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SVU integral to closing gaps in solving sexual crimes – Rights advocates

Dec 07, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on SVU integral to closing gaps in solving sexual crimes – Rights advocates

With the establishment of the Sexual Offences Court at the level of the High Court, child rights advocates are renewing calls for the establishment of a Special Victims Unit (SVU), under the Guyana...

Does President Trump want peace in the Middle East?

Dec 07, 2017 KNews Editorial, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Does President Trump want peace in the Middle East?

(Republished from the NY Times) In the debate over a potential Israeli-Palestinian peace agreement, no issue is more charged with emotion than the future of Jerusalem. Should the holy city be the...

Guyana needs an enlightened immigration policy

Dec 07, 2017 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on Guyana needs an enlightened immigration policy

Guyana needs to improve its immigration policies. Persons coming into Guyana do not feel welcome. They are made to feel that the country is doing them a favour by allowing them in. Guyana needs a...

City Council: The hypocrisy of the APNU+AFC government

Dec 07, 2017 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on City Council: The hypocrisy of the APNU+AFC government

You have autonomy as the CEO for a company branch in Essequibo. You lost an investment of a billion dollars in your area of operation, that is, Essequibo. The head office decided to sustain your...

THE CONFLUENCE OF GREAT MINDS

Dec 07, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on THE CONFLUENCE OF GREAT MINDS

Dear Editor, “Lives of great men all remind us, we can make our lives sublime, and, departing, leave behind us, footprints on the sands of time.” -Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Being unjustly...

The redundancy that is affecting the sugar workers

Dec 07, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on The redundancy that is affecting the sugar workers

Dear Editor, On November 10, 2015, an anonymous and cowardly letter writer described me as ‘a confused complainer’ because I exposed Mr Moses Nagamootoo’s hypocrisy with regards the plight of...

Making it easy for the senior citizens

Dec 07, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on Making it easy for the senior citizens

Dear Editor, The Anna Regina office of the Ministry of Social Protection deserves tremendous praise for the joy and delight that were so evident for the very first time amongst hundreds of old age...

Guysuco management is incompetent

Dec 07, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on Guysuco management is incompetent

Dear Editor, It is becoming clearer with each passing day that the CEO and the entire Board of Directors of the Guyana Sugar Corporation should be made redundant. Their incompetence is matched by the...

It is a case of diversification

Dec 07, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on It is a case of diversification

Dear Editor, We have before us a revenue stream diversification question as it pertains to economic stability and risk mitigation. Rice, sugar, lumber, bauxite, gold and oil are all good fundamental...

BREAKING NEWS!!! Taxi driver charged with teacher Kescia Branche’s murder

Dec 06, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on BREAKING NEWS!!! Taxi driver charged with teacher Kescia Branche’s murder

With hands and legs shackled, 47-year-old taxi driver Matthew Munroe was escorted into court at around 14. 45 hours today and charged for the murder of 22-year-old teacher Kescia Branche. A...

Rift in Govt. over GuySuCo’s layoffs

Dec 06, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Rift in Govt. over GuySuCo’s layoffs

– industry targets miserly 115,000 tonnes next year The two factions of the Coalition Government are at odds with each other over the handling of the closure of the Rose Hall estate in...

Ranks will pay for vehicles they damage – Ramjattan

Dec 06, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Ranks will pay for vehicles they damage – Ramjattan

-as 56 pickups rolled out for Xmas patrols The days of daredevil driving may be over for ranks from the Guyana Police Force. That’s because of new Force regulations that will result in...

Security guard confesses to killing waitress

Dec 06, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Security guard confesses to killing waitress

Just one day after Marissa Fraser’s semi-nude body was discovered in a trench at No.5 Village West Coast Berbice with multiple stab wounds; investigators have made a breakthrough into the...

Engineer’s Estimate puts St. Rose’s High demolition at $30M

Dec 06, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Engineer’s Estimate puts St. Rose’s High demolition at $30M

Receiving 13 bids yesterday at the National Procurement and Tender Administration Board (NPTAB) yesterday was the Ministry of Education. These bids were obtained for the demolition of a three-storey...

Three more held for Kescia Branche’s murder

Dec 06, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Three more held for Kescia Branche’s murder

– death of ‘witness’ being treated as accident, says Acting Crime Chief The mystery of exactly who murdered Kescia Branche remains unanswered, as Acting Crime Chief Paul Williams revealed...

Headmistress targets money paid to resigned teacher

Dec 06, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Headmistress targets money paid to resigned teacher

…Regional officials now get involved There are questions now over the controls at the regional levels when it comes to the monitoring of teachers. In recent years, Parliament’s Public...

Accused ‘Boyo’ killers profess innocence, to face High Court trial

Dec 06, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Accused ‘Boyo’ killers profess innocence, to face High Court trial

By Feona Morrison Before a packed audience at the Leonora Magistrate’s Court yesterday, the three men accused of the July 2015 murder of Regent Multiplex Mall owner, Ganesh ‘Boyo’...

From a shaat crook to a baccoo

Dec 06, 2017 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on From a shaat crook to a baccoo

The media in the USA has gone wild on Trump, Dem calling him all kinds a names. Dem calling him an idiot, a liar, dishonest , unholy, unhealthy and unethical. Dem even call him a mad man, Dem seh he...

APNU+AFC Govt. fails to deliver ICT promises in three consecutive years

Dec 06, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on APNU+AFC Govt. fails to deliver ICT promises in three consecutive years

– Comes with more “bluff and fluff” for 2018 – PPP/C MP By Abena Rockcliffe-Campbell A consortium of “bluff” and “fluff” projects; that is People’s Progressive Party/Civic...

CWI Digicel Regional 4-day C/Ships…Top versus bottom from tomorrow at Providence as Jaguars face-off with Volcanoes

Dec 06, 2017 KNews Sports Comments Off on CWI Digicel Regional 4-day C/Ships…Top versus bottom from tomorrow at Providence as Jaguars face-off with Volcanoes

By Sean Devers Although with Devon Smith, the tournament’s leading scorer with the most centuries in the history of Regional First-Class cricket in their side, Windwards Volcanoes languish at the...

Sugar projections continue to plummet

Dec 06, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Sugar projections continue to plummet

… Agri Minister says no positive impact from subsidies on GuySuCo’s financial state Minister of Agriculture, Noel Holder, has projected that capital investment of $12 billion will be...

Minister Hughes whips opposition for providing ‘fake news’

Dec 06, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Minister Hughes whips opposition for providing ‘fake news’

…Reminds that PPP shut down sugar estates, increased old age pension by $92 Minister of Public Telecommunications, Cathy Hughes, has highlighted significant improvements within the ministry...

Sueria Manufacturing Inc makes massive donation to RHTY&SC’s Christmas activities

Dec 06, 2017 KNews Sports Comments Off on Sueria Manufacturing Inc makes massive donation to RHTY&SC’s Christmas activities

Sueria Manufacturing Inc of Eccles Industrial Estate, East Bank, Demerara joined hands with the Rose Hall Town Youth & Sports Club, MS to make a positive difference in the lives of Berbicians...

GCB Scotiabank Kiddy cricket …Paul’s century hands Patentia Primary comprehensive victory

Dec 06, 2017 KNews Sports Comments Off on GCB Scotiabank Kiddy cricket …Paul’s century hands Patentia Primary comprehensive victory

An attacking century from Kvist Paul handed Patentia Primary a 113-run win over Malgre Tout Primary when the Guyana Cricket Board Scotiabank Kiddy cricket competition continued recently at West...

Ali-Mohamed aims to make the best of World Cup opportunity

Dec 06, 2017 KNews Sports Comments Off on Ali-Mohamed aims to make the best of World Cup opportunity

Congratulated by his club GCC By Sean Devers Captain of Regional U-19 Champions, Guyana, Renaldo Ali-Mohamed, along with fellow Guyanese Bhaskar Yadram, Ashmead Nedd, Joshua Persaud and Raymond Perez...

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You cannot borrow your way to prosperity

Peeping Tom… Kaieteur News-The Jagdeo Doctrine is an absurd, reckless, and fundamentally shortsighted economic fallacy.... more