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Mahadeo Shivraj is back at it again…Set to produce courtroom drama film set in Guyana

Aug 09, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Mahadeo Shivraj is back at it again…Set to produce courtroom drama film set in Guyana

During an amorous tryst with a young woman, an inexperienced young man has his bliss interrupted when the girl’s lover startles them. A fight ensues and, in the fracas, the lover is fatally shot....

Sunday Cartoon

Aug 09, 2015 KNews Cartoons, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Sunday Cartoon

Chunilall grabs five as Ogle take Hajji SM Yaseen Memorial T20 crown

Aug 09, 2015 KNews Sports Comments Off on Chunilall grabs five as Ogle take Hajji SM Yaseen Memorial T20 crown

By Zaheer Mohamed A five wicket haul by teenage spinner Alex Chunilall guided host Ogle CC to a 22-run victory over Paradise Sports and Cultural Club when the teams collided in a T20 fixture...

CONSUMER CONCERNS…THE DANGERS OF JUNK FOOD

Aug 09, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on CONSUMER CONCERNS…THE DANGERS OF JUNK FOOD

PAT DIAL For many years Consumers International has been alerting consumers and the public worldwide of the dangers to health and well-being of manufactured snack foods and fast foods, generally...

Coalition pay increase trial balloon that fizzled, GuySuCo diversify or die

Aug 09, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Coalition pay increase trial balloon that fizzled, GuySuCo diversify or die

By Ralph Seeram It’s an old political trick, you want to take a certain course of action, or implement policies that may be controversial, and you leak the information to the public to get a...

Speaker to consider proposed changes for Code of Conduct by civil society members

Aug 09, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Speaker to consider proposed changes for Code of Conduct by civil society members

Several members of civil society are of the belief that the Code of Conduct for Parliamentarians needs to be more than mere moral suasion. They insist that it should be strengthened to such an extent...

Prime Minister, TUC renew labour bonds

Aug 09, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Prime Minister, TUC renew labour bonds

Prime Minister Moses Nagamootoo on Friday met with a high-level delegation from the Guyana Trades Union Congress comprising Messrs. Leslie Gonsalves, President, Lincoln Lewis, General Secretary, and...

Pay increases

Aug 09, 2015 KNews Editorial, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Pay increases

There has been much talk about pay increases for Ministers and Members of Parliament. The most noise came from the political opposition. Rohee said that the Granger-led administration (and he no...

GHRA welcomes government’s commitment to review State-Boards selections

Aug 09, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on GHRA welcomes government’s commitment to review State-Boards selections

The Guyana Human Rights Association (GHRA) has welcomed the announcement by the Governance Minister, Raphael Trotman, that the original selections on State Boards were the product of pressures to...

Digicel Harvard Academy tour to Guyana… East Coast beat Harvard Academy by 20 runs

Aug 09, 2015 KNews Sports Comments Off on Digicel Harvard Academy tour to Guyana… East Coast beat Harvard Academy by 20 runs

By Sean Devers An East Coast under-17 selection, which included five players with national youth team experience, beat the touring Digicel Harvard Cricket Academy of Trinidad by 20 runs at the...

16-year-old charged with break and enter simple larceny…Labourer granted bail, youngster remanded

Aug 09, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on 16-year-old charged with break and enter simple larceny…Labourer granted bail, youngster remanded

By Shenice Blackman A labourer and a youngster who allegedly went on a stealing spree made their first appearance at the Providence Magistrate’s Court yesterday to answer to a charge of Break and...

Ex-cop charged with seaman’s execution style murder

Aug 09, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Ex-cop charged with seaman’s execution style murder

A former policeman turned drug dealer was marched before Magistrate Fabayo Azore for the execution style murder of a seaman, over a drug deal that went sour. Ruel Brandon was not required to plead to...

The Falcon and The Branch

Aug 09, 2015 KNews Features / Columnists, Food For Thought, News Comments Off on The Falcon and The Branch

Once there was a king who received a gift of two magnificent falcons. They were peregrine falcons, the most beautiful birds he had ever seen. He gave the precious birds to his head falconer to be...

Deon Carter Dominoes postponed

Aug 09, 2015 KNews Sports Comments Off on Deon Carter Dominoes postponed

The Annual Deon Carter dominoes tournament which was set to commence today has now been re-scheduled for next weekend after vice president of the Georgetown Dominoes Association Colin Mc Ewan was...

Bartica, Mahdia earmarked for Special Victims Units – Social Protection Minister

Aug 09, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Bartica, Mahdia earmarked for Special Victims Units – Social Protection Minister

As it seeks to tackle the scourge of domestic and sexual violence, the government is working to set up teams comprising investigators, social workers and psychologists that will be dedicated...

Does the right hand of the police force know what the left is doing?

Aug 09, 2015 KNews Letters Comments Off on Does the right hand of the police force know what the left is doing?

Dear Editor, On Thursday afternoon, I was driving north on Sugrim Singh Road (the continuation of Irving Street which kisses the army headquarters and runs parallel to Vlissengen Road). In the car...

Guyana wants bilateral not border talks with Venezuela

Aug 09, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Guyana wants bilateral not border talks with Venezuela

It has been noted that there have been some local and regional newspapers and internet new websites headlines claiming that the President of Guyana, His Excellency Brig. David Granger has changed his...

Drug trafficker to know fate this week

Aug 09, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Drug trafficker to know fate this week

City Magistrate Ann McLennan is set to make her ruling in a drug trafficking case on Wednesday next after the defence closed its case on Thursday last, at the conclusion of a three months trial in...

Book Reviews…Simple lessons to last a lifetime

Aug 09, 2015 KNews Book Review…, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Book Reviews…Simple lessons to last a lifetime

Books: Freddie’s First Race and The Great Compost Heap Author: Renaee Smith Illustrator: Somnath Chatterjee Dr. Glenville Ashby, Reviewer In these children’s books, Renaee Smith proves...

Mother, daughter remanded after selling cocaine to cop

Aug 09, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Mother, daughter remanded after selling cocaine to cop

A pregnant Ayesha Rodriques and her mother Jacqueline Rodriques were remanded to prison by Magistrate Fabayo Azore when they turned up at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court on Friday on Drug...

Interesting Creatures… The Clymene dolphin (Stenella clymene)

Aug 09, 2015 KNews Features / Columnists, Interesting Creatures in Guyana Comments Off on Interesting Creatures… The Clymene dolphin (Stenella clymene)

The Clymene dolphin (Stenella clymene), formerly known as the short-snouted spinner dolphin, is endemic to the Atlantic Ocean. It is the only confirmed case of hybrid speciation in marine mammals,...

COUNTRYMAN – Stories about life, in and out of Guyana, from a Guyanese perspective

Aug 09, 2015 KNews Countryman, Features / Columnists Comments Off on COUNTRYMAN – Stories about life, in and out of Guyana, from a Guyanese perspective

Stealth, savagery, vulnerability and ‘Murder most foul’ By Dennis Nichols Few of us like to contemplate murder, or are enthused by it. I don’t and I am not, but here we go again. Agatha...

Understanding the urgent need to temporarily relocate for enhancement

Aug 09, 2015 KNews AFC Column, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Understanding the urgent need to temporarily relocate for enhancement

Unofficial estimates indicate that some 70 percent of the vendors retailing and wholesaling greens, ground provisions, coconuts, bottled beverages and even wild meat and fish on the dilapidated...

Skills, people & more skills

Aug 09, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Skills, people & more skills

By Lance Hinds If Guyana is going to participate fully in a 21st century environment using ICT as a pillar, there must be a specific set of initiatives that we must engage in order to achieve this...

The GPF needs an urgent upgrade in criminal investigative techniques

Aug 09, 2015 KNews Letters Comments Off on The GPF needs an urgent upgrade in criminal investigative techniques

Dear Editor, The GPF needs an urgent upgrade in criminal investigative techniques as they appear “at sea” when investigating major crimes and charging ALL responsible. I’ll highlight just two...

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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