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Con artists using classified ads to target customers

Nov 12, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Con artists using classified ads to target customers

An East Coast Demerara businesswoman is thanking her lucky stars after she responded to a newspaper advertisement and was conned almost $90,000. The gang of con artists has since returned the money...

Fuel tax hiked by 20%

Nov 12, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Fuel tax hiked by 20%

As fuel prices continue to fall on the world market, it is unlikely that Guyana will see any reduction anytime soon at the gas stations. This is because the government has reportedly approved an...

Trotman’s accuser fails to lift injunction

Nov 12, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Trotman’s accuser fails to lift injunction

…House Speaker vows to also stay silent The 22-year-old man who moved to challenge the court order that prevents him from publishing in the print or electronic media, any material relating to...

Caribbean on developmental course – Ambassador LaRocque

Nov 12, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Caribbean on developmental course – Ambassador LaRocque

…but business community expected to aid process The Caribbean is still struggling to emerge from worldwide ‘financial shocks’ that have impacted the economies of Member States. But such...

WBD $$M sea defence attracts four bidders

Nov 12, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on WBD $$M sea defence attracts four bidders

For the construction of Rip Rap Sea Defence at La Retraite, West Bank Demerara region three, the Ministry of Public Works received four bids. The bids were opened yesterday at the National...

Dynamic Airways to resume operations on Nov. 22

Nov 12, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Dynamic Airways to resume operations on Nov. 22

United States-based airline Dynamic Airways has managed to gain local approval to once again operate direct flights between Georgetown and New York. The airline has fulfilled promises to return to...

Businessman shot in botched robbery

Nov 12, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Businessman shot in botched robbery

A city businessman is nursing a gunshot wound to his left side after he was shot by bandits yesterday while trying to thwart a robbery. Inshan Ally, a licenced firearm holder, is presently...

Abuse of an emergency privilege

Nov 12, 2014 KNews Editorial Comments Off on Abuse of an emergency privilege

The usual platitudes coming out of Eve Leary on the observance of National Road Safety Month have become standard fare over the years. Unsurprisingly there seems to be an undue haste to prove the...

Campbellville Health Centre starts Worlds Diabetes Day observance early

Nov 12, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Campbellville Health Centre starts Worlds Diabetes Day observance early

– officials emphasise importance of screening Although it characterised an early start to the commemoration of World Diabetes Day, the Campbellville Health Centre experienced heightened...

INSTEAD OF D-DAY, THE OPPOSITION GOT P-DAY

Nov 12, 2014 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on INSTEAD OF D-DAY, THE OPPOSITION GOT P-DAY

The shock and the frustration on the faces of the supporters of both the AFC and APNU following the prorogation of parliament should come as no surprise. These supporters were hoping for a party,...

Akbar Auto Sales fire…Investigators focus on explosion just before blaze

Nov 12, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Akbar Auto Sales fire…Investigators focus on explosion just before blaze

Five Service investigators are still trying to find the source of the “explosive sound” that eyewitnesses said that they heard just before the warehouse of Akbar Auto Sales, at Cornelia Ida, went...

Rohee dodges important questions on Nandlall

Nov 12, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Rohee dodges important questions on Nandlall

– Directs them to Cabinet Secretary General Secretary of the People’s Progressive Party (PPP) and Minister of Home Affairs, Clement Rohee, refused to answer questions relating to the...

Two Jamaicans jailed, fined for ‘ganja’

Nov 12, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Two Jamaicans jailed, fined for ‘ganja’

Benjamin Isaiah Carrington and Tamara Nicola Douglas, two Jamaican nationals, who were nabbed with over 60 pounds of marijuana at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport (CJIA), last April, were...

Rodney COI likely to continue throughout 2015 – Lead Attorney

Nov 12, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Rodney COI likely to continue throughout 2015 – Lead Attorney

– At least twenty more witnesses to testify Millions of dollars will most likely be expended to facilitate the continuation of the Commission of Inquiry (COI) into the death of Dr. Walter...

Open letter to President Ramotar

Nov 12, 2014 KNews Letters Comments Off on Open letter to President Ramotar

Dear President Ramotar, I respectfully refer to your decision to prorogue Parliament. ‘President Ramotar I hope to God, that you know what you are doing‘. As one of the citizens who truly love...

Ramotar has stolen democracy

Nov 12, 2014 KNews Letters Comments Off on Ramotar has stolen democracy

Dear Editor, Reprobates have legitimately stolen democracy by discontinuing to meet in parliament. Prorogation! No sitting of the opposition-controlled National Assembly. A band of cowards has chosen...

Our rubber-stamp President

Nov 12, 2014 KNews Letters Comments Off on Our rubber-stamp President

Dear Editor, It is now clearer than ever that we are dealing with a desperate Government, one that is willing to pull out all stops to hold on to power at all costs. Recent developments in Guyana...

Donald Ramotar has surprised even his own supporters

Nov 12, 2014 KNews Letters Comments Off on Donald Ramotar has surprised even his own supporters

Dear Editor, Guyana’s current dilemma of an effective shutdown of Government by Donald Ramotar’s ‘proroguing’ is unbelievable, impossible, heretic, ridiculous, and absolutely hilarious. Upon...

The problem of caste

Nov 12, 2014 KNews Letters Comments Off on The problem of caste

Dear Editor, With all the talk about chatri and caste in the upper echelons of the PPP, I wonder to what caste the following persons belong: Dr. Roger Luncheon; Mr. Samuel Hinds; Mr. Robeson Benn;...

Proroguing of Parliament is an act of desperation

Nov 12, 2014 KNews Letters Comments Off on Proroguing of Parliament is an act of desperation

Dear Editor, After 22 years in power, the PPP regime has turned Guyana into a corrupt, brutal, dictatorial and undeveloped society where civilization might no longer be possible. The country’s race...

Mimicking the colonial authority

Nov 12, 2014 KNews Letters Comments Off on Mimicking the colonial authority

Dear Editor, All of us, including PPP supporters, have to congregate to avert the rule of tyranny. Hard as President Ramotar tries to make acceptable his application of the proroguing authority...

The opposition gave its stamp of approval to the Minority government

Nov 12, 2014 KNews Letters Comments Off on The opposition gave its stamp of approval to the Minority government

Dear Editor If Guyanese and the world had any doubt about the dictatorial orientation and nature of the current PPP regime, I hope the President’s use of the heavy hammer to pound all of us would...