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Under pressure Bai Shan Lin pays monies owed to Amerindians

Sep 02, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Under pressure Bai Shan Lin pays monies owed to Amerindians

– dead silence on duty free concessions granted to company Chinese-owned logging company, Bai Shan Lin, amidst scrutiny of its operations, has paid off several Amerindians it owed from a...

More questions surface over criteria used to pick New GPC as drug supplier

Court orders release of businessman held in connection with narco-submarine

Sep 02, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Court orders release of businessman held in connection with narco-submarine

Head of the Customs Anti-Narcotics Unit (CANU) James Singh was yesterday forced- via a legal order- to release the Waini River businessman who was detained over the discovery of a semi-submersible...

Bandits escape in customer’s car after robbing lumber yard

Sep 02, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Bandits escape in customer’s car after robbing lumber yard

Bandits robbed the owners of Shivnauth Lumber yard at De Hoop, Mahaica yesterday then made good their escape in a customer’s car. The stolen Toyota Allion, belonging to Amar Sookar, was found hours...

West Coast drama as police arrest woman over $6M stolen lumber

Sep 02, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on West Coast drama as police arrest woman over $6M stolen lumber

It would have been a perfect crime. But then fate intervened. The victim, Mohamed Riaaz Karim of Roden Rust, East Bank Essequibo is now thanking his lucky stars after he not only escaped...

Dem boys seh… De Goat man like Denzil

Sep 02, 2014 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Dem boys seh… De Goat man like Denzil

One of de worse thing fuh a condemned man waiting in he cell is knowing that he gun get executed. Is all kinds of things does run through he mind like if he de do some of de things differently. He...

National Alliance policy is “another ploy to delay the inevitable” – AFC

Sep 02, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on National Alliance policy is “another ploy to delay the inevitable” – AFC

…remains resolute on no-confidence motion The Alliance For Change (AFC) is doubtful that there is any offer that the government could put on the table to restrain the party’s initiated...

Prominent city businesses to be prosecuted for electricity theft

Sep 02, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Prominent city businesses to be prosecuted for electricity theft

A number of prominent businesses in the capital city will soon be hauled before the courts over massive electricity theft, an issue that remains a significant bugbear for the Guyana Power and Light...

Looming general elections… 958 dead people on PLE – says PPP

Sep 02, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Looming general elections… 958 dead people on PLE – says PPP

By Abena Rockcliffe General Secretary of the People’s Progress Party (PPP), Clement Rohee yesterday asked media operatives to take his word that there are major discrepancies with the Preliminary...

Canada supporting local HIV/AIDS fight

Sep 02, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Canada supporting local HIV/AIDS fight

— Efforts directed to development of HIV vaccine Guyana’s fight against the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) has over the years been attracting immense international support. While...

While the Sugar industry continues to deteriorate

Sep 02, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on While the Sugar industry continues to deteriorate

…PPP says APNU plays blame game By Abena Rockcliffe While the Sugar Industry remains in serious trouble, the two most senior political parties in Guyana are blaming each other, the sugar workers...

Bandits hijack car with over $1.5M in cash, goods

Sep 02, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Bandits hijack car with over $1.5M in cash, goods

Police are looking for a white Toyota Spacio car bearing registration number PRR 4395, which three men stole from a businessman after dragging him from his vehicle at around 05.00 hrs on Sunday at...

Public Service Commissioners take oath of office

Sep 02, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Public Service Commissioners take oath of office

Close to three months after the President and the Opposition Leader began consultations, five persons were yesterday sworn in as commissioners of the Public Service Commission at the Office of the...

Why do we need foreign investment?

Sep 02, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Why do we need foreign investment?

By Janette Bulkan and John Palmer Guyana scores poorly on almost all the international scoring systems for human development, in spite of having relatively abundant natural resources of forests,...

Govt. commits $2B in mining revenue to protected areas trust fund

Sep 02, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Govt. commits $2B in mining revenue to protected areas trust fund

In what it described as a ground-breaking move towards improved environmental stewardship, the Government of Guyana yesterday announced that the country will contribute approximately US$10M...

Road safety associations appeal to motorists to “save our children”

Sep 02, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Road safety associations appeal to motorists to “save our children”

Schools have reopened for the new academic year and as usual excited school children will throng the roadways of Guyana, vying for space with wild and unruly motorists, and uncaring horse cart...

Cops release suspect in waitress’ murder

Sep 02, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Cops release suspect in waitress’ murder

Police have released the main suspect in the murder of waitress Deborah Blackman, who was shot dead in the Chinese Delicious Restaurant two Saturdays ago. Kaieteur News understands that the suspect...

Diabetic patients need to take control of their lives

Sep 02, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Diabetic patients need to take control of their lives

The healing of ingrown toenails, foot ulcers, deformities and other diabetic foot conditions, are 90 percent dependent on lifestyle changes of patients and care from family members, says Dr. Kumar...

Establishment of Bottle Manufacturing Plant locally in pipeline

Sep 02, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Establishment of Bottle Manufacturing Plant locally in pipeline

In an effort to propel the agro-processing sector, the Ministry of Tourism, Industry and Commerce would be engaged in establishing a local bottle manufacturing plant. In an advertisement in Sunday...

Students graduate from army’s work-study programme

Sep 02, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Students graduate from army’s work-study programme

The final 66, of the 140 students who participated in the 2014 Work Study programme with the Guyana Defence Force (GDF), were presented with certificates of participation, at a simple closing...

Amerindian Month activities commence with Inter Faith service

Sep 02, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Amerindian Month activities commence with Inter Faith service

Under the theme Traditional Embodiment for Amerindian Development, Amerindian Heritage Month 2014 was officially ushered in with an inter faith service hosted at the Umana Yana, Kingston on Sunday....

Quashed birth certificate/passport conditionality

Sep 02, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Quashed birth certificate/passport conditionality

– Lawyer who challenged requirement granted passport Attorney -at- law, Saphier Husain-Subedar was awarded a new passport, several weeks after Chief Justice; Ian Chang delivered a ruling...

Warriors to face Knights in Legend Classic B’ball semis

Sep 02, 2014 KNews Sports Comments Off on Warriors to face Knights in Legend Classic B’ball semis

The rampaging Warriors are set to tangle with the roving East Canje Knights in the first semi final of the Legend Classic Basketball competition set for this Sunday in the Ancient county of Berbice....

Police ‘B’ Div. Inter Sub-Division Football… Sub Division No. 3 are champs

Sep 02, 2014 KNews Sports Comments Off on Police ‘B’ Div. Inter Sub-Division Football… Sub Division No. 3 are champs

Sub-division No. 3, West Berbice, defeated sub-division No. 1, New Amsterdam/ Canje, East Bank and East Coast Berbice, 3-0 when they clashed in the final of the Police ‘B’ Division Youth and...

Pacesetters evade late scare to win GABA Trifecta title

Sep 02, 2014 KNews Sports Comments Off on Pacesetters evade late scare to win GABA Trifecta title

Trinity Grid Holdings (TGH) Pacesetters evaded a late scare in the fourth quarter against Pepsi Sonics to win the Georgetown Amateur Basketball Association (GABA) Trifecta First Division title Sunday...

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A lesson from the bread lines of America

…Peeping Tom Kaieteur News- If the American elections of 2024 delivered any one lesson to the rest of the world, it... more