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Jealous Cane-cutter slaughters three – one critical

Dec 19, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Jealous Cane-cutter slaughters three – one critical

By Romila Boodram and Neil Marks A jealous cane cutter slaughtered his wife’s lover, his mother-in-law and nine-year-old step-daughter after forcing his way into a house at Tuschen New Housing...

Kaieteur News is a victim of state terrorism – Dr. Thomas

Dec 19, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Kaieteur News is a victim of state terrorism – Dr. Thomas

At a Working People’s Alliance (WPA) symposium held yesterday, Professor Emeritus Clive Thomas spoke profoundly about what it means for Guyana to have a sitting Attorney General who vehemently...

Mystery surrounds source of Marriott money…US$8M equity investor in limbo – NICIL boss admits

Dec 19, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Mystery surrounds source of Marriott money…US$8M equity investor in limbo – NICIL boss admits

Months after two Hong Kong businessmen were announced as the equity investor in the Marriott Hotel, Government has finally admitted that it has not yet received a blind cent of that US$8M. Head of...

GDF triumph 5-2 over Flamingo FC; Pele FC dominate Black Pearl 4-0

Dec 19, 2014 KNews Sports Comments Off on GDF triumph 5-2 over Flamingo FC; Pele FC dominate Black Pearl 4-0

On a chilly night and with the Atlantic breeze wafting across the venue, the Guyana Defense Force continued to stake a place for championship honours with a 5-2 drubbing over Flamingo FC in the...

Country’s growth performance to be revised downwards

Dec 19, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Country’s growth performance to be revised downwards

– rice, sugar steady shaky GDP as gold unable to reach projections By Leonard Gildarie With just 12 days remaining in the year, and as gold declaration continue its shockingly dismal trend,...

Kevin Dinanauth wins Macorp Caddy tournament …

Dec 19, 2014 KNews Sports Comments Off on Kevin Dinanauth wins Macorp Caddy tournament …

The long awaited Macorp Caddy Tournament of the Lusignan Golf Club (normally played shortly after the Guyana Open and Macorp Classic) was run off on Sunday last with Kevin Dinanauth emerging as the...

Municipal nurses protest City Hall over five-month salary delay

Dec 19, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Municipal nurses protest City Hall over five-month salary delay

…say Christmas looks gloomy More protest action was the scene at City Hall yesterday; this time it was municipal nurses demanding the immediate payment of salaries owed to them over a...

Guyana got to deal wid three pile of kaka

Dec 19, 2014 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Guyana got to deal wid three pile of kaka

Dem boys couldn’t help dream again. Last night dem dream that dem was wukking pun a farm and dem want mould fuh de plants. Dem ask de farmer wheh dem got to go to find some mould and de farmer send...

Cavaliers Sports and Tour Club to host 10k Race Walk on Sunday

Dec 19, 2014 KNews Sports Comments Off on Cavaliers Sports and Tour Club to host 10k Race Walk on Sunday

Junior race walkers throughout Guyana will match steps on Sunday when the Cavaliers Sports and Tour Club (CSTC) stages a 10k event around Soesdyke East Bank Demerara. The race will commence at...

DDL backs KMTC Boxing Day Meet

Dec 19, 2014 KNews Sports Comments Off on DDL backs KMTC Boxing Day Meet

The Kennard Memorial Turf Club (KMTC) received the backing of Demerara Distillers Limited (DDL) under its Five 0 brand for the staging of its Boxing Day Meet which will be held at Bush Lot Farm...

GGMC opens $70M office in Lethem

Dec 19, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on GGMC opens $70M office in Lethem

– six more to be launched countrywide soon A $70M mining monitoring facility has been opened in Lethem, Region Nine, with Government on Thursday announcing that six more are to be launched in...

All gov’t-initiated projects that cannot be salvaged will be scrapped – APNU’s Harmon

Dec 19, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on All gov’t-initiated projects that cannot be salvaged will be scrapped – APNU’s Harmon

A Partnership for National Unity (APNU) executive member Joseph Harmon has promised the scrapping of all government-initiated contracts which continue to burden the Guyanese public, once the...

Grove Hi Tech face BV Triumph; Agricola tangle with Ann’s Grove

Dec 19, 2014 KNews Sports Comments Off on Grove Hi Tech face BV Triumph; Agricola tangle with Ann’s Grove

A potentially mouth watering double header is set for the Grove Playfield this evening when the Stag Super XV1 knock-out football tournament continues with action on day two. Already off to a flying...

CPCE plugs 359 more graduates into education system

Dec 19, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on CPCE plugs 359 more graduates into education system

It was Duviena Badray of the Region Two Anna Regina Satellite Centre who was named the overall top performer when the Cyril Potter College of Education (CPCE) convened its 80th Graduation...

AFC bemoans “poor” performance of security, health sectors

Dec 19, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on AFC bemoans “poor” performance of security, health sectors

By Kiana Wilburg Alliance For Change (AFC) Executive member, Cathy Hughes said yesterday that her party is concerned about the performance of the security and health sectors, which she later...

Van Zyl maiden ton and Amla double sink West Indies

Dec 19, 2014 KNews Sports Comments Off on Van Zyl maiden ton and Amla double sink West Indies

An agreeable century on Test debut for Stiaan van Zyl and an elementary double hundred for Hashim Amla extended South Africa’s punishment of a dire, injury-hit West Indies attack on the second day...

Despite Granger’s “disinterest”…AFC hopeful APNU signs on to pro-democracy proposal

Dec 19, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Despite Granger’s “disinterest”…AFC hopeful APNU signs on to pro-democracy proposal

By Kiana Wilburg Though Opposition Leader David Granger was pellucid in articulating to this newspaper in a previous interview that he is not interested in the Alliance For Change (AFC)’s...

Youth Basketball Guyana school c/ships conclude with LTI triumph

Dec 19, 2014 KNews Sports Comments Off on Youth Basketball Guyana school c/ships conclude with LTI triumph

Youth Basketball Guyana brought down the curtains on the 2014 school basketball season with the fourth edition of the Titan Bowl-best of the best school basketball Championships. In the final game of...

Joint Services to get an extra month’s salary

Dec 19, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Joint Services to get an extra month’s salary

Members of the Joint Services are to receive an extra month’s salary, President Donald Ramotar announced yesterday, during the annual Christmas luncheon at Camp Stephenson, Timehri. The President,...

AMERICA IS THE MOST SELFISH NATION ON EARTH

Dec 19, 2014 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on AMERICA IS THE MOST SELFISH NATION ON EARTH

Do not expect any earth-shaking policy to the Caribbean and specifically towards Cuba, under the Obama administration. Obama has been a major disappointment – he talks the talk but has never...

16 reported cases of TIP this year, two charges

Dec 19, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on 16 reported cases of TIP this year, two charges

– Human Services Minister Of the 16 reported cases of Trafficking in Persons (TIP), a mere two charges have been laid thus far this year. This was revealed by Minister of Human Services and Social...

Soldier held with drugs at Ogle Airport

Dec 19, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Soldier held with drugs at Ogle Airport

Chief of Staff of the Guyana Defence Force, Brigadier Mark Phillips, once again warned Officers and Ranks of the GDF’s zero-tolerance policy on drug use and drug trafficking activities. The warning...

New power with downside risk

Dec 19, 2014 KNews Editorial Comments Off on New power with downside risk

One of the most striking powers provided by emerging technologies, especially transmitted via the internet, is the growing ability of consumers to “filter” what it is that they see or read. In...

The PPP will physically die should it lose power

Dec 19, 2014 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on The PPP will physically die should it lose power

How and why did the PNC survive after it lost state power in 1992? There is only one answer – the ethnic factor in Guyana’s sociology. Had there been an energetic, credible African-dominated...

Concrete culverts for Linden-Lethem road

Dec 19, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Concrete culverts for Linden-Lethem road

More than two dozen concrete culverts will be constructed along the Linden/Lethem road as the Ministry of Public Works continues to upgrade the 276-mile thoroughfare. Extensive bush...

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Slingerz FC shines at Guyana Energy Conference and Youth Forum

The clock and the cloud

Peeping Tom… Kaieteur News- Time, as the ancients knew, is a trickster. It slips through the fingers of kings and commoners... more