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Bids opened for Lot B of GPL Power Utility Upgrade Programme

Aug 23, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Bids opened for Lot B of GPL Power Utility Upgrade Programme

The Guyana Power and Light is moving ahead steadily with its Power Utility Upgrade Programme (PUUP) as bids for Lot B of the project were opened yesterday at the National Procurement and Tender...

Boy, 15, commits suicide days after house crushes girlfriend

Aug 23, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Boy, 15, commits suicide days after house crushes girlfriend

A 15-year-old boy has committed suicide—just days after his girlfriend was crushed to death when her aunt’s house at La Bonne Intention, East Coast Demerara, fell on her on last Friday. Ricardo...

Woolford Ave. sidewalk project to be completed for new school term

Aug 23, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Woolford Ave. sidewalk project to be completed for new school term

The $21.8M Woolford Avenue sidewalk project is set for completion by September, just in time for the new school term. This was revealed in an interview with the Department of Public Information (DPI)...

GPL defends extension for bid submissions

Aug 23, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on GPL defends extension for bid submissions

Guyana Power and Light Inc. (GPL) in an advertisement titled ‘Clarifications’ published in this newspaper’s August 22, 2017 edition, defended the extension given to bidders for Lot B of the...

One of the most evil political decisions in Guyana’s history

Aug 23, 2017 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon 1

This week marks another anniversary of the Demerara slave uprising of 1823; 194 years since the revolt. Let me digress at length before I return to the major thesis of my argument; the only book on...

Regional network launched to collaborate on Zika, other vector-borne diseases

Aug 23, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Regional network launched to collaborate on Zika, other vector-borne diseases

Mosquito-borne diseases continue to impact the Caribbean’s social, economic and health sectors. Recent outbreaks of Zika (2016), and Chikungunya (2014) and the continued circulation of Dengue,...

Why can’t our politics be like our cricket fans and children?

Aug 23, 2017 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on Why can’t our politics be like our cricket fans and children?

The Caribbean Premier League came to Guyana this past week. The support given by Guyanese was overwhelming. Full houses packed in almost all nights. In fact, in some matches the crowds were so thick...

Railway Embankment road due for expansion

Aug 23, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Railway Embankment road due for expansion

Geometric improvements will be carried out on the Railway Embankment Road come September. This was revealed to the Department of Public Information (DPI) by the Ministry of Public Infrastructure...

Health Ministry’s eighth annual diabetic youth camp commences today

Aug 23, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Health Ministry’s eighth annual diabetic youth camp commences today

Some 70 percent of the country’s diabetic youth population between the ages of two months and 24 years are found in Regions Three (Essequibo Islands/West Demerara); Four (Demerara/Mahaica) and Six...

Improved technology

Aug 23, 2017 KNews Editorial, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Improved technology

Mankind welcomes the advances in technology and indeed the human race should. From the time man harnessed steam to start the industrial revolution there has been a constant change in the way people...

AG aware of unconstitutionality of Granger’s instructions to PSC

Aug 23, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on AG aware of unconstitutionality of Granger’s instructions to PSC

…dealt with similar issue before – Nandlall Former Attorney General, Anil Nandlall says that his successor, Basil Williams is very much aware that President David Granger has no authority to...

OUR TEST CRICKETERS MUST BE PROPERLY PREPARED

Aug 23, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on OUR TEST CRICKETERS MUST BE PROPERLY PREPARED

Dear Editor, On Saturday 19th, August 2017, I followed the performance of our West Indies team responding to England’s 1st inning total of 514/8 declared in the first day/night-pinkball-Test match...

Miner remanded for escaping police custody

Aug 23, 2017 KNews Court Stories, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Miner remanded for escaping police custody

A miner on Monday made an appearance before Principal Magistrate Judy Latchman in the Georgetown Magistrates’ Courts to answer to a charge of escaping lawful custody. Twenty-four-year-old Cleveland...

Region 9 business community thanks the government

Aug 23, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on Region 9 business community thanks the government

Dear Editor, Kindly permit me a few lines in your newsletter column to reach out to the Honorable President Mr. David Granger, Minister of Business and Officials from the Rupununi Chamber of...

Hamson’s owner murder PI winding down

Aug 23, 2017 KNews Court Stories, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Hamson’s owner murder PI winding down

There are three remaining witnesses set to testify on behalf of the State, in the preliminary inquiry (PI) into the murder of businessman Abdul Farouk Ghanie, whose lifeless body was found lying in a...

I saw terrible conditions at Providence Stadium

Aug 23, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on I saw terrible conditions at Providence Stadium

Dear Editor, Myself, family and about six visitors from abroad witnessed the match Warriors vs Tallawahs at the Guyana National Stadium. It was enjoyable with almost the full capacity on a hot...

The former chairman of the broadcast authority is not exactly truthful

Aug 23, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on The former chairman of the broadcast authority is not exactly truthful

Dear Editor, Leonard Craig, in a letter published in Kaieteur News (August 17, 2017) wrote, “I will not trade legal arguments or constitutional misinterpretations because I believe these matters...

Media urged to stop using the term, “committed suicide.”

Aug 23, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on Media urged to stop using the term, “committed suicide.”

Dear Editor, The Caribbean Voice is requesting that all media refrain from using the term ‘committed suicide’ to refer to the act whereby someone dies by suicide. Suicide prevention activists and...

Ganja-in-pillow accused refused bail

Aug 23, 2017 KNews Court Stories, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Ganja-in-pillow accused refused bail

Twenty-four-year-old Nekita Poole, who was arrested by police after allegedly stashing marijuana in a pillow, was yesterday remanded to jail on a drug trafficking charge by Chief Magistrate Ann...

The President called for submissions; here is mine

Aug 23, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on The President called for submissions; here is mine

Dear Editor, 21st August marked five years since central government signed an Agreement with the Region 10 Regional Democratic Council and it is yet to be honoured. This agreement entails the return...

I will be looking out for news on stomach problems

Aug 23, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on I will be looking out for news on stomach problems

Dear Editor, I read the recent piece about the chap without a stomach for over a quarter of a century and still able to function in a normal fashion. The titbit about oral rehydration salts (ORS) is...

The context of education in Guyana is different from other countries

Aug 23, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on The context of education in Guyana is different from other countries

Dear Editor, All education system needs an inclusive framework which guides inclusive practices and polices. Guyana’s mainstream education system is no exception. It too needs a guiding inclusive...

Praise and criticism of the eye clinic at Georgetown Hospital

Aug 23, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on Praise and criticism of the eye clinic at Georgetown Hospital

Dear Editor, Please allow me some space to recount my experiences at the Eye Clinic at the GPHC. Sometime in March there was a week long Glucoma screening at the GPHC. Since it was free, my daughter...

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A false panacea for electoral integrity

…Peeping Tom kaieteur News – Advocates for fingerprint verification in Guyana’s elections herald it as... more