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BREAKING NEWS: Teenage girls helped murder retired professor

May 13, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on BREAKING NEWS: Teenage girls helped murder retired professor

– Six Sophia youths detained, stolen items recovered Two teenage girls helped three of their male friends to beat, bind and strangle 75-year-old retired professor, Pairadeau Mars, at his Lot...

Absence of national unity impairs Guyana’s development- Granger tells Parliament

May 13, 2016 KNews News 1

By Abena Rockcliffe-Campbell President David Granger thinks that national unity is the key to unlock Guyana’s true potential as an independent nation. He said that disunity has been hindering...

Brazil’s Rousseff suspended to face impeachment trial

May 13, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Brazil’s Rousseff suspended to face impeachment trial

Brasília (AFP) – Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff was suspended yesterday to face an impeachment trial, ceding power to her vice president-turned-enemy Michel Temer in a political earthquake...

GuyExpo 2016 underway…Event must be launch pad for businesses

May 13, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on GuyExpo 2016 underway…Event must be launch pad for businesses

– Investment Minister The Sophia Exhibition Centre came alive last evening as hundreds braved a brief period of inclement weather to get a glimpse of Guyana’s diverse heritage, tradition and...

Govt. to reduce concessions for foreign investors – President Granger

May 13, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Govt. to reduce concessions for foreign investors – President Granger

– says waivers, rebates almost like subsidies The granting of tax breaks and other concessions to especially foreign investors is being reviewed, with the administration indicating that it...

“Casual” argument between brothers-in-law ends in death

May 13, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on “Casual” argument between brothers-in-law ends in death

Residents of Haslington were left in shock last evening after a “causal” argument between two brothers-in-law ended in deadly fashion. Fifty-two year-old Terrance Adams was killed around 20:00hrs...

Retired professor bound, strangled in home

May 13, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Retired professor bound, strangled in home

– killers came in car, seen leaving with suitcases Police were last night trying to track down a gang of youths, including two females, who they believe bound and strangled a retired college...

Fiery deaths at Camp Street prisons…Int’l human rights body urges victims’ reparation

May 13, 2016 KNews News 2

The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) has condemned the deaths of inmates at the Camp Street prison in Georgetown, Guyana. In a statement issued Wednesday, the commission called on...

Jagdeo mek squatting a lifestyle

May 13, 2016 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Jagdeo mek squatting a lifestyle

Squatting is something that does mek people believe that dem got a right to do anything. People see land and decide that is dem birthright, suh dem run and build. Give a man an inch and he gun tek a...

Thompson erases Pompey’s national 200m record

May 13, 2016 KNews Sports Comments Off on Thompson erases Pompey’s national 200m record

Guyanese United States-based sprint ace, Brenessa Thompson yesterday continued her historic 2016 Season when she erased former Olympian, Aliann Pompey’s 200m record from 2004 at the South Eastern...

Trophy Stall Independence Open and Age Group Badminton Tourney

May 13, 2016 KNews Sports Comments Off on Trophy Stall Independence Open and Age Group Badminton Tourney

The Trophy Stall Independence Open and Age Group Badminton tournament served off on Wednesday last at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall with play in the Open Men’s Singles, Under-17 Boys and Girls...

Cozier’s passing mourned by RHTY&SC

May 13, 2016 KNews Sports Comments Off on Cozier’s passing mourned by RHTY&SC

The Management and members of the Rose Hall Town Youth and Sports Club, M.S has expressed sadness following the death of legendary cricket journalist and commentator, Tony Cozier. The club said in a...

Cricket Australia hails media titan TC

May 13, 2016 KNews Sports Comments Off on Cricket Australia hails media titan TC

Melbourne, Australia, CMC – Cricket Australia has paid tribute to the late Tony Cozier, highlighting his key role in the ground-breaking World Series Cricket staged here during the late 1970s....

Canada based former VP donate equipment to Campton FC

May 13, 2016 KNews Sports Comments Off on Canada based former VP donate equipment to Campton FC

Former Vice President of the Campbellville based Camptown Football Club (CFC) Mark Fanfair who is a former Vice President and player of the club earlier this week donated a set of equipment to the...

STAG / WDFA Senior League continues tomorrow

May 13, 2016 KNews Sports Comments Off on STAG / WDFA Senior League continues tomorrow

Two more matches will be played tomorrow at the Den Amstel ground when the Stag / West Demerara Football Association senior league continues. Uitvlugt will come up against Golden Warriors in the...

It’s an honour to have Football as a Jubilee event – Shabazz

May 13, 2016 KNews Sports Comments Off on It’s an honour to have Football as a Jubilee event – Shabazz

The Golden Jaguars, Guyana’s National Football team, will battle the Canadian Olympic Under-23 team in a International Friendly at the Guyana National Stadium, Providence on Sunday. The feature...

Montagliani is new CONCACAF President

May 13, 2016 KNews Sports Comments Off on Montagliani is new CONCACAF President

Members of CONCACAF and FIFA Councils elected Mexico City – The Confederation of North, Central America and Caribbean Association Football (CONCACAF) yesterday held its XXXI Ordinary Congress...

GBTI partners with GFF for Guyana/Canada match on Sunday

May 13, 2016 KNews Sports Comments Off on GBTI partners with GFF for Guyana/Canada match on Sunday

The Guyana Bank For Trade and Industry (GBTI) has officially joined the list of key sponsors who have partnered with the Guyana Football Federation (GFF) for this Sunday’s International Friendly...

Stalled negotiations…GTU contemplating “drastic action” to get Ministry’s attention

May 13, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Stalled negotiations…GTU contemplating “drastic action” to get Ministry’s attention

Five months after the expiration of a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) between the Ministry of Education and the Guyana Teachers Union (GTU) for a remuneration package for teachers, a new one is yet...

Decision for Wales Estate lands will be made before December…

May 13, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Decision for Wales Estate lands will be made before December…

-following completion of several feasibility studies In the face of nonstop criticism of government’s decision to halt cultivation at the Wales Sugar Estate, Agriculture Minister Noel Holder,...

INSIDE JOBS

May 13, 2016 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on INSIDE JOBS

Many of the robberies that have been committed in recent years have been “inside” jobs. This means that persons working or associated with the victims have been involved either in plotting or...

Address problems affecting nurses—says GPSU head

May 13, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Address problems affecting nurses—says GPSU head

Inadequate staffing, work-place violence, poor compensation packages, long hours and work place hazards have been listed as some of the problems associated with the nursing profession in Guyana. But...

Rose Hall duo refused bail for robbery of money-changers

May 13, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Rose Hall duo refused bail for robbery of money-changers

Two men, who were apprehended by police officers after allegedly committing a brazen daylight robbery on two well-known money-changers in Rose Hall, were yesterday remanded after being slapped with...

Govt.’s incompetence in rice sector has cost country $$billions – Opposition MP

May 13, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Govt.’s incompetence in rice sector has cost country $$billions – Opposition MP

By Kiana A. Wilburg Several members of the Opposition delivered impassioned presentations yesterday on its motion regarding the state of the rice industry. The motion was read by Opposition...

Annual Report for Judiciary reveals…More than 10, 000 court cases roll over to 2016

May 13, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Annual Report for Judiciary reveals…More than 10, 000 court cases roll over to 2016

By Kiana A. Wilburg The alarming number of civil and criminal cases that have been carried over from 2015 to this year has been highlighted in the latest Annual Report of the Supreme Court of...

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Anderson ton, Looknauth’s 9 seals dominant 10-wicket win for Harpy Eagles

A wave of criminal deportees may be coming our way soon

Peeping Tom… Kaieteur News-It is peculiar the way the PPP/C government often finds itself staring down the barrel of... more