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Blue CAPS joins in pro-democracy protests

Oct 08, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Blue CAPS joins in pro-democracy protests

In an attempt to reinforce its commitment to the democratic rights of Guyanese citizens, the main opposition coalition, A Partnership for National Unity (APNU), yesterday continued protest...

Police hunt brothers following shooting death of cane cutter

Oct 08, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Police hunt brothers following shooting death of cane cutter

While new information has surfaced, a number of versions are emerging as to the circumstances surrounding the shooting death of an East Canje cane cutter some 75 miles away from his home at Bara Cara...

Cop injured in collision at Itaballi

Oct 08, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Cop injured in collision at Itaballi

A Police Constable is presently hospitalised with severe injuries about his body after he crashed the Force’s all-terrain vehicle yesterday on the Puruni Road, about seven miles from the Mazaruni...

Court orders Sooba to pay off dismissed officers, return Mayor’s fuel

Oct 08, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Court orders Sooba to pay off dismissed officers, return Mayor’s fuel

Town Clerk (ag) Carol Sooba was yesterday morning ordered by the Supreme Court to return gas to the vehicle assigned to the Mayor’s office. Chief Justice (ag) Ian Change in his ruling found that...

Exhibitors recount benefits of participating in GuyExpo 2014

Oct 08, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Exhibitors recount benefits of participating in GuyExpo 2014

Guyana‘s largest exposition and trade fair, GuyExpo, concluded on Sunday, and exhibitors are recounting the benefits of their participation. The exhibition, which was officially launched last...

BLAMING THE VICTIM FOR THE SINS OF THE ATTACKER

Oct 08, 2014 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on BLAMING THE VICTIM FOR THE SINS OF THE ATTACKER

The Government of Guyana should be ashamed. To have produced such a silly statement as it did, in relation to this newspaper’s call for the citizens of Guyana to stand by this newspaper in the face...

Beaten Dartmouth man had bag of drugs on him – Police

Oct 08, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Beaten Dartmouth man had bag of drugs on him – Police

Police are currently saying 20-year-old Terrence Welch, the young man who was severely beaten by Devonshire Castle residents in the wee hours of Sunday last, was found with drugs in a bag. According...

Caribbean Week of Agriculture….“Take care of the land and it will take care of you,” farmer tells regional forum

Oct 08, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Caribbean Week of Agriculture….“Take care of the land and it will take care of you,” farmer tells regional forum

Farmers in the region on Monday welcomed the attention being placed on family farming, but cautioned against the absence of women and youth, shifting goalposts and ignoring cultural elements in the...

Ex- GPL employee evades sting operation in WCD

Oct 08, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Ex- GPL employee evades sting operation in WCD

The state’s power company has long recognised that internal corruption has played a part in its failure to reduce technical and commercial losses. And so it was yesterday that the Guyana Power and...

Bayroc Club receives timely assistance through U.S. programme

Oct 08, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Bayroc Club receives timely assistance through U.S. programme

The Bayroc Sports Club and Training Centre at Wismar, Linden, this month celebrates 17 years of serving the community and environs. As part of the anniversary celebrations, a brand new wing, which...

Can you apply the Arendtian concept of evil to the PPP?

Oct 08, 2014 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on Can you apply the Arendtian concept of evil to the PPP?

It was the great German philosopher (who was a student of the profound 20th century philosopher, Martin Heidegger, author of one of the most brilliant philosophy texts, “Being and Time”) Hannah...

The phenomenon of vagrancy

Oct 08, 2014 KNews Editorial Comments Off on The phenomenon of vagrancy

The rapidly increasing number of pavement dwellers in the city and its environs has always been a source of concern. Economic hardship, drug addiction and mental illness have for the most part been...

Ex-prison officer guilty of trafficking drugs

Oct 08, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Ex-prison officer guilty of trafficking drugs

An ex-prison officer was yesterday convicted for trafficking drugs inside the Georgetown Prisons earlier this year. Akeem Vyphuis, 22, who had been a prison officer for the past three years, was...

Community Resource Centre opened at Christianburg

Oct 08, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Community Resource Centre opened at Christianburg

The New Life Wesleyan Church on Burnham Drive, Wismar, Linden was on Tuesday evening given even more “New Life’ when it formally opened the doors to its “Community Resource Centre.” The...

Cuban engineer fined for forging work permit

Oct 08, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Cuban engineer fined for forging work permit

Twenty-nine year-old Johnny Marosa, a Cuban national, appeared before Chief Magistrate Priya Sewnarine-Beharry at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court, and pleaded guilty to a count of conspiracy to...

A little learning can be a dangerous thing

Oct 08, 2014 KNews Letters Comments Off on A little learning can be a dangerous thing

Dear Editor, In every society there are persons who crave public attention and in order to catapult themselves in the limelight, they select certain targets, be it in government or outside of...

Doobay’s Medical Centre —a beacon of hope

Oct 08, 2014 KNews Letters Comments Off on Doobay’s Medical Centre —a beacon of hope

Dear Editor, News of this Medical Centre on the East Coast Demerara at once attracted my attention. The newspaper report said that it was reducing charges for Dialysis treatment. This was counter to...

Deficiencies in two legal areas

Oct 08, 2014 KNews Letters Comments Off on Deficiencies in two legal areas

Dear Editor, Please permit me to address briefly in your letter column two matters of public interest and touching on the administration of law in Guyana: the Deeds Registry and the Judicial Review...

An insanitary condition at school leads to child’s ailment

Oct 08, 2014 KNews Letters Comments Off on An insanitary condition at school leads to child’s ailment

Dear Editor, My daughter attends Patentia Secondary school and frequently complains about condition of the toilets which she is forced to use or otherwise hold her urine for the entire day. I would...

The dissemination of tax information

Oct 08, 2014 KNews Letters Comments Off on The dissemination of tax information

Dear Editor, I am very anguished by the actions of Khurshid Sattaur and Bharrat Jagdeo in releasing confidential tax information about a privative citizen. This demonstrates that every citizens of...

Sattaur should pack his bags and go

Oct 08, 2014 KNews Letters Comments Off on Sattaur should pack his bags and go

Dear Editor The constant revelations of a proposed plot by former President (a private citizen) and the Commissioner General of the Guyana Revenue Authority, Mr. Khurshid Sattaur, to “bring down”...

Salute to Glenn Lall

Oct 08, 2014 KNews Letters Comments Off on Salute to Glenn Lall

Dear Sir, When Glenn Lall had a bi-monthly Newspaper he really struggled with it. When he said he would go DAILY with it I thought he was MAD. Today I take my hat off to Glen Lall …we need ...

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Morally Right. Legally wrong

…Peeping Tom Morally Right. Legally wrong Kaieteur News- The situation concerning the disputed parliamentary seat held... more