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Increased debt ceiling…‘We will cater only for GPL shortfall payments’ – AFC

Aug 03, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Increased debt ceiling…‘We will cater only for GPL shortfall payments’ – AFC

The Alliance For Change (AFC) will not be signing off any ‘blank cheque’ to the Guyana Government that would allow it to incur/guarantee debt of up to US$750M (G$150B) for any public corporation....

Sophia chopping spree…Lawyer among four wounded by assailant

Aug 03, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Sophia chopping spree…Lawyer among four wounded by assailant

Attorney-at-law Wanda Fortune was among four persons injured after her step father went berserk and chopped her two sisters and mother at around 9:00pm on Thursday night in Sophia. Fortune,...

Missing Mocha man found dead in backdam

Aug 03, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Missing Mocha man found dead in backdam

The partly decomposed body of 26-year-old Delon Melville, the Mocha/Arcadia, East Bank Demerara resident who had gone missing without a trace since Monday night, was discovered early yesterday...

Reference lab still to receive int’l accreditation – CMO

Aug 03, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Reference lab still to receive int’l accreditation – CMO

By Keeran Danny Guyana’s National Public Health Reference Laboratory is working towards strengthening its operations to acquire international accreditation. The aim was for the facility to be...

ImmigrationINFO…Immigration News For Our Community

Aug 03, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on ImmigrationINFO…Immigration News For Our Community

By Attorney Gail S. Seeram Through this “Question & Answer” column, our goal is to answer your immigration questions. We appreciate your comments and questions. If you have a...

Zeelugt horror slayings…Suspect drank wine, sharpened cutlass before slaughtering kids

Aug 03, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Zeelugt horror slayings…Suspect drank wine, sharpened cutlass before slaughtering kids

Part of her right arm severed and the fingers of her left hand hacked off, Bibi Nazarena Houston yesterday recounted how her husband went berserk and butchered their two children last...

Amending legislation not ruled out to ensure teens’ access to health care

Aug 03, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Amending legislation not ruled out to ensure teens’ access to health care

– Youth Minister With a view to ensuring that teenagers are able to access needful healthcare, a proposal has been made by Minister of Culture, Youth and Sport, Dr. Frank Anthony, to remedy any...

AFRICA’S ENIGMATIC HERO

Aug 03, 2013 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on AFRICA’S ENIGMATIC HERO

The election victory of Robert Mugabe in his country’s parliamentary elections – and no doubt also the presidential vote – represents a massive blow for western imperialism. For...

The needless problems with Amaila

Aug 03, 2013 KNews Editorial Comments Off on The needless problems with Amaila

Certainly the most talked about thing at this time is the Amaila Falls project. For the first time we are seeing so many challenges to what the nation originally took for granted. It also exposed the...

Mandela Avenue fatal shooting …DPP recommends murder charges for wounded passenger, two others -Top Cop

Aug 03, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Mandela Avenue fatal shooting …DPP recommends murder charges for wounded passenger, two others -Top Cop

By Michael Jordan In an unexpected twist in the Mandela Avenue killing of Elvis Fernandes, the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) has recommended that wounded minibus passenger Lloyd Britton and...

The ‘Black Community’ is in crisis, says African Rights Activist

Aug 03, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on The ‘Black Community’ is in crisis, says African Rights Activist

– underscores importance of addressing challenges By Sharmain Grainger The fact that there is a limited quota of upstanding role models in the ‘Black Community’ could be the root cause of...

GPHC beautification works pending directive from Mayor

Aug 03, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on GPHC beautification works pending directive from Mayor

Following moves by a faction of the Georgetown Mayor & City Council (M&CC) to deter beautification works to the environs of the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC),...

Porkknocker remanded for discharging gun

Aug 03, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Porkknocker remanded for discharging gun

Michael Pollard of 3769 North Ruimveldt, Georgetown, was yesterday denied pre-trial liberty by Chief Magistrate Priya Beharry when three charges were read to him at the Georgetown...

No bail for Security Officer for alleged illegal firearm, ammo

Aug 03, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on No bail for Security Officer for alleged illegal firearm, ammo

Julian Winter, 43 of Sussex and Lombard Streets, was yesterday remanded to prison after he was brought before Chief Magistrate Priya Beharry at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court. The...

Guyanese cannot afford to subsidize another investment like the Berbice River Bridge

Aug 03, 2013 KNews Letters Comments Off on Guyanese cannot afford to subsidize another investment like the Berbice River Bridge

Dear Editor The briefings provided by the Sithe/Blackstone group to the Parliamentary sectoral committees on Natural Resources and Economic Services and to the National Stakeholders Forum are...

I have been a victim of flooding for 20 years

Aug 03, 2013 KNews Letters Comments Off on I have been a victim of flooding for 20 years

Dear Editor, For 20 years now, I have been the victim of continuous flooding to my transported house plot property located a short distance away from the northern side of the Riverstown Creek...

The opposition parties are viewing developments through their own political lenses

Aug 03, 2013 KNews Letters Comments Off on The opposition parties are viewing developments through their own political lenses

Dear Editor, It is amazing how perspectives on fundamental issues affecting the lives and well-being of the Guyanese people vary according to where people stand on the political divide. The...

GECOM Public Relations Officer replies to Gocool Boodoo

Aug 03, 2013 KNews Letters Comments Off on GECOM Public Relations Officer replies to Gocool Boodoo

Dear Editor, In reference to the letter under the name of Mr. Gocool Boodoo, former Chief Election Officer (Stabroek News of Monday, July 29, 2013), it is incumbent upon me as Public Relations...

Controversial Amaila Hydro project…Brassington admits Guyana will quickly outgrow Amaila

Aug 02, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Controversial Amaila Hydro project…Brassington admits Guyana will quickly outgrow Amaila

Technical Coordinator for the Amaila Falls Hydro Electric Falls Project, Winston Brassington, has indicated that within a year of the project coming on stream, the demand will have utilised...

Amaila Falls Hydro…Brassington dodges queries of Fip Motilall’s gains

Aug 02, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Amaila Falls Hydro…Brassington dodges queries of Fip Motilall’s gains

The actual amount of money Makeshwar ‘Fip’ Motilall walked away with from the Amaila Falls Hydro Electric Project, in particular the construction of the access road, remains unknown. Also...

Fire Officer perishes in Berbice crash

Aug 02, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Fire Officer perishes in Berbice crash

Linden Mc Calmon, a 47-year-old Senior Fire Officer, was pronounced dead on arrival at the Fort Wellington Hospital in the wee hours of yesterday morning, following an accident on the Bath...

Sophia man chops wife, three daughters

Aug 02, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Sophia man chops wife, three daughters

A Sophia newspaper vendor went berserk last night, severely chopping his reputed wife and three daughters near their Fourth Street, ‘D’ Field residence. The assailant fled the scene and was still...

Amaila hydro saga… Quest to leave a legacy has overpowered rational thinking – Professor Thomas

Aug 02, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Amaila hydro saga… Quest to leave a legacy has overpowered rational thinking – Professor Thomas

By Abena Rockcliffe Economist Professor Clive Thomas has raised concerns about Guyana’s future, asserting that local political leadership may have been clouded by vanity, in relation to...

Boy, 3, drowns at creek

Aug 02, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Boy, 3, drowns at creek

By Latoya Giles What was supposed to be an exciting church outing turned out to be tragedy for one family yesterday, after a three-year-old boy drowned at the Marudi Creek, on the Linden/Soesdyke...

Dem boys seh…De Waterfalls boss man had he way wid Brazzy

Aug 02, 2013 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Dem boys seh…De Waterfalls boss man had he way wid Brazzy

Brazzy meet he meter. He does always walk wid he chest puff out, not that he can help it, is just that he chest puff and he belly more puff. Suh when he go wid de Sithe Global man to this...

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This must not be our hour of humiliation

Peeping Tom… Kaieteur News- There are moments in the history of nations when fate lays before them a choice not of... more