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Trafficking victim, 9, being held against will by Ministry

Dec 28, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Trafficking victim, 9, being held against will by Ministry

– Women Miners’ body claims The Guyana Women Miners Organisation (GWMO) clashed with Ministry of Social Protection, over the weekend, accusing the latter of forcefully detaining a...

Noel Blackman for February sentencing

Dec 28, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Noel Blackman for February sentencing

The sentencing of former Minister of Health, Dr. Noel Blackman, has been pushed back for a month because of the unavailability of a New York court. Instead of being sentenced in the first week of the...

Moses put blame pun a Duttagee

Dec 28, 2016 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Moses put blame pun a Duttagee

Hydromet is people who does determine if you walk wid umbrella or long boots or if de place gun flood. Dem is de people who does tell farmers when to plant because dem seh that dem always know when...

Don’t use our employees to do political work

Dec 28, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Don’t use our employees to do political work

– GuySuCo urges unions Cash-strapped Guyana Sugar Corporation (GuySuCo) has called on unions and others to desist from using its employees for political work while they are on the job....

Golden Blue Ecko shines brightly on damp day for feature win at KMTC

Dec 28, 2016 KNews Sports Comments Off on Golden Blue Ecko shines brightly on damp day for feature win at KMTC

Golden Blue Ecko of The Karibee Rice Stable and ridden by Colin Ross continued its winning ways when the racehorse used the opportunity of the Kennard Memorial Turf Club Boxing Day meet to show that...

Sarama Football Team thanks Mountain View General Store

Dec 28, 2016 KNews Sports Comments Off on Sarama Football Team thanks Mountain View General Store

Sarama Football Team has expressed thanks to proprietor of the Mountain View General Store at Aranaputa Village, Region 9, for sponsoring the top prize of $100,000 for a football tournament. The team...

Organisers to meet on new dates for STAG Nations CUP KO Football

Dec 28, 2016 KNews Sports Comments Off on Organisers to meet on new dates for STAG Nations CUP KO Football

The continued unprecedented rainfall at this time of year continues to put a damper on the STAG Nations Cup knock-out football championship that involved teams from five associations affiliated to...

GPSU desirous of seeing COI report into complaints against Matron

Dec 28, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on GPSU desirous of seeing COI report into complaints against Matron

…but not prepared to accept its findings and recommendations “We are not prepared to accept the findings and recommendations,” said First Vice President of the Guyana Public Service Union...

No warning?

Dec 28, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on No warning?

This Region Three ambulance reportedly had on no siren and no flashing lights yesterday, when it attempted to cross from Orange Walk, Bourda, onto Croal Street, and collided with this pick-up. The...

Minister hosts Boxing Day party for children at Phoenix Park

Dec 28, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Minister hosts Boxing Day party for children at Phoenix Park

Minister of State, Mr. Joseph Harmon and his eldest daughter, Ms. Daniele Harmon-Klien, on Monday, spread holiday cheer to about 150 children of Phoenix Park, Vreed-en-Hoop, Best Village and other...

CELEBRATING OUR YOUTHS

Dec 28, 2016 KNews Editorial, Features / Columnists Comments Off on CELEBRATING OUR YOUTHS

In this holiday season, most Guyanese celebrate the birth of Christ who, according to the Bible, had admonished the world to suffer the little children to come unto him. We should use this special...

Father of eight succumbs days after struck by car

Dec 28, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Father of eight succumbs days after struck by car

The holiday celebrations for a Haslington, East Coast Demerara family ended miserably yesterday morning after one of their loved ones, who was involved in a road accident over one week ago, succumbed...

National Housing Strategy to be developed next year

Dec 28, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on National Housing Strategy to be developed next year

The strategic direction of the Central Housing and Planning Agency (CH&PA) for the year 2017 is expected to embrace the notion of creating livable and wholesome communities in Guyana. This is...

President attends Church on Christmas Day

Dec 28, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on President attends Church on Christmas Day

-visits Dharm Shala and GPHC maternity ward President David Granger greeted Christmas 2016 at the Christ Church Parish of the Anglican Diocese where he worshipped with other parishioners at their...

More sensitization needed for ICT sector to flourish – UG lecturer

Dec 28, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on More sensitization needed for ICT sector to flourish – UG lecturer

“I believe that there is great potential for Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) to benefit businesses in Guyana. There is an explosion of ICT that transcends other careers and there...

Govt. fails to produce framework for Sovereign Wealth Fund in set time

Dec 28, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Govt. fails to produce framework for Sovereign Wealth Fund in set time

Minister of Natural Resources, Raphael Trotman had vowed to, by the end of 2016, take to the National Assembly, a proposed framework for the much needed Sovereign Wealth Fund (SWF) for discussion and...

An apology!

Dec 28, 2016 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on An apology!

It happens to all of us in the worst of times and in the best of times. Mistakes are possible, and at times, those mistakes can seem incomprehensible. In the Christmas edition, this column indicated...

APNU+AFC in 2016: The Metaphysics of Presence

Dec 28, 2016 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on APNU+AFC in 2016: The Metaphysics of Presence

Simply put, the philosophical approach of deconstruction is to show that words have layers of meanings, and those meanings do not necessarily have objective existence at all. The central methodology...

Flooding persists in West Berbice

Dec 28, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Flooding persists in West Berbice

The rains are here and residents in the West Berbice area which is drained by the MMA (Mahaica-Mahaicony-Abary) water control system, especially those between Bush Lot and Number Thirty Village, are...

Significant reduction in cases referred to mediation centre

Dec 28, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Significant reduction in cases referred to mediation centre

Over the past decade there has been a significant reduction in the number of court cases which have been referred to the Mediation Centre, located in the compound of the Supreme Court of Judicature....

Thirty one cynical condemnations of Guyana

Dec 28, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on Thirty one cynical condemnations of Guyana

Dear Editor, I would like to thank the political leaders of this country and their Ministers, past and present, in creating an environment and providing us with the tools to a historic achievement in...

This helpless woman should not have been jailed

Dec 28, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on This helpless woman should not have been jailed

Dear Editor, I recall the following headline; “Domestic worker jailed for leaving children home alone”. The mother of eleven children received a 6 months sentence for leaving the children home...

Fear and pessimism about the benefits of oil

Dec 28, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on Fear and pessimism about the benefits of oil

Dear Editor, With the public announcement in the local media that ExxonMobil is gearing up for oil production from Guyana’s first oil well by mid-2020, and that the company announced that it has...

DO THESE PEOPLE HAVE AN AXE TO GRIND?

Dec 28, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on DO THESE PEOPLE HAVE AN AXE TO GRIND?

Dear Editor, When I read the article; “Granger Government has embarked on a journey of ‘detour and frolic’.” In Kaieteur News of December 20, 2016, I wondered what motivated the writers,...

Unacceptable police failure during the Springlands robbery

Dec 28, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on Unacceptable police failure during the Springlands robbery

Dear Editor, A letter written by me was published in the Kaieteur News on Page 6 of Tuesday, 13th December, 2016, in which I mentioned the slow or no response to reports of crime made at the Aurora...