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PPP urges reversal of used tyre, older vehicle restrictions

Mar 28, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on PPP urges reversal of used tyre, older vehicle restrictions

-Govt. stands grounds The Opposition People’s Progressive Party (PPP), yesterday joined importers to urge that Government halt plans to restrict used tyres being brought in. The party also wants...

Computer centre to boost police ability to tackle cybercrime

Mar 28, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Computer centre to boost police ability to tackle cybercrime

With the aim of boosting the Guyana Police Force (GPF)’s ability to fight cybercrime, its computer training centre was re-commissioned on Friday. The re-commissioning was facilitated by the Zara...

THE FALLING DOLLAR

Mar 28, 2017 KNews Editorial, Features / Columnists Comments Off on THE FALLING DOLLAR

Something is terribly wrong in Guyana. The value of the currency has plunged. But then again, this has been a trend dating back more than four decades. This is happening because we remain primary...

CH&PA, several govt. agencies seek to harmonise collaboration

Mar 28, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on CH&PA, several govt. agencies seek to harmonise collaboration

The Central Housing and Planning Authority (CH&PA) is seeking to give prominence to its planning role and functions, which over the years have been ignored and overshadowed by its housing...

Partnership crucial to NCDs strategic plan

Mar 28, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Partnership crucial to NCDs strategic plan

GUYANA’s seven-year non-communicable diseases (NCDs) strategic plan needs a judicious mixture of partnerships and prioritisation, and sound implementation. The 2013-2020 national NCD blueprint for...

‘Pay us from the Gov’t subvention’ – UG staff unions insist

Mar 28, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on ‘Pay us from the Gov’t subvention’ – UG staff unions insist

“The Vice Chancellor is telling us that there was a shortfall in the subventions approved by the Government, for the University of Guyana. He is saying that in that gap that exists, are the...

Packaged news

Mar 28, 2017 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on Packaged news

With all the hype about ‘fake news’, you would believe that this is the greatest threat to freedom of information. Yet, the peddling of false news is as old as the profession of journalism...

Bartica’s Palm Springs continues to adds to town’s improvement

Mar 28, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Bartica’s Palm Springs continues to adds to town’s improvement

By Brushell Blackman After one year of business, Palm Springs Hotel continues to add class and vibrance to the mineral town’s rapid improvements. Palm Spring was open last year this time with...

Civil Society Delegation reports on the human rights situation in Guyana

Mar 28, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Civil Society Delegation reports on the human rights situation in Guyana

A delegation of four young persons from various civil society member organisations of the Guyana Equality Forum (GEF), attended a thematic hearing of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights...

TSC completes review of teachers’ promotion

Mar 28, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on TSC completes review of teachers’ promotion

…new positions to become effective at start of new school terms A preliminary list of senior promotions for public school teachers has been completed. This is according to Chairperson of the...

Modified treatment for cervical cancer patients

Mar 28, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Modified treatment for cervical cancer patients

…as CIG commences use of new equipment Three patients of the Cancer Institute of Guyana (CIG) have already received treatment using the newly commissioned High Dose Rate (HDR) Brachytherapy. Chief...

After three years…Sexual molestation case against orphanage supervisor discharged

Mar 28, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on After three years…Sexual molestation case against orphanage supervisor discharged

Three years after being accused of sexually molesting a teen at a New Amsterdam orphanage which he supervised, accused Mohamed Deen was told that the matter was thrown out of the New Amsterdam...

Mom awaits DNA result to claim body suspected to be son’s

Mar 28, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Mom awaits DNA result to claim body suspected to be son’s

Nine months have passed and the relatives of 53-year-old Elvis Ceres are still awaiting the DNA result taken from a body that was found among rubble when a house was burnt at Wales, West Bank...

Guyana to host CARPHA Conference

Mar 28, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Guyana to host CARPHA Conference

-to examine climate change, human health Health and environmental specialists from the region and further afield will examine a raft of issues in the two fields during the 62nd annual Caribbean...

Engineer gets four years, fined $115M for trafficking ganja

Mar 28, 2017 KNews Court Stories, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Engineer gets four years, fined $115M for trafficking ganja

A businessman was yesterday sentenced to four years’ imprisonment and fined $115M at the conclusion of the trial which was held before Magistrate Krystal Lambert at the Vreed-en-Hoop Magistrate’s...

Clothes vendor remanded for allegedly robbing duo

Mar 28, 2017 KNews Court Stories, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Clothes vendor remanded for allegedly robbing duo

City Magistrate Judy Latchman yesterday remanded a clothes vendor for allegedly robbing two persons with a pointed object. The man, Seon Charles, 28, of Lot 348 Cummings Street, Alberttown,...

Male sex workers continue to rob clients along South Road -court hears

Mar 28, 2017 KNews Court Stories, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Male sex workers continue to rob clients along South Road -court hears

Within the past month, three male commercial sex workers have been brought before the Georgetown Magistrates’ Courts for allegedly robbing men along South Road, Georgetown. Akeem Pile, 24, of Lot...

Some calypsonians are afraid to touch up the establishment

Mar 28, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on Some calypsonians are afraid to touch up the establishment

Dear Editor, My description and understanding of a calypsonian is a person who composes and sings songs on a wide range of topics, events and issues, often very topical impacting, influencing and...

Can Ministers meet the President’s standards?

Mar 28, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on Can Ministers meet the President’s standards?

Dear Editor, I would like to express my sincere thanks and gratitude to the President for being the only President in our country’s history to clearly outline the requirements for someone to fill...

One day Guyana will find its destiny

Mar 28, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on One day Guyana will find its destiny

Dear Editor, In my view, a man who says “I can” or says “I cannot” are usually both right. Confucius, yes! Reflecting on the political landscape in Guyana for decades, we witness the coils...

My money is missing from my bank account with no explanation

Mar 28, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on My money is missing from my bank account with no explanation

Dear Editor, I would like to bring to your attention something unacceptable that occurred recently with my bank account. In February, 2017, I was given a “tuition fees” loan to pay via cheque to...

The parking meter is a beneficial foreign investment

Mar 28, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on The parking meter is a beneficial foreign investment

Dear Editor, Allow me space in your newspaper to express my humble views about the parking meter saga that has been going on in the recent past and continues to occupy the minds and time of many...

Some private schools leave much to be desired

Mar 28, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on Some private schools leave much to be desired

Dear Editor, The recent move by Government to impose VAT on private schools caused many persons to voice their opinions about this present administration and we saw a few started to picket at various...

2008 attack on nurses at Wismar Hospital…Linden man freed of rape charge

Mar 28, 2017 KNews Court Stories, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on 2008 attack on nurses at Wismar Hospital…Linden man freed of rape charge

An accused rapist walked free yesterday after a mixed panel of jurors found him not guilty of the offence before Justice Navindra Singh at the Georgetown High Court. Wesley Carlos Payne, called...

A high government official who messes up all the time

Mar 28, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on A high government official who messes up all the time

Dear Editor, I recall with great glee and satisfaction, the initiative taken by the late President Forbes Burnham to make Guyana a country where all religious and other groups can have a sense of...

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