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A political culture

Apr 30, 2016 KNews Editorial, Features / Columnists Comments Off on A political culture

Mexico is supposed to be a modern country, a democracy, a society under the rule of law. That is certainly what it aspires to be, and when President Enrique Peña Nieto took office in 2012 promising...

Businessmen form Used Tyres Association…Starts petition… 896 signatures and counting

Apr 30, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Businessmen form Used Tyres Association…Starts petition… 896 signatures and counting

Several businessmen in the local used tyre industry have formed an association. They have also started a petition opposing the government’s move to restrict the importation of used tyres into the...

May 4th Parliamentary sitting…PPP to grill Gov’t on D’Urban Park, Jubilee celebrations – Chief Whip

Apr 30, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on May 4th Parliamentary sitting…PPP to grill Gov’t on D’Urban Park, Jubilee celebrations – Chief Whip

Come May 4, the People’s Progressive Party (PPP) intends to grill Government parliamentarians on issues which the PPP feels are yet to be addressed sufficiently. Among these will be questions on...

City Hall wins judgement against indebted ratepayers

Apr 30, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on City Hall wins judgement against indebted ratepayers

…they have one week before more court action The Milk Plant, Cowan Street, Kingston; GNIC, Lombard Street; Small industries (NICIL), West Rumiveldt Industrial Site; Marriott Hotel (NICIL); Alpha...

Wine seminar kicks off ‘Restaurant Week’

Apr 30, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Wine seminar kicks off ‘Restaurant Week’

Guyana’s Restaurant Week was launched on Wednesday at Herdmanston Lodge under the theme; “Explore, eat and repeat”. A press conference was held by president of GTA Indranauth Haralsingh and...

Escalating crime rate could place a damper on investment – GCCI

Apr 30, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Escalating crime rate could place a damper on investment – GCCI

The Georgetown Chamber of Commerce and Industry (GCCI) noted yesterday that it is extremely concerned about the increase in armed robberies and violent crimes being perpetrated on members of the...

CONFESSIONS

Apr 30, 2016 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on CONFESSIONS

Seven years ago, concerns were raised about the excessive reliance on confession statements in criminal cases. The suggestion was that more cases needed to be solved by investigation. The...

Driven Into Debt-Card scammers strikes again steals woman’s livelihood.

Apr 30, 2016 KNews News 1

The man at the other end of the line made promises of a big payoff: $500,000 in cash, a new car and two new cell phones. But first “GT&T” needed $20,000, in credit, he insisted, then the...

Government will not subject journalists to political interference – President Granger

Apr 30, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Government will not subject journalists to political interference – President Granger

The state-owned media will continue to have a Government presence without political interference from the government, President David Granger said yesterday at a workshop for journalists. His...

Sixteen complete GWI’s Water Treatment Course

Apr 30, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Sixteen complete GWI’s Water Treatment Course

Yesterday, 16 plant operators from various parts of Guyana successfully completed and graduated from the Water Treatment Course Grade 3; facilitated by Guyana Water Inc. (GWI). They received their...

Rains hit drought-stricken Rupununi…wells overflowing

Apr 30, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Rains hit drought-stricken Rupununi…wells overflowing

‘We are still not out of the woods’— says REO The arrival of the rainy season has brought relief for hundreds of people living in the Rupununi—a region stricken with a severe drought for...

Alleged shooter of Guyanese man flees to Venezuela

Apr 30, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Alleged shooter of Guyanese man flees to Venezuela

-friends trying to raise money to send body home Trinidad (Trinidad Guardian) – Police believe the suspect who shot and killed Guyanese national, Khemraj Persaud, and injured another man has...

Ex-VCS Directors says he did not micro-manage

Apr 30, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Ex-VCS Directors says he did not micro-manage

– insists subordinates did not perform well Competing professional responsibilities of former Director of the Ministry of Health’s Vector Control Services (VCS), might have been the key...

The plight of a qualified Guyanese woman in Trinidad

Apr 30, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on The plight of a qualified Guyanese woman in Trinidad

The entire Caribbean, all our diaspora people and cricket fans everywhere, even in England despite their team losing, were all ecstatic about the West Indies victory in the T20 World Cup. My wife,...

Adopt laws to outlaw secret companies -TIGI says

Apr 30, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Adopt laws to outlaw secret companies -TIGI says

Global anti-corruption watchdog, Transparency International, is calling on all Governments to immediately adopt laws to outlaw secret companies that may be dwelling in their backyard. The company...

Gunmen rob Alesie $3M, ties up guards

Apr 30, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Gunmen rob Alesie $3M, ties up guards

Six heavily armed gunmen managed to gain entry into the Ruimzeight Rice Processors Inc.,West Coast Demerara (WCD) on Thursday night, overpowered the two on-duty guards and carted off $3M and other...

Mocha, Diamond soon to get street lights

Apr 30, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Mocha, Diamond soon to get street lights

Residents of Mocha and Diamond, East Bank Demerara will soon benefit from street lights in keeping with Government’s pledge to create safe comfortable communities for citizen’s long-term...

Correction

Apr 30, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Correction

In our Thursday Edition, the Kaieteur News erroneously cited the ‘A’ Divisional Commander, Clifton Hicken as saying that there was a 26 percent decrease in serious crimes from “Saturday to...

Police hierarchy visit shot cop

Apr 30, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Police hierarchy visit shot cop

Assistant Commissioner “Administration” Mr. David Ramnarine, DSM, and other senior officers of the Guyana Police Force, visited the injured Police Lance Corporal, Andrew Richardson at the...

Amelia’s Ward man jailed, fined $8.8M on drug charge

Apr 30, 2016 KNews Court Stories, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Amelia’s Ward man jailed, fined $8.8M on drug charge

A man who was described as a serial drug dealer after admitting that he was caught over six times dealing drugs, will be off the road for the next five years. The man Roger English, 54, a pork...

Surinamese national jailed for drug possession

Apr 30, 2016 KNews Court Stories, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Surinamese national jailed for drug possession

A Surinamese national who tried to slip into the country illegally and bring with him a quantity of drugs, was caught and subsequently jailed. The man, Poypic Mian, 30, of Nickerie, Suriname, who...

Where are the archives and archivist?

Apr 30, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on Where are the archives and archivist?

Dear Editor, Over the last three weeks, I was exposed to the full brunt of the incompetence and indolence of the Royston King Administration of the Mayor and Councillors of the City of Georgetown....

Yarrowkabra Housing Group Appeals for Electricity Again

Apr 30, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on Yarrowkabra Housing Group Appeals for Electricity Again

Dear Editor, I write to vent my frustration about the lack of responsiveness from the Government to the appeals of a relatively small group of persons who comprise our Housing Group in Yarrowkabra....

Guyana has not treated its musical tradition with respect

Apr 30, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on Guyana has not treated its musical tradition with respect

Dear Editor, Will our Guyana jubilee be a true 50 year celebration of our sovereignty: or will we in fact be unwittingly celebrating an 80% musical invasion by our Caricom neighbours led by Jamaica...

TRIBUTE TO THE LATE Mr CHETRAM SINGH, A GUYANESE ICON

Apr 30, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on TRIBUTE TO THE LATE Mr CHETRAM SINGH, A GUYANESE ICON

Dear Editor, On Friday 8th April, 2016, as soon as I arrived at the airport in Toronto, my daughter told me that Mr Chetram Singh, a family friend, soul-brother and above all a great son of Guyana,...

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Guyanese boxers shine at T&T National Boxing Championships

A warning to President Ali on U.S. Overtures

Peeping Tom… Kaieteur News- It remains unknown what President Ali told the U.S. Secretary of State during their recent... more