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Men risking their lives for the 50th anniversary celebrations

Feb 19, 2016 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on Men risking their lives for the 50th anniversary celebrations

There is a letter in yesterday’s edition of the Kaieteur News that is more sad evidence of what a wasteland Guyana has become since the sixties. Of course I don’t expect the traffic signals at...

Guyanese man indicted in US on 20 charges for murder of CEO, family

Feb 19, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Guyanese man indicted in US on 20 charges for murder of CEO, family

Washington: The 35-year-old man accused of brutally slaying a wealthy CEO, his wife, their son and their housekeeper inside their DC mansion has been indicted on 20 felonies. Darron Wint, of Lanham,...

Not in the nation’s best interest

Feb 19, 2016 KNews Editorial, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Not in the nation’s best interest

Finance Minister Winston Jordan’s budget presentation was an insightful analysis of the current state of the country’s struggling economy inherited from the former administration. Devoid of the...

Mom seeks assistance to locate “run away” teen daughter

Feb 19, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Mom seeks assistance to locate “run away” teen daughter

A mother is seeking assistance from the public to locate her 15-year-old daughter who recently ran away from home. Aliyah Campbell called ‘Damie’, of Enmore Estate Road, East Coast Demerara, is a...

Guyanese faces 9 years on cash smuggling, cocaine conspiracy charges

Feb 19, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Guyanese faces 9 years on cash smuggling, cocaine conspiracy charges

Two years after being stopped by US airport officials with US$35,000 in cash and later facing charges relating to cocaine trafficking conspiracy, a Guyanese man is now facing up to nine years in...

Care of elderly receives keen attention from Public Health Ministry

Feb 19, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Care of elderly receives keen attention from Public Health Ministry

With a life expectancy rate that keeps increasing, Guyana, like other countries across the globe, has to pay close attention to a rising elderly population. In fact, according to Dr. Jean Seme Fils...

Muslims courted as Govt. starts social cohesion consultations

Feb 19, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Muslims courted as Govt. starts social cohesion consultations

The Ministry of Social Cohesion yesterday hosted its first in a series of consultations with religious organisations and groups, starting with members of the Muslim community. The consultations are...

Guyana’s tallest flag pole erected at Durban Park

Feb 19, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Guyana’s tallest flag pole erected at Durban Park

As citizens prepare to celebrate the 46th anniversary of Guyana being a Cooperative Republic, plans are underway to hold flag-raising ceremonies across the country. In Georgetown, the once swampy and...

Defendant in Land Court judge attack denies statements

Feb 19, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Defendant in Land Court judge attack denies statements

…voir dire ordered Magistrate Zamilla Ally-Seepaul, who is presiding over the trial of the five men accused of robbing and terrorizing land court judge, Nicola Pierre, and her husband, Mohamed...

Relief Council donates supplies to fire victims

Feb 19, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Relief Council donates supplies to fire victims

The Guyana Relief Council (GRC) yesterday donated hampers to four families who lost their homes and belongings in fires. The presentation was done at the Non-Governmental-Organization (NGO)’s head...

Bus driver robs woman at knife point

Feb 19, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Bus driver robs woman at knife point

—court hears Chief Magistrate Ann McLennan ordered a minibus driver to post bail in the sum of $150,000 after he pleaded not guilty to an armed robbery charge when he appeared before her in the...

Professor Opadeyi takes credit for improving UG’s financial situation

Feb 19, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Professor Opadeyi takes credit for improving UG’s financial situation

Raising the financial status of the University of Guyana (UG) is an achievement that is being flaunted by immediate past Vice Chancellor, Professor Jacob Opadeyi. Reflecting on his three-year tenure...

Bandits rob C’tyne shop owner of thousands in cash and jewellery

Feb 19, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Bandits rob C’tyne shop owner of thousands in cash and jewellery

The police are on the hunt for three armed bandits who, just before 22:00h on Wednesday, robbed a Corentyne businessman and his family of a large quantity of money and jewellery before making good...

Walter Rodney COI…Govt. seems afraid to face the truth –Former President

Feb 19, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Walter Rodney COI…Govt. seems afraid to face the truth –Former President

…Says treatment of COI Commissioners “unpardonable” Former President Donald Ramotar says that he is extremely disturbed and disappointed with the way the APNU+AFC regime has treated the...

Guyanese woman jailed 6 years for counterfeit credit cards

Feb 19, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Guyanese woman jailed 6 years for counterfeit credit cards

ALBANY, NEW YORK – Georgette Jackman, age 37, a citizen of Guyana and former resident of Brooklyn, New York, was sentenced yesterday to serve 75 months in prison for a scheme in which she and...

THE LADY AND HER $50,000 BLINDS

Feb 19, 2016 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on THE LADY AND HER $50,000 BLINDS

She was holding an oversized shopping bag. “Like you were out shopping?” her neighbour bellowed from next door. “Is Christmas, and I see these lovely blinds selling and just had to get them...

CARICOM decides on measures to curb Zika virus spread

Feb 19, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on CARICOM decides on measures to curb Zika virus spread

Prime Minister of Belize and Chairman of the Conference of the CARICOM Heads of Government, Dean Barrow, on Wednesday announced a series of actions that member states will take to confront the Zika...

Sam Hinds refers to the barriers around Parliament

Feb 19, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on Sam Hinds refers to the barriers around Parliament

Dear Editor, “Not one dollop (share) less of patriotism in us of the PPP/C, now sitting in the opposition benches, when compared with you in the Government seats”. Our Leader of the Opposition...

Augean stables of corruption at City Hall

Feb 19, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on Augean stables of corruption at City Hall

Dear Editor, When will this new government realize the tragic mistake it is making by giving the Georgetown Mayor and City Council hundreds of millions of dollars to spend? It is being mismanaged,...

Why not dissolve the local authorities?

Feb 19, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on Why not dissolve the local authorities?

Dear Editor, Under the laws of Guyana, the Minister of Communities is not compelled to, but has the authority to dissolve all city and town councils, neighbourhood democratic councils, etc. But the...

Non-stop skullduggery at City Hall

Feb 19, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on Non-stop skullduggery at City Hall

Dear Editor, As a dedicated taxpayer in the city of Georgetown, I demand an explanation from the Mayor and or the Town Clerk regarding the very crooked manner the City Constabulary is being run. I...

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The PPP/C’s greatest liability

Peeping Tom Kaieteur News- One might have expected that a ruling party basking in the largesse of oil wealth would chart... more