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School boy freed in Vigilante Murder

Oct 01, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on School boy freed in Vigilante Murder

Jafar Seeteram, 18, of Rose Hall Town, Corentyne, Berbice who was on trial with five others for the vigilante murder of Corentyne resident, Alfred Munroe, called “Guana Man”, 45 of...

THE GOLD STANDARD FOR SOCIALISM

Oct 01, 2013 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on THE GOLD STANDARD FOR SOCIALISM

The Cubans did not instigate the defections within the People’s Progressive Party (PPP) that witnessed the departure of persons such as Ranji Chandisingh and Vincent Teekah to the...

Contractor lags with $237M Patentia Pump station

Oct 01, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Contractor lags with $237M Patentia Pump station

…Govt sets six-week deadline Engineers Fredrick Flatts and Lionel Wordsworth, along with Junior Finance Minister, Juan Edghill and Minister of Agriculture, Dr. Leslie Ramsammy, are...

Operation El Dorado ongoing- Persaud

Oct 01, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Operation El Dorado ongoing- Persaud

– Intends to target illegal mining “We don’t have a difficulty with non nationals being involved in the mining sector or any sector, but they must conform to national...

No alarm over slothful operation of Accreditation Council – ACTT Director

Oct 01, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on No alarm over slothful operation of Accreditation Council – ACTT Director

An apparent sloth in the processing of registration applications by the National Accreditation Council is in fact nothing alarming but rather an expected outcome of such a fledging body. At...

Brazilians killed in mining pit…Illegal miners ordered to remove three weeks ago

Oct 01, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Brazilians killed in mining pit…Illegal miners ordered to remove three weeks ago

Dredge owner to be charged The four Brazilians who were killed last Friday when a mining pit at Region Seven collapsed were ordered out of the area three weeks ago for mining illegally....

Judge explains his “new” sentencing method

Oct 01, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Judge explains his “new” sentencing method

– death penalty not mandatory By Latoya Giles One High Court Judge says that although the death penalty is the maximum sentence, it is not mandatory and as such he has developed a...

GuyExpo 2013…Systems in place to improve comfort of patrons

Oct 01, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on GuyExpo 2013…Systems in place to improve comfort of patrons

Persons participating in GuyExpo 2013 will be relieved to know that more is being done to increase their comfort and quality of experience. The Ministry of Tourism and coordinators tasked with...

Guyana seeks Chief Elections Officer

Oct 01, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Guyana seeks Chief Elections Officer

The Guyana Elections Commission is seeking a Chief Elections Officer to replace Gocool Boodoo who was not supported by the majority of the Guyana Elections Commission. Amid allegations...

Good Intent fire leaves three homeless

Oct 01, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Good Intent fire leaves three homeless

Three persons are now homeless following a fire which ripped through their one- bedroom home at Lot 19 Good Intent, West Bank Demerara early yesterday. The fire, which started about...

Women’s lawyers take umbrage at AG’s comment

Oct 01, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Women’s lawyers take umbrage at AG’s comment

The Guyana Association of Women Lawyers (GAWL) has taken objection to some comments by Attorney General, Mr. Mohabir Anil Nandlall. Those comments were contained in the Guyana Chronicle of...

If the people of Guyana want it this way, then so be it

Oct 01, 2013 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on If the people of Guyana want it this way, then so be it

I begin with a question. Why is it that UG students are perhaps the least protesting students anywhere in the world including countries where there are vicious dictators? What takes at UG would meet...

Remigrant now in charge of solid waste disposal in Berbice

Oct 01, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Remigrant now in charge of solid waste disposal in Berbice

…plans in pipeline for processing plant Garbage collected from Berbicians will soon undergo processing at a processing plant at which plastics, electronics and glass will be separated....

Making Death Row obsolete

Oct 01, 2013 KNews Editorial Comments Off on Making Death Row obsolete

Guyana is at present deliberating the wisdom of maintaining the death penalty on the statutes. Many countries have abolished the death penalty, some from as far back as five or more decades ago when...

Guyanese drug mule nabbed in Dubai

Oct 01, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Guyanese drug mule nabbed in Dubai

Dubai: Airport security officers intercepted two drug mules carrying 5.361kg of cocaine, reported the Dubai Police Anti-Narcotics department on Sunday. In the first operation, the police...

NICIL vs Guyana Stores…Brassington tells court he had to reduce net current assets, to avoid buyer’s windfall

Oct 01, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on NICIL vs Guyana Stores…Brassington tells court he had to reduce net current assets, to avoid buyer’s windfall

By Latoya Giles As the trial between the National Industrial and Commercial Investments (NICIL) and Royal Investments continued yesterday Mr. Edward Luckhoo continued his...

Crash doctor succumbs

Oct 01, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Crash doctor succumbs

By Leon Suseran Dr. Phyzul Azeem Sattaur, the Berbician who crashed his vhicle along the Number 19 Highway succumbed to his injuries late Sunday evening. Sattaur, a well- known...

Volunteers bridging gap in teacher shortage – NGO Director

Oct 01, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Volunteers bridging gap in teacher shortage – NGO Director

Volunteer teachers have over the years been filling a crucial gap in the education sector. They are open to render their services wherever it is needed, even if in the far-flung Regions...

Businesswoman charged with trafficking in person

Oct 01, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Businesswoman charged with trafficking in person

A businesswoman who tricked a young female into thinking that she would be well pampered in the interior and only work in a bar and earn millions, was charged, after it was revealed that she intended...

Bandits cart off $Millions in Jewellry from N/A Market

Oct 01, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Bandits cart off $Millions in Jewellry from N/A Market

Bandits, sometime between Saturday evening and Sunday morning, broke into two stalls in the New Amsterdam market carting off millions of dollars worth of jewellry. Reports are that...

St Thomas More Primary says…‘No teacher; No school!’

Oct 01, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on St Thomas More Primary says…‘No teacher; No school!’

The transfer of a Grade Five teacher from the St Thomas More Primary School in D’Urban Street, Wortmanville, sparked a muddled protest by students and parents in the school’s compound...

IDB’s US$300,000 contribution aids Audit Office development

Oct 01, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on IDB’s US$300,000 contribution aids Audit Office development

Auditor General Deodat Sharma, yesterday handed over his report on the Public Accounts of Guyana and on the accounts of Ministries, Departments and Regions for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2012...

A proposal to reconsider the implementation of the Amaila Falls hydro project

Oct 01, 2013 KNews Letters Comments Off on A proposal to reconsider the implementation of the Amaila Falls hydro project

Dear Editor, I have been following the impasse of the captioned project. The bottom line is that the public and the opposition are claiming that adequate information was not provided to them...

A clear intent to embarrass professionals

Oct 01, 2013 KNews Letters Comments Off on A clear intent to embarrass professionals

DEAR EDITOR, I was just preparing my letter, and copy of my receipt as proof of payment for my 2013 Tax Practice Certificate, when I read in today’s newspapers the apology from the Guyana Revenue...

The PPP operators are extremely dishonest people

Oct 01, 2013 KNews Letters Comments Off on The PPP operators are extremely dishonest people

Dear Editor, I note with utter disgust an article in the independent media that was attributable to the Minister of Legal Affairs and captioned “PPP blames opposition for crime”. What is...

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