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Work moving apace to fix Georgetown sewerage system

Mar 22, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Work moving apace to fix Georgetown sewerage system

Even as concerns related to the Georgetown sewerage system, are being highlighted, the Guyana Water Incorporated, (GWI) has announced that rehabilitation works are moving apace to bring an end to the...

ImmigrationINFO …Immigration News For Our Community ?

Mar 22, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on ImmigrationINFO …Immigration News For Our Community ?

Attorney Gail S. Seeram, [email protected] Through this “Question & Answer” column, our goal is to answer your immigration questions. We appreciate your comments and questions. If...

Teen victim breaks down in court

Mar 22, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Teen victim breaks down in court

…as trial for PM’s son gets underway A city magistrate was yesterday moved to allow self-bail for the 18-year-old who is accused of assaulting the Prime Minister’s son after the emotional teen...

DHB to carry out remedial works this weekend

Mar 22, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on DHB to carry out remedial works this weekend

– Heavy vehicles restricted The pivot and A-frame at spans 59 and 60 on the Demerara Harbour Bridge (DHB) are slated to be replaced over this weekend. Preparatory works to execute this...

Some shocking happenings in judicial quarters

Mar 22, 2014 KNews Editorial Comments Off on Some shocking happenings in judicial quarters

Some events send shockwaves through a society. For example, when President Forbes Burnham died the country was stunned. The news was that his political party was gearing for its biennial congress a...

DPP has power to reopen Kirk Davis’s murder PI – Crime Chief

Mar 22, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on DPP has power to reopen Kirk Davis’s murder PI – Crime Chief

– says very little police could do without an arrest warrant The power resides in Director of Public Prosecutor, Ms. Shalimar Ali-Hack, to order that the Rondy Jagdeo murder trial be reopened,...

Annandale shooting three months later…Shot bandit still critical at GPHC

Mar 22, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Annandale shooting three months later…Shot bandit still critical at GPHC

The alleged bandit, Dunstan La Fleur,who was shot by an Annandale, East Coast Demerara (ECD) businessman almost three months ago, is still hospitalized and in a critical condition at the Georgetown...

Three years jail for causing death

Mar 22, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Three years jail for causing death

Almost five years after he was in involved in an accident that left three of his friends dead, 25-year-old Farood Mohamed was sentenced to three years’ imprisonment for causing death by dangerous...

CORRUPTION

Mar 22, 2014 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on CORRUPTION

It is more than a bit ironic for A Partnership for National Unity(APNU) to be suggesting that a functioning Integrity Commission is needed to address widespread corruption, namely, of course, public...

MOE remains committed to a comfortable teaching and learner-friendly environment

Mar 22, 2014 KNews Letters Comments Off on MOE remains committed to a comfortable teaching and learner-friendly environment

DEAR EDITOR, The Ministry of Education (MOE) wishes to respond to an article carried in your newspaper on Wednesday March 19, 2014 entitled: “Crammed classrooms concern Teachers’ Union”, in...

Industrial Delinquency – We just cannot afford to repeat the (admitted) mistakes of the past

Mar 22, 2014 KNews Letters Comments Off on Industrial Delinquency – We just cannot afford to repeat the (admitted) mistakes of the past

DEAR EDITOR, There is a patent lack of coherence in the flurry of heated exchanges about the current viability, and the future sustainability, of the sugar industry of Guyana. But few of the...

Using ‘hearsay’ as an instrument of information is ill-advised

Mar 22, 2014 KNews Letters Comments Off on Using ‘hearsay’ as an instrument of information is ill-advised

DEAR EDITOR, I was not disposed to replying to Mr. Charles Sohan’s letter (KN Feb 25) concerning a report on an interview with myself, but some of my colleagues have urged me to do so, if only to...

Widespread corruption underscores need for “functioning” Integrity Commission – APNU

Mar 21, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Widespread corruption underscores need for “functioning” Integrity Commission – APNU

A Partnership for National Unity (APNU)’s Shadow Minister of Public Works and Telecommunications, Joseph Harmon has lashed out at the General Secretary of the People’s Progressive Party (PPP),...

Eccles biker shooting death…Rondy Jagdeo let go of murder charge

Mar 21, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Eccles biker shooting death…Rondy Jagdeo let go of murder charge

Five months after being accused of gunning down a man who was said to be a good friend of his, Water Street businessman Randy Jagdeo yesterday walked out of the city court a free man after the Chief...

Contractor, cop shot in separate incidents

Mar 21, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Contractor, cop shot in separate incidents

A 33-year-old contractor was yesterday shot and robbed of $537,000 by two gunmen on a CG motorbike around 13:00hrs. The robbery took place on the roadway at Providence, in the vicinity of the...

2010 Charlestown hacking deaths…Killer gets 47 years

Mar 21, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on 2010 Charlestown hacking deaths…Killer gets 47 years

By Zena Henry Forty-six-year-old William Lyte, the man who was accused of hacking two persons to death in Charlestown in 2010 was yesterday sentenced to 47 years imprisonment following a guilty plea...

Special team to evaluate proposals for new Demerara River Bridge

Mar 21, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Special team to evaluate proposals for new Demerara River Bridge

A team is still to be put together to assess the Expressions of Interests submitted to build a new bridge across the Demerara River. This is according to Minister of Public Works, Robeson Benn, who...

Alleged two-time carjacker slapped with twelve charges

Mar 21, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Alleged two-time carjacker slapped with twelve charges

– Indicted for robbing former Asst. Commissioner, family A 24-year-old mason who was arrested after opening fire at police ranks last Friday, now faces a total of twelve charges,...

Ministry blames Walter Willis for overpaying contractor

Mar 21, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Ministry blames Walter Willis for overpaying contractor

Government’s chief structural engineer, Walter Willis, was yesterday blamed for the overpayment of just over $1.2M to a contractor who executed works on the Plaisance Market Tarmac. In stark...

Dem boys seh…Jagdeo want polling

Mar 21, 2014 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Dem boys seh…Jagdeo want polling

Chris de Ram is a real ram. He write a letter and talk he mind and he get a letter from Sue Zee, who did name Ah Kneel. De letter wha Sue Zee write want Chris de Ram to kneel down and beg pardon....

Johnson back at the helm for Guyana in day/night clash

Mar 21, 2014 KNews Sports Comments Off on Johnson back at the helm for Guyana in day/night clash

Guyana must beat CCC to keep semi-final hopes alive By Sean Devers in Barbados in Association with Star Party Rentals & Payless Varity Store Leon Jonson returns to the helm after missing...

GMR&SC Race Meet…Fans advised not to miss early season showdown

Mar 21, 2014 KNews Sports Comments Off on GMR&SC Race Meet…Fans advised not to miss early season showdown

By Rawle Welch Every motor racer harbours the ambition to acquire enough money to afford a fast car and climb into the marquee category which is reserved for the Group 4 Division, undoubtedly where...

World Twenty20 2014: India-Pakistan to begin Super 10 phase

Mar 21, 2014 KNews Sports Comments Off on World Twenty20 2014: India-Pakistan to begin Super 10 phase

The ICC World Twenty20 enters the Super 10 phase today with an eagerly awaited contest between rivals and former winners India and Pakistan. They are in Group 2 with defending champions West Indies,...

NBS 2nd Div. Limited Overs Final…Young Warriors triumph over Number 71 to cart off

Mar 21, 2014 KNews Sports Comments Off on NBS 2nd Div. Limited Overs Final…Young Warriors triumph over Number 71 to cart off

Young Warriors Cricket Club clinched a 43 run victory over Number 71 Cricket Club of Upper Corentyne when the finals of the 2013 Berbice Cricket Board (BCB)/ New Building Society Limited (NBS) Second...

Valvoline supports March 23 Race Meet

Mar 21, 2014 KNews Sports Comments Off on Valvoline supports March 23 Race Meet

Indisputably one of the biggest supporters of motor racing in Guyana, Sankar Auto Works under its Valvoline brand handed over a cheque for an undisclosed sum to representative of the Guyana Motor...

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Guyana falls short against Suriname in Nations Cup B/ball finals

The path forward for the Caribbean

Peeping Tom… Kaieteur News- When the Cold War ended, western liberalism declared its victory over communism. It immediately... more