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Robb Street “Granny” execution…City businessman “offers to pay family $5M” for property

Mar 19, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Robb Street “Granny” execution…City businessman “offers to pay family $5M” for property

One would think that three years after the murder of 72-year-old Robb Street resident, Clementine Fiedtkou-Parris, one city businessman would forget about a bitter dispute over the woman’s...

Ethanol production is economically feasible – Greenidge

Mar 19, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Ethanol production is economically feasible – Greenidge

When the current state of affairs in the sugar industry is considered, some members of the opposition have opined that if it were to get much worse or fail, possible diversification to ethanol...

The stars have arrived!

Mar 19, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on The stars have arrived!

Shootout at Issano Landing leaves one dead

Mar 19, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Shootout at Issano Landing leaves one dead

A shootout at a shop at 14 Miles Issano Landing on Monday night has left one miner dead. Thirty-year-old Selwyn Bess, of Grove Housing Scheme, East Bank Demerara was the lone casualty. It is not...

Strategic collaborations crucial to furthering kidney awareness

Mar 19, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Strategic collaborations crucial to furthering kidney awareness

– Foundation Chairman Although human beings can exist with the use of a single kidney, the role of this organ is very crucial to aid an individual’s wellbeing. This view was particularly...

Injured Camp Groomes soldier likely to lose leg

Mar 19, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Injured Camp Groomes soldier likely to lose leg

– Majority of victims begin receiving financial packages By Zena Henry Thirty-two-year-old Calvin Lewis, as a strong and fit man ran a six-mile military race with ease in the past; today he is...

Judiciary hosts domestic violence workshop

Mar 19, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Judiciary hosts domestic violence workshop

The Judiciary, through its Chancellor, Carl Singh, has upped the ante against domestic violence, noting that more must be done to avoid such cases. So committed is the Judiciary that they have...

Crammed classrooms concern Teachers’ Union

Mar 19, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Crammed classrooms concern Teachers’ Union

A call has been made by the Guyana Teachers’ Union (GTU) for urgent moves to be made to address recurring situations of large class sizes in the public school system. According to General Secretary...

Anti-Money Laundering legislation…Govt.’s duplicity exposed at consultation – Harmon

Mar 19, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Anti-Money Laundering legislation…Govt.’s duplicity exposed at consultation – Harmon

If observers listen long enough to the various comments being made by government speakers on the Anti-Money Laundering and Countering the Financing of Terrorism Bill, their duplicity would be...

Brazilian remanded for motorbike theft, trafficking in narcotics

Mar 19, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Brazilian remanded for motorbike theft, trafficking in narcotics

A 23-year-old Brazilian national was yesterday brought before the courts and indicted for stealing a motorbike and trafficking marijuana in Saint Ignatius, Region Nine, four days ago....

I urge the opposition not to vote for the anti-laundering Bill unless…

Mar 19, 2014 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on I urge the opposition not to vote for the anti-laundering Bill unless…

The vexations between the PPP and the combined opposition over the money-laundering Bill should open the eyes of all Guyanese of what a self-destructive nation we have become. What this quarrel shows...

Five recognised for championing cause of consumers

Mar 19, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Five recognised for championing cause of consumers

The Ministry of Tourism, Industry and Commerce to mark World Consumer Rights Day, hosted a special ceremony at the International Conference Centre, where five persons were honoured for their sterling...

Reaffirming a commitment

Mar 19, 2014 KNews Editorial Comments Off on Reaffirming a commitment

This newspaper has in the past stated its commitment to the widening and deepening of what has been termed “the public sphere”, by the German sociologist and philosopher Jürgen Habermas. This is...

Teen accused of firing weapon granted bail

Mar 19, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Teen accused of firing weapon granted bail

Bail was yesterday set to the tune of $125,000 for a 19-year-old labourer by Magistrate Faith McGusty when he appeared at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court to be charged for discharging a loaded...

The discourse on inter-ethnic dynamics

Mar 19, 2014 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on The discourse on inter-ethnic dynamics

At times academics can confuse more than they enlighten. This happens more from sins of omission than from sins of commission. This is not a personal criticism of anyone, just an observation that...

Auto electrician fined for threatening to chop off wife’s head

Mar 19, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Auto electrician fined for threatening to chop off wife’s head

An auto electrician who hails from Port Kaituma in the North West appeared yesterday in a city court and was fined $40,000 for hurling abusive language at his wife and threatening to chop off...

Duo charged for discharging rounds at home owner during invasion

Mar 19, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Duo charged for discharging rounds at home owner during invasion

Two men were yesterday remanded to prison when they appeared before a city Magistrate charged for discharging rounds at a Tucville resident whose house they allegedly invaded early last October....

A case of being held to ransom

Mar 19, 2014 KNews Letters Comments Off on A case of being held to ransom

Dear Editor, Please allow me space to do a follow up on a letter you published for me a few months ago. It is a letter which described the delay in the powers that be to return my transport which was...

Pursue hydro development with zest

Mar 19, 2014 KNews Letters Comments Off on Pursue hydro development with zest

Dear Editor, Guyana enters the new decade with tremendous transformation opportunities in its energy sectors. All is not lost with the departure of Sithe Global but all is not safe for the nation...

Can Kendall please conduct a poll?

Mar 19, 2014 KNews Letters Comments Off on Can Kendall please conduct a poll?

Dear Editor, I write in response to Ms. Donna Kendall (KN Mar 11) who asserted that I have been “trying to deceive Guyanese by skewing polls in favour of the PPP” and that “the party dumped me...

I want my properties back

Mar 19, 2014 KNews Letters Comments Off on I want my properties back

Dear Editor, More than twenty years have passed since Attorney-at-Law Ms. Sheila Chapman and the Legal Firm of Attorneys-at-Law Sheila A. Chapman, Avril A. Trotman and Raphael C.C. Trotman and...

Nandlall denies any relationship with jury foreman

Mar 19, 2014 KNews Letters Comments Off on Nandlall denies any relationship with jury foreman

Dear Mr. Editor, I wish to refer to a letter of some length published on the 17th March of the Kaieteur News “Was the P.P.P playing political games with the Lusignan Massacre trial?”...