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Pastor on trial for raping girl, 6

Mar 24, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Pastor on trial for raping girl, 6

A Pastor accused of having carnal knowledge of a six-year-old girl is on trial at the Georgetown High Court. The accused, Josiah Baptiste, pleaded not guilty. He is facing a trial before Justice...

Massy Group launches programmes to ‘transform Guyana’

Mar 24, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Massy Group launches programmes to ‘transform Guyana’

Massy Group of Companies today held an Information Technology Workshop, where three new programs were launched. The first is the Microsoft Cloud Services and Solutions, which is basically intended to...

City Hall opens bid for ‘Iconic’ Stabroek Market Clock

Mar 24, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on City Hall opens bid for ‘Iconic’ Stabroek Market Clock

The bidding process has been opened for suitably qualified contractors to be awarded the contract of rehabilitation works to the iconic Stabroek Market clock. The clock is expected to receive a...

TERRORIST ATTACKS

Mar 24, 2017 KNews Editorial, Features / Columnists Comments Off on TERRORIST ATTACKS

In the United States and other countries, the threat of terrorist attacks has regularly dominated the news headlines, especially with the long lines at airport security checks where once innocuous...

ExxonMobil launches empowerment workshop in Mainstay/Whyaka

Mar 24, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on ExxonMobil launches empowerment workshop in Mainstay/Whyaka

Twenty-five members of the Mainstay/ Whyaka community, Essequibo, were recently involved in a training workshop aimed at boosting the economic activity, in response to the rising unemployment and...

Class struggle in Guyana: Marx versus Popper

Mar 24, 2017 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on Class struggle in Guyana: Marx versus Popper

Like Sigmund Freud, the philosophical contributions of Karl Marx have come in for widespread questioning in the second half of the 20th century. Some scholars have gone so far as to reject the actual...

Beepat’s supports ban of ‘fake’ Tuna

Mar 24, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Beepat’s supports ban of ‘fake’ Tuna

In light of the Government Analyst- Food and Drug Department refusing the release of a shipment of canned ‘Buiwick’ Tuna, Beepat’s has commended the agency for blocking the entry of the Tuna...

Guyana positioned to earn $$$ from education tourism – Texila President

Mar 24, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Guyana positioned to earn $$$ from education tourism – Texila President

…says Texila University willing to lend support to Guyana nursing programme Education Tourism could be a big thing for Guyana. This conclusion has been reached by President and Founder of the...

MARAD hopes new Charity centre will improve safety

Mar 24, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on MARAD hopes new Charity centre will improve safety

The Maritime Administration Department (MARAD) on Wednesday officially opened its Maritime Safety Centre at Charity, Essequibo. The centre will push for increased safety on the waterways. The...

Govt. extends condolences to Haiti, St Lucia, UK following tragic incidents, terror attack

Mar 24, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Govt. extends condolences to Haiti, St Lucia, UK following tragic incidents, terror attack

Haiti The Government and people of the Cooperative Republic of Guyana stand in solidarity with the people of the Republic of Haiti who are at this time, mourning the loss of 34 lives following a...

GNBS laments need for better food safety practices

Mar 24, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on GNBS laments need for better food safety practices

….urges consciousness among consumers The implications of not adhering to safe and hygienic food production and distribution practices were repeatedly emphasized during yesterday’s one-day food...

Minister granted time to respond in NBS-Smart City Solutions case

Mar 24, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Minister granted time to respond in NBS-Smart City Solutions case

Minister of Communities, Ronald Bulkan, has been granted time to respond to the legal challenge brought against Parking Meter Company, Smart City Solutions, (SCS). The matter was called before...

Trotman mulls opening of new mining lands in Rupununi

Mar 24, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Trotman mulls opening of new mining lands in Rupununi

After listening to the calls of miners who were displaced from mining in the Marudi Mountain area, Minister of Natural Resources, Raphael Trotman, is considering to open new mining lands in Mining...

Dead child’s parents, relatives stage protest

Mar 24, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Dead child’s parents, relatives stage protest

Scores of residents yesterday joined the family of four-year-old Ramkaran Mohan, known as “Ram,” to protest his death. He was struck down oblique to his Tuschen Housing Scheme, East Bank...

US$ 1 = G$230 is murder!

Mar 24, 2017 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on US$ 1 = G$230 is murder!

The Guyanese working class cannot afford the increases which the devaluation of the Guyana dollar, now trading at a rate of G$230 to the US dollar will impose. The prices of all imports, including...

Accused denies rape of nurse at Wismar Hospital

Mar 24, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Accused denies rape of nurse at Wismar Hospital

By Rehanna Ramsay Accused rapist, Wesley Carlos Payne, called “Piggie” has denied allegations that he visited the Wismar Hospital on September 10, 2008, the same date a nurse was raped at the...

Neither Gov’t nor Ramjattan contemplating midnight curfew

Mar 24, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Neither Gov’t nor Ramjattan contemplating midnight curfew

The issue surrounding the matter of the national curfew being lowered from 02:00 am to midnight has attracted much discourse on several fora over the last few days. The Social Media platform has also...

Office of Climate Change logo winners awarded

Mar 24, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Office of Climate Change logo winners awarded

Three men were awarded monetary prizes for topping a recently concluded logo and tagline competition hosted by the Office of Climate Change (OCC), Ministry of the Presidency in collaboration with the...

AG threatens High Court Judge

Mar 24, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on AG threatens High Court Judge

The Attorney General Basil Williams yesterday accused Justice Franklyn Holder of not accurately recording evidence in the High Court matter involving Carvil Duncan. The Judge took umbrage to the...

Ex con, labourer remanded over ganja farm

Mar 24, 2017 KNews Court Stories, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Ex con, labourer remanded over ganja farm

Two men were on Wednesday remanded to prison for allegedly cultivating and trafficking marijuana after they appeared before Chief Magistrate Ann McLennan in the Georgetown Magistrates’ Courts. The...

Sophia hair dresser face gun, ammo and ganja charge

Mar 24, 2017 KNews Court Stories, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Sophia hair dresser face gun, ammo and ganja charge

A brother and sister were on Wednesday arraigned before City Magistrate Fabayo Azore in the Georgetown Magistrates’ Courts to answer to three charges. It is alleged that on March 17, last, at Block...

Vendor fined $ 6.9M, jailed for 60 months for trafficking ganja

Mar 24, 2017 KNews Court Stories, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Vendor fined $ 6.9M, jailed for 60 months for trafficking ganja

A vendor was yesterday sentenced to 60 months’ imprisonment by Magistrate Judy Latchman at the conclusion of the trial in the Georgetown Magistrates’ Courts. Moraino Wilson, 23, of Westminster,...

Young criminals and presidential immunity

Mar 24, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on Young criminals and presidential immunity

Dear Editor, It is appalling to witness the tender ages of many of our recent felons. The ferocity of the crimes committed by very young persons is more than disturbing. We find the age range 14 -17...

The proverbial hyenas are circling

Mar 24, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on The proverbial hyenas are circling

Dear Editor, I see the proverbial hyenas are circling. The issue over the purchase of drugs for the Health Sector is getting politically noisy. All in all, I wish to state categorically, that I...

NIS responds to pensioner’s frustrations

Mar 24, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on NIS responds to pensioner’s frustrations

Dear Editor, The Tuesday, March 21, 2017 edition of the Kaieteur Newspaper carried a letter captioned “For 19 years, this Company only paid NIS six times for me.” Please be advised that the...