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Govt. blocks heavy vehicle usage at collapsing Charity riverside

Jun 18, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Govt. blocks heavy vehicle usage at collapsing Charity riverside

Government has blocked heavy trucks and equipment from using a key road to the Charity river area after reports that sections were caving in. According to the Ministry of Public Works, its River and...

Parika, Ruby roads and bridges for upgrades

Jun 18, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Parika, Ruby roads and bridges for upgrades

Parika, Ruby roads and bridges for upgrades Bids were opened yesterday at the National Procurement and Tender Administration Board (NPTAB) for the upgrading of access roads and bridges under...

Backdoor entry requirements into UG should be abolished

Jun 18, 2014 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on Backdoor entry requirements into UG should be abolished

There is a crisis at the University of Guyana. There is a crisis because the university is underfunded. This crisis will get worse. This year an allocation necessary for the replenishment of the...

Flooding, Le Repentir Cemetery major focus of $1B clean-up campaign

Jun 18, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Flooding, Le Repentir Cemetery major focus of $1B clean-up campaign

By Zena Henry The massive $1B cleanup project advanced by the government is gaining momentum with the start-up process being put in place. Citizens, especially those in the city are expected to get...

Charges likely in latest prison brawl

Jun 18, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Charges likely in latest prison brawl

– ‘Rambo’ still critical in N/A hospital Even before the dust has settled in the previous prison brawl in which four high profile prisoners were brutally chopped and burnt with acid, on...

Pensioner loses life’s possessions in fire

Jun 18, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Pensioner loses life’s possessions in fire

By Kiana Wilburg “I cannot tell you how my heart hurts me in this situation. All my savings, favourite family pictures, every little thing I owned are gone forever. I never bothered anybody. Why...

Decommissioning of old sewer mains starts today – GWI

Jun 18, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Decommissioning of old sewer mains starts today – GWI

The Guyana Water Incorporated (GWI) announced that under the Government of Guyana and Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) US$ 10 Million Georgetown Sanitation Improvement Programme, the company...

Health Ministry conducts exercise to reduce Filaria

Jun 18, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Health Ministry conducts exercise to reduce Filaria

With an aim to reduce the incidence and prevalence of Filaria, a highly stigmatized and disfiguring disease, the Vector Control Services (VCS) of the Ministry of Health will be conducting a Mass Drug...

Bail for hotel worker accused of stealing Hennessy

Jun 18, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Bail for hotel worker accused of stealing Hennessy

Bail was yesterday set to the tune of $50,000 for a 23-year-old hotel clerk who was brought before the city court to be charged for allegedly stealing from Pegasus Hotel. Javone Nelson was accused of...

Road Safety Council appeals for end to carnage

Jun 18, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Road Safety Council appeals for end to carnage

The Guyana National Road Safety Council (GNRSC) is once again appealing and urging all road users to be more responsible, to put an end to what it described as pandemonium on the country’s...

Shot army recruit loses kidney

Jun 18, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Shot army recruit loses kidney

– bullet lodged near spine Vernon Harding, the Guyana Defence Force (GDF) recruit who was shot a month ago at Tacama, has lost a kidney and the warhead that struck him remains lodged near his...

Brazilian miner faces court on fraud, conspiracy charges

Jun 18, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Brazilian miner faces court on fraud, conspiracy charges

Carlos Costa, a 22-year-old Brazilian miner, appeared yesterday before Chief Magistrate Priya Sewnarine-Beharry at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court to answer to fraud and conspiracy charges. The...

President Ramotar says things that do not make sense

Jun 18, 2014 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on President Ramotar says things that do not make sense

I originally put the title of this article as “Horses replace elephants in the circus.” Then my experience as a journalist spoke to me. An article enjoys a wider circulation based on the caption....

Reversing a harmful tendency

Jun 18, 2014 KNews Editorial Comments Off on Reversing a harmful tendency

It is propounded as a general law of science that the universe as a whole is tending towards a greater state of entropy. In our laymen’s terms it simply means that notwithstanding all the complex...

Agricola housewife’s murder…Mother of accused among four called to testify as PI gets underway

Jun 18, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Agricola housewife’s murder…Mother of accused among four called to testify as PI gets underway

The Preliminary Inquiry (PI) into the death of a 55-year-old housewife, whose bound body was found in her yard in Agricola earlier this year, has commenced at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court, and...

Fish vendor murder trial…“I never kill and would never kill anybody”- accused

Jun 18, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Fish vendor murder trial…“I never kill and would never kill anybody”- accused

Murder accused Quaison Jones yesterday told the court that he had nothing to do with the murder of fellow fish vendor, Marlon Greene, who was stabbed to death in the vicinity of Meadow Bank, East...

Decentralization is not an alternative

Jun 18, 2014 KNews Letters Comments Off on Decentralization is not an alternative

Dear Editor, Vassan Ramracha, a well known contributor to the Letters’ columns writes an interesting and funny commentary on “Mike’s dinner-hosting meeting with Granger’s entourage”,...

GCB and WICB attempts further blackmail

Jun 18, 2014 KNews Letters Comments Off on GCB and WICB attempts further blackmail

Dear Editor, I refer to the letter dated June 14, 2014 titled ‘GCB Treasurer corrects President Ramotar’ by one Anand Kalladeen, Director of WICB. Apart from the Director’s strenuous...

GPL MAIN STREET – a definite nightmare worse than the u.s. embassy

Jun 18, 2014 KNews Letters Comments Off on GPL MAIN STREET – a definite nightmare worse than the u.s. embassy

Dear Editor, I would like to publicly compliment the Guyana Power and Light (GPL) who, under its present Chief Executive Officer, Bharat Dindyal, has brought light to places in Guyana that had for so...

RACISM AND ILLEGALITIES

Jun 18, 2014 KNews Letters Comments Off on RACISM AND ILLEGALITIES

Dear Editor, Hundreds of Chinese nationals have started flooding into Guyana without let or hindrance while CARICOM nationals and Brazilians have often been charged with illegal entry. The Guyana and...

Barrington Braithwaite disrespects Indian High Commission

Jun 18, 2014 KNews Letters Comments Off on Barrington Braithwaite disrespects Indian High Commission

Dear Editor, This is in response to Barrington Braithwaite’s personality driven diatribes against me and his persistent attack against the Indian High Commission (IHC) and Indians in general (KN...

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Anderson ton, Looknauth’s 9 seals dominant 10-wicket win for Harpy Eagles

A wave of criminal deportees may be coming our way soon

Peeping Tom… Kaieteur News-It is peculiar the way the PPP/C government often finds itself staring down the barrel of... more