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I support cash transfers to Guyanese households; it works all over the world

Aug 12, 2018 KNews Features / Columnists, Hinds' Sight with Dr. David Hinds Comments Off on I support cash transfers to Guyanese households; it works all over the world

The news-cycle this past week started with Professor Thomas, WPA co-leader and noted political-economist, proposing that government uses revenues from oil and gas to give cash transfers to every...

The only boots the AFC will wear are jumbie shoes

Aug 12, 2018 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on The only boots the AFC will wear are jumbie shoes

It is the season of political theatre and comical histrionics. Maybe the season began early because local government election is in the air. The AFC started the fun and Professor Clive Thomas...

Smith Congregational Church strives for new Minister’s Annex

Aug 12, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Smith Congregational Church strives for new Minister’s Annex

The Smith Memorial Congregational Church is constructing a new Minister’s Annex at its Brickdam location. The construction of the building has commenced and is expected to be completed by April...

Facts you should know about insect-borne diseases

Aug 12, 2018 KNews China’s Modus Operandi Comments Off on Facts you should know about insect-borne diseases

By Dr Zulfikar Bux Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine Being a tropical country, Guyana harbours quite a range of insects. We are exposed to these insects on a daily basis and it’s inevitable...

To protect and promote local democracy

Aug 12, 2018 KNews APNU Column, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on To protect and promote local democracy

Central government has a constitutional duty to support local democracy and the work of local democratic organs (municipalities and neighbourhood democratic councils). The failure of successive...

STATE ASSETS ARE BEING SLOWLY RECOVERED

Aug 12, 2018 KNews AFC Column, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on STATE ASSETS ARE BEING SLOWLY RECOVERED

Supporters of the opposition People’s Progressive Party (PPP) are expected to do a lot more complaining in coming weeks/months as the Special Organized Crime Unit (SOCU) and the State Assets...

GWI to reactivate additional well in Port Kaituma

Aug 12, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on GWI to reactivate additional well in Port Kaituma

Port Kaituma residents will soon benefit from the activation of yet another well, as works intensify to provide an alternative source of potable water for the community. Last month, GWI discovered...

Mother of teen who escaped from juvenile facility speaks out

Aug 12, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Mother of teen who escaped from juvenile facility speaks out

The mother of a 16-year-old boy who escaped from a juvenile detention centre last week has broken her silence. The teenager, who has an alarming rap sheet, is currently before the court on charges of...

Interesting Creatures… The pygmy marmoset

Aug 12, 2018 KNews Features / Columnists, Interesting Creatures in Guyana Comments Off on Interesting Creatures… The pygmy marmoset

The pygmy marmoset is technically the world’s smallest monkey, with an adult body weight of just 100 grams. Despite their small size, these little primates can leap up to five metres between the...

Some pros and cons of Cannabis ’high’ science for Guyana

Aug 12, 2018 KNews Countryman, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Some pros and cons of Cannabis ’high’ science for Guyana

By Dennis Nichols Ever heard of high science? No, not the kind linked with the metaphysical realm; it’s the science behind human use of one of the world’s oldest and most poorly-understood...

GTT complying with order for 350 new landlines every quarter – PUC

Aug 12, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on GTT complying with order for 350 new landlines every quarter – PUC

The Guyana Telephone and Telegraph Company (GTT) which was ordered last September to increase the number of new landlines, appears to be complying. According to figures provided by the regulator, the...

Barbados, Dominica and Ross: Debating the wrong issue

Aug 12, 2018 KNews Features / Columnists, Ronald Sanders Comments Off on Barbados, Dominica and Ross: Debating the wrong issue

By Sir Ronald Sanders The debate, particularly on social media, following the decision by Ross University School of Medicine to relocate from Dominica to Barbados, is about the wrong issue. Instead...

Finance Minister should reassess his thinking on the distribution of Oil wealth revenue surplus

Aug 12, 2018 KNews Letters Comments Off on Finance Minister should reassess his thinking on the distribution of Oil wealth revenue surplus

Dear Editor, I believe the Honourable Finance Minister may want to reassess his thinking on the distribution of oil wealth revenue surpluses. It’s obvious that a percentage has to be invested...

Crossing the Rubicon

Aug 12, 2018 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on Crossing the Rubicon

The AFC is ‘dead meat’. It had in January of 2015 forecast its own demise should it enter into an alliance with the PNCR. The AFC did not heed its own advice. It is now facing the...

Motorist tells court cyclist rode into him

Aug 12, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Motorist tells court cyclist rode into him

Ramanand Jagdeo who is charged with causing death by dangerous driving, on Tuesday told the court that it was the pedal cyclist who rode into the path of his vehicle which was traversing along the...

The Coalition is failing Guyana’s workers

Aug 12, 2018 KNews Letters Comments Off on The Coalition is failing Guyana’s workers

Dear Editor, The Finance Minister was reported to have announced that the economy grew by 4.5 percent in the first half of 2018. The Bureau of Statistics has long been suspected of being a part of...

Prof. Clive Thomas is onto something… let’s not shy away from conversation on its feasibility

Aug 12, 2018 KNews Eye on Guyana with Lincoln Lewis, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Prof. Clive Thomas is onto something… let’s not shy away from conversation on its feasibility

Not one pint of oil has flowed from this nation but the battle lines are already drawn as to who must have control and who must benefit. Nearly every country in the developing world has seen the...

Register sex offenders and enact a ‘three-strikes’ law

Aug 12, 2018 KNews Letters Comments Off on Register sex offenders and enact a ‘three-strikes’ law

Dear Editor, For more than two decades, I have written letters to the media and spoken on national television about the urgent need to register sex offenders and post signs outside the homes of...

Something must give; teachers cannot live on hot air

Aug 12, 2018 KNews Letters Comments Off on Something must give; teachers cannot live on hot air

Dear Editor, Ms. Corretta McDonald, the General Secretary of the Guyana Teacher’s Union in November 2015, updated the nation to the fact that the agreement arrived at with the PPP Government will...

Minister of Culture, Director of Art still to meet with Guyana United Artists

Aug 12, 2018 KNews Letters Comments Off on Minister of Culture, Director of Art still to meet with Guyana United Artists

Dear editior Almost two weeks have passed since the Guyana United Artists (G.U.A) presented directly by hand a letter to the Ministry of Social Cohesion, Culture, Youth and Sport, for Dr. George...

Body found in # 1 Canal trench still unidentified

Aug 12, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Body found in # 1 Canal trench still unidentified

One day after a male of East Indian ancestry, was fished out of a trench at Vauxhall, # 1 Canal, West Bank Demerara, the body has still not been identified. The body was discovered on Friday around...

La Penitence Market vendor shot in head…Prosecution will be forced to close case if final witness fails to show

Aug 12, 2018 KNews Court Stories, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on La Penitence Market vendor shot in head…Prosecution will be forced to close case if final witness fails to show

A stern warning was sent out on Friday by Chief Magistrate Ann McLennan to a police prosecutor. This was the second time a witness who has to testify on behalf of the prosecution in a particular...

Who has done more for national cohesion than the Warriors?

Aug 12, 2018 KNews Letters Comments Off on Who has done more for national cohesion than the Warriors?

Dear Editor, After being at Providence, I wish to point out the seminal contribution the Guyana Amazon Warriors are making to our national development. First, there is the matter of “national...

Water refillers can improve their operations and water quality with national standard

Aug 12, 2018 KNews Features / Columnists, Standards in Focus Comments Off on Water refillers can improve their operations and water quality with national standard

Recently publicized findings of the Government Analyst Food and Drug Department, on the quality of water produced by some bottled water suppliers, have created a major cause for concern by consumers....

Emancipation – Looking beyond the celebrations

Aug 12, 2018 KNews Consumer Concerns, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Emancipation – Looking beyond the celebrations

BY PAT DIAL Over the last week, we have had a number of commemorative activities to mark the Emancipation of our Guyanese ancestors from plantation slavery on 1st August, 1834. Though slavery existed...

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