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Breaking News! Suspect detained in Courtney Crum-Ewing assassination -Crime Chief describes arrest as ‘significant development’

Jul 17, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Breaking News! Suspect detained in Courtney Crum-Ewing assassination -Crime Chief describes arrest as ‘significant development’

Four months after he was assassinated with a bull-horn in his hands, police appear to be close to solving the murder of political activist Courtney Crum-Ewing. Crime Chief Superintendent Wendell...

Robbery/murder of Multiplex Mall owner… Ramlall bought beers for gang member minutes before being killed – Eyewitness

Jul 17, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Robbery/murder of Multiplex Mall owner… Ramlall bought beers for gang member minutes before being killed – Eyewitness

More evidence has emerged that one of the men who has been held in the terror gang-related investigations is not just a taxi driver, but a career criminal who has been involved in a number of other...

Smashing of terror gang… Bandit confesses to Land Court Judge home invasion

Jul 17, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Smashing of terror gang… Bandit confesses to Land Court Judge home invasion

The remnants of the ‘terror gang’ are reportedly snitching on each other. Police sources said that one detained youth known as ‘Hulk’, yesterday put himself and at least two others at the...

Burglars invade Regent Street store

Jul 17, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Burglars invade Regent Street store

–cart off cash, documents While most people might have been snuggled up in bed safe from incessant rainfall in the wee hours of yesterday morning, two young men were busy gaining uninvited...

Magistrate recuses self from $120M fraud case

Jul 17, 2015 KNews Court Stories, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Magistrate recuses self from $120M fraud case

A magistrate has recused himself from hearing a case against a Bartica man accused of misappropriating $120M from a prominent city business. Magistrate Dylon Bess made the announcement last Friday...

Govt reviewing “fiscally unsustainable” $10,000 cash grant

Jul 17, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Govt reviewing “fiscally unsustainable” $10,000 cash grant

The continuance of the $10,000 cash grant that was offered to each public school child by the previous administration last year will be dependent on the outcome of a review being undertaken by...

Historic LIAT night flight lands at Ogle

Jul 17, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Historic LIAT night flight lands at Ogle

History was made on Wednesday night as Ogle Airport received its first regional night flight when LIAT’s ATR42 made a flawless touchdown at 21:54 hrs with 17 passengers aboard from Trinidad &...

‘Nervous’ bandit shoots partner during robbery

Jul 17, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on ‘Nervous’ bandit shoots partner during robbery

Police are on the hunt for a ‘nervous’ bandit who accidentally shot his own partner during a robbery at M. Ali and Sons Supermarket at Main Street, New Amsterdam, Berbice. Reports are that the...

Pray fuh more rain today

Jul 17, 2015 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Pray fuh more rain today

Soulja Bai is de best slow march man but dem boys seh that like he slow in everything. Dem boys seh that dem can understand age does slowdown one and two thing. But it look like it slow down...

G/town not designed for this magnitude of rainfall – Authorities

Jul 17, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on G/town not designed for this magnitude of rainfall – Authorities

…Gov’t, M&CC and NDIA cooperating to restore city drainage system By Shyon Hoppie For years Georgetown has always been susceptible to flooding, since it is located on the coast of a...

GO-Invest will be sole investment agency in Guyana – CEO

Jul 17, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on GO-Invest will be sole investment agency in Guyana – CEO

– in talks with Govt. on development of new investment model As the new administration works out just how it will deal with the government agency GO-Invest, it appears that the body will be the...

Guyana to receive protected areas support from German entity

Jul 17, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Guyana to receive protected areas support from German entity

Guyana will receive financial and technical support for the development of its protected areas system from the Frankfurt Zoological Society (FZS). This was confirmed Tuesday when Minister of...

Coastal and Hinterland exchange programmes vital for building national identity – says Minister

Jul 17, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Coastal and Hinterland exchange programmes vital for building national identity – says Minister

By Nicholas Peters Exchange programmes between the coast and the hinterland are necessary to build Guyana’s national identity in education, business, culture and sport. According to the Ministry of...

Guyana most likely to rank poorly on 2015 Corruption Index – TIGI Director

Jul 17, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Guyana most likely to rank poorly on 2015 Corruption Index – TIGI Director

“Perceptions of corruption continue to remain high; those perceptions would not go away in the near future” By Kiana Wilburg Given the fact that Guyana is still to make significant strides in the...

Ticket holders for rained out game can exchange tickets to see Friday’s same free of cost

Jul 17, 2015 KNews Sports Comments Off on Ticket holders for rained out game can exchange tickets to see Friday’s same free of cost

The management of the Guyana Amazon Warriors Franchise has put in place a “ticket exchange programme” through which persons who purchased tickets for Wednesday’s rained out game can claim...

Time to honour Hoyte, Rodney, Grant

Jul 17, 2015 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on Time to honour Hoyte, Rodney, Grant

At the University of Toronto, when I started out there, the white students were crazy about “Electric Avenue” by Eddy Grant. At that time, Guyanese Eddy Grant was an international superstar. His...

Avoiding the ephemeral

Jul 17, 2015 KNews Editorial, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Avoiding the ephemeral

In a poor country such as ours, the list of things we need might seem endless. There is, of course, the popular distinction between “wants” and “needs”; the former deemed to be somewhat much...

Automotive Art launches new products

Jul 17, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Automotive Art launches new products

Automotive Art, the Caribbean’s largest retailers of car enhancement products and services, recently launched its new state-of-the-art Automotive Paints and Ancillary System, featuring the latest...

Motorcyclist, pedestrian hospitalised after collision

Jul 17, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Motorcyclist, pedestrian hospitalised after collision

Nokhal Haralall, of lot 96 Logwood, Enmore, East Coast Demerara, is now a patient of the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation, after he was hit by a motorcycle on a roadway in his community...

Several EBD communities without water as Covent Garden well goes down

Jul 17, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Several EBD communities without water as Covent Garden well goes down

Several communities on the East Bank of Demerara are experiencing water supply problems, with the Guyana Water Inc. (GWI) yesterday announcing it is working to restore normalcy. The state entity...

$8.3M music education programme launched

Jul 17, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on $8.3M music education programme launched

An $8.3M workshop aimed at developing music education in primary schools was launched on Monday and, with its conclusion, the lives of countless students in Guyana are expected to be greatly...

WHO WALKS LATE AT NIGHTS?

Jul 17, 2015 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on WHO WALKS LATE AT NIGHTS?

There used to be a time when generally there were only two types of persons who would be seen walking the road during the wee hours of the morning. The two types were those from the oldest...

Warriors battle rain and Zouks tonight at Providence

Jul 17, 2015 KNews Sports Comments Off on Warriors battle rain and Zouks tonight at Providence

By Sean Devers The Guyana Amazon Warriors would have to win two of their last three matches to qualify for the semi-finals of the third edition of the Hero CPL T20 cricket tournament scheduled for...

NGOs push for reintroduction of National Service

Jul 17, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on NGOs push for reintroduction of National Service

A seven-woman delegation comprising members of the Guyana Responsible Parenthood Association (GRPA), Help and Shelter, Society Against Sexual Orientation Discrimination (SASOD), Red Thread, Child...

Stabroek, Kitty Market, Le Repentir to be transformed – Town Clerk

Jul 17, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Stabroek, Kitty Market, Le Repentir to be transformed – Town Clerk

– Religious bodies, civil society and private sector to be engaged By Jarryl Bryan Newly installed Town Clerk Royston King yesterday laid out his plans for transforming the ‘Garden City’ on...

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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