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Dec 05, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Membership decline denting trade union effectiveness
By Zena Henry With a public workforce of approximately 250,000 staffers and only 50,000 being unionized, the country’s trade union bodies seem to be fighting an uphill battle on a gravel laden...Dec 05, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Damaged EBD koker…Flood victims reject Govt. $$$ offer, threaten protest action
“More than 400 residents were affected by that flooding; we are still counting our losses. When we calculate the money the Government giving, each household will receive not more than $27,000 and...Dec 05, 2014 KNews Editorial Comments Off on Stemming the rate of road fatalities
A few suggestions are necessary to assist in stemming the rate of road fatalities, especially during periods such as the just-concluded road safety month. As mentioned before in these columns, it...Dec 05, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Captain of grounded Guyanese vessel recalls ordeal
– no illegal items on board St. Kitts – Engine shutdown had caused a Guyana-registered vessel to run aground on a reef just off the coast of Dieppe Bay last week Thursday. This is according...Dec 05, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Gold fallout…Growing rift between miners, Govt. over remedial measures
Miners are calling for urgent action that will address fallout from the world market drop in prices. The call comes amidst what appears to be a growing rift between the Guyana Gold and Diamond Miners...Dec 05, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Guyana could be first to eliminate mother-to-child transmission of HIV
Increased access to antiretroviral medicines during pregnancy has allowed for Guyana to be named among 13 Caribbean territories that are on track to be certified as having eliminated HIV transmission...Dec 05, 2014 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on Rohee, Benn, Ramotar: The PPP Jagan left behind
Early in my academic career, I argued that my generation and subsequent ones never saw Cheddi Jagan as a policy-maker in action and once Jagan remained as President, we would see what he was made of....Dec 05, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Patentia shallow grave murder…Tenant accused of killing landlord ‘unfit to stand trial’
A 34-year-old man accused of beheading his landlord and burying the body in the backyard of his Patentia, West Bank Demerara home, six years ago, is mentally incompetent to stand trial, a judge ruled...Dec 05, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Arrest warrant issued for carnal knowledge accused
After being put off on two occasions because the accused hadn’t a lawyer, all was set for the commencement of the High Court trial of 54-year-old Muntaz Yassim called ‘Joe’ of New Street...Dec 05, 2014 KNews Letters Comments Off on Examples where the abolition of corporal punishment has been successful
Dear Editor, I have fought many battles on various fronts is my time, won many and lost a few. The conversation on the abolition of corporal punishment is just another one of those battles and I...Dec 05, 2014 KNews Letters Comments Off on The Singhs’ robbery should not break a spirit of giving
Dear Editor, The carjacking and robbery of Balram and Indira Singh (news report Dec 3) is heart rending and shocking even in a country where robbery seems to be the trend as indicated in the number...Dec 05, 2014 KNews Letters Comments Off on The no Confidence Motion debate would have been the ultimate “cuss down”
Dear Editor, I fully support the President’s decision to Prorogue the 10th Parliament. With this action by Government, all respectful adults and more importantly our children were spared from the...Dec 05, 2014 KNews Letters Comments Off on Once the AG remains in office, no decent person should give the President’s statements a second thought
Dear Editor, It has been many weeks now since the Minister of Legal Affairs, Mr. Anil Nandlall has exposed his immoral fibre with that most undignified, degrading and vulgar collection of comments in...Dec 05, 2014 KNews Letters Comments Off on Preliminary Inquiry and Grand Jury hearing
Dear Editor, While legal officers in Guyana and the Eastern Caribbean are debating whether or not it is right for magistrates to commit accused persons to trial by merely looking at statements...Listen how to run an oil country
May 14, 2024
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