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Health Ministry building communication capacity to improve health literacy

May 08, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Health Ministry building communication capacity to improve health literacy

Health communication is a crucial factor in any health care system, since its ultimate aim is to improve health literacy of individuals. Moreover, health literacy represents the cognitive and social...

Bounty Farm/GRFU XVs Rugby… GDF defeat Pepsi Hornets 26-13 to stay top of points table

May 08, 2018 KNews Sports Comments Off on Bounty Farm/GRFU XVs Rugby… GDF defeat Pepsi Hornets 26-13 to stay top of points table

When the Bounty Farm Ltd/Guyana Rugby Football Union (GRFU) XVs club competition continued on Sunday at the National Park, Guyana Defence Force defeated Pepsi Hornets 26-13, to extend their lead at...

Gov’t pushes ahead with plans to increase property rates

May 08, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Gov’t pushes ahead with plans to increase property rates

…Canadian firm contracted to assist country-wide assessment The government has started laying the groundwork towards increasing property taxes across the country. Cabinet has approved engagement of...

GFF hosts successful “Kool Kidz” Grassroots outreach in Roxanne Burnham Gardens

May 08, 2018 KNews Sports Comments Off on GFF hosts successful “Kool Kidz” Grassroots outreach in Roxanne Burnham Gardens

Over 50 children from the Roxanne Burnham Gardens/South Ruimveldt and surrounding areas participated in the second of a series of Guyana Football Federation (GFF) “Kool Kidz” Grassroots Outreach...

Ian Greenwood participates in Technical Director’s programme

May 08, 2018 KNews Sports Comments Off on Ian Greenwood participates in Technical Director’s programme

The Guyana Football Federation (GFF) Technical Director, Ian Greenwood, is participating in a one-week FIFA Technical Director’s programme being held at the Hilton Conference Centre, Trinidad and...

35 E’bo women trained to become better local government leaders

May 08, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on 35 E’bo women trained to become better local government leaders

The Ministry of Social Protection, through the Guyana Women Leadership Institute, recently laid the platform for women empowerment in Region Two, following a two-day workshop on local government for...

Mohamed propels Everest Masters to 70-run win over Albion Masters

May 08, 2018 KNews Sports Comments Off on Mohamed propels Everest Masters to 70-run win over Albion Masters

Saheed Mohamed stroked a fine half century to guide host Everest Masters to a 70-run win over Albion Masters when the teams collided in a T20 affair on Saturday last. Batting first, Everest Masters...

Media workers still without press passes

May 08, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Media workers still without press passes

It is the fifth month of the year and media workers are without press passes. Yesterday, the Guyana Press Association (GPA) said it would like to set the record straight about the issuance of media...

Space Gym celebrating 2nd anniversary with Powerlifting and Fitness Space Games

May 08, 2018 KNews Sports Comments Off on Space Gym celebrating 2nd anniversary with Powerlifting and Fitness Space Games

Under the theme: ‘Space Games to test your limits’, gym members and members of the public would get an opportunity to test their limits when Space Gym, located at 102-109 Sandeman Place &...

Dead Guyanese fisherman’s wife, five children stranded in Suriname

May 08, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Dead Guyanese fisherman’s wife, five children stranded in Suriname

“He told me he will make me happy with this trip”. This was the last thing fisherman Hardeo Beechan’s wife remembered him telling her before he left. Still heartbroken and struggling to...

State granted time to find missing $54M in diamonds

May 08, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on State granted time to find missing $54M in diamonds

-as parties consider settlement Justice Fidela Corbin-Lincoln yesterday granted the State until May 22, to locate some $54 million worth of missing diamonds belonging to Ronald Khan which were...

Shippers get new GRA deadline amid delays in electronic manifests

May 08, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Shippers get new GRA deadline amid delays in electronic manifests

A new Customs system that is designed to reduce paperwork and modernize the processing to allow for the faster release of containers is facing some difficulties. A number of shippers who were given...

Man arrested for “attempting to defraud” NIS

May 08, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Man arrested for “attempting to defraud” NIS

A 40-year-old man on disability benefits was yesterday arrested after he allegedly attempted to defraud the National Insurance Scheme (NIS). According to NIS, David Ally, allegedly forged and...

What legacy?

May 08, 2018 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on What legacy?

The PPPC has been accused of departing from the legacy of Cheddi Jagan? What is this legacy that people speak of? Cheddi Jagan was Premier of Guyana during colonial Guyana. He was the father of the...

Bishop Edghill’s response does not surprise

May 08, 2018 KNews Letters Comments Off on Bishop Edghill’s response does not surprise

Editor, It comes as no shock that Bishop Edghill would deny ever having a conversation with me, during the ICCC conference in 2005. The conference was held in Montego Bay, Jamaica. I am not...

Lincoln Lewis’s criticism of Rusal was unjustified

May 08, 2018 KNews Letters Comments Off on Lincoln Lewis’s criticism of Rusal was unjustified

Dear Editor, Please allow me to reply to Lincoln Lewis’s column ‘Eye on Guyana’ that appeared in the Kaieteur News on the 6th May, 2018. Lincoln Lewis was quick to criticize. In his...

Mark Benschop exposes the PPP’s moral rut

May 08, 2018 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on Mark Benschop exposes the PPP’s moral rut

The PPP has been a clown on parade since it lost power. Not a day passes in this country without the PPP putting on several shows that picture them as clowns in a circus. In fact, it is three years...

Some advice for the Government and Opposition

May 08, 2018 KNews Letters Comments Off on Some advice for the Government and Opposition

Dear Editor, I am making a public appeal to Government and the Opposition to stop stifling peace and crippling progress by being inflexible. They must stop refusing to communicate respectfully and...

Seeing corruption as the backbone of economic development

May 08, 2018 KNews Letters Comments Off on Seeing corruption as the backbone of economic development

Dear Editor, Last year Guyana ranked 100 out of 188 countries in the corruption perceptions index, with a score of 38 out of a maximum of 100 points, according to TradingEconomics.com. But this is...

Is this a case of satire?

May 08, 2018 KNews Letters Comments Off on Is this a case of satire?

Dear Editor I can understand Mr Persaud’s concern about the level of public spending by our Prime Minister and other Ministers of Government at a time when Guyana’s economy is not doing well....

Ignoring the local content promise

May 08, 2018 KNews Letters Comments Off on Ignoring the local content promise

Dear Editor, The oil giant Exxon Mobil has imported its own brand of cronyism to the shores of Guyana. In 2016, then Country Manager of Exxon Mobil, Jeff Simmons, is on record stating that the...

Labour has been relegated from a Ministry to a Department

May 08, 2018 KNews Letters Comments Off on Labour has been relegated from a Ministry to a Department

Dear Editor: The opportunity is being taken to respond to letter titled “Unionists must work for workers not themselves” (SN 7th May, 2018). B. Winslow Parris’s letter is revealing on my front...

Improvements in Guyana’s press freedom ranking

May 08, 2018 KNews Letters Comments Off on Improvements in Guyana’s press freedom ranking

Dear Editor, In observance of World Press Freedom Day on May 3, 2018, the Government has already assured its commitment in relation to the free flow of information in Guyana. Prime Minister, Moses...

The power of the campaign promise

May 08, 2018 KNews Letters Comments Off on The power of the campaign promise

Dear Editor, I hereby commend Peeping Tom for the column entitled “Promises, promises, promises. It was spot on. To expand on his enlightenment, I state that when politicians go on pre-election...

WE MUST INSIST…

May 08, 2018 KNews Editorial Comments Off on WE MUST INSIST…

A few weeks ago, there was a march through the streets of Georgetown to bring awareness to the rampant corrupt practices that have plagued the nation. It was meant to alert the public that corruption...

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The unconscionable terms of the PSA establish a case for renegotiation

The unconscionable terms, The unconscionable terms Peeping Tom… Kaieteur News- The Production Sharing Agreement (PSA)... more