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Gunmen kill businessman, wife and father wounded

Oct 08, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Gunmen kill businessman, wife and father wounded

A Hampshire, Corentyne businessman was shot dead and his wife and father-in-law wounded after bandits, who were also armed with cutlasses, invaded their home shortly after 18:00 hrs yesterday. Dead...

Brassington, Marcia Nadir-Sharma’s contempt can no longer be tolerated

Oct 08, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Brassington, Marcia Nadir-Sharma’s contempt can no longer be tolerated

…Berbice Bridge makes about turn on disclosures – Chris Ram The disregard and contempt of the law by Winston Brassington and Marcia Nadir-Sharma can no longer be tolerated or excused...

Emotional Brumell sworn in as 30th Police Commissioner

Oct 08, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Emotional Brumell sworn in as 30th Police Commissioner

– plans to use criticisms constructively “I took the oath to serve and protect the citizens of this country almost 36 years ago with the ambition to one day become the Commissioner...

Katherina Roshana is Miss Guyana Universe 2013

Oct 08, 2013 KNews News 4

The 22 year old beauty, Katherina Roshana was crowned Miss Guyana Universe, Sunday evening at the poolside of the Pegasus Hotel in Kingston, Georgetown. Roshana, whose platform was autism, will be...

Dem boys seh … Robeson lock up a man fuh nutten

Oct 08, 2013 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists, News 1

Poor Donald. He seh that he ain’t getting a chance to prove that he can run de country. He seh that every time he try something is opposition. De man like Brumell fuh de Police Commissioner and he...

PPP calls for body to oversee media

Oct 08, 2013 KNews News 1

…after dismantling previous media monitoring unit Only three years after ordering the closure of the Media Monitoring Unit (MMU), the ruling People’s Progressive Party Civic (PPP/C)...

Sparendaam youth gunned down in gang feud

Oct 08, 2013 KNews News 1

A 22-year-old man was gunned down around 17:00 hrs yesterday in Second Street, Sparendaam, East Coast Demerara, during an altercation with another man with whom he had an ongoing feud. Michael...

Balwant Singh Hospital completes 17 kidney transplants

Oct 08, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Balwant Singh Hospital completes 17 kidney transplants

– procedures chronicled in new video With three patients slated to be operated on, Philanthropist George Subraj and a team of volunteer medical experts headed by Dr Rahul Jindal arrived...

SWAT team unnecessary – former Top Cop

Oct 08, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on SWAT team unnecessary – former Top Cop

Shadow Minister of Home Affairs and former Police Commissioner, Winston Felix, is not persuaded that the intended special unit –the SWAT team–will have any effect on the current crime...

Diamond Hospital guard “unearths” drugs racket, ejected from compound

Oct 08, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Diamond Hospital guard “unearths” drugs racket, ejected from compound

The Ministry of Health has reportedly launched a probe after a complaint that drugs, believed to be worth hundreds of thousands of dollars, were being systematically stolen from a Regional...

Bosai workers strike over pay increase

Oct 08, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Bosai workers strike over pay increase

Total dissatisfaction with management’s proposal to pay a 3.5 percent increase across the board in wages and salaries to employees of the Bosai Minerals Group Guyana Incorporated (BMGGI)...

Miner locked up for heckling Minister

Oct 08, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Miner locked up for heckling Minister

Robeson Benn hears: ‘Government will lose next general elections’ A 32-year-old gold miner is seeking redress after a government Minister had him locked up overnight for saying that the...

12 lives lost in fires so far this year

Oct 08, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on 12 lives lost in fires so far this year

The year 2013 could go down as one of the most devastating years in terms of fires. So far 12 persons, including four children have perished in fires for this year. This is according to figures...

GuyExpo 2013…. STARR Computers offers family entertainment with Samsung Smart TVs

Oct 08, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on GuyExpo 2013…. STARR Computers offers family entertainment with Samsung Smart TVs

By Rabindra Rooplall STARR Computers Inc. which partnered with ENetworks to deliver high definition (HD) quality video contents on the Samsung Smart TVs to its customer at the GuyExpo 2013 saw a...

GTU emphasises importance of Guidance and Counselling in schools

Oct 08, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on GTU emphasises importance of Guidance and Counselling in schools

The importance of Guidance and Counselling in the school system is an imperative element to help address the challenge of violence in the school system. This has been recognised as especially...

Mahaica man killed in Nevis hit-and-run accident

Oct 08, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Mahaica man killed in Nevis hit-and-run accident

Nevis (SKNvibes.com) – A Guyanese national, who was residing at Upper Government Road on Nevis, was killed on the spot Friday night in what many claimed to be a hit-and-run accident. Dead is...

Ever-Green Economy an imperative – Dr. Ramsammy

Oct 08, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Ever-Green Economy an imperative – Dr. Ramsammy

Guyana’s low carbon development strategy (LCDS) is an ambitious and lofty approach to development. It is an effort to show that global warming and climate change can be reversed and that even...

Brumell must now stop looking to Rohee to manage Police Force – Harmon

Oct 08, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Brumell must now stop looking to Rohee to manage Police Force – Harmon

Now that Leroy Brumell has been confirmed as Commissioner of Police, he must take control of the force and not look over his shoulders to Home Affairs Minister, Clement Rohee, when it comes to the...

GEA Saves $1M in Solar Powered Prototype

Oct 08, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on GEA Saves $1M in Solar Powered Prototype

The Guyana Energy Agency (GEA) has announced that in one year is has saved one Million Guyana dollars in electricity costs. The company’s Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Mahender Sharma mentioned...

$130,000 contract killing … Cops release alleged mastermind, hired attacker

Oct 08, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on $130,000 contract killing … Cops release alleged mastermind, hired attacker

Police have released the two women who were implicated in a bizarre plot to kill Linda Phillips at her Industry, East Coast Demerara home last Thursday. A police source said that the women were...

First shipment of fertiliser arrives

Oct 08, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on First shipment of fertiliser arrives

…as part of Guyana/Venezuela revised agreement Farmers have over the years been faced with the challenge of high prices for fertiliser, a constraint which affected not only their trade but...

Corentyne boy crushed by tractor died of head injuries – autopsy

Oct 08, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Corentyne boy crushed by tractor died of head injuries – autopsy

A post mortem performed on nine- year- old Charran ‘Rocky’ Hanoman yesterday at the Skeldon Hospital, by Government Pathologist, Dr. Vivekanand Brijmohan concluded that he died of head injuries...

Doing Business with China… Guyanese companies import substandard Chinese products

Oct 08, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Doing Business with China… Guyanese companies import substandard Chinese products

By Kiana Wilburg Jason Zhang, First Secretary in the Chinese Embassy in Guyana, at a recent business forum said that he is painfully aware of the second-rate goods coming out of China. His comment...

Voir dire commences into 2005 murder

Oct 08, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Voir dire commences into 2005 murder

A voir dire (trial within a trial) is currently being conducted at the High Court, into the 2005 killing of Lilendra Roopnarine called Boyo. The voir dire commenced yesterday before Justice James...

Porter remanded for theft of $500,000 gold chain

Oct 08, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Porter remanded for theft of $500,000 gold chain

A 25-year-old porter was remanded yesterday on a charge of simple larceny which was read to him by Chief Magistrate Priya Beharry at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court. The court heard that on...

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The government is in choppy waters

Peeping Tom Kaieteur News- The government stands like a beleaguered captain at the helm of a storm-tossed ship, finds itself... more