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British request must be viewed with suspicion

Oct 29, 2009 knews Letters Comments Off on British request must be viewed with suspicion

DEAR EDITOR, The Government of Guyana, more so, the President and Head of the Presidential Secretariat must be commended for their stance in relation the UK’s demands for the training of British...

Suspects released on station bail

Oct 29, 2009 knews News Comments Off on Suspects released on station bail

The two suspects who were held recently in connection with the brutal murder of the three crew members of the Island Princess were yesterday released on station bail. The men, a chicken farmer and a...

Alleged wife killer remanded

Oct 29, 2009 knews News Comments Off on Alleged wife killer remanded

Gavin Towler, 40, of 153 Middle Road La Penitence Georgetown was refused bail yesterday when he appeared before Acting Chief Magistrate Melissa Robertson to answer the charge of murder. It is alleged...

De British gun get cat boil

Oct 29, 2009 knews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists Comments Off on De British gun get cat boil

Every day bucket does go to de well one day de bottom gun drop out. For years Guyana was always calling de shot when it come to foreign aid to de country. De Americans announce that they giving...

Rockstone Fishing Competition was a disorganised, unfair event

Oct 29, 2009 knews Letters Comments Off on Rockstone Fishing Competition was a disorganised, unfair event

DEAR EDITOR, I love fishing and our entire family has taken part in the Rockstone Fish Festival since the inception of a fishing competition. We have taken part in the competition as a team called...

Logging Companies are the only financial contributors to the LCDS

Oct 29, 2009 knews Letters Comments Off on Logging Companies are the only financial contributors to the LCDS

DEAR EDITOR, The recent hype and debate has only served to strengthen the notion that Guyana is a country of “so-called experts” who believe that anything from overseas is good and any local must...

Region Six steps up demolition of illegal structures

Oct 29, 2009 knews News Comments Off on Region Six steps up demolition of illegal structures

Region Six – East Berbice/Corentyne has stepped up its drive to rid the area of all illegal and rundown structures, particularly those on the government reserves. According to a source, the...

Rohee’s deduction has permanently damaged his Government

Oct 29, 2009 knews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on Rohee’s deduction has permanently damaged his Government

Home Affairs Minister, Clement Rohee, adopted the Social Sciences methodology of logical deduction, applied it to the Hamid family and in the process exposed the Guyana Government in a way that it...

Sugar Wages

Oct 29, 2009 knews Editorial Comments Off on Sugar Wages

GAWU, the largest union in the sugar industry, and GuySuCo, are locked in negotiations over wage increases for workers in 2009. After a countrywide strike that may or may not have had anything to do...

Victim sustained 30 stab wounds

Oct 29, 2009 knews News Comments Off on Victim sustained 30 stab wounds

A post mortem examination performed on the remains of the former Region Three Vice Chairman, Ramnauth Bisram, revealed that he died as a result of shock and hemorrhage due to multiple stab wounds....

The Guyana Government was in bed with the Americans

Oct 29, 2009 knews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on The Guyana Government was in bed with the Americans

The joint opposition should cease the charade about the government being in league with drug accused Roger Khan. If this were the case, the United States Government would have already signaled in...

Degutted bodies… Two more arrested

Oct 28, 2009 KNews News Comments Off on Degutted bodies… Two more arrested

Two more persons were yesterday arrested in connection with the brutal murder of the three-crew members of the Island Princess. The men, a chicken farmer and a popular Parika businessman, were held...

UN says Copenhagen treaty not likely

Oct 28, 2009 knews News Comments Off on UN says Copenhagen treaty not likely

…But Guyana optimistic By Leonard Gildarie Just weeks before a key international conference on climate change, the United Nations has admitted that a new treaty to slow global warming may not...

GEA to test fuel

Oct 28, 2009 knews News Comments Off on GEA to test fuel

Police are awaiting tests results from the Guyana Energy Agency (GEA) to ascertain if the fuel recovered during the arrests of three Coast Guard ranks last Sunday was legitimate. Investigators are...

Two in-laws, resident detained

Oct 28, 2009 knews News Comments Off on Two in-laws, resident detained

Police have detained the father-in-law, a brother-in law and a close male friend of former Region Three Vice Chairman, Ramnauth Bisram, who was found knifed to death in his Canal Number Two home on...

ERC embroiled in allegations of corruption, nepotism

Oct 28, 2009 KNews News Comments Off on ERC embroiled in allegations of corruption, nepotism

…Chairman says provocateurs at work The Ethnic Relations Commission (ERC) was the site of a protest yesterday over the non-renewal of the contract for Chief Executive Officer (CEO)/Secretary Lt Col...

Dem boys seh … Guyoil replace GWI

Oct 28, 2009 knews News Comments Off on Dem boys seh … Guyoil replace GWI

Imagine things reach de stage wheh everybody decide that dem got to get smart. Dem got to mek money and it don’t matter how dem get it. And according to dem boys is dem who wukking wid de...

Carrington denies any move to license regional journalists

Oct 28, 2009 KNews News Comments Off on Carrington denies any move to license regional journalists

President of the Association of Caribbean Media Workers, Wesley Gibbings, yesterday stated that during a telephone conversation with the Caricom Secretary-General, Edwin Carrington, he was informed...

Divorce matters most prominent legal aid cases

Oct 28, 2009 KNews News Comments Off on Divorce matters most prominent legal aid cases

According to statistics provided by the Guyana Legal Aid website, divorce cases take up 30 per cent of all cases presented to the clinic in Regions Two, Four, Five and Six between the period of...

Welder crushed to death on the job at John Fernandes

Oct 28, 2009 KNews News Comments Off on Welder crushed to death on the job at John Fernandes

John Steele, 54, of Ice Road, Timehri was yesterday crushed to death while on the job at John Fernandes wharf, Water Street, about 14:15 hours. Steele, described as a jovial person, was welding when...

UK cancels ₤4.9M Security Sector pact with Guyana

Oct 28, 2009 KNews News Comments Off on UK cancels ₤4.9M Security Sector pact with Guyana

The BBC has published the decision of the UK Government to abandon the negotiations with the Government of Guyana on the ₤4.9M project on security sector reform. In Guyana, Cabinet secretary Dr...

Thieves make merry on Essequibo Night at Charity

Oct 28, 2009 KNews News Comments Off on Thieves make merry on Essequibo Night at Charity

Three more Essequibo businessmen were robbed over the weekend. One suffered losses of two bags containing an undisclosed amount of cash, while another was relieved of cash, amounting to over...

Single-parent fire victim desperate for public’s assistance

Oct 28, 2009 KNews News Comments Off on Single-parent fire victim desperate for public’s assistance

Emilita Romohan is a single mother of five. On Sunday October 9, last, she lost all her earthly belongings in a fire in her modest apartment at Grove, East Bank Demerara. Since then she and her...

DDL to increase exports

Oct 28, 2009 KNews News Comments Off on DDL to increase exports

Modernised state-of-the-art bottling plant for commission today Demerara Distillers Limited (DDL), a company that prides itself on being called the leading manufacturer of wines and spirits in...

Hit and run driver nabbed on Essequibo Coast

Oct 28, 2009 KNews News Comments Off on Hit and run driver nabbed on Essequibo Coast

Tarrick Seemangal, 24, of La Belle Alliance, Essequibo Coast, is in police custody awaiting charges that are likely to be laid against him, after he was involve in a hit and run accident on Saturday...

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“One Guyana” is no less a national slogan than “Green Guyana”

Kaieteur News- The notion that “One Guyana” is a partisan slogan is pure poppycock. It is a desperate fiction... more