February 2015

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JSC sets inquiry for suspended Magistrate for next week

Feb 14, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on JSC sets inquiry for suspended Magistrate for next week

After spending nearly 70 days off the bench, embattled senior city Magistrate Chandra Sohan will finally be afforded a hearing before the Judicial Service Commission (JSC) next Wednesday. The five...

Former rural constable fingered in housing scam

Feb 14, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Former rural constable fingered in housing scam

The Central Housing and Planning Authority (CHPA) has issued a public warning against fraudsters who are in the practice of selling house lots while pretending to be employed with the CHPA. In a...

WHEN WILL MORE PRICES FALL?

Feb 14, 2015 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on WHEN WILL MORE PRICES FALL?

I cannot think of any time in the history of Guyana that electricity tariffs have come down. They always move in the opposite direction, never steeply but progressively enough to represent a real...

Inefficient money lenders

Feb 14, 2015 KNews Editorial Comments Off on Inefficient money lenders

When Forbes Burnham fashioned the Guyana National Insurance Scheme back in 1969 there were many critics. The then political opposition saw it as a means of further oppressing the working masses...

Neesa Gopaul murder trial…Witness maintains that Small implicated mother after arrest

Feb 14, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Neesa Gopaul murder trial…Witness maintains that Small implicated mother after arrest

Assistant Superintendent of Police, Mitchell Caesar, maintained that he is telling the truth regarding the statements made by murder accused Jarvis ‘Barry’ Small, and Bibi Shareema Gopaul, during...

Fifteen new cancer victims recorded this year

Feb 14, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Fifteen new cancer victims recorded this year

To date, 25 persons are accessing treatment for various types of cancer at the Cancer Institute of Guyana (CIG), located in the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) compound. Cancer is a...

Miss Renaissance contestants visit the Palms

Feb 14, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Miss Renaissance contestants visit the Palms

As the Miss Renaissance Pageant kicks into full swing, the contestants visited the Palms Geriatric Home on Thursday, where they presented the staff with toiletries, clothing and other articles to...

Miner Granted Bail on Assault Charge

Feb 14, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Miner Granted Bail on Assault Charge

A Lethem man on Thursday was placed on $100,000 bail after he pleaded not guilty to an assault charge. Mark Anthony Marks, 31, of 401 Tabatinga, Lethem, denied that on January 20, at Rupununi, he...

Three beverages earn thief a jail sentence

Feb 14, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Three beverages earn thief a jail sentence

A very thirsty man who admitted to stealing a Smalta, one Vita Malt and a Cream Soda all valued at $680, property of the Shell Service Station supermarket, was given a two-year suspended sentence...

May 11th has become more important than safeguarding our nation’s vault

Feb 14, 2015 KNews Letters Comments Off on May 11th has become more important than safeguarding our nation’s vault

DEAR EDITOR, As conversations continue on elections and minority or majority government/executive, one has to be mindful that in the desire to govern, such discussions do not lose focus of what makes...

The writing will be on the wall for the AFC and APNU if they do not coalesce

Feb 14, 2015 KNews Letters Comments Off on The writing will be on the wall for the AFC and APNU if they do not coalesce

DEAR EDITOR, Many have come and gone, and many will follow the many corrupt officials who rape the treasury and plunder the resources of the country. Until jail hits the filthy criminals, corruption,...

Racism in Guyana…Implications and Prescriptions for our youth

Feb 14, 2015 KNews Letters Comments Off on Racism in Guyana…Implications and Prescriptions for our youth

DEAR EDITOR, I pen this few lines with the utmost disgust, sardonic and disappointed in our political system and its use of the tool of racism as a fuel or driver of political gain. Personally, as a...

I defy any reasonable Guyanese to establish PPP/C policies and practices that diminish the status of the GDF

Feb 14, 2015 KNews Letters Comments Off on I defy any reasonable Guyanese to establish PPP/C policies and practices that diminish the status of the GDF

DEAR EDITOR, I currently hold the PPP/C sole appointment since 1992 of Secretary to the Defence Board of Guyana. I have served under five (5) Executive Presidents/Commanders-in-Chief of the Armed...

The incumbent PPP/C alliance has a built-in political advantage

Feb 14, 2015 KNews Letters Comments Off on The incumbent PPP/C alliance has a built-in political advantage

DEAR EDITOR, There is a tendency on the part of some people to devalue our democracy because in their opinion it is more the result of ‘ethnic arithmetic’ rather than the ‘true’ expression of...

Will pro-democracy alliance widen? …AFC courts top PPP members

Feb 13, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Will pro-democracy alliance widen? …AFC courts top PPP members

“…but the likes of Ashni Singh will be refused”- Nagamootoo By Abena Rockcliffe Politicians who are closely associated with the incumbent People’s Progressive Party (PPP) are said to be in...

Trucking of fuel to V/Hoop…GPL not ruling out liquidated damages against contractor

Feb 13, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Trucking of fuel to V/Hoop…GPL not ruling out liquidated damages against contractor

The Guyana Power and Light Inc. (GPL) has not ruled out the application of liquidated damages against a contractor involved in the building of fuel lines and a wharf at its Vreed-en-Hoop facility....

M15 rifle found in car, seven persons in custody

Feb 13, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on M15 rifle found in car, seven persons in custody

Police are questioning seven persons following the discovery of a M15 rifle along with thirty .223 rounds of ammunition on Wednesday night. Five of the individuals, all male, were held by ranks of a...

Labour Ministry joins forces with UG admin

Feb 13, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Labour Ministry joins forces with UG admin

– urges employees to return to work before negotiations continue The Ministry of Labour has lashed out at the unions of the University of Guyana (UG) for not seeking its intervention at an...

Body of unidentified male found at Linden

Feb 13, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Body of unidentified male found at Linden

The bloated, bloodied and decomposing body of an unidentified male was yesterday morning discovered in a clump of bushes alongside a track in the vicinity of Matthews Lane in the Christianburg/...

Jagdeo vex till he seeing red

Feb 13, 2015 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Jagdeo vex till he seeing red

When passion was sharing Jagdeo tek all. Dem boys know that he had a temper, but dem didn’t know that it been at he nose tip. That is why he use to tell dem Americans how far fuh jump. Dem use to...

World Cup launched with song, dance and colour

Feb 13, 2015 KNews Sports Comments Off on World Cup launched with song, dance and colour

A Christchurch crowd in the tens of thousands welcomed the 2015 World Cup in a colourful, community-focused event, which was capped off by a spectacular fireworks display. A host of cricket stars,...

Trinidadian Richard Groden appointed GFF General Secretary

Feb 13, 2015 KNews Sports Comments Off on Trinidadian Richard Groden appointed GFF General Secretary

Diedre Davis will serve as Assistant GS In its continuing efforts to strengthen the administrative capacity of the Guyana Football Federation (GFF), the Normalisation Committee yesterday informed...

Jaguars overwhelming favourites against Leewards

Feb 13, 2015 KNews Sports Comments Off on Jaguars overwhelming favourites against Leewards

But travel issues in T&T affect team By Sean Devers in Antigua in association with Western Union, John Fernandes Ltd. and Meet Your Match Dating Service Tournament leaders Guyana Jaguars with 75...

RHTY&SC Silver Jubilee 1990 – 2015…11th Busta Champion of Champions 40-overs starts tomorrow

Feb 13, 2015 KNews Sports Comments Off on RHTY&SC Silver Jubilee 1990 – 2015…11th Busta Champion of Champions 40-overs starts tomorrow

The eleventh edition of the Busta sponsored Rose Hall Town Youth & Sports Club, Champion of Champions cricket tournament is set to commence tomorrow after the first round of matches was washed...

CID Headquarters leads points standing in Inter Department Knockout Dominoes

Feb 13, 2015 KNews Sports Comments Off on CID Headquarters leads points standing in Inter Department Knockout Dominoes

Headquarters amassed 88 games, 6 more than Band Room and 8 more than Tactical Service Unit (TSU) and Felix Austin Police College (FAPC) and retained the lead as action continues in the Headquarters...

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Exxon upping the amps – profits

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(Kaieteur News) – It is fascinating to watch Exxon on the move. Its people taking the floor, speaking with power and supreme confidence. What’s good news for Exxon’s investors is bad news for Guyanese. Follow Exxon’s sequence. It moved quickly. Burst the halo and bubble surrounding...

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