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Lima Sands house goes up in flames

Nov 09, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Lima Sands house goes up in flames

A Lima Sands family of four has been forced to seek refuge elsewhere after their one-flat concrete house went up in flames Monday evening shortly after 19:00 hrs. According to reports coming out of...

Female cop before court on fraud charge

Nov 09, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Female cop before court on fraud charge

-after refusing to have relationship with foreign man A policewoman found herself in hot water after a man she befriended on Facebook accused her of fleecing him of $68,000. She reportedly refused to...

A CULTURE OF CORRUPTION

Nov 09, 2016 KNews Editorial, Features / Columnists Comments Off on A CULTURE OF CORRUPTION

In Guyana, corruption has become a culture, despite the talk and all the promises to weed it out. Almost every day, there are stories in the news about corruption and so far, only a few have been...

Babita Sarjou murder PI…Magistrate set to make ruling on admissibility of caution statement

Nov 09, 2016 KNews Court Stories, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Babita Sarjou murder PI…Magistrate set to make ruling on admissibility of caution statement

Chief Magistrate Ann McLennan is set to make a ruling on the admissibility of an alleged caution statement given to detectives by Darrel Ponton, one of the men charged with the murder of Babita...

Social Protection Ministry to heighten protection of young girls

Nov 09, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Social Protection Ministry to heighten protection of young girls

The Ministry of Social Protection will be partnering with various Ministries and Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs) in 2017 to establish a committee aimed at protecting young girls. Minister of...

Alternative sentencing being explored towards reducing prison overcrowding

Nov 09, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Alternative sentencing being explored towards reducing prison overcrowding

The Ministry of Legal Affairs is in consultation with the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), on developing alternative sentencing as part of measures to reduce overcrowding in the prisons....

27 companies vie for construction, rehabilitation and maintenance work at UG

Nov 09, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on 27 companies vie for construction, rehabilitation and maintenance work at UG

Several bids were opened at the National Procurement and Tender Administration Board (NPTAB) yesterday. Expressions of interest were received for consultancy services for the design and...

FAO framework to assist Guyana in sustainable management of Natural Resources

Nov 09, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on FAO framework to assist Guyana in sustainable management of Natural Resources

In addition to the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO)’s aim to contribute to the reduction of hunger, food insecurity, malnutrition and poverty in Guyana, focus will also be placed on the...

Voir Dire continues in Bartica massacre trial

Nov 09, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Voir Dire continues in Bartica massacre trial

The Voir Dire (trial within a trial) for Dennis Williams, one of the men on trial for the 2008 Bartica Massacre, in which 12 persons were brutally murdered continued yesterday at the Georgetown High...

People like Trump and Jagdeo should never be elected

Nov 09, 2016 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on People like Trump and Jagdeo should never be elected

By the time you pick up this edition of KN, you would have known who clinched the American presidential election. I think it is Mrs. Clinton. People like Trump have no mental integrity, character...

Gender equality crucial in quest to achieve SDGs

Nov 09, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Gender equality crucial in quest to achieve SDGs

Gender equality is an important aspect of the development of any nation. Moreover, calls are being made to emphasize the need for gender sensitive budgeting in order to advance gender equality....

Fire department targets major causes of fire

Nov 09, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Fire department targets major causes of fire

– says carelessness is the biggest cause of fires Fires can be a threat to life and limb. In this regard, the Fire Prevention Department with the Guyana Fire Service has been working to warn...

GPHC Board ‘baffled’ by GPSU’s move to challenge incomplete COI

Nov 09, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on GPHC Board ‘baffled’ by GPSU’s move to challenge incomplete COI

“Baffled” is how the Board of Directors of the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) has described the Guyana Public Service Union (GPSU’) reaction to its ongoing Commission of Inquiry...

Cops nab burglar who broke into Bartica Deputy Mayor’s store

Nov 09, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Cops nab burglar who broke into Bartica Deputy Mayor’s store

Police have captured the prime suspect in last Sunday’s $3.2M burglary at a store owned by Bartica’s Deputy Mayor, Ms. Kamal Persaud. It was between 3:00hrs and 5:00hrs on Sunday that burglars...

Man assaults cop after caught smoking weed -Court hears

Nov 09, 2016 KNews Court Stories, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Man assaults cop after caught smoking weed -Court hears

A 50-year-old man found himself before a City Court yesterday for allegedly assaulting a police rank after he was caught smoking marijuana by a party of police on mobile patrol at Baramita, North...

Why have these destroyed young people so cruelly?

Nov 09, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on Why have these destroyed young people so cruelly?

Dear Editor, I had no clue that Guyana was incarcerating children and teenagers for wandering until I read the Freddie Kissoon column, “Wandering, wondering, wanderlust and the Overdeveloped...

Mr. Granger’s comfort for his military world will pose a problem for him

Nov 09, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on Mr. Granger’s comfort for his military world will pose a problem for him

Dear Editor, I refer to a letter in which the writer chastises Mr. Freddie Kissoon and Dr. Hinds for not speaking out against Cabinet meetings now transferred to army head office on Thomas Lands. I...

The Police Commissioner versus the Acting Police Commissioner

Nov 09, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on The Police Commissioner versus the Acting Police Commissioner

Dear Editor, It is with utmost disgust that I read of the “Turmoil at the top of Police Force” (KN November, 16, 2016). I am disgusted but not surprised at the attitude of the Commissioner of...

IMPLICATIONS FOR GUYANA OF A DONALD TRUMP PRESIDENCY

Nov 09, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on IMPLICATIONS FOR GUYANA OF A DONALD TRUMP PRESIDENCY

Dear Editor, Editor’s note; for purpose of relevance this letter should have been carried in our edition yesterday, but maybe because of the Devil at work, it missed the deadline. We apologize to...

The local government union is not loyal to its workers

Nov 09, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on The local government union is not loyal to its workers

Dear Editor, Over the last year and a half, workers of the Mayor and Councillors of the City of Georgetown are left to wonder as to what is the real use, the purpose or the benefits of the Guyana...

The nation needs to know we are into “Road Safety Month”

Nov 09, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on The nation needs to know we are into “Road Safety Month”

Dear Editor, “Emphasised that Government sees it as a citizen’s duty to be responsible, noting that having responsible citizenry is not something that is abstract or too philosophical to become...

GuySuco must cut the enormous privileges of its managers

Nov 09, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on GuySuco must cut the enormous privileges of its managers

Dear Editor, It is with growing concerns that I am penning this letter to your newspaper, so as to give my view on the sugar industry. With all that is being said and done, we need to understand that...

A bauxite company employee says the union misleads workers

Nov 09, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on A bauxite company employee says the union misleads workers

Dear Editor, I am taking this opportunity in your paper column to voice my concern over some unreasonable and misleading stories that were stated in the Guyana Chronicle recently, on the treatment of...

My reasons for not including Shivnarine Chanderpaul

Nov 09, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on My reasons for not including Shivnarine Chanderpaul

Dear Editor, Kindly allow me some space in your newspaper for this letter. The Guyana Cricket Board recently successfully run off their three day franchise cricket league for teams in Guyana with the...

A track record of failure after failure

Nov 09, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on A track record of failure after failure

Dear Editor, The consistent failures and lack of performance by the Town Clerk of Georgetown Mr. Royston King, should come as no surprise to the Deputy Mayor Mr. Sherod Duncan, but then again, I...

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National B/Ball team departs for Suriname today

Poverty does not come with a lifetime warranty

Peeping Tom… Kaieteur News- When the national discussion segues to poverty reduction, it resurrects the age-old debate... more