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GWR hosts successful civic fundraiser

May 07, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on GWR hosts successful civic fundraiser

…Monies to fund buses for elections day transportation By Desilon Daniels For many persons, Elections Day can prove to be extremely taxing; at each polling station, hundreds of persons gather from...

Private, national security forces gear up for Elections

May 07, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Private, national security forces gear up for Elections

Private and national security forces are gearing up for the impending May 11 General and Regional Elections, as the Guyana Association of Private Security Organisations (GAPSO) recently completed a...

APNU+AFC take PPP/C ads to task

May 07, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on APNU+AFC take PPP/C ads to task

…says budget cuts were to protect taxpayers from corrupt projects Noting the widespread circulation of advertisements claiming that the Opposition is anti-development, the recently formed...

Drunken neighbour almost severs farmer’s arm

May 07, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Drunken neighbour almost severs farmer’s arm

A farmer almost lost a limb following a cutlass attack by drunken neighbours in the Kuru Kururu Third Creek area. Injured is 20-year-old Brian Waddell, who was dealt a single chop to his left arm...

THE MAD RUSH FOR RATIONS

May 07, 2015 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on THE MAD RUSH FOR RATIONS

I saw it in 2011 and I am seeing it again. The shoppers are emptying the supermarkets of Guyana as Election Day nears. There are three types of businesses that do amazingly well at election time. The...

APNU’s Chief Whip supporting teachers’ industrial action

May 07, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on APNU’s Chief Whip supporting teachers’ industrial action

Although unwilling to pronounce on whether A Partnership for National Unity and the Alliance for Change (APNU+AFC) Coalition will ensure that teachers are afforded their debunching monies if elected...

Boy, 10, abused by presidential guard

May 07, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Boy, 10, abused by presidential guard

…residents forced to intervene More than a year of alleged child abuse came to a head on Tuesday evening, when residents of Crane, West Coast Demerara, were forced to intervene as a 10-year old boy...

Man shot on Broad Street

May 07, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Man shot on Broad Street

Security Guard, Omesh Singh, 38, of 259 Third Street, Herstelling, is now nursing a single gunshot wound to his left arm. Kaieteur News understands that Singh was shot sometime after 23:00hrs...

‘#Justice4Teresa’ campaign launched as family promises legal action against hospital

May 07, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on ‘#Justice4Teresa’ campaign launched as family promises legal action against hospital

Teresa Lalltoo, the mother who gave birth to a 3.2kg dead baby girl on Monday, April 20, last, at 1:50am at the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC), with the support of her family will be...

Police arrest three for businesswoman’s murder

May 07, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Police arrest three for businesswoman’s murder

Three men were reportedly arrested and are in police custody for the murder of Linden businesswoman, Shevon Gordon. Forty-five-year-old Gordon, of Block 22, Wismar, Linden, was shot by two armed men...

Canadian University recognizes Sir Ronald Sanders

May 07, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Canadian University recognizes Sir Ronald Sanders

Antigua and Barbuda diplomatist, writer and academic, Sir Ronald Sanders, has been elected as a Senior Fellow at Massey College in the University of Toronto. The announcement of his election was made...

Essequibo’s oldest is 105

May 07, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Essequibo’s oldest is 105

May Garraway is not in the best of health today but attaining another milestone on Sunday, was a welcome blessing for both she and her family. Her daughter, Joyce Garraway, said that her mother is...

Sophia murder suspect still to be apprehended, family demands answers

May 07, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Sophia murder suspect still to be apprehended, family demands answers

…as reported sightings of suspect surface Shivanand Roopnarine allegedly snapped and stabbed his girlfriend, Alicia McPherson, some 41 times about the face and body and left her to die next to the...

Contracts and corruption

May 07, 2015 KNews Editorial, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Contracts and corruption

The right of a government to award contracts has never been questioned. As a matter of fact, contracts are integral to national development. But there are means of awarding contracts. The law states...

Digicel launches ‘Top Up’ app

May 07, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Digicel launches ‘Top Up’ app

Digicel yesterday announced the official launch of its convenient Top Up App which it says delivers a fast, reliable and convenient way for customers from abroad to send minutes to their family and...

Sacking of Bheri Ramsaran: A theoretical note

May 07, 2015 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on Sacking of Bheri Ramsaran: A theoretical note

There have been countless Indian intellectuals and Indian politicians who have explained to the Indian people of this country that if they continue to give the PPP an electoral blank cheque, the PPP...

Doobay murder trial ends in hung jury

May 07, 2015 KNews Court Stories, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Doobay murder trial ends in hung jury

After lengthy deliberations, members of the jury failed to reach a verdict, yesterday, against the man accused of killing Sherwaney Doobay. The accused will now likely face another trial at an...

Shaquille Grant murder trial gets underway

May 07, 2015 KNews Court Stories, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Shaquille Grant murder trial gets underway

The murder trial of Police Constable, Terrence Wallace, has begun. The trial commenced before Justice Navindra Singh at the High Court in Georgetown, yesterday. Wallace is charged with the murder of...

This so-called swami sees an ethnic factor in all political dynamics

May 07, 2015 KNews Letters Comments Off on This so-called swami sees an ethnic factor in all political dynamics

DEAR EDITOR, There is a third letter from Aksharananda (“Who in the coalition will speak for Indians?” SN, May 4) and the pattern is confirmed. He is penning the most distorted sociological...

Which party should govern for the next five years?

May 07, 2015 KNews Letters Comments Off on Which party should govern for the next five years?

DEAR EDITOR, As Guyanese go to the Polls on May 11 to elect a new Government, they should weigh the choice of continued increase in crime, corruption, nepotism and economic decline under a PPP/C-led...

We must multiply the effort to bring good governance to Guyana

May 07, 2015 KNews Letters Comments Off on We must multiply the effort to bring good governance to Guyana

DEAR EDITOR, In 1926, Hubert Nathaniel Critchlow and other Caribbean trade union leaders began the fight for every person at the age of 21 to be given the right to vote; the chance to vote. Every...

Shouldn’t it be Mothers’ Day?

May 07, 2015 KNews Letters Comments Off on Shouldn’t it be Mothers’ Day?

DEAR EDITOR, In a couple of days we will be observing Mothers’ Day, much to the delight and excitement of not only mothers, but of children, husbands, friends and all. It is indeed a special day. I...

Such views may have an impact on our social progress

May 07, 2015 KNews Letters Comments Off on Such views may have an impact on our social progress

DEAR EDITOR, I truly and deeply pity Ryhaan Shah for the way she defines herself in her letter published yesterday. She traps herself in her Indian self — one small part of her DNA — her narrowly...

200 duty-free BaiShanLin trucks pushing us out of business

May 07, 2015 KNews Letters Comments Off on 200 duty-free BaiShanLin trucks pushing us out of business

DEAR EDITOR, It’s beginning to get increasingly obvious that our Chinese friends at BaiShanLin are being allowed to monopolise several of our industries with the help of the current administration....

Young people have to play their part in forging change

May 07, 2015 KNews Letters Comments Off on Young people have to play their part in forging change

DEAR EDITOR, For the first time in Guyana, our youth make up over 60% of the electorate. This means that persons between the ages of 18 and 35 hold Guyana’s future in their hands. They must use...

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…Peeping Tom Kaieteur News- No one, not even the staunchest supporters of Guyana’s electoral process, would claim... more