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PPP manifesto fails to address NIS future

Apr 29, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on PPP manifesto fails to address NIS future

– They have no clue what to do- Ram The incumbent People’s Progressive Party/Civic (PPP/C) released its Manifesto on Saturday last with no action plan on how it is going to return the...

Port Kaituma man blames son’s death on doctor’s negligence

Apr 29, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Port Kaituma man blames son’s death on doctor’s negligence

– calls for swift investigation A young Port Kaituma couple, Robin Albert and Onica Atkinson, is mourning the loss of their almost one-year-old son whose death they believe was the direct...

Woman drowns after epileptic attack

Apr 29, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Woman drowns after epileptic attack

The relatives have recovered the body of 28-year-old Ramona Thomas, in the Lower Pomeroon River. The woman reportedly fell overboard and died by drowing. She had been washing clothes when she...

Berbice road collision kills one

Apr 29, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Berbice road collision kills one

Tragedy struck the family of Chester Reddock, also known as ‘Bloop’, when the taxi driver lost control of his vehicle in the wee hours of yesterday morning, slammed into a parked truck and died...

Minister’s ‘slap and strip threats’…“A decent president would have sacked him immediately” – Legal Community

Apr 29, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Minister’s ‘slap and strip threats’…“A decent president would have sacked him immediately” – Legal Community

The recent verbal assault unleashed by Minister of Health, Dr Bheri Ramsaran, on Women’s Rights Activist, Sharlina Nageer, has not only been described as abusive, insulting, threatening and obscene...

Police ordered to “go light” on Speeding and Drunk Driving

Apr 29, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Police ordered to “go light” on Speeding and Drunk Driving

The Guyana Police Force has gone light on traffic offenders in what is being described as a misguided attempt to halt “harassment” by traffic officers. The move has resulted in the drastic...

WHEN IS A THREAT MADE IN LAW?

Apr 29, 2015 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on WHEN IS A THREAT MADE IN LAW?

The Minister of Health did something that he regretted. He said something after he claimed he was provoked. He apologized for his outburst. The matter however did not end there. He has been...

West Berbice man burns wife’s house in tit for tat

Apr 29, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on West Berbice man burns wife’s house in tit for tat

It was a case of tit for tat. First Sharon Bassoo, 37, called ‘Sharon Stone’, a housewife, and her husband, Hilton Bacchus, lived at Golden Fleece, West Coast Berbice. But when the two lived at...

Guyana Red Cross seeks donations for Nepal disaster victims

Apr 29, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Guyana Red Cross seeks donations for Nepal disaster victims

In response to the humanitarian needs following the 7.9 magnitude earthquake that struck Nepal on the 25th April, the International Federation of Red Cross and the Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) has...

Procurement of supplies for the Ministry of Home Affairs

Apr 29, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Procurement of supplies for the Ministry of Home Affairs

Under the Ministry of Home Affairs, bids were opened yesterday at the National Procurement and Tender Administration Board for the procurement of stationery, dietary and miscellaneous supplies for...

When I arrived, I saw just ten persons

Apr 29, 2015 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on When I arrived, I saw just ten persons

When I arrived at the market tarmac at Lusignan on Monday afternoon, there were about ten persons. My role was to introduce Sandra Granger, the wife of David Granger at the public meeting of...

Police probing murder of Jamaican at Kimbia

Apr 29, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Police probing murder of Jamaican at Kimbia

The Guyana Police force has dispatched a team to the Kimbia, Berbice River area following reports that a Jamaican man has been slain there. Police say that details of what transpired at the one-time...

Widening pluralism

Apr 29, 2015 KNews Editorial Comments Off on Widening pluralism

Recent activities in our society raise the question of what sort of morality is guiding our people. Killing without apparent remorse and a tendency to dehumanise each other are only two of the most...

Guyanese ‘Casanova’ shot dead in Trinidad

Apr 29, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Guyanese ‘Casanova’ shot dead in Trinidad

Trinidad (Trinidad Newsday) -LENNOX ‘CHIN’ GIBSON it seems, was a Trini Casanova…a loverman. On Monday, his three girlfriends met each other for the first time outside the Forensic Science...

Utter lawlessness !!!!

Apr 29, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Utter lawlessness !!!!

This road on Harel Street between Lombard and High Streets, was dug up to facilitate repairs to a pipeline and has been left in this state ever since.

Businessman shot in head out of hospital

Apr 29, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Businessman shot in head out of hospital

Shot in the head by robbers last Friday, businessman Fyuse Hussain appears to be making a full recovery and has been discharged from hospital. Relatives said that 64-year-old Hussain, who was being...

Granger pledges safer Bartica

Apr 29, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Granger pledges safer Bartica

…to make it 7th town, Bartica-Potaro road a highway The riverain village in the Cuyuni Mazaruni, Bartica, came alive on Sunday as leaders and thousands of party supporters for the recently formed...

Father, son charged for illegal guns, ammo possession

Apr 29, 2015 KNews Court Stories, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Father, son charged for illegal guns, ammo possession

Two men were brought before the court yesterday to answer to a charge of unlawful possession of firearm and ammunition. Father and son, Michael Sipindhino and Ashel Sipindhino, 21, denied the...

We demand the immediate dismissal of Dr. Ramsaran

Apr 29, 2015 KNews Letters Comments Off on We demand the immediate dismissal of Dr. Ramsaran

DEAR EDITOR, The disrespectful and abusive behaviour of persons in position of leadership in Guyana has been a feature of politics in Guyana for many years. Dr. Bheri Ramsaran’s threats of physical...

Bharrat Jagdeo is the jumbie of the PPP political campaign

Apr 29, 2015 KNews Letters Comments Off on Bharrat Jagdeo is the jumbie of the PPP political campaign

DEAR EDITOR, In this election campaign, we sincerely hope that the electorate has learned a lesson of the PPP dirty politics and its empty and unfilled campaign promises to the people from previous...

Urgent clarifications demanded of GECOM

Apr 29, 2015 KNews Letters Comments Off on Urgent clarifications demanded of GECOM

DEAR EDITOR, Please permit me to seek some urgent clarification from the Chief Election Officer (CEO) of the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM), Mr Keith Lowenfield, on a few critical issues....

KN is not appreciative enough of Freddie Kissoon

Apr 29, 2015 KNews Letters Comments Off on KN is not appreciative enough of Freddie Kissoon

DEAR EDITOR Can you imagine how frustrating it must be for your star columnist, Freddie Kissoon, to get ‘phone calls from people around the country “who do not know about the existence of any...

What are these persons driven by?

Apr 29, 2015 KNews Letters Comments Off on What are these persons driven by?

DEAR EDITOR, Witnessing the recent transformation of Kaieteur News’ columnist Ralph Seeram (From the Diaspora) who has shed his objectivity and has now become a full-blown apologist and cheerleader...

Mr Hamed makes a juvenile assertion

Apr 29, 2015 KNews Letters Comments Off on Mr Hamed makes a juvenile assertion

DEAR EDITOR, I refer to a letter to the editor “Is GRA sleeping?” written by F Hamed and published by your newspaper on April 28th 2015 which implied that something was sinister about New GPC’s...

We need to know and apply more than history

Apr 29, 2015 KNews Letters Comments Off on We need to know and apply more than history

DEAR EDITOR, Much of the Guyanese population and the Guyanese diaspora is inordinately concerned, some to the point of obsession, about history of the behaviours, practices and policies of previous...

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Chilling reminders that we are not safe

Peeping Tom… Kaieteur News- Georgetown was plunged into shock and terror last week after two heinous incidents laid... more