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PPP to fight to preserve integrity

Dec 02, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on PPP to fight to preserve integrity

The People’s Progressive Party (PPP) will not let up; it will fight “tooth and nail” with the opposition to preserve the integrity and honour of the Party and its leaders, said General...

LIAT sacks two pilots

Dec 02, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on LIAT sacks two pilots

… Adds three new flights to Guyana LIAT has added three additional services between Grantley Adams International Airport, Barbados, and Ogle in Guyana. The three additional services between...

Police capture serial bandits red handed

Dec 02, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Police capture serial bandits red handed

Four serial bandits will be off the road for the holidays after they were surprised and caught by the police while breaking into a business place in Cumberland Canje. The men who were suspects in a...

Attorney General challenges Chief Justice’s paper committal ruling

Dec 02, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Attorney General challenges Chief Justice’s paper committal ruling

Attorney General Anil Nandlall has challenged Chief Justice Ian Chang’s landmark decision that ‘Paper committals’ are unlawful. On November 25, last, the Attorney General filed an appeal to the...

Government eyes legislative reform to curb ‘depressing’ traffic situation

Dec 02, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Government eyes legislative reform to curb ‘depressing’ traffic situation

…contemplates increased police presence The administration says that it is deeply concerned about the serious and “depressing” state of affairs involving traffic accidents and road...

Women and Gender Equality Commission urges…All must stand up and speak out for women’s rights

Dec 02, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Women and Gender Equality Commission urges…All must stand up and speak out for women’s rights

As women and girls from across Guyana converged in Georgetown for a one-day conference, they were being told that the time has come for them to shun fear, stand up and speak up for gender equality...

Mother breathes sigh of relief as son’s killer commits suicide

Dec 02, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Mother breathes sigh of relief as son’s killer commits suicide

By Rabindra Rooplall Eighteen years after her son, Lindon Fitz-Donald Alleyne, was killed, 72-year-old Joan Corbin feels that she has received justice after hearing of the recent suicide of her...

Magistrate Alex Moore replaced

Dec 02, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Magistrate Alex Moore replaced

Though the duration of his suspension is uncertain, a check at the Sparendaam Magistrate’s Court yesterday revealed that the responsibilities of controversial Magistrate, Alex Moore, had been...

The PPP’s era of domination is over

Dec 02, 2014 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on The PPP’s era of domination is over

I was in the East Bank Demerara village of Providence last Sunday evening. I was invited by the Alliance for Change to speak to the villagers about their disaster from a badly repaired koker at...

PPP rejects APNU’s calls, lauds works by GRO in Amerindian communities

Dec 02, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on PPP rejects APNU’s calls, lauds works by GRO in Amerindian communities

General Secretary of the People’s Progressive Party (PPP), Clement Rohee, yesterday said that the Party welcomes and commends the efforts of the General Registrar’s Office (GRO), to ensure that...

Ritualistic beating of 20-year-old…Dental technician charged with manslaughter

Dec 02, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Ritualistic beating of 20-year-old…Dental technician charged with manslaughter

A Dental Technician of 153 Wismar Housing Scheme, Linden and a mother of two, who was arrested last week Monday in Linden for allegedly causing the death of her god-daughter during a ritualistic...

Police drug agents transferred from CJIA for not detecting US-bound cocaine

Dec 02, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Police drug agents transferred from CJIA for not detecting US-bound cocaine

Who let the cocaine pass? That’s the question the Guyana Police Force was considering when it took action against three of its ranks who were stationed at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport,...

Report on NBS fraud…GHRA lauds Ombudsman, calls for reinstatement of sacked managers

Dec 02, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Report on NBS fraud…GHRA lauds Ombudsman, calls for reinstatement of sacked managers

The Guyana Human Rights Association (GHRA) has hailed Ombudsman, Justice Winston Moore, for his report on a complaint made by former Chief Executive Officer of New Building Society (NBS), Maurice...

Alleged police-beating death…Top Cop promises no ‘cover up’

Dec 02, 2014 KNews News 1

Relatives of Asif Rahim Khatoon, the 37-year-old fisherman of Meten-Meer-Zorg, West Coast Demerara, who reportedly died at the hands of the police, stepped up their protest action and lobbied the...

CGX Energy reaches monetary settlement with Repsol

Dec 02, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on CGX Energy reaches monetary settlement with Repsol

CGX Energy Inc. yesterday announced the settlement of the claims brought against Repsol Exploración, S.A. relating to the Joint Operating Agreement governing the Georgetown Block, offshore Guyana....

Relatives identify slain music cart vendor

Dec 02, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Relatives identify slain music cart vendor

Relatives have finally come forward to identify the music cart vendor whose 25-year-old co-worker stabbed him to death on Friday at the City Electronics and Recording Bar in Camp Street. Kaieteur...

Businessman committed to high court on murder charge

Dec 02, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Businessman committed to high court on murder charge

New Amsterdam businessman and remigrant Guyanese, Charles Henry, called ‘Charles Bristol was on Monday committed to stand trial for murder at the next session of the Berbice Criminal Assizes. This...

Over 600 graduate from IDCE

Dec 02, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Over 600 graduate from IDCE

The over 600 graduates of the University of Guyana Institute of Distance and Continuing Education (IDCE) were urged to strengthen their will to succeed in order to achieve their dreams, when the...

Strangely, respect for women in Guyana is rationed like a privilege

Dec 02, 2014 KNews Letters Comments Off on Strangely, respect for women in Guyana is rationed like a privilege

DEAR EDITOR, Your online edition published a report of the suspension of a magistrate by the Judicial Service Commission on the ground of alleged misconduct during the hearing of a case. One daily...

Observing International Day of People with Disability

Dec 02, 2014 KNews Letters Comments Off on Observing International Day of People with Disability

DEAR EDITOR, The theme for this year is “Sustainable Development: The Promise of Technology”. The world observes ‘International Day of People with Disability’ tomorrow, December 3, 2014. It...

Bacchus’ excursion avoids the real issues concerning Nandlall

Dec 02, 2014 KNews Letters Comments Off on Bacchus’ excursion avoids the real issues concerning Nandlall

DEAR EDITOR, Attorney-at-Law Murseline Bacchus (S/N November 27), to defend Attorney General, Anil Nandlall, against irresistible inferences of illegality from his infamous telephone conversation...

Politics in Guyana could really be funny at times

Dec 02, 2014 KNews Letters Comments Off on Politics in Guyana could really be funny at times

DEAR EDITOR, I have come to the realization that politics in Guyana, if it were not so detrimental, could be as funny as ever. Twelve people, obviously AFC backers and sympathizers, signed on to a...

This deadly obsession with cell phones has reached epidemic proportions

Dec 02, 2014 KNews Letters Comments Off on This deadly obsession with cell phones has reached epidemic proportions

DEAR EDITOR, What is this affinity that the crooks in Guyana have with cell phones that they would go to any length to become the lawless owner(s)? Each time I read about a Guyanese losing his/her...

Why are we beating around the bush about CP and indiscipline in schools?

Dec 02, 2014 KNews Letters Comments Off on Why are we beating around the bush about CP and indiscipline in schools?

DEAR EDITOR, Why are we beating around the bush about corporal punishment and indiscipline in schools? Let’s face it. We are followers of the so-called developed countries, adopting wholesale...

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Gimme de ting wah the doctor order me!

Peeping Tom… Kaieteur News- The government’s decision to go ahead with the universal healthcare voucher scheme is... more