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SHOWING LENIENCY!

Dec 04, 2016 KNews Editorial, Features / Columnists Comments Off on SHOWING LENIENCY!

All over Guyana, children are suffering. Many are poor and are left to fend for themselves because their parents do not have the resources to provide for them. Some will go to school without...

Emerging Oil and Gas Industry…Everyone needs to make a conscious decision to stay and invest in Guyana today

Dec 04, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Emerging Oil and Gas Industry…Everyone needs to make a conscious decision to stay and invest in Guyana today

– US Deputy Chief of Mission With Guyana preparing to usher in its age of oil, the State is at a crossroads and the Guyanese people – who are also taxpayers and consumers – will have many...

Roraima Airways offers flights to boy with cancer in eye

Dec 04, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Roraima Airways offers flights to boy with cancer in eye

Roraima Airways has announced that it will be offering return flights to little Omkar Persaud, who has cancer in his eye, and his mother, Casandra to Cuba for the urgent medical treatment that is...

Demerara sugar is a type not origin

Dec 04, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Demerara sugar is a type not origin

It seems that consultants and lobbyists are pushing the Guyana Government and taxpayers into a no-win situation especially since it has already been decided that Demerara is a type of sugar and not a...

Sign language interpreters a first during National Budget presentation

Dec 04, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Sign language interpreters a first during National Budget presentation

The use of sign language interpreters, initiated during the recent presentation of the 2017 National Budget by Finance Minister Winston Jordan, was a first for the budget presentation in the National...

Deliberate efforts being made to reduce Maternal Mortality

Dec 04, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Deliberate efforts being made to reduce Maternal Mortality

By Sharmain Grainger The importance of medical education cannot be overemphasized. In fact it is a crucial feature in any health care setting. Right here in Guyana, specifically at the Georgetown...

Chief Magistrate to rule on another TIP case

Dec 04, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Chief Magistrate to rule on another TIP case

This will be Chief Magistrate Ann McLennan’s second ruling on a Trafficking in Person (TIP) case in four months. She is set to hand down a decision on December 22, in the case of businesswoman,...

The 43rd Anniversary of a plane crash in Kurupung

Dec 04, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on The 43rd Anniversary of a plane crash in Kurupung

On Monday December 3, 1973, the Guyana Airways Twin Otter aircraft 8R-GCP departed Ogle airstrip about 9:00 a.m. for a flight which was routed, Ogle /Ekereku /Ogle. The crew that morning was Captain...

TV Host Basil Bradshaw celebrates 21 years

Dec 04, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on TV Host Basil Bradshaw celebrates 21 years

By Isanella Patoir Television personality, Basil Bradshaw, is popularly known for his show “Wake up Guyana”, aired on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays from 9:00 hours and lasts for one hour. On...

Prince Harry experiences Guyana’s wonders

Dec 04, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Prince Harry experiences Guyana’s wonders

His Royal Highness Prince Harry visited several tourist sites in Guyana yesterday, among them Surama Lodge, the Iwokrama International Conservation Centre (IICC) and the majestic Kaieteur Falls....

Man flown to city with gunshot wound to abdomen

Dec 04, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Man flown to city with gunshot wound to abdomen

A Mabaruma, North West District man is in a critical condition after sustaining a gunshot wound to the abdomen. The incident reportedly occurred in a community near the Venezuela border. The victim,...

Sunday Cartoon

Dec 04, 2016 KNews Cartoons, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Sunday Cartoon

STANDARDS IN FOCUS…CHRISTMAS TIPS – request your warranties/guarantees when shopping

Dec 04, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on STANDARDS IN FOCUS…CHRISTMAS TIPS – request your warranties/guarantees when shopping

For many consumers, the deciding factors for purchasing this Christmas will be based on low or affordable prices, brands or seemingly good quality, or prior knowledge of the products. Although these...

DENTAL HEALTH…IRREVERSIBLE PULPITIS

Dec 04, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on DENTAL HEALTH…IRREVERSIBLE PULPITIS

By Dr. Neromini Fagu Last week we spoke about reversible pulpitis and what to expect if you are diagnosed with the condition. I will continue this week with irreversible pulpitis. In severe cases the...

The Cookie Thief

Dec 04, 2016 KNews Features / Columnists, Food For Thought Comments Off on The Cookie Thief

A woman was waiting at an airport one night, with several long hours before her flight. She hunted for a book in the airport shops, bought a bag of cookies and found a place to drop. She was...

Accused mannequin thief begs for jail sentence

Dec 04, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Accused mannequin thief begs for jail sentence

Alfred Junior, a steel pan player, was placed on $40,000 bail after he appeared in the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court before Magistrate Madan Kissoon to face a charge that he stole one dress valued...

CONSUMER CONCERNS…There is room for cooperation on solar energy

Dec 04, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on CONSUMER CONCERNS…There is room for cooperation on solar energy

PAT DIAL Within the last few weeks there have been much stirring in the media about the “Green Economy”. The term “Green Economy” includes many concepts and courses of action but in this...

Dangerously Disrespectful

Dec 04, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Dangerously Disrespectful

This has been the situation on the East Bank Demerara public road, in front of the Ruimveldt Police Station, for several days now, with no warning signs for the construction that is ongoing there....

Parenting and the psychiatrist for those runaways

Dec 04, 2016 KNews Features / Columnists, My Column Comments Off on Parenting and the psychiatrist for those runaways

A woman once said to me that there is no manual to teach parenting. Indeed just about everyone aspires to become a parent, if only to show the world that they can procreate. Many a young mother gets...

Book Review…Light from the East

Dec 04, 2016 KNews Book Review…, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Book Review…Light from the East

Book: Did the right sperm win? Author: Vinette Hoffman-Jackson Reviewer: Dr Glenville Ashby Caribbean writer and motivational speaker Vinette Hoffman-Jackson serves up an indelible array of precepts...

Barn swallow (Hirundo rustica)

Dec 04, 2016 KNews Features / Columnists, Interesting Creatures in Guyana Comments Off on Barn swallow (Hirundo rustica)

The barn swallow (Hirundo rustica) is the most widespread species of swallow in the world. It is a distinctive passerine bird with blue upperparts, a long, deeply forked tail and curved, pointed...

Apostles, prophets, bishops, and a pope

Dec 04, 2016 KNews Countryman, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Apostles, prophets, bishops, and a pope

By Dennis Nichols Recent comments over the ‘London affair’ of a few weeks ago revived in me some thoughts and feelings about the more general affairs of the church – specifically the...

City Council needs to take revolutionary action

Dec 04, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on City Council needs to take revolutionary action

Dear Editor, I am writing on a topic that has been a cause for great concern of late. That is, our City Council. I believe that when we broke up the smaller district councils of urban Georgetown, we...

The baby party is over

Dec 04, 2016 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on The baby party is over

Local manufacturers will have no choice but to increase the prices of each bottled or canned product to compensate for the environmental tax which will now be levied on both local and foreign goods....

Ministry must acknowledge past nursery school teachers

Dec 04, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on Ministry must acknowledge past nursery school teachers

Dear Editor, The Ministry of Education celebrated forty years of Nursery Education – from September 1976 to September 2016. It was most disappointing to note, that most of the teachers who were...

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