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Robbery/murder of Multiplex Mall owner … Attack was planned two months earlier – suspects confess

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As detectives continue to tie up loose ends in their investigations into the operations of a gang that was busted on Tuesday morning…at least two of the suspects have confessed that the attack on...

Woman hacked to death, husband hospitalised after brutal attack

Jul 16, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Woman hacked to death, husband hospitalised after brutal attack

Residents of ‘D’ Field, Turkeyen were plunged into grief last evening as they learnt that a 40-year-old shopkeeper was hacked to death and her husband badly wounded by a neighbour who pounced on...

Grove decomposing bodies… Mother died from pneumonia, baby probably starved to death

Jul 16, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Grove decomposing bodies… Mother died from pneumonia, baby probably starved to death

“It is a sick way to die.” That was the remark of a mother after hearing of how a mother and her six-month-old met their deaths. A post mortem examination performed on the remains yesterday,...

Draft Budget to be presented to Cabinet in 10 days – Trotman

Jul 16, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Draft Budget to be presented to Cabinet in 10 days – Trotman

– Private Sector recommends proposals for budget 2015, seeks stimulus package With complaints of there being a lag in the commercial turnover for businesses, the Granger Administration has a...

Crime was never out of control – Top Cop

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– as several ranks awarded for outstanding work Police Commissioner Seelall Persaud has said that despite the numbers, the crime situation in Guyana within recent times was never out...

Dem boys seh… De whores, prostitutes and bad hooman come out fuh Soulja Bai bur-day

Jul 16, 2015 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Dem boys seh… De whores, prostitutes and bad hooman come out fuh Soulja Bai bur-day

Yesterday was Soulja Bai bur-day but de man didn’t have to celebrate because other people celebrate he bur-day more than him. De occasion mek people realise that dem got a distinction between...

Govt. Pharmacist nabbed with suspected stolen drugs

Jul 16, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Govt. Pharmacist nabbed with suspected stolen drugs

With the ongoing suspicion that there is rampant corruption in the health sector in Berbice, the Chief Pharmacist attached to the regional drug bond and the New Amsterdam Hospital has been arrested...

New Govt. plugged $3.8B in GuySuCo since taking office

Jul 16, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on New Govt. plugged $3.8B in GuySuCo since taking office

– seeking India financing, technical help The new Government has plugged almost $3.8B into the Guyana Sugar Corporation (GuySuCo) since it took office in May. It is now preparing to table a...

President Granger leaves for Mercusor summit in Brazil

Jul 16, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on President Granger leaves for Mercusor summit in Brazil

–will use the opportunity to present Guyana’s case on the ongoing territorial controversy in the Essequibo Region After celebrating his 70th birthday yesterday, President David Granger was...

Convicted murderer attempts to escape before sentencing

Jul 16, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Convicted murderer attempts to escape before sentencing

– Nephew, accomplice gets combined 117 years in jail Faced with the reality that he might spend the remainder of his natural life behind bars, convicted murderer, Anthony De Paul Hope,...

Need for Comprehensive cancer programme emphasised

Jul 16, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Need for Comprehensive cancer programme emphasised

– as 10-year Cancer Surveillance Report is launched With more than half of the 6,000-odd cancer victims dying over a 10-year period, it has been deduced that Guyana is in dire need of a...

Dangerous driving lands GDF officer in jail

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…lawyer pleads for monetary penalty Guyana Defence Force Lieutenant, Antonio Eastman, was jailed for 36 months after he was found guilty of causing the death of his colleague, Lieutenant...

Man gets 18 years jail for drug trafficking, other charges

Jul 16, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Man gets 18 years jail for drug trafficking, other charges

Magistrate Leron Daly handed an 18-year prison term to a labourer on Tuesday, after he was convicted for narcotics trafficking and other offences. Brian Carter, 26, of Kaneville Squatting Area, was...

Granger assents to Former Presidents (Benefits and Other Facilities) Bill, two others – Trotman

Jul 16, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Granger assents to Former Presidents (Benefits and Other Facilities) Bill, two others – Trotman

Minister of Governance, Raphael Trotman, told the media fraternity yesterday that before President David Granger departed for his trip to Ethiopia last week, he assented to three Bills that were...

New CBSI agreement between Guyana and US… US to help fund prison rehab

Jul 16, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on New CBSI agreement between Guyana and US… US to help fund prison rehab

The new agreement between the governments of Guyana and the United States of America will result in elevation of standards and rehabilitation of prisons and lockups across Guyana. The agreement which...

Greenidge to brief business body on Venezuela impasse

Jul 16, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Greenidge to brief business body on Venezuela impasse

Minister of Foreign Affairs, Carl Greenidge, is set to brief the business community next Monday on the simmering border controversy with neighbouring Venezuela. Greenidge will be the guest speaker of...

Life of Rodney COI extended

Jul 16, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Life of Rodney COI extended

The public hearings of the Commission of Inquiry (CoI) into the death of historian and former Working People’s Alliance (WPA) co-founder, Dr. Walter Rodney, are slated to reconvene within 12 days....

Businessman seeks help to retrieve stolen documents

Jul 16, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Businessman seeks help to retrieve stolen documents

A Businessman of Ruimveldt, 41 year old Dimitri Jemmott, is seeking the assistance of the public in retrieving some of his documents which was stolen from him in a robbery. Jemmott was relieved of...

Hero CPL T20 cricket hits town but so does the rain as match abandoned

Jul 16, 2015 KNews Sports Comments Off on Hero CPL T20 cricket hits town but so does the rain as match abandoned

A sold out crowd braved torrential rain to support the Guyana Amazon Warriors last night at the Guyana National Stadium in Providence in the first of four Hero CPL t20 matches in the Guyana leg of...

Barber fined for assault

Jul 16, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Barber fined for assault

Mark Fraser appeared before Magistrate Ann Mc Lennan on Tuesday to answer a wounding charge and was fined $20,000. He was also asked to keep the peace. .On June 30, at 121 Hogg Street, Albouystown,...

Chris Froome’s dominance continues

Jul 16, 2015 KNews Sports Comments Off on Chris Froome’s dominance continues

BBC Sport – Britain’s Chris Froome maintained his grip on the Tour de France yellow jersey as Rafal Majka claimed stage 11. Team Sky’s Froome finished the 188km route from Pau to Cauterets...

Leadership is a long, lonely lane

Jul 16, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Leadership is a long, lonely lane

– says President Granger at 70th birthday celebrations The Guyana Police Force yesterday joined with the members of staff of the Ministry of the Presidency to celebrate the 70th birth...

Serena hits another milestone with ranking feat

Jul 16, 2015 KNews Sports Comments Off on Serena hits another milestone with ranking feat

St. Petersburg (United States) (AFP) – Serena Williams, who owns all four tennis Grand Slam titles for the second time in her career, has achieved another historic milestone in the wake of her...

Brother Domino team/Whitee Sports Bar to host Competition this Sunday

Jul 16, 2015 KNews Sports Comments Off on Brother Domino team/Whitee Sports Bar to host Competition this Sunday

It is one of the most popular sporting pastime now, the sport of Domino and Brother Domino team in collaboration with YT Sports Bar will be staging an 18-team 20/20 Competition two in one out four...

Edghill to participate in China-Latin America Training Camp

Jul 16, 2015 KNews Sports Comments Off on Edghill to participate in China-Latin America Training Camp

National Junior Champion and Junior Olympian, Cheslea Edghill will benefit from a high-level training programme during August 11-17 in Puerto Rico. This is according to the Guyana Table Tennis...

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Demerara Bank announces the Super Catcher prize

A call for more cultural centres

…Peeping Tom Kaieteur News- Burnham’s decision to divert the Indian Immigration Fund towards constructing the National... more