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Guyanese traffickers recruit minors as ‘mules’ to Brazil

May 19, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Guyanese traffickers recruit minors as ‘mules’ to Brazil

Brazil (http://www.folhabv.com.br) -Guyanese traffickers are recruiting Brazilian adolescents to serve the drug trade. Young people, most of Bonfim, Normandy and Boa Vista, get up to £150 per trip....

National Awards to resume – Granger vows

May 19, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on National Awards to resume – Granger vows

The new Government is set to resume National Awards this year. Speaking to members of staff at the Office of the President, President David Granger vowed to keep up the tradition. “Even if it’s...

Another mining pit caves in, miner hospitalized

May 19, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Another mining pit caves in, miner hospitalized

A 34-year-old miner, Clive Robinson, is now a patient in the male surgical ward of the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC), following a mishap last Tuesday at a Sand Hill mining pit in...

Is Government the problem?

May 19, 2015 KNews Editorial Comments Off on Is Government the problem?

Whether it is true or not, it is said that Guyana’s small population of 748,000 has been a definite advantage to its economic development. The country is endowed with the conditions and resources...

OP to be renamed Ministry of the Presidency

May 19, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on OP to be renamed Ministry of the Presidency

– Harmon to be Minister-in-Charge Changes are evident. Among his first order of business on the first Monday at work, President David Granger yesterday signaled intentions to designate the...

THE COALITION WON BECAUSE THE AFC HELD ITS SUPPORT BASE

May 19, 2015 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on THE COALITION WON BECAUSE THE AFC HELD ITS SUPPORT BASE

People tend to be gullible towards political rhetoric. Many of them therefore are going to believe that Guyanese voted for change in the 2015 General and Regional Elections; this is however far from...

K/News daily online readership breaks 300,000 mark

May 19, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on K/News daily online readership breaks 300,000 mark

Last week’s General and Regional elections attracted a massive amount of attention both locally and internationally. Citizens were glued to the breaking online news for developments with readership...

GTU suspends industrial action for debunching money – Lyte

May 19, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on GTU suspends industrial action for debunching money – Lyte

– hopes to have dialogue with new Govt. to discuss issue Two weeks ago the Guyana Teachers Union (GTU) made a decision to have its membership commence industrial action. The intent was to...

The nation ‘put him out like a boss’…Ramotar vacates State House

May 19, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on The nation ‘put him out like a boss’…Ramotar vacates State House

The ‘Vote like a Boss’ campaign which took social media by storm last week urging everyone to vote in the National and Regional elections last week resulted in the APNU/AFC Coalition winning the...

Losing elections: The invincibility code

May 19, 2015 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on Losing elections: The invincibility code

I doubt very much that any scholar can do justice to an analysis of the loss of power by the PPP in just one book. My feeling is that it will take more than one volume. The story is a complex one. It...

Transition sub-team meets heads of NCN, GINA and Chronicle…

May 19, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Transition sub-team meets heads of NCN, GINA and Chronicle…

‘Our fears have been confirmed’- Mark Archer By Abena Rockcliffe As the new government gets the transformational show on the road, a sub-squad of the team that has been set up to oversee the...

More congratulations messages

May 19, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on More congratulations messages

Berbice Chamber offers support The President, Executives and Members of the Berbice Chamber of Commerce and Development Association wish to extend Warm Congratulations to His Excellency President,...

Brazil congratulates new Government

May 19, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Brazil congratulates new Government

Making it clear that it was the first country to congratulate Guyana on the recently held elections, the Government of Brazil in a statement issued yesterday extended congratulations to “friendly...

Shaquille Grant murder …Forensic analysis for gun powder residue were negative

May 19, 2015 KNews Court Stories, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Shaquille Grant murder …Forensic analysis for gun powder residue were negative

Detective Shawn Critchlow concluded his portion of evidence, in the murder trial of Police Constable, Terrence Wallace. Wallace is on trial for the murder of 17-year-old Shaquille Grant. Grant was...

Ogle airport bust…Surinamese arrested for drug trafficking

May 19, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Ogle airport bust…Surinamese arrested for drug trafficking

Days after two Guyanese females were busted with cocaine at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport, 22-year-old Surinamese national, Damario Cheslie, was arrested on Sunday, May 17, after 214 grams...

Cocaine busts at CJIA lands women in court

May 19, 2015 KNews Court Stories, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Cocaine busts at CJIA lands women in court

Two women yesterday appeared before Chief Magistrate Priya Sewnarine-Beharry to answer to drug trafficking charges. Vanessa Harper, 30, of Plaisance, East Coast Demerara and Nanda Ali, 39, of...

Open letter to Mr. Ramotar – Leader of the Opposition

May 19, 2015 KNews Letters Comments Off on Open letter to Mr. Ramotar – Leader of the Opposition

DEAR MR. RAMOTAR, Taking your office as the new Leader of the Opposition, it is our responsibility to remind you that you are being allowed the important task of representing the will of 202,694...

Expose this fraud

May 19, 2015 KNews Letters Comments Off on Expose this fraud

DEAR EDITOR, The PPP fraudulently manipulated the census in 2002 to show a decline in the Indo population from 51.9% to 43%. They desperately wanted to change the party’s unpopular reputation of...

I salute the African Guyanese Sisterin and Brethren

May 19, 2015 KNews Letters Comments Off on I salute the African Guyanese Sisterin and Brethren

DEAR EDITOR, The APNU-AFC Coalition’s victory was made possible by the priceless contributions of Guyanese of all ethnicities and social class. Women and men voted and gave moral and practical...

Government must attend to the poor

May 19, 2015 KNews Letters Comments Off on Government must attend to the poor

DEAR EDITOR, Every party in every one of our elections campaigned with a promise to lift the lives of poor from the bottom of society to middle class status. But once in office, the poor are far...

We the People

May 19, 2015 KNews Letters Comments Off on We the People

Dear Editor, We the people of this great land spoke in unison on May 11, 2015 and had declared that the time had come to free our country from the corrupt, greedy and misguided politicians that have...

Restoring unity and building the nation

May 19, 2015 KNews Letters Comments Off on Restoring unity and building the nation

Dear Excellency, Mr. David Granger, I believe that no one party or race can build a prosperous Guyana. It is this notion of working collectively that should spur you and your administration to...

This is a victory for ALL Guyana

May 19, 2015 KNews Letters Comments Off on This is a victory for ALL Guyana

DEAR EDITOR, Permit me to congratulate my fellow Guyanese brothers and sisters on this propitious occasion – the swearing-in of the 8th Executive President of the Co-operative Republic of Guyana,...