October 2018

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Dog food vendor beaten by inmates hours after remanded for gun find

Oct 14, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Dog food vendor beaten by inmates hours after remanded for gun find

A Sophia man was badly beaten hours after he was remanded on Friday. According to the police, the man was charged and remanded to prison Friday, October 12, 2018. “About 20:30 hours on the said...

The Story Within The Story… Questionable medical schools; too many C-Sections for moms

Oct 14, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on The Story Within The Story… Questionable medical schools; too many C-Sections for moms

By Leonard Gildarie What I am about to write will raise the hackles in especially hospitals, but then again that is the idea. I am hoping that we can spark some debate and a look at the operations of...

Balwant Singh Hospital moves for contempt against Food and Drugs Chief

Oct 14, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Balwant Singh Hospital moves for contempt against Food and Drugs Chief

A city hospital is battling the Government Analyst – Food and Drug Department (GA-FDD) over pharmaceuticals being imported. Dr. Balwant Singh’s Hospital is seeking jail time for GA-FDD’s head,...

Ansa McAL on board with GTT’s Pinktober Event

Oct 14, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Ansa McAL on board with GTT’s Pinktober Event

After several rounds of negotiation, ANSA McAL Trading Limited and the Guyana Telephone and Telegraph Company (GTT) have sealed a partnership for GTT’s highly anticipated Pinktober event. The...

Interesting Creature… Desert red bat

Oct 14, 2018 KNews Features / Columnists, Interesting Creatures in Guyana Comments Off on Interesting Creature… Desert red bat

The desert red bat (Lasiurus blossevillii), also known as the western red bat, is one of many species of bats. This particular one is from the Vespertilionidae family, which is the largest bat...

ImmigrationINFO: Immigration Case about Indefinite Detention Hits the U.S. Supreme Court

Oct 14, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on ImmigrationINFO: Immigration Case about Indefinite Detention Hits the U.S. Supreme Court

Next Wednesday, the U.S. Supreme Court (with Trump new appointee, Justice Kavanaugh) will decide Nielsen v. Preap and determine whether thousands of longtime U.S. residents face indefinite detention...

Book Review…A tale of modern-day slavery raises troubling questions

Oct 14, 2018 KNews Book Review…, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Book Review…A tale of modern-day slavery raises troubling questions

Book: Praise Songs for the Butterflies Author: Bernice L. McFadden Critic: Dr Glenville Ashby, PhD Bernice L. McFadden’s Praise Songs for the Butterflies weaves through the steely web of human...

A brief homeless chronicle outside Bourda Market

Oct 14, 2018 KNews Countryman, Features / Columnists Comments Off on A brief homeless chronicle outside Bourda Market

By Dennis Nichols I started this week’s piece on Wednesday, October 10 – just another midweek day, as the world whirled and Hurricane Michael, not that far away, tore into Florida’s...

Regions One, Four, Nine CHWs undergoing Midwifery training” ministry working to acquire equipment to deal with postpartum haemorrhage

Oct 14, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Regions One, Four, Nine CHWs undergoing Midwifery training” ministry working to acquire equipment to deal with postpartum haemorrhage

Twenty-five Community Health Workers (CHWs) from Regions One, Four and Nine have begun training in Midwifery. This is the third phase of an $8M Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) funded project...

Teachers and the numbers game

Oct 14, 2018 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on Teachers and the numbers game

The teachers have been shortchanged by their union. But this was expected given the haphazard manner in which the union conducted its negotiations with the Ministry of Education. Teachers should do...

South Rupununi Safari makes inaugural trip into Brazil

Oct 14, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on South Rupununi Safari makes inaugural trip into Brazil

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs is collaborating with Rainforest Tours to host the first ever South Rupununi Safari: Brazil Edition. The safari was launched Friday at the Ministry’s Takuba Lodge,...

38 arrested, stolen bikes, items seized in police raids on East Coast

Oct 14, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on 38 arrested, stolen bikes, items seized in police raids on East Coast

Nearly 40 persons have been arrested, and a plethora of items seized during the Guyana Police Force’s operation, “Restore Order”. Reports indicate that ranks of GPF conducted this operation...

Strongman-ism in the House of the Americas

Oct 14, 2018 KNews Features / Columnists, Ronald Sanders Comments Off on Strongman-ism in the House of the Americas

By Sir Ronald Sanders In one year and eight months’ time, the present holder of the Office of Secretary-General of the Organisation of American States (OAS) will end his current term. Judging...

Complaints against car dealers can be corrected

Oct 14, 2018 KNews Consumer Concerns, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Complaints against car dealers can be corrected

by PAT DIAL In Guyana, the overwhelming majority of motorcars now imported are either second-hand, reconditioned or sold as is from a previous owner. Until the last three or four decades, only new...

World Standards Day 2018…A message from the Guyana National Bureau of Standards

Oct 14, 2018 KNews Features / Columnists, Standards in Focus Comments Off on World Standards Day 2018…A message from the Guyana National Bureau of Standards

Today October 14, 2018, we celebrate World Standards Day, and as the national standards agency, the Guyana National Bureau of Standards (GNBS) is part and parcel of this annual celebration. The theme...

Wake up Linden, ignore the loud noise and focus on the issues!

Oct 14, 2018 KNews Letters Comments Off on Wake up Linden, ignore the loud noise and focus on the issues!

Dear Editor; With just about four weeks to go before Local Government Elections; campaigning from all parties continues to grow aggressively in the mining town of Linden. Posters and fancy banners...

Region Four recognises teachers for World Teachers Day

Oct 14, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Region Four recognises teachers for World Teachers Day

After a specially arranged interfaith service and brunch, over 300 teachers were treated as part of the Department of Education Region Four, World Teachers Day observance. The function which was held...

Region 9 health workers receive antenatal tool kits

Oct 14, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Region 9 health workers receive antenatal tool kits

Community Health Workers (CHW) from various communities in Region Nine, received tool kits for improved antenatal care as the Ministry of Public Health continues its fight against maternal and child...

Mr. Lincoln Lewis’ misleading representations

Oct 14, 2018 KNews Letters Comments Off on Mr. Lincoln Lewis’ misleading representations

This is the final part of a letter by former Prime Minister Samuel Hinds. Dear Editor, Mr. Lewis charges us with breaking up the Guyana Bauxite Workers Pension Plan, “the single largest pool of...

Reflecting on the voices of the people Friday nights at Stabroek Market Square

Oct 14, 2018 KNews Eye on Guyana with Lincoln Lewis, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Reflecting on the voices of the people Friday nights at Stabroek Market Square

Stabroek Market Square is one of the places to visit on Friday nights. It represents the University of Life, teeming with people from diverse background and experiences. Farmers arrive on the...

Guyana’s approach to budget preparation is disharmonious with a modern, people-centered approach

Oct 14, 2018 KNews Letters Comments Off on Guyana’s approach to budget preparation is disharmonious with a modern, people-centered approach

Dear Editor, My attention was drawn to an article, which recently appeared in the local press under a headline stating; ‘Guyana’s budget process has limited public engagement, insufficient...

Is this how the PPP does things?

Oct 14, 2018 KNews Letters Comments Off on Is this how the PPP does things?

Dear Editor, As a businessman who has supported the PPP and the Vergenoegen NDC, which overlooks the social matters of my village, I wish to bring to attention to those in authority of this blatant...

A professional overseer

Oct 14, 2018 KNews Letters Comments Off on A professional overseer

Dear Editor, I thank you for allowing me a space in your very well read newspaper. It is a fact that we sometimes dwell on the negatives without highlighting the many strides in our country. As a...

Kudos to Guyana

Oct 14, 2018 KNews Letters Comments Off on Kudos to Guyana

Dear Editor, The Amerindian Action Movement of Guyana (TAAMOG) wishes to extend congratulations to the Guyana Forestry Commission (GFC) for scoring the Lowest Dforestation rate of 0.0489. This is...

US-CHINA TRADE WAR ESCALATES

Oct 14, 2018 KNews Editorial Comments Off on US-CHINA TRADE WAR ESCALATES

On September 13, 2018, President Trump imposed tariffs of US$200 billion on Chinese goods entering the United States. It was no surprise. During the 2016 presidential election campaign, Trump had...

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Chase’s and Santa Rosa eye top spot as Republic Bank Schools...

Nov 08, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – Santa Rosa Secondary and defending champions Chase’s Academic Foundation sit primed on seven points as action continues today in the Republic Bank Secondary School Football...

A capital city beyond redemption?

Nov 08, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – Georgetown has become so dysfunctional, so hopelessly disorganised and so resistant to correction that one must ask whether the effort to save it is worth the trouble. The greatest mistake successive governments have made is not recognising that Georgetown should have long been...

A Divided World: A Commonwealth Opportunity

Nov 01, 2026

By Sir Ronald Sanders (Kaieteur News) – When Commonwealth leaders gather in Antigua and Barbuda from 1st to 4th November, they should address a question that reaches beyond their association: how can countries of different size, wealth and outlook sustain cooperation in a world increasingly...

The epitaph on Mr. Gavin Douglas’ tombstone should read: Murdered...

Nov 08, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – Another Guyanese dead, and in degraded fashion, at the hands of State agents. A State that now stands as a monument to how much the PPP Govt. has criminalized it. When not one alleged rogue cop, with blood in his eye, but four of them, can deliver blows on a man that’s...

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