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Fire destroys Tuschen Housing Scheme property

Jul 18, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Fire destroys Tuschen Housing Scheme property

-family of four homeless A family of four was yesterday rendered homeless after their two-storey, three-bedroom Lot 2253 Tuschen Housing Scheme home was destroyed by fire at around 11:15hrs....

Matthew’s Ridge plane crash… Passenger recalled pilot saying “Oh Gosh” before landing in bushes

Jul 18, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Matthew’s Ridge plane crash… Passenger recalled pilot saying “Oh Gosh” before landing in bushes

Ulan Benjamin, one of the passengers, who was traveling in an Air Services Limited (ASL) Cessna Caravan aircraft on Monday when it crashed at Matthew’s Ridge, Region One, said that he heard when...

Agricola family comes home to ransacked house

Jul 18, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Agricola family comes home to ransacked house

Burglars cart off $100,000 in cash and items By Javone Vickerie An Agricola family returned home from Georgetown, yesterday to find that they had been robbed of their cash and...

13 new archaeological sites found in Rupununi

Jul 18, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on 13 new archaeological sites found in Rupununi

In light of the disclosure of 13 new archaeological sites that were found in the Rupununi Savannah, Region Nine during an anthropology field school visit to the Karanambo Ranch, Archaeologist...

Guyanese collapses during walk in Barbados

Jul 18, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Guyanese collapses during walk in Barbados

Two men, one of them a Guyanese, met their demise under differing circumstances in Barbados Tuesday, one succumbing to an apparent heart attack, and the other through violent means. The body...

Police rewards 1300 ranks with monetary incentives

Jul 18, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Police rewards 1300 ranks with monetary incentives

The Guyana Police Force as part of its 174th anniversary celebrations yesterday doled out $10M to more than 1300 of its ranks who performed outstandingly suppressing crime and traffic...

Voir Dire conducted in Lusignan massacre trial

Jul 18, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Voir Dire conducted in Lusignan massacre trial

The defence for the two men accused of taking part in the 2008 slaughter of 11 Lusignan residents, brought to the court’s attention several issues that could negatively affect their...

6,000 tons of paddy to leave for Venezuela shortly – GRDB

Jul 18, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on 6,000 tons of paddy to leave for Venezuela shortly – GRDB

– 30,000 tons paddy, 29,000 tons white rice already shipped As part of Guyana’s contractual obligation to ship paddy and white rice to Venezuela, the sixth shipment of paddy for 2013 is...

Six graduate Emergency Medical Dispatchers programme

Jul 18, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Six graduate Emergency Medical Dispatchers programme

The Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) is now equipped with six fully trained Emergency Medical Dispatchers (EMD). Those who recently graduated from the training programme are...

Several Region Seven communities educated about TIP

Jul 18, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Several Region Seven communities educated about TIP

Apparently, weeks before members of Guyana Women Miners’ Organization rescued five Trafficking In Persons (TIP) victims, four members of the Ministerial Task Force on Trafficking in Persons...

‘Cakes’ charged with beating wife

Jul 18, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on ‘Cakes’ charged with beating wife

Cleophus Hope, called ‘Cakes’, 56, a Seaman of Betsy Ground, East Canje, Berbice, was on Monday placed on $25,000 bail by Magistrate Rhondel Weaver last week. He appeared before her at the New...

Court Marshal Dainty laid to rest

Jul 18, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Court Marshal Dainty laid to rest

Walter Herbert Dainty was laid to rest yesterday after a brief funeral service at Sandy’s Funeral Home earlier in the morning. Dainty died last week at the age of 86. At the funeral service his...

High court criminal sessions expected to resume today in Berbice

Jul 18, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on High court criminal sessions expected to resume today in Berbice

High court proceedings in the criminal session in the Berbice High Court are expected to resume today. This was after proceedings came to a halt just after the beginning of the June sessions...

Heightened security for PPP Congress – Rohee

Jul 18, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Heightened security for PPP Congress – Rohee

By Leon Suseran Speaking at a Press Conference at Freedom House in New Amsterdam recently, Chairperson of the People’s Progressive Party/Civic (PPP/C), Minister Clement Rohee has stated that...

Two Antiguans get life for killing Guyanese butcher

Jul 18, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Two Antiguans get life for killing Guyanese butcher

Antigua (Antigua Observer) – Shrill shrieks echoed through the High Court building Tuesday as the mother of one of two men sentenced to life in prison broke down in tears. Lasana Anthony “Tony”...

It is not only bad governance but bad attitudes

Jul 18, 2013 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on It is not only bad governance but bad attitudes

The corruption began under the Presidency of Dr. Cheddi Jagan and continued from thereon. But in that period, it was small time skullduggery. Perhaps the greatest claim to fame that Jagan had was his...

These people cannot enhance any crucial discourse

Jul 18, 2013 KNews Letters Comments Off on These people cannot enhance any crucial discourse

DEAR EDITOR, I refer to M. Maxwell’s letter in KN of July 16, 2013 in which he wrote; “Unlike Freddie Kissoon, I will not relent to the shamelessly convenient reasoning of Minette Bacchus.” I...

Workers need a 10% wage increase to cope with inflation

Jul 18, 2013 KNews Letters Comments Off on Workers need a 10% wage increase to cope with inflation

Dear Editor, May Day 2013 has come and gone, but the political, economic and social crisis in Guyana remains. The President was quoted in the pro-government section of the press as saying his...

Regional Executive Officers

Jul 18, 2013 KNews Letters Comments Off on Regional Executive Officers

DEAR EDITOR, At the time of writing enquiries about the incumbents of the post of Regional Executive Officer and their respective competency profiles have not yet elicited a formal response....

I commend Mr. Alexander

Jul 18, 2013 KNews Letters Comments Off on I commend Mr. Alexander

DEAR EDITOR, I commend Mr. Alexander, commissioner at the Guyana Elections Commission, for doing the noble and righteous thing. I applaud him for demonstrating the fortitude, consciousness, vigilance...

CCJ should be put to a vote by Caribbean leaders

Jul 18, 2013 KNews Letters Comments Off on CCJ should be put to a vote by Caribbean leaders

Dear Editor, Two Caricom states, St. Lucia and Dominica, stated that they will accept the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) as their final court of appeal, joining Guyana, Belize and...

A brotherhood-of-man mindset

Jul 18, 2013 KNews Letters Comments Off on A brotherhood-of-man mindset

DEAR EDITOR, As the saying goes “Where there’s life, there’s hope”. It was heartening to note from a recent letter that there are still sensitive souls in our beloved country. When I read the...

Global Trends in Binary Trading and Finance

Jul 18, 2013 knews News Comments Off on Global Trends in Binary Trading and Finance

The world of finance is splendidly fascinating, but it can also be scary. There are many different methods and ways to approach this world and one of them is the popular trend of binary trading. This...

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