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Conspiracy, fraud accused Euclid DaSilva walks free

Jun 01, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Conspiracy, fraud accused Euclid DaSilva walks free

After being tried on charges of illegal entry to Guyana, conspiracy to commit a felony and uttering a forged document, a city Magistrate recently moved to dismiss all charges against embattled...

CFATF Advisory and the way forward…OP denies Monday’s meeting with Granger is about Anti Money Laundering

Jun 01, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on CFATF Advisory and the way forward…OP denies Monday’s meeting with Granger is about Anti Money Laundering

The Office of the President, by way of a missive, has said that the statements made by Opposition Leader, Brig David Granger, that he and President Donald Ramotar will meet tomorrow to speak about...

Works to begin shortly on NIS access road- Armogan

Jun 01, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Works to begin shortly on NIS access road- Armogan

Region Six Chairman, David Armogan, has stated that works will commence within weeks to rehabilitate the access road to the National Scheme in New Amsterdam. The state of the road was featured on the...

Child Protection Agency still investigating NOC scandal

Jun 01, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Child Protection Agency still investigating NOC scandal

Head of the Child Protection Agency, Ann Greene, said yesterday that her agency is still conducting interviews with four teenage girls from the New Opportunity Corps as the investigation continues....

Man shoots policeman’s dog

Jun 01, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Man shoots policeman’s dog

Residents of Glasgow Housing Scheme, East Bank Berbice, are calling for appropriate action after a man blasted a resident’s dog with a shotgun in broad daylight. And after the man was...

Guyanese ‘faith healer’ jailed for £1m fraud

Jun 01, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Guyanese ‘faith healer’ jailed for £1m fraud

London – A Guyana-born woman, who scammed people out of millions of dollars with promises for cures for cancer from a tree in the Amazon jungle in Suriname, has been jailed for 10 years....

CFATF compliant bill can be passed within 24 hours – President Ramotar

Jun 01, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on CFATF compliant bill can be passed within 24 hours – President Ramotar

President Donald Ramotar has said that the Anti-Money Laundering and Countering the Financing of Terrorism (AMLCFT) (Amendment) Bill can be passed within 24 hours to save Guyanese from the hardships...

Kidnapper, abducted baby believed to be in Suriname

Jun 01, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Kidnapper, abducted baby believed to be in Suriname

Police officers in neighbouring Suriname are also on the lookout for the woman who kidnapped a nine-day-old baby two Saturdays ago from the Port Mourant Market. This was confirmed by a senior rank in...

Guyanese man crushed to death in Canada

Jun 01, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Guyanese man crushed to death in Canada

Toronto – A York Region family is devastated after hearing a beloved son, father, brother and husband was killed Friday in an early-morning industrial accident in Vaughan. Deodat Khemraj, 51,...

NICIL seeks to hoodwink nation over Marriott ownership

Jun 01, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on NICIL seeks to hoodwink nation over Marriott ownership

The National Industrial and Commercial Investments Limited (NICIL) has once again created some cloud regarding ownership of the Marriott Hotel under construction in Kingston, Georgetown. By way of a...

Guyanese man, 23, arrested in St. Kitts for father’s shooting

Jun 01, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Guyanese man, 23, arrested in St. Kitts for father’s shooting

St Kitts (the stkittsnevisobserver) – Police have arrested Krishna Chatram, a Guyanese, in connection with the shooting of his father, Shawn Chatram, Wednesday night. Chatram, according to...

Police corporal hospitalized following accident

Jun 01, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Police corporal hospitalized following accident

A police corporal is nursing a broken left foot at the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) after he was struck down by an alleged drunk driver late Wednesday night on the Diamond, East Bank...

Female construction worker injures associate over “borrow money”

Jun 01, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Female construction worker injures associate over “borrow money”

…released on court bond pending probation report A senior city Magistrate is set to sentence a 23-year-old female construction worker who during her first court hearing confessed to injuring an...

Stop dancing, Mr. Rohee

Jun 01, 2014 KNews Letters Comments Off on Stop dancing, Mr. Rohee

Dear Editor, This P.P.P regime promised us Berbicians, at their last election campaign, that they will create lots of jobs, engage the Berbice Bridge Company to facilitate lowering of the bridge...

From this Diaspora…NOW EVERYONE FROM GUYANA IS A DRUG SUSPECT

Jun 01, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on From this Diaspora…NOW EVERYONE FROM GUYANA IS A DRUG SUSPECT

By Ralph Seeram The message said “I am embarrassed as a Guyanese; I am embarrassed to identify myself as Guyanese because of drugs”. My friend and I were discussing the latest drug bust of a...

Sunday Cartoon

Jun 01, 2014 KNews Cartoons, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Sunday Cartoon

A collation of the major political forces may be the best way forward

Jun 01, 2014 KNews Letters Comments Off on A collation of the major political forces may be the best way forward

Dear Editor, There has recently been a strong signal from the main opposition party of its willingness to form a united government with the ruling party. I sincerely believe that this may be the...

Charges likely this week in Colwyn Harding baton rape

Jun 01, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Charges likely this week in Colwyn Harding baton rape

After almost six months of investigation, a policewoman and one of her male colleagues are likely to appear in court this week in connection with the alleged November, 2013 baton assault of Timehri...

Guyana has the fourth highest suicide rate in the world

Jun 01, 2014 KNews Letters Comments Off on Guyana has the fourth highest suicide rate in the world

Dear Editor, Suicide: it seems to be fast becoming the ultimate answer for every kind of problem. Driven by a range of factors, suicide is often times linked with alcoholism, abusive and triangular...

Scare mongering on this anti-money laundering issue

Jun 01, 2014 KNews Letters Comments Off on Scare mongering on this anti-money laundering issue

Dear Editor, The Ramotar administration is engaging is much scare mongering on this anti-money laundering issue and have failed to effectively level with the people. The international body, the...

Guyana has become incredibly primitive after 48 years of Independence

Jun 01, 2014 KNews Letters Comments Off on Guyana has become incredibly primitive after 48 years of Independence

Dear Editor, Guyana has achieved forty-eight years of Independence. We are quickly creeping up to half a century. Take any textbook on the history of any country in the world and you will see what is...

The Power of a Praying Mother

Jun 01, 2014 KNews Features / Columnists, Food For Thought Comments Off on The Power of a Praying Mother

A while back, I heard a story about a young mother in the 1960’s. She and her family moved to New York City from Puerto Rico. They were very poor. They lived in a rough neighborhood in government...

Guyana and its HIV prevention fight

Jun 01, 2014 KNews Editorial Comments Off on Guyana and its HIV prevention fight

Hearing of the gains made in HIV prevention to the extent that the prevalence has decreased, nationally, begs the question, ‘What is happening in the workplace?’ In the last decade workplace...

Attention on youths as Ministry crafts Sexual and Reproductive Health Plan

Jun 01, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Attention on youths as Ministry crafts Sexual and Reproductive Health Plan

It was writer Benjamin Disraeli who many years ago said “the youth of a nation are the trustees of posterity.” And since there is no denying this truism, moves have been consistently made across...

The Milk Snake (Lampropeltis triangulum)

Jun 01, 2014 KNews Features / Columnists, Interesting Creatures in Guyana Comments Off on The Milk Snake (Lampropeltis triangulum)

Lampropeltis triangulum, commonly known as a milk snake, is a species of king snake. There are 24 subspecies of these snakes. Lampropeltis elapsoides, the scarlet king snake, was formerly...

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