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Universal primary health care by 2020 – Minister pledges

Apr 28, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Universal primary health care by 2020 – Minister pledges

… as City municipality hosts Vaccination Week health fair The provision of the best quality public health care and services to all people living in Guyana is not only important but it is a...

25 police officers learning Mandarin

Apr 28, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on 25 police officers learning Mandarin

The government continues to build the capacity of officers of the Guyana Police Force (GPF) through a number of training programmes. Twenty-five officers yesterday commenced a 90-day training course...

Bauxite Union wants to engage RUSAL on outstanding matters

Apr 28, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Bauxite Union wants to engage RUSAL on outstanding matters

General Secretary of the Guyana Bauxite and General Workers’ Union (GB&GWU), Lincoln Lewis said yesterday that his Union will be working on arranging a sit down with the Management of the...

TOO MUCH BORROWING…

Apr 28, 2017 KNews Editorial, Features / Columnists Comments Off on TOO MUCH BORROWING…

The economy is heading in the wrong direction and the fallout will trickle down to hurt the citizenry through higher interest rates on loans and higher costs for goods, especially imported items, due...

Enrico Woolford is new NCN chairman

Apr 28, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Enrico Woolford is new NCN chairman

Government has picked two veteran media operatives, Enrico Woolford and Gordon Moseley, to help turn the fortunes of state-owned National Communications Network (NCN) around. Woolford will be the...

Govt. awaiting written judgment to challenge presidential term limit ruling

Apr 28, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Govt. awaiting written judgment to challenge presidential term limit ruling

Government is awaiting a written judgment from the Court of Appeal in order to proceed further with the presidential third term limit case. In February of this year, the Court of Appeal ruled that...

Web-based surveillance system for hotels on the cards

Apr 28, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Web-based surveillance system for hotels on the cards

…as Guyana and CARPHA collaborate to boost health, tourism synergy The establishment of a web-based disease surveillance system for hotels, together with training for hospitality staff to...

Deeds Registrar is innocent – Attorney

Apr 28, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Deeds Registrar is innocent – Attorney

The Registrar of the Deeds and Commercial Registries Authority, Azeena Baksh who has been accused of corrupt practices has retained Nigel Hughes as her legal representative. Baksh is being...

Shut it down!

Apr 28, 2017 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on Shut it down!

One of the disappointing features of the APNU+AFC government’s policies since it came into office has been its failure to abolish the duty free concessions on vehicles that are granted to...

Texas company to supply subsea equipment for Liza oil project

Apr 28, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Texas company to supply subsea equipment for Liza oil project

ExxonMobil has awarded TechnipFMC, a Texas-based firm, a contract for the engineering, manufacture and delivery of the subsea equipment for the Liza deepwater project. The award scope, announced...

$58.5M living quarters to be constructed at Mazaruni Prison

Apr 28, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on $58.5M living quarters to be constructed at Mazaruni Prison

– Will house long-term prisoners from Camp St. Contracts in the sum of $58,558,000 were awarded to contractors to construct living quarters at the Mazaruni Prisons, Region Seven...

Berbice cops intercept stolen car

Apr 28, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Berbice cops intercept stolen car

– Crane man in custody Police in B Division on Wednesday evening intercepted a stolen car during a road block in Fort Wellington, West Coast Berbice. Commander of B Division, Ian Amsterdam told...

UG, Movie Towne ink MoU for solar farm

Apr 28, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on UG, Movie Towne ink MoU for solar farm

Before the end of this year, the University of Guyana and Movie Towne Incorporated are expected to establish a solar power farm at the institution’s Turkeyen Campus. A Memorandum of Understanding...

Attorney/Parliamentarian takes issue with the DPP and Magistrates

Apr 28, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on Attorney/Parliamentarian takes issue with the DPP and Magistrates

Dear Editor, Please allow me space in your paper for this letter to be published and also for comments/feedbacks from other interested parties to be published. I have seen many persons appear in...

Improper boats endanger lives on Guyana’s rivers

Apr 28, 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...

An Appeal to Government to help this Indigenous pensioner

Apr 28, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on An Appeal to Government to help this Indigenous pensioner

Dear Editor, Please publish this letter which relates to the non-representation from senior government officials on behalf of the disadvantaged. This is in relation to Mr. Hubert Cramer, an...

The Coalition will lose in 2020 because it is like the PPP

Apr 28, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on The Coalition will lose in 2020 because it is like the PPP

Dear Editor, This Coalition went into Office on a lie and motivated by much political spite. After continuing the PPP’s efforts to confound the sugar industry by moving to prematurely close some of...

These young athletes must make full use of this opportunity

Apr 28, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on These young athletes must make full use of this opportunity

Dear Editor, Guyana’s exceptional performances and achievements at the recently held Carifta Games in Curacao must be lauded. The team of young athletes has made us proud. Likewise, Government must...

Stupid comment from Mr. Morrison, the REO of Region 5

Apr 28, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on Stupid comment from Mr. Morrison, the REO of Region 5

Dear Editor, I have been following this story in both Kaieteur News, and on the internet, and what strikes me most is the lack of understanding, among those who have expressed an opinion on this...

High Ranking officials are involved in the gold scandal

Apr 28, 2017 KNews Letters 1

Dear Editor, I am glad to see that Opposition Leader Bharrat Jagdeo in relation to the current Gold Board probe is taking the position that the chips should be allowed to fall where they may...

Justice Holder’s request for an apology from the AG is infamy

Apr 28, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on Justice Holder’s request for an apology from the AG is infamy

Dear Editor, The Attorney General is the custodian and guardian of our national patrimony (both land and chattle assets, excepting where statute e.g the lands Department Act Cap 59:01; State Lands...

THE AFC BETRATED THEIR SUPPORTERS

Apr 28, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on THE AFC BETRATED THEIR SUPPORTERS

Dear Editor, The AFC is destined to be the party in Guyana with the greatest meteoric rise and fall. And to think that they had the objective, intelligent, independent voters eating out of their...

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A flawed interpretation of international law

Peeping Tom… Kaieteur News – The assertion that “under international law, Venezuela is responsible for... more