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Temporary works done to reinforce Charity river dam

Jul 04, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Temporary works done to reinforce Charity river dam

Temporary works were done on the Charity River dam last week to prevent the Pomeroon River from overflowing the sunken dam. The team consisting of councillors, personnel from the Ministry of Public...

Push to improve image, public perception ongoing at GPHC

Jul 04, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Push to improve image, public perception ongoing at GPHC

The Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) is taking steps to improve the hospital’s patient customer experience. Twenty of the hospital’s nursing staff who underwent an eight-week...

CARICOM High-level confab kicks off today in Grenada…

Jul 04, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on CARICOM High-level confab kicks off today in Grenada…

Strategy to boost human resource development to be presented for approval The Thirty-Eighth Regular three-day Meeting of the Conference of Heads of Government of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM)...

Magistrate still to make ruling in $956M GBTI bank fraud case

Jul 04, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Magistrate still to make ruling in $956M GBTI bank fraud case

Magistrate Crystal Lambert is still to rule on whether six new charges reinstituted against embattled gold dealer, Saddiqi Rafeek Mohamed Rasul will be dismissed. On April 3, Rasul appeared before...

Neighbours charged for assaulting disabled mom

Jul 04, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Neighbours charged for assaulting disabled mom

A man and his wife who assaulted their disabled neighbour were brought before the court and charged for assaulting their 55-year-old neighbour. The couple appeared before magistrate Zamilla Ally in...

STEALING FROM A CREMATORIUM

Jul 04, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on STEALING FROM A CREMATORIUM

Dear Editor, Two nights ago thieves broke into the padlocked storeroom of the Blairmont Crematorium & Memorial Garden (BCMG) and removed six rolls of chain-link fencing material which were stored...

Small things preoccupy small minds

Jul 04, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on Small things preoccupy small minds

Dear Editor, Permit me to express my concurrence with the views expressed by Freddie Kissoon, Kaieteur News, July 1, 2017 “Boom Out Baby you have a small mind.”, regarding the blatant dereliction...

Neglected New Amsterdam is quickly deteriorating

Jul 04, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on Neglected New Amsterdam is quickly deteriorating

Dear Editor, Please permit me to express my dissatisfaction on the infrastructural fragilities of New Amsterdam. Over the past twenty-five years the town has suffered from the worst forms of...

DARREN SAMMY COULDN’T BE MORE CORRECT ABOUT DAVE CAMERON

Jul 04, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on DARREN SAMMY COULDN’T BE MORE CORRECT ABOUT DAVE CAMERON

Dear Editor, In an article published in Barbados’ NATION Newspaper of Wednesday 21st June 2017 under the headline “Sammy Slams CWI Over Decline”, former West Indies cricket captain Darren Sammy...

The flaws of our past leaders

Jul 04, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on The flaws of our past leaders

Dear Editor, Funerals have a way of exposing the good deeds of the dead. For that moment even the enemies of the dead would refrain from saying anything negative about the dead. Bygones are gone with...

The National Grade 6 Assessment is a class based system

Jul 04, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on The National Grade 6 Assessment is a class based system

Dear Editor, Once again, the children of Guyana have suffered the consequences of the traumatizing and obsolete National Grade 6 Assessment, known as Common Entrance. Every year, Guyanese children at...

Toilet facilities still non-existent at Charity Secondary School

Jul 04, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on Toilet facilities still non-existent at Charity Secondary School

Dear Editor, On Monday, June 12th the Regional Education Development Officer (REDO) visited the Charity Secondary school. The teachers were jubilant. They were hoping that the letter expressing the...

Police lawlessness and corruption at Enterprise on the East Coast

Jul 04, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on Police lawlessness and corruption at Enterprise on the East Coast

Dear Editor, I must firstly thank Kaieteur News for being the only paper that really cares for the voiceless people. My concern is the mini bus situation in Enterprise which is unbearable; it seems...

Serious concerns about Govt.’s arrangement with ExxonMobil need urgent answers – Nigel Hughes

Jul 03, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Serious concerns about Govt.’s arrangement with ExxonMobil need urgent answers – Nigel Hughes

• Is there a ceiling for cost recovery in any given year? • How does the Govt. of Guyana intend to validate the costs? • What were the duties and tax concessions granted? By Abena...

Central Bank in response to IMF…No need to auction foreign currency, more than US$25M in system

Jul 03, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Central Bank in response to IMF…No need to auction foreign currency, more than US$25M in system

The country’s banking regulator believes there is no need at this time for any measures that will involve auctioning foreign currency to help stabilize foreign exchange rates. The International...

Guyanese caretaker, employer murdered in Barbados

Jul 03, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Guyanese caretaker, employer murdered in Barbados

Barbados (Barbados Today) – Police have confirmed the unnatural deaths of two men at Prerogative House, St George. The lifeless body of 80-year-old Vincent Robinson, who is the owner of...

Several Region Nine communities cut off by flood waters

Jul 03, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Several Region Nine communities cut off by flood waters

– CDC Team heads to affected areas today Several Region Nine communities are reportedly cut off after heavy rains and rising flood waters over the last two days. At least two communities...

Corruption is de disease that gun eat out Soulja Bai

Jul 03, 2017 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Corruption is de disease that gun eat out Soulja Bai

Some people are hurt by words, some by action and some by silence and de truth. De Chat-3 and Lolo Feel is two who hurt – one by action and one by words. De Chat-3 and Lolo Feel hurt by dem own...

Flooded Abary creates discomfort for farmers

Jul 03, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Flooded Abary creates discomfort for farmers

The water level in the Abary River is causing farmers some discomfort as they continue to lose crops and livestock. About two weeks ago the Abary River became swollen. Then the water receded...

WPA expresses commitment to widening, deepening of C’bean integration

Jul 03, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on WPA expresses commitment to widening, deepening of C’bean integration

– In recognition of CARICOM Day The Working People’s Alliance (WPA) in a message released yesterday, stated that it joins with Guyana and the wider Caribbean in celebrating yet...

Berbice carpenter murder…Authorities wait on US counterparts for Bisram extradition

Jul 03, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Berbice carpenter murder…Authorities wait on US counterparts for Bisram extradition

It has been several months since local law enforcement officials have completed and handed over all the necessary documentation that is required to have murder suspect, Marcus Brian Bisram...

Kidney patient needs another life-saving surgery, seeks financial help

Jul 03, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Kidney patient needs another life-saving surgery, seeks financial help

Time is of the essence for 31-year-old Reena Sultan, a kidney patient who is in need of a second transplant. Ten years ago, the mother of one underwent a kidney transplant and now has to do...

Aspiring doctor from Belvedere Primary is Region 6 top student

Jul 03, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Aspiring doctor from Belvedere Primary is Region 6 top student

A twelve year old boy of Belvedere Primary, located along the Corentyne, is this year’s top student for his region at the recent National Grade Six Assessment Examination. Matthew Ramlochan...

Money–saving initiative for children launched

Jul 03, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Money–saving initiative for children launched

The local ‘Money Savvy Piggy Bank’ was successfully launched last week in the Ogle Room of Herdmanston Lodge. Endorsing this initiative at the ceremony was Bank of Guyana’s Deputy...

Hinterland schools among those reflecting noteworthy Maths improvements

Jul 03, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Hinterland schools among those reflecting noteworthy Maths improvements

The results for the National Grade Six Assessment [NGSA] are in, and those named among the top one percent have been duly recognised. Leading the way this year is 12-year-old Saskia Twahir of...

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Rana five-for and enterprising batting put Bangladesh in the driver’s seat

Morally Right. Legally wrong

…Peeping Tom Morally Right. Legally wrong Kaieteur News- The situation concerning the disputed parliamentary seat held... more