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DPP, former PSC head among Pradoville 2 beneficiaries

Jul 28, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on DPP, former PSC head among Pradoville 2 beneficiaries

– Jagdeo gave himself two plots Director of Public Prosecutions, Shalimar Ali-Hack, and former Head of the Private Sector Commission (PSC), Ramesh Dookhoo were among several persons who...

Granger assures: Rice not in crisis

Jul 28, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Granger assures: Rice not in crisis

– Farmers call for price guarantees, fuel subsidies By Jarryl Bryan In keeping with its hundred days plan, A Partnership for National Unity/Alliance for Change (APNU+AFC) Government held the...

Sean Hinds surrenders to police, silent on ‘death squad’ claims

Jul 28, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Sean Hinds surrenders to police, silent on ‘death squad’ claims

Self-confessed ‘death squad’ member, Sean Hinds, surrendered to police yesterday, but the man who has been spilling his secrets on television appears to have now gone silent. Hinds, accompanied...

Nothing is being offered to Sean Hinds – Ramjattan

Jul 28, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Nothing is being offered to Sean Hinds – Ramjattan

– “Nobody is going to have a free lunch in this country!” National Security Minister, Khemraj Ramjattan, has made it clear that self-confessed death squad member, Sean Hinds, may be in no...

Govt. appoints new GRDB Board of Directors

Jul 28, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Govt. appoints new GRDB Board of Directors

– Claude Housty named as Chairman, Nizam Hassan as GM Claude Housty is the new Chairman of the Guyana Rice Development Board. Kaieteur News understands that Nizam Hassan is to be the General...

Guyana’s TIP status unchanged

Jul 28, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Guyana’s TIP status unchanged

Only one conviction in past year, victims were re-trafficked – US report For the third consecutive year, the US has placed Guyana on Tier 2 Watch List, recommending in its latest Trafficking in...

A dark secret now come to light

Jul 28, 2015 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on A dark secret now come to light

There is an old saying that whatever happen in de dark does come to light one day. Padoville Two was a showpiece. It is oceanfront property that people would pay hundreds of millions fuh house lot....

Man breaks 13-year-old granddaughter’s hand

Jul 28, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Man breaks 13-year-old granddaughter’s hand

…threatened to have 14-year-old granddaughter raped More sordid tales are emerging on a daily basis of incompetence on the part of public officers. It is bad enough when a grandfather could...

Major improvement planned for City Hall – King

Jul 28, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Major improvement planned for City Hall – King

In his first address to the Council since his appointment, newly installed Town Clerk, Royston King, read from the Bible which was presented to Council in July 1889. “Except the LORD build the...

Boys need to be included in Teenage Pregnancy discussions – Men’s Affairs Officer

Jul 28, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Boys need to be included in Teenage Pregnancy discussions – Men’s Affairs Officer

Quite easily, when thought is given to teenage pregnancy, images of very young girls with swelling bellies come to mind. With the way the masses think, hardly ever does it immediately register that...

Some killers continue to be paid by the ones they violated – Solomon

Jul 28, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Some killers continue to be paid by the ones they violated – Solomon

– Calls on Guyana to sound its voice for Waddell, McKinnon, Shaw and Crum-Ewing Quoting the words of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., “Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things...

Boys need to be included in Teenage Pregnancy discussions – Men’s Affairs Officer

Jul 28, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Boys need to be included in Teenage Pregnancy discussions – Men’s Affairs Officer

Copa Airlines get Latin American kudos for on-time performance

Jul 28, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Copa Airlines get Latin American kudos for on-time performance

Copa Airlines, a subsidiary of Copa Holdings, S.A., and member of the Star Alliance global airline network, continues its position as the top airline in on-time performance and flight completion in...

IAC hosts successful Eid Fest

Jul 28, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on IAC hosts successful Eid Fest

The Indian Action (formerly arrival) Committee on Saturday July 25, 2015, hosted its Seventh National Eid Fest at the Kingston Development Center Mosque, Corriverton, Berbice. In attendance were...

Second Ground Entertainment ‘Ballers in the Summer’ knockout competition… Agricola defy odds to become West Side Street Football Kings

Jul 28, 2015 KNews Sports Comments Off on Second Ground Entertainment ‘Ballers in the Summer’ knockout competition… Agricola defy odds to become West Side Street Football Kings

Not very often you could find a team’s dream survive for an entire tournament, but that was exactly the case with giant killers Agricola, who cemented their standing in street football after...

First stage of Inter-Guiana Games cancelled

Jul 28, 2015 KNews Sports Comments Off on First stage of Inter-Guiana Games cancelled

– Suriname informs of inability to take part By Edison Jefford Guyana has shelved all preparations to host the first stage of the 2015 Inter-Guiana Games (IGG) owed to the non-participation of...

Walter Rodney COI… Chairman warns of incomplete terms of reference

Jul 28, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Walter Rodney COI… Chairman warns of incomplete terms of reference

…as late politician’s family beseeches Gov’t to allow two more weeks of public hearings As the inquiry nears end, the immediate family of Dr. Walter Rodney and the Guyana Trade Union Congress...

Education Minister meets E’bo residents

Jul 28, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Education Minister meets E’bo residents

On Sunday, Dr. Rupert Roopnaraine, the Minister of Education visited the Essequibo Coast, where he met and held discussions with residents on their setbacks in the community. The meeting with the...

Preparations begin for Guyana Cup 2015 horserace meet on Sunday 16th August

Jul 28, 2015 KNews Sports Comments Off on Preparations begin for Guyana Cup 2015 horserace meet on Sunday 16th August

Ninth annual event has over $25M on offer Preparations are underway for the ninth annual Guyana Cup Horserace meet which is arguably one of the biggest sporting event held in Guyana. The mega event,...

Ian John is GSCL Inc President

Jul 28, 2015 KNews Sports Comments Off on Ian John is GSCL Inc President

Ian John was elected President of the Georgetown Softball Cricket Association Inc (GSCL Inc) when the body held its Annual General Meeting on Saturday last at Guyana National Industrial Sports Club...

Research ongoing for ‘natural’ treatment for Diabetic Foot

Jul 28, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Research ongoing for ‘natural’ treatment for Diabetic Foot

Diabetic foot care has long been recognised as an area of health care that attracts a sizeable sum, globally. It is nevertheless a very crucial undertaking. While reducing cost for treating this...

URGENT ACTION NEEDED

Jul 28, 2015 KNews Editorial Comments Off on URGENT ACTION NEEDED

Commissioner of Police, Seelall Persaud, is faced with the first major public crisis of his tenure since taking over the reins of leadership of the Guyana Police Force (GPF) a little over two years...

Haags Bosch Dumpsite Death…Widow still awaiting answers after almost four years

Jul 28, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Haags Bosch Dumpsite Death…Widow still awaiting answers after almost four years

By Shyon Hoppie Almost four years ago, 42 year-old Clive Chisholm, was crushed to death by a Cevon’s Waste Management truck at the Haags Bosch dumpsite behind Eccles Industrial site, East Bank...

PPP again accuses Govt of ‘extravagant spending’

Jul 28, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on PPP again accuses Govt of ‘extravagant spending’

Repeating statements that have been deemed by the masses as “highly hypocritical,” People’s Progressive Party (PPP) General Secretary, Clement Rohee, said that his party continues to pay close...

RIDING ROUGHSHOD OVER THE WORKING CLASS

Jul 28, 2015 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on RIDING ROUGHSHOD OVER THE WORKING CLASS

Forty-two persons from the One Laptop per Family (OLPF) project have been sent packing by the APNU+AFC government. They have effectively been put on the breadline. Some of them will now lose their...

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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