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Guyana Sunrise Centre now collaborates to fight Suicide

Sep 06, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Guyana Sunrise Centre now collaborates to fight Suicide

The fight against suicide in Region Two is continuing. The Guyana Sunrise Centre yesterday established an official networking system with key stakeholders. The Centre, which is headed by the Guyana...

New legislation afoot to deal with persons failing to build on govt. issued house lots

Sep 06, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on New legislation afoot to deal with persons failing to build on govt. issued house lots

Guyanese who are issued house lots from the government are given a specific time by which they must begin constructing their homes on the land. However, a number of persons would have failed to...

THOSE WERE THE DAYS

Sep 06, 2017 KNews Editorial, Features / Columnists Comments Off on THOSE WERE THE DAYS

Most of today’s youths do not understand that the art of dancing cheek to cheek is an intimate, up-close swaying and waltzing to the rhythm of music that graced house parties, community centres,...

Indigenous artists shine at Heritage Village

Sep 06, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Indigenous artists shine at Heritage Village

As the Heritage Month activities continue at the Sophia Exhibition Site, the Department of Public Information (DPI) has put the spotlight on two talented artists, whose work has been receiving rave...

President Granger’s brother has died

Sep 06, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on President Granger’s brother has died

The Ministry of the Presidency has announced that the brother of President David Granger, Cesare Francis Granger, passed away at his home yesterday afternoon. He was born the third of eight children...

Shot bandit remanded

Sep 06, 2017 KNews Court Stories, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Shot bandit remanded

Convicted robber, Mark Griffith, who was shot last week Tuesday after robbing a businesswoman at Liliendaal Railway Embankment, Greater Georgetown, was remanded to prison on two counts of robbery...

No lead in Chinese businessman’s murder

Sep 06, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on No lead in Chinese businessman’s murder

It will soon be a month and investigators have not made any lead way in the murder of 44-year-old Liyan Jiang whose bound body was found on August 10, last. A source yesterday indicated that they had...

Lands and Surveys, GRA and my unchanging country

Sep 06, 2017 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon 2

This is a dysfunctional, shambolic, dystopian country going nowhere fast. I know this. I cannot stop it although I am willing to try; and I do try. But there is one thing I am not going to shut my...

Proposals open for design and supervision of pump stations in five regions

Sep 06, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Proposals open for design and supervision of pump stations in five regions

Proposals and financial proposals were opened yesterday at the National Procurement and Tender Administration Board for the provision and consultancy services for design and supervision of pump...

No respite: Transformer trip now blamed for latest GPL shutdown

Sep 06, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on No respite: Transformer trip now blamed for latest GPL shutdown

The spate of blackouts of the Guyana Power and Light (GPL) currently being experienced by citizens continued on the coastlands yesterday. At approximately 08:30hrs yesterday, a transformer trip at...

Guyanese businesses, groups for Havana Trade Fair

Sep 06, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Guyanese businesses, groups for Havana Trade Fair

The largest annual multi-sector trade fair in Cuba, the Havana International Fair (FIHAV) is inviting private sector businesses in Guyana to participate, according to President of the Guyana-Cuba...

Barefaced bandit jailed for three years in absentia

Sep 06, 2017 KNews Court Stories, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Barefaced bandit jailed for three years in absentia

A man who on Saturday March 11, last, around 09:00 hrs entered a grocery shop with intent to rob the occupants, but was caught and beaten instead, has been jailed for three years in his absence....

Minister of Finance needs to know what “loura- kam” means

Sep 06, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on Minister of Finance needs to know what “loura- kam” means

Dear Editor, It is with great wonderment and untrammeled awe and a sense of patriotic pride that I find Minister Jordan’s comment on the Exxon “ deal “ troubling even to me a humble country...

Within the criminal act lies a deeper societal fact

Sep 06, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on Within the criminal act lies a deeper societal fact

Dear Editor, Sad to say but as a people we are no nearer to understanding the frivolous explanations that precipitate deadly disputes. We are no longer a verbal nation preferring instead to be a...

This country is full of politicians who only care about themselves

Sep 06, 2017 KNews Letters 1

Dear Editor, Freddie Kissoon in his September 1 column described the current government as inept and incompetent. I want to add that it is not just the government. It is the entire public service...

CONGRESS MUST OVERRIDE TRUMP’S REPEAL OF THE DREAM PROGRAM

Sep 06, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on CONGRESS MUST OVERRIDE TRUMP’S REPEAL OF THE DREAM PROGRAM

Dear Editor, The dreadful news that President Donald Trump has scrapped the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) policy is very troubling. In addition to the legal actions to preserve and/or...

I hope sixty honest city police will ride these thirty bicycles

Sep 06, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on I hope sixty honest city police will ride these thirty bicycles

Dear Editor, Witnessing the Mayor of Georgetown receive thirty bicycles from the US Embassy in Georgetown to augment the capability of the City Constabulary in the press recently, filled me with hope...

The Coalition Government not living up to its obligation to sugar workers

Sep 06, 2017 KNews Letters 1

Dear Editor, The Guyana Agricultural and General Workers Union (GAWU) refers to a letter from Mr Gobin Harbhajan entitled which appeared in the September 05, 2017 edition of the Kaieteur News. While...

Why is govt. allowing these taxes to be imposed by City Hall?

Sep 06, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on Why is govt. allowing these taxes to be imposed by City Hall?

Dear Editor, I am bewildered as to why the Government of Guyana allows the Mayor and Councilors of the City of Georgetown to continually pile on more and more taxes, fees and punitive fiscal measures...

The army must develop search and rescue capabilities

Sep 06, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on The army must develop search and rescue capabilities

Dear Editor, I had written in your newspapers back in July 2017 that GDF needs to enhance their Search and Rescue Equipment to include modern helicopters. The name of the July 2017 Letter I had...

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The government is in choppy waters

Peeping Tom Kaieteur News- The government stands like a beleaguered captain at the helm of a storm-tossed ship, finds itself... more