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File on senior cop in elderly woman’s death with Crime Chief

Oct 11, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on File on senior cop in elderly woman’s death with Crime Chief

Police have completed investigations into the accident that saw a senior policeman strike down and kill a 65-year-old Vreed-en Hoop, West Coast Demerara resident. A file has been sent to the Acting...

Prize giving ceremony for essay winners

Oct 11, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Prize giving ceremony for essay winners

-for GNBS National Quality Week The Guyana National Bureau of Standards (GNBS) yesterday hosted a prize giving ceremony for its essay competition. The ceremony was held at 10:00hrs at the GNBS...

Man gets 20 years for killing wife

Oct 11, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Man gets 20 years for killing wife

Forty-three-year-old, Annirude, a/k “Frankie”, a labourer of Lima Sands, Essequibo Coast, who was charged with killing his wife, 37-year-old, Haimwattie Annirude, was sentenced to 20 year’s...

Almost six years after being “wrongfully” detained…

Oct 11, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Almost six years after being “wrongfully” detained…

Farrakhan’s top aide demands apology, compensation from Guyana It has been almost six years since International Representative of Minister Louis Farrakhan and the Nation of Islam, Akbar Muhammad;...

Private school in Linden excels at CSEC

Oct 11, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Private school in Linden excels at CSEC

For the past seven years since MC’s Educational Institute has been in operation, this year the students got the most grade one passes. MC’s Educational Institute which is located in the YMCA...

Caribbean Sex Work Coalition to host SWIT workshop in Guyana

Oct 11, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Caribbean Sex Work Coalition to host SWIT workshop in Guyana

– as PANCAP Director advocates for a stigma free environment The Pan Caribbean Partnership against HIV and AIDS, PANCAP, will be a key stakeholder at the Caribbean Sex Work Coalition SWIT (Sex...

Stuck gold dredge cleared from Mazaruni River channel

Oct 11, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Stuck gold dredge cleared from Mazaruni River channel

Weeks after creating headaches for riverain residents, gold miners and others, a dredge which had become stuck in the Mazaruni River, Region Seven, has finally been shifted to one side, making it...

Attorney-at-law admitted to the Bar

Oct 11, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Attorney-at-law admitted to the Bar

On October 7, 2016, Jason Moore, was admitted to the Bar after former Magistrate Gordon Gilhuys made his petition before Justice Sandra Kurtzious. Moore, who hails from the village of Craig on the...

Vagrant jailed for stabbing 11-yr-old

Oct 11, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Vagrant jailed for stabbing 11-yr-old

Carl Anderson Braithwaite yesterday began serving a nine-month-jail term for stabbing a child. He had appeared before Magistrate Dylon Bess in the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court to answer to the...

India funds major IT infrastructure upgrade at CARICOM Secretariat

Oct 11, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on India funds major IT infrastructure upgrade at CARICOM Secretariat

The CARICOM Secretariat will be getting an upgrade of its Information Technology (IT) infrastructure and associated software through a project funded by the Government of India. The project moved a...

Cybercrime, Witness Protection, Whistleblower Bills to feature in new Parliamentary session

Oct 11, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Cybercrime, Witness Protection, Whistleblower Bills to feature in new Parliamentary session

President David Granger will on Thursday address the Parliament of Guyana, when the session opens after being in recess for two months. The Head of State said that Government will be pushing a...

REMEMBERING THE CUBANA AIR DISASTER.

Oct 11, 2016 KNews Editorial Comments Off on REMEMBERING THE CUBANA AIR DISASTER.

Wednesday October 6, 1976 will always be remembered by Guyanese as one of the most fateful and tragic days for eleven young men and women who perished when two bombs exploded on a Cubana airline...

Notes on the Greenheart species of wood in Guyana’s forest

Oct 11, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on Notes on the Greenheart species of wood in Guyana’s forest

Dear Editor; Many articles are published in your paper with the designation, “Forestry Experts”. As these opinions seem to conflict with some professional papers published by reputable...

The facts that were not in Sam Hinds’ box of facts

Oct 11, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on The facts that were not in Sam Hinds’ box of facts

Dear Editor Former Prime Minister, Sam Hinds, in his response to my charge that the PPP was not as generous to its opposite constituency as the present government is, failed to address my implicit...

Should character education form part of the school curriculum?

Oct 11, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on Should character education form part of the school curriculum?

Dear Editor, Currently in Guyana, it is glaringly obvious to even the mildly myopic that the youth do not in any way, shape or form subscribe to the same moral values and code of conduct as the...

Barbados still retains the Queen as Head of State

Oct 11, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on Barbados still retains the Queen as Head of State

Dear Editor; Barbados Prime Minister announced more than 18 months ago that Her Majesty the Queen will be removed as titular Head of Barbados before the country celebrates its 50th anniversary of...

Government buying land to expand post-colonial bravado

Oct 11, 2016 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on Government buying land to expand post-colonial bravado

Why does the Government want to buy private land to expand the Attorney General’s Office? Why does the Government want to purchase private land to house the constitutional reform committee? There...

Sustainable management of Guyana’s greenheart timber

Oct 11, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on Sustainable management of Guyana’s greenheart timber

Dear Editor; May I be allowed to respond to the letter ‘A plea to the Guyana Forestry Commission’ (KN, 09 October 2016)? The letter writer seems to think that the prohibition by the UK...

Exploitation through the tyranny of expert

Oct 11, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on Exploitation through the tyranny of expert

Dear Editor; In one of the dailies there was a picture of two senior government ministers flanked on both sides by their American masters under the caption “No immediate plans to build refinery...

IMPACT Justice workshop commences –to enhance community mediation services

Oct 11, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on IMPACT Justice workshop commences –to enhance community mediation services

Intended to build capacity for community mediation services, an Improved Access to Justice in the Caribbean (IMPACT JUSTICE) project workshop commenced at the Marriott Hotel yesterday. The project is...

Dead fish of concern to Charity residents

Oct 11, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Dead fish of concern to Charity residents

Residents living in the Dredge Creek and Charity, neighboring communities on the Essequibo Coast, are concerned about the stench emanating from dead fish which have been surfacing in the area. More...

Witnesses need proper protection-AG

Oct 11, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Witnesses need proper protection-AG

There is a perception that no charges have been filed in relation to information coming out of the many Commissions of Inquiry and Audits conducted. “This is not true,” said Minister of Legal...

Why this reluctance to us, in the Diaspora?

Oct 11, 2016 KNews Letters 1

Dear Editor For 15 months I have watched the coalition government struggle and fumble to come up with a strong and viable economic plan. To date there is no major accomplishment by the Ministry of...

Social Protection Minister backpedals on wind down of Public Assistance.

Oct 11, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Social Protection Minister backpedals on wind down of Public Assistance.

It would seem the Coalition Government has changed its mind in relation to its stance on the number of persons accessing Public Assistance and its planned wind down of the service, as was expressed...

Barbados still retains the Queen as Head of State

Oct 11, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on Barbados still retains the Queen as Head of State

Dear Editor; Barbados Prime Minister announced more than 18 months ago that Her Majesty the Queen will be removed as titular Head of Barbados before the country celebrates its 50th anniversary of...

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This must not be our hour of humiliation

Peeping Tom… Kaieteur News- There are moments in the history of nations when fate lays before them a choice not of... more