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Capacity building for youths highlighted at Youth Fair

May 27, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Capacity building for youths highlighted at Youth Fair

A Career Exposition and Health Fair was held earlier this week at D’Urban Park on the occasion of National Youth Week 2017. Minister within the Ministry of Education with responsibility for Youth,...

Persecution by prosecution

May 27, 2017 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on Persecution by prosecution

Congratulations are extended to the editor-in-chief of this newspaper Adam Harris on his national award. It is now hoped that the new administration would do the right thing and ensure that Adam is...

US report highlights Guyana’s lack of strategy to address drug rehab

May 27, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on US report highlights Guyana’s lack of strategy to address drug rehab

The United States Department of State recently brought to light the fact that Guyana still remains without a comprehensive demand reduction strategy to adequately address drug rehabilitation. In its...

Has the teachers’ union become a government tool?

May 27, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on Has the teachers’ union become a government tool?

Dear Editor, Kindly permit me to express my disgust at the manner in which the Guyana Teachers Union is functioning. Since the new Government has taken office, the G.T. U. has become dormant. It begs...

APNU+AFC and Hanoman + Bhim

May 27, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on APNU+AFC and Hanoman + Bhim

Dear Editor, The record poor performances at GuySuCo from June 2015 to May 2017 should not come as a surprise to this nation. It is directly related to leadership of the Corporation. The present IMC...

The Baha’is are being persecuted in Iran in increasing numbers

May 27, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on The Baha’is are being persecuted in Iran in increasing numbers

Dear Editor, Since the 1979 Islamic Revolution in Iran, Baha’is have been systematically persecuted as a matter of government policy. During the first decade of this persecution, more than two...

NCN has not been merged with any other state entity

May 27, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on NCN has not been merged with any other state entity

Dear Editor, I wish to bring to your attention an inaccurate headline in the May 25th issue of Kaieteur News, on page 25. While the story reflects what was announced by the Honorable Prime Minister,...

The City Council’s unhindered venality goes on

May 27, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on The City Council’s unhindered venality goes on

Dear Editor, The Georgetown Municipality must be the most paradoxical, twisted and bizarre entity in Guyana. On one hand it constantly cries out of being cash strapped, bankrupt and unable to provide...

An open letter to the Prime Minister

May 27, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on An open letter to the Prime Minister

Dear Editor, My missive here is an open letter to the Prime Minister. I saw on the news recently that you are the one in the Coalition entrusted to explore the possibilities of constitutional change....

Case file on woman accused of killing brother incomplete

May 27, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Case file on woman accused of killing brother incomplete

The police file on 25-year-old Debbie Hansraj who is accused of stabbing her brother to death during an argument, is still incomplete. This was disclosed to Chief Magistrate Ann McLennan by Police...

Sugar union says GuySuCo is beating a worn-out drum

May 27, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on Sugar union says GuySuCo is beating a worn-out drum

Dear Editor, It is a known fact that the majority of sugar workers are far from being fully employed throughout the year. GuySuCo may wish to publish the statistics of days per year, an average...

Guyana’s teachers must not be treated so contemptuously

May 27, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on Guyana’s teachers must not be treated so contemptuously

Dear Editor, Teachers go on a type of leave called Whitley Council every four years and along with that leave, they are supposed to receive what is known as “Whitley Council Money”. The...

Sugar and oil; questions for the Govt. to answer

May 27, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on Sugar and oil; questions for the Govt. to answer

Dear Editor, Minister of Natural Resources, Raphael Trotman, according to media reports, following the presentation by the consultant who examined the feasibility of establishing an oil refinery,...

NIS has met with this claimant and will seek to help him

May 27, 2017 KNews Peeping Tom Comments Off on NIS has met with this claimant and will seek to help him

Dear Editor, Reference is made to your letter dated May 23, 2017 captioned, “The NIS may be involved in a conspiracy with this company”. The writer’s complaint was published on May 18, 2017...

Region 5 Chairman and his deputy not fit to govern the region

May 27, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on Region 5 Chairman and his deputy not fit to govern the region

Dear Editor, Ever since the APNU+AFC Government took office, Region 5 has received the worst Chairmanship in the form of Mr. Vickchanad Ramphaland and his counterpart, Vice Chairman Rion Peters. Both...

Getting back bail money from City Constabulary is a nightmare

May 27, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on Getting back bail money from City Constabulary is a nightmare

Dear Editor, Please permit me to use this medium to make a plea for a swift and transparent system to be put in place for the refund of money lodged as bail after the conclusion of a case in the...

Miner gets 18 months for robbery with violence

May 27, 2017 KNews Court Stories, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Miner gets 18 months for robbery with violence

A miner was on Thursday jailed for 18 months by Chief Magistrate Ann McLennan after he appeared in the Georgetown Magistrates’ Courts and pleaded guilty to one of two robbery charges. Daniel...

I would like the NIS to tell me if I am right or wrong

May 27, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on I would like the NIS to tell me if I am right or wrong

Dear Editor, On the 26th of February I was admitted to the West Demerara Regional Hospital and on the 1st of March I had a surgery done. I was given 3 consecutive 21 days leave by the doctor and I...

Customs chief’s vehicle probe… Transaction reveals GRA’s system was tampered with

May 26, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Customs chief’s vehicle probe… Transaction reveals GRA’s system was tampered with

The head of Customs was recently sent off by the Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) on his annual leave. This followed news reports that something was highly irregular with a transaction involving a duty...

GRDB forensic audit probe… Deputy PS sacked

May 26, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on GRDB forensic audit probe… Deputy PS sacked

The Ministry of Agriculture’s Deputy Permanent Secretary (Finance), Prema Roopnarine, has been sacked by the Public Service Ministry. This action follows recent developments in relation to the...

Crum-Ewing murder PI…Magistrate threatens to close case if ASP Caesar fails to show

May 26, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Crum-Ewing murder PI…Magistrate threatens to close case if ASP Caesar fails to show

City Magistrate Judy Latchman yesterday sent out a stern warning to the prosecution that if there’s a no show on the part of Police Witness, Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP) Mitchell...

Five female convicts granted Presidential pardons

May 26, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Five female convicts granted Presidential pardons

Five female convicts have been granted the Presidential Prerogative of Mercy by President David Granger, on the occasion of Guyana’s fifty-first Anniversary of Independence following...

Haitian man abandons children shortly after arriving in Guyana

May 26, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Haitian man abandons children shortly after arriving in Guyana

A Haiti national is said to be on the run, having abandoned his two children moments after they disembarked a flight at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport, Timehri. The missing man has since been...

Acting Chancellor heads list of 69 National Awardees

May 26, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Acting Chancellor heads list of 69 National Awardees

KN EDITOR-IN-CHIEF AMONG THREE JOURNALISTS HONOURED Thirty-one women from various fields are among those who will be conferred with National Awards by President David Granger and the Government of...

Kan man Duprey come back again

May 26, 2017 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Kan man Duprey come back again

Nicodemus was a man. Duprey resemble him. According to de Bible, this was a man who sneak in like a thief in de night to cause mischief. Duprey is de man who did own Clico and when Clico collapse...