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Father seeks missing daughter

Dec 10, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Father seeks missing daughter

A father of five is seeking help to find his 14-year-old daughter, Raveena Motie, who went missing from early December. Harry Narine Motie, 43, of Berbice explained that his daughter went...

AFC moves to parliament for restoration of Critchlow’s annual subvention

Dec 10, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on AFC moves to parliament for restoration of Critchlow’s annual subvention

By Abena Rockcliffe The Alliance for Change (AFC) has moved to the National Assembly to secure the restoration of Critchlow Labour College’s annual subvention which was taken away...

Will the Mandela example be adopted in Guyana?

Dec 10, 2013 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on Will the Mandela example be adopted in Guyana?

It is incomprehensible that leaders around the world shower the most ethereal praise on Mandela, Gandhi, Martin Luther King, yet practise the worst form of malice and vindictiveness...

Environment Minister dubs recycling plant best solution to solid waste issue

Dec 10, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Environment Minister dubs recycling plant best solution to solid waste issue

– AFC says wait for PPC By Abena Rockcliffe Considering recent exposés about the “ghost company” with which the government partnered to build a recycling...

GT&T, Hand-in-Hand Inter-County tourney – Rd 2…Demerara battle B’ce, President’s XI take on E’bo

Dec 10, 2013 KNews Sports Comments Off on GT&T, Hand-in-Hand Inter-County tourney – Rd 2…Demerara battle B’ce, President’s XI take on E’bo

Demerara will battle archrivals Berbice at the Enmore Community Centre ground and the President’s XI will face Essequibo at the Georgetown Cricket Club ground, Bourda when the Guyana...

No excuse for absence of National delegation for Mandela’s Funeral- NAR

Dec 10, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on No excuse for absence of National delegation for Mandela’s Funeral- NAR

It is regrettable that the actions of Ramotar and his government go contrary to everything Mandela stood for and fought against. A Partnership for National Unity (APNU) yesterday opened...

GPOC rate increase necessary to provide improved postal services

Dec 10, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on GPOC rate increase necessary to provide improved postal services

The Guyana Post Office Corporation (GPOC) is working to provide an improved business/ postal service to members of the public. Last week Postmaster General, Henry Dundas, explained that the...

Ex-soldier, ‘Lil Mark’ executed with same gun – police

Dec 10, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Ex-soldier, ‘Lil Mark’ executed with same gun – police

Ballistic tests by the police have revealed that former army officer Denzil Mingo was executed with a firearm that was used in another execution-style killing three years ago. A top...

CHEDDI AND POWER SHARING AFTER 1992

Dec 10, 2013 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on CHEDDI AND POWER SHARING AFTER 1992

On his deathbed, Cheddi Jagan had an epiphany. He signed a note saying that he would like his wife to take over from him. It was so unlike Cheddi. He, after all, had once said at a political...

Sawmill supervisor’s murder suspect remanded

Dec 10, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Sawmill supervisor’s murder suspect remanded

A 28-year-old miner was yesterday slapped with the murder charge of a 22-year-old sawmill supervisor, whose body was found Land-of-Canaan, East Bank Demerara, some seven months ago....

Cocaine in boulanger…Woman charged with airport cocaine bust

Dec 10, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Cocaine in boulanger…Woman charged with airport cocaine bust

Nine days after a major drug bust at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport, the exporter accused of trying to smuggle boulangers stuffed with cocaine out of the country, was yesterday...

Georgetown can be saved

Dec 10, 2013 KNews Editorial Comments Off on Georgetown can be saved

In recent weeks Central Government has been undertaking a series of works in the city, particularly in the area of garbage removal and cleaning the waterways. This is really nothing new...

Community Service: an alternative to incarceration for nonviolent offenders

Dec 10, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Community Service: an alternative to incarceration for nonviolent offenders

By Sunita Samaroo As Magistrates continue to hand down their decisions, their verdicts, scores of non-violent offenders find themselves subjected to months of mandated community service...

Police hunt wounding accused

Dec 10, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Police hunt wounding accused

The police are still on the hunt for three known felons who on Friday inflicted serious injuries on a teenager who remains hospitalised in the Emergency Unit of the New Amsterdam Hospital. The...

Suddie police gear to bury unidentified man

Dec 10, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Suddie police gear to bury unidentified man

A man of African ancestry who died days after falling ill and was a patient at the Suddie Public Hospital, remains at the Suddie Mortuary without anyone coming forward to claim his...

Son dies after goiter surgery

Dec 10, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Son dies after goiter surgery

A father is begging for answers from the medical staff of the New Amsterdam Hospital after his 28-year- old son died mere hours after a surgical intervention to remove a goiter last Thursday....

Essequibo Technical Institute gets student transportation

Dec 10, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Essequibo Technical Institute gets student transportation

In an attempt to reduce the cost of transportation for students attending the Essequibo Technical Institute, at Anna Regina, a select team, comprising members of the management committee...

Take back your communities – Persaud urges stakeholders

Dec 10, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Take back your communities – Persaud urges stakeholders

– plans afoot to boost EPA Minister of Environment and Natural Resources Robert Persaud has given the charge to residents to ensure that their communities are clean and report...

CARICOM Reparations Commission updates region on compensation progress

Dec 10, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on CARICOM Reparations Commission updates region on compensation progress

Following a meeting with British law firm, Leigh, Day& Company over legal representation of Caribbean nations seeking redress from European countries for horrors endured during the...

Professor Harold Lutchman, a prophet without honour

Dec 10, 2013 KNews Letters Comments Off on Professor Harold Lutchman, a prophet without honour

DEAR EDITOR, “A prophet is not without honour save in his own country and among his own kin”. Jesus must have had the likes of Professor Harold Lutchman in mind when he said this. In a...

We have entered into a sad era in Guyana

Dec 10, 2013 KNews Letters Comments Off on We have entered into a sad era in Guyana

DEAR EDITOR, Permit me a space in your newspaper to express my disgust over the attitude of this present regime in the managing of this country. Since coming to office in 1992 we have seen...

Corruption has left our country among the poorest

Dec 10, 2013 KNews Letters Comments Off on Corruption has left our country among the poorest

DEAR EDITOR, The impending economic and political crisis in Guyana is not an accident; it was caused by an out of control and corrupt, political Stalinist oligarchy that controls the ruling...

Are the ABC embassies taking action on these alleged suspicious transactions?

Dec 10, 2013 KNews Letters Comments Off on Are the ABC embassies taking action on these alleged suspicious transactions?

DEAR EDITOR, Recently, we have had some strange financial dealings in Guyana involving citizens and residents of Canada and the US. A few Canadian residents (probably citizens) were behind a...

No better than 5%

Dec 10, 2013 KNews Letters Comments Off on No better than 5%

DEAR EDITOR, It is difficult to disagree with those Public Servants who insist that their colleagues in the Public Service are deserving of no more than a 5% increase in pay. They are...

The world has lost a genuine statesman and leader

Dec 10, 2013 KNews Letters Comments Off on The world has lost a genuine statesman and leader

DEAR EDITOR, The world has lost a genuine statesman and leader with the passing of Nelson Mandela. He could be described as an inspirational leader who over the decades has impacted...

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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