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The strange disappearance of Levoy Taljit

Jul 14, 2013 KNews Murder and Mystery Comments Off on The strange disappearance of Levoy Taljit

By Michael Jordan There just might be one thing worse than having someone murder a loved one of yours. It’s having that loved one seemingly vanish from the face of the earth, leaving behind just...

Transparency is so crucial

Jul 14, 2013 KNews Features / Columnists, My Column Comments Off on Transparency is so crucial

It has been some time that the government has not yielded to requests by the opposition. Now this is happening at an unprecedented rate. The parliamentary opposition asked to have a...

The Moth

Jul 14, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on The Moth

A moth is an insect related to the butterfly, both being of the order Lepidoptera. There are reportedly approximately 160,000 species of moth (nearly 10 times the number of...

Housing and You…Cheaper housing, pre-fab homes and ‘Silica City’

Jul 14, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Housing and You…Cheaper housing, pre-fab homes and ‘Silica City’

By Leonard Gildarie The fourth edition of the International Building Expo has come and gone and like I promised, we will look to examine, in a broad way, some of the issues that came to the fore. I...

Casavis’s book on Thomas Carroll is utter nonsense

Jul 14, 2013 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on Casavis’s book on Thomas Carroll is utter nonsense

David Casavis’s book, “The Thomas Carroll Affair” is not only nonsense, but deservers the fiercest condemnation from reviewers and especially the Guyanese people that David Casavis thinks are...

Government failed to read the ‘writing on the wall’

Jul 14, 2013 KNews AFC Column, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Government failed to read the ‘writing on the wall’

In just about four years, Guyana stands to lose its largest bulk sugar market – the European Union. This is as the EU ends the quota system. Under the quota system, Guyana had a...

Down with defectors, detractors and deserters!

Jul 14, 2013 KNews APNU Column, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Down with defectors, detractors and deserters!

The People’s Progressive Party has suffered another panic attack. The first attack had occurred in the general and regional elections of November 2011. The Party, for the first time in five general...

Book Review: The Baker’s Son: A memoir of faith, family, and ambition

Jul 14, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Book Review: The Baker’s Son: A memoir of faith, family, and ambition

By Dr Glenville Ashby The Baker’s Son: My Life in Business is a memoir of invaluable worth. Interweaving multiple themes into a single book is testing. However, iconic Jamaican businessman and...

Electricity woes hit Port Kaituma again

Jul 14, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Electricity woes hit Port Kaituma again

Residents of Port Kaituma, Region One, are complaining that there is no water flowing through the taps because the pump station is not working. And there is no electricity because the...

Guyana aviation sector records significant strides

Jul 14, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Guyana aviation sector records significant strides

Government officials involved in the aviation sector say that significant strides are being made to better air services in the country. They say that much more has to be done to upgrade...

Two Antiguans guilty of robbing, killing Guyanese butcher

Jul 14, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Two Antiguans guilty of robbing, killing Guyanese butcher

Antigua (Caribarena) – The sentencing of the two men who were found guilty of the murder of Rondel George has been adjourned until July 16. Lasana Anthony Riley and Jevorney Richards...

Pushcart vendors unhappy over prototype, new measures

Jul 14, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Pushcart vendors unhappy over prototype, new measures

Five individuals have volunteered to work along with the Ministry of Home Affairs on behalf of push cart vendors. After a meeting on the regularisation of the pushcart business ended, there were some...

Overseas- based Guyanese flees country in fear after robbery

Jul 14, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Overseas- based Guyanese flees country in fear after robbery

…..one suspect in custody Overseas- based Guyanese, Sadesh Mangaldin, who was brutally robbed and attacked by four masked bandits at the house in which he was staying on Thursday...

Bartica man shoots self in buttocks

Jul 14, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Bartica man shoots self in buttocks

A licensed firearm holder is a patient at the Bartica Hospital following a shooting incident which resulted in a teen being shot in her right leg. The police have confirmed that the injured persons...

Race on to meet sugar target…Opposition demands GuySuCo’s turnaround plan, creditors wary

Jul 14, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Race on to meet sugar target…Opposition demands GuySuCo’s turnaround plan, creditors wary

As the sugar industry races to make a 240,000 annual target and with the second crop currently underway, the Opposition has announced its intentions to ask Government to release plans on how...

Professor Dabydeen denies academic boycott of PNC

Jul 14, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Professor Dabydeen denies academic boycott of PNC

Executive Director of the Caribbean Press and Guyana’s Ambassador to China, Professor David Dabydeen, has denied claims of academic boycott of the first volume of the published parliamentary...

Region continues to make strides to tackle HIV – Caricom Director

Jul 14, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Region continues to make strides to tackle HIV – Caricom Director

Although the Region from the beginning of the 21st century was faced with the tremendous risk of the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV), the threat has been mitigated by the...

Linden still awaiting promised ambulance

Jul 14, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Linden still awaiting promised ambulance

Leaders of Region Ten met Wednesday with Government and asked for a review of Bai Shan Lin’s operations and complaining about to the state of key roads in the area. According to Sharma Solomon,...

Draft plan for Zoo, urban parks to be unveiled Tuesday

Jul 14, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Draft plan for Zoo, urban parks to be unveiled Tuesday

A draft plan to develop the Guyana Zoo and improve security in the urban parks is to be unveiled Tuesday, the Ministry of Natural Resources and the Environment announced Friday. The Ministry...

Number 63 Beach continues to deteriorate

Jul 14, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Number 63 Beach continues to deteriorate

As August 1 approaches, Guyanese, especially Berbicians who normally flock the Number 63 Beach on the Corentyne, are wondering how they will gain entry into the popular tourist destination as the...

Serial rapist drives fear into Single women

Jul 14, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Serial rapist drives fear into Single women

Concerns continue to escalate; fear has gripped some single women of Hampton Court and Devonshire Castle, who continue to be viciously attacked by a rapist. A resident of Devonshire...

From the Diaspora…READERS RESPONSE

Jul 14, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on From the Diaspora…READERS RESPONSE

Ralph Seeram There are more people in the Diaspora who are upset with the so called dress code enforced by the Guyana Government and its agencies. Some readers find it comical while others were...

Leather Craft – A dying Trade?

Jul 14, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Leather Craft – A dying Trade?

Leather… leather what? Leather slipper, leather wallet, leather bag? The list can go on and on. As one manufacturer of leather products, Richard Singh, said about the material, “Belt, bags,...

Toastmasters have new executive

Jul 14, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Toastmasters have new executive

Cacique Toastmasters Club’s new Executive Officers 2013/2014 are President Sonya Missigher, CC, CL ; Vice President, Keon Smith, CC, ALB; Vice President Membership, Vinish Etwaroo, CC;...

Woman burns son with hot knife for stealing $200.00

Jul 14, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Woman burns son with hot knife for stealing $200.00

A woman who decided to heat a knife and burn her son on his hands after she learnt that he took some money has been charged. Maharani Prashad, 36, a housewife of Reliance Abundant, East...

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A coalition of shared disgrace

Peeping Tom… Kaieteur News- The APNU and the AFC deserve each other. They deserve to be shackled together in a coalition... more