apart

Jul 23, 2016 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon 1

My late friend Dale Andrews from the Kaieteur News said to me about a month before he passed away, “Maan, Freddaay, write something positive bout Guyana huh!” I replied, “Show me where the...

In support of the death penalty

Jul 23, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on In support of the death penalty

Dear Editor; I beg to disagree with the learned ambassadors from the UN on abolition of the death penalty. The vast majority if not all countries in the world have the death penalty. It is carried...

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