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Lodge Alpha hosts inaugural blood drive

Mar 29, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Lodge Alpha hosts inaugural blood drive

In keeping with its obligation of benevolence and charity, the Brethren of Lodge Alpha, No. 1594, hosted it inaugural blood drive at Masonic Hall, Carmichael Street, last Saturday. Personnel from the...

Lethem Town Council launches $9M school bus

Mar 29, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Lethem Town Council launches $9M school bus

Communities in Upper Takutu/Upper Essequibo will now benefit from a timely initiative of the Lethem Mayor and Town Council to provide transportation services to hundreds of students there. The...

12 corneal transplant surgeries conducted at GPHC

Mar 29, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on 12 corneal transplant surgeries conducted at GPHC

…represent continued support of Subraj Foundation Between March 8 and March17 last, 12 corneal transplant surgeries were conducted at the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC). The...

Brazilian pastor gets High Court bail

Mar 29, 2017 KNews Court Stories, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Brazilian pastor gets High Court bail

After the continuous rejection of Chief Magistrate Ann McLennan to grant bail to Haleno Luiz, the Brazilian pastor who was charged over a month ago with a road fatality, Attorney Mark Waldron was...

US team evaluating juvenile justice in Guyana

Mar 29, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on US team evaluating juvenile justice in Guyana

As efforts continue to ensure that at-risk Guyanese youth receive maximum benefits from the United States Agency for International Development’s new Youth Empowerment Services (YES) Project,...

East and West Front Road squatters to be relocated

Mar 29, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on East and West Front Road squatters to be relocated

Persons squatting along the embankment of the East and West Front Road are earmarked for relocation. Minister within the Ministry of Communities with responsibility for housing, Valerie...

The genesis of the Integrity Commission and the Public Procurement Commission

Mar 29, 2017 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on The genesis of the Integrity Commission and the Public Procurement Commission

A number of misleading statements and generalization were once peddled about the origins of both the Integrity Commission and the Public Procurement Commission. Amongst the gamut of misleading...

Bartica to get modern $205M stelling by year end

Mar 29, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Bartica to get modern $205M stelling by year end

…to have two floating ramps and modern waiting area By Brushell Blackman Bartica will soon benefit from a new stelling that is currently under construction. This construction will serve a community...

GENDER EQUALITY

Mar 29, 2017 KNews Editorial, Features / Columnists Comments Off on GENDER EQUALITY

When Guyana joined the rest of the world to celebrate International Women’s Day a few days ago under the theme “Be bold for Change,” the nation was hopefully driven to redouble its efforts to...

Eye care outreach gives vision support to Mabaruma, Leguan residents

Mar 29, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Eye care outreach gives vision support to Mabaruma, Leguan residents

Some 170 residents from Regions One (Barima/Waini) and Three (Essequibo Islands/ West Demerara) were over the weekend able to benefit from a medical outreach. The outreach was organised by SOLO...

Charity’s NDC overseer says Regional Chairman insulting

Mar 29, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Charity’s NDC overseer says Regional Chairman insulting

Overseer of the Charity Neighborhood Democratic Council (NDC), Samuel Sooklall, has expressed his disappointment in the way he was addressed by the Region Two chairman, Davenand Ramdatt. Overseer,...

IMF highlights need for ‘stronger’ AML measures

Mar 29, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on IMF highlights need for ‘stronger’ AML measures

The International Monetary Fund (IMF), was in Guyana, recently, to assess the economic health of the nation. In doing so, it examined the strengths and weaknesses of the financial sector. A number of...

CJIA worker dies in Land of Canaan accident

Mar 29, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on CJIA worker dies in Land of Canaan accident

A 27-year-old Cheddi Jagan International Airport (CJIA) worker was killed in an accident early yesterday while on his way home from work on the Land of Canaan, East Bank Demerara (EBD) Public Road....

Private university conducting feasibility study for specialty hospital

Mar 29, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Private university conducting feasibility study for specialty hospital

A vast majority of Guyanese seek advanced medical health care overseas. It was against this background that moves were streamlined to bring to fruition a specialty hospital. Taking up this challenge...

Attorney turns in teen who stabbed Sophia schoolboy

Mar 29, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Attorney turns in teen who stabbed Sophia schoolboy

The 16-year-old who was on the run after stabbing 14-year-old l Andrew Clarke is in custody, after being turned in by an attorney. Police said that the attorney turned the teen in on Monday and he is...

Welder remanded for chopping stepson

Mar 29, 2017 KNews Court Stories, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Welder remanded for chopping stepson

A welder was remanded to prison by Chief Magistrate Ann McLennan on Monday after he appeared in the Georgetown Magistrates Courts. The charge read that on March 19 at Aranka Landing, Suraj Singh...

Bus conductor remanded on a robbery charge

Mar 29, 2017 KNews Court Stories, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Bus conductor remanded on a robbery charge

A bus conductor was remanded to prison on a robbery under arms charge when he appeared before City Magistrate Judy Latchman in the Georgetown Magistrates’ Courts, on Monday y. Shawn Kansinally, 27,...

Time to curtail the importation of frivolous items

Mar 29, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on Time to curtail the importation of frivolous items

Dear Editor, There is much talk these days about the 1970’s levy on sugar. But there was also a levy on bauxite that no one seems to remember. These levies were in place after the nationalisation...

VAT on school fees will be to the detriment of the APNU-AFC

Mar 29, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on VAT on school fees will be to the detriment of the APNU-AFC

Dear Editor, I refer to the letter “VAT on education, if used correctly, can improve its quality” in KN of March, 27, 2017. Here are my comments on this letter which by any standard is from...

The Prime Minister is deceiving and misleading

Mar 29, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on The Prime Minister is deceiving and misleading

Dear Editor, Prime Minister Moses Nagamootoo at the Oil & Gas Conference said his administration is “uncompromising about malfeasance and sleaze in public office” but if you investigate the...

My evolution and journey as a national poet

Mar 29, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on My evolution and journey as a national poet

Dear Editor, In the year 1984 I was working in the interior as a diver on National Service’s gold mining dredge at the mouth of the Potaro River, residing on the camp ground at the time was a...

Pseudo theories in the promotion of sex education

Mar 29, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on Pseudo theories in the promotion of sex education

Dear Editor, Educational campaigns aimed at youths by public, professional and religious organisations must emphasize the effectiveness of pre-marital abstinence as the only fool proof way of...

Where is Guyana – CAPEX or OPEX REVOLUTION?

Mar 29, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on Where is Guyana – CAPEX or OPEX REVOLUTION?

Dear Editor, I have lived for the past 30 years in the great USA and recognize daily that for Guyana to move forward we must have leaders who have a Capex mentality. The last 20 years of PPP...

Does the Constitution provide for presidential immunity?

Mar 29, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on Does the Constitution provide for presidential immunity?

Dear Editor, This coming Friday, University of Guyana, Turkeyen Campus, the Carter Center Guyana will be hosting a symposium on Guyana’s constitutional reform, process. I find this really...

NIS pensioners have not received the last budget increase

Mar 29, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on NIS pensioners have not received the last budget increase

Dear Editor, This is an open letter to the Minister of Finance. Are you aware that N.I.S retirees have not been paid the increase mentioned in your last budget presentation, i.e. 10% across the...

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