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APNU+AFC woos Guyanese living in Canada

Apr 21, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on APNU+AFC woos Guyanese living in Canada

A Partnership for National Unity and the Alliance for Change (APNU+AFC) on Sunday wrapped up a two-day visit to Toronto, Canada, urging Guyanese to return home when the coalition wins on May 11. The...

Once past 50, get a colonoscopy

Apr 21, 2015 KNews Editorial Comments Off on Once past 50, get a colonoscopy

Colon cancer kills about 50,000 Americans per year. And screening does save lives. But getting a colonoscopy isn’t risk-free. About three out of every 1,000 people who have the procedure experience...

Parties fear the power of the youth – say young executives

Apr 21, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Parties fear the power of the youth – say young executives

With General and Regional elections less than three weeks away, executive members of local youth organisations have said that local political parties feared the power the youths have in determining...

PPP/C to update int’l observers on GECOM’S stance on COE’s for polling agents

Apr 21, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on PPP/C to update int’l observers on GECOM’S stance on COE’s for polling agents

The People’s Progressive Party/Civic (PPP/C) has lashed out at the Guyana Election’s Commission (GECOM’s) decision to approach the Chief Justice for a ruling on Certificates of Employment...

Voters list will be out next Tuesday – GECOM

Apr 21, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Voters list will be out next Tuesday – GECOM

…2299 polling stations to be used on e-day With General and Regional Elections less than three weeks away, the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) has announced that its Official List of Electors...

Rasta community did not endorse the PPP/C

Apr 21, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Rasta community did not endorse the PPP/C

Senior members of the local Rastafarian community have not endorsed or committed support to the ruling People’s Progressive Party/Civic (PPP/C). Executives of the Guyana Rastafarian Council (GRC),...

Financially-strapped Berbice Bridge waives tolls for PPP/C Albion rally

Apr 21, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Financially-strapped Berbice Bridge waives tolls for PPP/C Albion rally

As if it is not already facing enough financial problems, management of the troubled Berbice Bridge on Sunday waived tolls for scores of vehicles heading to an Albion rally of the ruling People’s...

Truck crushes pensioner’s leg in Providence accident

Apr 21, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Truck crushes pensioner’s leg in Providence accident

A 75-year-old woman is likely to have her right leg amputated after a truck hit her on the Providence, East Bank Demerara (EBD) Public Road then drove over her leg around 13:45 hrs yesterday. The...

THE DEBATES ARE A WASTE OF TIME

Apr 21, 2015 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on THE DEBATES ARE A WASTE OF TIME

In 1992 there was a televised debate between the presidential candidates of the People’s Progressive Party Civic and the People’s National Congress. Cheddi Jagan represented the former and...

Former military bosses take umbrage at Jagdeo’s ‘insulting’ remarks

Apr 21, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Former military bosses take umbrage at Jagdeo’s ‘insulting’ remarks

– GTUC calls on Ramotar to “muzzle Jagdeo who is acting as a rabid attack dog” “It was the GDF along with the police who rid this country of a drug empire that was moving to strangle his...

Sleeping man doused with acid

Apr 21, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Sleeping man doused with acid

A 27-year-old man had to be rushed to the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) after he was doused with a corrosive substance, while asleep in his Three Miles, Bartica-Potaro home on Sunday....

Local businessman prepared to leave Guyana if PPP/C wins again

Apr 21, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Local businessman prepared to leave Guyana if PPP/C wins again

While some business people have been quietly speaking out against the actions of the incumbent People’s Progressive Party/ Civic – government’s “corrupt and nepotistic” behaviour,...

Welder’s skull crushed first day on the job

Apr 21, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Welder’s skull crushed first day on the job

Early yesterday morning, 31-year-old Harriram Chaitoo left his 66 Phase 1 Hope, East Coast Demerara home, for his first day on a job as a welder, with Rawle “Valez” Arjune’s trucking service....

Gunman shoots Bare Root vendor

Apr 21, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Gunman shoots Bare Root vendor

A 24-year-old Bare Root, East Coast Demerara, vendor is in a critical condition after he was shot in the stomach by a man with whom he had a dispute over money. The victim, Eon Goodluck, was...

New Amsterdam seaman jailed for raping six year old

Apr 21, 2015 KNews Court Stories, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on New Amsterdam seaman jailed for raping six year old

…to serve 19 years Forty-one-year-old Harold Naurayan, of Cooper’s Lane, New Amsterdam, who was on trial in the Berbice High Court before Justice Brassington Reynolds and a mixed jury for raping...

Catholic Church to monitor political speeches wants volunteers

Apr 21, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Catholic Church to monitor political speeches wants volunteers

The Justice and Peace Commission (JPC) of the Catholic Church, has announced that it is launching a campaign initiative to monitor the content of political speeches at the public meetings in the...

Former GWI driver jailed for causing death on Mandela Avenue

Apr 21, 2015 KNews Court Stories, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Former GWI driver jailed for causing death on Mandela Avenue

City Magistrate Judy Latchman sentenced a former Guyana Water Incorporated (GWI) driver to 60 months imprisonment, after he was found guilty of causing death by dangerous driving at the conclusion of...

Psychiatric evaluation ordered after man pleads guilty to murder

Apr 21, 2015 KNews Court Stories, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Psychiatric evaluation ordered after man pleads guilty to murder

Psychiatric evaluation has been ordered pending the sentence of murder accused, Gilbert Gill, called “Bizen Bull.” Gill pleaded guilty to the capital offence after he appeared before Justice...

It would be interesting to see Marriott’s code of ethics

Apr 21, 2015 KNews Letters Comments Off on It would be interesting to see Marriott’s code of ethics

DEAR EDITOR, The Marriott has opened its doors to the public – national and international. It represents another lie on the part of the government that it was built by investors; the nation...

I call upon the police to take appropriate action

Apr 21, 2015 KNews Letters Comments Off on I call upon the police to take appropriate action

DEAR EDITOR, It has been brought to my attention by some friends and supporters of the APNU+AFC Coalition that a handful of persons of African descent have been threatening our brothers and sisters...

It is hoped that voters will see the PPP/C Govt. as one of false promises

Apr 21, 2015 KNews Letters Comments Off on It is hoped that voters will see the PPP/C Govt. as one of false promises

DEAR EDITOR, As Guyana approaches its general election on May 11, I would like to share some views with my fellow Guyanese as to why a APNU+AFC-led Government offers the best hope to get the country...

Where do Guyanese get off?

Apr 21, 2015 KNews Letters Comments Off on Where do Guyanese get off?

DEAR EDITOR, It is really very sad to see so many people at the rallies of the PPP. One can only ask if these persons read the newspapers and listen to the news, because the PPP has been...

The PPP/C’s system is filled with bugs – big ones

Apr 21, 2015 KNews Letters Comments Off on The PPP/C’s system is filled with bugs – big ones

DEAR EDITOR, To entice Guyanese voters in 2011, the PPP/C released their plan to redesign their governance of Guyana with version 2.0. And so they should. The versions 1.0 thru 1.9 did not...

A serious distortion on the PPP policy of “critical support”

Apr 21, 2015 KNews Letters Comments Off on A serious distortion on the PPP policy of “critical support”

DEAR EDITOR, In a letter to the Stabroek News on 17/4/15 (‘Revisionist History’), Justice Charles Ramson makes the astonishing claim that “critical support” was given by the PPP to the PNC...

The face of Guyana’s leadership needs to be changed

Apr 21, 2015 KNews Letters Comments Off on The face of Guyana’s leadership needs to be changed

DEAR EDITOR, Having compared the campaign speeches of the leaders of the PPP and the APNU+AFC Coalition, we have noticed that a common trend has unfolded within the PPP. While the leaders of the...

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Kaieteur News- A teenager of Tabatinga, Lethem, Central Rupununi, Region Nine was arrested for murder on Friday after he... more