July 17, 2018

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Basic Needs Trust Fund targets manufacturing, agriculture as workshop commences

Jul 17, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Basic Needs Trust Fund targets manufacturing, agriculture as workshop commences

Entering its ninth phase of operation, the Caribbean Development Bank (CDB)’s Basic Needs Trust Fund (BNTF) continues towards improving the quality of life for the most vulnerable in society....

‘Reds’ Perreira looking forward to Berbice trip as Guest of the BCB

Jul 17, 2018 KNews Sports Comments Off on ‘Reds’ Perreira looking forward to Berbice trip as Guest of the BCB

Former Chairman of the Guyana National Sports Council and OECS Sport Director, Joseph ‘Reds’ Perreira, is looking forward to his four-day stay in Berbice, as guest of the Berbice Cricket Board...

US group urges Guyana president to review minister’s alleged parking lot actions

Jul 17, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on US group urges Guyana president to review minister’s alleged parking lot actions

NEW YORK (CMC) – The president of the Brooklyn, New York-based Caribbean Guyana Institute for Democracy (CGID) is urging Guyana’s President David Granger to review the alleged actions of Junior...

Grass to be left on Providence track for Sunday’s ODI

Jul 17, 2018 KNews Sports Comments Off on Grass to be left on Providence track for Sunday’s ODI

By Sean Devers Windies Skipper Jason Holder has called for quicker pitches for the home series against Bangladesh and according to Head Curator at Providence, Wazim Habib, the track for Sunday’s...

Multi-agency meeting convened to address situation fleeing Venezuelans

Jul 17, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Multi-agency meeting convened to address situation fleeing Venezuelans

Minister of Citizenship, Winston Felix, yesterday convened a multi-agency meeting at the Department of Citizenship, aimed at coordinating a response to the migration of Venezuelans into Guyana...

Jonathan Saunders is Region Four’s top special needs NGSA performer

Jul 17, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Jonathan Saunders is Region Four’s top special needs NGSA performer

Ten year- old, Jonathan Saunders was among some 14,500 students to sit the National Grade Six Assessment, (NGSA) examination, last March. He emerged the top performing student among those with...

Personal trainer jailed for four years for grabbing teen’s breast

Jul 17, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Personal trainer jailed for four years for grabbing teen’s breast

A personal trainer was yesterday sentenced to four years imprisonment for grabbing the breast of a 14-year-old girl. Twenty-seven-year-old Michael Sampson, of Lot ‘B’ Plot ‘A’...

Court to rule on appeal over amendment to Sexual Offences Act

Jul 17, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Court to rule on appeal over amendment to Sexual Offences Act

The Court of Appeal is set to hand down a ruling on the constitutionality of amendments to Sexual Offences Act 2010. The matter is scheduled for decision next Tuesday at the Court of Appeal. The case...

Govt. warns Toshaos against pillaging village assets

Jul 17, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Govt. warns Toshaos against pillaging village assets

Government has indicated a keen interest in curbing corruption in Indigenous Peoples’ communities. Minister of Indigenous Peoples’ Affairs, Sydney Allicock has warned that “Toshaos who...

Jury convicts man, 66, of child rape

Jul 17, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Jury convicts man, 66, of child rape

After almost two hours of deliberation, a 12-member mixed jury convicted 66-year-old Abdool Jamil of having sexual intercourse with a 10-year-old girl in 2014. Jamil, who was represented by...

Fix major impediments to effective expenditure management – IMF tells Guyana

Jul 17, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Fix major impediments to effective expenditure management – IMF tells Guyana

Guyana’s extractive industry is poised to usher transformational wealth; the kind that will see an overall augmentation of the nation’s economic performance. But if the authorities are to truly...

Woman among quartet charged for murder of phone card vendor

Jul 17, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Woman among quartet charged for murder of phone card vendor

Four persons, including a 25-year-old woman and two men accused of committing an armed robbery several weeks ago, were charged yesterday with the shooting death of phone card vendor Ron Mansfield at...

Too many patients diagnosed late with Parkinson’s disease – Neurologist – but early screening could help with prevention

Jul 17, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Too many patients diagnosed late with Parkinson’s disease – Neurologist – but early screening could help with prevention

Patients suffering from Parkinson’s disease are almost never diagnosed at an early stage. This is according to Neurology Consultant at the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation [GPHC] Dr. Iliana...

Woman stabs brother for refusing to roll her a “joint”

Jul 17, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Woman stabs brother for refusing to roll her a “joint”

Cedicka Barrett, of 165 East Ruimveldt, appeared yesterday before Magistrate Judy Latchman to respond to a charge of unlawful wounding, read to her at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Courts. It is...

Granger and Nagamootoo lack self-confidence

Jul 17, 2018 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on Granger and Nagamootoo lack self-confidence

There are seven billion people who inhabit Planet Earth. Billions among them are parents. I am saying without fear of contradiction, a majority of parents by an imposition of nature instruct their...

President Granger should order a review of Minister Broomes’ actions

Jul 17, 2018 KNews Sports Comments Off on President Granger should order a review of Minister Broomes’ actions

Dear Editor: Hon. Simona Broomes, Minister within Guyana’s Ministry of Natural Resources, is from my hometown of Bartica. I’m fond of her. She is a grassroots politician who relates to the...

Unlocking the Providence narrative

Jul 17, 2018 KNews Letters Comments Off on Unlocking the Providence narrative

Dear Editor, It is difficult to comprehend Minister Broomes’s assertion, “I feel disrespected and I feel targeted” in the Chronicle, on account of her escapades at the New Thriving diner at...

WHEN WOULD GUYANESE STOP IMPUTING POLITICS INTO ALMOST EVERYTHING?

Jul 17, 2018 KNews Letters Comments Off on WHEN WOULD GUYANESE STOP IMPUTING POLITICS INTO ALMOST EVERYTHING?

Dear Editor, As a concerned Berbician and Guyanese and having noted indications in the media about the probability of a rate increase for the use of the Berbice River Bridge, I made a simple...

REGION THREE TENDER BOARD OPERATES ABOVE BOARD.

Jul 17, 2018 KNews Letters Comments Off on REGION THREE TENDER BOARD OPERATES ABOVE BOARD.

Dear Editor, With reference to an article on page 8 in Sunday’s Kaieteur Newspaper dated July 15, 2018 bearing the caption, “Region 3 REO decides which bids reach Tender Board,” the Regional...

Timely move by Minister Valerie Patterson

Jul 17, 2018 KNews Sports Comments Off on Timely move by Minister Valerie Patterson

Dear Editor, I read a piece in the newspapers this week. It had to do with the Department of Housing. Minister Valerie Patterson said that her ministry will reclaim large portions of land given away...

Those manufactured crime statistics

Jul 17, 2018 KNews Letters Comments Off on Those manufactured crime statistics

Dear Editor, After my last letter on security matters, a confidential source with strong ties to the APNU+AFC who will remain anonymous, called to plead with me not to be so critical of the Minister...

Some use power because they have it

Jul 17, 2018 KNews Letters Comments Off on Some use power because they have it

Dear Editor: Reporters have asked for my comments on the Simona Broomes saga, but up till now I remained quiet on it largely because I did not want to become part of the personal attacks on the...

POLITICAL REPRESENTATION

Jul 17, 2018 KNews Editorial Comments Off on POLITICAL REPRESENTATION

In a democratic country such as ours, those who compete for elected office have always promised to represent the interests of the people. This is known as political representation, which is...

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WIN cannot break the PPP/C’s political stranglehold unless it first...

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(Kaieteur News) – The results of the 2025 general and regional elections were a shocker. And anyone who now claims that they predicted the performance of We Invest in Nationhood (WIN) coming should seriously consider going into the fortune-telling business. WIN did not merely emerge from the...

Facts, Due Process and Fairness: The CCJ’s Test

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By Sir Ronald Sanders (Kaieteur News) – I have been an advocate of the Caribbean Court of Justice from its conception. In 2015, on the Court’s tenth anniversary, I described its creation as arguably the most significant institutional achievement of the English-speaking Caribbean since the...

The man from WIN slipped

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(Kaieteur News) – I think that the Hon Leader of the Opposition (LOO), Mr. Azruddin Mohamed, blundered. Three Local Govt seats in hand. One went to the Hon Ms. Amanza Walton-Desir’s Forward Guyana Movement. Good! The second should have gone to the APNU. Would have been reflective of...

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