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Another white Elephant?… No idea when the Central Police Station will be completed

Nov 08, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Another white Elephant?… No idea when the Central Police Station will be completed

The situation at the Central Police Station (CPS) is dire. Residents of New Amsterdam want the police high command to look into the situation with the same passion. The Central Police Station which...

Wandering, wondering, wanderlust and the Overdeveloped State

Nov 08, 2016 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on Wandering, wondering, wanderlust and the Overdeveloped State

In quite a number of columns, I have expanded on the concept made popular in political theory in the seventies by the Pakistani political theorist (deceased), Professor Hamza Alavi. He coined the...

HE WHO WITHOUT SIN CAST THE FIRST STONE

Nov 08, 2016 KNews Editorial, Features / Columnists Comments Off on HE WHO WITHOUT SIN CAST THE FIRST STONE

It is said that prostitution is the world’s oldest profession, a phrase coined by the British poet and novelist, Rudyard Kipling. The phrase acquired prominence in the late nineteenth century...

Twelve Essequibians win home improvement subsidy

Nov 08, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Twelve Essequibians win home improvement subsidy

Twelve lucky recipients were awarded with the “Jubilee year home improvement subsidy voucher initiative,” on Monday. Minister within the Housing Ministry, Valarie Adams-Patterson, while on her...

Comprehensive maintenance successfully completed

Nov 08, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Comprehensive maintenance successfully completed

On Sunday, the Guyana Power and Light Inc. effectively completed maintenance on the 69 kv transmission line and structures carrying 11 kV and 13.8 kV lines along the corridor linking the Kingston...

Search for missing Prospect woman comes up empty

Nov 08, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Search for missing Prospect woman comes up empty

Two months after running from Police Station to Police Station, relatives of a 37-year-old woman who went missing two months ago, attracted detectives to accompany them to a shack in Belle West, West...

Miners being trained to diagnose and treat malaria

Nov 08, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Miners being trained to diagnose and treat malaria

-as part of Health Ministry’s initiative to reduce cases A new initiative has been introduced by the Ministry of Public Health to help reduce the prevalence of malaria in endemic areas where mining...

Nandlall against special prosecution for Pradoville 2 & CWC

Nov 08, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Nandlall against special prosecution for Pradoville 2 & CWC

The coalition government has been consistently sidelining and emasculating authorised constitutional agencies, said former Attorney General and Member of Parliament, Anil Nandlall, at the People’s...

Rose Hall brothers, friend charged with raping night club patron

Nov 08, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Rose Hall brothers, friend charged with raping night club patron

Three men were yesterday charged and placed on $250,000 bail each for allegedly raping a 20-year old girl of Angoy’s Avenue, New Amsterdam. Charged were two brothers, Rayon Scott, 24, of Bamboo...

Judge to rule on Voir Dire in Bartica Massacre trial

Nov 08, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Judge to rule on Voir Dire in Bartica Massacre trial

Justice Roxanne George is expected to make a ruling into the Voir Dire (trial within a trial) for Dennis Williams, one of the men who are on trial for the 2008 Bartica Massacre, in which 12 persons...

United States-based group hands US$15,000 to Guyanese counterparts

Nov 08, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on United States-based group hands US$15,000 to Guyanese counterparts

By Samuel Whyte The Florida/Guyana Hope Incorporated which is a nonprofit foundation made up of Guyanese living in Florida is back again. The members are a group of native Guyanese living in Florida,...

Woman with marijuana in Vagina granted bail

Nov 08, 2016 KNews Court Stories, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Woman with marijuana in Vagina granted bail

A Leopold Street, Georgetown woman, who was nabbed by police at a Corentyne backtrack crossing on Sunday has been granted bail by Magistrate Rabindranauth Singh at the Springlands Magistrate’s...

Man busted with 130lbs ganja

Nov 08, 2016 KNews Court Stories, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Man busted with 130lbs ganja

… Thought he was transporting dry coconuts -court hears One of two men, who were allegedly held with almost 130 pounds of marijuana concealed in (salt) bags, after police intercepted a car at...

Teachers have not received the $3000 increase assured to them

Nov 08, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on Teachers have not received the $3000 increase assured to them

Dear Editor, Please publish this letter which is an appeal to the Minister of Education, Dr. Rupert Rupnarine to look into a dire situation which needs his urgent attention. I am a teacher and along...

I support the arguments of Sam Hinds not those of David Hinds

Nov 08, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on I support the arguments of Sam Hinds not those of David Hinds

Dear Editor, Editor’s note; this is the conclusion of Mr. Forsythe’s letter published in our Saturday edition. I would like to itemize developments that occurred in Region 10 under the rule of...

Sugar has to be replaced by something which must be profitable

Nov 08, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on Sugar has to be replaced by something which must be profitable

Dear Editor, Editor’s note; this is the conclusion of Mr. Vieira’s letter, the first part of which was carried in our edition yesterday under the caption; “An adumbration on the origins of...

The triumph of the Rule of Law; Guyana versus Britain

Nov 08, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on The triumph of the Rule of Law; Guyana versus Britain

Dear Editor, New British Prime Minister Theresa May declared in October 2016, that she will trigger Article 50 of the Treaty of Lisbon. Article 50 gives any member of the European Union (EU) the...

Anil Nandlall says the judicial system has reached an all-time low

Nov 08, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on Anil Nandlall says the judicial system has reached an all-time low

Dear Editor, Editor’s note; this is the conclusion of Mr. Nandlall’s letter published in our November (Monday) 7th edition with the title, “The Weakening of constitutional agencies by the...

Historic decision of Pope Francis that must be admired

Nov 08, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on Historic decision of Pope Francis that must be admired

Dear Editor, Martin Luther’s Protestant Reformation is an event that seems locked in a proverbial time capsule even though the very existence of the tens of thousands of Christian denominations...

Sugar has its heroes but so do other sectors of Guyana

Nov 08, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on Sugar has its heroes but so do other sectors of Guyana

Dear Editor, It is interesting that Abel Seetaram of Region 5 Council should acclaim ‘sugar workers’ as heroes. One quite understands that, as stated at the beginning of his letter to Kaieteur...

The Chronicle’s misleading journalism was rubbish from the gutter

Nov 08, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on The Chronicle’s misleading journalism was rubbish from the gutter

Dear Editor, A Guyana Chronicle newspaper report in Monday’s issue raised eyebrows and some readers sent out emails to their relatives and friends wrongfully stating that the Pontiff was engaged in...

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‘One Guyana’ 3×3 Quest Basketball opens with local teams in mixed results

Anticipation without preparation

Peeping Tom… Kaieteur News- The Vice President of Guyana, ever the sagacious observer of the inevitable, has reassured... more