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Radical reform is needed in education

Jul 13, 2017 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on Radical reform is needed in education

Any analysis of the 2017 National Grade Six Assessment (NGSA) which suggests that there was an improvement over the 2016 performance is bound to be flawed, because it ignores an important variable...

Residents complain about difficulty accessing homes around G/town Prisons

Jul 13, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Residents complain about difficulty accessing homes around G/town Prisons

Yesterday, some civilians wanting to gain access to their homes and other buildings located close to the Georgetown Prisons experienced difficulty passing the police barricades at particular corners...

City moves to acquire own garbage trucks

Jul 13, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on City moves to acquire own garbage trucks

…as contractors agree to return Cevons Waste Management and Puran Brothers Disposal have resumed their garbage collection services across the city, following talks with the Mayor and City Council...

Local teams heads off to U.S. for Global Robotics championship

Jul 13, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Local teams heads off to U.S. for Global Robotics championship

The six players and three adult mentors who will represent Guyana at the First Global Robotics Championship in Washington DC were yesterday preparing to depart Guyana. The team met at the National...

White paper on drainage sees NDIA playing bigger role

Jul 13, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on White paper on drainage sees NDIA playing bigger role

A committee comprising personnel from the Ministries of Communities, Agriculture and Public Infrastructure is currently working on recommendations to craft a white paper that will aid in addressing...

US$8.3M Sea & River Defense Project attract foreign bidders

Jul 13, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on US$8.3M Sea & River Defense Project attract foreign bidders

Several foreign companies were among the bidders that submitted bids for a multimillion-dollar Caribbean Development Bank (CDB)-funded Sea and River Defence Project here. Three of the eight sites...

26 percent decrease in road accidents for first half of year

Jul 13, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on 26 percent decrease in road accidents for first half of year

The number of road traffic accidents in Guyana has declined by 26 percent in the first six months of this year as compared to the same period last year, according to Traffic Chief of the Guyana...

IT MUST BE FIXED NOW

Jul 13, 2017 KNews Editorial, Features / Columnists Comments Off on IT MUST BE FIXED NOW

It cannot be ignored any longer. Homelessness has become a major problem in Guyana. A walk around Georgetown should be relaxing, if one ignores the traffic, but traffic is an issue in just about...

Mediation among top methods of Alternative Dispute Resolution

Jul 13, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Mediation among top methods of Alternative Dispute Resolution

Mediation is a legal mechanism which can be helpful not only in the resolution of cases, and saving of judicial time, but in most instances, provides a win–win outcome for the parties involved. The...

Vendor on attempted murder charge gets $150,000 bail

Jul 13, 2017 KNews Court Stories, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Vendor on attempted murder charge gets $150,000 bail

A 32-year-old vendor yesterday morning made an appearance before Chief Magistrate Ann McLennan in the Georgetown Magistrates’ Courts on an attempted murder charge and was placed on $150,000 bail....

Disappointment with and questions for GTT

Jul 13, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on Disappointment with and questions for GTT

Dear Editor, As a subscriber to GTT, I was in the middle of research via my mobile device on the late afternoon of Saturday, July 8, 2017, when all of a sudden I realised that I no longer had...

Serious disparities in the performance of hinterland and urban students

Jul 13, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on Serious disparities in the performance of hinterland and urban students

Dear Editor, I listened quite attentively to the live broadcast and read the news reports that covered the National Grade Six Assessment (NGSA) results 2017 and it dawned on me that the gap between...

Commemorating events like these is important to future generations

Jul 13, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on Commemorating events like these is important to future generations

Dear Editor, Fifty-three years ago more than forty Lindeners were killed on the Demerara River as they travelled home on the Son Chapman launch at 16:00 hrs on Monday, July 06th, 1964 in the vicinity...

The wild life trade exploits its Amerindian employees

Jul 13, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on The wild life trade exploits its Amerindian employees

Dear Editor, Because most of the wildlife exported to other countries comes from Amerindian territories, I think consultation should have been done at a community level before the reopening of the...

Why this government’s obsession with arches?

Jul 13, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on Why this government’s obsession with arches?

Dear Editor, Historically great civilizations produced mind boggling architecture on the earth’s surface. The Egyptians are famed for their pyramids, the Indians for the Tajmahal, the Incas for...

Five facts about GuySuco people need to know

Jul 13, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on Five facts about GuySuco people need to know

Dear Editor, I refer to the news item in your edition of June 29th, 2017- “GuySuCo now produces sugar three times world market price”. In juxtaposing the realities of world sugar trading and...

Stop jailing persons for minor offences

Jul 13, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on Stop jailing persons for minor offences

Dear Editor, With regards to the recent prison fire catastrophe – most people are stifling their conscience because of political slant, or sheer stupidity. These keyboard Generals are not...

Let us celebrate each other’s culture

Jul 13, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on Let us celebrate each other’s culture

Dear Editor, I read the thought-provoking letter recently written about the race and nationality mix of people born in Guyana. I too would wish that we could “put our hands to the plough and build...

Justice system should seek to reform not punish prisoners

Jul 13, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on Justice system should seek to reform not punish prisoners

Dear Editor, I think we should all look at the recent disastrous destruction of the Camp Street prison and subsequent escape of convicts, as we human beings should always view any problem that we...

Finally, the rebirth of the Ethnic Relations Commission

Jul 13, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on Finally, the rebirth of the Ethnic Relations Commission

Dear Editor, In spite of all the negatives that have flooded this week’s headlines, a welcoming announcement, published in newspapers, went unnoticed. The nation must commend the Minister of Social...

The PPP and its affiliate, GAWU destroyed the sugar union

Jul 13, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on The PPP and its affiliate, GAWU destroyed the sugar union

Dear Editor, Over the past few months, we saw for the first time since 1992 real-time representation being given to sugar workers. Between the years 1992-2015, we saw a sleeping PPP and GAWU killing...

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