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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...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...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...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...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...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...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,...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...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...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...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...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...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...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...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...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...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...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...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...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...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...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...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...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...
Jan 25, 2025
SportsMax – After producing some stellar performances in 2024, it comes as no surprise that West Indies’ Hayley Matthews and Sherfane Rutherford were named in the ICC Women’s and Men’s...Peeping Tom… Kaieteur News- In one of the most impassioned pleas ever made, an evangelical Bishop Rev. Mariann Edgar... more
Antiguan Barbudan Ambassador to the United States, Sir Ronald Sanders By Sir Ronald Sanders Kaieteur News- The upcoming election... more
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