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Woman’s dismembered body… Police release remaining suspects

Apr 11, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Woman’s dismembered body… Police release remaining suspects

Police have released all the other suspects in the murder of US based Guyanese Samantha Benjamin, after failing to unearth anything incriminating against them that could lead to successful...

Boy, 15, critical after being stabbed by rival

Apr 11, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Boy, 15, critical after being stabbed by rival

A 15-year-old boy is in a critical condition at the Georgetown Public Hospital after a longstanding dispute with another youth turned deadly. Kester Yamster, of 110 Eccles Housing Scheme, was stabbed...

Guyana’s most productive age group still most affected by HIV/AIDS

Apr 11, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Guyana’s most productive age group still most affected by HIV/AIDS

As the fight against HIV/AIDS continue to wage in Guyana, the 25-49 age group remains the group most affected by the deadly disease. According to recent data coming out of the National AIDS Programme...

Cambio dealer escapes gunman’s bullets

Apr 11, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Cambio dealer escapes gunman’s bullets

Prashad Nagar businessman Nandall Persaud had to flee for his life last Thursday after a gunman fired shots at him before escaping with two accomplices in a car. According to reports, the 54-year-old...

Caricom Rice Mills to compensate dead worker’s mother

Apr 11, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Caricom Rice Mills to compensate dead worker’s mother

The management of the privately-owned Caricom Rice Mills Ltd, located, at Anna Regina is continuing to evade the media. However, Pamela Gittens, the mother of the teenager who lost his life two...

THE PPP’s THIRD GENERATION OF LEADERS

Apr 11, 2015 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on THE PPP’s THIRD GENERATION OF LEADERS

The children of political leaders always have it the hardest. They are the ones who have to bear the brunt of political cynicism and insensitive and often cruel comment about their parents. They also...

More than a month later…Providence killer continues to dodge police

Apr 11, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on More than a month later…Providence killer continues to dodge police

More than a month after 19-year-old Ryan Sooklall was riddled with bullets while at a shop in Parker Street, Providence on the East Bank of Demerara (EBD), his alleged executioner, whose name has not...

Guyana establishes national committee on trade facilitation

Apr 11, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Guyana establishes national committee on trade facilitation

In keeping with an agreement under the World Trade Organisation (WTO), Cabinet has given the go ahead for the establishment of a National Committee on Trade Facilitation. The committee was formally...

Singing the Shaggy tune—It wasn’t me

Apr 11, 2015 KNews Editorial Comments Off on Singing the Shaggy tune—It wasn’t me

There was a popular saying to emphasise the strengths of a country, in this case, the United States of America. That saying was, “Only in America.” That saying has been used extensively in...

Mocha teen represents Guyana at Summit of the Americas Youth Forum

Apr 11, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Mocha teen represents Guyana at Summit of the Americas Youth Forum

By Rabindra Rooplall in Panama City A teenager with a passion for volunteerism is representing Guyana at the Young Americas Forum of the Summit of the Americas in Panama City. The Young Americas...

Families of dead babies to collaborate in protest

Apr 11, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Families of dead babies to collaborate in protest

The families of four-year-old Jayden Mars, who died last December, three-year- old Akeela Benson, and five-month-old Kevon Critchlow, who both died last month, will be collaborating in a protest set...

Death of baby at Plaisance health center

Apr 11, 2015 KNews Court Stories, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Death of baby at Plaisance health center

…Father charged with threatening nurses In a strange turn of events, the father of the five-month-old baby who died shortly after receiving an injection at the Plaisance Health Centre was on...

Not so young among “youthful” faces added to PPP/C’s list

Apr 11, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Not so young among “youthful” faces added to PPP/C’s list

As the May 11 polling day nears, political parties are in overdrive mode to attract votes. Yesterday the People’s Progressive Party/Civic (PPP/C) placed particular emphasis on the youths when it...

Crum-Ewing relative escapes with life following home invasion

Apr 11, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Crum-Ewing relative escapes with life following home invasion

By Desilon Daniels “I ain’t screaming for thief at that time; when I see this man pull up the first thing that come to me is, ‘wait; is the whole family gon’ geh kill out now?’ because of...

Plastic City resident guilty of killing neighbour

Apr 11, 2015 KNews Court Stories, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Plastic City resident guilty of killing neighbour

Justice James Bovell-Drakes will sentence Plastic City resident, Michael Powley, later this month, for the unlawful killing of neighbour; Visnauth Narine, called ‘Buddy’. Powley’s impending...

Confessed rapist, murderer of boy, 9, remanded

Apr 11, 2015 KNews Court Stories, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Confessed rapist, murderer of boy, 9, remanded

– fellow inmates threaten sodomy Days after he confessed to abducting, sodomizing, killing and severing the reproductive organ of nine year-old Shaquan Gittens of South Ruimveldt, Georgetown,...

Lawyer Charrandass Persaud begs for bail for man with 11 armed robbery charges

Apr 11, 2015 KNews Court Stories, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Lawyer Charrandass Persaud begs for bail for man with 11 armed robbery charges

Kwame Bhagwandin who is well known to the authorities and was said to be the mastermind in a spate of robberies in Berbice during the evening of Thursday April 4, has been remanded to prison on 11...

Teen charged with perjury

Apr 11, 2015 KNews Court Stories, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Teen charged with perjury

Azam Shivgobin, 18, of No. 76 Village Housing Scheme, Corentyne, has been charged with perjury. Shivgobin who was the star witness in the recently concluded Salim ‘Black Salim’ Bacchus murder...

The PPP should stop bashing Burnham to hide its own corruption and costly mismanagement

Apr 11, 2015 KNews Letters Comments Off on The PPP should stop bashing Burnham to hide its own corruption and costly mismanagement

DEAR EDITOR, The PPP continues to attack David Granger and the PNCR about what transpired under Burnham’s presidency. This is very likely because they have found themselves mired in a situation...

What ideas do these candidates have to move Guyana forward?

Apr 11, 2015 KNews Letters Comments Off on What ideas do these candidates have to move Guyana forward?

DEAR EDITOR, “The evil that men do lives after them; the good is oft interred with their bones.” Fifty years have passed, for God’s sake! The demonization of Burnham and the claimed betrayal of...

The PPP is using scare tactics on its campaign trail

Apr 11, 2015 KNews Letters Comments Off on The PPP is using scare tactics on its campaign trail

DEAR EDITOR, I see Peter Persaud has arisen from his unpaid slumber to pen a letter in the Guyana Times of April 1, 2015 about the attendance at APNU meetings in Moruca. Peter has now assumed the...

Voters should make crime an issue in this election

Apr 11, 2015 KNews Letters Comments Off on Voters should make crime an issue in this election

DEAR EDITOR, We all know the script very well. It is constantly happening almost every other day that our beloved Guyana, based on the size of its population, has one of the highest murder rates in...

Who exactly is Olive Gopaul trying to convince?

Apr 11, 2015 KNews Letters Comments Off on Who exactly is Olive Gopaul trying to convince?

DEAR EDITOR, Politics is indeed interesting and, for those who may not be aware, it necessitates critical thinking and analyses. It also recognizes that not everyone would agree on everything, but...

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