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Batavia kicks off Heritage Month celebrations

Sep 05, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Batavia kicks off Heritage Month celebrations

Indigenous Month was officially launched in the Lower Mazaruni sub region with Batavia’s Heritage Day celebrations on Sunday. Residents from Bartica and surrounding communities converged at...

Lands Commission hosts soil degradation workshop

Sep 05, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Lands Commission hosts soil degradation workshop

Identifies measures to control effects of drought The United Nations Convention to Combat Diversification (UNCCD) has a vision to support the development and implementation of national and regional...

Region Seven exploring storm shelters for Upper Mazaruni communities

Sep 05, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Region Seven exploring storm shelters for Upper Mazaruni communities

The Region Seven Chairman, Gordon Bradford, said there is need to develop storm shelters in the Upper Mazaruni communities. Following the recent destruction of buildings in Kako, after a windstorm,...

Reigning queen collaborates with NDC to build Diamond Fitness Park

Sep 05, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Reigning queen collaborates with NDC to build Diamond Fitness Park

Newly crowned Miss World-Guyana, Vena Mookram, is preparing to launch her special project- a Fitness Park- at Diamond, East Bank Demerara. Construction of the park, once a bushy area, located a...

Minister of Education says they are well positioned to deliver

Sep 05, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Minister of Education says they are well positioned to deliver

With a relatively “new kid on the block”, according to the Director of National Center for Education Resource Development (NCERD), Jennifer Cumberbatch, the Ministry is well set to battle the...

Georgetown David ‘G’ Bus rolls out for new school term

Sep 05, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Georgetown David ‘G’ Bus rolls out for new school term

The new school term began yesterday with the roll-out of one of the Georgetown David ‘G’ School Buses, from the South Ruimveldt area. The bus was parked at the junction of Well Road and Aubrey...

Quality education critical for the wellness of communities – CEO Hutson

Sep 05, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Quality education critical for the wellness of communities – CEO Hutson

With September being Education Month, the Ministry of Education, (MOE) has launched a calendar of activities in observance. The launch took place at the Umana Yana, yesterday morning. The theme for...

Be wary of accepting cheap handouts from multinational companies- Economist, Dr. Hosein

Sep 05, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Be wary of accepting cheap handouts from multinational companies- Economist, Dr. Hosein

– Says government should insist on CSRs that transform Some may want to say that his warning may have come a little too late. Nevertheless, Trinidadian Economist, Dr Roger Hosein, has warned...

The WPA has served its purpose

Sep 05, 2017 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom 1

The WPA is politically blind. It is not seeing clearly the political smoke-signals which are emerging from within the government and which are indicating the marginalization of the non-PNCR parties...

Commander continues outreach in Berbice

Sep 05, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Commander continues outreach in Berbice

Since being posted to the Berbice ‘B’ Division as Commander, Assistant Commissioner of Police, Paul Williams, has been taking a number of initiatives. He had also been conducting a number of...

WPA reiterates support for Presidential COI

Sep 05, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on WPA reiterates support for Presidential COI

The Working People Alliance (WPA) is optimistic that the Commission of Inquiry established by President Granger (COI) to look into land matters, will carry out an extensive study of the system and in...

WHITE SUPREMACIST IN AMERICA

Sep 05, 2017 KNews Editorial, Features / Columnists Comments Off on WHITE SUPREMACIST IN AMERICA

After almost a decade since the United States elected its first black president, Barack Obama, not much has changed despite his message of unity, change and hope. Today, the United States remains as...

Fisherman charged for snatching driver’s bag

Sep 05, 2017 KNews Court Stories, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Fisherman charged for snatching driver’s bag

A fisherman was yesterday order to post $60,000 bail after he appeared in the Georgetown Magistrates’ Courts before Principal Magistrate Judy Latchman on a simple larceny charge....

‘Bluie’ on trial for killing friend

Sep 05, 2017 KNews Court Stories, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on ‘Bluie’ on trial for killing friend

Murder accused, Satrohan Madray, called ‘Bluie’ 30 of Bennet Dam, D’Edward Village, West Coast Berbice is on trial for murder in the High Court. Madray is accused of murdering his good friend,...

Prison visitor lands in jail for ganja in boots

Sep 05, 2017 KNews Court Stories, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Prison visitor lands in jail for ganja in boots

A craftman/sign artist who was caught attempting to smuggle a quantity of narcotics into the Camp Street Prison, was yesterday remanded to prison. Ishwar Persaud, 61, of Leopold Street, Georgetown...

British Government fails to pay Caribbean nationals their pension

Sep 05, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on British Government fails to pay Caribbean nationals their pension

Dear Editor, According to the latest available figures, there are 32,710 people living in 16 Caribbean countries entitled to a British Government pension. Most of these people are Caribbean nationals...

Linden is developing under the present City Council

Sep 05, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on Linden is developing under the present City Council

Dear Editor, Despite the negativity by many Lindeners, Mayor Carwyn Holland said that Linden is developing. During a media conference Tuesday in the Boardroom of the Town Council Mayor Holland said...

The laws of Adolph Hitler and family property dispute in Guyana

Sep 05, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on The laws of Adolph Hitler and family property dispute in Guyana

Dear Editor, I read a recent letter about a family dispute regarding a property matter. The letter mentioned something about “the laws of Hitler’s Germany not being fair or predictable”. One...

Time for leadership changes in the PPP

Sep 05, 2017 KNews Letters 1

Dear Editor, After the defeat at the 2015 General Elections the important thing for the PPP to do was to hold itself together. Now that this has been successfully achieved the next step is for the...

A customer of GPL is crying about unfair disconnection

Sep 05, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on A customer of GPL is crying about unfair disconnection

Dear Editor, I, Lewis A. Robinson, of 145 Lamaha Street, N/Town, Georgetown, had two (2) meters installed at the above address by GPL. The meter numbers: (a) IT0015571 (b) IT0015566.The date of...

GAWU has failed to provide suggestions for saving sugar

Sep 05, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on GAWU has failed to provide suggestions for saving sugar

Dear Editor, It is always productive to have proper debate on issues affecting our economic development, especially the current state of the sugar industry. However, such debates must be objective...

This is Guyana where you can’t get redress

Sep 05, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on This is Guyana where you can’t get redress

Dear Editor, Thanks for carrying my letter, “Harassment, abuse, and intimidation; the Guyana Experience,” about state service in the interior I would be grateful for this final letter here which...

Cash strapped City Council still in wasteful expenditure mode

Sep 05, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on Cash strapped City Council still in wasteful expenditure mode

Dear Editor, The economic slowdown in the country has impacted every entity in Guyana causing most businesses to make tough but necessary personnel decisions in all of their operations including...

The minimum wage in Guyana is an unlivable one

Sep 05, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on The minimum wage in Guyana is an unlivable one

Dear Editor, The income gap in Guyana must be a matter of concern to policy makers. It is difficult to understand how someone could exist in Guyana on a minimum wage of $50,000 a month or the...

The privatization of GuySuco should start immediately

Sep 05, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on The privatization of GuySuco should start immediately

Dear Editor, I wish to agree with what letter writer Gobin Harbhajan wrote in the media recently. The privatization of Guysuco should no longer be delayed or even debated. This industry has been made...

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The reciprocal tariffs

Peeping Tom… Kaieteur News- Vice President Bharrat Jagdeo has once again proven his talent for making the indefensible... more