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Guyana eyes elimination status for Lymphatic Filariasis

Apr 05, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Guyana eyes elimination status for Lymphatic Filariasis

Guyana, through the efforts of the Vector Control Services Unit of the Ministry of Public Health, is currently on course to realising elimination status for Lymphatic Filariasis. According to...

Canada-based solar power company drives Paramakatoi plant

Apr 05, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Canada-based solar power company drives Paramakatoi plant

GreenHeartTree Energy (GHTE) has taken the initiative to design, engineer, procure, construct and deliver a non-grid connected solar PV micro-grid system for the Paramakatoi Flavours Sun-Dried Tomato...

Limited financial resources put severe strain on Auditor General’s office

Apr 05, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Limited financial resources put severe strain on Auditor General’s office

By Abena Rockcliffe-Campbell Auditor General Deodat Sharma has admitted that his office is falling behind in the execution of some of its duties. Sharma was keen to note, however, that the backlog is...

Police called in to probe missing equipment at UG

Apr 05, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Police called in to probe missing equipment at UG

Allegations of theft of equipment and misconduct of staff of the University of Guyana (UG)’s Centre for Information Technology (CIT) at its Turkeyen, East Coast Demerara campus, have not gone...

My niece committed suicide last week in Wakenaam

Apr 05, 2017 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on My niece committed suicide last week in Wakenaam

My niece, Karishma, committed suicide four days ago in Wakenaam where she lived. On hearing the news from her brother my mind flashed immediately to Black Bush Polder, which is the suicide capital of...

VAT will murder private education

Apr 05, 2017 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on VAT will murder private education

The taxes placed on private education will kill it. The tuition fees are already a heavy burden on parents. When you add a 14% VAT to those fees, it will hurt the pockets of parents. There is a...

Grove, Kitty Police stations among seven to be rehabilitated

Apr 05, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Grove, Kitty Police stations among seven to be rehabilitated

During the opening of tenders at the National Procurement and Tender Administration Board (NPTAB), contractors vied for several contracts to rehabilitate police stations and outposts throughout the...

M&CC goes after five city businesses owing over $1B in rates

Apr 05, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on M&CC goes after five city businesses owing over $1B in rates

A cash-strapped Mayor and City Councillors of Georgetown (M&CC) has initiated legal proceedings against five businesses which reportedly owe over $1B in rates. According to the council in a...

Low-grade works at GMC office…SOCU investigator testifies to interviewing project manager, viewing email

Apr 05, 2017 KNews Court Stories, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Low-grade works at GMC office…SOCU investigator testifies to interviewing project manager, viewing email

The trial of Nizam Hassan, the former General Manager at the Guyana Marketing Corporation (GMC) and Felecia De Souza-Madramootoo continued yesterday before Chief Magistrate Ann McLennan in the...

Govt. to meet parents, private school operators to discuss VAT on tuition fees

Apr 05, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Govt. to meet parents, private school operators to discuss VAT on tuition fees

Following the concerns raised by citizens regarding the 14 percent Value Added Tax (VAT) on private tuition, a team of Government Ministers will be meeting with parents and operators of private...

Trial of woman accused of stealing from city court…Prosecution seeking further advice from DPP

Apr 05, 2017 KNews Court Stories, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Trial of woman accused of stealing from city court…Prosecution seeking further advice from DPP

Police Prosecutor Arvin Moore has disclosed that the case file related to the trial of Tiffany Peters, has been sent back to the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) for further advice. This...

In Guyana, judges do have political preferences

Apr 05, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on In Guyana, judges do have political preferences

Dear Editor, There is a massive politicising of the judiciary in Guyana and if not checked, Guyana will be the worst for it. Many of the legal luminaries, past and present, seem bent on making...

I would like to see a new Minister of Finance

Apr 05, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on I would like to see a new Minister of Finance

Dear Editor, The country’s wounds will heal I believe, only when Guyana acknowledges the truth of what happened from October 9, 1953 (the date when the Constitution was suspended), to present. As a...

Pace of sugar industry’s closure is accelerating

Apr 05, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on Pace of sugar industry’s closure is accelerating

Dear Editor, Closure of sugar inevitably will increase poverty in Guyana. Although President Granger had emphatically stated in 2015 that sugar is too big to fail and closure is not an option, his...

The Carter Centre must be commended for this event

Apr 05, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on The Carter Centre must be commended for this event

Dear Editor, The Carter Centre must be commended for the convening of a Symposium on constitutional reform at the Turkeyen campus even though from media reports it was poorly attended. The turnout of...

Don’t blame the doctors for this little girl’s death

Apr 05, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on Don’t blame the doctors for this little girl’s death

Dear Editor, In response to Freddie Kissoon’s recent article laying the blame for the death of a child partially or wholly at the foot of the Cuban trained doctors toiling at the GPH, it is unfair...

Unacceptable things at Zeeburg Secondary School

Apr 05, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on Unacceptable things at Zeeburg Secondary School

Dear Editor, On Friday 10th February 2017, it was observed that about twenty students were removed from classrooms at Zeeburg Secondary School and used as labourers to mix cement to make a couple...

Efforts are underway to undermine the judiciary

Apr 05, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on Efforts are underway to undermine the judiciary

Dear Editor, I have had cause to write repeatedly about the systematic undermining of independent constitutional offices by the coalition Government, coupled with the Administration’s constant...

The problem of sugar keeps getting worse

Apr 05, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on The problem of sugar keeps getting worse

Dear Editor, Sugar’s dilemma – with its many players – workers, Guysuco, the Union, government and the political opposition (historically aligned to the sugar industry) daily finds its...

THIS GIRL’S DEMISE WAS A NEEDLESS DEATH

Apr 05, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on THIS GIRL’S DEMISE WAS A NEEDLESS DEATH

Dear Editor, Uncaring, bizarre and indifferent are some of the bitter feelings that emanate from the death of a 10 year old girl at the Georgetown Hospital. For someone to die from a kick to the...

An Attorney-General must be shown and given respect by the Bench

Apr 05, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on An Attorney-General must be shown and given respect by the Bench

Dear Editor, I continue my discussion of the incident between Justice Holder and the Attorney-General. For legal reasons, (explanations of which a letter of this type is an inappropriate place to...

NIS says pensioners were paid their budget increases

Apr 05, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on NIS says pensioners were paid their budget increases

Dear Editor, Wednesday, March 29, 2017 edition of the Kaieteur Newspaper carried a letter captioned, “NIS pensioners have not received the last budget increase”. Editor, please be advised that...