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Govt challenges reconstitution of Parliamentary Committee

Mar 17, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Govt challenges reconstitution of Parliamentary Committee

Government and opposition lawyers yesterday argued in court about the constitutionality of the Parliamentary Committee of Selection. The opposition parties which hold a majority have voted for...

Daily maintenance, inspections crucial for DHB

Mar 17, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Daily maintenance, inspections crucial for DHB

Pull quote: “This bridge is about maintenance, maintenance, maintenance you never stop maintaining it. So when you get to one end you have to restart the other end because something else will...

GTU flays Chief Education Officer for statement on student failure

Mar 17, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on GTU flays Chief Education Officer for statement on student failure

-says ‘No Child Left Behind policy poorly implemented The Guyana Teachers’ Union (GTU) is calling on the Chief Education Officer (CEO), Olato Sam, to provide data or evidence to substantiate his...

Guyanese woman charged with kidnapping baby from NY hospital

Mar 17, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Guyanese woman charged with kidnapping baby from NY hospital

New York (Times Ledger) – Police officers located a missing Guyana-born woman and her baby in Richmond Hill after the eight-month-old was allegedly taken from Queens Hospital Center Wednesday...

Body of drowned fisherman recovered under wharf

Mar 17, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Body of drowned fisherman recovered under wharf

Relatives have recovered the body of 48-year-old fisherman Ruben Yarde, who disappeared in the Aruka River, in Mabaruma, last week Saturday. The victim’s brother, Rudolph Yarde, told...

‘Greener’ solutions dominate Region Six School Science Fair

Mar 17, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on ‘Greener’ solutions dominate Region Six School Science Fair

The use of alternative energy in a world threatened by Global Warming was the central theme at the Region Six Science, Mathematics and Technology Fair held this week. The two-day annual event, the...

Families should stop accepting compensation in fatal accident cases

Mar 17, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Families should stop accepting compensation in fatal accident cases

-Road safety Council Chairman Chairman of the Guyana National Road Safety Council, Nigel Erskine is concerned about the spate of cases in which relatives of road death victims are...

Boat collision victim still to receive compensation

Mar 17, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Boat collision victim still to receive compensation

-almost four years after The man who was awarded $9.5M by Justice Franklin Holder after sustaining grave injuries during a boat collision in the Demerara River almost four years ago, is yet to...

Grassroots women demand accountability from women parliamentarians

Mar 17, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Grassroots women demand accountability from women parliamentarians

While some women across Guyana celebrated “International Women’s Day” at home two Thursday’s ago, some chose to observe the day on Thursday last by letting their voices be heard...

$10M North Ruimveldt Police Outpost commissioned

Mar 17, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on $10M North Ruimveldt Police Outpost commissioned

The newly built $10.3M North Ruimveldt Police Outpost was officially commissioned yesterday by Home Affairs Minister Clement Rohee and Acting Commissioner of Police Leroy Brummell....

GECOM restarts registration from Monday

Mar 17, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on GECOM restarts registration from Monday

The Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) has announced the commencement of yet another phase of registration that is expected to last three months. According to GECOM yesterday, the third Cycle of...

Bartica police clamp down on taxi service

Mar 17, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Bartica police clamp down on taxi service

The Bartica Police Station Traffic Department launched a Road Campaign, yesterday, in an attempt to control the high incidence of traffic violations on the Bartica’s Road Network in...

ImmigrationTALK: Questions & Answers

Mar 17, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on ImmigrationTALK: Questions & Answers

By: Attorney Gail S. Seeram, Through this “Question & Answer” column, we seek to answer the questions of our loyal readers. We appreciate your comments and questions about the...

Phagwah Day murder accused remanded

Mar 17, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Phagwah Day murder accused remanded

The man accused of stabbing to death 41-year-old carpenter and father of three Abdool Ghandi, was yesterday remanded to jail after facing Magistrate Judy Latchman at the Georgetown...

Dredge owner remanded on drug and gun charges

Mar 17, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Dredge owner remanded on drug and gun charges

A Potaro dredge owner was yesterday remanded for allegedly having possession of an illegal firearm, ammunition and narcotics. Stanley Clement was alleged to have had a .38 revolver with...

Man gets five years for ‘feeling’ woman

Mar 17, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Man gets five years for ‘feeling’ woman

Ryan Eastman, 29, of Number 30 Village, West Coast Berbice, has become one of the first men to be jailed under the New Sexual Offences Act. He was on Friday sentenced to five years in...

Pensioners drop dead seconds apart

Mar 17, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Pensioners drop dead seconds apart

As some would say, the angel of death passed through Goedverwagting, East Coast Demerara yesterday, taking the lives of two pensioners, who collapsed seconds apart and a few yards away from...

Divided Opposition approves Govt. contentious $5B expenditure

Mar 16, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Divided Opposition approves Govt. contentious $5B expenditure

…even as Speaker strikes out Prime Minister’s challenge By Gary Eleazar A division in the ranks of the political opposition parties in the National Assembly yesterday saw the approval for the...

One dismissed, 4 demoted in Customs’ $4M container probe

Mar 16, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on One dismissed, 4 demoted in Customs’ $4M container probe

At least four staffers of the Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) have reportedly been sanctioned as a result of a bribery probe involving the container of a city’s businessman. One has been...

Treason PI continues…Prosecution seeks to amend charge after defence no case submission

Mar 16, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Treason PI continues…Prosecution seeks to amend charge after defence no case submission

Yesterday as the treason matter continued against Army Reserve Officer Leonard Wharton, Major Bruce Munroe and Carol Ann Munroe, Special Prosecutor Vic Puran indicated to Chief...

NIS expenditure to surpass income in two years

Mar 16, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on NIS expenditure to surpass income in two years

…2010 report says Scheme’s reserves will dry up in a decade The Minister of Finance Dr. Ashni Singh yesterday in the National Assembly tabled a plethora of annual reports and audits including the...

Continental shelf quarrel…Guyana: E’bo claim settled since 1899

Mar 16, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Continental shelf quarrel…Guyana: E’bo claim settled since 1899

-regrets Venezuela’s moves The Guyana government yesterday insisted that a claim by neighbouring Venezuela over a substantial part of Essequibo has long been settled. The issue has reared...

“The world is still deceived with ornament.”

Mar 16, 2012 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on “The world is still deceived with ornament.”

These are the words of Shakespeare (Merchant of Venice) and they reverberate in present day Guyana as we are hearing salutary semantics from the media, some well known anti-PPP critics and...

NICE! NOT NICE!

Mar 16, 2012 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on NICE! NOT NICE!

There are many women in Guyana who prefer older men… and for some the older the better. They claim that older men know how to treat a woman well. The old men are not sprinters like the young men....

Dem boys seh…Sonny Boy lie like when haarse trotting

Mar 16, 2012 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Dem boys seh…Sonny Boy lie like when haarse trotting

Times changing real fast. One minute is something and another minute is de next. Dem had a time when de Waterfalls paper use to allow people like Knee Ass to write some column attacking...

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A flawed interpretation of international law

Peeping Tom… Kaieteur News – The assertion that “under international law, Venezuela is responsible for... more