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Bees empty Skeldon Primary School

Apr 07, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Bees empty Skeldon Primary School

Teachers and pupils of Skeldon Primary School were forced to drop everything and rush out of the building after it was invaded by Africanised bees on Monday. According to reports, around 10:30 hrs,...

POPE FRANCIS EDICT ON CRIME

Apr 07, 2017 KNews Editorial, Features / Columnists Comments Off on POPE FRANCIS EDICT ON CRIME

Guyana is being run over by criminals which is being politicized by the opposition to gain political points. However, in the hope of finding lasting solutions to the problem, the opposition should...

Engineers Act should stipulate penalties – says veteran

Apr 07, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Engineers Act should stipulate penalties – says veteran

For years, engineers individually and collectively under the Guyana Association of Professional Engineers (GAPE) have expressed the need for an Act of parliament which will govern professional...

MAPM rejects Bulkan’s ‘renegotiation’ of parking meter contract

Apr 07, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on MAPM rejects Bulkan’s ‘renegotiation’ of parking meter contract

The Movement Against Parking Meters (MAPM) is against the position taken by Minister of Communities, Ronald Bulkan, that the three month suspension of the Georgetown Parking Meter by-laws is only to...

Money laundering risks… Collaboration between agencies needed to prevent chances for abuse –Goolsarran

Apr 07, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Money laundering risks… Collaboration between agencies needed to prevent chances for abuse –Goolsarran

Chartered Accountant, Anand Goolsarran, is of the firm impression that there is a need for greater collaboration among various agencies to ensure that car dealerships and real estate businesses are...

Guysuco moving from sugar to fish

Apr 07, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Guysuco moving from sugar to fish

…300 acre aquaculture farm on the cards As the cash strapped Guyana Sugar Corporation (Guysuco) looks to new ways to generate funds to ensure its sustenance fish farming is one of the avenues that...

Crabwood Creek murder PI nears end

Apr 07, 2017 KNews Court Stories, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Crabwood Creek murder PI nears end

Harinarine Lakhan was the watchman on duty at the sawmill the night, Berbice businessman, Shameer Ali Mursalin was allegedly murdered in his own front yard. The sawmill is located next door to...

Pork-knocker remanded for illegal ammo, cocaine

Apr 07, 2017 KNews Court Stories, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Pork-knocker remanded for illegal ammo, cocaine

Terrence Curry, 39, yesterday made an appearance in the Georgetown Magistrates’ Courts before Chief Magistrate Ann McLennan to answer to two charges. The charges against Curry alleged that on April...

Former murder accused on bail after beating vagrant with steel rod

Apr 07, 2017 KNews Court Stories, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Former murder accused on bail after beating vagrant with steel rod

Taijpaul Narine, 47, of Lot 202 Garnett Street, Newton, Georgetown, a former murder accused was yesterday released on bail after he was charged with felonious wounding for allegedly beating a vagrant...

PM meets beauty ambassadors

Apr 07, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on PM meets beauty ambassadors

Prime Minister Moses Nagamootoo met with the delegates for the upcoming Bartica Regatta Pageant 2017, yesterday at his office. He took the opportunity to urge the delegates to be bold and courageous...

Serving police constable slapped with two fraud charges

Apr 07, 2017 KNews Court Stories, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Serving police constable slapped with two fraud charges

A 42-year-old Police Constable was yesterday released on $30,000 bail by Chief Magistrate Ann McLennan in the Georgetown Magistrates’ Courts after being slapped with two fraud related charges....

Construction worker released on bail for defrauding woman

Apr 07, 2017 KNews Court Stories, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Construction worker released on bail for defrauding woman

A 33-year-old construction worker was on Wednesday released on bail after being indicted in the Georgetown Magistrates’ Courts before Chief Magistrate Ann McLennan for fraud. Claudius Peters of Lot...

“Duckman” to face judge and jury on attempted murder charge

Apr 07, 2017 KNews Court Stories, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on “Duckman” to face judge and jury on attempted murder charge

A man who has been described as a nuisance by the authorities has been committed to stand trial in the next sitting of the Berbice Criminal court on a charge of attempted murder. Michael Embrack,...

TIME FOR A PUBLIC, TELEVISED DEBATE ON CORRUPTION

Apr 07, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on TIME FOR A PUBLIC, TELEVISED DEBATE ON CORRUPTION

Dear Editor, The litany of accusations of corruption that continues to be hurled at the former PPP/C administration and even public servants who were merely doing technical jobs have not ceased and...

The PPP’s opportunistic quest of guilt transference

Apr 07, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on The PPP’s opportunistic quest of guilt transference

Dear Editor, I received an email through the network that I am linked to from the ‘Office of the Leader of the Opposition – Press Release March 24, 2017’ I read its details and pondered on...

Guyana’s sugar estates and my angst at what is happening

Apr 07, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on Guyana’s sugar estates and my angst at what is happening

Dear Editor, My compassion for people – particularly my Guyanese people – is what has driven me to politics. I grew up in a rice farming family. In fact, my family still owns rice lands. In my...

Mr. President please let the army fix my car it damaged

Apr 07, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on Mr. President please let the army fix my car it damaged

Dear Editor, I am kindly asking your newspaper to reproduce this letter I have sent to H.E. President David Granger. I am writing to express my frustration over the sloth of the Guyana Defence Force...

In defence of Swami Aksharananda

Apr 07, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on In defence of Swami Aksharananda

Dear Editor, I write in response to Frederick Kissoon’s column, “Aksharananda gets a taste of his own medicine” of April 4, 2017 in the Kaieteur News. The Hindus for Selfless Service (HSS)...

Opposition wants answers from British High Commission

Apr 07, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on Opposition wants answers from British High Commission

Dear Editor, At the Parliamentary Opposition press conference held on March 29, 2017, Mr. Adam Harris, Editor of the Kaieteur News, challenged me on my statement that the British High Commission had...

Russia appreciates the condolences from all of Guyana

Apr 07, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on Russia appreciates the condolences from all of Guyana

Dear Editor, An investigation is underway to restore a chain of events that led to the detonation of explosive device in the St. Petersburg subway on April 3, 2017. A second explosive device was...

PPP has an agenda that is about destroying Guyana’s future

Apr 07, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on PPP has an agenda that is about destroying Guyana’s future

Dear Editor, It is with great concern that I am penning this letter because of what I have heard and read about during the years when the PPP were in opposition before 1992 elections. During my...

That GECOM Chairman selection process

Apr 07, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on That GECOM Chairman selection process

PART II Dear Editor, In my last letter dated 29th March, 2017, I advocated that the methodology for choosing and placing Commissioners on the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) must undergo serious...

Work nowadays is not within easy reach of most of us in Guyana

Apr 07, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on Work nowadays is not within easy reach of most of us in Guyana

Dear Editor, It does not appear that the current Board of Guysuco will ever be able to turn around the industry without very serious measures being taken. To date we are witnessing the harassment of...

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Guyana recorded over 10 000 dengue cases in 2024

Kaieteur News- Guyana recorded just over 10,000 dengue cases in 2024, Health Minister Dr. Frank Anthony revealed during an... more