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Motorcyclist killed in Father’s Day collision

Jun 22, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Motorcyclist killed in Father’s Day collision

An early morning accident shattered the Father’s Day celebrations for the Tularam clan of Unity Mahaica, East Coast Demerara (ECD), when it resulted in the death of one family member. Anand...

2015 HERO C’BEAN PREMIER LEAGUE – MATCH REPORT 2: St. Lucia ‘Zouks’ and Trinidad & Tobago ‘Red Steel’ play to ‘No Result’

Jun 22, 2015 KNews Sports Comments Off on 2015 HERO C’BEAN PREMIER LEAGUE – MATCH REPORT 2: St. Lucia ‘Zouks’ and Trinidad & Tobago ‘Red Steel’ play to ‘No Result’

Both teams get a point CPL – Gros Islet, St Lucia: The St. Lucia Zouks and Trinidad & Tobago Red Steel got their Hero Caribbean Premier League underway, but unfortunately a game that was well...

GRPA head unfazed by calls for his removal

Jun 22, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on GRPA head unfazed by calls for his removal

With farmers on the Essequibo Coast once again mounting protests last Friday calling for drastic changes in the local rice sector, Dharamkumar Seeraj, General Secretary of the Guyana Rice...

The Cummingsburg Accord is not cast in stone – PM Nagamootoo

Jun 22, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on The Cummingsburg Accord is not cast in stone – PM Nagamootoo

“Things are going to be dynamic as we go along and we have to look at the dynamics of the situation. I cannot allow myself to fall into a modus of pettiness where I just say, ‘oh, I was promised...

Brazil into last eight at Copa America

Jun 22, 2015 KNews Sports Comments Off on Brazil into last eight at Copa America

BBC Sport – Thiago Silva and Roberto Firmino scored in each half to seal Brazil’s place at the quarter-final stage of the Copa America as they defeated Venezuela 2-1. Silva volleyed home a...

Ophthalmology Center to restart operations today

Jun 22, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Ophthalmology Center to restart operations today

The National Ophthalmology hospital, located in Port Mourant, Berbice, Region Six, is once again set to open its doors to the public. The hospital was forced to cease operations because of damage...

Orealla, a community with great tourism potential

Jun 22, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Orealla, a community with great tourism potential

Located on the Corentyne River, Orealla or Orealla Mission can be found approximately 50 miles South of Crabwood Creek on the Corentyne Coast, Region Six. This community overlooks neighbouring...

Rosberg gets the jump on Hamilton in Austria

Jun 22, 2015 KNews Sports Comments Off on Rosberg gets the jump on Hamilton in Austria

SPIELBERG, Austria (Reuters) Nico Rosberg won the Austrian Grand Prix for the second year in a row on Sunday with his championship-leading Mercedes team mate Lewis Hamilton losing out at the start...

Minister Allicock and team visit Baramita in outreach exercise

Jun 22, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Minister Allicock and team visit Baramita in outreach exercise

The new Ministry of Indigenous People’s Affairs is determined to bring a new dimension, towards understanding and addressing indigenous people’s development at the grass root level. Community...

Diamond couple gets Father’s Day surprise

Jun 22, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Diamond couple gets Father’s Day surprise

The Grove/Diamond Community Policing Group yesterday teamed up with ranks of the Golden Grove Police Station to make the lives of two senior citizens easier on Father’s Day. Laurie Evans Greenidge,...

Nocturnal escapades in a post-dictatorship city

Jun 22, 2015 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on Nocturnal escapades in a post-dictatorship city

There are things in tiny populated Georgetown that are public secrets. The smallness of space and population makes this possible. The fallen dictators loved la dolce vita. They could be seen in...

Govt. must start from ground up to fight corruption – TIGI President

Jun 22, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Govt. must start from ground up to fight corruption – TIGI President

By Desilon Daniels If the new coalition government is serious about fighting corruption, it will need to do so from the ground level, said recently inducted President of the Transparency Institute...

JUST GREHLIN

Jun 22, 2015 KNews Features / Columnists, Tony Deyal column Comments Off on JUST GREHLIN

Whoever said life has its ups and downs was referring more to my weight than my fate. I am a yo-yo or hi-lo dieter, constantly up and down the food and supermarket chains. Recently, when I...

Why change a law that does not need to be changed?

Jun 22, 2015 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on Why change a law that does not need to be changed?

There has been a call for the former Home Affairs Minister, Balram Singh Rai, to receive his parliamentary pension. He must be one special man for the laws of the country to be changed to accommodate...

The Charleston shootings clearly fit the definition of terror

Jun 22, 2015 KNews Letters Comments Off on The Charleston shootings clearly fit the definition of terror

Dear Editor, The recent killings of nine congregants in a church in South Carolina once more typifies a well-known fact , that mass shootings have become a banal fact of death in America. Nine...

Some authoritarian efforts needed to correct a troubling PPP legacy

Jun 22, 2015 KNews Letters Comments Off on Some authoritarian efforts needed to correct a troubling PPP legacy

Dear Editor, M Maxwell’s letter Tuesday June 2, 2015 Stabroek News, constructs sentiments, stating that at this time in our History, a national cadet corps programme is not appropriate. M. Maxwell...

Guyana’s Private Sector has to look itself in the mirror and become part of the solution

Jun 22, 2015 KNews Letters Comments Off on Guyana’s Private Sector has to look itself in the mirror and become part of the solution

Dear Editor, Much has been recently reported about a business slowdown in Guyana which began during the election cycle and has not changed since the election of the new government. Some analysts seek...

Still looking for real change in Mabaruma

Jun 22, 2015 KNews Letters Comments Off on Still looking for real change in Mabaruma

Dear Editor, The elections have come and gone and a new Government is in place. We, who were in the struggle over the years of PPP dictatorship, voted for CHANGE. It is therefore not rude of us...

Is Mr. Jagdeo’s day of reckoning coming soon?

Jun 22, 2015 KNews Editorial Comments Off on Is Mr. Jagdeo’s day of reckoning coming soon?

The nation waits with baited breath as former President Bharrat Jagdeo and his phalanx of lawyers trek to the Whim Magistrates’ Court today to answer charges of alleged racism. All eyes will be on...

Massive Customs fraud taking place with BaiShanLin’s Wamara logs export – Bulkan

Jun 21, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Massive Customs fraud taking place with BaiShanLin’s Wamara logs export – Bulkan

A prominent forestry expert has warned of a massive Customs fraud taking place in exports of Wamara logs to China. In a letter published yesterday in Kaieteur News, Janette Bulkan said that public...

“Illegal” transfers of state vehicle …Westford says transactions were done since 2010

Jun 21, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on “Illegal” transfers of state vehicle …Westford says transactions were done since 2010

…evidence suggests otherwise Former Public Service Minister, Dr Jennifer Westford, has said that she does not know why she is being implicated in the transferral of state assets to private...

Biker dead, friend critical in LBI accident

Jun 21, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Biker dead, friend critical in LBI accident

A night of adventure ended in tragedy for two friends yesterday, one of whom lost his life while the other remains critical at the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC). According to reports,...

Gunmen invade Western Union outlet, shoot proprietor

Jun 21, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Gunmen invade Western Union outlet, shoot proprietor

Gordon Nestor, 53, is now nursing a gunshot wound to his left leg, after armed bandits stormed an Internet Café and Western Union Outlet at Duncan Street, Georgetown, yesterday and carted off an...

CH&PA had $8B in bank accounts but wanted GGMC $3B loan

Jun 21, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on CH&PA had $8B in bank accounts but wanted GGMC $3B loan

Investigators probing a $3B attempted loan to the Central Housing and Planning Authority from the Guyana Geology and Mines Commission (CH&PA) back in January are questioning the reasons for the...

Soulja Bai got to call Perry Mason

Jun 21, 2015 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Soulja Bai got to call Perry Mason

Last week, Rohee jump up and holler how de new government fool itself when it was in de opposition and now it in de government it continue to fool itself. De statement sound suh nice that before de...