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ImmigrationINFO …Immigration News For Our Community Ò…Travel Ban Blocked but Deportations under Trump have begun in the U.S.

Feb 12, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on ImmigrationINFO …Immigration News For Our Community Ò…Travel Ban Blocked but Deportations under Trump have begun in the U.S.

By Attorney Gail Seeram The U.S. Court of Appeals blocked Donald Trump’s travel ban but immigrants and non-immigrants remain worried about deportation from the United States. Trump signed three...

Nagamootoo, Clive Thomas and my wish for 2017

Feb 12, 2017 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on Nagamootoo, Clive Thomas and my wish for 2017

A tradition I have is a column at the beginning of each year in which I express my hopes for the new year. January came and went and I didn’t conform to that tradition. Better late than never!...

Transparency vital in Passport and Residence Programmes

Feb 12, 2017 KNews Features / Columnists, Ronald Sanders Comments Off on Transparency vital in Passport and Residence Programmes

By Sir Ronald Sanders The global US television company, Cable News Network (CNN), broadcast the first part of a programme on February 8, alleging the sale of Venezuelan passports to Iraqis and others...

CARICOM revives taskforces for Regional Education and Training

Feb 12, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on CARICOM revives taskforces for Regional Education and Training

Human Resource Development across the Caribbean Community will be further improved with the establishment or revival of five Technical Working Groups by the CARICOM Secretariat. The Working Groups...

Important facts about Hypertension (high blood pressure)

Feb 12, 2017 KNews Dr Zulfikar Bux, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Important facts about Hypertension (high blood pressure)

By Dr Zulfikar Bux Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine Patients are often in denial when they are told that they have hypertension. Some make up convincing excuses on why their pressure is...

Stabroek News is bitter, but Kaieteur News is better

Feb 12, 2017 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on Stabroek News is bitter, but Kaieteur News is better

Yesterday, I saw an amusing comment from a blogger on the social media website, Demerara Waves. The website carried an op-ed column by a frequent letter writer to the Stabroek News, GHK Lall. The...

The Story within the Story…Our potential oil industry should take a page from the Aurora Mines experience

Feb 12, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on The Story within the Story…Our potential oil industry should take a page from the Aurora Mines experience

By Leonard Gildarie As we speak, ExxonMobil has started preparations to drill yet another exploratory well in its concessions offshore Guyana. I have a gut feeling that they will confirm that the oil...

The Baccoo Speaks

Feb 12, 2017 KNews Features / Columnists, The Baccoo Speaks Comments Off on The Baccoo Speaks

There is going to be a lull in armed robberies because the major perpetrators have been taken off the streets. However, there is a small group that is bent on targeting people who have businesses....

Book Review… When identity and pride are silenced

Feb 12, 2017 KNews Book Review…, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Book Review… When identity and pride are silenced

Book: Afro-Mexican Constructions of Diaspora, Gender, Identity and Nation Author: Paulette A. Ramsay Critic: Dr Glenville Ashby Paulette A. Ramsay delivers a poignantly revealing statement on...

We knew that it was not going to be easy

Feb 12, 2017 KNews AFC Column, Features / Columnists Comments Off on We knew that it was not going to be easy

(Abridged Address by Khemraj Ramjattan at the AFC’s Fifth Bi-annual National Conference on 28th January 2017 at the Vreed en Hoop Secondary School) And so after the Cummingsburg Accord our efforts...

Lies, alternative facts, and a pinch of humour

Feb 12, 2017 KNews Countryman, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Lies, alternative facts, and a pinch of humour

By Dennis Nichols Guyana, like I’ve suggested before, is one huge, seriously-funny paradox – greatly-resourced but pettily managed; rich yet poor; a tourist paradise but tourist-desolate; a...

City council suspends clamping

Feb 11, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on City council suspends clamping

… 50 percent reduction in parking fees likely By Brushell Blackman As the parking meter saga deepens, the Mayor and City Council (M&CC) has suspended booting vehicles until further notice. At a...

Dutch firm to drill three wells at half the price PPP govt. paid

Feb 11, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Dutch firm to drill three wells at half the price PPP govt. paid

Minister of State, Joseph Harmon, yesterday, announced at the Post Cabinet Press Briefings in the Ministry of the Presidency, that a Dutch company was awarded with a $121,628,000 contract to drill...

Parking meter official tells protestors: “You all possess the mentality of slaves, indentured servants…”

Feb 11, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Parking meter official tells protestors: “You all possess the mentality of slaves, indentured servants…”

Ifa Kamau Cush, the man who helped engineer the controversial parking meter deal with the city, is under fire for charged statements on Facebook accusing protestors of possessing the mentality of...

Woman poisons children aged 2, 6, 8 after husband’s alleged infidelity

Feb 11, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Woman poisons children aged 2, 6, 8 after husband’s alleged infidelity

…Destroys household items A bitter telephone call between a couple has resulted in the woman feeding her three children a poisonous substance before consuming it herself. The children have been...

Bar Association Head in court for allegedly misappropriating funds

Feb 11, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Bar Association Head in court for allegedly misappropriating funds

President of the Guyana Bar Association, Gem Sandford-Johnson, is currently before the High Court as a writ has been filed requesting that she pay outstanding money from the sale of property to Elsa...

Teachers finally get duty free concessions

Feb 11, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Teachers finally get duty free concessions

Minister of State, Joseph Harmon, said that favourable consideration was given to teachers who had difficulties with their application for duty free concession. The Minister made this statement at a...

Mark Williams gets additional death penalty for Bartica massacre

Feb 11, 2017 KNews Court Stories, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Mark Williams gets additional death penalty for Bartica massacre

The Bartica massacre trial concluded yesterday with Mark Royden Williams, called ‘Durant’ or ‘Smallie’ given an additional death penalty on a murder charge; and life imprisonment on four...

One squeeze and de clamping done

Feb 11, 2017 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on One squeeze and de clamping done

De parking meter people was a set of bully. Dem know how to mek money. Dem had people walking round de city peeping to see who park near parking meter and who paying. All of dem got cell phone and as...

Execution of Berbice domestic worker..Barber released, tattoo artist detained

Feb 11, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Execution of Berbice domestic worker..Barber released, tattoo artist detained

Police have now detained a tattoo artist from Rose Hall Town, Berbice in connection with the apparent execution-style murder of Tain Domestic worker Leelawattie Mohamed. Investigators have received...

Cabinet approves $77 M contract to improve Mazaruni Prisons living quarters

Feb 11, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Cabinet approves $77 M contract to improve Mazaruni Prisons living quarters

Cabinet has approved the contract for the construction of six living quarters at the Mazaruni Prisons of the Guyana Prison Service (GPS). This was according to the Minister of State, Joseph Harmon,...

PSC urges SARA Bill be sent to Special Select Committee

Feb 11, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on PSC urges SARA Bill be sent to Special Select Committee

-claims despite consultations, no meaningful changes made The Private Sector Commission (PSC) is of the impression that consultations held last year on the draft Bill for the State Assets Recovery...

One suspect to be state witness in Phone Card robbery/murder

Feb 11, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on One suspect to be state witness in Phone Card robbery/murder

As investigators begin to wrap up their investigation into the brutal shooting to death of Danian Anthony Jagdeo, a phone card vendor and father of four, the men in custody are likely to be charged...

Cops seek drug addict after fire razes three houses

Feb 11, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Cops seek drug addict after fire razes three houses

The police are said to be looking for a drug addict in whose room a fire started around 00:45 hrs yesterday and subsequently destroyed two neighbouring buildings, including a liquor bar at Kitty,...

Thieves in fancy car trail, break into US-based Guyanese vehicle

Feb 11, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Thieves in fancy car trail, break into US-based Guyanese vehicle

– Escape with US$5000, personal documents Three men in a brand new Nissan Bluebird were recorded on surveillance camera trailing an overseas-based Guyanese to a Saffon Street, Charlestown...