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The tribe, eugenics and ugly minds in the PPP

May 30, 2017 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on The tribe, eugenics and ugly minds in the PPP

Can you mentally zone out when you hear on television and read in the newspapers what PPP leaders say? I have friends who embrace this zone out theory. They say when you hear nonsense all the time,...

Nursing programme standards cannot be compromised

May 30, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Nursing programme standards cannot be compromised

– Health Education Director insists …but education system being blamed for producing substandard students “The people who are involved in the training of doctors, lawyers and the other...

E’bo businessman takes another plunge with second supermarket

May 30, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on E’bo businessman takes another plunge with second supermarket

Eight years ago, businessman Iftikar Mohamed, better known as ‘Ifti’, established the first supermarket “Safeway” on the Essequibo Coast. Yesterday, he became the first businessman to...

Abused Guyanese granny chopped to death in Trinidad apartment

May 30, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Abused Guyanese granny chopped to death in Trinidad apartment

An abusive relationship ended in murder on the weekend as Guyana-born grandmother Enid Rosaline Periana, 62, was chopped to death inside the man’s apartment in Madras Road, St Helena. Police...

Unpreparedness gets GPHC CEO, Financial Director thrown out of PAC

May 30, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Unpreparedness gets GPHC CEO, Financial Director thrown out of PAC

Two officials from the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) were yesterday asked to leave the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) meeting after their responses were deemed as inadequate in...

GRA and flexibility

May 30, 2017 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on GRA and flexibility

The Guyana Revenue Authority is a master of political diversion. Faced with a slew of allegations about its operations, including its policy of flexibility towards the importation of motor vehicles...

Guyana “not taking sides” in Venezuela’s crisis

May 30, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Guyana “not taking sides” in Venezuela’s crisis

– Foreign Ministry briefed by local envoy on situation The Government of Guyana has made it clear that it is unwilling to take sides in the internal crisis currently enveloping neighbouring...

Find bogus kidney donor and jail her- says father-in-law

May 30, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Find bogus kidney donor and jail her- says father-in-law

Chamer Bhooj is 70. He can hardly walk and barely speaks. While he struggles to care for himself, he has to support his wife, 59-year-old Bibi Azmat Deen, who suffered a nervous breakdown and had a...

Corentyne woman dead after beating over dope

May 30, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Corentyne woman dead after beating over dope

In a severe case of domestic violence, a mother of three is now dead after her lover mercilessly beat her. She succumbed to the injuries received at the hands of the man she once shared a...

Nandlall denies stealing $2M in Law Reports

May 30, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Nandlall denies stealing $2M in Law Reports

Yesterday, Former Attorney General (AG) and Opposition Parliamentarian Anil Nandlall pleaded not guilty to a larceny charge which alleged that he stole some $2M in LexisNexis Law Reports of the...

No bail for Trinidadian who allegedly traffic ganja

May 30, 2017 KNews Court Stories, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on No bail for Trinidadian who allegedly traffic ganja

A Trinidadian national was yesterday remanded to prison when he appeared before City Magistrate Judy Latchman in the Georgetown Magistrates’ Courts, where he denied having narcotics in his...

Double murder accused to stand trial for killing man during robbery

May 30, 2017 KNews Court Stories, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Double murder accused to stand trial for killing man during robbery

Joshua Meredith, who is facing two murder charges, was yesterday committed to stand trial at the High Court in Georgetown on one of them. Meredith will stand trial before a judge and jury for the...

Liaison officer accused of sodomizing boy, 14

May 30, 2017 KNews Court Stories, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Liaison officer accused of sodomizing boy, 14

Almost two years after he allegedly had anal sex with a 14-year-old boy, Esan Abrahams, who is said to be a Liaison Officer at the Ministry of Public Health, was remanded to prison for the offence...

Mason charged for smuggling cigarettes in boots into prison

May 30, 2017 KNews Court Stories, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Mason charged for smuggling cigarettes in boots into prison

Forty-one-year-old Gownauth Geer was yesterday fined $60,000 or in default 12 months imprisonment by City Magistrate Judy Latchman after he appeared in the Georgetown Magistrates’ Courts. Geer...

Porter remanded for trafficking cocaine

May 30, 2017 KNews Court Stories, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Porter remanded for trafficking cocaine

A 42-year-old porter of Albouystown, was yesterday remanded to prison for allegedly having cocaine in his possession for the purpose of trafficking. Wendell Andrews appeared before City Magistrate...

Alleged car thief granted bail

May 30, 2017 KNews Court Stories, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Alleged car thief granted bail

A bus conductor yesterday made an appearance before City Magistrate Judy Latchman in the Georgetown Magistrates’ Courts where he was placed on $400,000 bail for allegedly stealing a motor car....

There are unacceptable things occurring in Region 5 government

May 30, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on There are unacceptable things occurring in Region 5 government

Dear Editor, On March 23, 2017, a news story was published with the caption, “APNU/AFC officials implicated in multimillion-dollar fraud”. Two online news media also carried similar headlines...

Minister is delegating his authority to a foreign entity

May 30, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on Minister is delegating his authority to a foreign entity

Dear Editor, In April 2017, TIGI issued a statement (published on April 30, 2017) indicating that after a month it had not received a response from the Minister of Natural Resources to its letter...

A white elephant is about to be born in Leguan

May 30, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on A white elephant is about to be born in Leguan

Dear Editor, In an article which appeared in the news media on May 23, the Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Business (MoB) reportedly told the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) of the National...

SOCIAL COHESION SHOULD NOT WAIT FOR CONSTITUTIONAL REFORM

May 30, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on SOCIAL COHESION SHOULD NOT WAIT FOR CONSTITUTIONAL REFORM

Dear Editor, Henry Jeffrey is entirely correct when he notes that the building of social cohesion in Guyana requires the “the establishment of the appropriate consensus-building governance...

I propose a fund for these workers who are facing unemployment

May 30, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on I propose a fund for these workers who are facing unemployment

Dear Editor, On March 27, 2017, Caricom Today published an article entitled: “Stakeholders discuss way forward for Region’s sugar industry” (see reference below). I hope to sway the actions of...

What is the status of Harry Gill in the House?

May 30, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on What is the status of Harry Gill in the House?

Dear Editor, I have asked Member of Parliament, Harry Gill to justify himself being an American Citizen while serving in the National Assembly of Guyana. Member of Parliament Mr. Harry Gill has lived...

This union has always exploited and fooled sugar workers

May 30, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on This union has always exploited and fooled sugar workers

Dear Editor, It is sad and ironically funny how some people can be selective in conveying historic facts. An operative of the main sugar industry union, in responding to a letter in your newspaper...

The sad and tragic tale of faceless children

May 30, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on The sad and tragic tale of faceless children

Dear Editor, Please allow me space in your newspaper to once again bring to you and your readership’s attention the escalating plight of children without faces. –Jason (not his real name) age 15...

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Sammy to be appointed as West Indies Senior Men’s Head Coach for all formats

The oil industry is a casino of cash, power and corruption

Peeping Tom… Kaieteur News- According to MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow in her book, Blowout: “The oil and gas industry... more