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Zeelugt wife-killer takes own life

May 10, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Zeelugt wife-killer takes own life

Randolph Williams, the cane-cutter who strangled his wife last January at Zeelugt, West Coast Demerara, has taken his own life. A police official said that Williams ingested a poisonous substance...

Man robbed, shot in Kitty

May 10, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Man robbed, shot in Kitty

– in broad daylight Sean Harper, 46, yesterday, was fortunate to escape with his life after three masked gunmen pounced on him in Alexander Street, Kitty. According to sources, Harper had just...

How the manufacturing sector in Guyana was destroyed

May 10, 2016 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom 1

Guyana has to go down in the Guinness Book of World Records for the most failed manufacturing enterprises. It is hard to contemplate a country with more failed and loss-making state-owned...

Jubilee celebrations…Opposition will only join in on optional basis—Rohee

May 10, 2016 KNews News 2

The People’s Progressive Party (PPP) Members of Parliament (MP) have received personal invitations to participate in Guyana’s 50th Jubilee Celebrations, but the decision is that they will only...

An ordinary Muslim beats an English billionaire’s son

May 10, 2016 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon 2

Ain’t the world full of surprises? After France, after Trump, who would have thought that the financial capital of the world, London (some says it is New York), would have elected a Muslim Mayor....

GPL set to start voltage upgrades for Bartica this week

May 10, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on GPL set to start voltage upgrades for Bartica this week

The Guyana Power and Light Inc. (GPL) is preparing to upgrade power transmission and distribution to the town of Bartica, Region Seven. Three days after President David Granger launched the township,...

20-year-old miner dies after riding into truck

May 10, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on 20-year-old miner dies after riding into truck

A 20-year-old gold miner lost his life when the all-terrain vehicle he was riding crashed into a truck early yesterday morning. John Shaka Battice succumbed to massive head injuries he received from...

Mother’s day tragedy… Man splits brother-in-law’s head with cutlass

May 10, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Mother’s day tragedy… Man splits brother-in-law’s head with cutlass

A Mother’s Day celebration ended in the wee hours yesterday with the vicious hacking to death of a 46-year-old painter. Dead is Narine Seepaul called “Ham” of Lot 308 Bloomfield, Corentyne. The...

E-Governance Unit gets boost from India, China training

May 10, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on E-Governance Unit gets boost from India, China training

The E-Governance Unit within the Ministry of Public Telecommunications has received a boost from the Governments of India and China. The boost came in the form of specialised training in several...

Police capture bandits, recover gun after Rose Hall money-changers robbed

May 10, 2016 KNews News 1

In a brazen daylight robbery, two armed and masked men robbed two popular money-changers in Rose Hall, Corentyne yesterday morning. According to reports, the perpetrators were nabbed by law...

Fishermen discover man’s decomposed body

May 10, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Fishermen discover man’s decomposed body

The partly decomposed body of a man of East Indian decent was discovered on the Albion Foreshore, around 8:00 hrs on Monday. The fishermen who made the discovery were repairing their nets when they...

Former GM, accomplice jailed in $93M staged robbery of gold trader

May 10, 2016 KNews Court Stories, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Former GM, accomplice jailed in $93M staged robbery of gold trader

Two men, including a former General Manager (GM) of major gold trader, El Dorado Trading Guyana, have pleaded guilty in a 2013 high-profile staged robbery involving over $93M in gold and cash. The...

THINGS ARE NOT RIGHT

May 10, 2016 KNews Editorial, Features / Columnists Comments Off on THINGS ARE NOT RIGHT

There are signs that things are not right in the country and difficult times may lie ahead. The economy is sliding, the national debt is increasing, and the price for sugar, rice and gold prices are...

No infighting within the PPP – Rohee

May 10, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on No infighting within the PPP – Rohee

-plays down 2020 presidential run Describing them as “new and old juicy inaccuracies”, People’s Progressive Party (PPP) General Secretary Clement Rohee, yesterday sought to debunk reports of...

Security arrangements in place at Golden Grove Station

May 10, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Security arrangements in place at Golden Grove Station

– Police say in response to KN article Arrangements are in place to ensure the safety of police ranks and the security of prisoners at the station. This is according to officials of the Guyana...

Body of unidentified man found on Kitty seawall

May 10, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Body of unidentified man found on Kitty seawall

Detectives were summoned yesterday to remove the body of an unidentified man from the Kitty, Georgetown seawall in the vicinity of Selena’s Resort. When this newspaper arrived at the scene just...

Preparations for GuyExpo 2016 at least 85 per cent completed

May 10, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Preparations for GuyExpo 2016 at least 85 per cent completed

-visitors likely to be amazed by some major attractions A strong scent of paint compounded by sounds of drilling and hammering greeted the ears upon arrival at the National Exhibition Site at Sophia,...

BOG set to launch $50 note, Commemorative Coins

May 10, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on BOG set to launch $50 note, Commemorative Coins

The launch of a $50 banknote and two commemorative coins by the Bank of Guyana, tomorrow, will represent part of Guyana’s 50th Independence Anniversary celebrations. In a statement issued yesterday...

Passport office forensic audit…Report highlights disregard for rules under previous regime – Felix

May 10, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Passport office forensic audit…Report highlights disregard for rules under previous regime – Felix

On the heels of a forensic audit conducted into the operations at the Passport Office and naturalization processes under the past government, Minister of Citizenship, Winston Felix, is describing the...

Review being done as facility renamed Eugene F. Correia Int’l Airport

May 10, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Review being done as facility renamed Eugene F. Correia Int’l Airport

Despite fierce objections by several members of the Aviation fraternity, the government yesterday proceeded with the renaming the Ogle International Airport the Eugene F. Correia International...

Benschop mounts one-man protest as Prison COI wraps up

May 10, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Benschop mounts one-man protest as Prison COI wraps up

While the Commissioner of Inquiry, (COI) into the March 2 and March 3 disturbances at the Georgetown Prisons wrapped up its final session yesterday social activist Mark Benschop took to the streets...

World Bank to help Guyana with Extractive Industries membership

May 10, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on World Bank to help Guyana with Extractive Industries membership

The World Bank has committed in helping Guyana work to achieve membership of the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative. According to the Ministry of Natural Resources yesterday, on Wednesday...

Mentally ill woman sets Kitty house on fire

May 10, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Mentally ill woman sets Kitty house on fire

– Eleven homeless A fire, which is believed to have been started by a mentally ill woman early yesterday, completely destroyed a two-story house at Kitty, Georgetown, where she lived with her...

GPHC gets medical equipment from Fyrish support group

May 10, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on GPHC gets medical equipment from Fyrish support group

The Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation’s (GPHC) Accident and Emergency (A&E) Department yesterday received US$10,000 worth in emergency medical equipment from the Fyrish/Gibraltar/Courtland...

GTT launches 4G Services

May 10, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on GTT launches 4G Services

The long wait by customers of Guyana Telephone and Telegraph Company for 4G services came to an end yesterday, as GTT launched their 4G services in the Water Street outlet. Chief Commercial Officer,...

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