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LONGING TO RETURN, BUT…

Mar 18, 2017 KNews Editorial, Features / Columnists Comments Off on LONGING TO RETURN, BUT…

Many Guyanese abroad have in recent times expressed serious intentions of returning home. Their reasons for wanting to do so vary – the majority of them admit to struggling to make ends meet in...

Natural Resources Ministry gets green light for oil consultancy dept.

Mar 18, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Natural Resources Ministry gets green light for oil consultancy dept.

Guyana is set to benefit from a new department within the Ministry of Natural Resources. This branch is being established for consultancy purposes, said Minister of State Joseph Harmon at...

Perjury lands porter in remand

Mar 18, 2017 KNews Court Stories, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Perjury lands porter in remand

… after Sara Johanna man freed on murder charge Dameon Ramgulan, a witness in the murder trial of Antonio Jaisingh, who was freed last January for murder, was yesterday charged with perjury....

Driver gets 4 years over 2015 New Year’s fatal accident

Mar 18, 2017 KNews Court Stories, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Driver gets 4 years over 2015 New Year’s fatal accident

A 36-year-old man will be spending the next four years in jail after he was convicted yesterday on a charge of causing death by dangerous driving. Roger Bess, a maintenance worker, of 164 Cummings...

UG, Giftland collaborate to launch UG-VIP Cards

Mar 18, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on UG, Giftland collaborate to launch UG-VIP Cards

Giftland, in collaboration with the University of Guyana (UG), yesterday unveiled a UG-VIP Card. The UG-VIP card was launched during a ceremony in the university’s Education Lecture Theatre (ELT)....

$207M construction to begin on three overhead walkways for East Bank Dem.

Mar 18, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on $207M construction to begin on three overhead walkways for East Bank Dem.

Last year, the Government made known its intention to construct three overhead pedestrian walkways along the East Bank of Demerara. This was communicated by the Minister of Public Infrastructure,...

Nursing education…Official emphasises need for reduced student-tutor ratio

Mar 18, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Nursing education…Official emphasises need for reduced student-tutor ratio

– decries “too large” class sizes A major downfall in nursing education was first brought to the fore after the 2010 intake of students in the country’s nursing schools. The intake then,...

Govt. unfazed by Venezuela’s rejection of oil exploration

Mar 18, 2017 KNews Sports Comments Off on Govt. unfazed by Venezuela’s rejection of oil exploration

The Venezuelan Energy and Petroleum Commission, through a resolution, recently informed that country’s National Assembly that there should be a cessation of on-going offshore oil exploration in the...

CH&PA faces uphill task regularizing ‘Skull City’ squatting

Mar 18, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on CH&PA faces uphill task regularizing ‘Skull City’ squatting

– negotiations with Toolsie Persaud plugged The Central Housing Planning and Authority (CH&PA) is examining the regularisation of portions of land at Plantation Great Diamond, East Bank...

Sheriff Street/Mandela Avenue expansion… GPL, GTT awarded $50M in contracts for relocation of utilities

Mar 18, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Sheriff Street/Mandela Avenue expansion… GPL, GTT awarded $50M in contracts for relocation of utilities

In the past, the timely relocation of utilities had proven to be a major stumbling block in Government projects being carried out on time. This was one of the reasons for the completion date of the...

Walter Rodney must be turning in his grave on what the WPA has become

Mar 18, 2017 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on Walter Rodney must be turning in his grave on what the WPA has become

I sincerely believed that over a long period of time, Christopher Ram was a leading member of the WPA. All the information I got, through casual conversations with people associated with the WPA,...

Cabinet confident City Hall will renegotiate parking meter contract

Mar 18, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Cabinet confident City Hall will renegotiate parking meter contract

It is the strong belief of the Cabinet of Ministers that the Mayor and City Council of Georgetown (M&CC) will heed to their recommendation that the parking meter project should be suspended for...

Poet and Nobel Laureate, Derek Walcott, dies at 87

Mar 18, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Poet and Nobel Laureate, Derek Walcott, dies at 87

Nobel laureate poet Derek Walcott has died aged 87 at his home on the Caribbean island of St Lucia after a long illness, local media reports say. He was regarded by critics as one of the greatest...

$5M compensation sees teen accused of dance instructor’s death in accident freed

Mar 18, 2017 KNews Court Stories, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on $5M compensation sees teen accused of dance instructor’s death in accident freed

The family of Narissa Spencer, the dance instructor who was killed in an accident last April, accepted a $5M compensation from the 18-year-old driver accused of causing her death by dangerous...

Hope Estate strikes deal to grow 50,000 coconut seedlings in first year

Mar 18, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Hope Estate strikes deal to grow 50,000 coconut seedlings in first year

Agriculture Minister, Noel Holder, yesterday facilitated a partnership agreement between the Hope Coconut Industries Limited (HCIL) and the Caribbean Agricultural Research and Extension Institute...

Ex-soldier gets $600,000 bail on rape charge

Mar 18, 2017 KNews Court Stories, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Ex-soldier gets $600,000 bail on rape charge

A former corporal attached to the Guyana Defence Force was yesterday placed on $600,000 bail after he was arraigned before City Magistrate Judy Latchman in the Georgetown Magistrates’ Courts....

Has GuySuco ended operations at Skeldon?

Mar 18, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on Has GuySuco ended operations at Skeldon?

Dear Editor, In my letter to the print media, (KN, Feb. 25th, 2017), I committed to provide this nation with fact based details and analysis on the sugar industry despite the excruciating pain it...

Pradoville improprieties and false fiduciaries

Mar 18, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on Pradoville improprieties and false fiduciaries

Dear Editor, I refer to my letter in KN Friday, March 17 on the issue of the price of land in Pradoville 2. I now add my arguments. Subsidy has a universal connotation it is for those who are in...

Two more judges for Appeal Court expected

Mar 18, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on Two more judges for Appeal Court expected

Dear Editor, Now that acting Chancellor Carl Singh has gone into retirement and Roxanne George Wiltshire has been appointed Chief Justice (acting), it is expected that steps will be taken to appoint...

A restrictive interpretation of the concepts of sovereignty and democracy

Mar 18, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on A restrictive interpretation of the concepts of sovereignty and democracy

Dear Editor, Careful analysis of the decision of the Honourable Ian Chang, Chief Justice (Acting), does appear to confirm that our learned Chief Justice (Acting) reached his determination in Cedric...

No VAT on Medical Services and Prescription Drugs

Mar 18, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on No VAT on Medical Services and Prescription Drugs

Dear Editor, The Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) has noted with concern a “Peeping Tom” article published in the Wednesday, February 1, 2017 Edition of the Kaieteur News titled ‘VAT! VAT!...

The PPP under new leadership could be a force to be reckoned with

Mar 18, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on The PPP under new leadership could be a force to be reckoned with

Dear Editor, I, as most Guyanese am deeply concerned at what appears to be the laid-back attitude of the APNU/AFC coalition government, as our economic woes deepens and head towards crisis level....

When did the Minister discover there was a drug shortage?

Mar 18, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on When did the Minister discover there was a drug shortage?

Dear Editor, Transparency and accountability in the public procurement process was perhaps the most fundamental issue on the political platform of the AFC/APNU when they were in the opposition....

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The third parties will not survive this year’s elections

Peeping Tom… Kaieteur News- The fate of third parties in this year’s general and regional elections is as predictable... more