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Teens get jail time for armed robberies

Dec 21, 2016 KNews Court Stories, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Teens get jail time for armed robberies

Leroy Forde and Joshua Collins, the two teenagers who were each charged with two counts of robbery under arms, and carjacking were yesterday jailed. Forde was sentenced to 48 months on each charge...

Caterer charged for abusive language

Dec 21, 2016 KNews Court Stories, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Caterer charged for abusive language

Samantha Samuels, 37, yesterday appeared before Magistrate Madan Kissoon in the Georgetown Magistrates’ Courts to answer to the charge of abusive language. The charge read that on December 8, last,...

AFC fetes Grove/Diamond children

Dec 21, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on AFC fetes Grove/Diamond children

The Alliance For Change hosted over 100 children from the Grove/ Diamond community at a Christmas party last Sunday. The fun filled event saw Executive Members of the Party engaging the children in...

Chinese army to help GDF with non-lethal military aid

Dec 21, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Chinese army to help GDF with non-lethal military aid

A six-member military delegation from the Chinese Peoples’ Liberation Army (PLA) paid a courtesy call on President David Granger. Monday evening. Senior Colonel Lu Zhonglin led the team, the...

Budget will cause the price of icicles and ice to go up

Dec 21, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on Budget will cause the price of icicles and ice to go up

Dear Editor, On Saturday 3rd December whilst at a shop at Uitvlugt, someone who knows me, approached me and violently abused me for my support for the APNU+AFC, citing the 2017 budget which he...

Sasenarine Singh has no history of struggle

Dec 21, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on Sasenarine Singh has no history of struggle

Dear Editor, I write in response to Mr. Sase Singh, whose letter “Is Tacuma Ogunseye a paid hypocrite” was published in Kaieteur News, on Thursday December 9th2016. In his letter, Singh was...

Scholarship controversy surrounds two Ministers

Dec 21, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on Scholarship controversy surrounds two Ministers

Dear Editor, I was appalled on reading that this government will expend almost $7.0 million per year to fund two of its current Ministers to pursue post graduate and doctoral studies in foreign...

I do not agree with the pension for Hamilton Green

Dec 21, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on I do not agree with the pension for Hamilton Green

Dear Editor, I leap in agreement with Lincoln Lewis on his letter: “A Pension must reflect a reasonable percentage of income not the full income” SN. November 23rd. The points raised by him are...

Nandlall doesn’t understand the difference between a state paper and a newspaper

Dec 21, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on Nandlall doesn’t understand the difference between a state paper and a newspaper

Dear Editor, The supremacy of the Constitution (article 8) would compel us to say that we must never trivialize or diminish the distinction between Guyana’s position of a written Constitution and,...

Christmas should not come from a store

Dec 21, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on Christmas should not come from a store

Dear Editor, Soon we will be celebrating Christmas, with the mass celebrating the birth of Jesus the Christ — the Messenger. Across a country shaken by spiraling crime rates, lamentable road death...

A philosophical story about abandoned parents

Dec 21, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on A philosophical story about abandoned parents

Dear Editor, At this time of year many of us reflect on the year which is about to end. What we did good, what we didn’t do so good and what we did that was terrible. And I think there are also...