May 2014

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Hotdog seller, 19, remanded for robbing Chinese shop owner

May 02, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Hotdog seller, 19, remanded for robbing Chinese shop owner

An alleged gun-toting teenage boy was remanded to prison for purportedly robbing a Chinese shop owner of hundreds of thousands of dollars in cash, articles and electronic gadgets. Matthew Gasper, 19,...

Over four decades and counting

May 02, 2014 KNews Editorial Comments Off on Over four decades and counting

Many Caribbean people continue to wonder the region will ever achieve its most elusive dream. That dream, which has endured for over four decades, is for the establishment of a Caribbean Single...

There is a serious crisis in labour in Guyana

May 02, 2014 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on There is a serious crisis in labour in Guyana

There is a serious crisis in labour in Guyana. And it has nothing to do with the differences between the Federation of Independent Trade Unions in Guyana (FITUG) and the Trades Union Congress...

Kwakwani Park resident remanded for hardware store burglary

May 02, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Kwakwani Park resident remanded for hardware store burglary

A man who hails from Kwakwani Park, Berbice, was recently remanded to prison by a city Magistrate for allegedly burgling a hardware store at 111 Miles, Mahdia. The accused, Peter Giddings, appeared...

Howard Eastman registers spectacular knockout to stay in contention for big payday

May 02, 2014 KNews Sports Comments Off on Howard Eastman registers spectacular knockout to stay in contention for big payday

By Michael Benjamin Howard ‘Battersea Bomber’ Eastman unleashed a two fisted attack that had Jamaican, Derrick ‘Guts’ Spencer reeling and eventually counted out in the second round...

Letter to the Sports Editor Is Administration harming Guyanese football?

May 02, 2014 KNews Sports Comments Off on Letter to the Sports Editor Is Administration harming Guyanese football?

Dear Editor, Suspending local federations? Placing eight year bans on senior officials? A letter produced by the Vice President of the National football federation publicly asking for the resignation...

Time for something to be done about the use of roads in Kwakwani

May 02, 2014 KNews Letters Comments Off on Time for something to be done about the use of roads in Kwakwani

Dear Editor, A recent accident in the Kwakwani Community brought out a very troubling fact about the community’s roads. No one can be successfully prosecuted for any traffic offense in Kwakwani...

Pressure needs to be placed on the GNBA to review the broadcasting fee

May 02, 2014 KNews Letters Comments Off on Pressure needs to be placed on the GNBA to review the broadcasting fee

Dear Editor, Given recent reports in the nation’s dailies regarding the plight of owners of broadcasting stations meeting the prohibitive license fee to the Guyana National Broadcast Authority...

Da Costa clearly has an obsession with the PPP

May 02, 2014 KNews Letters Comments Off on Da Costa clearly has an obsession with the PPP

Dear Editor, Mr. Mark Da Costa, in his response published in the Stabroek News dated April 18, to my letter, has clearly indicated that he has an obsession with the PPP and its leaders. This...

Diminishing the dignity of shoppers

May 02, 2014 KNews Letters Comments Off on Diminishing the dignity of shoppers

Dear Editor, I have not been in the vicinity of Longden and America Streets for quite some time, one day in last week I ventured in the vicinity, I saw a spanking new edifice. with the trade name...

UG Inter Faculty Cricket finalists decided

May 02, 2014 KNews Sports Comments Off on UG Inter Faculty Cricket finalists decided

The University of Guyana (UG) Inter Faculty Cricket continued on Tuesday with semi-final action at the Turkeyen Campus. The first semi final saw the Faculty of Social Sciences defeating the...

Controversial democracy project… Govt. revokes work permit of US contractor

May 01, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Controversial democracy project… Govt. revokes work permit of US contractor

The Government of Guyana has revoked the work permit and extension of stay of the Head of the United States of America’s democratization project Glenn Bradbury, which is being implemented in Guyana...

“We Lived in a police state….”…witness tells Rodney Commission

May 01, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on “We Lived in a police state….”…witness tells Rodney Commission

– claims to have had premonition about Rodney’s death By Latoya Giles Reverend Rueben Gilbert yesterday told the Rodney Inquiry that he had a premonition about his friend’s (Walter...

AFC to take legal action against senior officers who engage in ‘illegal spending’

May 01, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on AFC to take legal action against senior officers who engage in ‘illegal spending’

Considering that the 2014 Appropriation Bill has not been assented to, Leader of the Alliance for Change, Khemraj Ramjattan, said that any spending from today will be deemed illegal. President Donald...

Pandit to face High Court trial for rape

May 01, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Pandit to face High Court trial for rape

Accused rapist, Pandit Rajindra Maraj is expected to stand trial at the next sitting of the Demerara Criminal Assizes at the Georgetown Supreme Court. Maraj was committed to stand a High Court trial...

NICIL gifts Turkeyen land to China Railway

May 01, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on NICIL gifts Turkeyen land to China Railway

With the intention of making an official check for the assent of the amended 2014 Appropriation Bill by President Donald Ramotar in the Official Gazette, the Alliance for Change (AFC) learnt instead...

Company vying for drug supply pre-qualification ‘legally inactive’

May 01, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Company vying for drug supply pre-qualification ‘legally inactive’

…another hasn’t filed annual returns since 2010 New Guyana Pharmaceutical Corporation (GPC) is now clearly poised to be the pre-qualified source of drugs for Government in this and...

Ramotar refuses to sign 2014 ‘Budget’ Bill

May 01, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Ramotar refuses to sign 2014 ‘Budget’ Bill

President Donald Ramotar whose office has been in receipt of the Appropriation Act of 2014 from Parliament since Friday April 25, is yet to give his assent to the said Act. This is according to the...

Washington-based NGO to give evidence at Rodney CoI

May 01, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Washington-based NGO to give evidence at Rodney CoI

A prominent Washington-based group has signaled its intention to make deposition before the Walter Rodney Commission of Inquiry that is currently conducting hearings in Guyana. According to the...

Dem boys seh… Mosquito ah pick fight wid elephant

May 01, 2014 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Dem boys seh… Mosquito ah pick fight wid elephant

Dem boys fed up reminding people that knack always got knack back. When you live by de sword you gun die by it. That is another saying that deh round a lang time. You live like a scamp, you gun die...

Shot policeman calls for assistance from Police Force

May 01, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Shot policeman calls for assistance from Police Force

Samuel Elvis, the 23-year-old policeman who recently had his leg amputated, is calling on the Commissioner of Police, Seelall Persaud, to look into his plight and offer some assistance. The Lot 4...

Police dectective’s murder… Witness recalls seeing body wrapped in multicoloured carpet floating in septic tank

May 01, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Police dectective’s murder… Witness recalls seeing body wrapped in multicoloured carpet floating in septic tank

A Police witness testifying in the murder trial of Desiree Jeffers recalled seeing the body of murdered policeman, Igris Bobb-Blackman floating in a septic tank, after arriving at the crime scene at...

UG gets $60 million injection from GT&T

May 01, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on UG gets $60 million injection from GT&T

–monies to be expended over three years The Guyana Telephone and Telegraph Company (GT&T) yesterday signed over a whopping sum of $60 million to the University of Guyana (UG) which...

Shot rapist unwittingly gave hideout location to victim

May 01, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Shot rapist unwittingly gave hideout location to victim

The man who was shot dead by police while hiding out on a farm on the Linden/Seosdyke Highway had unwittingly given away his whereabouts to the woman he had allegedly raped. According to relatives,...

Political victimization of reporters worrisome- AFC

May 01, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Political victimization of reporters worrisome- AFC

As the local media fraternity gears to celebrate World Press Freedom Day on Saturday, May 3, Executive Member of the Alliance for Change (AFC), Cathy Hughes, has expressed her concern over the...

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