December 11, 2018

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Surveillance campaign launched to combat measles and yellow fever

Dec 11, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Surveillance campaign launched to combat measles and yellow fever

Aimed at combating threats the likes of measles and yellow fever, the Ministry of Public Health has launched a tactical surveillance campaign. The Ministry announced the campaign Sunday by way of an...

Local court case threatens Republic Bank’s acquisition of Scotiabank

Dec 11, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Local court case threatens Republic Bank’s acquisition of Scotiabank

A court battle between Republic Bank and Precision Woodworking Limited is threatening to spill over to the looming acquisition by the former of a number of Scotiabank operations in the...

‘Shoelace’ gets life sentence for killing Annandale businessman

Dec 11, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on ‘Shoelace’ gets life sentence for killing Annandale businessman

Phillip Paul, called ‘Shoelace’ was handed the life sentence yesterday for murdering Annandale, East Coast Demerara businessman, Kamal Ramsahoye. The now dead man was found in his home...

Butcher lands in court on jewellery theft charge

Dec 11, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Butcher lands in court on jewellery theft charge

A Bourda Market butcher was arraigned at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Courts yesterday, when he appeared before Senior Magistrate Fabayo Azore, accused of jewellery theft. It is alleged that on...

Police Force Band takes musical joy to GPHC

Dec 11, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Police Force Band takes musical joy to GPHC

The Guyana Police Force Band on Monday treated patients and staff of the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC), to orchestral renditions of old seasonal favourites. The band featured...

Mazaruni Prison find

Dec 11, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Mazaruni Prison find

A joint search of the Mazaruni Prison, Essequibo River, yesterday unearthed 17 improvised weapons, two knives, two chisels, a screw driver, six USB cables, two cellular phones, 37 smoking utensils,...

Accused in Number 63 beach 2015 robbery/murder found guilty

Dec 11, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Accused in Number 63 beach 2015 robbery/murder found guilty

Guilty was the verdict when the registrar of the New Amsterdam High Court asked the forewoman in the No. 63 Beach robbery/murder if the panel had come to a verdict. The verdict was unanimous....

Kidney failure patients to benefit from Doobay Medical Centre’s ‘goodwill gesture’

Dec 11, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Kidney failure patients to benefit from Doobay Medical Centre’s ‘goodwill gesture’

At the start of the new year, kidney failure patients in need of dialysis will be able to benefit from this service at a reduced cost at the Doobay Medical and Research Centre Inc. [DMRC]...

Guyana mulls options for regaining UK’s Greenheart market -Environmental Minister likely to visit

Dec 11, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Guyana mulls options for regaining UK’s Greenheart market -Environmental Minister likely to visit

Companies wanting to export Greenheart timber to the United Kingdom will have to examine certification before being allowed. It will be recalled that in 2015, the UK’s Environmental Agency...

The stupid leadership of Guyana gets stupider everyday

Dec 11, 2018 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on The stupid leadership of Guyana gets stupider everyday

Do not open the newspapers of Guyana if you are depressed about the type of caricatured, deformed, shambolic, effete, irrational society Guyana has become, especially in the 21st century. You will...

Money collected by municipalities is woefully inadequate

Dec 11, 2018 KNews Letters Comments Off on Money collected by municipalities is woefully inadequate

Dear Editor, On November 19, 2018, Minister of Communities, Hon. Ronald Bulkan in a missive to me announced that Mayors, Deputy Mayors, Town Clerks, Neighbourhood Democratic Councils (NDC) and...

The Kennard COI exposed the ills of the City Council

Dec 11, 2018 KNews Letters Comments Off on The Kennard COI exposed the ills of the City Council

Dear Editor, I would like to be given space in your letters column, to congratulate most sincerely the former Chancellor of the Judiciary, the Honourable Cecil Kennard, for his perspicacity,...

Kudos for the school bus service

Dec 11, 2018 KNews Letters Comments Off on Kudos for the school bus service

Dear Editor, About eight years ago, I caused a letter to appear in our daily papers in which I referred to the School Bus that carries the children attending the Al Madinah Islamic Academy...

The political culture of activists like this man is destructive

Dec 11, 2018 KNews Letters Comments Off on The political culture of activists like this man is destructive

Editor, I will never let Tacuma Ogunseye make accusations against me without a response. I will reply to anything that he insinuates about me because I consider him to be one of the most offensive,...

No room for divisive people

Dec 11, 2018 KNews Letters Comments Off on No room for divisive people

Editor, What is the role of the opposition? Is it to derail the progress of the nation, or is it to see that those in government move the nation foward for the betterment of the people?...

How Prepared is the PPP/C for next General Election?

Dec 11, 2018 KNews Letters Comments Off on How Prepared is the PPP/C for next General Election?

Editor, A strong government is as strong as the opposition. Since the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) has ruled against Mr. Bharrat Jagdeo as a third-term presidential candidate, PPP party...

MINISTER LAWRENCE’S APOLOGY WITH NOTHING MORE WILL TAKE US NOWHERE

Dec 11, 2018 KNews Letters Comments Off on MINISTER LAWRENCE’S APOLOGY WITH NOTHING MORE WILL TAKE US NOWHERE

Editor, Should Minister Lawrence issue an apology to the full satisfaction of all, nothing in the country’s administrative and political governance would meaningfully and sustainably change. We are...

Funding for the Cultural and Creative Industries

Dec 11, 2018 KNews Letters Comments Off on Funding for the Cultural and Creative Industries

Dear Editor, First of all, I want to thank Kaieteur News on deciding to focus on one of the tremendous yet relatively unheralded positive achievements in the 2019 budget, the allocation of $20...

BREXIT AT A BREAKING POINT

Dec 11, 2018 KNews Editorial Comments Off on BREXIT AT A BREAKING POINT

Two and a half years ago, a referendum was held in Britain on June 23, 2016, in which 51.9 percent of Brits voted to leave the European Union (EU). Since then, progress has been slow and both...

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(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?

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(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

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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...

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(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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Surveillance campaign launched to combat measles and yellow fever

Local court case threatens Republic Bank’s acquisition of Scotiabank

‘Shoelace’ gets life sentence for killing Annandale businessman

Butcher lands in court on jewellery theft charge

Police Force Band takes musical joy to GPHC

Mazaruni Prison find

Accused in Number 63 beach 2015 robbery/murder found guilty

Kidney failure patients to benefit from Doobay Medical Centre’s ‘goodwill gesture’

Guyana mulls options for regaining UK’s Greenheart market -Environmental Minister likely to visit

The stupid leadership of Guyana gets stupider everyday

Money collected by municipalities is woefully inadequate

The Kennard COI exposed the ills of the City Council

Kudos for the school bus service

The political culture of activists like this man is destructive

No room for divisive people

How Prepared is the PPP/C for next General Election?

MINISTER LAWRENCE’S APOLOGY WITH NOTHING MORE WILL TAKE US NOWHERE

Funding for the Cultural and Creative Industries

BREXIT AT A BREAKING POINT

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