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The parking meter saga

Feb 10, 2017 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on The parking meter saga

The parking meter saga has reached the point of irreconcilable objectives. The City Council claims that the parking meters have brought order to Georgetown streets. Those protesting believe that the...

Fire leaves five homeless in Agricola

Feb 10, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Fire leaves five homeless in Agricola

A fire of unknown origin destroyed a two-storey home at Agricola East Bank Demerara, and left a family of five homeless. According to a resident who occupied the lower flat of the building, he was...

EU funds “The Helpline” suicide initiative

Feb 10, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on EU funds “The Helpline” suicide initiative

… to target 3000 persons The European Union (EU) on Wednesday, signed a grant contract of $87.9M with Youth Challenge Guyana in partnership with Merundoi and Family Awareness Consciousness...

Why do Guyanese have to fight for rights and justice?

Feb 10, 2017 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on Why do Guyanese have to fight for rights and justice?

I supported Mayor Hamilton Green when he announced about five years ago that the PPP Government did not approve of parking meters in the city. That was in one of my columns. Never in my imagination...

Driving under the influence cases have tripled – Ramjattan

Feb 10, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Driving under the influence cases have tripled – Ramjattan

Minister of Public Security, Khemraj Ramjattan, announced, yesterday, that based on information provided to him by the Traffic Chief, Dion Moore, cases made out of driving under the influence of...

Guyana has highest incidence of cancer mortality in the Region

Feb 10, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Guyana has highest incidence of cancer mortality in the Region

-cervical cancer accounts for more cancer deaths among women Guyana currently has the highest incidence of cancer-related mortality when compared to the Caribbean Region. This is according to data...

GPOC goes digital

Feb 10, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on GPOC goes digital

– launches online shopping network to boost revenue The Guyana Post Office Corporation, (GPOC) yesterday launched its first digital shopping network in an effort to boost revenue and address...

Thieves trail, break into US-based Guyanese car

Feb 10, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Thieves trail, break into US-based Guyanese car

– Escape with US$5000, personal documents A US-based Guyanese lost US$5000 and personal documents after thieves in a Nissan Bluebird followed him to a business place in Saffon Street,...

Police Officers commence training on Sexual Offences and Domestic Violence

Feb 10, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Police Officers commence training on Sexual Offences and Domestic Violence

The Ministry of Social Protection with support from the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has developed a National Action Plan for the Implementation of the Sexual Offences and Domestic...

PARKING METERS ARE A BLIGHT

Feb 10, 2017 KNews Editorial, Features / Columnists Comments Off on PARKING METERS ARE A BLIGHT

Two weeks after the formal operation of parking meters on some streets in Georgetown, hundreds of citizens, including parliamentarians, business owners and members of civic society, gathered in front...

No financial statements from City Hall for 9 years

Feb 10, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on No financial statements from City Hall for 9 years

-parliamentary committee told The Ministry of Communities is to get support from the Office of the Auditor General (AG) to help make the financial management procedures of local government councils...

Charity’s pharmacy suffers burglar attack

Feb 10, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Charity’s pharmacy suffers burglar attack

Police on the Essequibo Coast are currently investigating a break and enter that occurred some time Wednesday night at the True Value Pharmacy. Owners of the Pharmacy, Henry and Carletta Alphonso,...

Shopkeeper remanded for killing vagrant

Feb 10, 2017 KNews Court Stories, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Shopkeeper remanded for killing vagrant

Ryan Singh was yesterday remanded to prison after he appeared before Magistrate Judy Latchman in the Georgetown Magistrates’ Courts charged with killing Adrian Duncan called Timehri Man. The charge...

Minibus conductor remanded for robbery and assault…UG student is victim

Feb 10, 2017 KNews Court Stories, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Minibus conductor remanded for robbery and assault…UG student is victim

The quick actions of a number of residents of ‘A’ Field, Sophia, helped capture a robber who was in the process of assaulting a young lady. The bandit, who trailed the young lady from the ‘B’...

Man jailed for pushing spouse in trench

Feb 10, 2017 KNews Court Stories, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Man jailed for pushing spouse in trench

Troy Marshall, 35, of Lot 265 ‘D’ Field Sophia, East Coast Demerara, who was charged with the offence of inflicting grievous bodily harm on Belinda Williams on August 15, 2016 at ‘E’ Field...

Govt. needs to heighten its engagement with the private sector

Feb 10, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on Govt. needs to heighten its engagement with the private sector

Dear Editor, Last Wednesday I participated in the AACCLA’s Outlook on the Americas Conference at the Biltmore Hotel, Coral Gables, Florida which brought together government ministers, private...

Many sections of the police force have performed admirably

Feb 10, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on Many sections of the police force have performed admirably

Dear Editor, The performance of the Guyana Police Force (GPF) is under constant scrutiny. The vexed question is how does one conduct a performance appraisal on a police force that is short of over...

Has something gone wrong with GTT?

Feb 10, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on Has something gone wrong with GTT?

Dear Editor, GTT is our national provider of internet and landline phone services. These facilities are no longer novel luxuries but have become with current living, essential tools and services that...

14% VAT on private education fees is a wrong policy

Feb 10, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on 14% VAT on private education fees is a wrong policy

Dear Editor, I am neither a politician nor am I an Economist. I am simply an Educator. Having lived in Guyana for the past 38 years, my wife and I started School of Nations more than twenty years...

Only now the voices of political power have been heard

Feb 10, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on Only now the voices of political power have been heard

Dear Editor, This must be a nation of a comedy of political errors, could anyone imagine that after so much conjecture and projections for parking meters to be rolled out on major city streets, that...

Former President, Ramotar responds to the Attorney-General

Feb 10, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on Former President, Ramotar responds to the Attorney-General

Dear Editor, I have noticed the response of the Attorney General, Mr. Basil Williams in the Chronicle newspaper, to the piece I wrote in relation to issues in the Ministry which he heads. I wish to...

The APNU+AFC Government has been disappointing

Feb 10, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on The APNU+AFC Government has been disappointing

Dear Editor, I am one of those who subscribe to the laws of dialectical and historical materialism. According to this theory, nothing is immutable. This is true of living and non-living objects as it...

The Local Government System has failed the people

Feb 10, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on The Local Government System has failed the people

Dear Editor, It’s almost a year since some citizens decided to go to the polls for the much anticipated LGE. There was obvious hope amongst the citizens and candidates alike but after one year of...

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Tennis Association applauds historic GYD $8 billion allocation to the sports sector in the 2025 National Budget

‘Govt. must come clean on gas-to-energy project’

– spending US$2B on a project without financial, environmental studies is criminality at its worst – WPA Kaieteur... more