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Disgusting video…Legal advice being sought on “Cussing” ASP– Acting Top Cop

Mar 07, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Disgusting video…Legal advice being sought on “Cussing” ASP– Acting Top Cop

Legal advice is now being sought after an Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP) was caught on camera verbally abusing junior ranks who were responding to an accident in which he was involved....

Feasibility study for new Demerara River crossing enters first phase

Mar 07, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Feasibility study for new Demerara River crossing enters first phase

– to be completed by July The feasibility study for the construction of a new Demerara River Crossing has already entered its first phase. This is according to Rawlston Adams, General Manager...

If Guyana cannot confront people like Ryhaan Shah and Ravi Dev, it will explode

Mar 07, 2017 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on If Guyana cannot confront people like Ryhaan Shah and Ravi Dev, it will explode

Guyana is seeing dangerous waters coming right onto its doorsteps but if it doesn’t act, it will face horrible consequences. A group named the Guyana Indian Indentureship Abolition Association...

GMC forges partnership with Mocha/Arcadia farmers

Mar 07, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on GMC forges partnership with Mocha/Arcadia farmers

Farmers of Mocha/Arcadia are set to benefit from a series of training sessions through the New Guyana Marketing Corporation (GMC) during the course of 2017. This will be made possible through an...

Severe erosion threatens Burnham Drive… again

Mar 07, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Severe erosion threatens Burnham Drive… again

– Calls made for urgent intervention By Enid Joaquin A Councillor attached to the Regional Democratic Council (RDC), Region Ten, at a recent statutory meeting, drew attention to what he called...

Organogram to help improve regional health services

Mar 07, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Organogram to help improve regional health services

Moves are apace for the introduction of an organogram (a diagram that shows how an organization is structured) that will help to improve the delivery of health care at the regional level. Plans for...

Missing Prospect woman…Desperate relatives offer reward for vital information

Mar 07, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Missing Prospect woman…Desperate relatives offer reward for vital information

– “We don’t want the police to find her body six years from now” Dissatisfied with the way the case involving the disappearance of 37-year-old Shawnette Savory is being handled, the...

ILO hosts workshop to discuss ‘informal economy’

Mar 07, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on ILO hosts workshop to discuss ‘informal economy’

A two-day workshop kicked off yesterday at the Herdmanston Lodge in Queenstown, Georgetown to discuss the Labour Administration and its relationship with the informal economy. According to the...

Caribbean-American former Queens borough president dies

Mar 07, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Caribbean-American former Queens borough president dies

NEW YORK, CMC – A Caribbean American former president of Queens borough in New York has died. Helen M. Marshall, the daughter of Guyanese immigrants, who was the first Black borough president of...

Way paved for national mining syndicate body to be elected

Mar 07, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Way paved for national mining syndicate body to be elected

The establishment of a national mining syndicate body is steaming ahead, with several groups participating in a sensitisation meeting on the benefits of the project. The meeting which was held at the...

Guyana, IDB ink US$1.7M in Technical Agreements

Mar 07, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Guyana, IDB ink US$1.7M in Technical Agreements

… focus on fiscal management, housing strategy and aviation safety Guyana’s Finance Minister Winston Jordan yesterday signed three Technical Cooperation Agreements – valued at a total of...

GUYANA CANNOT SPEND THE EXPECTED OIL PROCEEDS

Mar 07, 2017 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on GUYANA CANNOT SPEND THE EXPECTED OIL PROCEEDS

Guyanese have been paying attention to the possibilities of local content for the country’s soon-to-become oil industry. They are more concerned about the benefits of providing supplies to...

Rice mills warned of increased checks to ensure scales, moisture meters working

Mar 07, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Rice mills warned of increased checks to ensure scales, moisture meters working

Guyana National Bureau of Standards (GNBS), which falls under the purview of the Ministry of Business, has announced plans to increase monitoring of rice mills to ensure that the necessary standards...

EDUCATION IS THE FUTURE

Mar 07, 2017 KNews Editorial, Features / Columnists Comments Off on EDUCATION IS THE FUTURE

School has been reopened for two months now and, unlike the previous years, most of the plans were in ready mode. Even though there were some hiccups, most of the children were able to adjust to...

Police to address lack of trust, corruption

Mar 07, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Police to address lack of trust, corruption

…as new courses launched In an effort to stamp out corruption and reinforce the public’s trust in the Guyana Police Force, several new courses were launched yesterday. The courses include...

Rehab of Ekereku Bottom, Baramita airstrips imminent

Mar 07, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Rehab of Ekereku Bottom, Baramita airstrips imminent

An advertisement placed in the Kaieteur News’ Sunday Edition, by the Public Infrastructure Ministry, signals the commencement of a multimillion-dollar project to rehabilitate two major airstrips...

Woman of Substance…Lelia Ramson – maintaining dignity and integrity at the helm of TSC

Mar 07, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Woman of Substance…Lelia Ramson – maintaining dignity and integrity at the helm of TSC

Being at the helm of an institution that has considerable influence on the quality of educators that are placed into the public education system is by no means a simple task. In fact, functioning in...

Couple jailed for 60 months, fined $57M

Mar 07, 2017 KNews Court Stories, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Couple jailed for 60 months, fined $57M

…for coke in VIP Lounge at airport The case surrounding the discovery of cocaine in the VIP Lounge at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport (CJIA) wrapped up yesterday in the Georgetown...

CLARIFICATION

Mar 07, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on CLARIFICATION

“Untrained first responders do more harm than good at accident scenes,” was the headline of an article in yesterday’s edition of this publication. However, Dr. Zulfikar Bux, who was at the time...

The impecunious conditions of the masses will worsen

Mar 07, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on The impecunious conditions of the masses will worsen

Dear Editor, I have been in town for a very long time, and so qualify for making sound judgement and predictions. Things I have been observing remind me of a thoughtful quotation I saw years ago...

Suggestions for economic development

Mar 07, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on Suggestions for economic development

Dear Editor, With the steady decline of the price of sugar and the removal of the European Union market preferential treatment. I do not share the view that we should continue to bail out the sugar...

Deep and exhaustive forensic audit needed at City Hall

Mar 07, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on Deep and exhaustive forensic audit needed at City Hall

Dear Editor, If the recent reports in the press regarding the Town Clerk finally inviting the Audit Office of Guyana into City Hall to examine their books are indeed accurate, then one needs to take...

THE PROCUREMENT COMMISSION IS HOMELESS; HERE’S WHY

Mar 07, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on THE PROCUREMENT COMMISSION IS HOMELESS; HERE’S WHY

Dear Editor, The Procurement Commission is homeless and APNU+AFC has disapproved of their efforts to rent office space in Georgetown. Information circulating in Georgetown is that the Commission...

Nurses must get duty free concessions too

Mar 07, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on Nurses must get duty free concessions too

Dear Editor, I applaud the authorities for the decision taken to grant duty free concessions to teachers. This was an agreement reached with the Guyana Teachers’ Union since the previous PPP/C...

A letter to the President & Finance Minister

Mar 07, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on A letter to the President & Finance Minister

Dear Editor, Please allow me a few columns in your newspaper to reproduce this letter directly addressed to the two above-mentioned leaders of government. I wish to express my frustration and...

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…Peeping Tom kaieteur News- Every morning, the government wakes up, stretches its arms, and spends one billion dollars... more