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New tender rules mandate more residents’ participation

Mar 31, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on New tender rules mandate more residents’ participation

The public tendering process has been modified as part of government’s move to ensure that residents are included in the implementation of infrastructure works in their communities. At a recent...

GPL complaints head list for PUC

Mar 31, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on GPL complaints head list for PUC

The Public Utilities Commission is urging utilities under its purview to pay more attention to customers’ grievances. “Not because there is a monopoly on services provided by some of these...

Miners calling on govt. for decentralisation of services

Mar 31, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Miners calling on govt. for decentralisation of services

The Guyana Women Miners’ Organisation (GWMO) is calling on government, particularly the Ministry of Natural Resources to put measures in place to decentralise services which are necessary for the...

GECOM Chairmanship…President willing to compromise on candidate

Mar 31, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on GECOM Chairmanship…President willing to compromise on candidate

– “I did not pull criteria out of the sky” By Brushell Blackman President David Granger has brushed aside criticisms that the criteria he has set out for the new Guyana Elections Commission...

CH&PA consults soldiers on housing solutions

Mar 31, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on CH&PA consults soldiers on housing solutions

Minister within the Ministry of Communities, with responsibility for housing, Valerie Adams-Patterson, and a team from the Central Housing and Planning Authority (CH&PA), held consultations with...

Bar owner shot by security guard during pool game

Mar 31, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Bar owner shot by security guard during pool game

– victim calls it “freak accident” Police are investigating the circumstances surrounding the shooting of Wilfred Tennyson called ‘Fred’, a 29 year old businessman of Adventure,...

Too many increases in too short a time

Mar 31, 2017 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on Too many increases in too short a time

The prices of some things have to increase at some time or the other. But the prices and costs of everything cannot increase at the same time. Guyanese have been paying low fees for a number of...

Lottery Control Commission appears dysfunctional

Mar 31, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Lottery Control Commission appears dysfunctional

It has been reported in the media and letters have been published saying that the Guyana Lottery Control Commission has not met since its 2015 appointment. When Minister of State Joseph Harmon was...

UG continues to make a mess of itself

Mar 31, 2017 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on UG continues to make a mess of itself

In a column of October 10, last year, in response to an interview with the Kaieteur News and other media houses on the Vice-Chancellor’s use of enormous funds for a particular trip, and the...

Corentyne driver remanded for Skeldon estate welder’s death

Mar 31, 2017 KNews Court Stories, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Corentyne driver remanded for Skeldon estate welder’s death

A 31-year-old man appeared Wednesday before Magistrate Rabindranauth Singh in the Springlands Magistrate’s Court to answer to charges of causing death by dangerous driving and failure to render...

One year after GINA Audit findings…McCoy, Subhan still not sanctioned

Mar 31, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on One year after GINA Audit findings…McCoy, Subhan still not sanctioned

Despite the findings and recommendations of a forensic audit conducted into the affairs of the Government Information Agency (GINA), the APNU+AFC administration is yet to decide whether it will be...

Two discharged for Laing Avenue ‘bail row’ murder

Mar 31, 2017 KNews Court Stories, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Two discharged for Laing Avenue ‘bail row’ murder

Regus Lamazon and Samuel McIntyre were yesterday discharged by City Magistrate Dylon Bess following a Preliminary Inquiry into the murder of Orin David called ‘Malik’ who was shot and killed on...

Man to serve 10 years for sexual activity with child

Mar 31, 2017 KNews Court Stories, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Man to serve 10 years for sexual activity with child

A man is expected to serve 10 years in jail for engaging in sexual activity with a child. Alvin Rudder was found guilty of the offence before Justice Navindra Singh at the Georgetown High Court...

Deportee charged for murder of C’tyne fisherman

Mar 31, 2017 KNews Court Stories, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Deportee charged for murder of C’tyne fisherman

A 47-year-old deportee was yesterday arraigned before Chief Magistrate Ann McLennan in the Georgetown Magistrates’ Courts, where he was remanded to prison for the murder of 28-year-old Levan...

Parents who picket against VAT on school fees are justified in so doing

Mar 31, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on Parents who picket against VAT on school fees are justified in so doing

Dear Editor, I have just read a letter published in your newspaper on March 28th entitled “Some Private Schools leave much to be desired” written by Sahadeo Bates. I wish to respond to this...

This promoter and his people should be charged with fraud

Mar 31, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on This promoter and his people should be charged with fraud

Dear Editor, It is with deep anger that I read your newspaper, ‘Dem boy seh’, on Tuesday poking fun at a promoter who was suppose to bring in the Indian comedian, Johnny Lever. Instead a...

THE LIST SYSTEM HAVE CONTRIBUTED TO RACIAL MOBILISATION AND PARTY DICTATORSHIP

Mar 31, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on THE LIST SYSTEM HAVE CONTRIBUTED TO RACIAL MOBILISATION AND PARTY DICTATORSHIP

Dear Editor, I read that the Carter Centre and the University of Guyana will host a symposium on constitutional reform on Fri 31st March and I thought I would publicly share my views on the subject...

It is wiser to buy a new tyre than a used one

Mar 31, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on It is wiser to buy a new tyre than a used one

Dear Editor, I know of a friend who has been around used tyres since he was 13. That was his first job. Now he is an importer of used tyres and he says that he is in total support off this ban. Here...

Need for expansion in our military off shore capability

Mar 31, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on Need for expansion in our military off shore capability

Dear Editor, With Venezuela’s position on the western border being quite clear for over a century, and Suriname’s recent uninvited guest status, one may argue that we should as a nation...

Courtney Crum-Ewing’s murder will be solved before 2020

Mar 31, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on Courtney Crum-Ewing’s murder will be solved before 2020

Dear Editor, There is an old adage that those who live in glass houses should never throw stones (bricks). It is amusing when some people believe that they have ‘secrets’ for others, not...

GuySuco highlights the unreasonable attitude of the union

Mar 31, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on GuySuco highlights the unreasonable attitude of the union

Dear Editor, The Guyana Sugar Corporation (GuySuCo) Inc. would like to respond to the letter that was published in the newspapers on 24 March, 2017 and titled ‘Injustices to sugar workers are being...

Former GECOM Chairman explains

Mar 31, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on Former GECOM Chairman explains

Dear Editor, Although I have already begun to truly enjoy my retirement, and although I have, over many years, been preparing for this new phase of my life, not lastly by programming myself not to be...

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