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Shade house farming allows constant vegetable prices

Mar 19, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Shade house farming allows constant vegetable prices

Prices for crops grown under shaded conditions seldom fluctuate owing to fixed environmental conditions year-round. This oftentimes influences consumers’, especially those who are price...

IDB Country Rep. underscores need policy decisions based on sound data

Mar 19, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on IDB Country Rep. underscores need policy decisions based on sound data

Country representative of the International Development Bank (IDB), Sophie Makonnen has highlighted the need for policy decisions based on sound data. Speaking at the recent launch of the first...

IMPORTANCE OF THE COMMONWEALTH

Mar 19, 2018 KNews Editorial Comments Off on IMPORTANCE OF THE COMMONWEALTH

Yesterday Guyana joined the Commonwealth nations to celebrate the 88th anniversary of Commonwealth Day under the theme “Towards a Common Future.” It is a voluntary association of 53 sovereign...

“Depression almost made me kill my daughter”

Mar 19, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on “Depression almost made me kill my daughter”

– a survivor tells her story By Shevon Nedd “I wanted to kill my daughter, not because I did not love her but because I did not want her to be in this world to suffer the way I was...

The reason why David and Lincoln were fired

Mar 19, 2018 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on The reason why David and Lincoln were fired

David Hinds of the Working People’s Alliance has become a victim of his own advice. He is the latest casualty of the coalition’s inability to utilize the skills at its disposal to deal with...

Region Ten contractors highlight concerns in meeting with new CEO

Mar 19, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Region Ten contractors highlight concerns in meeting with new CEO

By Enid Joaquin Recently installed REO of Region Ten Orrin Gordon says that he wants to see people bidding for $203M contracts in Linden and Region Ten, and not just the smaller contracts. Gordon...

The PPP in Berbice, Berbice in the PPP

Mar 19, 2018 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on The PPP in Berbice, Berbice in the PPP

The PPP lost state power in 2015, therefore there have been three presentations at the BabuJaan death anniversary of CheddiJagan since then. Since then there hasn’t been one instance in...

Mahaicony Community Policing celebrates 42 years

Mar 19, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Mahaicony Community Policing celebrates 42 years

A route march was held on Saturday in Mahaicony to observe the 42nd anniversary of the establishment of the Community Policing Groups (GPGs) in Guyana. Public Security Minister, Khemraj Ramattan, in...

Laid off estate worker opens barber shop, turns to cash crop farming

Mar 19, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Laid off estate worker opens barber shop, turns to cash crop farming

Afzal Deendial is a former GUYSUCO estate worker. He worked 21 years at the Enmore Estate and when that estate closed recently, Deendial decided that he was going to find ways in maintaining his...

Guyana Peoples militia pilots Cadet Corps at Mackenzie High

Mar 19, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Guyana Peoples militia pilots Cadet Corps at Mackenzie High

Several students from the Mackenzie High School presently make up the Cadet Corp of the Guyana Peoples Militia in Linden. The group is known as the Cadet Company of Mackenzie High School and is a...

A Case for an Autonomous Oil and Gas Commission

Mar 19, 2018 KNews Letters Comments Off on A Case for an Autonomous Oil and Gas Commission

Dear Editor, According to the Executive Secretary of Extractive Industry Transparency Initiative (EITI) of Nigeria, 90 percent of the corruption in that country involves the oil and gas sector. He...

The truth about GuySuCo’s IMC

Mar 19, 2018 KNews Letters Comments Off on The truth about GuySuCo’s IMC

Dear Editor, A commonly asked question amongst the GuySuCo employees, both current and severed, is ‘what has become of the Interim Management Committee (IMC) that was put in place in June 2015 to...

The WPA may have to consider its future in the coalition

Mar 19, 2018 KNews Letters Comments Off on The WPA may have to consider its future in the coalition

Dear Editor, When the news broke that columnists, Dr. David Hinds Executive member of the WPA, and prominent trade unionist Mr. Lincoln Lewis were banned from the Guyana Chronicle Newspaper, I was...

Investment opportunities in Berbice

Mar 19, 2018 KNews Letters Comments Off on Investment opportunities in Berbice

Dear Editor, Along the Atlantic Coast of Berbice in what is known as the Corentyne there are two major towns that anchor the development of the area; those being Rose Hall and Skeldon. It is quite...

A most unnecessary rebuff

Mar 19, 2018 KNews Letters Comments Off on A most unnecessary rebuff

Dear Editor, United States Ambassador to Guyana, His Excellency Perry Holloway recently issued a wonderfully balanced recommendatory piece on the urgent need for the establishment of a Sovereign...

The Lighter Side of Freddie

Mar 19, 2018 KNews Letters Comments Off on The Lighter Side of Freddie

Dear Editor, In today’s Freddie Kissoon column (Sunday, March 18, 2018), we saw the lighter side of Freddie. No fire and brimstone, no unrelenting trashing and dressing down. This time, we were...

The recent flooding on West Demerara was instructive

Mar 19, 2018 KNews Letters Comments Off on The recent flooding on West Demerara was instructive

DEAR EDITOR, The recent inundation at Anna Catherina, Cornelia Ida, Leonora, Stewartville and Uitvlugt, Essequibo Islands/West Demerara has left many citizens in discomfort. They are slowly bringing...