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Inaccessibility in Kuru Kururu

Aug 05, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on Inaccessibility in Kuru Kururu

Dear Editor, Please allow me a small space in your prestigious newspaper to express my frustration and disappointment on the conditions of Kuru Kururu, Newtown settlement roads. Kuru Kururu is one of...

Unacceptable conditions at the National Cultural Centre

Aug 05, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on Unacceptable conditions at the National Cultural Centre

Dear Editor, I would be grateful if you publish this letter on deplorable and disorganized behavior at the National Culture Center (NCC). Here is my experience at the NCC. On 31 July, there was a...

Religious arguments for keeping the death penalty

Aug 05, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on Religious arguments for keeping the death penalty

Dear Editor, Please permit me space in your letter column to enter the debate on the abolition of capital punishment. There has been and still is a lot of ill-conceived reasoning on the topic of...

Small miners complain about Ministers Trotman and Broomes

Aug 05, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on Small miners complain about Ministers Trotman and Broomes

Dear Editor, I am one of a few small miners who work for several years on land that was a government reserve until a few months ago. We have been informed that this land now belongs to a large-scale...

KATO Engineering defends itself

Aug 05, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on KATO Engineering defends itself

Dear Editor, Kindly allow me some space to defend my company against the sustained and unwarranted attack it has undergone in the recent past in both the electronic and print media relative to our...

Cybercrime Bill sent to Special Select Committee

Aug 05, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Cybercrime Bill sent to Special Select Committee

The Cybercrime Bill of 2016 was presented and read for the first time in the National Assembly yesterday by Attorney General Basil Williams. The Legal Affairs Minister also referred the complex...

New Code of Conduct puts pinch on Govt, MPs and senior public officers

Aug 04, 2016 KNews News 1

…Draft Code to be merged with Integrity Act – PM Nagamootoo By Kiana Wilburg After the finishing touches have been added, the Integrity Act is expected to be “the new home” for...

$1B Kato School riddled with defects

Aug 04, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on $1B Kato School riddled with defects

By Jarryl Bryan To say that the state did not get value for money from some $1B spent to construct the Kato Secondary School complex in Region Eight is a gross understatement. During a guided tour of...

PS to scrutinise “appointment” of GPHC Deputy CEO

Aug 04, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on PS to scrutinise “appointment” of GPHC Deputy CEO

-Board says appointment ‘null and void’ The appointment of a new Deputy Chief Executive Officer (CEO) at the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) was not the handiwork of the Permanent...

Int’l body wants Govts. to expose all owners in oil, gas, and mining sector

Aug 04, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Int’l body wants Govts. to expose all owners in oil, gas, and mining sector

– Confidential agreements; discussions will determine this for Guyana – Minister Trotman By Kiana Wilburg Cognizant of the fact that oil, gas and mining are notoriously prone to...

Commuters, drivers bemoan ‘poor traffic management’ at EBD Expansion sites

Aug 04, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Commuters, drivers bemoan ‘poor traffic management’ at EBD Expansion sites

With the East Bank Demerara thoroughfare currently being expanded to accommodate additional lanes among other upgrades, commuters and drivers have both registered their disappointment with the...

CJIA departure woes…Backlog cleared, stranded passengers return home

Aug 04, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on CJIA departure woes…Backlog cleared, stranded passengers return home

Passengers who were stranded at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport (CJIA) due to technical difficulties being experienced by the America 11 Cable have returned home. This was according to a CJIA...

Dem boys seh…Babbie, Bee Kay, dem scamps and de Code of Conduct

Aug 04, 2016 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Dem boys seh…Babbie, Bee Kay, dem scamps and de Code of Conduct

There is an old saying—things fuh laugh does mek people cry. Ask CPL. CPL get cheap. Last night dem boys sit down tekking a drink waiting fuh see de Warriors tek on de Tallawahs. Dem wait a long...

Amerindian Act likely to be amended

Aug 04, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Amerindian Act likely to be amended

Minister of Indigenous Affairs, Vice President Sydney Allicock, during his appearance before the Parliamentary Sectoral Committee yesterday, faced heavy scrutiny after making a disclosure that the...

Rohee calls Ramkarran, Nagamootoo “sour pusses” for criticizing PPP/C

Aug 04, 2016 KNews News 2

General Secretary of the People’s Progressive Party Civic, Clement Rohee, said yesterday that Prime Minister Moses Nagamootoo and former Speaker of the National Assembly, Ralph Ramkarran are...

Teams battle for Mayor’s Cup quarterfinal places in Sunday fiesta at GFC

Aug 04, 2016 KNews Sports Comments Off on Teams battle for Mayor’s Cup quarterfinal places in Sunday fiesta at GFC

A mini fiesta of football will be the order of things on Sunday at the Georgetown Football Club (GFC) ground as teams hunt quarterfinal places in the Mayor’s Cup football championship in the hope...

Presidential Park or Pergola Monument?

Aug 04, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on Presidential Park or Pergola Monument?

DEAR EDITOR; I would like to know the exact reason why the Georgetown City Council is refusing to rehabilitate and maintain the “Pergola Promenade” the national monument located on the...

Stop saying that sugar is dead; it is not

Aug 04, 2016 KNews Letters 1

DEAR EDITOR; In an editorial published by KN some few weeks ago, the writer said King Sugar is dead, dying, near death or words to portray the state of sugar’s health. To such heraldic...

These Buxtonians are worthy of mention

Aug 04, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on These Buxtonians are worthy of mention

DEAR EDITOR; Once again it is Emancipation season. It is once more the season of introspections, reflections of sorts, of reminiscing, and above all cultural and festive activities for people of...

Public Health Minister under criticism

Aug 04, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on Public Health Minister under criticism

Dear Editor; I refer to a letter titled “Unconscious Lethem Mother –Public Health Minister disappointed that relatives approached Media first— says Ministry will be looking into the matter.”...

Kitty Market to be completed in three months

Aug 04, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Kitty Market to be completed in three months

Town Clerk Royston King has given the City Engineer’s Department three months to complete the rehabilitation of the Kitty Market. The historic edifice was in a state of disrepair with defective...

Police continue building community trust

Aug 04, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Police continue building community trust

The Guyana Police Force continues to make progress in building public trust through its many community based initiatives. One such initiative which continues to bear fruit is the Social Crime...

Shooter in Green Ice Taxi Service Robbery…Another case of Police Victimization?

Aug 04, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Shooter in Green Ice Taxi Service Robbery…Another case of Police Victimization?

Last June, Jamal Lewis, was shot in the head during a daylight robbery at the Green Ice taxi service base at South Ruimveldt. A man by the name of Sean Blyden has since been charged in connection...

Why is Guyana School of Agriculture still silent?

Aug 04, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on Why is Guyana School of Agriculture still silent?

Dear Editor; In my earlier letter, I would have commended Mr. John on the excellent work he had done in making the public aware of some of the ills that staff at the Guyana School of Agriculture has...

Prominent attorney at law says magistrate erred

Aug 04, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Prominent attorney at law says magistrate erred

Prominent Attorney-at-law Mursalene Bacchus is questioning the decision made by Magistrate Judy Latchman who presided over the first sitting of the Black Bush trio in the Mibicuri triple murder....

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A warning to President Ali on U.S. Overtures

Peeping Tom… Kaieteur News- It remains unknown what President Ali told the U.S. Secretary of State during their recent... more