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Vagrancy must be addressed countrywide- new BCCDA President

Jun 04, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Vagrancy must be addressed countrywide- new BCCDA President

Newly installed President of the Berbice Chamber of Commerce and Development Association (BCCDA), Ramroop Rajnauth, has identified the issue of vagrancy as something the current administration must...

Police shoot bandit in face, foil planned robbery

Jun 04, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Police shoot bandit in face, foil planned robbery

A suspected bandit was shot in the face last night after police opened fire when he pointed a gun at them during a confrontation on West Coast Demerara last night. The suspect who was identified as...

Police probe rape of 7-yr-old

Jun 04, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Police probe rape of 7-yr-old

Police are investigating the alleged rape of a seven-year-old Onderneeming, Sand Pitt child by her neighbour. The child has been taken to the Suddie Public Hospital. The suspected perpetrator, who is...

GTU proposes plan to enlighten teachers of “rights and responsibilities”

Jun 04, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on GTU proposes plan to enlighten teachers of “rights and responsibilities”

Even as the Guyana Teachers Unions (GTU) gives assurance that it is prepared to work collaboratively with the Ministry of Education, its President, Mr Mark Lyte, is proposing the implementation of a...

Russian University proposes cooperation in education

Jun 04, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Russian University proposes cooperation in education

Minister of Education, Dr. Rupert Roopnaraine met with a delegation from the Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia, yesterday. The delegation comprised the First Vice-Rector, Professor Evgeny L....

Willful waste of money

Jun 04, 2015 KNews Editorial Comments Off on Willful waste of money

Disclosures that the previous government was dispensing money like a tap dispensing water has indeed come as a shock to the many taxpayers who each day must struggle to make ends meet. One glaring...

Man impregnates Wakapao child

Jun 04, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Man impregnates Wakapao child

The police in Region Two have detained the man who allegedly is responsible for impregnating a 14-year-oldWakapoa teenager. The teen is currently a patient at the Suddie Public Hospital. According to...

Girl stabs friend in the heart, eye during drinking spree

Jun 04, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Girl stabs friend in the heart, eye during drinking spree

A girl has been forced to come to grips with the loss of her right eye, after a night of imbibing alcohol went horribly wrong and she was stabbed to the heart and eye by her friend. Marissa Charlie,...

Dairy vigilante attack…Juveniles among three arrested

Jun 04, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Dairy vigilante attack…Juveniles among three arrested

Days after three youngsters were attacked by a gang of six ‘so-called’ vigilantes in Dairy, last week Wednesday, three men, among them two juveniles, were apprehended by police and taken to...

Guyana is ready to deal with Zika – VCS Director

Jun 04, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Guyana is ready to deal with Zika – VCS Director

As the vector-borne Zika disease continues to spread throughout sections of the Caribbean and South America, Guyana apparently has the capacity to deal with the virus if it makes its way here. This...

Union Head optimistic about needful transformation at UG

Jun 04, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Union Head optimistic about needful transformation at UG

“We are hopeful,” said President of the University of Guyana Workers Union (UGWU), Mr. Bruce Haynes, when asked about his views on the way forward for the tertiary institution under the recently...

Celebrity mega clean up…“City clean-up campaign continues for World Environmental Day”

Jun 04, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Celebrity mega clean up…“City clean-up campaign continues for World Environmental Day”

In keeping with the World Environmental Day on June 5, 2015, the “Let’s keep Georgetown Clean” is hosting a “Celebrity mega clean-up” on June 6. The aim is to tidy along Camp Street...

Ensure level-playing field in local forest industry—Expert urges new Gov’t

Jun 04, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Ensure level-playing field in local forest industry—Expert urges new Gov’t

Mere days after a Minister of Natural Resources was appointed, forestry management expert, Girwar Lalaram, is calling on the new government to accept a series of suggestions aimed at creating a level...

Headmaster accused of fondling female student released on $50,000 bail

Jun 04, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Headmaster accused of fondling female student released on $50,000 bail

As teenage pregnancies reach alarming proportions in Region Nine, largely because of many cases of rape, residents there are concerned that most of the perpetrators are getting off scot free due to...

The disappearance of Chikungunya…Self-prescription sees lowered reported CHIKV cases

Jun 04, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on The disappearance of Chikungunya…Self-prescription sees lowered reported CHIKV cases

By Desilon Daniels A year after Guyana recorded its first confirmed cases of the Chikungunya virus (CHIKV), the virus has seemingly slipped into the shadows. For months, CHIKV made headlines in...

Local aquaculture, environmental programmes reviewed…As part of regional project

Jun 04, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Local aquaculture, environmental programmes reviewed…As part of regional project

The primary stakeholders in fisheries, aquaculture and environment yesterday gathered at the Regency Hotel to give their input on an important assessment project, addressing the issue of improving...

Live streaming of National Assembly sittings to start next week- Canadian High Commissioner

Jun 04, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Live streaming of National Assembly sittings to start next week- Canadian High Commissioner

The ways in which Canada can continue to support Guyana’s sustainable development was one of the issues discussed when High Commissioner Dr. Nicole Giles paid a courtesy call on President David...

The Rodney Commission was born with a political sarcoma

Jun 04, 2015 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on The Rodney Commission was born with a political sarcoma

The Walter Rodney Commission was a con game by the PPP from the beginning. It started with invidious and insidious intentions and by the time it was two-thirds on the way of its journey, the pathways...

Festival City man faces second retrial for killing beautician wife

Jun 04, 2015 KNews Court Stories, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Festival City man faces second retrial for killing beautician wife

Charles Anthony Woolford, is facing his second retrial for the murder of his beautician wife, Latoya Conway-Woolford, before Justice Brassington Reynolds and a mixed twelve -member jury at High Court...

Education Ministry launches probe into students’ sex act at city school

Jun 04, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Education Ministry launches probe into students’ sex act at city school

Sex Education was taken to a troubling level on Monday when students of a city secondary school decided that they would put their knowledge into action. This publication was able to view at least two...

DUE PROCESS IS DUE

Jun 04, 2015 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on DUE PROCESS IS DUE

On election night there was a mini riot in Sophia. The property of a man was set alight by a crowd. The television flashed scenes of the incident. It showed young men jumping up in glee, high fiving...

Police detective recalls discovery of corpse in septic tank

Jun 04, 2015 KNews Court Stories, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Police detective recalls discovery of corpse in septic tank

Trio on trial for murder at Campbellville … Police Detective Kevin Herbert told the court yesterday, that on January 6, 2008, he conducted an investigation, which led to the discovery of...

Man fined for possession of dangerous weapon, resisting arrest

Jun 04, 2015 KNews Court Stories, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Man fined for possession of dangerous weapon, resisting arrest

A man was yesterday given the alternative of spending four weeks in jail or posting a fine of $40,000, after pleading guilty to three offences in the Georgetown Magistrates’ Courts. Levi Williams...

Truck driver charged with Kaneville murder

Jun 04, 2015 KNews Court Stories, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Truck driver charged with Kaneville murder

Magistrate Leron Daly remanded a Kanveille truck driver to prison yesterday, on a charge of murder. Appearing at the Providence Magistrate’s Court, Ryan VanLange, 31, of 96 First Field, Kaneville,...

Man jailed for trafficking cocaine, marijuana

Jun 04, 2015 KNews Court Stories, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Man jailed for trafficking cocaine, marijuana

A drug trafficker was relocated to the Camp Street prison, after he was found guilty of trafficking in a quantity of marijuana and cocaine, when he appeared at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Courts...