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Banks DIH Ltd Inter-Department Sports…

Oct 05, 2016 KNews Sports Comments Off on Banks DIH Ltd Inter-Department Sports…

Rowley’s brace leads Stores past Water Plant -action resumes today Play in the Banks DIH Ltd Inter-Department 5-a-side Football Competition continued on Monday evening with Stores and Trisco the...

Public Procurement Commission high on agenda for PAC

Oct 05, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Public Procurement Commission high on agenda for PAC

On August 8, 2016 the National Assembly by a two-thirds majority vote, approved the five members of the Public Procurement Commission (PPC). According to Chairman of the Public Accounts Committee...

Winfer Gardens retain North Georgetown Zone Primary School title

Oct 05, 2016 KNews Sports Comments Off on Winfer Gardens retain North Georgetown Zone Primary School title

Winfer Gardens yesterday retained their North Georgetown Zone Inter-Primary School Athletics title at the Police Sports Club Ground Eve Leary. Winfer Gardens amassed 166 points to win...

Collaboration intensified for the fight against Breast Cancer

Oct 05, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Collaboration intensified for the fight against Breast Cancer

Breast Cancer Awareness Month is being observed and stakeholders are collaborating to end the scourge with early detection by creating awareness of the risk factors. Under the theme, ‘I have...

$$Billions owed to the City Hall impede timely salary payments

Oct 05, 2016 KNews News 1

City Hall is trying to strike a balance between honouring the council’s financial obligations to its workers and contractors, and providing critical and vital municipal services. These sentiments...

BVI-based Guyanese gets 42 months for molesting boy, 13; to pay $10K

Oct 05, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on BVI-based Guyanese gets 42 months for molesting boy, 13; to pay $10K

British Virgin Islands- (bvinews.com) -Oliver Lewis, a Guyanese native who was found guilty of six counts of gross indecency with a 13-year-old boy, has been sentenced to three-and-a-half years...

29 of 116 matters disposed in June Assizes

Oct 05, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on 29 of 116 matters disposed in June Assizes

Twenty-nine matters were disposed in the June 2016 Demerara Criminal Assizes; 116 cases were listed to be heard. Of the matters, 15 cases received attention in the High Court of Demerara and...

Where is the justice for the former NBS managers?

Oct 05, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on Where is the justice for the former NBS managers?

Dear Editor; I am a member of NBS and since 2007, I was following the charges on the CEO Maurice Arjoon and the two managers, Kent Vincent and Kissoon Baldeo. I was at the infamous special...

Over 3000 students awarded for good attendance

Oct 05, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Over 3000 students awarded for good attendance

The Ministry of Education, in an effort to highlight the importance of punctuality and regular attendance at school, has presented awards to 3,543 students from 72 schools in Georgetown. The...

The priceless value of the teaching profession

Oct 05, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on The priceless value of the teaching profession

Dear Editor; They are assigned the responsibility to mould the nation and keep doing a fantastic job despite the challenges. While there remains appreciation for our teachers’s investment in us,...

Chaos every Sunday outside Suddie Market

Oct 05, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on Chaos every Sunday outside Suddie Market

Dear Editor; The efforts of the Vice Chairman for Region 2 and the Chairman of the Riverstown/Annandale Neighbourhood Democratic Council (NDC) were not at all helpful in trying to stop the escalating...

A bridge across a creek in Region 9

Oct 05, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on A bridge across a creek in Region 9

Dear Editor; I read in the Monday edition of KN that Mr. Peter Persaud claimed that the Regional Democratic Council, Region 9 is not in favour of the proposed bridge across the Tabatinga Creek. As...

MIND-BOGGLING!

Oct 05, 2016 KNews Editorial Comments Off on MIND-BOGGLING!

From all appearances and reports, it seems that the disappearance of the self-confessed drug trafficker Barry Dataram is a talking point. The unfortunate result of Dataram’s escape is that the...

Is there a barrel of bad fruits in the police force?

Oct 05, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on Is there a barrel of bad fruits in the police force?

Dear Editor; It is no secret to the world at large that corruption in its broadest and most inclusive sense has hung like the proverbial sword of Damocles over the head of the Guyana Police Force....

Learn to appreciate the power of language

Oct 05, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on Learn to appreciate the power of language

Dear Editor; “Until we learn to appreciate the power of language and the importance of using it responsibly, we will continue to produce negative social consequences for t hose victimized by...

Poor police service in Linden after robbery report

Oct 05, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on Poor police service in Linden after robbery report

Dear Editor; I write this letter with frustration and no confidence in the Guyana Police Force (GPF). About two Sundays ago on the 18th of September, my mother was robbed at One Mile Wismar,...

Language requirement for these scholarships is ludicrous

Oct 05, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on Language requirement for these scholarships is ludicrous

Dear Edior; I am writing in relation to the publications of the Ministry of the Presidency, Department of the Public Service Notices of Awards in the Sunday Chronicle Newspaper dated October 2, 2016....

Today’s date has become an obscure footnote

Oct 05, 2016 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon 2

I am not a fan or admirer of President Forbes Burnham. I believe he threw away the immense opportunities and colossal latitude he had in making this country the best in the Caribbean, one of the best...

Offer those dismissed ranks a second chance

Oct 05, 2016 KNews Letters 1

Dear Editor; I direct my letter to the Hon. Minister of Public Security Affairs and the Acting, Commissioner of Police, David Ramnarine. I read with interest the article which stated that informed...

Clear rules are needed to acquire private lands or to repossess public land leases

Oct 05, 2016 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on Clear rules are needed to acquire private lands or to repossess public land leases

The PPPC was also guilty of compulsory acquisition of private property for public uses. The PPP had no compunction about acquiring the property of Toolsie Persaud on Water Street and giving it to the...

Serious accusations against Mackenzie Hospital

Oct 05, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on Serious accusations against Mackenzie Hospital

Dear Editor; I must first complement the few outstanding nurses at the A & E Department of the Mackenzie Hospital. There are many in the department but only a few courteous ones. Anyhow let me...

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Bureaucracy gone bananas!

…Peeping Tom kaieteur News- Every morning, the government wakes up, stretches its arms, and spends one billion dollars... more