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Police deny sodomising Harding

Jan 17, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Police deny sodomising Harding

– probe likely to conclude by next Tuesday An investigation into the alleged sodomising of 23-year-old Colwyn Harding by a police constable is likely to conclude by next Tuesday, but the...

Hernia damaged prisoner’s intestines, not rape – Health Minister

Jan 17, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Hernia damaged prisoner’s intestines, not rape – Health Minister

Minister of Health Dr. Bheri Ramsaran, has denied that the injuries to Colwyn Harding, the 23-year-old man who claims that he was sexually assaulted with a baton by a policeman while in custody, were...

Parliament legislates brand new gun crime

Jan 17, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Parliament legislates brand new gun crime

…also widens category of evidence to be used in trials By Gary Eleazar The National Assembly yesterday met for the first time in 2014 and unanimously voted to create a new criminal offence,...

Delayed US$32M fibre optic cable…Be it the President’s son or anyone else’s, we will still ask questions– Joseph Harmon

Jan 17, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Delayed US$32M fibre optic cable…Be it the President’s son or anyone else’s, we will still ask questions– Joseph Harmon

Parliament’s largest Opposition faction, A Partnership for National Unity (APNU), yesterday defended questions on the Government’s US$32M fibre optic project from Brazil. Speaking during a press...

Flooding has gone to an utterly ridiculous state – APNU

Jan 17, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Flooding has gone to an utterly ridiculous state – APNU

Government’s care for the true development of this country is aptly reflected in the poor drainage and irrigation system which continues to manifest itself even to this day. The state of the...

Dem boys seh…Dem got a baton fuh De Rat

Jan 17, 2014 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Dem boys seh…Dem got a baton fuh De Rat

Guyana getting on de map fuh all dem strange reason. De country use to have some good athletes in de old days, but then dem other counties put in facilities and dem move away. Well Guyana ain’t...

Four hours lost to heat on Melbourne outer courts

Jan 17, 2014 KNews Sports Comments Off on Four hours lost to heat on Melbourne outer courts

MELBOURNE (Reuters) – Organizers lost more than four hours of play on the outer courts when a third day of high temperatures at the Australian Open forced them to enact their “Extreme Heat...

Caribbean RADO at the ready to assist in the fight against doping

Jan 17, 2014 KNews Sports Comments Off on Caribbean RADO at the ready to assist in the fight against doping

Guyana is part of 15-member body By Franklin Wilson “There is more to being an athlete than training, exercise, valour and victory. An athlete must also be responsible and informed,” this is how...

GABF President and Secretary for CBC Congress…Guyana to bid to host Junior CBC four nation c/ship

Jan 17, 2014 KNews Sports Comments Off on GABF President and Secretary for CBC Congress…Guyana to bid to host Junior CBC four nation c/ship

Following the conclusion of the Guyana Amateur Basketball Federation (GABF) Annual General Meeting (AGM) on Saturday last which saw former National player Nigel Hinds emerging as President, winning...

Webb receives United Nations Recognition for Social Work through Sport

Jan 17, 2014 KNews Sports Comments Off on Webb receives United Nations Recognition for Social Work through Sport

Acknowledgement takes place at the Fourth Pan-African Youth Leadership Summit Dakar, Senegal, – CONCACAF President Jeffrey Webb has been honoured with a special recognition by the Joint...

GFF Vice President, Rawleston Adams, tenders resignation

Jan 17, 2014 KNews Sports Comments Off on GFF Vice President, Rawleston Adams, tenders resignation

Trouble seems brewing among the executives of the Guyana Football Federation (GFF) after Vice President, Rawleston Adams, suddenly tendered his resignation which appears to have forced the...

Football Referees Council Raffle to be drawn today

Jan 17, 2014 KNews Sports Comments Off on Football Referees Council Raffle to be drawn today

The drawing of the Guyana Football Referees Council (GFRC) will take place today at the Ministry of Culture, Youth and Sport Compound starting at 12:30 hours. The Ministry will also take the...

ECB express condolences to Holder’s family

Jan 17, 2014 KNews Sports Comments Off on ECB express condolences to Holder’s family

The Essequibo Cricket Board (ECB) has expressed condolences to the family of the late Terry Holder. Holder who served for over two decades as Public Relations Officer of the Guyana Cricket Board...

Wiltshire Dominoes Underway, Corporation zone starts on Sunday

Jan 17, 2014 KNews Sports Comments Off on Wiltshire Dominoes Underway, Corporation zone starts on Sunday

The open segment of the Mark Wiltshire 59th Birth Anniversary Dominoes competition commenced last night at Dynasty Sports Bar with teams from Georgetown, East Coast Demerara, West Berbice and...

Clayton Lambert’s 151 is still the highest by a Guyanese at the regional one day level

Jan 17, 2014 KNews Sports Comments Off on Clayton Lambert’s 151 is still the highest by a Guyanese at the regional one day level

Statistician Charwayne Walker notes that Clayton Lambert’s 151 against Barbados 1997 at Bourda is still the highest score by a Guyanese batsman at the Regional one day level. Strange enough...

Local Govt. Minister gets seven more days to explain Sooba’s appointment

Jan 17, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Local Govt. Minister gets seven more days to explain Sooba’s appointment

By Zena Henry Lawyers for Local Government Minister Ganga Persaud were yesterday given seven more days to come up with a response explaining the Minister’s appointment of Town Clerk Carol...

Tender board operating without all members

Jan 17, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Tender board operating without all members

The National Procurement and Tender Administration Board (NPTAB) is operating with only six board members, instead of the required seven, and filling the vacancy has been unsuccessful, Cabinet...

Opposition reiterates demands for AML/CFT Bill

Jan 17, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Opposition reiterates demands for AML/CFT Bill

By Kiana Wilburg A Partnership for National Unity (APNU)’s Shadow Minister of Finance, Carl Greenidge, has reiterated that if their demands on the Anti-Money Laundering and Countering the Financing...

Water/ice processing industry being scrutinised

Jan 17, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Water/ice processing industry being scrutinised

– Food and Drug Department – training being recommended to improve operation The operations of water and ice processors across the country came under the microscope yesterday...

Police admit lack of proper supervision at Timehri

Jan 17, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Police admit lack of proper supervision at Timehri

The Guyana Police Force has admitted that there was a lack of proper supervision at the Timehri Police Station and improper communication with respect to the handling of detainee Colwyn Harding....

Luncheon “unsure”whether Surendra pumps are in Guyana

Jan 17, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Luncheon “unsure”whether Surendra pumps are in Guyana

Head of the Presidential Secretariat, Dr. Roger Luncheon has disclosed that he is unsure about whether government has received the 14 pumps from Surendra Engineering, let alone its location in...

Poor drainage preventing burials…Town Clerk must also be held accountable

Jan 17, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Poor drainage preventing burials…Town Clerk must also be held accountable

– Opposition MPs Given the fact that the Local Government Minister continues to have the Town Clerk, Carol Sooba and her “unpredictable management style” interfering in the affairs of the...

Way paved for body to regulate land surveyors

Jan 17, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Way paved for body to regulate land surveyors

As part of the bigger plan to update the country’s management of its land and water resources, Government last evening successfully piloted new legislation that will see the establishment of a...

CT machine very costly to operate – GPHC’s CEO

Jan 17, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on CT machine very costly to operate – GPHC’s CEO

No one from the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) and the privately-operated Cancer Institute of Guyana (CIG) is willing to say how much money the hospital pays to the entity for CT...

GWI urges customers to practice safe water use

Jan 17, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on GWI urges customers to practice safe water use

…encourages rainwater harvesting In light of prevailing flood situation, Guyana Water Incorporated (GWI) is advising customers residing in Georgetown and low-lying areas along the coastal...

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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