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The PPP hypocrisy is diseased and evil

Jul 08, 2017 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on The PPP hypocrisy is diseased and evil

The hypocrisy of the leaders of the PPP can play with the mind of decent humans. If you want to be free of the instinct of hate, then your chances are not good once the former rulers of Guyana are...

Overweight trucks wreaking havoc on hinterland roads – Patterson

Jul 08, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Overweight trucks wreaking havoc on hinterland roads – Patterson

– Authorities to start weighing ‘bush trucks’ Despite billions of dollars being spent annually to construct and rehabilitate roads and bridges in the hinterland, these links are victims to...

Relatives hope for miracle to save teen with heart defect

Jul 08, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Relatives hope for miracle to save teen with heart defect

Parents and relatives of 14-year-old Vanitta Motielall are hoping that a medical miracle can save her life. Motielall currently suffers from a congenital cardiac anomaly known as Atrial Septal Defect...

CARICOM offers to mediate to end political crisis in Venezuela

Jul 08, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on CARICOM offers to mediate to end political crisis in Venezuela

The Caribbean Community is offering to use its good offices to mediate a peaceful solution to the ongoing political and humanitarian crisis in the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela. This offer was...

Food for the Poor distributes 1,000 wheelchairs

Jul 08, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Food for the Poor distributes 1,000 wheelchairs

…as third drive launched Through a collaborative effort with the Free Wheelchair Mission of the USA, Food for the Poor (FFP) (Guyana) Incorporated has launched its third Wheelchair Distribution...

RECKLESS SPENDING

Jul 08, 2017 KNews Editorial, Features / Columnists Comments Off on RECKLESS SPENDING

It is rather ironic that in the midst of all the talk of austerity and the need for urgent belt-tightening in the various departments and agencies, that the government continues to engage in a...

Report: Guyana, T&T lead Americas in heart-related deaths

Jul 08, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Report: Guyana, T&T lead Americas in heart-related deaths

Trinidad (Trinidad Express) – Trinidad and Tobago is second behind Guyana, among the 34 countries in the Americas for the highest rates of mortality from heart disease. And this is said to be...

GOVT. SHOULDN’T BE RENTING ANY HOUSE FOR A MINISTER

Jul 08, 2017 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on GOVT. SHOULDN’T BE RENTING ANY HOUSE FOR A MINISTER

A Minister is a servant of the people. A call to serve as Minister of the Government should be seen as an honour, to be greeted with humility, without regard to the personal benefits which the office...

ASL Flight School gets green light for new courses

Jul 08, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on ASL Flight School gets green light for new courses

Students of the Air Services Limited [ASL] Flight School will now be eligible to undergo some additional courses. This is due to the fact that the local Flight School has been granted full approval...

Woman allegedly caught with ganja in house leads defence

Jul 08, 2017 KNews Court Stories, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Woman allegedly caught with ganja in house leads defence

-to call witness Chief Magistrate Ann McLennan ruled that sufficient evidence has been led against Samantha Green, who is currently on trial for allegedly trafficking marijuana. Yesterday, Green who...

Truck driver gets one year for causing death of elderly woman

Jul 08, 2017 KNews Court Stories, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Truck driver gets one year for causing death of elderly woman

Twenty-eight-year-old, Zafar Khan was on Thursday sentenced to one year imprisonment for causing the death of an elderly woman. Khan was sentenced by Senior Magistrate Fabayo Azore in the Georgetown...

Four years, $5M fine for cocaine swallower

Jul 08, 2017 KNews Court Stories, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Four years, $5M fine for cocaine swallower

A man who swallowed a total of 71 cocaine pellets was yesterday sentenced to four years imprisonment and fined $5.1M when he appeared before Senior Magistrate Leron Daly in the Georgetown...

GuySuco suddenly stopped a positive event that started in 1977

Jul 08, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on GuySuco suddenly stopped a positive event that started in 1977

Dear Editor, It was very dismaying to learn from my friends in the sugar industry that GuySuCo all of a sudden has decided to seemingly abandon its Honour Roll function which came into being in 1977....

Mistreatment of talented young cricketer by the selectors

Jul 08, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on Mistreatment of talented young cricketer by the selectors

Dear Editor, The treatment of young Nicholas Pooran by the West Indies selectors is shocking. Pooran is described by Ian Bishop as a player of awesome talent. A.B. De Villiers, one of the top batsmen...

Corruption returns to the Forestry Commission

Jul 08, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on Corruption returns to the Forestry Commission

Dear Editor, The ghost of corruption has once again return to the GFC specifically to the forest monitoring department. Reminiscent of what took place in the mid-nineties and early 2000 there is...

Former President defends his PPP colleagues

Jul 08, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on Former President defends his PPP colleagues

Dear Editor, I want to acknowledge what a great relief it was when the EU office admitted that its recent statement about its assistance for the sugar sector was in great error: that assistance was...

Justice Claudette Singh has joined the law book chorus

Jul 08, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on Justice Claudette Singh has joined the law book chorus

Dear Editor, I see that Justice Claudette Singh SC has joined the masquerade. She firstly contends that the Conservatory Order, which prevents members of the GPF and SOCU from seizing the books,...

With the oil economy coming, crime will get worse

Jul 08, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on With the oil economy coming, crime will get worse

Dear Editor, Guyana has the largest per-capita crime situation in the Caribbean; maybe in the world. And with all the talk from the successive governments, there seems to be little movement in the...

Attempts to resuscitate Uitvlugt Estate

Jul 08, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on Attempts to resuscitate Uitvlugt Estate

Dear Editor, Within recent days there has been quite a bit of media publicity through GuySuCo’s “Community Outreach Programme” on the Uitvlugt Estate Improvement Programme (UEIP). If this...

I am willing to help financially with youth development

Jul 08, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on I am willing to help financially with youth development

Dear Editor, Even as a British colony, youngsters finding jobs was always a problem. I recall, having passed my ‘Senior Cambridge’ exam, my father telling someone that a colleague mentioned an...

On whose behalf is this GuySuCo’s senior official speaking?

Jul 08, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on On whose behalf is this GuySuCo’s senior official speaking?

Dear Editor, The Guyana Agricultural and General Workers Union (GAWU) believes it is incumbent, as a responsible Union, to respond to Mr Earl John’s letter appearing in the July 01, 2017 Stabroek...

Kaieteur Parks National Commission must stop its nonsense

Jul 08, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on Kaieteur Parks National Commission must stop its nonsense

Dear Editor, I write in response to the recent report in the media which stated that the police confirmed that dredges were operating in Kaieteur National Park. If this report is indeed true, we find...

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Welcome and Sattaur hat-tricks power West Ruimvelt’s emphatic win

The business class also funds undemocratic parties

…Peeping Tom Kaieteur News- There’s a peculiar phenomenon in Guyana, a sort of cyclical ritual, where members of... more