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This nation is treading in dangerous waters in handling of the teachers’ grievances

Oct 12, 2018 KNews Letters Comments Off on This nation is treading in dangerous waters in handling of the teachers’ grievances

Dear Editor, There is a disturbing comment attributed to President David Granger in the article entitled, “Union’s concerns for joint review- Granger ‘astonished’ at new matter raised” (SN,...

COPING WITH MENTAL HEALTH ISSUES

Oct 12, 2018 KNews Editorial Comments Off on COPING WITH MENTAL HEALTH ISSUES

On Wednesday October 10, last, many countries around the world, including Guyana, celebrated World Mental Health Day under the theme, “Young people and Mental Health in a Changing World.” First...

The saga of doing business in Guyana… City Council leases land, Lands and Survey sells it, CH&PA halts construction

Oct 11, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on The saga of doing business in Guyana… City Council leases land, Lands and Survey sells it, CH&PA halts construction

A project to construct a gas station and fast food outlet on a piece of land on Mandela Avenue is now in limbo. The land was first leased by the Mayor of City Councillors of Georgetown. That same...

Natural Resource Fund, Institutional Oversight and Transparency

Oct 11, 2018 KNews Letters Comments Off on Natural Resource Fund, Institutional Oversight and Transparency

Dear Editor, I was pleased to have been invited by Dr. Raphael Hazel to respond to a Green Paper on the Natural Resource Fund (NRF) being proposed by the Guyana Government in light of the recent Oil...

City accountants highlight difficulties tracking M&CC spending

Oct 11, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on City accountants highlight difficulties tracking M&CC spending

Accounting officials attached to the Georgetown Mayor and City Council, (M&CC) have highlighted a number issues associated with keeping track of spending at City Hall. The officials testified...

SOCU begins probe into Panama rice fiasco

Oct 11, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on SOCU begins probe into Panama rice fiasco

The police probe into how thousands of bags of the wrong rice ended up in Panama has begun. Yesterday, two officials of the Guyana Rice Producers Association Action Committee met with investigators...

EPA Head begins review of National Oil Spill Contingency Plan

Oct 11, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on EPA Head begins review of National Oil Spill Contingency Plan

…To advocate for clearly defined roles for response partners By Kiana Wilburg Head of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Dr. Vincent Adams, has commenced a review of the draft...

Businessman beaten, son shot in the mouth during Berbice home invasion – three held

Oct 11, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Businessman beaten, son shot in the mouth during Berbice home invasion – three held

Bandits shot a businessman’s son in the mouth and beat his 52-year-old father during a brazen robbery at the family’s Cromarty Farm, Berbice residence at around 18.00 hrs yesterday. Balram Kumar,...

Works commence on US$100M Pegasus business suites

Oct 11, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Works commence on US$100M Pegasus business suites

Works on the Pegasus Suites and Corporate Centre have commenced on owner Robert Badal’s Kingston property, next to the current Pegasus Hotel. The upcoming hotel represents one of the largest...

Salary increase for public school teachers… GTU, Education optimistic after two-hour meeting

Oct 11, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Salary increase for public school teachers… GTU, Education optimistic after two-hour meeting

Ministry to present matrix of figures for discussion tomorrow “They can sleep easy tonight knowing that something good is expected to come on Friday.” These were the words of General Secretary of...

Dismissal of fraud charges against former GRDB official… SOCU lays blame on Special Prosecutors

Oct 11, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Dismissal of fraud charges against former GRDB official… SOCU lays blame on Special Prosecutors

Head of the Special Organized Crime Unit, (SOCU), Sydney James believes that that a breakdown in communication on the part of the attorneys appointed to specially prosecute the fraud charges brought...

Female pedal cyclist killed 17 years after losing daughter in road accident

Oct 11, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Female pedal cyclist killed 17 years after losing daughter in road accident

Seventeen years after losing her little daughter in a road accident, a 49-year-old mother was killed at around 07.45 hrs yesterday in a collision with a motorcyclist. The accident occurred on the...

De town Clown and de Clown Clerk want mek Guyana a circus

Oct 11, 2018 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on De town Clown and de Clown Clerk want mek Guyana a circus

When Jagdeo was President he do some things that people only use to read about in dem story bout Africa. In Africa dem got leaders who just like Jagdeo. Dem get rich because dem tek wha didn’t...

Judge to rule on whether court has jurisdiction to hear challenge to Local Government boundaries

Oct 11, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Judge to rule on whether court has jurisdiction to hear challenge to Local Government boundaries

Justice Gino Persaud is expected to rule next Monday on whether the High Court has jurisdiction to hear a challenge which the Peoples Progressive Party (PPP) has mounted against the State regarding...

Guyana’s budget process has limited public engagement, insufficient transparency, and weak oversight – IDB

Oct 11, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Guyana’s budget process has limited public engagement, insufficient transparency, and weak oversight – IDB

By Kiana Wilburg The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) is of the view that Guyana’s budget implementation could be improved as capital expenditure has consistently performed below expectations....

BCB/Pepsi 50-Overs Tournament Albion CC, Port Mourant CC, Rose Hall Canje CC, Young Warriors CC register victories

Oct 11, 2018 KNews Sports Comments Off on BCB/Pepsi 50-Overs Tournament Albion CC, Port Mourant CC, Rose Hall Canje CC, Young Warriors CC register victories

The Berbice Cricket Board on Saturday last started another cricket tournament for the year when it hosted the first round of the Pepsi 50-Overs Tournament. The Tournament is being contested by...

UDFA, MSC meet tonight to plot course for GTT Senior Football League resumption

Oct 11, 2018 KNews Sports Comments Off on UDFA, MSC meet tonight to plot course for GTT Senior Football League resumption

The uncertainty surrounding the restart of the 2017 GTT Senior League Football Championship, which is under the Upper Demerara Football Association, could see it resuming after a meeting tonight...

Ramnaresh Sarwan bats with BCB for 2nd successive year to host U-17 Tourney

Oct 11, 2018 KNews Sports Comments Off on Ramnaresh Sarwan bats with BCB for 2nd successive year to host U-17 Tourney

“It is quite refreshing how the fortune of Berbice Cricket has been transformed in just a few months. I have full confidence in the leadership of the Berbice Cricket Board and I am happy to renew...

Belt and Road MoU with China will be released when I am ready – Greenidge

Oct 11, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Belt and Road MoU with China will be released when I am ready – Greenidge

The Government will release to the public the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) signed between Guyana and China to execute loan-financed projects under the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). This is...

Free eye clinic at GPHC, among activities to mark World Sight Day

Oct 11, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Free eye clinic at GPHC, among activities to mark World Sight Day

Seventy-five percent of all blindness is avoidable. Given the fact that the majority of blindness is treatable or preventable altogether, there is need for continuous sensitisation to keep members of...

Final match in 1st half of Regional Super50 Jaguars clash with Volcanoes today at BLA

Oct 11, 2018 KNews Sports Comments Off on Final match in 1st half of Regional Super50 Jaguars clash with Volcanoes today at BLA

By Sean Devers in Trinidad In association with Vnet, Regal, Noble House Seafoods & Cascadia Hotel Guyana Jaguars enter today’s final round of the first half of zone ‘A’ of the Regional...

Trade union board non-existent one year after court ruling against Govt.

Oct 11, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Trade union board non-existent one year after court ruling against Govt.

There is deep worry that hundreds of workers will continue to be affected by the absence of the Trade Union Recognition and Certification Board (TURCB). In 2017, the board which was put in place...

Rape trial ends in hung jury

Oct 11, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Rape trial ends in hung jury

The trial of Joel Patterson who is accused of raping an eleven year old girl ended yesterday with a hung jury. Patterson, who was on trial before Justice Jo Ann Barlow and a 12 member jury, pleaded...

GABF’s vandalised signboard fixed

Oct 11, 2018 KNews Sports Comments Off on GABF’s vandalised signboard fixed

Weeks after the Main Street signboard depicting the victorious Guyanese men’s team that won the nation’s first Caribbean Championship in June this year had been vandalised, the Guyana Amateur...

Hamilton Green 9-A-Side Inter-Ward/ Village Cup Ten days to go

Oct 11, 2018 KNews Sports Comments Off on Hamilton Green 9-A-Side Inter-Ward/ Village Cup Ten days to go

In just ten days time, the thirty-two invited teams will have the opportunity to battle for the coveted first prize of $400,000 and the championship trophy compliments of the Ministry of Citizenship....

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Deeply concerned about political dysfunction in society

Dear Editor The Guyana Trades Union Congress (GTUC) is deeply concerned about the political dysfunction in society that is... more