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Gold Scam…Police ranks reviewing video footage at Bartica Office

Apr 29, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Gold Scam…Police ranks reviewing video footage at Bartica Office

Investigating ranks probing the Gold Board scam have begun reviewing video footage of the operations at the now closed Bartica Office. According to a source close to the investigations, the ranks...

Guyanese teen shot, killed outside Brooklyn home

Apr 29, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Guyanese teen shot, killed outside Brooklyn home

Brooklyn, US (wsj.com) – A 16-year-old boy found with a fatal gunshot wound outside his Brooklyn home had allegedly been involved in an argument with an assailant over clothes and a cellphone,...

Early years learning: closing the gap

Apr 29, 2014 KNews Editorial Comments Off on Early years learning: closing the gap

The best, child-centered early years learning can be a highly effective way of improving social mobility. The early years of childhood, the point at which politicians really could make a difference,...

Kwakwani water issue continues

Apr 29, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Kwakwani water issue continues

– Utility company needs GWI’s intervention Technical personnel of the Kwakwani Utility Incorporated (KUI) are currently trouble shooting the water network to find out what is causing the...

Pedal Cyclist killed in Goedverwagting accident

Apr 29, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Pedal Cyclist killed in Goedverwagting accident

– “He was going to look for a job”- wife By: Romila Boodram A 29-year-old pedal cyclist died at the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) around 09:30 hrs yesterday, minutes...

Aurora mine to produce first gold bar in 14 months – PM Hinds

Apr 29, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Aurora mine to produce first gold bar in 14 months – PM Hinds

Prime Minister Samuel Hinds over the weekend visited the Guyana Gold Fields project, the Aurora Gold Mines located in the Cuyuni-Mazaruni, Region Seven where he was given an update on the progress of...

Teen held for Mabura shopkeeper’s murder

Apr 29, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Teen held for Mabura shopkeeper’s murder

Police have detained a 19-year-old for the murder of Mabura businessman Colin Mc Lean, who was found in his home with several stab wounds on Sunday. The teen, who hails from Vergenoegen, East...

Public Procurement Commission …PAC to select nominees without Govt’s submission

Apr 29, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Public Procurement Commission …PAC to select nominees without Govt’s submission

The Public Accounts Committee (PAC) Chaired by A Partnership for National Unity’s Carl Greenidge, is likely to select nominees for the Public Procurement Commission shortly, even though Government...

GA-FDD set to utilise importers/distributors’ feedback to help regularise drugs import

Apr 29, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on GA-FDD set to utilise importers/distributors’ feedback to help regularise drugs import

The way forward in terms of the registration and regulation of pharmaceuticals utilised locally is expected to be improved in the very near future. Although this process is a mandated...

GPL’s application to reduce interest rate on deposits turned down

Apr 29, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on GPL’s application to reduce interest rate on deposits turned down

The country’s utility regulator has turned down an application by the Guyana Power and Light for a reduction on the interest rate payable on consumers’ deposits. The Public Utilities Commission...

Rohee says: PPP’s Integrity and Discipline Committee still to get complaints

Apr 29, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Rohee says: PPP’s Integrity and Discipline Committee still to get complaints

General Secretary of the Peoples Progressive Party (PPP), Clement Rohee, has said that the internal Integrity and Discipline committee that was established last year to address the improprieties of...

Police officers welcome integrity testing, but…!!!

Apr 29, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Police officers welcome integrity testing, but…!!!

There are some grumblings among senior officers of the Guyana Police Force over the recent pronouncements by President Donald Ramotar on the possibility of integrity tests within the law enforcement...

U.S. Embassy to host Visa Fair

Apr 29, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on U.S. Embassy to host Visa Fair

The U.S. Embassy in Georgetown will hold a Visa Fair on Saturday, May 3, on Main and Bentick Streets from 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. The Fair will provide the Guyanese public with information about...

Mocha 9-year-old rape/murder trial…Victim’s father testifies via Skype

Apr 29, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Mocha 9-year-old rape/murder trial…Victim’s father testifies via Skype

….recounts details of frantic search for daughter Eric Stoby, the father of nine year old Mocha, rape/murder victim, Sade Stoby, testified before the High Court yesterday. Stoby who currently...

Wanted man nabbed in Black Bush $1.7M robbery

Apr 29, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Wanted man nabbed in Black Bush $1.7M robbery

The police have nabbed one of the men wanted in the $1.7M Black Bush Polder robbery which occurred last Tuesday. A couple was brutally beaten and robbed by two bandits who barged into the house and...

Walter Rodney COI …Ex-policeman to testify about personal assignment to infiltrate WPA

Apr 29, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Walter Rodney COI …Ex-policeman to testify about personal assignment to infiltrate WPA

By Latoya Giles A former policeman who is expected to be a witness in the Walter Rodney Commission of Inquiry is slated to testify about his arrest and detention at Special Branch headquarters and...

Teenaged father gets 18 months for armed robbery

Apr 29, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Teenaged father gets 18 months for armed robbery

A 19-year-old father of one was yesterday sentenced to prison by a city Magistrate after he admitted to executing a knife-point robbery. This most recent sentence adds to a four year jail term he is...

Have you ever wondered?

Apr 29, 2014 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on Have you ever wondered?

Each year the opposition parties express concerns about the system used by the government to procure pharmaceuticals. Each year, there is criticism that the system is intended to benefit one...

Man assaults neighbourn tries to burn house

Apr 29, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Man assaults neighbourn tries to burn house

After several violent encounters between two neighbours in North Sophia, things heated up yesterday when Molotov cocktails (channa bombs) were thrown into a house leaving a couple and two children...

I admire and respect President Obama but disagree with him on this one

Apr 29, 2014 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on I admire and respect President Obama but disagree with him on this one

Barack Obama has gone down in history. He has two more presidential years left and he needs to build on his young legacy. All the people in the world who admire him are hoping in those two years that...

Joseph Williams is Eversham’s latest centenarian

Apr 29, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Joseph Williams is Eversham’s latest centenarian

The quiet coastal village of Eversham made history on April 19, last when one of its sons, Joseph Nathaniel Williams celebrated his 100th birthday. Williams was born on April 19, 1914 during the...

Causing death driver fined $120,000

Apr 29, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Causing death driver fined $120,000

The driver who caused the gruesome death of 38-year-old Rawle Douglas, called ‘Bitta and Dutty Cup’ a seaman of Lot 35, No 53 Village, Corentyne, Berbice, Sunday morning has been slapped with...

Edghill distances self from sole sourcing comment

Apr 29, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Edghill distances self from sole sourcing comment

The article headlined ‘Overpricing comes about through sole sourcing – Minister Edghill tells IDB forum’– in the April 27 edition of Kaieteur News was attributed to Junior Finance...

A quite deceptive and wicked front page picture

Apr 29, 2014 KNews Letters Comments Off on A quite deceptive and wicked front page picture

DEAR EDITOR, I appreciate your great sense of concern for the safety of the public and for being the consciousness of the country; however, the picture depicted on the front page of your newspapers...

We have to stop this cycle of pantomime

Apr 29, 2014 KNews Letters Comments Off on We have to stop this cycle of pantomime

DEAR EDITOR, I do not normally follow-up on anything written by Peeping Tom, that column is more appropriately located in the Chronicle than the Kaieteur News. I especially feel that the newspaper...

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