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Eleven buried alive in mining pit disaster

May 18, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Eleven buried alive in mining pit disaster

– seven injured Eleven miners are feared buried under tons of rock and mud after the wall of a pit collapsed at Mowasi Backdam, Essequibo, at around 14.00 hrs yesterday. Seven others were...

If you do the crime; you have to do the time

May 18, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on If you do the crime; you have to do the time

– President David Granger (Part two) Prior to being sworn in on Saturday last, President David Granger sat down with a Kaieteur News reporter at his D’Urban Backlands abode for almost two hours,...

Dem boys seh…Watch how dem prostitute does jump ship

May 18, 2015 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Dem boys seh…Watch how dem prostitute does jump ship

Old people got a saying, when you see a rat running fuh jump off a ship, you run behind it. It is sinking. Plenty people do wha dem rat do. From de time dem hear de announcement that Donald ship get...

Hundreds rush to squat on lands behind Diamond Scheme

May 18, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Hundreds rush to squat on lands behind Diamond Scheme

– new govt. warns occupation unauthorized, illegal In cars, on bicycles, and on foot, and armed with brush-cutters and cutlasses, hundreds of men, women and even children converged on a...

School attendance expected to return to normal

May 18, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on School attendance expected to return to normal

A week after what was recorded to be an historic election, school attendance is expected to return to normal. Last week, schools around Guyana had recorded very poor attendances as parents opted to...

GMSA congratulates new President, David Granger

May 18, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on GMSA congratulates new President, David Granger

The Guyana Manufacturing & Services Association (GMSA) Ltd extends congratulations to our President, David Granger MSc MSM MSS on being elected to the Executive Presidency of Guyana. We also...

Restoration of Independence arch, City drainage cleanup commences

May 18, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Restoration of Independence arch, City drainage cleanup commences

In one of the new Government’s first order of business, the Municipality of Georgetown, in conjunction with the Government and private investors, yesterday embarked on the restoration of the...

BCB congratulates new government

May 18, 2015 KNews Sports Comments Off on BCB congratulates new government

The President, Executive and Members of the Berbice Cricket Board (BCB) has extended congratulations to the APNU/AFC Coalition on their election to Government for the next five years. A release from...

New Government must use opportunity to redirect our youths’ energies

May 18, 2015 KNews Sports Comments Off on New Government must use opportunity to redirect our youths’ energies

By Rawle Welch ‘It is time tell them this is our time,’ should be the outcry of every young athlete in this nation as we usher in a new government, one that it is hoped will exhibit more care and...

Slain activist’s relatives hope for justice under new government

May 18, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Slain activist’s relatives hope for justice under new government

– believe assassination galvanized coalition supporters Almost three months after riddling him with bullets as he campaigned with a bull-horn, the killers of political activist Courtney...

A Guyana void of poverty, corruption and nepotism awaits – Ramkarran

May 18, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on A Guyana void of poverty, corruption and nepotism awaits – Ramkarran

By Abena Rockcliffe Former Speaker of the National Assembly, Ralph Ramkarran is saying that now that the elections dust is settled and the People’s Progressive Party/Civic (PPP/C) has been...

Entries for Enterprise SC softball close on May 21

May 18, 2015 KNews Sports Comments Off on Entries for Enterprise SC softball close on May 21

Entries for the Enterprise Busta Sports Club Independence softball competition will close on May 21. The tournament will be played on May 26 at Enterprise and action gets underway at 09:00 hrs. Eight...

LGC extends congratulations to President Granger

May 18, 2015 KNews Sports Comments Off on LGC extends congratulations to President Granger

The Lusignan Golf Club (LGC) has extended congratulations to His Excellency, the President Mr. David Arthur Granger, 8th President of the Cooperative Republic of Guyana. In a congratulatory missive...

Housing Ministry denies locking out Irfaan Ali

May 18, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Housing Ministry denies locking out Irfaan Ali

The Ministry of Housing and Water has denied that it had locked out former Minister Irfaan Ali from the Brickdam building. The Ministry recently issued a statement in response to reports that the...

Looking forward with a new administration

May 18, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Looking forward with a new administration

Brigadier (R’td) David Granger was sworn in as Guyana’s eighth Executive President on Saturday afternoon, and with that a new future for Guyanese to look forward to under A Partnership for...

Guyana elections attract Regional, Int’l buzz

May 18, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Guyana elections attract Regional, Int’l buzz

As most of Guyana returns to some semblance of normalcy it has become obvious that the 2015 General and Regional elections proved to have garnered buzz not only in our 83,000 square miles but outside...

One in custody following robbery, murder of overseas-based Guyanese

May 18, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on One in custody following robbery, murder of overseas-based Guyanese

One man who is said to be a prime suspect is in custody as police continue their investigation into the brutal robbery/murder that took the life of an overseas-based Guyanese on Thursday evening. The...

Wanted bulletin for Sophia girl’s alleged killer

May 18, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Wanted bulletin for Sophia girl’s alleged killer

Police are seeking the help of the public to locate Shivanand Roopnarine, called ‘Shiv’ or ‘Tuck,’ in connection with the April 19 murder of 18-year-old Alicia Mc Pherson at B Field, Sophia....

13-year-old raped, impregnated by stepfather

May 18, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on 13-year-old raped, impregnated by stepfather

Yet another 13-year old girl from Guyana’s interior has been raped and impregnated. Reports reaching this newspaper stated that police at Lethem have arrested the stepfather of the teenager who...

EVERYTHING IERE

May 18, 2015 KNews Features / Columnists, Tony Deyal column Comments Off on EVERYTHING IERE

I read a lot as a youngster—consumed and devoured books by the day – and loved to torment a couple of my teachers with the saying I had picked up somewhere in the library, “Those who can, do. ...

The PPP’s untergang: Deconstructing the concept of evil

May 18, 2015 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on The PPP’s untergang: Deconstructing the concept of evil

This is what I wrote at the end of my Friday, May 15, 2015 column; “What went on in Guyana from 1999 to May 2015 was a Faustian journey into the pits of evil.” The word “evil” has a banal...

THERE IS NO IMPEDIMENT TO THE IMMEDIATE APPOINTMENT OF A PRIME MINISTER

May 18, 2015 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on THERE IS NO IMPEDIMENT TO THE IMMEDIATE APPOINTMENT OF A PRIME MINISTER

A honeymoon is an important period in any marriage. It is time for a new type of discovery between the married parties. Every new government deserves a honeymoon, particularly when the new...

Barcelona wrap up 23rd La Liga crown with Messi goal

May 18, 2015 KNews Sports Comments Off on Barcelona wrap up 23rd La Liga crown with Messi goal

(Reuters) MADRID – Treble-chasing Barcelona are La Liga champions for the fifth time in seven years after a clinical Lionel Messi strike secured a 1-0 victory away to Atletico Madrid that...

GECOM’s Keith Lowenfield saved Guyana

May 18, 2015 KNews Letters Comments Off on GECOM’s Keith Lowenfield saved Guyana

Dear Editor, The position I hold at the time in 2011, I still hold today – Gocool Boodoo should have been investigated by a parliamentary committee when he calculated the election results wrongly...

Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce, LaShawn Merritt struggle in Shanghai

May 18, 2015 KNews Sports Comments Off on Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce, LaShawn Merritt struggle in Shanghai

Yahoo Sport – Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce and LaShawn Merritt continued early season struggles relative to their top rivals in a Diamond League meet in Shanghai yesterday. Fraser-Pryce, the Olympic...

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Land, taxes and penalties

Peeping Tom… Kaieteur News-The American humorist Will Rogers once remarked that the best investment on earth is earth... more