January 2017

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Bartica Massacre trial…Judge to rule on legal submissions made in jury’s absence

Jan 19, 2017 KNews Court Stories, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Bartica Massacre trial…Judge to rule on legal submissions made in jury’s absence

Justice Roxanne George is expected to rule on submissions made by attorneys involved in the trial of the three men implicated in the 2008 Bartica Massacre. Attorneys Peter Hugh and Saphier Husain...

2016 was the year of Trump and Jagdeo

Jan 19, 2017 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on 2016 was the year of Trump and Jagdeo

Each one of us says after each year passes, the following words; “I will never forget that year.” And when we reach the end of the new year, we repeat that mantra. The reason is because life has...

Recently released bandit robs No. 50 gas station

Jan 19, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Recently released bandit robs No. 50 gas station

A well-known bandit, who was less than a week ago released from prison, has struck again. On Tuesday he robbed the Number 50 village gas station at Leeds. According to information, the culprit who...

Parking meter company ready to meet with Disability Commission, GTU

Jan 19, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Parking meter company ready to meet with Disability Commission, GTU

Smart City Solutions (SCS), the company awarded the parking meter contract for the city of Georgetown, announced yesterday that it is ready to meet with the Guyana Teachers’ Union (GTU) and the...

The issue is one of interpretation, not compulsion

Jan 19, 2017 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on The issue is one of interpretation, not compulsion

The goalpost is being shifted so often in the matter of the appointment of the Chairperson of the Guyana Elections Commission that the whole process seems to have drifted from centre field to off the...

IS THE CITY REALLY SINKING?

Jan 19, 2017 KNews Editorial, Features / Columnists 1

In Guyana the year 2005 will be remembered as the “Great Flood” due to the widespread flooding in Georgetown and the coastal plain, which resulted in hundreds of millions in damage. The flood...

Guyana completes first draft report in quest to end Mother-to-Child transmission of HIV

Jan 19, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Guyana completes first draft report in quest to end Mother-to-Child transmission of HIV

The Prevention of Mother to Child Transmission (PMTCT) of the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) has officially become a programme to eliminate mother to child transmission altogether. This...

Man gets eight years for infant son’s death

Jan 19, 2017 KNews Court Stories, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Man gets eight years for infant son’s death

Forty-one year-old James Hunte was yesterday sentenced to serve eight years in prison for the death of his infant son. Hunte was initially charged with murder but he pleaded guilty to the lesser...

Man stabs stepbrother over payment of $5000 light bill

Jan 19, 2017 KNews Court Stories, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Man stabs stepbrother over payment of $5000 light bill

A shop owner, who was reportedly in a drunken state when he stabbed his step brother, who had confronted him over the payment of a Guyana Power and Light (GPL) bill, was remanded to prison on a...

NICIL RESPONDS TO SARU’S STATEMENT ON GNIC

Jan 19, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on NICIL RESPONDS TO SARU’S STATEMENT ON GNIC

Dear Editor, I hereby respond to Kaieteur News’ front page headline in its Sunday edition of 15 January, which read as follows: ‘NICIL MUST CLEAN UP ‘MESSY’ GNIC LAND DEAL OR REPOSSESS...

The Constitution is clear; a person other than a judge is eligible

Jan 19, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on The Constitution is clear; a person other than a judge is eligible

Dear Editor, The President of Guyana David Granger acted erroneously and outside of the Constitution, the Supreme law of this land, when he rejected the list of nominees submitted by the Leader of...

Guyanese ruling politicians have always been too inflexible

Jan 19, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on Guyanese ruling politicians have always been too inflexible

Dear Editor, Plans go out the window when the first shot of any war is fire? Well, that has certainly been the case since the first day of the Granger administration. Everything they promised the...

Guyana, as a matter of policy, must restore the death penalty

Jan 19, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on Guyana, as a matter of policy, must restore the death penalty

Dear Editor, On Tuesday, January 10, 2017, an unrepentant Dylann Roof was sentenced to death for killing nine black church members during Bible study, the first person to face execution for federal...

Jagdeo and Nandlall should stop the nonsense about a one term government

Jan 19, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on Jagdeo and Nandlall should stop the nonsense about a one term government

Dear Editor, Most Guyanese believe that Anil Nandlall was unfit to be the Nation’s Attorney General. Once on a taped message, Nandlall, which up to this day has not denied he was the speaker, was...

Urgent need for the reclamation of integrity in Guyana

Jan 19, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on Urgent need for the reclamation of integrity in Guyana

Dear Editor, One of the greatest haemorrhages experienced by Guyana following intellectual and capital flight since the early 1990’s is the erosion of Integrity. Merriam-Webster defines Integrity...

Rice Producers’ Association needs to do more for farmers

Jan 19, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on Rice Producers’ Association needs to do more for farmers

Dear Editor, I would like to thank the Minister of Agriculture Noel Holder and his team for visiting Region 5 on Thursday January 12. The outreach saw meetings at Little Biaboo, Mahaica Creek; Strath...

TIME LONG PAST TO PASS THE TOBACCO CONTROL BILL

Jan 19, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on TIME LONG PAST TO PASS THE TOBACCO CONTROL BILL

Dear Editor, Russia where almost half of the population smokes is considering banning tobacco. Between 2001 and now, I have been urging a global ban of tobacco by 2040. We need to introduce a Tobacco...

THE MORNING TRAFFIC SITUATION ON THE EAST BANK IS WOEFUL

Jan 19, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on THE MORNING TRAFFIC SITUATION ON THE EAST BANK IS WOEFUL

Dear Editor, With deep frustration and anger I pen this letter as I am seated at the eastern end of the Demerara Harbour Bridge waiting for the retraction to end. I am aware that there are many...

Earnest plea to repair this road in Chateau Margot

Jan 19, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on Earnest plea to repair this road in Chateau Margot

Dear Editor, The main throughway leading into the small hamlet of Chateau Margot on the East Coast of Demerara is in a deplorable state. This main road from the East Coast highway is daily becoming...

Questions raised over new company that replaces Wartsila

Jan 18, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Questions raised over new company that replaces Wartsila

There are very little details about a new company that is supposed to manage the Wartsila power engines now that the contract with the previous operator has ended. According to official records at...

Granger shows two-faced stance on fighting corruption –Ramotar

Jan 18, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Granger shows two-faced stance on fighting corruption –Ramotar

Former President Donald Ramotar believes that his successor, President David Granger, has not taken a sincere stance when it comes to fighting corruption in Guyana. In an interview with Kaieteur...

Berbice bandits raid MoneyGram, terrorize vendor

Jan 18, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Berbice bandits raid MoneyGram, terrorize vendor

The MoneyGram section of Spready’s Supermarket, Port Mourant, Corentyne, Berbice was yesterday afternoon robbed by a lone bandit. The daring daylight robbery took place at approximately 15:00 hrs....

Directorate to manage oil and gas to be established by first quarter – Trotman

Jan 18, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Directorate to manage oil and gas to be established by first quarter – Trotman

A special department to manage the country’s oil and gas sector is to be established in the coming weeks, Government has announced. Yesterday, the Ministry of Natural Resources said that it is...

Fisherman mistakenly buried…DNA to be done on exhumed body

Jan 18, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Fisherman mistakenly buried…DNA to be done on exhumed body

A DNA (Deoxyribonucleic acid) test has to be done on the remains, believed to be that of 43-year-old Surujpaul Dindyal, whose body was mistakenly buried among those that had to be given poor burial...

Discrepancies found at Region Six drug bond during surprise minister’s visit

Jan 18, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Discrepancies found at Region Six drug bond during surprise minister’s visit

Minister within the Ministry of Public Health, Dr. Karen Cummings, and Director of Regional Health Services, Dr. Kay Shako, made an unscheduled visit to the New Amsterdam Drug Bond to carry out...

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