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Ramotar explores India’s help to rescue GuySuCo

Jan 11, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Ramotar explores India’s help to rescue GuySuCo

President Donald Ramotar, who is on the six-day visit to India to attend the Pravasi Bharatiya Divas (PBD) celebrations, has visited one of that country’s top performing sugar factories. It may be...

Drug shortage hits Berbice hospitals

Jan 11, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Drug shortage hits Berbice hospitals

Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Berbice Regional Health Authority (BRHA), Dr. Vishwa Mahadeo; CEO of the New Amsterdam Hospital, Mr. Alan Johnson; and PRO of BRHA, Mr. Michael Itwaru were...

Nandlall repeats threats to Kaieteur News

Jan 11, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Nandlall repeats threats to Kaieteur News

.,.. if you cross the road carelessly you are likely to be struck down by an errant driver Attorney General, Anil Nandlall has chosen to send yet another shivering message to the newspaper. He is now...

Exorbitant losses…GPL board should be sacked for gross incompetence – APNU’s Harmon

Jan 11, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Exorbitant losses…GPL board should be sacked for gross incompetence – APNU’s Harmon

General Secretary of A Partnership for National Unity (APNU), Joseph Harmon, is of the opinion that the recent admission by the Guyana Power and Light (GPL) that it is experiencing as much as 60...

EZjet boss exhausts appeals, to be sentenced in March

Jan 11, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on EZjet boss exhausts appeals, to be sentenced in March

Having exhausted all his legal challenges, former embattled EzJet boss, Sonny Ramdeo, is set to be sentenced on March 13 in a Florida court. According to court documents, West Palm Beach Court Judge,...

CGX plane search yields no results for missing ASL craft

Jan 11, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on CGX plane search yields no results for missing ASL craft

Data collected from the CGX Energy Inc. aircraft which was hoped to provide information leading to the missing Air Services Limited (ASL) aircraft has turned up empty. According to rescue...

GPC libel suit … US Appeals Court rules Adam Harris will not testify

Jan 11, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on GPC libel suit … US Appeals Court rules Adam Harris will not testify

… as it denies New GPC sweeping deposition moves A US court of appeal has denied a move by New GPC to have Editor-in-Chief of Kaieteur News, Adam Harris, give testimony there in a US$1M lawsuit...

Broadcaster and educator, Franklin Langhorne, is a ‘Special Person’

Jan 11, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Broadcaster and educator, Franklin Langhorne, is a ‘Special Person’

“I knew I had a good voice, and I knew that broadcasting would fit my introverted personality.” By Leon Suseran He is no stranger to the airwaves. His voice is instantly recognizable....

Dem boys seh…Anil got powerful backing

Jan 11, 2015 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Dem boys seh…Anil got powerful backing

A Government Minister and de whole Cabinet wid all dem security guards walk up to he neighbor wife and slap she although she was standing wid she husband. De woman was in shock and when she tun to...

Barbados-bound woman held with cocaine at Ogle

Jan 11, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Barbados-bound woman held with cocaine at Ogle

A Guyanese woman heading to Barbados aboard a LIAT aircraft did not cater for the scanner at the Ogle International Airport when she tried to smuggle a little over a kilogram of cocaine through the...

Bolton is new fulltime resident TD of GFF

Jan 11, 2015 KNews Sports Comments Off on Bolton is new fulltime resident TD of GFF

– developing an appropriate and solid foundation for Guyana is pivotal – Urling By Franklin Wilson Guyana’s football is set for takeoff with a sound technical and tactical foundation...

South Africa v West Indies, 2nd T20, Johannesburg today…. Proteas must quell Gayle

Jan 11, 2015 KNews Sports Comments Off on South Africa v West Indies, 2nd T20, Johannesburg today…. Proteas must quell Gayle

ESPNcricinfo – There were two different games played during the opening T20 in Cape Town: the one by Chris Gayle and then the one by everyone else. Gayle’s extraordinary display of...

2015 Mayor Cup Football kicks off on January 30

Jan 11, 2015 KNews Sports Comments Off on 2015 Mayor Cup Football kicks off on January 30

Sponsors being encouraged to come on board By Sean Devers After missing last year for the first time in 20 years, the Mayor’s Cup Football tournament, which began in 1981, is back in full force...

Experts preparing Guyana to receive oil, extractive sector proceeds

Jan 11, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Experts preparing Guyana to receive oil, extractive sector proceeds

Following the inception workshop and the launch of the scoping study for the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI) for Guyana in the last quarter of 2014, the Ministry of Natural...

No Guyanese in Windies World Cup squad

Jan 11, 2015 KNews Sports Comments Off on No Guyanese in Windies World Cup squad

Pollard, Dwayne Bravo also ignored By Sean Devers The West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) yesterday announced the squad for the 2015 Cricket World Cup scheduled from February 14 in Australia and New...

Domino fever hits August Beverage Sports Bar today

Jan 11, 2015 KNews Sports Comments Off on Domino fever hits August Beverage Sports Bar today

August Beverage Sports Bar is the place to be today when in collaboration with Lyall Gittens of Untouchable Boss they host a Dominoes Competition with over $350,000 in prize money up for grabs....

International Decade for People of African Descent begins

Jan 11, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on International Decade for People of African Descent begins

“Over the next ten years people everywhere are encouraged to take part in global conversation on the realities faced by people of African descent. The decade will allow us to explore the challenge...

WICB announce Central Retainer Contracts for 2014-2015

Jan 11, 2015 KNews Sports Comments Off on WICB announce Central Retainer Contracts for 2014-2015

ST. JOHN’S, Antigua –The Board of Directors of the West Indies Cricket Board met in Antigua yesterday, January 10, 2015. The Board deliberated on a number of matters including cricket,...

Magistrate’s Court clerk granted bail on embezzlement charge

Jan 11, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Magistrate’s Court clerk granted bail on embezzlement charge

A 21-year-old Vreed-en-Hoop Magistrate’s Court clerk accused of embezzling a hefty sum from the court was released on $140,000 bail by Chief Magistrate Priya Sewnarine-Beharry on Friday, last....

56 months jail for drug trafficker

Jan 11, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on 56 months jail for drug trafficker

A 22-year-old father to be and his friend have been jailed for 56 months on a drug trafficking charge after they were caught red-handed weighing and packaging a quantity of marijuana in a bedroom two...

Culture and Poverty

Jan 11, 2015 KNews Editorial Comments Off on Culture and Poverty

A debate that is unfolding in the US may assist activists and policy makers here in clarifying their ideas around a key characteristic that unfortunately still defines the African condition: poverty....

Serial rapist strikes again

Jan 11, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Serial rapist strikes again

Police have detained a man who they believe is responsible for a number of break and enters and attacks over a prolonged period, on single women and on those who live alone on the Essequibo Coast....

Windies captains meet Archbishop Tutu

Jan 11, 2015 KNews Sports Comments Off on Windies captains meet Archbishop Tutu

Barbados Nation – Cape Town, South Africa – Members of the West Indies team paid a special visit to meet Archbishop Desmond Tutu at his office. The Archbishop spoke to the team about his love...

Upholster on bail for fraudulent conversion

Jan 11, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Upholster on bail for fraudulent conversion

A 40-year-old upholsterer was granted $75,000 bail after he was charged for converting $150,000 entrusted to him for purchases, to his own use. Sherwin Prince, of Lot 136 La Parfaite Harmonie, West...

Police say relatives are not being truthful about motor cyclist’s death

Jan 11, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Police say relatives are not being truthful about motor cyclist’s death

The Guyana Police Force has stated that it has been taken by surprise by the statements of the relatives of dead motor cyclist, Vickram Sohan, called ‘Robby’, 20, a cane cutter of Betsy Ground,...

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The PPP is in the grip of the bourgeoisie

…Peeping Tom Kaieteur news- The People’s Progressive Party Civic (PPP/C) stands at a crossroads. Once the vanguard... more