May 2017

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Inclusion of special needs children…Limited training, resources undermine delivery of special education – GTU President

May 11, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Inclusion of special needs children…Limited training, resources undermine delivery of special education – GTU President

Not only is adequate training lacking for teachers but there are also limited resources to deliver proper lessons to children with special education needs. This is the view of President of the Guyana...

CCJ orders Guyana to reimburse Trini drinks company $$ millions in taxes

May 11, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on CCJ orders Guyana to reimburse Trini drinks company $$ millions in taxes

The Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) has ordered Guyana to repay a Trinidad-based beverage company, millions worth in taxes. The CCJ granted judgment to SM Jaleel & Co Ltd (SMJ) and Guyana...

How to stop the weekly scandals

May 11, 2017 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on How to stop the weekly scandals

The government is facing a crisis of credibility. It came into office on a bandwagon of promises of improved accountability and transparency but its record in this regard has been dismal. It need not...

THE PLIGHT OF THE ELDERLY

May 11, 2017 KNews Editorial, Features / Columnists Comments Off on THE PLIGHT OF THE ELDERLY

Guyanese by tradition have always treasured the institution of family. Be it the nuclear family, extended or single parent household, members of any family unit were taught to love, respect and...

Cop grilled about CCTV in Pike Street murder trial

May 11, 2017 KNews Court Stories, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Cop grilled about CCTV in Pike Street murder trial

Police Corporal Derwin Eastman yesterday faced a series of questions in relation to the investigations into the murder of Pike Street Businessman, Ashok Raghu. Raghu was shot and killed on August 18,...

E-Government “catastrophe” now a success story– Minister Hughes

May 11, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on E-Government “catastrophe” now a success story– Minister Hughes

During the previous administration, the eGovernment Network project was fraught with troubles pertaining to management, misappropriation of assets and various forms of corruption. It was often...

After two years in Government… The AFC slipped at times but regained its footing – Trotman

May 11, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on After two years in Government… The AFC slipped at times but regained its footing – Trotman

Today marks two years since the Alliance for Change (AFC) joined forces with A Partnership for National Unity (APNU) to secure a win at the May 2015 General Elections. This saw the 22-year reign of...

Law books were ordered for AG’s library -2014 budget records

May 11, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Law books were ordered for AG’s library -2014 budget records

There are indications from 2014 budget records that several Commonwealth Law Books ordered and paid for by the state were for the library of the Attorney General’s Chambers. Those law books are now...

Wanted man gets 5 years in absentia

May 11, 2017 KNews Court Stories, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Wanted man gets 5 years in absentia

Orin Glasgow, who is wanted by police for robbery under-arms, has been jailed for five years in his absence. He was found guilty yesterday by Chief Magistrate Ann McLennan of robbing a woman at...

This former education official once stifled creativity

May 11, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on This former education official once stifled creativity

Dear Editor, Chairman of the Education Sector’s Commission of Inquiry, Mr. Ed Caesar said, “We must treat them better; we must empower our head teachers, too, and let them understand that they...

The tale of the Golden Jubilee masterpiece – D’Urban Park

May 11, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on The tale of the Golden Jubilee masterpiece – D’Urban Park

Dear Editor, So after spending literally hundreds of millions of dollars to erect the world’s worse stadium, and after lying about the purpose for its construction, the Coalition is again showing...

No date set for hearing in the Precision Woodworking Ltd case

May 11, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on No date set for hearing in the Precision Woodworking Ltd case

12Dear Editor, In February 2015, I participated together with former workers of Precision Woodworking Ltd, in a picketing exercise in front of Republic Bank Ltd corporate headquarters, New Market St....

High praise for Prime Minister’s representative in Region 6 official

May 11, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on High praise for Prime Minister’s representative in Region 6 official

Dear Editor, Jimmy Carter, former President of the United States once said that, ‘You can do what you can do, and sometimes you can do it even better than you think you can’. This quote aptly...

Notes on civil engineering in Guyana

May 11, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on Notes on civil engineering in Guyana

Dear Editor, Re letter caption “Notes on the attitudes of some contractors in Guyana” by a letter writer. The letter writer states in his letter. “When an engineer does an estimate in the...

An adumbration of the greatness of our food exporting farmers

May 11, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on An adumbration of the greatness of our food exporting farmers

Dear Editor, Guyana is poised to make further advances into its history of being a prime producer of food in quality, quantity and variety, to meet the needs of its citizens, and to be able to export...

Dining out and take away standards in Guyana

May 11, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on Dining out and take away standards in Guyana

Dear Editor, Reading the praise being showered on a KFC outlet, reminded me of the much improved dining out/takeaway standards in present-day Guyana. I last visited roughly 2 years ago. On my last...

PPP mistreated sugar workers and their children over the decades

May 11, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on PPP mistreated sugar workers and their children over the decades

Dear Editor, PPP leaders took it upon themselves to lambaste the Coalition for the declining state of the sugar industry on May Day 2017. Although this will be one of the principal issues responsible...

The 100 million City Hall grab that got rejected

May 11, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on The 100 million City Hall grab that got rejected

Dear Editor, The frenzied eagerness and quick acceptance of a proposal to host the 51st Flag Raising Ceremony at the Stabroek Square (now removed to D’Urban Park) by a senior administrative...

Foreign currency stabilized

May 10, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Foreign currency stabilized

-Central Bank reports excess in the system After several media reports of a shortage, Central Bank has been able to successfully stabilize the foreign currency system. Officials at the Bank told this...

Large quantities of dangerous drugs stolen from state

May 10, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Large quantities of dangerous drugs stolen from state

– Pethidine, Morphine included Minister of Public Health, Volda Lawrence, has her work cut out for her. It has become obviously urgent that Lawrence needs to put strict measures in place to...

Man admits to beating son, causing his death

May 10, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Man admits to beating son, causing his death

Investigators in ‘C’ division have managed to secure a confession from a 40-year-old man whose son died one day after his father struck him to the head during an argument at their Better Hope,...

Customs officials ordered to stand down from seizing SUV with false plates

May 10, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Customs officials ordered to stand down from seizing SUV with false plates

The David Granger administration entered office in May 2015, vowing to weed out corruption and abuse of office. Billions of dollars were being lost because of tax evasion and other weaknesses in the...

Attack on British Parliament sparks heightened security around Parliament

May 10, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Attack on British Parliament sparks heightened security around Parliament

There was widespread confusion Monday due to several city roads being closed. The Guyana Police Force (GPF) has confirmed that due to the 2017 Westminster Attack outside of the United Kingdom House...

Nagamootoo denies Govt. ever promised $9,000 per bag of paddy

May 10, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Nagamootoo denies Govt. ever promised $9,000 per bag of paddy

Prime Minister Moses Nagamootoo has vehemently denied that his government ever promised rice farmers that a bag of paddy would be bought at a price of $9,000. The Prime Minister made this declaration...

Seven months on…Guyana still without an Ombudsman

May 10, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Seven months on…Guyana still without an Ombudsman

-Kissoon, Arjoon cases still await justice It has been over seven months now, and one of Guyana’s most crucial Constitutional Offices—the Office of the Ombudsman—remains headless. The...

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The politics of appointment

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(Kaieteur News) – The elections commission did not fall from heaven. It came from the messy compromises of men. The so-called Carter-Price formula, that tired but enduring offspring of the 1990s political crisis, was not meant to enshrine aloof neutrality; it was meant to broker peace between...

If the OAS did not exist, it could not be created today

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By Sir Ronald Sanders (Kaieteur News) – I have spent a decade in the councils of the Organization of American States. I have watched governments come and go, seen some crises handled well and others handled badly, sat through more commemorative meetings than sessions discussing pressing issues,...

Guyana Development Bank: Promise, Potential and Peril

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(Kaieteur News) – The PPP Govt-initiated $40B Guyana Development Bank (Bank) can be great. Ordinary Guyanese-poor, harbouring inspired ideas, but lacking capital-have opportunity beckoning. Opportunity to rise from where they are to what they envision could be, should be. Again,...

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