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Walter Rodney CoI … “Secretly crafted” Terms of Reference creates distrust-APNU

Mar 20, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Walter Rodney CoI … “Secretly crafted” Terms of Reference creates distrust-APNU

The secretly crafted Terms of Reference of the Walter Rodney Commission of Inquiry (CoI), among other critical concerns, was the heart of “candid” discussions yesterday when members of A...

Falling tree crashes into passing vehicle

Mar 20, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Falling tree crashes into passing vehicle

Imagine driving along the road in your car and a tall palm tree falls onto your vehicle and damages two sections of your car. This was the reality for Steve Persaud as he drove west along Brickdam,...

G/Town Magistrates’ Court gets $180M facelift but sewage problem remains

Mar 20, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on G/Town Magistrates’ Court gets $180M facelift but sewage problem remains

Several weeks after it was reopened, persons venturing into the compound of the recently refurbished $180-million Georgetown Magistrates’ Courts are forced to endure an overwhelming stench of a...

Corruption results from low Public Servants morale – Granger

Mar 20, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Corruption results from low Public Servants morale – Granger

He should apologize for comments – says Rohee General Secretary of the Peoples Progressive Party (PPP) Clement Rohee has said that Leader of A Partnership for National Unity (APNU), David...

Family fearful after Fyrish shooting victim released from hospital

Mar 20, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Family fearful after Fyrish shooting victim released from hospital

Annette Samaroo the 45-year-old mother of six, of Lot 10 Nursery School Street, Fyrish Village, Corentyne, who was shot and injured when two gunmen barged into her modest Fyrish Village home has...

Guyana collaborates with Korea on scholarships

Mar 20, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Guyana collaborates with Korea on scholarships

The ruling administration has forged strategic relations in order to offer scholarships in the field of Biomedical Sciences. According to an advertisement in a daily publication yesterday, the...

New Flood Insurance policy on the horizon

Mar 20, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on New Flood Insurance policy on the horizon

…businesses, homeowners worried A wide section of the society has responded in fear of the possible implications that will stem from the recent notice by the Insurance Association to restructure...

CARICOM receives new UK plenipotentiary representative

Mar 20, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on CARICOM receives new UK plenipotentiary representative

The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) yesterday at Guyana’s Secretariat at Liliendaal received the credentials from the United Kingdom (UK) plenipotentiary representative to CARICOM, Victoria Dean. The...

Regent and Camp St. traffic congestion to see ease by April month-end

Mar 20, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Regent and Camp St. traffic congestion to see ease by April month-end

Authorities have moved to ease traffic congestion in a critical part of the city as frustration continues to grow over the situation. According to the Ministry of Public Works, the traffic lights at...

GuySuCo eyes Jamaica, Barbados as export markets for packaged sugar

Mar 20, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on GuySuCo eyes Jamaica, Barbados as export markets for packaged sugar

The Guyana Sugar Corporation (GuySuCo) is hoping to restart supplying traditional CARICOM markets that were neglected to fulfill the country’s commitment to Europe. This is according to a senior...

Walter Rodney COI…Chairman sees no bias in appointment of Commissioner Jairam

Mar 20, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Walter Rodney COI…Chairman sees no bias in appointment of Commissioner Jairam

By Latoya Giles In his first press conference with the media, Chairman of the Commission of Inquiry into the death of Dr. Walter Rodney, Sir Richard Cheltenham (QC) yesterday said that there is no...

Rice farmers to start receiving outstanding payments from millers

Mar 20, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Rice farmers to start receiving outstanding payments from millers

– GRDB provides loan to facilitate process The Guyana Rice Development Board through the Ministry of Agriculture has provided loans totaling in excess of $300M to pay rice farmers for...

AML deadlock…Sign the Bills or C’bean and Guyanese will suffer- Greenidge

Mar 20, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on AML deadlock…Sign the Bills or C’bean and Guyanese will suffer- Greenidge

Amidst concerns over the Anti Money Laundering and Countering the Financing of Terrorism (AML/CFT) Bill which remains in a gridlock position, A Partnership for National Unity’s Shadow Minister of...

Walter Rodney CoI…Commissioners have no authority to punish perjury

Mar 20, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Walter Rodney CoI…Commissioners have no authority to punish perjury

– But could send file to DPP or private lawyer If a witness testifying at the Walter Rodney Commission of Inquiry commits perjury, the matter would be forwarded to the Chambers of the...

Don’t talk to Rohee about corruption

Mar 20, 2014 KNews Editorial Comments Off on Don’t talk to Rohee about corruption

The public perception of corruption is not something imagined. Less than a fortnight ago, the Georgetown Chamber of Commerce and Industry found that public corruption and the apparent failure on the...

The Christopher Jones Affair: Should the Crime Chief resign?

Mar 20, 2014 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on The Christopher Jones Affair: Should the Crime Chief resign?

Georgetown has a small population. It is roughly about 215,000. If you take into consideration the number of drivers in Georgetown in that figure then the numbers of motorists using Georgetown is...

Man freed of carnal knowledge charge

Mar 20, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Man freed of carnal knowledge charge

Windsale Walcott, the Queenstown mason, who was accused by the police of raping an Anna Regina Secondary School student several years ago, was freed of the carnal knowledge charge initially...

Alana Seebarran to champion suicide prevention

Mar 20, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Alana Seebarran to champion suicide prevention

As the American University of Research continues its ‘Suicide Prevention and Self Awareness Mission’, Miss India Worldwide, Alana Seebarran has agreed to get onboard as the University’s...

Essequibo Technical Institute observes 13th anniversary

Mar 20, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Essequibo Technical Institute observes 13th anniversary

Students drawn from five Secondary Schools on the Essequibo Coast were offered an opportunity, yesterday, to gain a more comprehensive knowledge through the “Try a skill” programme. That...

THERE IS NO RIGHT OF AUTOMATIC ASSENT

Mar 20, 2014 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on THERE IS NO RIGHT OF AUTOMATIC ASSENT

Even in jurisdictions where parliament is supreme, the sovereign reserves the right to refuse assent to Bills passed by the National Assembly. Supremacy of parliament merely means that a law passed...

Albouystown murder accused leads defence

Mar 20, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Albouystown murder accused leads defence

…after Judge overrules lawyer’s no case submission The retrial of Albouystown resident, Carl Bennett, continued yesterday at the Georgetown Supreme Court, before Justice William Ramlal. The...

Visually impaired woman loses phone during PTA meeting

Mar 20, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Visually impaired woman loses phone during PTA meeting

– GAVI calls incident “extremely insensitive” The enactment of the Disability Act in 2010 was seen as a breakthrough for those who have long been fighting to ensure that the rights of...

Did the PPP turn a blind eye to drug trafficking for economic and political reasons?

Mar 20, 2014 KNews Letters Comments Off on Did the PPP turn a blind eye to drug trafficking for economic and political reasons?

DEAR EDITOR, There comes a time in a nation’s consciousness when the tough questions must be asked. This is that time. Given the unchecked and unmitigated rise of drug trafficking in Guyana, along...

The Opposition has the support of the masses in using its parliamentary power

Mar 20, 2014 KNews Letters Comments Off on The Opposition has the support of the masses in using its parliamentary power

DEAR EDITOR, There is sufficient basis for the opposition, for the GTUC, even Mr. Yesu Persaud and for anyone not to trust this regime, and whatever power is at the disposal of the opposition to...

NIS is not claiming to be perfect, but those expressing concerns should be responsible

Mar 20, 2014 KNews Letters Comments Off on NIS is not claiming to be perfect, but those expressing concerns should be responsible

DEAR EDITOR, Your newspaper’s edition dated Wednesday, March 12, 2014 published a letter captioned “The Slothful NIS.” The Management has read with concern many of the allegations made by the...