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President assents to contentious Tobacco Control legislation

Sep 02, 2017 KNews News 1

-intense awareness campaign to commence ahead of implementation Amidst much controversy, some of which relates to its fines and penalties, the Tobacco Control Bill has been signed into law. This...

GTT asks Utilities Commission to review conditions in decision on increased landline rates

Sep 02, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on GTT asks Utilities Commission to review conditions in decision on increased landline rates

The Guyana Telephone and Telegraph Company (GTT) has asked the Public Utilities Commission (PUC) to review its recent order handed down on July 24, 2017, relating to an increase in landline rates....

Aviation sector must continue to grow despite challenges – GCAA Director General

Sep 02, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Aviation sector must continue to grow despite challenges – GCAA Director General

It is no secret that the domestic aviation sector has been experiencing a challenging time recently. This is as a result of the three recent plane crashes in the interior. On all three aircraft, the...

Drug smuggling probe…File with DPP, interdicted Chief Prison Officer to know fate soon

Sep 02, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Drug smuggling probe…File with DPP, interdicted Chief Prison Officer to know fate soon

The Chief Prison Officer who was implicated in a drug-smuggling scandal at the Timehri Prisons earlier this month is likely to know his fate by next week. Kaieteur News understands that a file on the...

E’bo housing officials being investigated for illegally selling lands

Sep 02, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on E’bo housing officials being investigated for illegally selling lands

Minister within the Ministry of Communities Valerie Adams-Yearwood and a team from the Central Housing and Planning Authority (CH&PA) on Thursday visited the Pomeroon-Supenaam area in Region Two...

GTU makes placement case for educators

Sep 02, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on GTU makes placement case for educators

In addition to being grossly underpaid and neglected in a number of other ways, educators are also often sidelined for positions that they deserve. This observation was recently made by President of...

Bandit killed in botched robbery…Shot accomplice was convicted for robbery under-arms

Sep 02, 2017 KNews Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Bandit killed in botched robbery…Shot accomplice was convicted for robbery under-arms

Twenty-three year-old Mark Griffith, who was shot after attempting to rob a businesswoman at Liliendaal Railway Embankment, Greater Georgetown on Tuesday last, had been previously convicted for...

UNBRIBABLE

Sep 02, 2017 KNews Editorial, Features / Columnists Comments Off on UNBRIBABLE

The discovery of oil in Guyana by the US oil giant, Exxon Mobil, in 2014, was exciting news for the citizens. There was talk of it being a potential saviour for the economy with the promise of a...

Brazilian charged for forging Guyana birth certificate

Sep 02, 2017 KNews Court Stories, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Brazilian charged for forging Guyana birth certificate

A Brazilian woman on Thursday found herself standing before Chief Magistrate Ann McLennan in the Georgetown Magistrates’ Courts to answer to a charge of forgery. Fifty-two-year-old Benedita Lemos...

The Public Utilities Commission must regulate the GPL

Sep 02, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on The Public Utilities Commission must regulate the GPL

Dear Editor, Public utility regulation is a discipline just like law, engineering economics, sociology etc. Like those other discipline it is taught by universities, specialized school and umbrella...

Special Education Needs and Disabilities within Guyana’s mainstream system

Sep 02, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on Special Education Needs and Disabilities within Guyana’s mainstream system

Dear Editor, In two previous letters on the above subject, I made mentioned the texts I drew from, so I would just cite the authors’ last names in this missive. Bourdieu (1990a), postulated that...

PPP Executive member calls for a new political beginning

Sep 02, 2017 KNews Letters 1

Dear Editor, It was the English philosopher who wrote that the only thing necessary for evil to prevail is for good men to do nothing. Implicit in this statement is that ever so often nations ended...

The Minister should try to understand what agriculture means to Berbice

Sep 02, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on The Minister should try to understand what agriculture means to Berbice

Dear Editor, There are certain elements in this Coalition Government who lacks the qualities required of a statesman or minister. Two main characteristics such a person must possess are: he/she must...

Socialism is a superior system to capitalism

Sep 02, 2017 KNews Letters 1

Dear Editor, Peeping Tom’s column “Capitalism Cannot Exist where there is Socialist Thinking” (KN Tuesday, August 29, 2017) is one of the most vexatious and vulgar opinion pieces I have come...

These are the factors from which wealth arises

Sep 02, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on These are the factors from which wealth arises

Dear Editor, I read the insightful, instructive piece about wealth creation and money matters in general. I rather liked the observation that “wealth comes from wisdom, understanding and...

Once again, the President may have been misled by his AG

Sep 02, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on Once again, the President may have been misled by his AG

Dear Editor, Since his ascension to the highest office, President Granger has been making some erroneous decisions that many believe are in direct conflict with his own and the promises made in the...

Padlocked door of GECOM Deputy chief…Commissioners say Secretariat erred in handling matter

Sep 01, 2017 KNews News 1

Two sitting members of the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) believe that the decision to change the locks of the doors of the Deputy Chief Elections Officer (CEO), Vishnu Persaud, should never...

Kaneville man to stand trial for murder of toddler in fire

Sep 01, 2017 KNews Court Stories, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Kaneville man to stand trial for murder of toddler in fire

Principal Magistrate Judy Latchman yesterday committed 21-year-old Kaneville resident Nigel Dodson to stand trial in the Georgetown High Court, at the next practical sitting of the Demerara Assizes,...

Laundering clampdown: GRA halts cash transactions over $2M

Sep 01, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Laundering clampdown: GRA halts cash transactions over $2M

The Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) is tightening up on money laundering, yesterday announcing that it is halting all cash transactions over $2M at its offices. The measure is being introduced to also...

Fire guts senior health official’s home

Sep 01, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Fire guts senior health official’s home

A late morning fire of unknown origin yesterday gutted the Congress Drive, South Ruimveldt Park home of the Fogenays. The building is occupied by 40-year-old Glendon Fogenay, who is the Deputy...

Non-disclosure clause was never inserted into law by PPP- Ram

Sep 01, 2017 KNews News 1

Chartered Accountant Christopher Ram sought to clear the air, recently, regarding an aspect of the Petroleum Exploration and Production Act. It was being peddled by some government officials that...

Man who trafficked coke to send son to college gets four years – fined $3.3M

Sep 01, 2017 KNews Court Stories, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Man who trafficked coke to send son to college gets four years – fined $3.3M

A United States-based Guyanese who told the court that he trafficked a quantity of cocaine so that he could send his son to college to study medical science, was yesterday sentenced to four years...

President receives COI report on alleged assassination plot

Sep 01, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on President receives COI report on alleged assassination plot

– says inquiry instrumental in identifying weaknesses in systems President David Granger yesterday said that it is in the national interest that the Office of the President be protected,...

Six of one and half a dozen of de other

Sep 01, 2017 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Six of one and half a dozen of de other

A Prime Minister had some words that is still applicable to today and all dem who trying to blind people when it come to Exxon should listen to this Prime Minister. De man seh, “The truth is...

Hero CPL T20 cricket …Win tonight takes Warriors to play-offs

Sep 01, 2017 KNews Sports Comments Off on Hero CPL T20 cricket …Win tonight takes Warriors to play-offs

By Sean Devers A win for the Warriors tonight in Jamaica over two-time Champions Tallawahs is the easiest route for them to qualify for the play-offs of the 2017 Hero CPL T20 cricket tournament but...

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Hayley Matthews and Sherfane Rutherford named in ICC ODI Teams of the Year

Development requires more than oil revenues

Peeping Tom… Kaieteur News- In one of the most impassioned pleas ever made, an evangelical Bishop Rev. Mariann Edgar... more