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Yachts arrive for 4th Annual Nereid’s Int’l Rally

Sep 10, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Yachts arrive for 4th Annual Nereid’s Int’l Rally

The first of sixteen (16) yachts expected for the 4th Annual Nereid’s International Yachting Rally have arrived in the Essequibo River to anchor off at the Hurakabra River Resort. The Minister of...

Carvil Duncan trial…Lawyer submits no-case submission, expresses interest in leading defence

Sep 10, 2016 KNews Court Stories, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Carvil Duncan trial…Lawyer submits no-case submission, expresses interest in leading defence

A ruling which was expected to be made yesterday in the trial of Carvil Duncan- who is charged with the theft of over $29M from the Guyana Power and Light (GPL) -was deferred, after a request was...

New Opportunity Corps staff to be “professionalised”

Sep 10, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on New Opportunity Corps staff to be “professionalised”

Professionalising the programme at the New Opportunity Corps (NOC) is the direction the government is taking to ensure that young people leave the institution as better individuals. The intention is...

Over 400 squatters to be relocated next year

Sep 10, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Over 400 squatters to be relocated next year

The Central Housing and Planning Authority (CP&HA) is conducting a survey within communities where squatting is prevalent to find available lands. Minister within the Ministry of Communities,...

Amerindian Exhibition and Fair slated for the Walter Roth Museum

Sep 10, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Amerindian Exhibition and Fair slated for the Walter Roth Museum

The Walter Roth Museum will host the annual “Amerindian myths, legends and oral traditions of Guyana” and a first-ever “Archaeological Fair and Exhibition” in observance of Indigenous...

Body found at Puruni yet to be identified

Sep 10, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Body found at Puruni yet to be identified

Relatives are yet to come forward to identify the remains of a man who was fished out of the Puruni River, Region Seven, two Tuesdays ago. The body was decomposed and was pulled out of the water by...

E’bo woman, 67, loses home in afternoon fire

Sep 10, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on E’bo woman, 67, loses home in afternoon fire

A 67-year-old woman of New Henrietta Housing Scheme on the Essequibo Coast, and three of her relatives are now homeless, after a fire of unknown origin gutted the pensioner’s property yesterday...

World Bank team monitoring $3B Demerara water conservancy projects

Sep 10, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on World Bank team monitoring $3B Demerara water conservancy projects

A two-member World Bank team is in Guyana to monitor the progress of the East Demerara Water Conservancy (EDWC)’s adaptation project. Team leader Armando Guzman, and Hydrology Specialist, Isabella...

PPP says was unaware about contract-splitting at GECOM

Sep 10, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on PPP says was unaware about contract-splitting at GECOM

“The issues would not have come to Cabinet, because they (Guyana Elections Commission) kept the figures under the margin or threshold for Cabinet.” Those were the words of People’s Progressive...

PI into KNews grenade attack…Accused denies giving detective part of statement

Sep 10, 2016 KNews Court Stories, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on PI into KNews grenade attack…Accused denies giving detective part of statement

Janeil Howard, one of the men accused of throwing a grenade next to a vehicle belonging to Kaieteur News publisher, Glenn Lall that was parked on Saffon Street, Georgetown, has denied giving a...

Courtney Crum-Ewing murder PI…Defence makes no-case submission

Sep 10, 2016 KNews Court Stories, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Courtney Crum-Ewing murder PI…Defence makes no-case submission

Defence counsel Adrian Thompson yesterday submitted a no-case submission in relation to the evidence presented in the Preliminary Inquiry (PI) into the murder of social activist, Courtney Crum-Ewing....

Royston King is trying to instigate a riot

Sep 10, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on Royston King is trying to instigate a riot

Dear Editor, The Town Clerk Royston King is playing with matches very close to a huge store of potential energy. Almost every week he is recklessly attempting to set off a city-wide conflagration of...

The real story behind the Region Three RDC walkout

Sep 10, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on The real story behind the Region Three RDC walkout

Dear Editor, The Stabroek News of Thursday September 01, 2016, carried an article captioned ‘REO, APNU/AFC councillors walk out from Region Three meeting’. According to the reporter, the...

UG law students want the quota system abolished

Sep 10, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on UG law students want the quota system abolished

Dear Editor, The purpose of this missive is twofold. First, the University of Guyana Law Society (“UGLS”) is elated to hear that a new Collaborative Agreement between the University of Guyana...

Satyadeow Sawh served as Guyana’s envoy to Venezuela

Sep 10, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on Satyadeow Sawh served as Guyana’s envoy to Venezuela

Dear Editor, On Tuesday September 7th, 2016, your newspaper Kaieteur News carried a story “Guyana’s appoints convicted fraudster as Kuwait ambassador”. The author tried to make it seem that...

Guyanese men are afraid of strong-willed wives

Sep 10, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on Guyanese men are afraid of strong-willed wives

Dear Editor, Kindly allow me to share my experiences and views as they relate to the constant violation of the rights of women in our society today. If we don’t take immediate steps to affect a...

CARICOM should intervene in this matter

Sep 10, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on CARICOM should intervene in this matter

Dear Editor, I read with great interest the horrible and inhumane treatment meted out on a pregnant Guyanese woman by immigration authorities at the Grantley Adams Airport in Barbados recently. This...

Denial of entry into Trinidad

Sep 10, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on Denial of entry into Trinidad

Dear Editor, Please carry this letter in your newspaper. I wrote it as a direct appeal to the Minister of Foreign Affairs. The letter follows – I write to you for your kind assistance in...

Anil Nandlall says Rodney family wanted no role for the WPA

Sep 10, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on Anil Nandlall says Rodney family wanted no role for the WPA

Dear Editor, Intolerance to criticism and the obsession to silence and sanction those who voice those criticisms are the inalienable and undoubted proclivities of the authoritarian. I have been a...

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