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World Press Freedom Day observance…Radio licences are welcome, but issuing process must be fair and transparent – US Ambassador

May 03, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on World Press Freedom Day observance…Radio licences are welcome, but issuing process must be fair and transparent – US Ambassador

By Latoya Giles As Guyana joins the world in celebrating World Press Freedom Day today, United States Ambassador to Guyana D. Brent Hardt said that while new radio broadcasting licences are...

World Press Freedom Day…GPA condemns unfair, sneaky allocation of frequencies

May 03, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on World Press Freedom Day…GPA condemns unfair, sneaky allocation of frequencies

– urges thorough probe The Guyana Press Association (GPA) has urged for a thorough investigation and correction over what it described as the unfair and surreptitious distribution of...

Slain cop given fitting send-off

May 03, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Slain cop given fitting send-off

Police Corporal Romain Cleto, who was gunned down in the heart of the city on Saturday evening last was laid to rest yesterday with full military rites. Cleto was shot and killed at the...

Police still hunting “trigger man” in cop killing

May 03, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Police still hunting “trigger man” in cop killing

By Dale Andrews Police continue to hunt for a second suspect in the killing of Corporal Romain Cleto. Kaieteur News was reliably informed that the man was positively identified as the...

Suspect to be charged for execution-style killing at Cool Square Hotel

May 03, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Suspect to be charged for execution-style killing at Cool Square Hotel

Police are convinced that they have solved the murder of businessman Intaz Roopnarine, who was killed execution-style by a lone gunman in the compound of the Cool Square Hotel, three months ago....

CARICOM Heads to discuss economic challenges at July Summit

May 03, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on CARICOM Heads to discuss economic challenges at July Summit

– SG asks trade ministers to beef up CSME By Neil Marks With Caribbean countries battling multiple problems of low growth, high debt, and natural disasters, Heads of...

Dem boys seh…Everybody criticizing Jagdeo radio deal

May 03, 2013 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Dem boys seh…Everybody criticizing Jagdeo radio deal

Everybody now talking bout de way Jagdeo give out dem radio concession. De other night de Americans had to talk bout this thing. Dem want to see a fair distribution and when dem talk...

GAWU President appeals to workers to aid sugar industry’s recovery

May 03, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on GAWU President appeals to workers to aid sugar industry’s recovery

“The (sugar) industry is too important to our economy, and too much entangled with too many workers’ lives to perform too poorly,” was the deduction of First Vice President of the...

Guinness ‘Greatest of the Streets’ Futsal final…Silver Bullets shoot down Assassins; Half Mile/One Mile claim third place

May 03, 2013 KNews Sports Comments Off on Guinness ‘Greatest of the Streets’ Futsal final…Silver Bullets shoot down Assassins; Half Mile/One Mile claim third place

By Rawle Welch Silver Bullets, perhaps, fired up by the thousands of fans who lined the barricades and every available vantage point, produced a clinical display en route to a crushing 4-0...

Parliament is not beyond review of the courts

May 03, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Parliament is not beyond review of the courts

– Attorney General “Not even the Executive President of the country enjoys immunity from the legal process,” said Attorney General, Anil Nandlall, on Monday, as he disclosed that Government...

Republic Bank records $552.5M half-year profit

May 03, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Republic Bank records $552.5M half-year profit

For the half year ended March 31st, 2013, Republic Bank Limited has recorded profit attributable to shareholders of TT$552.5M, an increase of 0.4% over the corresponding period last year. In...

British female duo hitting the bull’s eye with ease

May 03, 2013 KNews Sports Comments Off on British female duo hitting the bull’s eye with ease

– encouraging more women to join the ranks The fact that they are women does not by any stretch of the imagination mean that they are at any disadvantage coming against their male...

Fittest survives Mackeson ‘Keep Your Five Alive’

May 03, 2013 KNews Sports Comments Off on Fittest survives Mackeson ‘Keep Your Five Alive’

– Opening contests set tone for keen rivalries Only the fittest survived on the opening night of the Mackeson ‘Keep Your Five Alive’ football competition at California Square, East...

GBBC Guyana Fight Night…Kurt Bess vows to turn the table on Barbadian strongman

May 03, 2013 KNews Sports Comments Off on GBBC Guyana Fight Night…Kurt Bess vows to turn the table on Barbadian strongman

When Kurt Bess squared off with Barbadian strongman, Shawn ‘The Sniper’ Cox in December 2011, the Guyanese was highly tipped to win after enjoying an immediate 5 fight unbeaten...

George off to US for four-month training stint

May 03, 2013 KNews Sports Comments Off on George off to US for four-month training stint

Arguably Guyana’s leading quartermiler, Winston George left Guyana Wednesday afternoon for a four-month training stint in the United States of America with the sole aim of qualifying for the IAAF...

Guyana-born day care worker accused of abusing toddlers in US

May 03, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Guyana-born day care worker accused of abusing toddlers in US

New York (NBC New York) – Prosecutors have filed child abuse and child endangerment charges against a Jersey City day care center worker who allegedly injured two toddlers. Bail was set...

THE TRADE UNION MOVEMENT IS ON THE DECLINE

May 03, 2013 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on THE TRADE UNION MOVEMENT IS ON THE DECLINE

The PPP did not return May Day to the workers. May Day had long been severed from the workers and placed in the hands of the politicians and their lackeys within the trade union...

RHTY&SC teams & BRB honours outstanding Retired Teachers

May 03, 2013 KNews Sports Comments Off on RHTY&SC teams & BRB honours outstanding Retired Teachers

Four outstanding retired teachers with a combined 140 years of teaching experience were on Sunday last honoured by the cricket teams of Rose Hall Town Youth & Sports Club...

Seenanand leads Universal DVD Titans to BSA title

May 03, 2013 KNews Sports Comments Off on Seenanand leads Universal DVD Titans to BSA title

….Blairmont Girls take female exhibition title Totaram Seenanand was the star of the day for Universal DVD Club Titans, who won the Berbice Softball Alliance (BSA) organised four- team...

Minibus Noise

May 03, 2013 KNews Editorial Comments Off on Minibus Noise

All of Guyana knew that it was only a matter of time before the madness that exists in Guyana over the blaring of “music” from minibuses would end in the death of someone. Last Monday, Basdeo...

McDonald regains form on verge of National Scrabble c/ships…Carts off Labour Day Open prize

May 03, 2013 KNews Sports Comments Off on McDonald regains form on verge of National Scrabble c/ships…Carts off Labour Day Open prize

As the executives of the Guyana Association of Scrabble Players (GASP) continue to put the modalities in place for the National Scrabble Championships, due sometime next month, Abigail McDonald sent...

Simple larceny costs man 14 months behind bars

May 03, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Simple larceny costs man 14 months behind bars

Thirty-two year-old Edward Isaacs, of 47 West Road, Sparendaam, E.C.D., was yesterday jailed by Magistrate Sueanna Lovell at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court, after he pleaded guilty...

Vendors vow continuous protests until acting Town Clerk removed

May 03, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Vendors vow continuous protests until acting Town Clerk removed

Scores of protestors, comprising mainly local vendors, picketed the office of the Local Government Ministry yesterday morning in an earnest quest to have the Acting Town Clerk at...

Study finds jewellers affected by mercury

May 03, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Study finds jewellers affected by mercury

– not many wear protective gear Several jewellers in Regions Three and Four are affected by mercury in their workshops. Though, it is common knowledge among the majority tested that using...

Guyana vs British Rifle Shooting Team C/ships…Great Britain’s El Dorado Red takes top spot

May 03, 2013 KNews Sports Comments Off on Guyana vs British Rifle Shooting Team C/ships…Great Britain’s El Dorado Red takes top spot

The visiting Great Britain Fullbore Rifle Shooting team wrapped a successful Goodwill tour of Guyana with victory in the Five Man Team match at the Timehri Rifle Ranges, Yarrowkabra,...

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The stakes are high in Guyana’s democracy

Peeping Tom… Kaieteur News- In any vibrant democracy, the mechanisms that bind it together are those that mediate differences,... more