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MORE COMPANIES ARE BECOMING INTERNATIONALLY CERTIFIED WITH TECHNICAL SUPPORT AND TRAINING FROM THE GNBS.

Mar 31, 2019 KNews Features / Columnists, Standards in Focus Comments Off on MORE COMPANIES ARE BECOMING INTERNATIONALLY CERTIFIED WITH TECHNICAL SUPPORT AND TRAINING FROM THE GNBS.

As Guyana prepares for the economic boom from oil and gas, more companies are requesting technical assistance and training from the Guyana National Bureau of Standards (GNBS). More of these local...

Pensioner injured in Manchester inferno, four others homeless

Mar 31, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Pensioner injured in Manchester inferno, four others homeless

A 65-year-old woman is nursing burns about her body following a fire that consumed the home she lived in with four others. Injured is Ingrid Morgan of Manchester Village, Corentyne, Berbice,...

PHAGWAH AND ITS MEANING

Mar 31, 2019 KNews Consumer Concerns, Features / Columnists Comments Off on PHAGWAH AND ITS MEANING

PAT DIAL It is customary to write about festivals before they arrive. Today, we shall depart from the custom of this column and write about Phagwah, which was celebrated as a national holiday a few...

Artist, lecturer and conservator, Philbert Gajadhar, is a ‘Special Person’

Mar 31, 2019 KNews Features / Columnists, Special Person Comments Off on Artist, lecturer and conservator, Philbert Gajadhar, is a ‘Special Person’

By Rehanna Ramsay “I see art as a catalyst for reuniting our people … bringing the people of Guyana together; as a catalyst of social cohesion, and I certainly believe that we can achieve it.”...

Guyana’s record-keeping leaves much to be desired

Mar 31, 2019 KNews Features / Columnists, My Column Comments Off on Guyana’s record-keeping leaves much to be desired

It would amaze me how the foreign media houses could easily go way back in time to resurrect information about anyone or any event. A leading person dies and there would be clippings of things...

Region Three businesses resist CCAC INSPECTION

Mar 31, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Region Three businesses resist CCAC INSPECTION

The Competition and Consumers Affairs Commission has just began its promised countrywide business inspection, and findings are that an extremely high percentage of business are actually...

Lethem Customs Officer shot while colleague cleared gun

Mar 31, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Lethem Customs Officer shot while colleague cleared gun

A Customs Officer stationed at Lethem, Region Nine, was shot in the foot yesterday. According to reports, Irvine Dey, was shot by a colleague while the man was clearing his gun. Dey was rushed...

The Baccoo speaks

Mar 31, 2019 KNews Features / Columnists, The Baccoo Speaks Comments Off on The Baccoo speaks

When people fail to pay attention to whatever they are doing there is bound to be disaster. Such would be the case when a child would suffer burns because its mother in the kitchen would not...

Police discover over 1,000 grams of cannabis in minibus

Mar 31, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Police discover over 1,000 grams of cannabis in minibus

The trafficking of cannabis continues to be a prevalent issue Police ranks on Friday unearthed an excess of 1,000 grams of cannabis in a minibus travelling along the East Coast Demerara Public...

House to House registration

Mar 31, 2019 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on House to House registration

Thousands of Guyanese live and work, legally and illegally, in other countries. Many of them are economic migrants seeking employment. Many see themselves as temporary migrants. Their intention is to...

A house divided against itself cannot stand

Mar 31, 2019 KNews Eye on Guyana with Lincoln Lewis, Features / Columnists Comments Off on A house divided against itself cannot stand

The General and Regional Elections which are to date scheduled to be held in 2020, require young blood and new thinking to play a more leading role in taking this nation into what will inevitably be...

Discussion of the Ethnic Security Dilemma would yield nothing positive

Mar 31, 2019 KNews Features / Columnists, Hinds' Sight with Dr. David Hinds Comments Off on Discussion of the Ethnic Security Dilemma would yield nothing positive

In one of his recent columns, Freddie Kissoon observed the failure of African Guyanese activists to respond to interventions by three Indian Guyanese scholars on the so-called Ethnic Security...

Guyana Diabetes Association to strengthen drive against disease

Mar 31, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Guyana Diabetes Association to strengthen drive against disease

In yet another drive to fight diabetes in Guyana, the Guyana Diabetes Association have already chartered out a course with the main objective being to unleash a forcible battle against the...

Immigration News For Our Community End to Self-Scheduled InfoPass Appointment – Scheduling Only with Pre-Authorization

Mar 31, 2019 KNews Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Immigration News For Our Community End to Self-Scheduled InfoPass Appointment – Scheduling Only with Pre-Authorization

The new Information Services Modernization Program is replacing the current self-scheduled InfoPass appointment system that allows anyone to make an appointment on-line or at their...

GDA hosts ‘Eating with Music’ event for diabetics

Mar 31, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on GDA hosts ‘Eating with Music’ event for diabetics

The Guyana Diabetes Association (GDA), during the week, hosted a successful event themed, “Eating with Music.” Persons living with diabetes were treated to hearty meals filled with low-carb...

25 years for Kaieteur News; 16 days in jail for me

Mar 31, 2019 KNews Features / Columnists, The Story within the Story Comments Off on 25 years for Kaieteur News; 16 days in jail for me

By Leonard Gildarie What I am about to say is deeply personal. I have not spoken to my family or my colleagues at work about bringing this out. If fact, very few of my colleagues even knew...

GO-Invest urges local miners to partner with international business

Mar 31, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on GO-Invest urges local miners to partner with international business

Local miners were urged to take advantage of opportunities posited through participation in the Prospectors and Developers Association of Canada Convention (PDAC) 2019; an international conference...

Guyana’s historiography: An iconoclastic input

Mar 31, 2019 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on Guyana’s historiography: An iconoclastic input

I am writing this column here in complete oblivion that I am a social activist. The analysis that will follow is the work of an academic. I am writing these notes as if I was requested to lecture to...

Is the world really one?

Mar 31, 2019 KNews Countryman, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Is the world really one?

By Dennis Nichols At times like this, (post-December 21, 2018) our country’s fanciful motto – One people; One nation; One destiny, seems hopelessly unachievable. Nevertheless it’s a very...

The Thrush

Mar 31, 2019 KNews Features / Columnists, Interesting Creatures in Guyana Comments Off on The Thrush

Thrushes make up the Turdidae, a family of passerine birds that occurs worldwide. These are plump, soft-plumaged, small to medium-sized birds, inhabiting wooded areas, and often feed on the...

Tips on how you can get the best out of your doctor’s visit

Mar 31, 2019 KNews Dr Zulfikar Bux Comments Off on Tips on how you can get the best out of your doctor’s visit

By Dr Zulfikar Bux Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine The average doctor’s appointment lasts 10 minutes. Lots of people are aware of this fact; but have you ever actually stopped to...

Book Review…Fear – Our Biggest Enemy

Mar 31, 2019 KNews Book Review…, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Book Review…Fear – Our Biggest Enemy

Book: Irie the Caterpillar Author Latoya Wakefield Illustrator: Kavion Robinson Critic: Glenville Ashby, PhD Latoya Wakefield makes a definitive statement on the one emotion that prevents us...

First Regional Radio conference opens

Mar 31, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on First Regional Radio conference opens

More than 40 regional radio broadcasters, drawn from Indigenous Communities in Regions One, Six, Seven, Eight and Nine and the Voice of Guyana in Region Four, are participating in the first ever...

Milo School’s football tournamentAnnandale and PC clinch semifinal spots

Mar 31, 2019 KNews Sports Comments Off on Milo School’s football tournamentAnnandale and PC clinch semifinal spots

Omari Glasgow bagged a brace to guide his team, Annandale Secondary, to an emphatic 4-0 victory over Charlestown Secondary in the first quarterfinal of the ongoing seventh Milo School’s football...

The Youth Corps…hope for the future

Mar 31, 2019 KNews APNU Column, Features / Columnists Comments Off on The Youth Corps…hope for the future

Address by His Excellency Brigadier David Granger, President of the Cooperative Republic of Guyana at the launch of the Guyana Youth Corps, March 28, 2019 Young people are this country’s future. It...