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Colombia condemns Venezuela’s South China Sea-style territory grab

Jun 23, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Colombia condemns Venezuela’s South China Sea-style territory grab

Following protests from Guyana that the socialist Venezuelan Government is attempting to usurp international waters for itself, the Colombian government issued a statement over the weekend rejecting...

Three schoolgirls pregnant, administration concerned

Jun 23, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Three schoolgirls pregnant, administration concerned

Three 15-year-old Onderneeming, Sand Pit, teenagers are reportedly pregnant and have since dropped out of school. One of the three former Johanna Cecilia Secondary School students has recently...

Non-Pariel carpenter bludgeoned to death

Jun 23, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Non-Pariel carpenter bludgeoned to death

The hunt is on for two men who bludgeoned a young carpenter to death on Sunday in what is being treated as a robbery. Raghunandan Persaud, 27, of Non Pareil was pronounced dead on arrival at the...

Theoretical implications of the 2015 election results

Jun 23, 2015 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on Theoretical implications of the 2015 election results

The district by district voting of the 2015 elections results have been published online by GECOM. It will surprise the lay person but those in the media who were familiar with some of the Statements...

Driver in a hurry sparks three-vehicle crash

Jun 23, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Driver in a hurry sparks three-vehicle crash

The driver of a red Toyota motor car bearing number plate PGG 1398 almost lost his life yesterday when he collided with two other motor vehicles on the intersection of Camp and New Market Streets....

Man calls for investigation after son, 7, nearly drowned outside school

Jun 23, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Man calls for investigation after son, 7, nearly drowned outside school

When Seshnarayan Dwarka received a call that his seven-year-old son had nearly drowned and was hospitalized, his heart momentarily stopped. Since then, the boy has been recovering, but the father is...

Minister of Governance to launch probe into mining pit deaths

Jun 23, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Minister of Governance to launch probe into mining pit deaths

Raphael Trotman is to launch an inquiry into the collapse of mining pits which resulted in deaths and injuries to miners. A release from the Ministry of the Presidency stated that a multi-stakeholder...

Termination of GPHC’s Matron…CEO seeking legal advice on way forward

Jun 23, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Termination of GPHC’s Matron…CEO seeking legal advice on way forward

Legal advice is being sought by Chief Executive Officer of the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC), Michael Khan, to determine the way forward in dealing with the termination of the...

‘Authority’ will be set up to liaise with FIU

Jun 23, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on ‘Authority’ will be set up to liaise with FIU

…to combat money laundering By Abena Rockcliffe The Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU) will undergo some major changes. Those changes will take effect after the passage of the Anti-Money...

Watchdog group says…Transparency must be priority for new govt.

Jun 23, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Watchdog group says…Transparency must be priority for new govt.

– Urges more participation from citizenry Whether the new APNU+AFC coalition government makes decisions that are pleasing to the citizenry or not, it is paramount that a level of transparency...

President meets contractor of US$150M airport expansion

Jun 23, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on President meets contractor of US$150M airport expansion

President David Granger yesterday met with top officials of the China Harbour Engineering Company Ltd. (CHEC), the Chinese company currently engaged in the US$150M airport expansion project at...

THE VEHICLE SCAM

Jun 23, 2015 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on THE VEHICLE SCAM

There is at present an investigation into fraud allegations at the Public Service Ministry. The police have reportedly been called in to investigate suspicious transfers of vehicles owned by the...

Handyman goes on trial for Meten-Meer-Zorg murder

Jun 23, 2015 KNews Court Stories, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Handyman goes on trial for Meten-Meer-Zorg murder

A mixed twelve-member jury has been selected before Justice Navindra Singh at the High Court in Georgetown to oversee the murder trial of Andrew Ketwaroo. Ketwaroo is indicted for the murder of his...

Anil Nandlall objects

Jun 23, 2015 KNews Letters Comments Off on Anil Nandlall objects

DEAR EDITOR, The Press is regarded as the fourth estate in modern democracies. It wields as much power and influence as the three branches of Government. Therefore, it logically follows that like the...

Using commemorative occasions for the wrong reasons

Jun 23, 2015 KNews Letters Comments Off on Using commemorative occasions for the wrong reasons

DEAR EDITOR, It was very unfortunate and sad that for the Enmore Martyrs’ Commemoration we witnessed two different sets of persons saying different things. The People’s Progressive Party on one...

We will be ready for the oil boom, only if…

Jun 23, 2015 KNews Letters Comments Off on We will be ready for the oil boom, only if…

DEAR EDITOR, It is quite astonishing the manner in which the capability of the University of Guyana to produce locally-bred scholars who can go on to adequately filling technical fields has for long...

Crime problem solvable: The police need more ex-offenders to help

Jun 23, 2015 KNews Letters Comments Off on Crime problem solvable: The police need more ex-offenders to help

DEAR EDITOR, The police force desperately needs more persons like Lennox Wayne. Mr. Wayne is the alleged police informant who was supplying the police with information on planned robberies and the...

There must be the political will to agree that GuySuCo cannot be business as usual

Jun 23, 2015 KNews Letters Comments Off on There must be the political will to agree that GuySuCo cannot be business as usual

DEAR EDITOR, I refer to an article captioned “GuySuCo bailouts unsustainable – Ram” carried in June 22 edition of the Stabroek News, and fully agree that in the current circumstance of the...

Something for the Police Force to consider

Jun 23, 2015 KNews Letters Comments Off on Something for the Police Force to consider

DEAR EDITOR, I was driving along the famous Number Nineteen Road around 10:00 hours on Sunday 21st June 2015. Along my way I was given signals by the oncoming traffic that police were on the road, so...

Accountability: The key to effective citizenship

Jun 23, 2015 KNews Letters Comments Off on Accountability: The key to effective citizenship

DEAR EDITOR, A range of laws and mechanisms are being considered for fast-track implementation to address the manifold forms of corruption which flourished over the past decade. However, once we...

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KARCC hails 2025 Guyana-Suriname Group Ride a massive success

The burden of proof rests on the asserting party

Peeping Tom… Kaieteur News- In recent days there have been serious assertions made and associations implied without... more