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Travelling to Bartica is a refreshing experience

Apr 16, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Travelling to Bartica is a refreshing experience

By Brushell Blackman After I was told that I had to visit Bartica I started to imagine what the trip was going to be like. I was familiar with the Georgetown to Parika route, since I have made that...

Nandlall sues Attorney General for $125M

Apr 16, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Nandlall sues Attorney General for $125M

By Abena Rockcliffe-Campbell Former Attorney General, Anil Nandlall, has suffered “considerable distress, anxiety and public humiliation” as a result of words uttered by his successor, Basil...

Forty-three percent decrease in murders recorded in three months

Apr 16, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Forty-three percent decrease in murders recorded in three months

The Guyana Police Force (GPF) has recorded a 43 percent decrease in murder with an 87 percent clear up rate at the end of March; when compared to the same period last year. There was a seven percent...

$764M to rehabilitate roads in Mabaruma, Port Kaituma

Apr 16, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on $764M to rehabilitate roads in Mabaruma, Port Kaituma

After years of numerous protest actions, promises and media reports, residents of Port Kaituma and Mabaruma can now breathe a sigh of relief. Contracts have been awarded to rehabilitate several of...

Benefits from an Oil and Gas Industry (Conclusion)

Apr 16, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Benefits from an Oil and Gas Industry (Conclusion)

By Kiana Wilburg (Continued from last week) Leaders of many oil-rich nations can testify that the oil and gas sector often attracts some of the most notorious elements of corruption. And since the...

Guyana mourns passing of respected psychiatrist, Dr. Frank Beckles

Apr 16, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Guyana mourns passing of respected psychiatrist, Dr. Frank Beckles

Guyana is mourning the passing of the Dr. Frank Neville Beckles, who passed away on Thursday. Born on September 18, 1934, in Christ Church, Barbados, to Guyanese parents Winslow and Ines Beckles, he...

New Testament Church of God gears to celebrate Diamond Jubilee

Apr 16, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on New Testament Church of God gears to celebrate Diamond Jubilee

The New Testament Church of God in Guyana will from Wednesday commence its Diamond Jubilee celebration. The festivity is slated to be glorious, according to National Admin Bishop, Joseph Persaud....

Police capture prime suspect in Courtney Crum-Ewing murder

Apr 16, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Police capture prime suspect in Courtney Crum-Ewing murder

Regan “Grey Boy” Rodrigues, the prime suspect in the death of Political Activist, Courtney Crum-Ewing, was captured on Good Friday at a house in Middle Road, La Penitence, Georgetown, almost a...

Eron Anthony Thom – one of the biggest babies you’ll ever see!!

Apr 16, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Eron Anthony Thom – one of the biggest babies you’ll ever see!!

By Sharmain Grainger Reports which started to circulate on the internet earlier this year about a woman giving birth to a 13-pound baby in Australia, was enough to bring Guyanese Deowattie Jagnanan...

Carter Centre is playing a useful role in constitutional reform

Apr 16, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on Carter Centre is playing a useful role in constitutional reform

Dear Editor, The issue of constitutional reforms to address the issue of ethnic security has a long history dating back to over half a century. On October 1962, the then British Guiana Independence...

Georgetown can learn from Columbia and Mexico

Apr 16, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on Georgetown can learn from Columbia and Mexico

Dear Editor, Recently I was privileged to be on a study tour to Colombia and Mexico as part of the Government of Guyana’s “Sustainable Urban Transport Study” (SUTS) for Georgetown through the...

Class bias in the mining industry continues with the APNU+AFC regime

Apr 16, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on Class bias in the mining industry continues with the APNU+AFC regime

Dear Editor, Two years into this administration double standards and questions still persist at GGMC. Small miners wonder why the commission does not adhere to one policy for all miners. When a small...

TRIGEMINAL NEURALGIA

Apr 16, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on TRIGEMINAL NEURALGIA

By Dr. Neromini Fagu Each of us usually has 12 pairs of nerves that transmit signals from our brain to our head and neck. These nerves are known as the cranial nerves and send motor, sensory or mixed...

Reckless and dangerous lighting of fires in Herstelling

Apr 16, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on Reckless and dangerous lighting of fires in Herstelling

Dear Editor, I wish to highlight a matter of serious concern for the residents of Plot B, Plantation Herstelling. Some land owners are in the habit of setting fires to clear the land of grass etc....

Used Tyres- The Perspective of the Guyana National Bureau of Standards (GNBS)

Apr 16, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Used Tyres- The Perspective of the Guyana National Bureau of Standards (GNBS)

An objective of the Guyana National Bureau of Standards (GNBS), is to promote standardization in industry and commerce; we partner with: Government, Industry, other stakeholders and Consumers. In...

Mayor and City Council’s consultations do not cater for regular working folks

Apr 16, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on Mayor and City Council’s consultations do not cater for regular working folks

Dear Editor, I have noted several advertisements put out by the M&CC regarding public consultations in relation to the garbage situation. While it is good for the M&CC to do these...

Cowboy jailed for chopping another

Apr 16, 2017 KNews Court Stories, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Cowboy jailed for chopping another

Devon Isaacs called Cowboy, 22, who brutally chopped Trobey Abrams across his face, causing him to lose partial vision in his right eye has been jailed for two and half years. He appeared before...

Nigel Hughes is best suited to lead a third political party

Apr 16, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on Nigel Hughes is best suited to lead a third political party

Dear Editor, I would hate to be critical of Freddie Kissoon in any commentary whatsoever. Freddie is one of four great Guyanese who have raised the consciousness of the Guyanese people. The other...

CONSUMER CONCERNS…CONSUMERS MUST PROTECT THEMSELVES FROM UBIQUITOUS SUBSTANDARD IMPORTS

Apr 16, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on CONSUMER CONCERNS…CONSUMERS MUST PROTECT THEMSELVES FROM UBIQUITOUS SUBSTANDARD IMPORTS

PAT DIAL By the 1990s Guyana had adopted the Free Market and Globalization which were promoted throughout the Western World as being the most successful way in which a country’s economic life could...

Government needs a more competent public relations team

Apr 16, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on Government needs a more competent public relations team

Dear Editor, As the government is doing its work to better Guyana, we on the ground especially here in Berbice are being starved for true and correct information from the government’s public...

The meaning of life !!!

Apr 16, 2017 KNews Features / Columnists, Food For Thought Comments Off on The meaning of life !!!

A man died… When he realized it, he saw God coming closer with a suitcase in his hand. Dialogue between God and dead man: God: Alright son, it’s time to go Man: So soon? I had a lot of...

B Division Police receive brand new Prison truck

Apr 16, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on B Division Police receive brand new Prison truck

The Government, sticking to its mandate continues to assist the Police in performing their functions. The police in B Division are now in a better position to transport prisoners around the county...

Laparkan spreads Easter Joy

Apr 16, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Laparkan spreads Easter Joy

In embracing the Spirit of Easter, Laparkan spread joy by gifting kites to the children’s “Bless the Children Home” Orphanage and the children of the Charlestown community. The company said it...

Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it

Apr 16, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it

Dear Editor, I have been reading the letters that other concerned citizens have written to you and it pleases me to see that there are others who are able to analyse quite accurately what is...

Sunday Cartoon

Apr 16, 2017 KNews Cartoons, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Sunday Cartoon

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