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Sugar overhaul… GuySuCo’s Chairman to become CEO – Ramotar

Jan 25, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Sugar overhaul… GuySuCo’s Chairman to become CEO – Ramotar

Government is moving ahead to name Dr. Rajendra Singh, current Chairman of the state-owned Guyana Sugar Corporation (GuySuCo), the new boss as part of an aggressive plan to turn the industry around....

Policeman gunned down in Guyhoc Park

Jan 25, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Policeman gunned down in Guyhoc Park

– female friend in custody A 26-year-old policeman was gunned down at around 22:50 hrs last night while visiting a female friend in Guyhoc Park. Police Constable Quincy Wright, a...

Opposition demands full details of “secret investors” during 2014 budget debate

Jan 25, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Opposition demands full details of “secret investors” during 2014 budget debate

-‘If there isn’t any full disclosure, the scissors may not be the only weapon of struggle,’-Nagamootoo The political opposition is demanding the details on the “secret investors” of the...

M16 teens remanded

Jan 25, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on M16 teens remanded

Chief Magistrate, Priya Sewnarine-Beharry, yesterday ordered two youths held for the discovery of one M16 rifle, 61 live rounds of ammunitions and grenades on Tuesday. Yesterday, at the Georgetown...

Victim turns gun on robbers identified as security guards

Jan 25, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Victim turns gun on robbers identified as security guards

A security guard attached to the Strategic Security Service was treated at the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) Thursday night for a gunshot wound he sustained when he and his colleague...

Student fined for cutlass in haversack

Jan 25, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Student fined for cutlass in haversack

A 16-year-old student of Tucville Secondary School was ordered to pay a fine by Magistrate Geeta Chandan-Edmonds at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court yesterday. The teenage boy who is a...

Linden set for shutdown today as President visits

Jan 25, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Linden set for shutdown today as President visits

Lindeners are expected to converge in their numbers today at the Five Corner (Washer Pond Road), Mackenzie,Linden, to confront President Donald Ramotar, and express their dissatisfaction and disgust...

Dem boys seh…Ganga get a wake up call

Jan 25, 2014 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Dem boys seh…Ganga get a wake up call

Ganga use to get up every morning, tek a smoke and read de news bout people. He does also like read dem boys seh. Well yesterday, dem boys tell de people de truth and Ganga get vex. Then he start fuh...

Anti Money Laundering Bill… President Ramotar wants media present in Special Select Committee

Jan 25, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Anti Money Laundering Bill… President Ramotar wants media present in Special Select Committee

…“Instead of us blaming each other let us have the press sit in there.” Government is once again decrying what it calls the delaying tactics being employed by the political opposition at...

High crime hinders Guyana’s development – UNDP

Jan 25, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on High crime hinders Guyana’s development – UNDP

– confidence in the police still low Guyana has been identified as one of eight countries affected by high levels of crime and this is hindering development in the Caribbean, according...

No surprise Ganga Persaud resigned – President Ramotar

Jan 25, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on No surprise Ganga Persaud resigned – President Ramotar

The surprise resignation of Ganga Persaud as Minister of Local Government on Thursday was no surprise at all, says President Donald Ramotar. Addressing the issue yesterday, the President said that he...

Cops question prison staff over smuggling plot

Jan 25, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Cops question prison staff over smuggling plot

Police scoured the Georgetown Prisons for several hours yesterday and questioned staff in a bid to locate the individuals who were part of an alleged plot to smuggle a high-powered weapon and...

Miner, 18, hospitalised after Labaria bite

Jan 25, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Miner, 18, hospitalised after Labaria bite

Marcello Manson, of Philippi Village, Region Seven, is now a patient in the Male Surgical Ward of the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) after he was bitten by a poisonous snake,...

New regulations dissuade mandatory HIV tests in the workplace

Jan 25, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on New regulations dissuade mandatory HIV tests in the workplace

An employer’s demand to know the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) status of an employee can in fact constitute a felony if the regulations, under the Occupational Safety and Health Act, Chapter...

Some airline operators hampered GCAA work

Jan 25, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Some airline operators hampered GCAA work

– as dispute brews over GCAA’s role in probing mishaps The recent spate of aviation mishaps appears to be causing a dispute of sorts between the Guyana Civil Aviation Authority (GCAA) and...

Trans Guyana plane crash… GCAA continues investigation

Jan 25, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Trans Guyana plane crash… GCAA continues investigation

In light of the most recent misfortune where a plane crash claimed the lives of two, the Guyana Civil Aviation Authority (GCAA) yesterday sought to make clear its function in relation to accident and...

Key witnesses testify in ‘Queenie’ murder trial

Jan 25, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Key witnesses testify in ‘Queenie’ murder trial

Three key witnesses testified in the trial of Sophia resident, Tramangra Williams called “Queenie,” for the murder of her Barbadian lover, Tyrone Mc Donald Best. Williams, of Lot 605 “D”...

Lawsuit: Guyanese female security guard accused UPS manager of sexual assault

Jan 25, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Lawsuit: Guyanese female security guard accused UPS manager of sexual assault

New York (New York Daily News) – The Bronx district attorney is investigating a female security guard’s claim that she was sexually assaulted by a UPS manager in his office, the Daily...

Immigration INFO: Conditional Green Card Holder in Troubled Marriages

Jan 25, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Immigration INFO: Conditional Green Card Holder in Troubled Marriages

Attorney Gail S. Seeram, Gail@ GailLaw.com During a marriage-based petition, if the petitioner and beneficiary were married for less than two years at the time of approval, then the beneficiary...

Tech giant completes Int’l training course

Jan 25, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Tech giant completes Int’l training course

STARR Computer Inc. again passed another milestone on its service resume by completing another international training course on Samsung Smart Television Repairs. A team of two highly qualified...

Bartica Football Association erupts Displaced executives threatens court redress if ultimatum ignored

Jan 25, 2014 KNews Sports Comments Off on Bartica Football Association erupts Displaced executives threatens court redress if ultimatum ignored

By Michael Benjamin Football, believed to have been enveloped in vile confrontations, has reached another snafu following a raging dispute between executives of the ruling body and those of the...

Guyana, Haiti expected to lead economic growth in 2014- WESP

Jan 25, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Guyana, Haiti expected to lead economic growth in 2014- WESP

Guyana and Haiti are expected to lead the economic growth among countries in Latin America and the Caribbean, according to the recently released United Nations’ annual World Economic Situation and...

Local Amputees preparing for Boston marathon Set to take part in Clico Marathon in T and T

Jan 25, 2014 KNews Sports Comments Off on Local Amputees preparing for Boston marathon Set to take part in Clico Marathon in T and T

By Zaheer Mohamed Local amputee Garvin Jeffers, William France and John Antoo are currently preparing for the Boston Marathon which is slated for April 21. Jeffers and Antoo, both members of the...

New Amsterdam Municipality, Local Government Ministry on collision course

Jan 25, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on New Amsterdam Municipality, Local Government Ministry on collision course

‘Town Clerk forced to sign document under duress’- Deputy Mayor New Amsterdam Municipality and the Ministry of Local Government are on a collision course over collecting Solid Waste in...

Passengers need not worry about domestic flights

Jan 25, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Passengers need not worry about domestic flights

Stakeholders in the local aviation industry are confident that the sector is efficient, reliable and safe with well maintained flying machines and competent personnel to pilot aircraft and monitor...

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Groups, schedule announced for One Guyana 3×3 Quest

Desecration, Disrespectful, and Disgraceful

Peeping Tom… Kaieteur News- The solemnity of Babu Jaan, a site meant to commemorate the life and legacy of Dr. Cheddi... more