January 2018

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Shooting of 15-year-old in mouth… Accused Cadet Officer still to call final witness

Jan 21, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Shooting of 15-year-old in mouth… Accused Cadet Officer still to call final witness

Cadet Officer Franz Paul who is accused of shooting a 15-year-old boy in the mouth is still to call his final witness in his defence. It is alleged that on April 30, 2014 at Georgetown, Franz Paul...

Knee replacement: Taking away the pains

Jan 21, 2018 KNews Dr Zulfikar Bux, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Knee replacement: Taking away the pains

By Dr Zulfikar Bux Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine For years persons with severe arthritis to their knees had to withstand the severe pains and try pain medications that had serious side...

PPP, councillors blasted for boycotting launch of regional consultations body

Jan 21, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on PPP, councillors blasted for boycotting launch of regional consultations body

The People Progressive Party (PPP) councillors were a no-show at Friday’s inaugural meeting of the National Regional Development Consultative Committee (NRDCC). Minister of Communities, Ronald...

I salute the media for keeping me on my toes– Trotman

Jan 21, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on I salute the media for keeping me on my toes– Trotman

While Minister of Foreign Affairs, Carl Greenidge, seems perturbed at the media for its reporting on the looming oil industry, Minister of Natural Resources, Raphael Trotman, said that he...

Proposed Energy Efficiency Standard

Jan 21, 2018 KNews Features / Columnists, Standards in Focus Comments Off on Proposed Energy Efficiency Standard

– A GREEN INITIATIVE FOR CARICOM MEMBER STATES The Guyana National Bureau of Standards (GNBS) is working collaboratively with the CARICOM Regional Organisation for Standards and Quality (CROSQ) and...

What are the powers of the City Police?

Jan 21, 2018 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on What are the powers of the City Police?

The Mayor and City Council of Georgetown has once again come under the spotlight, following an incident last week in which a young man, believed to be mentally ill, was fatally shot. The facts...

Khemdat Sukhul’s strange abduction… What kind of kidnappers would turn down $30M?

Jan 21, 2018 KNews Features / Columnists, Murder and Mystery Comments Off on Khemdat Sukhul’s strange abduction… What kind of kidnappers would turn down $30M?

By Michael Jordan Maybe it was because he wasn’t well known. Maybe it was because it happened on the same day that the cambio dealer with the glamourous wife wound up dead in his Bel Air home. You...

Life lessons

Jan 21, 2018 KNews Features / Columnists, Food For Thought Comments Off on Life lessons

Never do something permanently foolish just because you are temporarily upset.” “Worrying is like a rocking chair: it gives you something to do, but doesn’t get you anywhere.” “The...

The Baccoo speaks

Jan 21, 2018 KNews Features / Columnists, The Baccoo Speaks Comments Off on The Baccoo speaks

Money always attracts criminals. The decision by the government to pay the retrenched sugar workers will see a shift in criminal activities to the eastern part of the country. It is not that the...

Need to regain loss of trust and confidence in our society

Jan 21, 2018 KNews Letters Comments Off on Need to regain loss of trust and confidence in our society

Dear Editor, Today’s (Saturday, 20/01/18) media report of the previous day’s meeting between Government and the Unions operating in the sugar industry is a most welcome sign. I am sure all Guyana...

We must be careful that in condemning Trump, we don’t let ourselves look as foolish as him

Jan 21, 2018 KNews Letters Comments Off on We must be careful that in condemning Trump, we don’t let ourselves look as foolish as him

Dear Editor, “We, the undersigned representatives of the sovereign people of the Caribbean hereby declare that President Donald Trump of the United States of America is “Persona Non Grata” in...

An interesting admission from this PPP official

Jan 21, 2018 KNews Letters Comments Off on An interesting admission from this PPP official

Dear Editor, At the Statutory Meeting of the RDC that was held on Thursday, December 21st, 2017, it was shocking to hear that the Regional Chairman accepts that he did not do any investigation...

Haiti is a s-hole and Guyana is a madhouse

Jan 21, 2018 KNews Letters Comments Off on Haiti is a s-hole and Guyana is a madhouse

Dear Editor, Recently there was much outrage over Trump’s statement on how Haiti is a s-hole country. What was even more amusing is the amount of people who were outraged by this statement. Right...

I applaud the reintroduction of the National Cadet Corp

Jan 21, 2018 KNews Letters Comments Off on I applaud the reintroduction of the National Cadet Corp

Dear Editor, It is with much pleasure that I applaud the re-launch of the National Cadet Corp (NCC). I was a Cadet in the NCC for about four or five years while in secondary school and it was one of...

Oil and Bad Politics: Part 1

Jan 21, 2018 KNews Letters Comments Off on Oil and Bad Politics: Part 1

Dear Editor, During the days leading up to the end of 2017, the APNU-AFC Coalition Government revealed the long asked for Petroleum Agreement between oil giant, ExxonMobil and Guyana. While it is...

GIVE OFFENDERS A SECOND CHANCE IN 2018.

Jan 21, 2018 KNews Editorial Comments Off on GIVE OFFENDERS A SECOND CHANCE IN 2018.

Over the years, many have watched in frustration and are disturbed at the ever growing number of young men in handcuffs being escorted to the country’s prisons. It should not be surprising to any...

Unions, Govt. agree to cooperate on finding solutions to sugar woes

Jan 20, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Unions, Govt. agree to cooperate on finding solutions to sugar woes

-46 percent of workers likely to be paid full severance by month-end President David Granger and members of Cabinet yesterday met with the President and members of the Guyana Agricultural and General...

Banks DIH confident in tax write-off case against GRA

Jan 20, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Banks DIH confident in tax write-off case against GRA

Beverage giant, Banks DIH Limited, is confident it has a solid case against the Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA). The case filed in April last year is still engaging the High Court’s attention, and...

Beheading of Guyanese in Venezuela… National Toshaos Council appeals for Govt. investigation

Jan 20, 2018 KNews News 1

The National Toshaos Council (NTC) yesterday appealed to the Government to investigate the recent torture and beheading of a young Indigenous Guyanese in Venezuela. “The National Toshaos Council...

Child rapist gets life sentence

Jan 20, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Child rapist gets life sentence

Thirty-eight year-old Ganesh Chaitram was yesterday sentenced in his absence to life imprisonment, convicted of rape by a mixed 12 member jury. Chaitram, who had been released on bail, absconded from...

ExxonMobil, others to submit list of human resource needs for looming oil industry – CTVET

Jan 20, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on ExxonMobil, others to submit list of human resource needs for looming oil industry – CTVET

Oil operators such as ExxonMobil and REPSOL Exploration are expected to put together a list of the human resource needs they would have for Guyana’s upcoming oil and gas industry. This list is...

Guyana’s oil needs minimum refining – Trotman

Jan 20, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Guyana’s oil needs minimum refining – Trotman

By Abena Rockcliffe-Campbell Minister of Natural Resources Raphael Trotman has indicated that Guyana’s oil is of top quality. He even boasted that the crude needs minimum refining. This, the...

NGO advocates for introduction of Sex Offenders Registry

Jan 20, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on NGO advocates for introduction of Sex Offenders Registry

Calls are being made for the establishment of a Sexual Offenders Registry. Essentially a Sex Offenders Registry is a system in various countries designed to allow government authorities to keep track...

487 students participating in re-introduced National Cadet Corps

Jan 20, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on 487 students participating in re-introduced National Cadet Corps

Four hundred and eighty-seven students from six schools across Guyana – North Ruimveldt Multilateral, Stewartville Secondary, Hope Secondary, Berbice Secondary, St. Ignatius Secondary and the...

70 yrs. for wedding house killer

Jan 20, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on 70 yrs. for wedding house killer

Justice Navindra Singh sentenced an unrepentant Rajesh Guyadeen to 70 years in jail for the murder of Nandran Manohar, called Nando, which occurred on May 4, 2003, at Lancaster, Mahaica, East Coast...

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The politics of appointment

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(Kaieteur News) – The elections commission did not fall from heaven. It came from the messy compromises of men. The so-called Carter-Price formula, that tired but enduring offspring of the 1990s political crisis, was not meant to enshrine aloof neutrality; it was meant to broker peace between...

If the OAS did not exist, it could not be created today

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By Sir Ronald Sanders (Kaieteur News) – I have spent a decade in the councils of the Organization of American States. I have watched governments come and go, seen some crises handled well and others handled badly, sat through more commemorative meetings than sessions discussing pressing issues,...

Guyana Development Bank: Promise, Potential and Peril

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(Kaieteur News) – The PPP Govt-initiated $40B Guyana Development Bank (Bank) can be great. Ordinary Guyanese-poor, harbouring inspired ideas, but lacking capital-have opportunity beckoning. Opportunity to rise from where they are to what they envision could be, should be. Again,...

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