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Sovereign Wealth Fund will have effective budget stabilizing feature – Trotman

Jan 23, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Sovereign Wealth Fund will have effective budget stabilizing feature – Trotman

— To also cater for environmental protection, funding of social protection projects By Kiana Wilburg While the intention to create a Sovereign Wealth Fund has earned the APNU+AFC administration...

Mechanic killed, operator injured in fishing complex explosion

Jan 23, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Mechanic killed, operator injured in fishing complex explosion

By: Brushell Blackman A 52-year-old mechanic suffered a gruesome death while an operator miraculously escaped with minor injuries, after a gas explosion rocked the B.M. Enterprises fishing complex in...

Sugar industry should not be a burden to Guyanese taxpayers – Pres. Granger

Jan 23, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Sugar industry should not be a burden to Guyanese taxpayers – Pres. Granger

“We are not going in there with any prejudice except for the fact that the sugar industry must not be a burden to the Guyanese tax payer any longer.” Those words were uttered by President David...

AK-47 rifle, pistol, 78 rounds of ammo found during C’ville raid

Jan 23, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on AK-47 rifle, pistol, 78 rounds of ammo found during C’ville raid

A raid at a house in Campbellville has unearthed an assault rifle and several rounds of ammunition, and resulted in the arrest of three men yesterday. ‘A’ Division Commander Clifton Hicken said...

Health Ministry to address issues affecting Region Two facilities

Jan 23, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Health Ministry to address issues affecting Region Two facilities

– following impromptu visit The Ministry of Public Health (MoPH) is set to address issues affecting the performance and functions of premier health facilities in Region Two. The problems were...

Dem boys seh…Power got people squaring up to fight

Jan 23, 2017 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Dem boys seh…Power got people squaring up to fight

When people get in a position of power dem never like to give it up. Dem boys see it wid Burnham who mek a constitution that seh he couldn’t give up office. Is de same thing wid Mugabe, who been...

Second Rodrigues sibling murdered near Stabroek Square

Jan 23, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Second Rodrigues sibling murdered near Stabroek Square

– sister’s killer still at large When two men stabbed 43-year-old Raul Rodrigues to death last Friday night, he became the second sibling from the Rodrigues clan to be slain in the...

Parking meter company to meet with Disability Commission, GTU today

Jan 23, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Parking meter company to meet with Disability Commission, GTU today

Smart City Solutions (SCS) has scheduled two separate meetings today with the Guyana Teachers Union and the National Commission on Disability (NCD) to discuss concerns regarding the paid parking...

Guyanese need to practice more ‘conscious’ consumption – Business Minister

Jan 23, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Guyanese need to practice more ‘conscious’ consumption – Business Minister

“We cannot continue to consume everything that everyone else is producing without seriously undermining our own productive capacity…” By: Kiana Wilburg Business Minister, Dominic Gaskin...

More than one year later…Mother of baby who died after vaccination still seeks justice

Jan 23, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on More than one year later…Mother of baby who died after vaccination still seeks justice

Nearly two years after four-month-old Kevon Critchlow Jr. died after a visit to the Plaisance Heath Centre, where he was reportedly administered with the wrong injection by a nurse; his mother...

PNCR moves motion supporting Govt’s retake of Red House

Jan 23, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on PNCR moves motion supporting Govt’s retake of Red House

…as party hosts first General Council meeting A motion giving the government full support in its action of retaking Red House, a national heritage building, was supported when the People’s...

Man who slashed ex-girlfriend allegedly stalked other teen

Jan 23, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Man who slashed ex-girlfriend allegedly stalked other teen

A Sophia man who is on the run after slashing his 19-year-old ex-girlfriend, Michelle Baker, appears to be a serial stalker, if claims by the mother of another teenage girl are true. Michelle...

Alleged wife-killer still on the run

Jan 23, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Alleged wife-killer still on the run

A year after he allegedly battered his reputed wife to death, Gregory Emerson Hercules remains on the run, even as the slain woman’s relatives plead with police to intensity their efforts to find...

$58M upgrade for Palms

Jan 23, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on $58M upgrade for Palms

– elevators to be installed Infrastructural works are well underway to improve the Palms, the oldest and largest geriatric home in the country, located on Brickdam. It is home to some 240...

Work intensifies to improve mathematics results in Guyana

Jan 23, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Work intensifies to improve mathematics results in Guyana

The Ministry of Education has intensified efforts to improve mathematics results across Guyana. Education Officials have deemed the results over the years as being unacceptable. The Ministry of...

Hutson re-elected AAG President

Jan 23, 2017 KNews Sports Comments Off on Hutson re-elected AAG President

– New Executive features youth, business magnate Ming By Edison Jefford Incumbent President of the Athletics Association of Guyana (AAG), Aubrey Hutson will serve in that position for...

Brazilian reconnects with long-lost Guyanese cousins

Jan 23, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Brazilian reconnects with long-lost Guyanese cousins

Giselle Vale Costa, a Brazilian national has much to be thankful for. Last year, she sought help from this publication with finding her cousins, with whom she had lost contact in 2010, after her...

Inaugural Port Mourant day and Gymkhana set for Feb. 5th

Jan 23, 2017 KNews Sports Comments Off on Inaugural Port Mourant day and Gymkhana set for Feb. 5th

The Sha’veh Business entity of Port Mourant Corentyne Berbice is association with the Port Mourant Turf Club (PMTC) will be staging the first ever Port Mourant Family Fun day and Gymkhana. The...

Living with diabetes at four years old

Jan 23, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Living with diabetes at four years old

– over 60 percent of persons seen had high blood sugar during Linden outreach Little Sophia Charles looks like any other four year old. Bu what separates her from many children her age is the...

Limacol Round Robin / KO kicks off tonight at GFC

Jan 23, 2017 KNews Sports Comments Off on Limacol Round Robin / KO kicks off tonight at GFC

The 2nd Annual Limacol Round Robin / Knockout Football Competition kicks off today with a double header, at the Georgetown Football Club ground, starting from 18:30hrs. In the opening encounter,...

Annual Desmond Dorsett Memorial road race and fun day set for January 29th

Jan 23, 2017 KNews Sports Comments Off on Annual Desmond Dorsett Memorial road race and fun day set for January 29th

The seventh annual Desmond Dorsett Memorial Road race classic and Family Fun day will be held on Sunday 29thJanuary. It is being organised by the Dorsett family of Leeds, Corentyne Berbice....

Big Bikes should be banned

Jan 23, 2017 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on Big Bikes should be banned

A few weeks ago, there was a terrible accident on the East Coast Public Road. The accident involved a rider of what is called “big bikes”, a motor bike above 250cc. The biker crashed into a...

Never could there be another backward country like Guyana

Jan 23, 2017 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on Never could there be another backward country like Guyana

I have been doing columns since 1988. I have been a major columnist with the Catholic Standard, Stabroek News, Kaieteur News and was contracted by then Chronicle editor, Anthony Calder to serialize...

Relatives turn in alleged Gas station robber

Jan 23, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Relatives turn in alleged Gas station robber

Police have detained a man who allegedly robbed the No. 50 gas station at Leeds on the Corentyne, Berbice of a substantial sum of money last Tuesday. Reports are that he was taken into custody by a...

Disability Training Centre to be established soon

Jan 23, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Disability Training Centre to be established soon

The Government of Guyana will soon be establishing a Disability Training Centre at the Cyril Potter College of Education (CPCE) compound to educate and train teachers to deal with differently able...

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China-owned companies competing to build new West Dem. Hospital

China-owned companies competing to build new West Dem. Hospital

The West Demerara Regional Hospital. (China-owned companies) Kaieteur News- Three Chinese companies who are no strangers... more