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Heads of Missions address enhancing export capacity, attracting investments

Apr 08, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Heads of Missions address enhancing export capacity, attracting investments

Several matters engaged the concluded Heads of Missions Conference. Among those discussed by the country’s 20 Ambassadors stationed abroad were the enhancement of export capacity and attracting...

Guyana’s borrowing from IDB not in trouble—Finance Minister

Apr 08, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Guyana’s borrowing from IDB not in trouble—Finance Minister

Finance Minister, Winston Jordan, has said that the decision by the United States to withdraw its support from the Inter-American Development Bank’s Multilateral Investment Fund (MIF), will not...

Prison survey… Prison expert highlights need for infrastructure improvement, other issues

Apr 08, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Prison survey… Prison expert highlights need for infrastructure improvement, other issues

The improvement of prison infrastructures were among several issues highlighted yesterday when Professor Ernest Uwazie, Inmate Rehabilitation and Reintegration (R&R) expert met with Minister of...

Syria nerve agent attack: why it made sense to Assad

Apr 08, 2017 KNews Editorial Comments Off on Syria nerve agent attack: why it made sense to Assad

The president’s army is battle-weary, but the sarin attack and the US missile strikes show this war is far from over. April seemed to start well for the Syrian president, Bashar al-Assad, six years...

Beware of the bullies

Apr 08, 2017 KNews Peeping Tom Comments Off on Beware of the bullies

Bullying has always been a problem in schools. Those who claim that there were no bullies in their time at school have selective amnesia. There is no generation who can boast that there was no...

Former bank employee charged with defrauding customer

Apr 08, 2017 KNews Court Stories, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Former bank employee charged with defrauding customer

Stacy Moffett, 28, of Lot 38 Shell Road, Kitty was yesterday arraigned before City Magistrate Leron Daly in the Georgetown Magistrates’ Courts where she was ordered to post bail at the sum of...

Steep devaluation is coming for sure

Apr 08, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on Steep devaluation is coming for sure

Dear Editor, I couldn’t believe what I was reading when I got the COMBAT newspaper in my inbox? For the record, the COMBAT newspaper is printed by the GAWU, the largest workers union in Guyana. In...

Is the judiciary going down a path it went before?

Apr 08, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on Is the judiciary going down a path it went before?

Dear Editor, At the swearing-in ceremony of the acting Chief Justice and acting Chancellor, the President made a most startling revelation. He was asked by the press about his refusal to act upon the...

The most revered Hindu leader in the history of Guyana

Apr 08, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on The most revered Hindu leader in the history of Guyana

Dear Editor, The Caribbean Hindu Network (CHN), which has been in existence since 2002 and comprising 3,000 members, objects to the attack on Pujya Swami Aksharananda ji by Mr. Frederick Kissoon in...

Anil Nandlall is scandalizing the Attorney General

Apr 08, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on Anil Nandlall is scandalizing the Attorney General

Dear Editor, Permit me to continue from my previous letter to Mr. Nandlall’s scandal about threat to the judge’s life, which but for the public outcry which his scandal has engendered, would be...

We must not distract from the core issues affecting Guyana

Apr 08, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on We must not distract from the core issues affecting Guyana

Dear Editor, While I remain generally impressed by Freddie Kissoon’s brave and rather unusual writings against the many instances of missteps, misrule and misery in our dear land of Guyana, I find...

Hitler and now Trump show how nonexistent is the human mind

Apr 08, 2017 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on Hitler and now Trump show how nonexistent is the human mind

I sat next to this gentleman at my niece’s funeral service in Wakenaam last Thursday, and what he said to me lasted for just a few seconds but it made me sad. I will have more to say about that...

Central Bank, Jordan threatens cambios – says PPP

Apr 07, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Central Bank, Jordan threatens cambios – says PPP

-matter to be raised in Nat’l Assembly The People’s Progressive Party (PPP) has expressed alarm over what it says are reports that Central Bank has threatened cambio operators to be derisked by...

Parliamentary Sectoral Committee hears of…Lack of key equipment, medication at Diamond hospital

Apr 07, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Parliamentary Sectoral Committee hears of…Lack of key equipment, medication at Diamond hospital

The Diamond Diagnostic Centre (DDC) has once again found itself in the spotlight after the Parliamentary Sectoral Committee on Social Services discovered that a shortage of drugs and key laboratory...

Parika wife-killer escapes police., plunges into E’bo River

Apr 07, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Parika wife-killer escapes police., plunges into E’bo River

Alleged Parika wife-killer, Ganesh Dhanraj, narrowly eluded police yesterday at Roden Rust, East Bank Essequibo, but G Division Commander Leslie James is optimistic that he will be caught.. Police...

Lawyer held in contempt, fined after clashing with magistrate

Apr 07, 2017 KNews Court Stories, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Lawyer held in contempt, fined after clashing with magistrate

Prominent lawyer and former Senior Magistrate Chandra Sohan and his team of lawyers are in the process of taking legal action against Magistrate Marissa Mittelholzer for wrongful imprisonment and...

SARU seizes Enmore NDC computers after learning of plot to sell them

Apr 07, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on SARU seizes Enmore NDC computers after learning of plot to sell them

-PPP demands police probe, charges The People’s Progressive Party (PPP) is urging a police probe into an incident at Enmore, East Coast Demerara, after a group of men reportedly seized several...

Unkempt conditions abound Sussex Street drug bond

Apr 07, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Unkempt conditions abound Sussex Street drug bond

By Abena Rockcliffe-Campbell As if the very agreement governing the use of the Sussex Street drug bond was not enough to cast a dark cloud over the facility, the Georgetown Public Hospital...

Trump and CN alike in nuff ways

Apr 07, 2017 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Trump and CN alike in nuff ways

Everybody in de world got a double. Dem have people who does always meet wid others who swear that dem two meet up before. When dem do check is somebody who look just like de other ones. People get...

Holder, Ahmed confident as Brighto Paints Q Mobile Cup ODI series bowls off today at Providence

Apr 07, 2017 KNews Sports Comments Off on Holder, Ahmed confident as Brighto Paints Q Mobile Cup ODI series bowls off today at Providence

By Zaheer Mohamed The newly re-laid pitch at the Guyana National Stadium, Providence will come under the microscope when the West Indies take on Pakistan in the first of the three-match One-day...

GFF Youth Development Programme to be presented at XXXII CONCACAF Ordinary Congress

Apr 07, 2017 KNews Sports Comments Off on GFF Youth Development Programme to be presented at XXXII CONCACAF Ordinary Congress

The Youth Development Progamme of the Guyana Football Federation (GFF) will be a key highlight at the XXXII CONCACAF Ordinary Congress in Aruba tomorrow via a formal presentation from the President...

LABF/Hamid Foundation U23 Basketball …Bulls face Kwakwani, Riders oppose Falcons in tomorrow’s semis

Apr 07, 2017 KNews Sports Comments Off on LABF/Hamid Foundation U23 Basketball …Bulls face Kwakwani, Riders oppose Falcons in tomorrow’s semis

Kwakwani is set to face the Bulls while Retrieve Raiders will oppose Falcons when the semi finals of the Linden Amateur Basketball Association / Hamid Foundation Under-23 basketball championship are...

Georgetown Grand Prix…Local motor racing most prized property on show tonight; large turnout expected

Apr 07, 2017 KNews Sports Comments Off on Georgetown Grand Prix…Local motor racing most prized property on show tonight; large turnout expected

By Rawle Welch He is undoubtedly the most prized property in local motor racing, a status gained after dominating both the traditional segment and now karting and Guyana’s Kristian Jeffrey...

Petra Organisation supports WDFA U-17 Tournament

Apr 07, 2017 KNews Sports Comments Off on Petra Organisation supports WDFA U-17 Tournament

Petra Organisation as part of its stated mission to assist in the development of football within communities listed the West Demerara Football Association (WDFA) as the latest recipient of its...

Sixteen Team U19 tourney deal sealed between RHTY&SC and Republic Bank

Apr 07, 2017 KNews Sports Comments Off on Sixteen Team U19 tourney deal sealed between RHTY&SC and Republic Bank

The Rose Hall Town Youth and Sports Club on Monday last received a major boost from long serving sponsor Republic Bank (Guy) Ltd. in the form of sponsorship for a 16-team Under-19 cricket tournament,...

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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