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All Guyanese must be told about this abuse of power

Feb 28, 2017 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on All Guyanese must be told about this abuse of power

If the leaders of government know of the depths of the depravities of power that characterized the Jagdeo/Ramotar era, they will go the extra mile to ensure they do not play into the hands of the...

Magistracy for attorney Wanda Fortune

Feb 28, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Magistracy for attorney Wanda Fortune

Having made her name defending a number of cases including one last year that saw 21-year-old murder accused, Avinesh Singh, walking out of the Leonora Magistrate’s Court a free man, Wanda Samantha...

Protest against VAT on private education slated for GRA

Feb 28, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Protest against VAT on private education slated for GRA

The Camp Street, Georgetown headquarters of the Guyana Revenue Authority will be the centre of attention today, when parents, teachers and students stage a protest calling for the removal of 14...

Committee calls for review of existing disciplinary procedures at GPHC

Feb 28, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Committee calls for review of existing disciplinary procedures at GPHC

The possibility of amending the law governing the operation of the Georgetown PublicHospital Corporation (GPHC) has been recommended in an effort to improve its organisational function. The foregoing...

Jagdeo goes ballistic on Kaieteur News

Feb 28, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Jagdeo goes ballistic on Kaieteur News

…says Government is beholden to the newspaper By Brushell Blackman Opposition Leader Bharrat Jagdeo launched a 20-minute attack on Kaieteur News and the government at a press conference at Freedom...

Decomposed body found in Meten-Meer-Zorg trench

Feb 28, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Decomposed body found in Meten-Meer-Zorg trench

The decomposed body of a man was found early yesterday in a trench at Tarla Dam, Meten-Meer-Zorg, West Coast Demerara (WCD). The body which is of East Indian Descent has not been identified. Kaieteur...

Follow rules or face sanctions!

Feb 28, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Follow rules or face sanctions!

-Finance Secretary warns regional officials Finance Secretary of the Finance Ministry, Dr. Hector Butts, yesterday urged Regional officials to follow the rules and regulations to prevent fraud,...

Fourteen graduate from GPHC Orthopedic Programme

Feb 28, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Fourteen graduate from GPHC Orthopedic Programme

Fourteen students graduated from an orthopedic technician programme yesterday at the Georgetown Public Hospital Complex. In attendance was Dr Kaaleshwar Ramcharran, senior Registrar, Orthopedic; Dr...

MPs attend workshop on promoting competition in Guyana

Feb 28, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on MPs attend workshop on promoting competition in Guyana

To provide Members of Parliament (MPs) with a sound understanding of issues related to promoting competition in Guyana and in the Caribbean Single Market and Economy (CSME), a workshop was held at...

Policing liaison officers being trained in conflict resolution, anger management

Feb 28, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Policing liaison officers being trained in conflict resolution, anger management

Community policing liaison officers are undergoing training to equip them to handle issues that may arise in their communities. Thirty-eight such officers are being trained in Conflict Resolution and...

Ministry urges women of child-bearing age to be screened

Feb 28, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Ministry urges women of child-bearing age to be screened

The Ministry of Public Health (MOPH) is encouraging all women of child-bearing age in Region Six (East Berbice/Corentyne) to visit the New Amsterdam Hospital from this week for screening for likely...

Court to consider issue of jurisdiction in parking meter case

Feb 28, 2017 KNews Sports Comments Off on Court to consider issue of jurisdiction in parking meter case

Justice Brassington Reynolds is expected to make a determination on whether the court has jurisdiction under the new civil procedural rules to hear a legal challenge to the Georgetown Mayor and City...

Another matter for the constitutional Court

Feb 28, 2017 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on Another matter for the constitutional Court

There is yet another constitutional crisis brewing. And the Peeper had warned about it. It concerns the Public Procurement Commission (PPC). The Commission was appointed in the latter part of 2016...

Irfaan Ali says…Major breaches in financial regulations historical in nature

Feb 28, 2017 KNews News 1

Parliament’s Public Accounts Committee (PAC) yesterday engaged Regional Officials to address some of the findings illustrated in the Auditor General (AG)’s 2015 Report. The report highlights...

Guyana aims to penetrate Mexican rice market at food expo

Feb 28, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Guyana aims to penetrate Mexican rice market at food expo

By Malisa Playter Harry With Guyana looking to market its rice in other countries following a pullout from the Venezuelan Markets the country in its bid to make way for new markets, will be...

US authorities arrest 4 Guyanese, seize 4.2 tons of coke

Feb 28, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on US authorities arrest 4 Guyanese, seize 4.2 tons of coke

A nighttime interception of a fishing vessel in international waters yielded 4.2 tons of cocaine with an estimated wholesale value of US$125 million — the biggest maritime seizure in the Atlantic...

Foreign Service officers briefed on possible impact of US Immigration Policy

Feb 28, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Foreign Service officers briefed on possible impact of US Immigration Policy

Staffers of the Foreign Service Institute of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs were yesterday briefed on the possible effects of the immigration policies of the current United States administration. In...

K/News grenade attack accused jailed two years for illegal gun possession

Feb 28, 2017 KNews Court Stories, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on K/News grenade attack accused jailed two years for illegal gun possession

Leroy Williams, 25, of 11 D’Urban Backlands, one of the accused in the Kaieteur News grenade attack, was yesterday sentenced to two years’ imprisonment by Magistrate Madan Kissoon at the...

Trio remanded over Mash Day robberies

Feb 28, 2017 KNews Court Stories, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Trio remanded over Mash Day robberies

Three men were yesterday remanded to prison over separate robberies that occurred on Mashramani Day. Joshua Samad, 21, of Sparendaam, New Housing Scheme, East Coast Demerara; and Shawn Smith, 18, of...

Farmer remanded over wife killing

Feb 28, 2017 KNews Court Stories, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Farmer remanded over wife killing

A 32-year-old farmer was yesterday remanded to prison for allegedly killing his wife, whose lifeless body was discovered on a roadway at Lethem two Saturdays ago. The man, Peter Juan, appeared before...

Not even a squeak from the PSC during Jagdeo’s reign

Feb 28, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on Not even a squeak from the PSC during Jagdeo’s reign

Dear Editor, The Private Sector Commission’s (PSC’s) ongoing antics over the State Asset Bill are becoming more and more absurd, and resemble a precipitous bluff. The PSC is supposed to be a...

The Court of Appeal ruling should engender vigorous debate

Feb 28, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on The Court of Appeal ruling should engender vigorous debate

Dear Editor, The decision by Appeal Court Justices retired Chancellor (ag) Carl Singh and Justice B.S Roy, with dissenter being Chief Justice (ag) Yonette Cummings-Edwards, to uphold retired Chief...

THE COALITION GOVERNMENT IS A GREAT DISAPOINTMENT TO GUYANESE

Feb 28, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on THE COALITION GOVERNMENT IS A GREAT DISAPOINTMENT TO GUYANESE

Dear Editor, Please allow me a space in your newspaper so I can awake President Granger and get him to move away from his archaic and dormant impulse, whenever he or his aides read this letter. I...

Coalition will lose in 2020 unless they change course

Feb 28, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on Coalition will lose in 2020 unless they change course

Dear Editor, The installation of the current government in 2015 represented a break from the many violations of the former PPP administration to the fundamental ideas which underpin Guyana’s...

This man wants to protect those that SARA has on its radar

Feb 28, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on This man wants to protect those that SARA has on its radar

Dear Editor, I refer to two letters written by accountant Nigel Hinds, in which he criticized the SARA bill and attacked Professor Clive Thomas and the WPA. The letters were published in Kaieteur...

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A warning to President Ali on U.S. Overtures

Peeping Tom… Kaieteur News- It remains unknown what President Ali told the U.S. Secretary of State during their recent... more