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Kwanzaa observances end

Jan 03, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Kwanzaa observances end

Kwanzaa is an African cultural holiday. Celebrated from December 26, through January 1, its origins are in the first harvest celebrations of Africa from which it takes its name. The name Kwanzaa is...

Over 9,000 cases of malaria recorded in 2016

Jan 03, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Over 9,000 cases of malaria recorded in 2016

– as strategic efforts made to control vector borne illnesses More than 9,000 new cases of malaria were recorded across the 10 administrative regions during the course of last year. The...

Legal recourse not the only means of restoring some criminals – Minister Lawrence

Jan 03, 2017 KNews News 1

Legal recourse may not always be the solution to some perceived criminal acts. According to Senior Minister of Social Protection, Volda Lawrence, if such an act is linked to psychological issues it...

Museum honouring former President Hugh Desmond Hoyte opened

Jan 03, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Museum honouring former President Hugh Desmond Hoyte opened

In honouring the memory of a former President of Guyana, the Hugh Desmond Hoyte Museum was officially opened. At the event Minister of Social Protection, Volda Lawrence, said, “It is indeed an...

GUYANA THEN AND NOW

Jan 03, 2017 KNews Editorial, Features / Columnists 1

When the Golden Arrowhead replaced the Union Jack, most of the country’s institutions and infrastructures were in immaculate condition. Georgetown was clean, drains unclogged, and the few street...

PRINCIPLE OR INTEREST?

Jan 03, 2017 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on PRINCIPLE OR INTEREST?

People must be careful about the causes they support. They could be supporting causes which can turn around and bite them. The political divisions in our country make hypocrites of many an otherwise...

GPHC gets 21 New Year’s babies

Jan 03, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on GPHC gets 21 New Year’s babies

The first New Year’s Day baby, a boy named, Jagdesh, was born at 12:29hrs at the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC). He was born to Hemwantie Singh, 24, a first time mother, of Lot 59...

Rose Hall celebrates 46 years of Township in 2016

Jan 03, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Rose Hall celebrates 46 years of Township in 2016

– presented with recreational play park Rose Hall town Corentyne, on September 2016 celebrated 46 years as a township. Rose Hall became a township on the September 20, 1970. The Town was...

Presentation of M&CC 2017 revenue estimates

Jan 03, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Presentation of M&CC 2017 revenue estimates

New by-laws, upgrading laws on infrastructure on agenda The Georgetown Mayor and City Council, (M&CC) is getting ready to present its annual estimates of revenue and expenditure to the citizenry...

I’m afraid of what they will do to me at the Berbice Bridge

Jan 03, 2017 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on I’m afraid of what they will do to me at the Berbice Bridge

I read the story last week as told by a 68-year-old outgoing passenger. She was stripped search at the Timehri airport. The police did not find any proof of criminal violation. When her description...

President David Granger New Year’s message as CARICOM’s Chairman

Jan 03, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on President David Granger New Year’s message as CARICOM’s Chairman

-focus on arrest warrants, assets forfeiture Message of the Chairperson: I extend to all best wishes for a bright, prosperous and productive New Year as we enter 2017, the Forty-Fourth Year of our...

Constables on narcotics charge further remanded

Jan 03, 2017 KNews Court Stories, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Constables on narcotics charge further remanded

The two constables who were remanded to jail on a joint narcotics change have been further remanded to jail when they reappeared before Magistrate Mauricia Mittleholzer on Friday in the Albion...

Legendary Chutney singer, Anand Yankarran, dies

Jan 03, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Legendary Chutney singer, Anand Yankarran, dies

Legendary Chutney icon Anand Yankarran is dead, Trinidad news reported yesterday. Likened to Sundar Popo, Yankarran died Monday morning from a suspected heart attack, Loop News reported. He had been...

Many Waters Foundation continues to give back

Jan 03, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Many Waters Foundation continues to give back

With their aim being to connect community partners to resources needed to support people in building dignified lives, “Many Waters Foundation” (Guyana), a non-profit organization, continues to...

80-year-old Plaisance resident who died at Berbice bus park identified

Jan 03, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on 80-year-old Plaisance resident who died at Berbice bus park identified

The elderly man who collapsed and died on Saturday (Old Year’s Day) at the minibus park has been identified as 80-year-old Plaisance resident, Ulric Harold Beresford. The man’s daughter, Simone...

This man is an incorruptible political activist

Jan 03, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on This man is an incorruptible political activist

Dear Editor, There is a third letter in which Sasenarine Singh has hurled completely baseless comments about the character of Tacuma Ogunseye. Mr Singh has an absolute right to make criticisms of...

Tit for Tat Politics in Guyana

Jan 03, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on Tit for Tat Politics in Guyana

Dear Editor, How do the politicians in APNU/AFC defend the indefensible? Why seek to seize assets legitimately owned in some cases or controlled by the PPP/C or their representatives or supporters?...

The NTA was bypassed when Ralph Ramkarran applied for the lease

Jan 03, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on The NTA was bypassed when Ralph Ramkarran applied for the lease

Dear Editor, The National Trust Act (NTA) was absurdly bypassed altogether when CJRC principal, Ralph Ramkarran, still then a PPP member, would ‘successfully’ – a few months after the 2011...

Silk for Justice George is unprecedented

Jan 03, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on Silk for Justice George is unprecedented

Dear Editor, After two decades, nine lawyers including three women have been elevated to senior counsel, and it is the first time in the history of the country and the Caribbean, maybe in the...

The banned Khemraj Rai was close to the PPP

Jan 03, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on The banned Khemraj Rai was close to the PPP

Dear Editor, It is very interesting to read in other sections of the media that the IDB has banned persons and companies for a number of years for wrongdoing. Banned is Mr. Khemraj Rai who was very...

AMAILA IS ANOTHER APNU+AFC SCANDAL; THEY CONTINUE TO FIB

Jan 03, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on AMAILA IS ANOTHER APNU+AFC SCANDAL; THEY CONTINUE TO FIB

Dear Editor, Truth is truth. When you deliberately twist the truth to misrepresent it, it is lying. I use the word FIB in the title for this article only because editors discourage using the word...

I keep saying; APNU+AFC is repeating the mistakes of the PPP

Jan 03, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on I keep saying; APNU+AFC is repeating the mistakes of the PPP

Dear Editor, Having observed PPP/C Member of Parliament Anil Nandlall’s letter “The Government’s consultation is cosmetological” (KN December 29, 2016) in speaking to issues of governance,...

Are police exempted from the tint requirement?

Jan 03, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on Are police exempted from the tint requirement?

Dear Editor, Thank you for permitting me a space in your newspaper to air my concern. About 4 weeks ago I was stopped by a certain officer in front of the Leonora Police Station. After showing him...

Freddie Kissoon owes K. Juman Yassin an apology

Jan 03, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on Freddie Kissoon owes K. Juman Yassin an apology

Dear Editor, I have stayed silent up to this point because I wanted to see how things would play out. I knew K. Juman Yassin would have won the presidency of the Guyana Olympics Association and that...

I agonize over the closure of Wales Estate

Jan 03, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on I agonize over the closure of Wales Estate

Dear Editor, I couldn’t agree more with Lincoln Lewis’ letter to another section of the media on December 25 captioned “Wales Estate workers needed to be treated with respect”. Lewis quite...

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