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Top Govt. official fingered in sex scandal at NOC

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– Human Services Minister orders probe By Latoya Giles Minister of Human Services and Social Security, Jennifer Webster, has ordered the Director of the Child Care and Protection Agency, Ann...

Recommendations of the Auditor General… Attorney General turns a blind eye to prosecuting “non-compliant” Ministries

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– suggests he condones financial irregularities – AFC Leader Leader of the Alliance For Change (AFC), Khemraj Ramjattan, says that he is against proposals to seemingly strengthen...

Double standard exhibited by US Ambassador over press freedom – Luncheon

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Head of the Presidential Secretariat (HPS) Dr. Roger Luncheon says the recent comments made by the US Ambassador to Guyana, Brent Hardt, over the state of press freedom in Guyana point at a double...

Haslington New Scheme attack… Woman now admits that she saw lover hacking away at husband

May 08, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Haslington New Scheme attack… Woman now admits that she saw lover hacking away at husband

After hours of painstaking investigations, detectives probing last Friday’s murder of fisherman Cheram Bharrat have finally been able to confirm that the act was the work of the man who was having...

Royston King to assume Town Clerk position today

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City Hall’s Public Relations Officer (PRO) Royston King is expected to assume the duties of Town Clerk this morning following another extraordinary meeting for his official placement to act in the...

Bank of Guyana Governor dies

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After battling cancer for some time, Governor of the Bank of Guyana, Lawrence Theodore Williams succumbed yesterday. He was 59 years old. Mr. Williams leaves to mourn his wife Valerie Williams, his...

Education Ministry commissions special facility for visually impaired students

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The Resource Unit for the Visually Impaired was established to give special needs students the opportunity to receive quality education in a much more conducive environment. Yesterday, the unit...

Dem boys seh.. Bobby got it lock

May 08, 2014 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Dem boys seh.. Bobby got it lock

There is an old saying that carrion crow does wait till rain fall fuh build house. Then dem got another one, some people does wait till dem belly gripe dem then hustle to build toilet. Only fools do...

NBS beefs up internal procedures to detect money laundering – CEO

May 08, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on NBS beefs up internal procedures to detect money laundering – CEO

Financial institutions in Guyana have been facing an uphill task of carrying on their business of conducting foreign currency transactions as a result of Guyana being unable to amend its legislation...

NICIL gives away Turkeyen land to China Rail

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…AFC taking issue to Parliament-Nagamootoo The recent gifting of a one-acre plot of Turkeyen land by NICIL to China Rail has caused the political opposition to issue a call for this...

Government’s position on LEAD project was misrepresented- Luncheon

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– To meet with Hardt today Head of the Presidential Secretariat Dr. Roger Luncheon has stated that contrary to what is being peddled in the public’s domain, the USAID Leadership and...

Dad of dead Trini teen says Guyana police failing to arrest killer

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A prominent Trinidad lawyer whose daughter was brutally killed in April 2012 has blazed Guyana police for their handling of the case. The alleged killer, 27-year-old Ramesh Sookram, called...

Another NYC politician arrested in corruption scandal

May 08, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Another NYC politician arrested in corruption scandal

New York – New York City Councilman Ruben Wills of Queens was arrested yesterday on corruption charges, the latest New York politician to be caught up in investigations apparently...

NICIL has natural role to play in construction of New DHB

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– APNU wants the establishment of a bridge authority Despite, A Partnership for National Unity (APNU), demanding limited involvement of the National Industrial and Commercial...

Toshao remanded for rape of 10-year-old daughter

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– child remains hospitalised A Toshao from Region One was yesterday placed before Chief Magistrate Priya Sewnarine-Beharry at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court, charged with two counts...

Shot-in-mouth teen identifies shooter in police line up

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The police officer who reportedly played Russian roulette with a 15-year-old boy, whom he later shot in the mouth, was yesterday positively identified by the teen who picked him out in a police...

Dharmic Sabha opens multi-million dollar home for the vulnerable

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The Guyana Hindu Dharmic Sabha on Monday commissioned a multi-million-dollar home for abused women and children at Ankerville, Port Mourant, Corentyne. Doing the honours of cutting the ribbon to the...

Investigators suspect drunken pensioner caused LBI fire

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Officials of the Guyana Fire Service suspect that the intoxicated owner of the gutted La Bonne Intention (LBI) home somehow caused the fire, which started at around 13:30hrs on Tuesday. This is...

Nine-year-old rape/murder trial … Attorneys representing accused present no-case submissions

May 08, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Nine-year-old rape/murder trial … Attorneys representing accused present no-case submissions

Justice Navindra Singh is expected to rule on no-case submissions (arguments that the court has no case against their clients) presented by Attorneys-at-law Raymond Alli and George Thomas, who are...

No case submission overruled in Corentyne rape and robbery trial

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…Defence calls two witnesses The trial of Beesham Gopaul, called “Thackoor”, 27, of No 74 Village, Corentyne, who is on trial for raping and robbing a married mother of two on June 24,...

U.S. Embassy’s takes Humanitarian Programme to Mabaruma, Wakenaam and Leguan

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GEORGETOWN– The U.S. Embassy Humanitarian Assistance Programme (HAP) recently donated track and field equipment to the Mabaruma community. This donation consisted of starter blocks, batons, shot...

CANU wants Dawn Roberts

May 08, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on CANU wants Dawn Roberts

The Customs Anti Narcotics Unit wants Dawn Roberts in connection with cocaine found at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport (CJIA) on Saturday February 8, last. Until the discovery of the cocaine,...

Pensioner dies in motorcycle crash

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Harriet Philadelphia, 66, of Pike Street, Kitty, Georgetown, died on Tuesday evening at the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) following an accident on the intersection of JB Singh and...

Security guard freed of rape

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Justice Franklyn Holder, on Tuesday, freed accused Errol Dainty of rape after a unanimous verdict was returned by the jury in the Suddie High Court. Dainty, a security officer attached at Citizens...

A visa! A visa! My kingdom for a visa!

May 08, 2014 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on A visa! A visa! My kingdom for a visa!

In a desperate attempt to find safer ground, King Richard exclaimed, “A horse! A horse! My kingdom for a horse! He didn’t get a horse. Instead he got a sword in his body. For many Guyanese, it...