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Dead Guyanese fisherman was set to travel home

Dec 11, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Dead Guyanese fisherman was set to travel home

Tortola (BVInews.com) -With Christmas just around the corner, Kendeye Thomas, the BVI resident who perished at sea over the weekend, was counting down the days for when he would have boarded a flight...

THE DEATH OF A COMRADE

Dec 11, 2013 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on THE DEATH OF A COMRADE

It is hard to tell whether the world is mourning Nelson Mandela or whether they are celebrating his life. Glowing tributes are being showered on the former President of South Africa and the...

Trans Guyana aircraft veers off Ogle runway

Dec 11, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Trans Guyana aircraft veers off Ogle runway

A Trans Guyana aircraft returning from the interior location of the Cuyuni-Mazaruni Region yesterday veered off the Ogle Airport runway after experiencing a partial seizure in the brake...

Passengers lament exorbitant increase in minibus fares

Dec 11, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Passengers lament exorbitant increase in minibus fares

Passengers using the route 32 (Georgetown to Parika ) and 44 (Georgetown to Mahaica) minibuses are complaining over the high fares that they are being forced to pay to reach their destinations...

Cops, OPR revisit scene of Golden Grove shooting deaths

Dec 11, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Cops, OPR revisit scene of Golden Grove shooting deaths

– Ranks at stakeout to give statements Investigators from the Brickdam Police Station and Office of Professional Responsibility (OPR) yesterday revisited the scene of Saturday’s confrontation...

‘Christmas rush’ for barrels at Laparkan

Dec 11, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on ‘Christmas rush’ for barrels at Laparkan

– Company reports 500% increase The flow of gift packages and barrels from the diaspora in North America to families and friends in Guyana has increased to about 500 percent for the festive...

PPP queries source of Transparency International’s data

Dec 11, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on PPP queries source of Transparency International’s data

Transparency International in its 2013 Corruption Perception Index ranked Guyana as the second most corrupt country in the Americas, but the ruling party has taken umbrage to this. The People’s...

GO-Invest not yet affected by Guyana blacklisted status

Dec 11, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on GO-Invest not yet affected by Guyana blacklisted status

Guyana Office for Investment (GO-Invest) is unaware of the impact Guyana’s blacklisted status by the Caribbean Financial Action Task Force (CFATF) would have on investment, says Keith Burrowes,...

CARICOM strengthens commitment to persons with disabilities

Dec 11, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on CARICOM strengthens commitment to persons with disabilities

The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) strengthened its commitment to protecting the rights of persons with disabilities in the Caribbean with the signing of the Declaration of Pétion Ville...

‘Baby Dakota’ leaves for reunion with deported American mother

Dec 11, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on ‘Baby Dakota’ leaves for reunion with deported American mother

After a delay of close to two months, Baby Dakota, the infant son of an American woman who was sent back to her homeland last October after undergoing psychiatric treatment, will soon be reunited...

2013 murder rate similar to crime wave years

Dec 11, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on 2013 murder rate similar to crime wave years

If the trend continues, this year’s murder figures seem destined to surpass those of 2012 and rival some of the years of the infamous crime wave. Figures released by the police’s Criminal...

Mandela, Tony Blair and President Ramotar

Dec 11, 2013 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on Mandela, Tony Blair and President Ramotar

In a conversation with African rights activist Pender Guyan and media operative Charlie Griffith of Channel 9, I told both of them that the problem I have with attending the PPP-sponsored...

MOA pursues phasing out bottom-house agro-processing

Dec 11, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on MOA pursues phasing out bottom-house agro-processing

As the Ministry of Agriculture pursues the phasing out of bottom-house agro-processing, subject Minister, Dr. Leslie Ramsammy has announced that the Guyana Shop will not buy from unlicensed...

Deplorable state of West Front Road causing concern

Dec 11, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Deplorable state of West Front Road causing concern

The frustration of residents and bus drivers traversing the western end of West Front Road is mounting, as potholes in the road are developing into craters; increasing maintenance costs for motorists...

Housewife fined for lying to obtain a passport

Dec 11, 2013 KNews News 1

A 43-year-old housewife of #11 Village, West Coast Berbice was yesterday fined $40,000 by Magistrate Faith McGusty for making a false declaration for the purpose of procuring a new passport....

North West Secondary to be completed by Dec. 31

Dec 11, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on North West Secondary to be completed by Dec. 31

Having missed two deadlines in the past four months, the completion of renovations at the North West District Secondary School now hangs on the promise of contractors. The new deadline is...

Deported Guyanese allowed to re-enter T&T with medically ill son

Dec 11, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Deported Guyanese allowed to re-enter T&T with medically ill son

A Guyanese woman who was expelled from the sister Caricom nation of Trinidad and Tobago in late October with her two-year-old Trinidadian born son has been finally accepted back into the island....

Sophia man jailed for threatening ‘child mother’, step daughter

Dec 11, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Sophia man jailed for threatening ‘child mother’, step daughter

A series of muffled laughter was the common factor at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court yesterday when the case of a 29-year-old Sophia resident was called in the courtroom of Magistrate Faith...

An enduring shame

Dec 11, 2013 KNews Editorial Comments Off on An enduring shame

One of this nation’s most enduring shames is the fact that a significant number of hardworking Guyanese do not earn a living wage and feel as though they are holding on to life by a thread. It...

Supermarket robbery accused refused bail

Dec 11, 2013 KNews Letters Comments Off on Supermarket robbery accused refused bail

Three men were arraigned yesterday at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court in connection with a staged robbery, allegedly committed on Survival Supermarket. Appearing before Magistrate Faith...

C’tyne murder trial adjourned again

Dec 11, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on C’tyne murder trial adjourned again

– Second lawyer recuses self The murder trial of 52-year-old Charles Albert called Charles Greaves, has been adjourned again. The trial was expected to get underway yesterday in the Berbice...

Where is the Mandela in our leaders?

Dec 11, 2013 KNews Letters Comments Off on Where is the Mandela in our leaders?

Dear Editor, ONE of the best responses to Nelson Mandela’s passing is for the leaders of the ruling oligarchy not to pretend that they are his friends but to honor his legacy of peace,...

Rekha may be acting beyond his competence

Dec 11, 2013 KNews Letters Comments Off on Rekha may be acting beyond his competence

Dear Editor, When I read the news recently that the Chief Executive Officer of the Georgetown Public Hospital was asked to proceed on his annual leave, I was shocked because Mr. Michael Khan is one...

No respite from the noise

Dec 11, 2013 KNews Letters Comments Off on No respite from the noise

Dear Editor, The failure by the Charity police to enforce the law to institute prosecution against perpetrators of noise nuisance emerging from business places just under the nose of the station, is...

GDP is not a good measurement of human development

Dec 11, 2013 KNews Letters Comments Off on GDP is not a good measurement of human development

Dear Editor, Nobel-prize winning economists Joseph Stiglitz and Amartya Sen have admitted that GDP does not capture the human condition and urged the creation of different tools to gauge the...

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Peeping Tom… Kaieteur News- The Vice President of Guyana, ever the sagacious observer of the inevitable, has reassured... more