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Feb 02, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on NCERD commences 30-year anniversary celebration
—described as the engine of the education system The National Centre for Educational Resource Development (NCERD) has been blessed with tremendous human capital. This assertion was yesterday made...Feb 02, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Commissioners conduct final compilation of findings in Rodney COI
The final report of the Commission of Inquiry, (COI) into the death Dr. Walter Rodney is expected to be completed within a week. This disclosure was made as members of the Commissioners met with...Feb 02, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on CPA to oversee operation of Child Advocacy Centres
In keeping with its purview to safeguard children, the Child Care and Protection Agency (CPA) will be tasked with overseeing the operations of Child Advocacy Centres (CACs) countrywide. Together with...Feb 02, 2016 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on Who are these policemen that violated Mrs. Carol-Ann Munro?
I was having lunch at Excellence Restaurant on Charlotte Street with David Hinds and Leonard Craig when Bruce Munroe walked in. During our conversation I urged him to be active in politics but he...Feb 02, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Jagdeo accuses Jordan of misleading the House on cost to generate electricity
By Abena Rockcliffe Opposition Leader Bharrat Jagdeo is accusing Minister of Finance, Winston Jordan, of misleading the National Assembly on the cost being incurred by the Guyana Power and Light...Feb 02, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Ex-employee of mining company worried he might not be compensated for injuries
An ex-employee of Metallicca Commodities Corp (MCC) is recuperating from a hip injury he received while driving a “faulty” truck and is extremely worried he may not be compensated. Emanuel Payne,...Feb 02, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Minister Lawrence lauds position on public servants’ salary increase
Minister of Social Protection, Volda Lawrence, under whose portfolio labour falls, is happy with Minister of Finance, Winston Jordan’s decision with regard to respecting the collective bargaining...Feb 02, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on No response from Govt. causes GTU to plan further protests
No response has been forthcoming from Government to appease the concerns of the Guyana Teachers’ Union (GTU) regarding the Teaching Service Commission (TSC). The GTU has moreover vowed to carry out...Feb 02, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on AFC to host first post-elections press conference
The Alliance For Change (AFC) has once again promised the media to resume hosting weekly press conferences. On Saturday last, at the opening of the Party’s Headquarters, AFC General Secretary,...Feb 02, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Coverden fatal accident…Police preparing to send file to DPP
The police are in the process of preparing a file to send to the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) for advice after a Coverden, East Bank Demerara (EBD) woman was killed in an...Feb 02, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on PPP says voters tricked into signing candidates list in Rose Hall
As preparations are intensifying for Local Government Elections (LGE), the People’s Progressive Party (PPP) is crying foul. It claims that individuals in the Rose Hall constituency are being...Feb 02, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Ex-BCGI employees seeks Govt’s intervention in seven-year wages and salary dispute
Former workers of the Bauxite Company of Guyana Incorporated (BCGI) – a subsidiary of Russian Bauxite United Company (UC) RUSAL – yesterday met with the Labour Ministry seeking its intervention...Feb 02, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on GPA calls for media houses to practise responsible journalism
In light of an article which appeared in the Guyana Times Monday edition that featured a 15-year-old rape victim, the Guyana Press Association (GPA) issued a statement reminding media houses of their...Feb 02, 2016 KNews Editorial, Features / Columnists Comments Off on IS THE GOVERNMENT PREPARED FOR THE ZIKA VIRUS?
Guyana and the Caribbean have not even overcome the Chikunguna virus which wreaked havoc in the region, yet another mosquito-borne disease known as the Zika virus is about to arrive. There were...Feb 02, 2016 KNews Court Stories, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on ‘Hot Skull’ gets eight months for escaping lawful custody
Although he had a matter of simple larceny struck out against him, a North Ruimveldt resident was yesterday ordered to serve eight months in jail by City Magistrate Alex Moore for escaping from...Feb 02, 2016 KNews Court Stories, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Amelia Ward drug dealer nabbed
A Linden man who was recently freed of a drug charge due to some technicalities has been nabbed again. He was held at a police road block at Fort Wellington, West Coast Berbice. The man, the driver...Feb 02, 2016 KNews Court Stories, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on One cigarette causes man to post $100,000 bail
Yesterday Chief Magistrate Ann McLennan sitting in the Georgetown Magistrates’ Courts placed Ryan Downer on $100,000 bail after he was accused of assaulting his friend with a stick over a...Feb 02, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on Minister Keith Scott’s trade union claim cannot be verified
Dear Editor, In examining the performance of the Granger/Nagamootoo government, one gets the clear impression that President Granger pronounces on the concepts and areas the administration will...Feb 02, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on A history of Lennie Shuffler’s sporting career
Dear Editor, When Lenox Shuffler voluntary stepped down as President of the Guyana Volleyball Federation on his 75th Birthday on 5th Feb 2014 he had given the sport of volleyball 62 years of his life...Feb 02, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on Team Benschop accuses the Mayor and his Deputy
Dear Editor, We would like to call on the Georgetown City Council and all politicos attached to it to desist from campaigning in the guise of “working” in the weeks that lead up the March 18th...Feb 02, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on Carvil Duncan should be put off these two bodies
Dear Editor, If my memory serves me right, there is a ‘dictat’ which speaks to public officials who have been charged for some offence or other to be interdicted from duty until the conclusion of...Feb 02, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on Can someone save this dying institution?
Dear Editor, As our 50th Independence anniversary quickly approaches and numerous upgrades and rehabilitation projects are being carried out in and around the city, one is left pondering as to what...Feb 02, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on Corporal punishment is a useful value
Dear Editor, I was shocked by the headline “No place for corporal punishment in Guyana — President Granger “Kaieteur News 24/01/2016. I was also disappointed that reporters and journalists...Feb 02, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on Airport management responds to charge of dirt and smell
Dear Editor, The management of Cheddi Jagan International Airport wishes to thank the letter writers in Kaieteur News and Stabroek News for expressing their concerns over the sanitary conditions of...Feb 02, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on Britny Mack breaks into a male dominated sport
Dear Editor, Kindly permit me from a humble, civic standpoint to request elucidation, even in its most germane form. It is in reference to the Kaieteur News, January 16, 2016 item under the title:...BE THANKFUL AND GRATEFUL TO THE FOREIGN EXPLOITERS
Jul 27, 2024
Kaieteur News – Former table tennis player Edinho Lewis was on Friday placed on $1,350,000 bail when he appeared at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court before Principal Magistrate Faith...Kaieteur News – A frightening situation is developing. The law enforcement agencies have been seized a number of illegal... more
By Sir Ronald Sanders Kaieteur News – Everyone’s heart should cry out for the people of Union Island, Carriacou,... more
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