June 2014

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City Hall critical of non-action against misappropriated Council funds

Jun 05, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on City Hall critical of non-action against misappropriated Council funds

The Mayor and City Councilors (M&CC) have once again expressed discontent over the manner in which public agencies are dealing with reports of misappropriation of Council funds. The council has...

Students flee New Amsterdam Orphanage, claim sexual assault

Jun 05, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Students flee New Amsterdam Orphanage, claim sexual assault

Reports of child molestation and cases of sodomy are coming from a New Amsterdam orphanage. The suspected perpetrator was arrested and released by police. Since then attempts are being made to bribe...

World Environmental Day…Companies can demonstrate care for the environment – GNBS

Jun 05, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on World Environmental Day…Companies can demonstrate care for the environment – GNBS

The Guyana National Bureau of Standards (GNBS) as the National Standards Body has been helping to protect the environment through the development of national standards. There could be the...

Skeldon factory surpasses first crop target

Jun 05, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Skeldon factory surpasses first crop target

Skeldon Estate has surpassed its target of 13,795 tonnes of sugar for the first crop this year by 40 tonnes. This is according to the Government Information Agency (GINA) which stated that the...

N/A Prisons attract protest over prisoners attack

Jun 05, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on N/A Prisons attract protest over prisoners attack

“We need justice! We want Mr. Cornette to tell us how the cutlass and acid meet inside the prison! I want them to know is me child today and it will be somebody’s child tomorrow,” said the...

Ansa McAl uncovers fresh batch of counterfeit products

Jun 05, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Ansa McAl uncovers fresh batch of counterfeit products

– warns consumer in light of promotions In keeping with constant efforts to sensitize consumers to the dangers and prevalence of counterfeit commodities on the local market, officials of...

Nursing programme failure rate not unique to Guyana – Chief Nursing Officer

Jun 05, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Nursing programme failure rate not unique to Guyana – Chief Nursing Officer

Although a high failure rate always brings with it some concerns, Chief Nursing Officer (CNO), Tarmattie Barker, has asserted that such a development at the local nursing programme level should not...

EZ Jet Boss petitions Court against US Marshalls

Jun 05, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on EZ Jet Boss petitions Court against US Marshalls

…says constitutional rights being violated By Gary Eleazar Embattled EZ Jet boss, Sonny Ramdeo, is petitioning the US Court to take intervening action to stop the continued violation of his...

President identifies leader of defunct union to sit on Service Commission

Jun 05, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on President identifies leader of defunct union to sit on Service Commission

President Donald Ramotar has identified to be installed as a Commissioner on the Public Service Commission, a man who heads a legally defunct Trades Union. Ramotar and Leader of the political...

CID dog handler faces narcotics charge

Jun 05, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on CID dog handler faces narcotics charge

After spending 12 days in custody on the allegations of a co-worker who implicated him in a drug related case, a dog handler attached to the Narcotics Branch, Criminal Investigation Department (CID)...

THE PPPC IS NOT RUNNING SCARED OF LOCAL GOVERNMENT ELECTIONS

Jun 05, 2014 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on THE PPPC IS NOT RUNNING SCARED OF LOCAL GOVERNMENT ELECTIONS

The President has, within his prerogative, refused to assent to a Bill passed by the National Assembly calling for the holding of local government elections on or before August 1, this year. It...

Guyanese man charged with attempted murder of father in St. Kitts

Jun 05, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Guyanese man charged with attempted murder of father in St. Kitts

St. Kitts and Nevis (WINN) -A Stoney Grove man has been formally charged with the attempted murder of his father. Police with Nevis’ Violent Crime Unit have laid charges against twenty- four -year...

NAMILCO Baking Seminar…Increasing production costs, non passage of AML/CFT affect business

Jun 05, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on NAMILCO Baking Seminar…Increasing production costs, non passage of AML/CFT affect business

NAMILCO (National Milling Company of Guyana Inc.) held its 2014 Baking seminar yesterday at the Parc Rayne which saw local bakers benefiting from the expertise of renowned baking specialists on the...

Water woes hit E’bo rice farmers

Jun 05, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Water woes hit E’bo rice farmers

Farmers who have been cultivating rice mostly within the high lands on the Essequibo Coast are being affected by the inability to readily access water from the main pump at Capoey. “The TIPS...

Walter Rodney COI…Former House of Israel member admits to being a “thug”

Jun 05, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Walter Rodney COI…Former House of Israel member admits to being a “thug”

By Latoya Giles Member of Parliament for the People’s Progressive Party, Joseph Hamilton, yesterday said that parts of his evidence which he has given could be considered as “hearsay”....

PYO petitions for release of Nigerian girls

Jun 05, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on PYO petitions for release of Nigerian girls

“Members of the Progressive Youth Organisation, Kitty Group, during the last two weeks, ventured out into the field asking members of the public; politicians, students and other citizens to compile...

Sophia man on trial for neighbour’s murder

Jun 05, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Sophia man on trial for neighbour’s murder

Sophia resident, Roger Pilgrim, is on trial at the High Court for the murder of his neighbour, Shane Rowley, whom he allegedly killed on January 22, 2011. On Tuesday, a mixed 12-member jury was...

The WI Cricket Board is angry with the Guyana regime

Jun 05, 2014 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on The WI Cricket Board is angry with the Guyana regime

Yesterday morning, I received an overseas call on my cell, the voice said; “Freddie Kissoon, right?” I confirmed my identity and the speaker said, “You will receive shortly a number of e-mails...

Contractor kills labourer over cricket

Jun 05, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Contractor kills labourer over cricket

Rabindra Ramnauth, a/k “Kenrick, the Anna Regina contractor who stabbed 58-year-old Edward Williams, a/k “Strong Man” to the left of his chest resulting in the labourer’s death on...

Survivor testifies in Hogstye murder trial

Jun 05, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Survivor testifies in Hogstye murder trial

The Hogstye murder trial of a man and his son continued in the Berbice High Court yesterday with the Prosecution star witness taking the witness stand for the entire day. He was still there when the...

Army, police to conduct medical outreach in Albouystown

Jun 05, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Army, police to conduct medical outreach in Albouystown

The Medical Corps of the Guyana Defence Force in collaboration with the Guyana Police Force will be conducting a medical outreach in Albouystown this Saturday. The medical outreach will be held...

The minority government

Jun 05, 2014 KNews Editorial Comments Off on The minority government

Over the past few months some people have suddenly have come to realize that the government is a minority and that it represents the interests of fewer people than the opposition. Letters to this...

Georgetown belongs to the people – Time to stop the madness

Jun 05, 2014 KNews Letters Comments Off on Georgetown belongs to the people – Time to stop the madness

DEAR EDITOR, Sadly the PPP/C government has continued to allow the “Sooba debacle” to cast a dangerously dark cloud over the Georgetown City Council. This entire fiasco can be described as...

High cost for electricity retards economic development

Jun 05, 2014 KNews Letters Comments Off on High cost for electricity retards economic development

DEAR EDITOR, At the Caribbean Development Bank (CDB) Board of Governors 44th Annual General Meeting held recently in Guyana, Dr. William Warren Smith, CDB’s President stated that the high price of...

The issue of the AML/CFT Bill is not only about passage

Jun 05, 2014 KNews Letters Comments Off on The issue of the AML/CFT Bill is not only about passage

DEAR EDITOR, Note is taken that President Ramotar has reached out to the Christian community to seek support for the passage of the Anti-Money Laundering and Countering the Financing of Terrorism...

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Kaieteur Sports – Demerara Cricket Club (DCC) has received a significant boost ahead of the upcoming domestic season, as long-standing corporate partner International SOS Guyana renewed its...

Weakness in Numbers (WIN)

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(Kaieteur News) – The recent decision by the police to rescind the personal firearm licences held by Opposition Leader Azruddin Mohamed (AZMO) and his father has raised troubling questions about due process, proportionality and political fairness in Guyana. It has also reopened debate about...

The OAS faces a moral test in Panama

May 17, 2026

By Sir Ronald Sanders (Kaieteur News) – An attempt is now being made by a few member states of the Organization of American States (OAS), using procedural manoeuvres, to prevent a proposed “Declaration on the Rights of Persons and Peoples of African Descent” from proceeding to the OAS...

ICJ can decide, who will enforce

May 17, 2026

Hard Truths by GHK Lall (Kaieteur News) – For sheer drama, Venezuela’s Delcy Rodriguez imitated Guyana’s Irfaan Ali. Put in an appearance. Make a speech. Deliver a performance. Send a message. Quite a few, when the descendants of Spaniards took the reverse trip to the Dutch...

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