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As EPI/MCH meeting gets underway… Guyana’s measles free status linked to laudable surveillance system -need to address ‘worrisome’ maternal mortality emphasised -HPV vaccination campaign expanded to include boys

Feb 12, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on As EPI/MCH meeting gets underway… Guyana’s measles free status linked to laudable surveillance system -need to address ‘worrisome’ maternal mortality emphasised -HPV vaccination campaign expanded to include boys

Guyana remains on high alert in the face of an ongoing measles threat that has already infiltrated neighbouring territories. Although cases of the disease have been confirmed in Brazil and...

APNU supporters yesterday again picket Linden GECOM office

Feb 12, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on APNU supporters yesterday again picket Linden GECOM office

Several APNU supporters, yesterday for the second time in two weeks, took to the streets, where they picketed the Linden GECOM office on Republic Avenue, emphatically declaring that unless there is...

Police seeking help to identify man who died in Berbice accident

Feb 12, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Police seeking help to identify man who died in Berbice accident

Police in ‘B’ Division are the seeking the help of the public to identify a man of African descent who died following an accident along the Number 61 Village Public Road, Corentyne,...

Mystery over “Cinderella” rice shipped from Guyana; seized by Jamaica

Feb 12, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Mystery over “Cinderella” rice shipped from Guyana; seized by Jamaica

There seems be mystery surrounding a rice shipment seized by Jamaican authorities, recently. The local miller has said he did not ship any rice for the year to Jamaica and in any case has been...

Protests in Berbice over New Amsterdam hospital’s CEO

Feb 12, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Protests in Berbice over New Amsterdam hospital’s CEO

Director of Health Services in Region Six, Jevaughn Stephens, told reporters that he did not lie to the public when he said that the acting CEO of the New Amsterdam Hospital, Dr. Samantha...

Riverview man not guilty of Oriley Small’s murder

Feb 12, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Riverview man not guilty of Oriley Small’s murder

By Feona Morrison Morris Prince breathed a sigh of relief yesterday afternoon when a 12-member mixed jury announced that he had been found not guilty of the March 19, 2016 murder of...

Govt to rehabilitate Region Ten youth facility

Feb 12, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Govt to rehabilitate Region Ten youth facility

The Youth Centre in Old Kara Kara, in the mining town of Linden, will soon be rehabilitated so that the youth there can easily access several services which will benefit the community at...

Bomb scare at the office of the OMBUDSMAN

Feb 12, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Bomb scare at the office of the OMBUDSMAN

The police were yesterday called in to the Office of the Ombudsman where there was supposed to be a bomb. A call was directed to the Office of the Ombudsman reporting a bomb supposedly in the...

Mae’s schools closed after threats of bombing surface

Feb 12, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Mae’s schools closed after threats of bombing surface

Resulting from the recent threats that surfaced on social media over the weekend the Mae’s schools had no other alternative but to issue an immediate cancelation of classes throughout the...

Swan man wanted for killing Capoey excavator operator

Feb 12, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Swan man wanted for killing Capoey excavator operator

Police has issued a wanted bulletin for a Swan man for the December murder of a Capoey excavator operator. The man’s name has been given as Carl Welcome Jr, called ‘Ralph’ and said to be...

Police want to question Eccles woman for fraud

Feb 12, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Police want to question Eccles woman for fraud

An Eccles, East Bank Demerara woman is wanted for questioning by the police into alleged fraud. Police in a wanted bulletin said that the woman is Trisha Karisha Resally-Jurakan. She is said...

A boy loses an eye, a woman loses her life, and bodies rotted away

Feb 12, 2019 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on A boy loses an eye, a woman loses her life, and bodies rotted away

One of the things I enjoy as I am getting on in age is walking my dog in the nights at Giftland Mall. You see the manifestations that mask the realities of Guyana. You see fancy people with fancy...

Berbicians brace for more weeks of water woes

Feb 12, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Berbicians brace for more weeks of water woes

It was at a meeting a week ago with the Managing Director of Guyana Water Inc. (GWI) that Dr. Richard Van West Charles assured Berbicians that the water issues currently experienced throughout...

Bartica police sensitize motorists, pedestrians to safety

Feb 12, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Bartica police sensitize motorists, pedestrians to safety

Traffic ranks stationed at the Bartica Police Station yesterday conducted a road traffic exercise where they distributed over 100 traffic aids and flyers to motorists, pedestrians and pedal...

The ASYCUDA system and “difficulties”

Feb 12, 2019 KNews Letters Comments Off on The ASYCUDA system and “difficulties”

DEAR EDITOR, I wish someone would explain to me why the introduction of the ASYCUDA system is apparently creating so many problems in Guyana. The system was introduced in St Vincent and the...

Rejected rice again – no one is accountable, business as usual

Feb 12, 2019 KNews Letters Comments Off on Rejected rice again – no one is accountable, business as usual

DEAR EDITOR, Just about three months after the Panama fiasco, news of another rejected batch of exported rice – this time in Jamaica – is sending shockwaves in the industry. Every...

Splinters of Citizenship

Feb 12, 2019 KNews Letters Comments Off on Splinters of Citizenship

DEAR EDITOR, The debate so far would appear to have focused on the issue of ‘dual citizenship’ almost instinctively from a political perspective, understandably so – taking into account...

Those bomb scares

Feb 12, 2019 KNews Letters Comments Off on Those bomb scares

DEAR EDITOR, There is a confirmed official report of a bomb scare called into the University of Guyana last week. On this Monday, it was shared that another of these troubling, definitely...

If in ten years…

Feb 12, 2019 KNews Letters Comments Off on If in ten years…

DEAR EDITOR, I’m usually an optimist, but after reading Friday’s article by Rooplall Dudhnath – in which he states that the newfound oil riches of Guyana trickling down to the...

Companies and Contractors need some control

Feb 12, 2019 KNews Letters Comments Off on Companies and Contractors need some control

DEAR EDITOR, I wish to be pellucid on the onset of this commentary which I believe is extremely important at this juncture. I welcome the oil and exploration companies and inventors to our...

Water rates are too high

Feb 12, 2019 KNews Letters Comments Off on Water rates are too high

DEAR EDITOR, There’s a classic economic paradox about the price of water and value, and it comes from Adam Smith: Why do diamonds cost more than water? The comparison is meant to...

Vocational training in the private security industry and allied professions

Feb 12, 2019 KNews Letters Comments Off on Vocational training in the private security industry and allied professions

DEAR EDITOR, I would like to bring clarity to a long outstanding and equally confusing topic, that of vocational training in the private security industry, and allied professions –...

Elections—when people shun all else

Feb 12, 2019 KNews Editorial Comments Off on Elections—when people shun all else

Elections! This is the focus and object on which all national attention is fiercely uninterruptedly concentrated. It is about the courts, how to march ahead, who should walk away from parliament, why...

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Peeping Tom… The President of Guyana’s response, regarding today’s planned talks with the United States Secretary... more