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Brazil to Guyana Fibre Optic Cable too expensive to fix –Alexei Ramotar

Jul 04, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Brazil to Guyana Fibre Optic Cable too expensive to fix –Alexei Ramotar

– Govt. advised to cut losses – Official In providing the Minister of State, Joseph Harmon with an update on the controversial Brazil to Guyana Fibre Optic Cable project, Head of the...

Body in septic tank at C/ville … Nephew and accomplice found guilty of murder

Jul 04, 2015 KNews Court Stories, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Body in septic tank at C/ville … Nephew and accomplice found guilty of murder

After a lengthy trial and a bit of back and forth, a mixed jury yesterday found Anthony De Paul Hope and his co accused Ralph Tyndall guilty for the murder of 56-year-old Colleen Forrester. The jury...

Feds play video, accuse Ed Ahmad of living large, lying on tax returns

Jul 04, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Feds play video, accuse Ed Ahmad of living large, lying on tax returns

New York (New York Daily News) -The government’s star witness against State Senator John Sampson came under heavy fire Thursday for driving a Lamborghini and living large while claiming on tax...

Nandy Park Shooting… Baby discharged from hospital, police silent on investigations

Jul 04, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Nandy Park Shooting… Baby discharged from hospital, police silent on investigations

Mawanza Gills and her 18-month-old son, Travis Rudder Jr. now called the ‘miracle baby’, have both been discharged from the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) and are...

Sooba sacked as Town Clerk

Jul 04, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Sooba sacked as Town Clerk

In light of a no-confidence motion tabled against her, by the Georgetown Mayor and City Council, (M&CC), Acting Town Clerk Carol Ryan Sooba has been officially fired from the post of Town Clerk...

UN sending mission to help resolve Guyana/Venezuela tensions

Jul 04, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on UN sending mission to help resolve Guyana/Venezuela tensions

– Maduro cancels Barbados visit The United Nations (UN) is to appoint a mission to Guyana to help diffuse growing tensions over land and sea claims that Venezuela has made. The disclosures were...

2:00 a.m. bar curfew to go into full effect from tonight- Ramjattan

Jul 04, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on 2:00 a.m. bar curfew to go into full effect from tonight- Ramjattan

Amid the voices of party goers raised in opposition to A Partnership for National Unity/Alliance for Change (APNU+AFC) Government’s proposed imposition of a 2:00hrs curfew against bars and...

Dem boys seh … Jagdeo shy way money like when tourist feeding pigeon

Jul 04, 2015 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Dem boys seh … Jagdeo shy way money like when tourist feeding pigeon

When de coalition win de elections nuff people didn’t know that de Creatah was giving this country a chance to breathe, that it was going to shed de burden from de backs of the de people. Imagine...

Guyanese Hugh Wooding Law students complain of discrimination

Jul 04, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Guyanese Hugh Wooding Law students complain of discrimination

Twenty-five of the 27 Guyanese students currently attending the Hugh Wooding Law School (HWLS) in Trinidad and Tobago, have raised several issues and concerns in relation to tuition, discrimination...

United States invites Guyana to legalize gay marriages

Jul 04, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on United States invites Guyana to legalize gay marriages

By Abena Rockcliffe At the reception recently held at the Marriott Hotel Georgetown in observance of United States Independence Anniversary, on Thursday, the country invited Guyana to join it in the...

Former Magistrate named Director of Consumer Affairs body

Jul 04, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Former Magistrate named Director of Consumer Affairs body

Former Magistrate Dawn Holder-Alert has been named as Director of the Competition and Consumer Affairs Commission (CCAC) with effect from July 1. Holder-Alert’s appointment was announced by...

US awards outgoing acting Deputy Chief of Mission

Jul 04, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on US awards outgoing acting Deputy Chief of Mission

The United States of America on Thursday evening lauded the outgoing acting Deputy Chief of Mission, Peter Anthes, for his outstanding work in Guyana. In fact, the outgoing envoy was given an award...

Health Ministry gets needed FFTP support

Jul 04, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Health Ministry gets needed FFTP support

– as it beefs up fight against emerging diseases Even as the Ministry of Health ensures its preparedness to tackle emerging diseases, Moleson Creek, East Berbice, is one of the areas to...

Our Roads… ‘It is time for better roads – residents say

Jul 04, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Our Roads… ‘It is time for better roads – residents say

By: Phylicia Richardson Residents of Kuru Kururu, Soesdyke/Linden Highway, still await repairs to the main access road leading to the back of the village. They want repairs, too, to the cross streets...

Digicel Nationwide Schools Football Competition…Charity, 8th of May battle for Region Two title

Jul 04, 2015 KNews Sports Comments Off on Digicel Nationwide Schools Football Competition…Charity, 8th of May battle for Region Two title

Charity whip NOC in second semi final By Sean Devers in E’bo Defending Region Two Champions Charity Secondary School advanced to their fifth Zone Final in the five-year history of the Digicel...

Ramdin inspires Warriors to first 2015 Hero CPL win!

Jul 04, 2015 KNews Sports Comments Off on Ramdin inspires Warriors to first 2015 Hero CPL win!

CPL – The Guyana Amazon Warriors notched up their first win of the 2015 Hero Caribbean Premier League with a crushing seven-wicket victory over the St Kitts & Nevis Patriots at Warner Park...

Serena survives almighty Watson scare to advance

Jul 04, 2015 KNews Sports Comments Off on Serena survives almighty Watson scare to advance

LONDON (Reuters) World number one Serena Williams survived an almighty scare at Wimbledon on Friday, battling back to beat inspired Briton Heather Watson in three sets and stay on course for a 21st...

Digicel Nationwide Schools Football Competition… Khan and Sutherland lead Soesdyke Sec. to second win

Jul 04, 2015 KNews Sports Comments Off on Digicel Nationwide Schools Football Competition… Khan and Sutherland lead Soesdyke Sec. to second win

Soesdyke Secondary School continued their winnings ways when they recorded their second win in as many matches at the Timehri Red Ground when the 2015 edition of the Digicel Schools Football...

Slash in malaria cases being validated by Chief Medical Officer

Jul 04, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Slash in malaria cases being validated by Chief Medical Officer

The Ministry of Health is currently in the process of validating a massive drop in malaria cases as recorded by the Vector Control Services Unit. The Unit under the leadership of Vector Control...

GRA investigates Brooklyn’s coke-in-shrimp bust

Jul 04, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on GRA investigates Brooklyn’s coke-in-shrimp bust

As questions continue how some 268 kilos of cocaine in a shrimp shipment passed local authorities and ended up in a Brooklyn terminal where a drug sniffing dog detected it, the Guyana Revenue...

Kamla supports Guyana against Venez. territorial claims

Jul 04, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Kamla supports Guyana against Venez. territorial claims

– willing to help with oil exploration, energy Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago, Kamla Persad-Bissessar, says that her country is in full support of Guyana as it relates to recent decree...

AG 2013 report…Extra $35M spent on UG Project was used for grants, honorarium – Education Ministry

Jul 04, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on AG 2013 report…Extra $35M spent on UG Project was used for grants, honorarium – Education Ministry

The multimillion-dollar University of Guyana Science and Technology Support Project came under review in the 2013 Auditor General’s Report with the AG calling out some discrepancies between the...

Feral blast or Ferrol blast

Jul 04, 2015 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on Feral blast or Ferrol blast

Latchmansingh Drug store was at the corner of Louisa Row and D’Urban Street. I lived on D’Urban Street between Hardina and Haley Streets. I was the last of seven children so being the little goat...

Create those jobs

Jul 04, 2015 KNews Editorial, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Create those jobs

There are many things that have suddenly become problems in the society. Many of these can only be considered tests for a new administration battling with the remnants of the past administration in...

Ravi Outar execution…DPP says police failed to take dying declaration from victim

Jul 04, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Ravi Outar execution…DPP says police failed to take dying declaration from victim

Director of Public Prosecutions, Shalimar Ali-Hack, has ordered the Office of Professional Responsibility (OPR) to investigate why police ranks failed to take a dying declaration from shot...

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Clarendon College too good for Dolphin as Annai Sec’ holds Speyside College to 4-all draw

The stakes are high in Guyana’s democracy

Peeping Tom… Kaieteur News- In any vibrant democracy, the mechanisms that bind it together are those that mediate differences,... more