September 2017

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Security improves at West Demerara Regional Hospital

Sep 12, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Security improves at West Demerara Regional Hospital

The West Demerara Regional Hospital administrator, on Thursday evening, notified Minister within Ministry of Public Health Dr. Karen Cummings that security provisions at the hospital have shown...

New Music Programme to promote entrepreneurship

Sep 12, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on New Music Programme to promote entrepreneurship

With the intention to give young people across the country a step ahead into a developing industry, the National School of Music has this year advanced its tuition to 30 students and teachers in the...

New Music Programme to promote entrepreneurship

Sep 12, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on New Music Programme to promote entrepreneurship

World Suicide Day observance… Suicide can be prevented once signs are not ignored — Health Minister

Sep 12, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on World Suicide Day observance… Suicide can be prevented once signs are not ignored — Health Minister

Suicide is preventable, once the signs and actions of those prone to the psychological endemic are not ignored. This was the perspective of Minister within the Ministry of Public Health, (MoPH) Dr....

CLIMATE CHANGE IS REAL

Sep 12, 2017 KNews Editorial, Features / Columnists Comments Off on CLIMATE CHANGE IS REAL

Climate change is not a myth. Scientists have blamed the increase in temperature on green-house gas emissions. For years, the United Nations has recognized the impact of greenhouse gas emissions on...

Coconut tree crashes through roof

Sep 12, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Coconut tree crashes through roof

A squall that swept across Linden yesterday uprooted several trees and damaged the roofs of quite a few houses and other buildings. The most disastrous occurred in Poker Street, Wismar, where a...

Taxi driver remanded for discharging gun at man

Sep 12, 2017 KNews Court Stories, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Taxi driver remanded for discharging gun at man

A taxi driver was yesterday denied bail after he made an appearance in the Georgetown Magistrates’ Courts. Thirty-three-year-old Lester Joseph of South Ruimveldt appeared before Principal...

Cook, porter busted with ganja at police station

Sep 12, 2017 KNews Court Stories, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Cook, porter busted with ganja at police station

Two persons, who were allegedly busted with a total of 80 grams of marijuana at the Sherima Police Station, were both remanded to prison after they appeared before Chief Magistrate Ann McLennan and...

Eyewitness testifies in inquest into death of pedestrian

Sep 12, 2017 KNews Court Stories, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Eyewitness testifies in inquest into death of pedestrian

A coroner’s inquest into the death of Sew Persaud, who was struck down and killed by a minibus on April 21, last year, at the Diamond Public Road, East Bank Demerara, continued yesterday before...

The perks that the Fabulous Four gets at City Hall

Sep 12, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on The perks that the Fabulous Four gets at City Hall

Dear Editor, I refer to the letter of Nadine Jerrick on the current Town Clerk (TC) in KN of Sept 9th 2017. This is of one of the beauties of letters to the editor in that one gets news of troubling...

A certain newspaper is playing a dangerous game of incitement

Sep 12, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on A certain newspaper is playing a dangerous game of incitement

Dear Editor, There is a crisis of honour and truth facing the Indian intellectual community in Guyana and in the Diaspora. It’s been long recognized that the Guyana Times, using Vishnu Bisram and...

Trump’s action constitutes one of the most inhuman acts against humanity

Sep 12, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on Trump’s action constitutes one of the most inhuman acts against humanity

Dear Editor, The Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA), was introduced by President Obama in 2012 and brought hope and structure to the lives of 800,000 young people to date with the...

This mistreatment by GTT is shameful

Sep 12, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on This mistreatment by GTT is shameful

Dear Editor, I have cause to once again seek recourse through your newspapers in having a simple issue rectified by GTT. I have exhausted every possible and conceivable avenue and unlike Freddie...

Guyanese have no idea what a dump UG is

Sep 12, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on Guyanese have no idea what a dump UG is

Dear Editor, I have read so many of Freddie’s columns that although I seldom read letters to the newspaper, I quickly spotted from the title of the letter: ‘UG and the failed leadership of...

City Council’s actions that defy logic

Sep 12, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on City Council’s actions that defy logic

Dear Editor, It was quite agonizing and indeed simply appalling to sit in the Chambers of the City Hall in Georgetown recently and witness the Mayor and Councillors engage in an exercise that not...

Problems with the new garbage collectors

Sep 12, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on Problems with the new garbage collectors

Dear Editor, Since discontinuing the garbage collection services of its two main disposal agents in Georgetown, the Mayor and City Council (M&CC) has obtained the services of a number of small...

The hypocrisy, double standards and cheap shots of Bharrat Jagdeo

Sep 12, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on The hypocrisy, double standards and cheap shots of Bharrat Jagdeo

Dear Editor, In the media on August 28th 2017 the opposition leader Mr. Jagdeo declared that he disagrees that PPP/C NDC councilors are uncooperative and categorically stated that these councilors...

These critics overlook the positive achievements of the PPP

Sep 12, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on These critics overlook the positive achievements of the PPP

Dear Editor, David Hinds has conveniently overlooked the positive changes that the PPP has made to our Constitution; to Parliament; to the Judiciary; and to the economy. The PPP reduced the massive...

Govt.’s secrecy on oil contract creating ‘dangerous’ situation for Guyana

Sep 11, 2017 KNews News 2

– TIGI Head The Government’s overall behaviour regarding the oil and gas sector is shrouded in secrecy. Its lack of transparency is ultimately creating a dangerous situation in Guyana. This...

Looming oil industry…Guyanese must make demands or risk losing economic benefits

Sep 11, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Looming oil industry…Guyanese must make demands or risk losing economic benefits

-Economist It is imperative that Guyanese get involved in the affairs of its oil industry. They must stay in the know and demand that the country gets its fair share of economic benefits from...

Gunmen forced to leave money, safe after shootout with guards

Sep 11, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Gunmen forced to leave money, safe after shootout with guards

– had broken into Readymix establishment and tied elderly guards Three gunmen with a high power rifle were forced to escape empty handed yesterday morning during a shootout with...

Blind dad moves closer to raising funds to save daughter’s sight

Sep 11, 2017 KNews News 1

With pure determination and the kindness of several persons, Paul Cottom in over two weeks has managed to raise the money needed to send his daughter to Trinidad and Tobago for emergency...

Alcohol Control Bill on the cards?

Sep 11, 2017 KNews News 1

Former Minister of Public Health Dr. George Norton has suggested the likelihood of an ‘Alcohol Control Bill’ being introduced in Parliament. Norton, who is now Minister of Social Cohesion...

Soulja Bai playing wid kak

Sep 11, 2017 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists, News 1

Soulja Bai refusing to release de oil contract and he got to tek de blame because if he tell Trotty to release de man can’t refuse. Dem pointing to a clause in a law wha Hoyte pass but de clause...

GCCI Head cautions Internal Auditors to frequently consider broader economic risks

Sep 11, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on GCCI Head cautions Internal Auditors to frequently consider broader economic risks

What sense does it make having a robust internal auditing system when the company you work for is suffering competitively? This salient question was recently posed to those persons who...

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The square peg legacy

Oct 15, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – Burnham’s dream of ‘Guyanization’—a euphemism for replacing the colonial administrative class with locals loyal to the new order was, at its core, a nationalist ideal. But ideals without discipline often lead to farce. The result was a bureaucracy filled with...

Haiti: When the Promise of a Haitian-Led Solution Begins to Fade

Oct 11, 2026

By Sir Ronald Sanders (Kaieteur News) – Who speaks for Haiti? It is a question the international community can no longer avoid. For years, governments and international organisations have insisted that the country’s deepening crisis must have a “Haitian-led solution”. The principle is...

Seeram: Did the Commies takeover

Oct 15, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – On the next occasion that Guyana’s Hon Attorney General, Mohabir Anil Nandlall, SC, MP, OE, CCH, opens his book of wisdom and expounds on the rule of law and respect for the law (and of laws, not men), I have a humble addition for inclusion in his encyclopedia. There is...

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