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Diaspora assists ECCCC to acquire blade tractor/mower

Apr 27, 2017 KNews Sports Comments Off on Diaspora assists ECCCC to acquire blade tractor/mower

Several overseas-based Guyanese recently made a generous monetary donation towards the acquisition of one 48-inch blade tractor/mower to assist in the maintenance of the Enmore Community Centre...

Balram Shane General Store supports YWCC Mash Cup

Apr 27, 2017 KNews Sports Comments Off on Balram Shane General Store supports YWCC Mash Cup

Balram Shane General Store of Rose Hall Town, Corentyne, Berbice has been with The Young Warriors Cricket Club Mash Cup from its inception and this year is no exception. This, the fourth edition is...

GTTA Endorses newly elected Steering Committee in Bartica Region 7

Apr 27, 2017 KNews Sports Comments Off on GTTA Endorses newly elected Steering Committee in Bartica Region 7

The Guyana Table Tennis Association (GTTA) has endorsed the newly formulated Bartica Table Tennis Steering Committee (BTTC) as an affiliate member. The GTTA Executive Committee has been actively...

RHTY&SC Cricket Teams honour Shimron Hetemyer, four Outstanding Coaches

Apr 27, 2017 KNews Sports Comments Off on RHTY&SC Cricket Teams honour Shimron Hetemyer, four Outstanding Coaches

The Cricket teams of the Rose Hall Town Youth and Sports Club, M.S on Sunday last became the first organisation to honour Shimron Hetemyer on his achievement on becoming Berbice’s 18th Test...

Voir Dire ongoing in Freddie Kissoon assault trial

Apr 27, 2017 KNews Court Stories, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Voir Dire ongoing in Freddie Kissoon assault trial

The trial of Kwame Mc Coy, Jason Abdulla and Shawn Hinds who are charged with assaulting newspaper columnist, Frederick Kissoon by allegedly throwing faeces into his face is continuing before...

CARING FOR THE EARTH

Apr 27, 2017 KNews Editorial, Features / Columnists Comments Off on CARING FOR THE EARTH

On Saturday April 22, Guyana joined more than 160 countries around the world to celebrate Earth Day. Earth Day is meant to promote awareness and appreciation of the Earth’s ecosystem and to be in...

Guyana has serious infrastructural development – Granger

Apr 27, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Guyana has serious infrastructural development – Granger

President David Granger who is currently on a visit to the United Kingdom has acknowledged that the country has series deficiencies in the area of infrastructural development. He noted that...

Crime Sleuth refuses to testify in Crum Ewing murder PI

Apr 27, 2017 KNews Court Stories, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Crime Sleuth refuses to testify in Crum Ewing murder PI

Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP) Mitchell Caesar, who is the head of the Major Crimes Investigation Unit, refused to testify in the preliminary inquiry into the murder of Courtney Crum-Ewing...

Govt to review Sexual Offences, Domestic Violence Acts

Apr 27, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Govt to review Sexual Offences, Domestic Violence Acts

The Ministry of Social Protection’s Sexual and Domestic Violence unit is working to have the Sexual Offences and Domestic Violence Acts reviewed for better handling of sexual offences and domestic...

From Sattaur to Statia: the unpleasant story of Guyana

Apr 27, 2017 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon 1

This article is about the Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA). For the purpose of research, I went through my files of columns on the GRA. It never occurred to me that I literally have done more than...

The health system may be creating addicts

Apr 27, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on The health system may be creating addicts

-says Senior Medical official The pain killer, Pethidine, is highly addictive. This is why many countries have embarked on replacing it with morphine, which is just as effective, but less addictive....

Cane cutter on attempted murder charge

Apr 27, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Cane cutter on attempted murder charge

Warren Dennis of Beterverwagting, East Coast Demerara, has been remanded to prison after he was charged with attempted murder for chopping off the left hand of the mother of his three children, who...

When the happy days are gone

Apr 27, 2017 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on When the happy days are gone

A star is not born every day. But sometimes it is only when a star dies that their accomplishments are more fully appreciated. The death, this past week, of Erin Moran, star of the sitcom “Happy...

PPP to table motion challenging Presidential lands CoI

Apr 27, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on PPP to table motion challenging Presidential lands CoI

The Main Parliamentary Opposition, the People’s Progressive Party/Civic (PPP/C), appears to be adamant in its move to have a Presidential ordered Commission of Inquiry (CoI) revoked. After weeks of...

Cuban pleads guilty to overstaying, fined

Apr 27, 2017 KNews Court Stories, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Cuban pleads guilty to overstaying, fined

A Cuban national who claimed that he came to Guyana in search of a better life was on Tuesday ordered to pay a fine of $20,000 with an alternative of four weeks’ imprisonment. Daniel Palma...

This city councillor’s motion is an insult to democracy

Apr 27, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on This city councillor’s motion is an insult to democracy

Dear Editor, I refer to an article in the newspaper of Tuesday, April 25th, 2017, captioned “APNU councillor tables motion aimed at sanctioning gross misconduct against Mayor.” Let me say at the...

Some doctors at this hospital cannot speak English

Apr 27, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on Some doctors at this hospital cannot speak English

Dear Editor, There is only bad press about public health institutions but I thought it would be nice for me to share my experience at the East Bank Regional Hospital. I live in the new Diamond...

A NEW PARTY IS NOT THE ANSWER TO OUR PROBLEMS

Apr 27, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on A NEW PARTY IS NOT THE ANSWER TO OUR PROBLEMS

Dear Editor, Problems are all around us. Humans have to keep solving problems on a daily basis to survive. From an individual level, putting food on our tables-making ends meet by budgeting our...

Generic medicine from India and Third World countries will now be banned

Apr 27, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on Generic medicine from India and Third World countries will now be banned

Dear Editor, Something alarming is happening at the Food and Drug Analyst Department and it will affect ALL GUYANESE. It will lead to a massive increase in the cost of medicines and supplies in the...

Improper boats endanger lives on Guyana’s rivers

Apr 27, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on Improper boats endanger lives on Guyana’s rivers

Dear Editor, For many years now private passenger vessels have been ferrying travellers on the Vreed-en-Hoop-Georgetown crossing, Parika-Supenaam, Parika-Leguan, Parika-Buckhall on the Essequibo...

While the grass is growing, the horse is starving because of VAT

Apr 27, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on While the grass is growing, the horse is starving because of VAT

Dear Minister, The recent introduction of the 14% VAT on education and educational materials is creating extreme adversity on me. I am a student, studying to fulfill my lifelong ambition to educate...

Better is expected from this man who is a Member of Parliament

Apr 27, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on Better is expected from this man who is a Member of Parliament

Dear Editor, Response is being made to Jermaine Figueira’s letter “Why the secrecy on Linden TV documents?” His response is purportedly attempting a response to my article, “The...

Minister Harmon accuses Stabroek News of irresponsible journalism

Apr 27, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on Minister Harmon accuses Stabroek News of irresponsible journalism

Dear Editor, The Office of the Minister of State at this time wishes t0 take umbrage with the Stabroek News over its Monday, April 24, 2017 headline titled “Easing ganja penalties not on priority...

Denial of Police permission does not augur well for our democratic future

Apr 27, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on Denial of Police permission does not augur well for our democratic future

Dear Editor, A public march organized by the Guyana Agricultural and General Workers Union (GAWU) to take place at Enterprise/Non Pariel, East Coast Demerara (internal streets) had to be aborted on...

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The clock and the cloud

Peeping Tom… Kaieteur News- Time, as the ancients knew, is a trickster. It slips through the fingers of kings and commoners... more