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What is there to fear but fear itself?

Jul 21, 2017 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on What is there to fear but fear itself?

ExxonMobil is getting jumpy. Like it see ‘jumbie’. Like Kaieteur News is that ‘jumbie’ that is scaring the daylights out of Exxon! The oil giant is collaborating with the Ministry of...

Inauguration, prison uniforms and all that jazz

Jul 21, 2017 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on Inauguration, prison uniforms and all that jazz

The vice chancellor of UG had this to say to the Chronicle when asked to respond to my condemnation (yes, my position was condemnatory) of money to be spent on his inauguration ceremony, which the...

Cabinet receives update on China’s quest to have currency used in C’bean

Jul 21, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Cabinet receives update on China’s quest to have currency used in C’bean

Minister of Finance Winston Jordan represented Guyana at a conference which discussed the use of the Chinese Renminbi currency in Caricom countries. The conference was held at the Hilton Resort...

Ex- cop faces High Court trial for seaman’s murder

Jul 21, 2017 KNews Court Stories, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Ex- cop faces High Court trial for seaman’s murder

Police Detective Lallbachan Dyal told the court yesterday that he took photographic exposures and collected samples from a car allegedly used in connection with the murder of Davonan Sookram, a...

Reputed wife fingers spouse as Sophia killer

Jul 21, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Reputed wife fingers spouse as Sophia killer

“I stab a man in Sophia and I think he is dead…” That’s what a woman claims her reputed husband told her recently. Detectives hope that this chilling disclosure has finally led them to...

IMF helping Guyana build capacity to manage oil proceeds

Jul 21, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on IMF helping Guyana build capacity to manage oil proceeds

With Guyana shifting into position to start oil production in 2020, its ability to properly manage the proceeds is expected to see a significant boost, now that the International Monetary Fund (IMF)...

Kato Secondary School remedial works completed, approved

Jul 21, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Kato Secondary School remedial works completed, approved

… Ministerial task force, experts give thumbs up to Contractor The certificate of Practical Completion has taken effect as of Wednesday and shall be issued today to the contractor for the Kato...

Region 9 villagers benefit from Sensitization Workshop

Jul 21, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Region 9 villagers benefit from Sensitization Workshop

Sexual Abuse and the Sexual Offences Act, Domestic Violence Act, Human Trafficking and the Counter Trafficking in Persons Act and other Labour Related Issues were all addressed when a team from the...

US Embassy warns of Tender Scam

Jul 21, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on US Embassy warns of Tender Scam

The United States Embassy has been made aware of an ongoing tender scam in which the Embassy’s name and logo have been fraudulently used to target businesses for the provision of solar generators...

Causing death matter dismissed against taxi driver

Jul 21, 2017 KNews Court Stories, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Causing death matter dismissed against taxi driver

Chief Magistrate Ann McLennan yesterday dismissed a matter of causing death by dangerous driving against a taxi driver after she found that the evidence lead by the prosecution witnesses was...

Kitty man gets three years for trafficking cocaine

Jul 21, 2017 KNews Court Stories, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Kitty man gets three years for trafficking cocaine

Senior Magistrate Leron Daly yesterday sentenced a drug trafficker to three years imprisonment after she found him guilty of trafficking cocaine. Forty-five-year-old Joseph Ramsay of Lot 14 Railway...

No bail for farmers accused of trafficking 95 kilos of cocaine

Jul 21, 2017 KNews Court Stories, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on No bail for farmers accused of trafficking 95 kilos of cocaine

Four days after Guyana Defence Force Coast Guard intercepted a large quantity of cocaine in Pomeroon River, Essequibo, two farmers yesterday appeared in the Georgetown Magistrates’ Courts and were...

The difference between two police stations on the East Coast

Jul 21, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on The difference between two police stations on the East Coast

Dear Editor, This letter is all about some minibuses that operate in Enterprise, ECD. There have been too much report and complaints to the Vigilance Police Station about the most unbearable noise...

FITUG says police permission reversal a worrying sign

Jul 21, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on FITUG says police permission reversal a worrying sign

Dear Editor, A vigil organized by the Federation of Independent Trade Unions of Guyana (FITUG) outside of the State House, Main Street, Georgetown for July 19, 2017 had to be abandoned after the...

The decline of standards in education in Region 10

Jul 21, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on The decline of standards in education in Region 10

Dear Editor, Kindly permit me some space in your column to publish this letter in which I concur with my fellow teachers in Region No. 10. This region is on a continuous decline over the past four...

I am not a lawyer but know more law than this attorney

Jul 21, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on I am not a lawyer but know more law than this attorney

Dear Editor, I see Mr. Maxwell Edwards continuing his ramblings in the letter columns as he persists in magnifying a clerical error and transforming it into a major legal issue. This supposedly...

Sugar union asks; where is the good life promised to Guyanese?

Jul 21, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on Sugar union asks; where is the good life promised to Guyanese?

Dear Editor, The Guyana Agricultural and General Workers Union (GAWU) refers to Mr Abel Seetaram’s letter entitled “The sugar union has misrepresented workers’ rights since 1992″ which...

FINANCIAL INJECTION INTO SUDDIE PUBLIC HOSPITAL IS COMMENDABLE

Jul 21, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on FINANCIAL INJECTION INTO SUDDIE PUBLIC HOSPITAL IS COMMENDABLE

Dear Editor, Recently it was announced that the Government signed a line of credit agreement with Export-Import Bank of India totaling US $17.5 Million which will provide much needed upgrading of...

RICH PEOPLE AND BUSINESSES SHOULD SPONSOR SCHOLARSHIPS

Jul 21, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on RICH PEOPLE AND BUSINESSES SHOULD SPONSOR SCHOLARSHIPS

Dear Editor, Now that the results of the National Grade Six Assessment are out, students with the guidance of their parents are busy trying to gain admission to the secondary school of their choice....

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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