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Citizens renew calls for law enforcement to up ante against sexual violence

Apr 18, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Citizens renew calls for law enforcement to up ante against sexual violence

As cases of sexual violence in Guyana increase, citizens are mounting protest actions, demanding justice for victims as well as the implementation of plausible mechanisms to end the scourge....

Byderabo road getting attention after residents’ complaints

Apr 18, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Byderabo road getting attention after residents’ complaints

A new road is currently taking shape at Byderabo in Region Seven. The road is one that will provide an invaluable link between the Byderabo and the Bartica/Potaro roads which lead to the mining...

NAPS’s Food Bank gets more private sector support

Apr 18, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on NAPS’s Food Bank gets more private sector support

The food bank of the National AIDS Programme Secretariat has for the third time in the last month been the beneficiary of nutritional food items. Yesterday, food items to the value of $110,000 were...

Elections Corner…Entitlement to vote by Proxy

Apr 18, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Elections Corner…Entitlement to vote by Proxy

In order to remove any misinterpretation/misunderstanding of the text contained in the GECOM Elections Corner relating to Voting by Proxy (published last weekend), please note the following:...

ENJOY YOUR HOT CHOCOLATE

Apr 18, 2015 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on ENJOY YOUR HOT CHOCOLATE

The happiest persons I know are never the wealthiest. My happiest friends are simply the ones that are more contented with what they have. I tried explaining this to a friend who saw me recently and...

Granger plans to curb the exodus of teachers by increasing salaries, if elected

Apr 18, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Granger plans to curb the exodus of teachers by increasing salaries, if elected

Teachers should be the best paid public servants in Guyana- Granger At a recently held forum arranged by the Guyana Women Roundtable (GWR) and Guyana National Youth Council (GNYC), members of the...

Region Five commissions new building

Apr 18, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Region Five commissions new building

…gets ambulance and $12M generator The Region Five Administration commissioned several projects on Wednesday. Present was Minister of Local Government & Regional Development, Mr. Norman...

GT&T offers reward for vandalism report

Apr 18, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on GT&T offers reward for vandalism report

Guyana Telephone and Telegraph Company (GT&T) is again complaining of rampant vandalism. For the year alone, more than 52 acts were discovered, the company said yesterday. “This deliberate,...

Motorcyclist crashes into illegal speed hump, dies

Apr 18, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Motorcyclist crashes into illegal speed hump, dies

The road fatality figure continues to climb following the death of a mechanic one day after he was injured in a freak accident. Dead is Abdul Naffi Francis, 25, a father one, of Maycock Street, Rose...

Traffic Chief rectifies situation between 43 minibus drivers and cops

Apr 18, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Traffic Chief rectifies situation between 43 minibus drivers and cops

Shortly after Kaieteur News published an article titled, “Linden minibus drivers allege bullying by cops”, the route 43 minibus operators have now confirmed that the Traffic Chief, Ian Amsterdam,...

PPP will develop special fund for Region 10 – Harper

Apr 18, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on PPP will develop special fund for Region 10 – Harper

Recognizing that more could be done for the development of communities across Guyana, Prime Ministerial candidate for the People’s Progressive Party (PPP), Elisabeth Harper, has rolled out several...

The influence of the DEA in Guyana

Apr 18, 2015 KNews Editorial Comments Off on The influence of the DEA in Guyana

This year has seen a large number of drug busts. The law enforcers have found cocaine in every imaginable place. There was one large find among a consignment of lumber heading to Europe where the...

Marriot protest: Agents provocateur at work

Apr 18, 2015 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on Marriot protest: Agents provocateur at work

I was part of the protest at the Marriott opening. I am still enraged at what the PPP did. The PPP through one of its high-class thugs, who has an African first name and last name, virtually killed...

APNU+AFC women to host rally today

Apr 18, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on APNU+AFC women to host rally today

…Mrs. Granger and Nagamootoo to be main speakers Women of A Partnership for National Unity+ Alliance For Change (APNU+AFC) will be hosting a rally today at the Merriman’s Mall between Light and...

Residents torch home of murder suspects

Apr 18, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Residents torch home of murder suspects

In what is seen as an act of revenge, two small houses belonging to the suspects who are being sought in connection with the murder of an Angoy’s Avenue resident, were set on fire on Thursday...

Child killer sent for psychiatric evaluation

Apr 18, 2015 KNews Court Stories, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Child killer sent for psychiatric evaluation

Murder accused Ryan Bob Semple, who allegedly sodomized and murdered nine year-old South Ruimveldt resident, Shaquan Gittens, was ordered to undergo a psychiatric evaluation after he appeared before...

Judge upholds no-case submission in Jules Walker murder trial

Apr 18, 2015 KNews Court Stories, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Judge upholds no-case submission in Jules Walker murder trial

‘The murder trial of Delon Glasgow was cut short on Thursday after a no- case submission presented on his behalf was upheld by Justice Navindra Singh. Glasgow, 18, of Lot 687 East Ruimveldt...

NonPariel man remanded for cell phone robbery

Apr 18, 2015 KNews Court Stories, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on NonPariel man remanded for cell phone robbery

An eighteen year-old man was brought before the court yesterday after he was charged with larceny from the person. An unrepresented Dominique Morris of Lot 35, NonPariel, East Coast Demerara, denied...

Driver remanded on four charges for Stewartville woman’s death

Apr 18, 2015 KNews Court Stories, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Driver remanded on four charges for Stewartville woman’s death

A 40-year-old Good Hope, East Coast Demerara resident was remanded on four charges yesterday in connection with the death last Tuesday of 33-year-old Vanessa Forde at Stewartville, West Coast...

Police brutality displayed during Marriott Opening

Apr 18, 2015 KNews Letters Comments Off on Police brutality displayed during Marriott Opening

DEAR EDITOR, I’m writing to condemn the appalling behaviour of the Guyana Police Force on Thursday, April 16th at the opening of the Marriott Hotel. I was one of several peaceful protesters who...

Guyanese are faced with perhaps the most important decision in their country’s history

Apr 18, 2015 KNews Letters Comments Off on Guyanese are faced with perhaps the most important decision in their country’s history

DEAR EDITOR, In the May 11, 2015 general election, Guyanese are faced with a great national decision, which is perhaps the most important in the history of the country. But it should not be a...

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