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Two Region Five schools to get Science Labs

Aug 31, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Two Region Five schools to get Science Labs

Processing facility for Paramakatoi During the opening of tenders yesterday at National Procurement and Tender Administration Board (NPTAB), Ministry of Finance, Main Street, Georgetown, several...

71 Region Three youths graduate from Police skill training programme

Aug 31, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on 71 Region Three youths graduate from Police skill training programme

The brainchild of ‘D’ Division Commander, Stephen Mansell – a four week skill training programme at the Leonora Technical and Vocational Skill Training Centre (LTVTC) for youths of Region...

TIME TO ACT

Aug 31, 2016 KNews Editorial, Features / Columnists Comments Off on TIME TO ACT

Crime has become big business in Guyana. Criminals have obviously invested heavily in technology, and have established very lucrative networks in the trafficking of drugs and weapons. There have been...

Elderly couple charged with assaulting cops during grandson’s arrest

Aug 31, 2016 KNews Court Stories, Features / Columnists, News 1

A 19-year-old labourer and his grandparents appeared yesterday before Magistrate Rhondell Weaver at the Blairmont Magistrate’s Court on a number of charges. The court heard that the trio assaulted...

Boat crash victims laid to rest as cops release suspects

Aug 31, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Boat crash victims laid to rest as cops release suspects

The two children who perished in last Thursday’s boat accident in the Waini River were laid to rest yesterday, even as police try to identify the boat operator who left the scene after ramming the...

Closure of Wales Sugar Estate…Injunction remains in effect as Judge orders further consultations

Aug 31, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Closure of Wales Sugar Estate…Injunction remains in effect as Judge orders further consultations

Justice Brassington Reynolds has ordered that an injunction restraining GuySuCo from making the workers of Wales Estate redundant, be in effect until the Corporation continues consultations with the...

An illogical country limps along

Aug 31, 2016 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon 1

I will ask readers to reflect on what follows in the lines below and ask themselves if human behaviour can be so illogical, or if it is a case of Guyana being a very lost country. For years now, I...

Guyana remains on good footing with FATF

Aug 31, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Guyana remains on good footing with FATF

…on-site visit to be made in two weeks Attorney General Basil Williams yesterday announced that Guyana remains well on its way towards exiting the clutches of the Financial Action Task Force (FATF)...

Haitians fined for illegal entry

Aug 31, 2016 KNews Court Stories, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Haitians fined for illegal entry

Four Haitians were fined $30,000 with an alternative of six months imprisonment, after they pleaded guilty to entering Guyana by sea and disembarking without the consent of an immigration officer....

Mother among two remanded for cocaine found in suitcase of boy, 15

Aug 31, 2016 KNews Court Stories, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Mother among two remanded for cocaine found in suitcase of boy, 15

Cora Towler and Ian Griffith, both of East La Penitence, Georgetown, were remanded to prison after over two pounds of cocaine were discovered in the handle of a suitcase carried by a juvenile, who...

Drama instructor gets bail on causing death charge

Aug 31, 2016 KNews Court Stories, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Drama instructor gets bail on causing death charge

An instructor of the National Drama School was charged and released on bail over a fatal accident which occurred four months ago on Homestretch Avenue, Georgetown, after he appeared in the Georgetown...

Where are those vociferous voices when the PPP was in office?

Aug 31, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on Where are those vociferous voices when the PPP was in office?

Dear Editor, Within recent weeks, the APNU-AFC Government has been facing severe criticisms in relation to the highly unusual approach by Health Minister, Dr. George Norton, in single sourcing the...

AFC member has plenty, poignant questions for his party

Aug 31, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on AFC member has plenty, poignant questions for his party

Dear Editor, I am compelled to write this my second letter to the print media since this government took office in May 2015. I am much frustrated and concerned as to the way things are going under...

I have invented the word – Pal-iticians

Aug 31, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on I have invented the word – Pal-iticians

Dear Editor, Have we evolved as a nation? Have we lost all reasoning and knowledge in understanding what acceptable or unacceptable behavior among our Politicians is? Politics is the activities...

ENMORE CITIZENS POLICING GROUP ARRESTS BANDIT

Aug 31, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on ENMORE CITIZENS POLICING GROUP ARRESTS BANDIT

Dear Editor, Brave and resolute pursuit by members of the Concerned Citizens of Enmore Policing Group of an armed suspect in a robbery which occurred at Logwood, Enmore, Monday led to his arrest on...

Government must create the conditions necessary for growth

Aug 31, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on Government must create the conditions necessary for growth

Dear Editor, Ever since the 2015 election, President Granger of the APNU/AFC coalition government has made a number of statements regarding the role of government in transforming the economy. These...

Hope and faith in the government is dimishing

Aug 31, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on Hope and faith in the government is dimishing

Dear Editor, I lost a bet; that teachers would be given an incentive on their salary by the eighth month of the year. I think this is outrageous! Something I have never experienced in my 17 years as...

Coalition government deceived the youths of Guyana

Aug 31, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on Coalition government deceived the youths of Guyana

Dear Editor, Here am I am endeavouring to regain my mental composure, after an unexpected encounter with a déjà vu situation. Kaieteur News, August 29, 2016 captioned “Coalition reneged on...

Roxanne Burnham -Van West Charles writes on Lear Goring

Aug 31, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on Roxanne Burnham -Van West Charles writes on Lear Goring

Dear Editor, Since the day my father Linden Forbes Sampson Burnham departed this earth, mine has been a life of extremely low profile notwithstanding I have always followed my beloved country’s...

A citizen laments the negatives of life in Guyana

Aug 31, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on A citizen laments the negatives of life in Guyana

Dear Editor, Everyday I scream inside in frustration and with a sense of hopelessness which envelopes me. Are we lost? Lost all sense of honour, decency and social graces? Lost all sense of personal...

GWI replies to the complaints of Sophia residents

Aug 31, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on GWI replies to the complaints of Sophia residents

Dear Editor, The Guyana Water Incorporated (GWI), the Nation’s supplier of Water and Sanitation Services, wishes to note that the issue of water supply in ‘E’ Field Sophia, Georgetown, is as a...

With over 15 drug bonds across Guyana, no need for “in case of fire” facility

Aug 30, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on With over 15 drug bonds across Guyana, no need for “in case of fire” facility

– Nagamootoo’s defence pitiful – Dr. Anthony Prime Minister Moses Nagamootoo continues to receive criticism for the reasons he offered when trying to justify the “need” for the...

2010 attack on Freddie Kissoon…Magistrate refuses to recuse self from trial unless instructed to

Aug 30, 2016 KNews News 1

City Magistrate Judy Latchman yesterday maintained that she will not recuse herself from the trial of Kwame McCoy, Jason Abdulla and Shawn Hinds- the men who are charged with a 2010 assault on...

Linden highway farmer body parts scattered in suspected hit-and-run

Aug 30, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Linden highway farmer body parts scattered in suspected hit-and-run

Forty-one-year-old Phillip Viveiros was killed on the Linden Soesdyke Highway in the vicinity of Adventure yesterday morning sometime between 02:00 and 05:00 hrs. According to Commander ‘E’...

Businessman remanded for fatal Tucville shooting

Aug 30, 2016 KNews Court Stories, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Businessman remanded for fatal Tucville shooting

– also charged with attempted murder Attorney Ronald Burch-Smith is contending that his client, Robert Benn did not intend or premeditate to kill 24-year-old Colin Perreira, who had turned a...

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Peeping Tom Kaieteur News- The government stands like a beleaguered captain at the helm of a storm-tossed ship, finds itself... more