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Overseas-based Guyanese launches Programme on Etiquette in Linden

Jul 13, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Overseas-based Guyanese launches Programme on Etiquette in Linden

The Motto reads, “I am a PEARL! The world doesn’t owe me anything. I have a lot to offer the world.” A five-day workshop called PEARL – Poised, Elegant, Ambitious, Respectable...

Regent Street vagrant dies weeks after car crash …Police seek public’s assistance to identifybody

Jul 13, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Regent Street vagrant dies weeks after car crash …Police seek public’s assistance to identifybody

“Carpenter”, his only name given, has died at the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation. “Carpenter” was one of the vagrants who was run over by a Toyota motor car PKK 7006 on June 19, last,...

Closing arguments to be presented in cause of death trial

Jul 13, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Closing arguments to be presented in cause of death trial

Almost one year after a 64-year-old woman was struck down and killed while attempting to cross the Herstelling Public Road, East Bank Demerara, the prosecutor and defence will soon be making their...

Teens to benefit from ‘Outliers Zone’ financial literacy workshop

Jul 13, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Teens to benefit from ‘Outliers Zone’ financial literacy workshop

Come this Sunday teenagers will be the target for and interactive ‘financial/wealth literacy Masterclass for teens’. The forum hosted by Outliers Zone will explore six basic financial strategies...

Murder charge against former GDF Captain…. Two more witnesses testify in PI

Jul 13, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Murder charge against former GDF Captain…. Two more witnesses testify in PI

Two more witnesses yesterday testified in the Preliminary Inquiry (PI) into the murder of Reona Payne, a travel agent, who was shot 14 times about her body, allegedly by former Guyana Defence Force...

Sagga murder… Magistrate defers yet another court hearing

Jul 13, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Sagga murder… Magistrate defers yet another court hearing

One month after two former policemen who are charged with the murder of businessman, Godfrey Scipio, voiced their dissatisfaction at the delay of the Preliminary Inquiry (PI), the matter was yet...

Canje Hindu temple burglarized.

Jul 13, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Canje Hindu temple burglarized.

The Cumberland Sri Radha Krishna Mandir, a Hindu temple at Cumberland Village, East Canje, Berbice was on Thursday broken into and burglarized. Equipment worth $500,000 were reportedly stolen by the...

Arrest warrant issued for convicted drug dealer

Jul 13, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Arrest warrant issued for convicted drug dealer

A drug dealer who was nabbed at the eastern section of the Berbice River Bridge has been found guilty. However he was absent from Court and an arrest warrant has been issued for his arrest. The man,...

Liars are dangerous

Jul 13, 2018 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on Liars are dangerous

“You hear lie? That is lie! Lie? You hear lie? Teacher Percy say if you tell a lie, you going to Hell as soon as you die.”–Lord Nelson – King Liar All the holy books of the world...

One of the deadly sins of this country

Jul 13, 2018 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on One of the deadly sins of this country

Against the background of the Simona Broomes incident outside the New Thriving Restaurant at Providence, I would like to offer brief notes on the nature of narratives, discourses and polemics in...

Accreditation to improve competence of GA-FDD

Jul 13, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Accreditation to improve competence of GA-FDD

The work of the Government Analyst Food and Drug Department [GA-FDD] is expected to be much more reliable. This development is linked to the fact that the body was recently conferred with the status...

CDB, PAHO train regional mental health pros to respond in aftermath of a natural disaster

Jul 13, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on CDB, PAHO train regional mental health pros to respond in aftermath of a natural disaster

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados (CMC) – The Caribbean Development Bank (CDB) and the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) have embarked on a project to build resilience and psychosocial support across the...

No Excuses for Min. Broomes

Jul 13, 2018 KNews Letters Comments Off on No Excuses for Min. Broomes

Dear Editor, Please permit me the space to comment on what appears to be a very disgusting and deplorable display and reckless use of power by Minister Simona Broomes and her driver with regards the...

Bharrat Jagdeo is trying to weasel out of the Berbice Bridge deal

Jul 13, 2018 KNews Letters Comments Off on Bharrat Jagdeo is trying to weasel out of the Berbice Bridge deal

Dear Editor, I note in the Thursday, July 12 edition of the PPP aligned Guyana Times newspaper, an article under the headline “BBCI wants Minister Patterson at negotiation table” appearing on...

GWI making strides with equitable water supply across country

Jul 13, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on GWI making strides with equitable water supply across country

The realisation of a seafood processing plant in Region One will require moves by the Guyana Water Incorporated [GWI] to direct some infrastructural investment in that section of the country. Plans...

Pardon persons jailed for petty amounts of marijuana

Jul 13, 2018 KNews Letters Comments Off on Pardon persons jailed for petty amounts of marijuana

Dear Editor, It always pains me when the lives of productive Guyanese men and women are disrupted and sometimes destroyed because of excessively harsh penalties inflicted on them for being found with...

Mental illness does not catalyze violence

Jul 13, 2018 KNews Letters Comments Off on Mental illness does not catalyze violence

Dear Editor, The February 14 shooting in a Florida High School once again brought to the fore the issue of the relationship between mental illness and violence. US President Donald Trump felt that...

Rystad Energy offers a wake up call

Jul 13, 2018 KNews Letters Comments Off on Rystad Energy offers a wake up call

Dear Editor, Like many, I was intrigued when I heard that Rystad Energy would be giving a presentation on Guyana’s oil industry. I was already somewhat familiar with Rystad’s general conclusions,...

The promise of a bright future

Jul 13, 2018 KNews Letters Comments Off on The promise of a bright future

Dear Editor, A lot of conversation here in recent months has focused on the nature and fairness of our deal with Exxon. Like many, I’ve been alarmed by claims that our government left money on the...

WHY NOT NATIONALIZE THE BERBICE RIVER BRIDGE?

Jul 13, 2018 KNews Letters Comments Off on WHY NOT NATIONALIZE THE BERBICE RIVER BRIDGE?

Editor, Why is Berbice being so severely discriminated against? Our national government seems comfortable with building, maintaining and subsiding the operation of a new Demerara River Bridge...

POSSESSION AND USE OF MARIJUANA

Jul 13, 2018 KNews Editorial Comments Off on POSSESSION AND USE OF MARIJUANA

Guyana is an inherently conservative country, in which people in general display an automatic tendency to resist any issue that has to do with change, such as the decriminalization of marijuana,...

IMF cautions Govt against speedy investment with oil money

Jul 12, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on IMF cautions Govt against speedy investment with oil money

…Says Guyana’s systems need rigourous assessment By Kiana Wilburg When the oil money comes on stream, there will be an inevitable pressure on the government to spend as quickly as possible on...

Felix dodges another Parliamentary meeting to explain unaccounted Haitians, Cubans

Jul 12, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Felix dodges another Parliamentary meeting to explain unaccounted Haitians, Cubans

Two attempts to have Minister of Citizenship, Winston Felix face questions at the Parliamentary Sectoral Committee on Foreign Affairs have been unsuccessful. The bi-partisan Committee is eager to...

Security guard gravely affected by Minister Broomes’ actions

Jul 12, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Security guard gravely affected by Minister Broomes’ actions

Sunday night’s incident between the Junior Minister in the Ministry of Natural Resources Simona Broomes, her driver and two security guards at a Providence Restaurant, saw the Minister making...

Child rapist gets third life sentence in five months

Jul 12, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Child rapist gets third life sentence in five months

A weeping Sheldon Lynch was locked away, yesterday, in the dark prisoner’s holding area where he maintained that he did not sexually penetrate an 11-year-old girl. He also claims that the little...

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Slingerz FC shines at Guyana Energy Conference and Youth Forum

The clock and the cloud

Peeping Tom… Kaieteur News- Time, as the ancients knew, is a trickster. It slips through the fingers of kings and commoners... more