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Trophy Stall among sponsors for Kennard’s Phagwah Horserace Meet

Mar 19, 2017 KNews Sports Comments Off on Trophy Stall among sponsors for Kennard’s Phagwah Horserace Meet

Trophy Stall is the latest entity to lend support to the 45th Annual Kennard’s Memorial Phagwah Horserace meet set for today at Kennard’s Turf Club at Bush Lot Farm, Corentyne, Berbice, beginning...

Local hotelier goes green, imports wind turbine

Mar 19, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Local hotelier goes green, imports wind turbine

With the Government of Guyana pushing to achieve the state’s commitment to attain 100 percent renewable power by 2025, local businessman, Haresh Narine Sugrim, also known as ‘Chiney’, has...

Sunday Cartoon

Mar 19, 2017 KNews Cartoons, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Sunday Cartoon

Vehicle owners gear down for April 1 used tyres restrictions

Mar 19, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Vehicle owners gear down for April 1 used tyres restrictions

In two weeks’ times, vehicle owners will be gearing down as Guyana starts implementing a restriction on used tyres. The Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) which will be overseeing the monitoring will...

President attends memorial service for Guyana’s former UN Ambassador

Mar 19, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on President attends memorial service for Guyana’s former UN Ambassador

President David Granger, on Friday evening, attended a special memorial service held in celebration of the life of the late Noel Sinclair, an eminent diplomat who once served as Guyana’s Ambassador...

Harmon denies further empowerment through Integrity Act

Mar 19, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Harmon denies further empowerment through Integrity Act

Minister of State, Joseph Harmon, is denying that proposed amendments to the Integrity Act are stipulating a shift of power from the Integrity Commission to him. The Minister told the media that...

Construction begins on Parfaite Harmonie Police Station

Mar 19, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Construction begins on Parfaite Harmonie Police Station

Information reaching this newspaper from the police reveals that an average of five reported cases of burglaries occurring on a daily basis in the ever-growing La Parfaite Harmonie Housing Scheme,...

Aunty Carla – a successful entrepreneur who made it through persistence, faith

Mar 19, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Aunty Carla – a successful entrepreneur who made it through persistence, faith

Carla Hopkinson, fondly referred to as “Aunty Carla”, is an Indigenous woman of Carib origin. This wife, mother and grandmother is from a small village called Dogg Point, in Bartica, Region...

Guyanese businessman removed from Interpol’s most wanted list

Mar 19, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Guyanese businessman removed from Interpol’s most wanted list

Guyanese businessman, 41-year-old Oudit Narain Seenarain’s name had appeared on the International Police (Interpol)’s most wanted list a few months ago. His name and photograph, along with those...

Dismal nursing exam results…Minister Lawrence demands sweeping policy changes to reverse trend

Mar 19, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Dismal nursing exam results…Minister Lawrence demands sweeping policy changes to reverse trend

The recent re-sit of the 2016 Professional Nurses State Final examination, which was administered last month, will go down in the annals of history, but not for reasons that those within the health...

Agencies should publish annual reports of tax holidays granted, investment agreements – Committee

Mar 19, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Agencies should publish annual reports of tax holidays granted, investment agreements – Committee

The Tax Reform Committee (TRC), which was established by the Government, has recommended a number of ways in which the system governing tax holidays can be strengthened so as to prevent the abuses of...

BIT graduates 69 in Linden

Mar 19, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on BIT graduates 69 in Linden

Sixty Nine youths from Region Ten graduated Friday from the National Training Programme for Youth Empowerment (NTPYE) executed by the Board of Industrial Training (BIT). The graduation which was held...

Arts, Tourism Extravaganza

Mar 19, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Arts, Tourism Extravaganza

The Roraima Duke Lodge was on Friday evening transformed into a gallery of the best that Guyana has to offer in the creative sector. There were more than 20 exhibits on show ranging from locally...

Blanhum for overseas training on cybercrime

Mar 19, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Blanhum for overseas training on cybercrime

Cabinet has granted approval for Crime Chief, Wendell Blanhum, to attend the Caribbean stakeholders’ meeting in Cyber Security which will be held in Antigua and Barbuda on March 24. This was...

CDB to strengthen transparency with US$250,000

Mar 19, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on CDB to strengthen transparency with US$250,000

The Board of Directors of the Caribbean Development Bank (CDB) has approved funding of US$250,000 to strengthen financial transparency, and assist in preventing the pulling out of Correspondent...

RUMOR-MONGERING

Mar 19, 2017 KNews Editorial, Features / Columnists Comments Off on RUMOR-MONGERING

Guyana is a rumor-mongering society. Rumor-mongering is one of the mysteries of life that many find pleasure in doing. Fanned by the social media, rumor-mongering has been in constant over-drive in...

Digicel gets $27M contract to install police 911 system

Mar 19, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Digicel gets $27M contract to install police 911 system

Telephone service provider, Digicel, has been awarded a $27M contract for the installation of the 911 business solution emergency service contract. This was announced by the Minister of State, Joseph...

Mother calls for investigation into daughter’s ‘questionable’ surgery

Mar 19, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Mother calls for investigation into daughter’s ‘questionable’ surgery

Although it was the ugly sutures that caused Ms Kelsie Browne to question whether the doctor who operated on her daughter had done his work properly, it was however, his conflicting reason for the...

The Triumphs, Trials and Tribulations of Guyana’s Foreign Affairs Ministry

Mar 19, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on The Triumphs, Trials and Tribulations of Guyana’s Foreign Affairs Ministry

By Kiana Wilburg In the space of the last 22 months, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs has had its fair share of triumphs, trials and tribulations in defending Guyana’s sovereignty while promoting...

Bauxite mining: its social impact on Linden

Mar 19, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Bauxite mining: its social impact on Linden

By Enid Joaquin Back in the days, this mining town many call home was not known as Linden, but Mackenzie. In those days, the name Mackenzie seemed synonymous with prosperity; the place that people...

“We want to give teeth to the Integrity Commission”

Mar 19, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on “We want to give teeth to the Integrity Commission”

– Ramjattan responds to Jagdeo From all indications, the Coalition Government is moving full speed ahead with its proposal to amend the laws governing the Integrity Commission. On Thursday,...

Never ignore the first woman in your life

Mar 19, 2017 KNews Features / Columnists, Food For Thought Comments Off on Never ignore the first woman in your life

After 21 years of marriage, a wife wanted her husband to take another woman out to dinner and a movie. She said I Love You but I know this other woman loves you too and would love to spend some time...

Is karma catching up with Bharrat Jagdeo?

Mar 19, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on Is karma catching up with Bharrat Jagdeo?

Dear Editor, The PNC-Coalition thinks they have to jail Jagdeo. That is because even the staunchest of President Granger’s supporters will tell you, that if elections were held today, Jagdeo would...

The widespread failures in nursing examinations need investigating

Mar 19, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on The widespread failures in nursing examinations need investigating

Dear Editor, I have been following with interest the dismal performance of trainee nurses at their final State Examinations. According to media reports, only twenty-three of the one hundred and...

APNU+AFC SUSPENDS PARKING METER CONTRACT TO BUY TIME

Mar 19, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on APNU+AFC SUSPENDS PARKING METER CONTRACT TO BUY TIME

Dear Editor, APNU+AFC is now using kerfuffling as a dark art to trick people. The recent request to the M&CC to suspend the parking meter contract is a trick, hoping to buy time for the protests...

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Deeply concerned about political dysfunction in society

Dear Editor The Guyana Trades Union Congress (GTUC) is deeply concerned about the political dysfunction in society that is... more