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Guyanese-born construction worker dies in freak accident

Jul 17, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Guyanese-born construction worker dies in freak accident

St Lucia (stlucianewsonline.com) – A Guyana-born construction worker, who was working on the new St. Jude Hospital construction site in Vieux Fort, died as a result of an injury he sustained at...

BEING ON TIME MOST OF THE TIME

Jul 17, 2014 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on BEING ON TIME MOST OF THE TIME

It was said that the only things that start on time in Guyana are banks, churches and cricket. Not anymore. The banks still open their doors sharply at 8.00 am. But I have seen quite a few cricket...

Man poses as foreigner, swindles Mahaica family, others

Jul 17, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Man poses as foreigner, swindles Mahaica family, others

A con artist swindled a Mahaica family and others after claiming to know their relatives in Canada while persuading them to give him money in exchange for his foreign currency, and to return later...

Police officers get $12.3M in awards

Jul 17, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Police officers get $12.3M in awards

– Commissioner urges ranks to avoid abuse of power By Kiana Wilburg Apart from those instances where there is abuse of power by the members of the Guyana Police Force, a snapshot of the...

68 apprentices graduate from Port Mourant Training School

Jul 17, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on 68 apprentices graduate from Port Mourant Training School

Sixty-eight apprentices, including a lone female, graduated yesterday from the Guyana Sugar Corporation (GuySuCo), Port Mourant Training School on the Corentyne. Their training included both...

Govt. back-peddles on 6-month birth certificate requirement for new passports

Jul 17, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Govt. back-peddles on 6-month birth certificate requirement for new passports

Amidst pressure, Government has reversed a requirement that mandates new applicants for passports to present birth certificates that were issued within six months prior to the date of application....

System failing youths, creating young criminals – GYSM

Jul 17, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on System failing youths, creating young criminals – GYSM

The Guyana Youth and Student Movement (GYSM) has accused Government of creating criminals by failing to provide relevant programmes geared at stimulating and motivating youths positively. This notion...

APNU promises Parliamentary scrutiny over Gov’t coffers

Jul 17, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on APNU promises Parliamentary scrutiny over Gov’t coffers

It has been three years since a coalition of political parties formed A Partnership for National Unity (APNU). The coalition along with the Alliance for Change (AFC) was able to obtain the...

LCPL t20 cricket tonight at Providence Guyana Amazon Warriors aim to melt Red Steel

Jul 17, 2014 KNews Sports Comments Off on LCPL t20 cricket tonight at Providence Guyana Amazon Warriors aim to melt Red Steel

Guyana Amazon Warriors will aim to melt the Red Steel line-up when the sides face-off for the fourth time in the second edition of the Limacol Caribbean Premier League (LCPL) tournament this evening...

A failed love affair ends in death

Jul 17, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on A failed love affair ends in death

Suicide continues to be at the center of most failed love affairs. It remains a serious problem for most Essequibians. This sentiment was uttered by A Partnership for National Unity’s Regional...

Father of two remanded for escaping from police custody

Jul 17, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Father of two remanded for escaping from police custody

A 32-year-old vendor who hails from Cane Grove, East Bank Demerara was remanded to prison after making his first court appearance on an escape from lawful custody charge. Charles Riviera was taken at...

A young gang member poses more questions than answers

Jul 17, 2014 KNews Editorial, Features / Columnists Comments Off on A young gang member poses more questions than answers

Citizens are likely to be assailed by the emergence of criminal gangs in what seems to be a denial at the official policy level that Guyana has a gang problem. How on earth can a 22-year- old man...

Teen prisoner charged for courtroom attack on robbery victim

Jul 17, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Teen prisoner charged for courtroom attack on robbery victim

A teenaged prisoner, facing several robbery under arms charges, yesterday appeared before a city Magistrate and was remanded to prison after being charged for attacking one of his suspected victims...

Is Guyana a world mystery?

Jul 17, 2014 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on Is Guyana a world mystery?

The receipt of $83 million over a two-year period (excluding medical bills which from what we know may bring the total to $170 million) by Bharrat Jagdeo as part of the perks he collects as a former...

GMR&SC International Drag Race Meet Ramchand aiming to continue his reign at the top

Jul 17, 2014 KNews Sports Comments Off on GMR&SC International Drag Race Meet Ramchand aiming to continue his reign at the top

Reigning Drag champion Anand Ramchand has sent out an ominous warning to the rest of the competition that he is aiming to continue his dominance come Sunday when the Guyana Motor Racing & Sports...

Oh just people of the world, please voice your condemnation!

Jul 17, 2014 KNews Letters Comments Off on Oh just people of the world, please voice your condemnation!

Dear Editor, Today is the eighteen day in the holy month of Ramadan. Ramadan was given by God-Almighty to Muslims to seek perfection of the heart, purity of the human body and purification of one’s...

Bullying of PNCR Delegates must stop

Jul 17, 2014 KNews Letters Comments Off on Bullying of PNCR Delegates must stop

DEAR EDITOR, I am seriously concerned that the upcoming election in the People’s National Congress Reform (PNCR) will be neither free nor fair. I have good reason for thinking this way. As in...

There must be transparency as regards government’s funds

Jul 17, 2014 KNews Letters Comments Off on There must be transparency as regards government’s funds

DEAR EDITOR, There have been complaints about the wanton spending of government’s funds without proper accountability. Moreover there have been reports of the awarding of multi-million-dollar...

The Economic Services Committee and GuySuCo

Jul 17, 2014 KNews Letters Comments Off on The Economic Services Committee and GuySuCo

DEAR EDITOR, Since September 2013 the world market price for sugar was fluctuating between US$ .19 [nineteen cents] a pound and US$16.50 cents a pound. Yesterday at the end of day the NASDAC...

How things have changed

Jul 17, 2014 KNews Letters Comments Off on How things have changed

DEAR EDITOR, I remember when growing-up in Guyana, the worst whipping a child could experience from his mother, was on her hearing that her child was heard cursing in the streets and when pressed for...

Guyana back on the international chess scene

Jul 17, 2014 KNews Letters Comments Off on Guyana back on the international chess scene

DEAR EDITOR, Here’s congratulating the Guyana Chess Federation for finally getting Guyana back on the international chess scene. I took many a year, with all praises to the determined players to...

Welcome news for developing countries

Jul 17, 2014 KNews Letters Comments Off on Welcome news for developing countries

DEAR EDITOR, The recent announcement that a new development bank is to be financed and administered by the BRICS countries (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) is welcome news, especially...

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Crowds, chaos and complaints

Peeping Tom… Kaieteur News- The folly of the cash grant distribution is a textbook case of what happens when a government,... more