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What I saw at St. Joseph Mercy Hospital

Jul 12, 2018 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on What I saw at St. Joseph Mercy Hospital

I visited Saint Joseph Mercy Hospital on Tuesday morning and this column is about two observations. The first one is the influx of Cubans applying for American visas to travel to the U.S. The...

Jul 12, 2018 KNews Letters Comments Off on

DEAR EDITOR, I love disciplinary organisations. I have a passion for them because they instill proper behaviour in young men and women and give them more control of their will-power so they have...

The Guyanese people know this procurement isn’t right

Jul 12, 2018 KNews Letters Comments Off on The Guyanese people know this procurement isn’t right

DEAR EDITOR, The APNU+AFC administration has been caught again, with its pants down. After more than a year of promises that there would be no sole-sourcing of medicines, it is now revealed that the...

The Scourge of Domestic Violence in Guyana

Jul 12, 2018 KNews Letters Comments Off on The Scourge of Domestic Violence in Guyana

DEAR EDITOR, I felt it absolutely necessary that I say something about this epidemic of domestic violence sweeping Guyana from one end to the other. This plague is not restricted to just one...

Young, innocent wildlife being sold on Facebook

Jul 12, 2018 KNews Letters Comments Off on Young, innocent wildlife being sold on Facebook

DEAR EDITOR, A Facebook friend concerned with wildlife welfare in Guyana recently forwarded me a very disturbing picture of a capuchin monkey being marketed on Facebook. It showed a baby capuchin in...

Rice cultivation down in Berbice

Jul 12, 2018 KNews Letters Comments Off on Rice cultivation down in Berbice

DEAR EDITOR, In Guyana while the Ministry of Agriculture is spending $40 million this year on improved rice varieties, enhanced rice production and improved quality, huge acreage of rice is being...

Jul 12, 2018 KNews Letters Comments Off on

DEAR EDITOR, I take the time to reply once more to questions repeated by Rev Gideon Cecil in a letter in your newspaper on July 9, 2018. He asks why there has been such a long delay in the...

Political volunteers

Jul 12, 2018 KNews Letters Comments Off on Political volunteers

DEAR EDITOR, There was a bemusing ticklish call for “a Third Political Force” to fulfill a need in the political landscape of the country. This aspect of our political history should be well...

This lack of customer service from GTT is utterly disrespectful

Jul 12, 2018 KNews Letters Comments Off on This lack of customer service from GTT is utterly disrespectful

DEAR EDITOR, Allow me some space in your newspaper to vent my frustration with GTT. It has been over a month since my landline service was disrupted because the telephone pole upon which the GTT...

CARIBBEAN COURT OF JUSTICE VS THE PRIVY COUNCIL

Jul 12, 2018 KNews Editorial Comments Off on CARIBBEAN COURT OF JUSTICE VS THE PRIVY COUNCIL

The recent ruling against presidential term limits in Guyana by the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) is revealing. The CCJ is the final court of appeal, replacing the Privy Council. Guyana is not the...

Govt. rejects 150% toll increase for Berbice Bridge

Jul 11, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Govt. rejects 150% toll increase for Berbice Bridge

The Government has rejected the proposal of a 150% increase in tolls for the Berbice River Crossing. The Government in a statement yesterday said that it stands by its decision to reduce...

I don’t need other party members at my press conferences – Jagdeo

Jul 11, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on I don’t need other party members at my press conferences – Jagdeo

By Abena Rockcliffe-Campbell Does Guyana have a one-man political opposition? That’s the impression being given each time the parliamentary opposition holds a press conference at which Opposition...

Police seize private chartered aircraft with suspected false registration

Jul 11, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Police seize private chartered aircraft with suspected false registration

– convicted charter company owner, several Venezuelans detained Michael Brassington, who was jailed in the US in 2011 following a luxury jet crash, is in custody with six Venezuelans following...

Pandit, son found dead with stab wounds in C/ville home – One suspect in custody

Jul 11, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Pandit, son found dead with stab wounds in C/ville home – One suspect in custody

Deonarine Liliah, a 61-year-old Pandit and businessman, and his 28-year old-son Gopaul Liliah were found dead yesterday in their lot 25 Craig Street, Campbellville home with stab wounds about their...

Getaway driver nabbed while changing number plates

Jul 11, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Getaway driver nabbed while changing number plates

– following robbery of bank customer Police have detained the driver of a getaway car after he stopped to change the number plates of the vehicle. He is believed to be linked to an attack at...

“I feel disrespected and I feel targeted” – Minister Broomes

Jul 11, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on “I feel disrespected and I feel targeted” – Minister Broomes

In what has become a highly publicized story, after a minister claimed that a security guard cocked a gun and pointed it at her, and her driver, on Sunday night, when she was attempting to access a...

GTT selling Blaze but giving people smoke

Jul 11, 2018 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists Comments Off on GTT selling Blaze but giving people smoke

Clement Rotie sit down and seh how goat ain’t bite him. That was when dem boys ask him if he gun run fuh president. Dem boys seh if goat bite Rotie then wild cow kick Simona. She been doing a set...

SARU to help evict persons occupying Gov’t living quarters rent-free – PAC hears

Jul 11, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on SARU to help evict persons occupying Gov’t living quarters rent-free – PAC hears

The State Asset Recovery Unit (SARU) has been asked to assist with the eviction of several persons, who have been occupying government living quarters rent -free. The Auditor General report in 2016...

CWI Regional U-17 tourney… Serieux slams ton as Windward Islands overcome Guyana by 59 runs

Jul 11, 2018 KNews Sports Comments Off on CWI Regional U-17 tourney… Serieux slams ton as Windward Islands overcome Guyana by 59 runs

By Zaheer Mohamed in Trinidad and Tobago in association with VNet Communications, Regal Stationery and Computer Centre, Mike’s Pharmacy and Bel Air Rubis. Led by a fine century from Garvin Serieux,...

CASA Junior Squash C/Ships… Gifted Wilshire does it again! – Gold for Fernandes (GU-11) & Alphonso (BU-13), Silver for Cadogan

Jul 11, 2018 KNews Sports Comments Off on CASA Junior Squash C/Ships… Gifted Wilshire does it again! – Gold for Fernandes (GU-11) & Alphonso (BU-13), Silver for Cadogan

The third day of action at the Caribbean Area Squash Association’s (CASA) Junior Championships at the Liguanea Club in Kingston, Jamaica saw 14-year-old Shomari Wilshire successfully defending his...

Guyana Cup organisers releases race programme, sponsors pitch in

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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