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The Caribbean Voice offers Suicide Stats and Related Facts

Jan 23, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on The Caribbean Voice offers Suicide Stats and Related Facts

On January 22, last, Kaieteur News published an article ‘“Decriminalise suicide, it’s a cry for help”. Last year a motion to decriminalise attempted suicide was debated in parliament...

NAREI workers to be trained by professionals

Jan 23, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on NAREI workers to be trained by professionals

In the days ahead, the workers attached to the National Agricultural Research and Extension Centre (NAREI), specifically in the Data Collection and Interpretation, and Extension Unit, will undergo...

Joint-effort between Guyana/Brazil for 100% Yellow Fever coverage

Jan 23, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Joint-effort between Guyana/Brazil for 100% Yellow Fever coverage

In an effort to attain 100 percent yellow fever vaccination coverage in Guyana for 2018, Chief Medical Officer (CMO), Dr. Shamdeo Persaud, has proposed a joint effort between the government and...

Sugar workers attached to NDIA to also lose their jobs – GAWU

Jan 23, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Sugar workers attached to NDIA to also lose their jobs – GAWU

The largest sugar union, the Guyana Agricultural and General Workers Union (GAWU), says that more employees are to be made redundant. GAWU yesterday said it was informed by the Guyana Sugar...

Fraud at Guyana Marketing Corporation… Cops still to arrest Directors of Trinidad-based Construction Company

Jan 23, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Fraud at Guyana Marketing Corporation… Cops still to arrest Directors of Trinidad-based Construction Company

Fourteen months after the Special Organised Crime Unit (SOCU) filed fraud related charges against Phillip Madramootoo and his friend, Nizam Ramkissoon, Directors of Constantine Engineering and...

Guyana still awaiting UN SG’s decision on Venezuela–Greenidge

Jan 23, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Guyana still awaiting UN SG’s decision on Venezuela–Greenidge

As Guyana awaits a decision from the United Nations Secretary-General (SG) on the Guyana/Venezuela controversy, Minister of Foreign Affairs Carl Greenidge said the SG is aware of the urgency for a...

Nandall’s lawyer objects to cop being deemed expert in handwriting analysis -as stolen Law Reports trial continues

Jan 23, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Nandall’s lawyer objects to cop being deemed expert in handwriting analysis -as stolen Law Reports trial continues

Attorney-at-law, Sase Gunraj objected to Police Corporal Ameer Mohamed being deemed an expert in handwriting analysis, when the trial of former Attorney General (AG) Anil Nandlall continued before...

Critchlow Labour College disassociates self from unaccredited medical school

Jan 23, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Critchlow Labour College disassociates self from unaccredited medical school

Not only has its unaccredited status been exposed by the National Accreditation Council [NAC], but the Critchlow Labour College [CLC] yesterday also disassociated itself from the institution. In a...

Dental Department at Oscar Joseph Hospital, Charity in chaos

Jan 23, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Dental Department at Oscar Joseph Hospital, Charity in chaos

The Dental Department at the Oscar Joseph District Hospital is in total chaos. This is according to patients who recently visited the health facility for dental care, but were turned away due to the...

Jagdeo: The politics of morbidity, the morbidity of politics

Jan 23, 2018 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on Jagdeo: The politics of morbidity, the morbidity of politics

Bharrat Jagdeo is a funny little fellow; an amusing parvenu, a half-baked dilettante, a laughable harlequin. Here is the proof. These are the words of a man who ruled Guyana for twelve years as de...

15-yr-old Sophia student stabbed after cell phone row

Jan 23, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on 15-yr-old Sophia student stabbed after cell phone row

A 15-year old student of Sophia was yesterday stabbed to his abdomen following an argument over a cellular phone. The victim, Justin Bailey, of 49 ‘D’ Field Sophia was rushed to the Georgetown...

‘Aunt May’ fetes vulnerable children

Jan 23, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on ‘Aunt May’ fetes vulnerable children

Some 120 vulnerable children and their guardians were on Sunday feted by Mrs. Miriam De Souza, known as “Aunt May”. She was supported by family members, Raza Ally and his wife, Romona...

Getting Help

Jan 23, 2018 KNews Peeping Tom Comments Off on Getting Help

“Fire and Fury” is a book which is causing a great deal of controversy in the United States. The White House has described it as fiction. One of the central themes of the book is that the Trump...

Cell phone addiction sparks teen’s runaway

Jan 23, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Cell phone addiction sparks teen’s runaway

Even as child rights advocates continue to make the call for the swift elimination of the wandering charge, there are some individuals who have stated with conviction that this avenue must remain a...

I commend the brave actions of those PPP regional chairs who chose to attend this forum

Jan 23, 2018 KNews Letters Comments Off on I commend the brave actions of those PPP regional chairs who chose to attend this forum

DEAR EDITOR, I refer to the article captioned, ‘National local gov’t conference boycotted again by PPP/C’ (SN, Jan 20). Permit me to correct a few points made in the article, as well as to...

The AFC has shown its true stripes

Jan 23, 2018 KNews Letters Comments Off on The AFC has shown its true stripes

DEAR EDITOR, The Guyana Agricultural and General Workers Union (GAWU) has noted the contents of the Alliance for Change (AFC) column titled “The chickens have come home to roost in the sugar...

Reminding the political haters that they can never put a good person down

Jan 23, 2018 KNews Letters Comments Off on Reminding the political haters that they can never put a good person down

DEAR EDITOR, Mr. Rohit Persaud claimed in a letter to the media that our Prime Minister Hon. Moses Nagamootoo only visits his home village, Whim, whenever he is in Berbice. This is very far from the...

Does the AFC have a support base?

Jan 23, 2018 KNews Letters Comments Off on Does the AFC have a support base?

DEAR EDITOR, As the Alliance for Change (AFC) continues to do its master’s bidding, one is left to ponder how low the AFC will go. The latest pandering by the AFC to the PNC is its recent salvo...

Improving Guyana’s image

Jan 23, 2018 KNews Letters Comments Off on Improving Guyana’s image

DEAR EDITOR, Now that in our dear land of Guyana, oil has been found and in a most timely manner, production will get underway, the Guyana Police Force networks must get in line with international...

The voters will not be fooled again

Jan 23, 2018 KNews Letters Comments Off on The voters will not be fooled again

DEAR EDITOR, Khemraj Ramjattan had predicted shortly before the 2015 national elections that his political party, the AFC, would become “dead meat” should it team up with PNC/APNU. Well, it had...

How could a senior govt. functionary publicly imply that a major investor is a thief?

Jan 23, 2018 KNews Letters Comments Off on How could a senior govt. functionary publicly imply that a major investor is a thief?

DEAR EDITOR, “We expect ExxonMobil will try to rob us as much as they can, so it is now on us to figure out how best we can defeat them. It is a waste of time at this point saying that they can...

Serious action needs to be taken against the vendors

Jan 23, 2018 KNews Letters Comments Off on Serious action needs to be taken against the vendors

DEAR EDITOR, Serious action needs to be taken against the vendors who are vending in front of the Enterprise Primary School on immovable concrete and wooden structures which are encouraging a series...

Ending Guyana’s Age of Asininity

Jan 23, 2018 KNews Letters Comments Off on Ending Guyana’s Age of Asininity

DEAR EDITOR, In its Sunday (Jan 21/18) column the AFC sought to castigate GAWU for its betrayal of Guyana’s sugar workers, going as far back as the period under Burnham’s rule when it was widely...

ExxonMobil investing in itself, not Guyana— says lawyer

Jan 23, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on ExxonMobil investing in itself, not Guyana— says lawyer

“Over the proposed 23 years of the ‘Liza 1 investment’ the sewage will add up to 1,410,360,000 gallons. Using ExxonMobil’s lower estimate of 800,000,000 barrels of oil Guyana will get 1.76...

Vietnam jails oil executives in corruption crackdown

Jan 23, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Vietnam jails oil executives in corruption crackdown

HANOI (Reuters) – A court in Vietnam on Monday sentenced a former politburo official to 13 years in prison and another high-profile energy official to life imprisonment for embezzlement and...

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