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North R/veldt botched robbery… One suspect discharged, other still hospitalised

Aug 19, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on North R/veldt botched robbery… One suspect discharged, other still hospitalised

Patrick Goodluck, one of the two men who were brutally beaten by residents in North Ruimveldt, when he and an accomplice reportedly tried to rob a resident at gunpoint in his home on Wednesday, has...

Peace Council re-establishment one step closer

Aug 19, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Peace Council re-establishment one step closer

The Main Parliamentary Opposition, the People’s Progressive Party/Civic (PPP/C) stated yesterday that the group of Guyanese citizens who came together earlier this year to re-establish the Guyana...

When remittances were used for capital flight

Aug 19, 2016 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on When remittances were used for capital flight

Guyanese are the greatest. The things Guyanese did to survive during the Burnham regime make them the most ingenious people in the world. Guyanese took old pieces of tin and turned them into...

Allegations against GPHC Matron…Board considers five persons to conduct probe

Aug 19, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Allegations against GPHC Matron…Board considers five persons to conduct probe

The names of at least five persons are being considered for nomination to a Committee to investigate allegations made against Director of Nursing Services (Matron) of the Georgetown Public Hospital...

ONE WONDERS…

Aug 19, 2016 KNews Editorial, Features / Columnists 1

Politics, in its broadest sense, is the activity through which governments make, preserve and amend the general rules and laws of a country. It is the practice and theory of influencing and...

Marginal increase in overall CSEC pass rate

Aug 19, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Marginal increase in overall CSEC pass rate

—English improves, Mathematics declines An analysis of the 2016 Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate (CSEC) examination, has revealed a marginal increase in the overall pass rate at the...

Scotiabank is ‘Best Consumer Digital Bank’ – Global Finance

Aug 19, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Scotiabank is ‘Best Consumer Digital Bank’ – Global Finance

Scotia bank has been recognized by Global Finance magazine as the Best Consumer Digital Bank in Latin America, the Caribbean and Canada for this year. This announcement comes at a time when the bank...

3 months for iPhone bandit

Aug 19, 2016 KNews Court Stories, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on 3 months for iPhone bandit

A 29-year-old man was jailed for three months after admitting to robbing another man of an iPhone valued $85,000 last week Wednesday, at Longden Street, Georgetown. Kennard Persaud, of Regent Street,...

Police trainee fined, constable on bail for charges of cell phone theft

Aug 19, 2016 KNews Court Stories, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Police trainee fined, constable on bail for charges of cell phone theft

A police recruit was yesterday ordered to pay a fine of $50,000 with an alternative of spending three months in prison, after he pleaded guilty to stealing a cell phone at the Felix Austin Police...

Hamson General Store owner murder PI continues

Aug 19, 2016 KNews Court Stories, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Hamson General Store owner murder PI continues

The Preliminary Inquiry (PI) into the murder of businessman Farouk Ghanie Hamid continued yesterday before Magistrate Judy Latchman in the Georgetown Magistrates’ Courts. Kemo Tyron Evans, of Water...

Man accused of murdering wife faces second trial

Aug 19, 2016 KNews Court Stories, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Man accused of murdering wife faces second trial

– Court hears of triangular love affair The second trial of a man accused of killing his wife, by strangling her at their home, continued on Wednesday in the Berbice High Court. Thirty-four...

APNU-AFC is in a precipitous meltdown

Aug 19, 2016 KNews Letters 2

Dear Editor, Republican Presidential candidate Donald Trump is having a political meltdown in the USA not very different from the APNU/AFC Coalition’s precipitous meltdown right here in Guyana....

Why is the Opposition silent on GPL performance?

Aug 19, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on Why is the Opposition silent on GPL performance?

Dear Editor, There has been silence from the Board of Directors and Management of the Guyana Power and Light Inc. (GPL) on what is happening at the state-owned entity. With the Government, as...

The King at City Hall lacks the Midas touch

Aug 19, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on The King at City Hall lacks the Midas touch

Dear Editor, One of the more popular fables one read as a child was that of ‘King Midas’ who had a touch of gold whereby everything he touched turned to gold. In Georgetown we have our own...

Lions and Leo Club responded to call for assistance

Aug 19, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on Lions and Leo Club responded to call for assistance

Dear Editor, In response to a letter sent to the Junior Minister of Indigenous People’s Affairs by a student of Paramakatoi Secondary School in Guyana, the Brooklyn Pacesetters Lions Club responded...

City Hall owes garbage collectors hundreds of million of dollars

Aug 19, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on City Hall owes garbage collectors hundreds of million of dollars

Dear Editor, One of the main reasons that City Hall is always broke for years now is because it took on an ill-advised and expensive option of contracting out most of its services to private...

This country needs a Human Rights Commission

Aug 19, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on This country needs a Human Rights Commission

Dear Editor, The recent Press Release by the Guyana Human Rights Association needs to be read and understood in a national perspective. Too often in Guyana, we rush to judgment without first defining...

Where does Troy Doris go from here?

Aug 19, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on Where does Troy Doris go from here?

Dear Editor, Qualifying for a final of any kind at the Olympic level to my mind is a great accomplishment. Many will not agree with me because they will say a medal is of more importance, but at the...

I thought this man was unbiased; he’s not

Aug 19, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on I thought this man was unbiased; he’s not

Dear Editor, I deliberately chose to continue to be conscious of my goal before writing this latest letter, which I honestly never thought there would be a need to. It is Nathan Rutstein who said,...

Call for President Granger to reach out

Aug 19, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on Call for President Granger to reach out

Dear Editor, President Granger’s message to African Guyanese in celebration of Freedom Day is no better than former President Jagdeo’s message to East Indian Guyanese in Queens. These men have...

GEA grants fuel import licence to GWI’s Boss, others

Aug 18, 2016 KNews News 2

A senior Government executive whose name has surfaced as benefitting from a 10-year oil importation licence has defended it saying, that nothing is wrong. Dr. Richard Van West Charles, Chief...

Car slams into parked truck, kills UK citizen

Aug 18, 2016 KNews News 1

– Daughter injured A 58-year-old female British citizen was killed and her daughter injured while on their way to the airport, when the vehicle in which they were travelling, crashed into a...

Bandits brutally beaten by residents

Aug 18, 2016 KNews News 1

…gun handed over to cops Residents of North Ruimveldt, Georgetown, did not spare two bandits yesterday when they tried to rob a resident, Roger Lovell in his home at gunpoint around 12:30 hrs. The...

Is Guyana’s manufacturing sector dying? Pt. 3 …Absence of policy led to importation of ridiculous products – Chris Ram

Aug 18, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Is Guyana’s manufacturing sector dying? Pt. 3 …Absence of policy led to importation of ridiculous products – Chris Ram

By Kiana Wilburg The importation of some absurd products into local markets is exactly what happens when there is no strong manufacturing policy to guide the sector. This is according to Chartered...

St. Rose’s girl is nation’s top CSEC performer

Aug 18, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on St. Rose’s girl is nation’s top CSEC performer

This year’s top Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate (CSEC) examination performer is a product of St. Rose’s High School. While the institution has over the years had students among the top...

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The tirade against the independent media continues unabated

…Peeping Tom Kaieteur News- In every democracy worth its salt, the press serves as the watchdog, the thorn in the side... more