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GGMC’s $3B loan to Housing Authority is illegal – Opposition Leader

Jan 31, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on GGMC’s $3B loan to Housing Authority is illegal – Opposition Leader

– “State funds which do not go into the Consolidated Funds could be used improperly for such a speculative matter in the housing sector.” The recent approval of $3B by the Guyana Geology...

Couple nabbed with cocaine at CJIA VIP lounge

Jan 31, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Couple nabbed with cocaine at CJIA VIP lounge

A couple was caught allegedly attempting to smuggle over 20 kilograms of cocaine through the Cheddi Jagan International Airport (CJIA) early yesterday morning. Currently in police custody are...

Rights Commission wants ‘torture cops’ promotions rescinded

Jan 31, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Rights Commission wants ‘torture cops’ promotions rescinded

The Rights of the Child Commission is calling for the immediate rescinding of the recent promotions of two police officers. The two ranks in question were fingered in the torture of a child has been...

ASL Kurupung plane mishap due to brake failure

Jan 31, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on ASL Kurupung plane mishap due to brake failure

Director General of the Guyana Civil Aviation Authority (GCAA), Zulphicar Mohamed, has confirmed that some difficulty experienced with the brake of an Air Service Limited (ASL) Britten Norman...

Fly Jamaica donates ticket to sister of dying US citizen

Jan 31, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Fly Jamaica donates ticket to sister of dying US citizen

By next week, Michelle Robinson, the sister of a New York citizen, who is in the terminal stage of a rare and deadly form of renal cancer, will be on a plane to New York City, thanks to Fly Jamaica....

GFC defends 21 percent increase in log exports

Jan 31, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on GFC defends 21 percent increase in log exports

– Wamara, account for rise Only one-third of the total logs cut last year was exported, the Guyana Forestry Commission (GFC) has insisted. The Commission made the statement yesterday over...

Dem boys seh… Even big belly woman trying wid cocaine

Jan 31, 2015 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Dem boys seh… Even big belly woman trying wid cocaine

People fast but some more fast than others. People busy finding out how some people getting rich. Dem find out yesterday when de police arrest a woman and she husband wid nuff cocaine. De thing is...

Camp Street congestion… GRA introduces customers parking lot; “No Stopping”, “No Parking” zones

Jan 31, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Camp Street congestion… GRA introduces customers parking lot; “No Stopping”, “No Parking” zones

The Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) has opened a parking lot opposite its Camp Street headquarters for customers amidst increasing complaints of congestion. The parking lot, located at lot 235 Camp...

GRA rebuilds burnt-out Linden office

Jan 31, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on GRA rebuilds burnt-out Linden office

A delegation from the Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) headquarters in Georgetown visited Linden on Wednesday for a tour of the new Integrated Regional Tax Office (IRTO) at Casaurina Drive, Mackenzie....

Twenty-five days later… CCPA still to make contact with mother who abandoned children

Jan 31, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Twenty-five days later… CCPA still to make contact with mother who abandoned children

The Child Care and Protection Agency (CCPA) is desperately trying to make contact with the woman, who reportedly left her four children to fend for themselves in a house at Guyhoc Park,...

APNU delays consideration of WPA’s proposal for increased consultations

Jan 31, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on APNU delays consideration of WPA’s proposal for increased consultations

More than a month later, the executive council of A Partnership for National Unity (APNU) is yet to consider a proposal made by the Working People’s Alliance (WPA) for increased consultations to be...

East Canje residents want NDC Chairman, Overseer to go

Jan 31, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on East Canje residents want NDC Chairman, Overseer to go

“NDC needs new member”; “No Street, No Vote”; “Kuldeep must go; somebody do something”; “Kuldeep must go; he is bias”, were some of the expressions on placards of residents of Betsy...

Farmland distribution disturb No. 40 Village residents

Jan 31, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Farmland distribution disturb No. 40 Village residents

Residents of No. 40 Village, West Coast Berbice, are concerned about what they feel is the unfair and unjust repossession of state farmlands by the Mahaica-Mahaicony-Abary/Agricultural Development...

West Demerara Guinness ‘Greatest of de Streets’ Futsal Competition Den Amstel, Showstoppers, Raiders lead charge into quarter-finals

Jan 31, 2015 KNews Sports Comments Off on West Demerara Guinness ‘Greatest of de Streets’ Futsal Competition Den Amstel, Showstoppers, Raiders lead charge into quarter-finals

-KO phase starts tonight Despite going down by a 1-0 margin to Uitvlugt, tournament favourite Den Amstel earned enough points in the preceding rounds to make it to the quarter-finals of the West...

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Service and the state: Theorising about post-colonial Guyana

Kaieteur News – Anyone who lived in Europe would know that service is natural, automatic and pleasing. Anyone who lived... more

EDUCATION IS IN DEEP CRISIS

Kaieteur News – Let us not be fooled by the deservedly happy faces on those high-flyers of the National Grade Six Assessment... more