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$1.6M GRA parking lot heist…Commissioner General calls on alleged victim to withdraw allegations

Jun 02, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on $1.6M GRA parking lot heist…Commissioner General calls on alleged victim to withdraw allegations

Commissioner General of the Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA), Khurshid Sattaur, has noted with concern, allegations made by Auto dealer, Nigel Ramah, 33, of 18 Chateau Margot, East Coast Demerara, who...

Dead whale lands on E’bo foreshore

Jun 02, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Dead whale lands on E’bo foreshore

Discussions to facilitate the proper disposal of a 50-foot whale carcass which was discovered on Sunday on the Zorg foreshore are ongoing. A senior officer of the Region Two Public Health Department,...

PPP undecided on parliamentary participation, says Rohee

Jun 02, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on PPP undecided on parliamentary participation, says Rohee

Though the main opposition party, the People’s Progressive Party/Civic (PPP/C) has not yet decided whether its members will be taking their seats in the eleventh parliament when it convenes,...

SAVING GEORGETOWN!

Jun 02, 2015 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on SAVING GEORGETOWN!

People are making a big fuss about the flooding in the city. What did they expect? All manner of excuses are being made. It was said that pumps were not working. These pumps are always not working....

Demerara Berbice Interconnected System Shutdown

Jun 02, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Demerara Berbice Interconnected System Shutdown

At 15:49 hrs yesterday, following sounds of an explosion aback of Sophia, there was a disruption in the supply of electricity to the Demerara Berbice Grids. Emergency crews are currently...

Suspected hit-and-run leaves UG, environs without telephone, internet services

Jun 02, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Suspected hit-and-run leaves UG, environs without telephone, internet services

Approximately 800 customers in the lower East Coast Demerara area are without telephone service as a result of extensive damage done to a cabinet facility of the Guyana Telephone and Telephone...

Kaneville victim was no burglar…Man confesses to killing cousin-in-law over liquor

Jun 02, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Kaneville victim was no burglar…Man confesses to killing cousin-in-law over liquor

A Kaneville, East Bank Demerara resident has reportedly confessed to killing his cousin-in-law, Jason Ramatar, during a fracas over liquor and then claiming that Ramatar was a burglar. The man and...

British to help strengthen Parliament

Jun 02, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on British to help strengthen Parliament

Several members of the diplomatic community have shown their recognition for new President David Granger, and Prime Minister Moses Nagamootoo following their coalition’s victory at the May 11...

Protestor pickets the PPP

Jun 02, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Protestor pickets the PPP

Several supporters of the People’s Progressive Party/Civic (PPP/C) again picketed the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM), calling for a recount of the May 11 votes. In the crowd were General...

Guyana will have vastly different AML Bill

Jun 02, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Guyana will have vastly different AML Bill

…Britain to make submissions Come October, when Guyana turns up to the Financial Action Task Force (FATF), with the Anti-Money Laundering and Countering the Financing of terrorism (AML/CFT) Bill...

Indian national bled out from multiple excise wounds

Jun 02, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Indian national bled out from multiple excise wounds

A post mortem examination performed on the body of Harkirat Singh has revealed that the Indian national died from shock and haemorrhage resulting from multiple excise wounds. Singh, 38, who had a...

Over 23,000 Guyanese relatives granted permanent visas within 5 years

Jun 02, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Over 23,000 Guyanese relatives granted permanent visas within 5 years

Fiscal reports coming out of the United States Visa Office, have shown that over 23,000 relatives of Guyanese emigrants, have been issued with permanent status visas from 2010 through 2014. For the...

GTU prompts Education Minister to examine School Boards’ performance

Jun 02, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on GTU prompts Education Minister to examine School Boards’ performance

School Boards oftentimes do not work in the interest of schools. This is the firm belief of President of the Guyana Teachers Union (GTU), Mark Lyte, who has expressed hope that moves will be made to...

A challenge to BK International

Jun 02, 2015 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on A challenge to BK International

I missed recent convert, Brian Tiwarie’s exuberant, emotional panegyrics of the new APNU-AFC government on television a few nights ago. People told me about it. Many said, “Freddie yuh should...

New Ministry moves to speed up house lot applications

Jun 02, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on New Ministry moves to speed up house lot applications

– Ceres named to head special engineers’ unit With thousands of house lot applications on file, the new administration said that it has started an assessment of the available lands to speed...

Mining pit attack…DPP recommends charges for security guards

Jun 02, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Mining pit attack…DPP recommends charges for security guards

The Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) has recommended that the police institute charges against four security guards implicated in an attack on a Konawaruk mining camp last month. This is after...

A BITTER-SWEET ELECTION VICTORY

Jun 02, 2015 KNews Editorial Comments Off on A BITTER-SWEET ELECTION VICTORY

It was a little over two weeks since Guyanese went to the polls in the General and Regional elections and elected a new coalition government. Those elections were something of a surprise to many....

Linden resident is 103

Jun 02, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Linden resident is 103

The Bible prescribes that one’s days are three score and ten but Ms. Agnes Beatrice Benjamin, aka Miss Aggie, has lived past that and is still counting. Ms. Aggie was born on May 30, 1912 at...

Another charged with killing Sterling Products’ guard

Jun 02, 2015 KNews Court Stories, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Another charged with killing Sterling Products’ guard

Yet another person has been charged with the murder of Sterling Products Limited guard, Wilfred Stewart, last December. Uree Voswick appeared before Chief Magistrate Priya Sewnarine-Beharry yesterday...

CJIA technicians remanded for cocaine in rum

Jun 02, 2015 KNews Court Stories, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on CJIA technicians remanded for cocaine in rum

Three men were brought before the court yesterday charged with attempting to traffic three bottles of Eldorado Rum laced with cocaine to the United States of America. Chris Douglas, of Timehri; Loric...

Berbice driver granted bail after alleged $M theft

Jun 02, 2015 KNews Court Stories, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Berbice driver granted bail after alleged $M theft

Chief Magistrate Priya Sewnarine-Beharry released a Corentyne driver of $125,000 bail after he was charged with simple larceny. Satyanand Paramhance, of Number 71 Village, Corentyne, Berbice,...

Man gets 13 years for Phagwah Day killing

Jun 02, 2015 KNews Court Stories, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Man gets 13 years for Phagwah Day killing

Kevin Ally was yesterday sentenced to 13 years in prison for the March 2012 murder of construction worker, Abdul Ghanie. The proceeding took place before Justice Brassington Reynolds and a mixed jury...

Ann Greene speaks out on “unprofessional conduct”

Jun 02, 2015 KNews Letters Comments Off on Ann Greene speaks out on “unprofessional conduct”

Dear Editor, I am writing in response to the statement in the Newspaper in regards to me being sent on leave. My actions are being totally misrepresented and it amounts to injustice. There was...

Human failings are chiefly responsible for the floods

Jun 02, 2015 KNews Letters Comments Off on Human failings are chiefly responsible for the floods

Dear Editor, Each time we experience heavy rainfall with its attendant flooding we tend to hark back at the old days when flooding was not so severe or did not happen so frequently. Our coastal...

The Attorney General is constitutionally charged with representing the state in Court

Jun 02, 2015 KNews Letters Comments Off on The Attorney General is constitutionally charged with representing the state in Court

Dear Editor, I refer to Mr. Freddie Kissoon’s comments about the Cameron & Shepherd law firm, of which I am a partner, in his column of 1 June. These are not Mr. Kissoon’s first on the issue...

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Peeping Tom… Kaieteur News- There was a time when an illegal immigrant in America could live in the shadows with some... more