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Victims of child abuse take spotlight

Sep 30, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Victims of child abuse take spotlight

-Aim to have greater means to stop child abuse The Child Protection Agency, in partnership with the Guyana Police Force, Child Link and advocates of children’s rights hosted a walk and candle light...

100 institutions connected to eGovernment network countrywide

Sep 30, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on 100 institutions connected to eGovernment network countrywide

The eGovernment Agency has completed the first phase of the Improving Digital Equity, Access and Learning (IDEAL) Programme, which has provided for 100 institutions to be connected to a network along...

Guyana records 12.5 per cent unemployment rate

Sep 30, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Guyana records 12.5 per cent unemployment rate

– quarterly Labour Force Survey from next year The findings of the 2012 Census puts Guyana’s unemployment rate at 12.5 percent. When further disaggregated by gender the unemployment rate for...

Reforming the deformed

Sep 30, 2016 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on Reforming the deformed

A few months ago, there was a photograph of a police officer pumping petrol from a police storage tank into his personal car. The picture made the rounds on social media and every one waited with...

Opportunities exist for veterans within the Natural Resources Sector

Sep 30, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Opportunities exist for veterans within the Natural Resources Sector

Raphael Trotman, Minister of Natural Resources, appear before the Commission of Inquiry into the conditions and circumstances facing veterans of the Guyana Defense Force, Guyana People’s Militia,...

Bank of Guyana, Govt. join forces to study de-risking on local banks

Sep 30, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Bank of Guyana, Govt. join forces to study de-risking on local banks

Local and international financial issues which pose a threat to the stability of the nation’s economy remain under the watchful eye of the Bank of Guyana and the Ministry of Finance. In fact, one...

Improving measures to protect children is crucial – Flach

Sep 30, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Improving measures to protect children is crucial – Flach

Stepping up measures to strengthen child protection is very crucial. This is according to outgoing United Nations Children Fund (UNICEF) Representative, Ms. Marianne Flach, during a press conference...

Gold set to surpass record-breaking 555,000 ounces production target

Sep 30, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Gold set to surpass record-breaking 555,000 ounces production target

Gold declaration remains on track to surpass the 555,000 ounces projection set at the start of 2016. According to Minister of Natural Resources, Raphael Trotman, mining has been doing well. Gold...

No-case submission overruled in causing death trial

Sep 30, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on No-case submission overruled in causing death trial

A no-case submission was yesterday overruled by Chief Magistrate Ann McLennan in the trial of Roopnarine Hardowar, who is charged with causing the death of Ramdolar Dhanraj by dangerous driving on...

Barbados celebrates 50 years of Independence

Sep 30, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on Barbados celebrates 50 years of Independence

Dear Editor, Barbados will celebrate its 50th anniversary of independence on November 30. It will join three other Caribbean Community (CARICOM) states – Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago and Guyana...

There are no Accidents just Precedents

Sep 30, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on There are no Accidents just Precedents

Dear Editor, I am as equally stumped as any other civic minded Guyanese as to the causal factors underlying the current social morass ravaging the country that I still call home. I am not on a...

Monotony can make you become a drinking driver

Sep 30, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on Monotony can make you become a drinking driver

Dear Editor, It would be interesting to know whether the greatest number of drink-driving offences and casualties happened among people who do ‘transporting’ for a living or not. People who...

Guyana should accept some of those who are suffering

Sep 30, 2016 KNews Letters 1

Dear Editor, Our benign President David Granger, in his noble address recently to the United Nations assembly, on matter of the current migrant crisis, noted that the situation “if left unattended...

The sad story of a sick, bed-ridden woman in the Lethem hospital

Sep 30, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on The sad story of a sick, bed-ridden woman in the Lethem hospital

Dear Editor, Please provide me some space to highlight a burning issue in relation to the care of a patient in the healthcare system. Several months ago we would have read about a Lethem woman Thelma...

Give preference to Guyanese products

Sep 30, 2016 KNews Letters 1

Dear Editor, With response to the “Topco Juice Contract” letter written to the editor on Sunday, September 25th, 2016 by Anil Nandlall, speaking as an experienced teacher, a proud Guyanese and...

Thelma Rebeiro urgently needs a brain scan

Sep 30, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on Thelma Rebeiro urgently needs a brain scan

Dear Editor, Michael McGarrel advocacy of Thelma Rebeiro not receiving proper professional attention is absolutely factual and I do admire his advocacy. Thelma Rebeiro is certainly not receiving...

KN should interview these business people

Sep 30, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on KN should interview these business people

Dear Editor, I would suggest that Kaieteur News send out some reporters to the various legitimate Stationery and Office Supply business places and do interviews with the owners, more light can be...

Financial questions abound in the operations of Region 6 governance

Sep 30, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on Financial questions abound in the operations of Region 6 governance

Dear Editor, The Minister of Public Infrastructure, David Patterson, has made a valid and timely assessment when he stated that the people should hold all contractors responsible for shoddy and...

Minister Gaskin is wrong on this one!

Sep 30, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on Minister Gaskin is wrong on this one!

Dear Editor, I respect Dominic Gaskin very much since I think as Treasurer of the AFC, he ticked all the right boxes in running a tight financial ship in the 2011 Elections Campaign unlike a totally...

Why doesn’t Edison Jefford challenge Mr. Yassin for the GOA presidency?

Sep 30, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on Why doesn’t Edison Jefford challenge Mr. Yassin for the GOA presidency?

Dear Editor, Edison Jefford, one of Guyana’s most accomplished sports athletes, senior Sports Journalist of KN, recipient of many outstanding awards over the years, senior member of the current...