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Grenade in the night: the Manickchand explanation

Jun 07, 2016 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on Grenade in the night: the Manickchand explanation

One week before we observe the death anniversary of Walter Rodney through an explosion from a bomb on June 13, 1980, there came another bomb attempt on the life of another iconic Guyanese, Kaieteur...

Reps. of at-risk populations accompany Minister to HIV high level meeting

Jun 07, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Reps. of at-risk populations accompany Minister to HIV high level meeting

Accompanied by representatives of populations at-risk for the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV), Minister of Public Health, Dr. George Norton, is scheduled to travel to New York today for a United...

Bandits invade Farm home, take $$$ in items including dentures

Jun 07, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Bandits invade Farm home, take $$$ in items including dentures

To say Maywah Jaisingh feels violated would be an understatement. The distraught man yesterday visited this publication to share how troubled he is over the fact that persons, thus far unknown, broke...

Body with stab wound found on Mahdia roadway

Jun 07, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Body with stab wound found on Mahdia roadway

Police are investigating what appears to be a seventh murder at an interior location for the year. The body of Romel Daniels, 25, of Campbelltown, Mahdia, was found around 03.40 hrs on a roadway at...

Defective sluices hurt Essequibo farmers

Jun 07, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Defective sluices hurt Essequibo farmers

While the Westbury double door sluice almost collapsed on Sunday, it was however unearthed that five sluices within the Region, namely the Three Friends sluice, Capoey, Adventure, Westbury and...

CONFRONTING TERRORIST THREATS

Jun 07, 2016 KNews Editorial, Features / Columnists Comments Off on CONFRONTING TERRORIST THREATS

In his Two Treaties of Government published anonymously in 1689, the English Philosopher, John Locke, stated that the primary responsibility of all governments is to protect life, liberty and, above...

Secrecy surrounding Presidential pardons offends democratic norms – Ramkarran

Jun 07, 2016 KNews News 1

While the President has the power under of the Constitution of Guyana to grant pardon to prisoners, former Speaker of the National Assembly, Ralph Ramkarran, is contending that the prevailing secrecy...

National Trust Guyana hosts first ever International Heritage Conference

Jun 07, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on National Trust Guyana hosts first ever International Heritage Conference

Shortly after celebrations for Guyana’s Golden Jubilee of Independence, the National Trust of Guyana in partnership with the World Monuments Fund (WMF) hosted the first Georgetown International...

Agriculture Minister meets with Heads of Department

Jun 07, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Agriculture Minister meets with Heads of Department

Minister of Agriculture, Noel Holder, met with the Heads of the Agriculture sector agencies, yesterday, to discuss a number of critical plans for the upcoming Agriculture Month activities....

One Injured in Albouystown collision

Jun 07, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on One Injured in Albouystown collision

Disaster struck around noon yesterday when two vehicles collided in the Albouystown community. They collided at the intersection of Hunter Street and Independence Boulevard, Albouystown. Involved in...

Audit finds…MMA breached its Act on several occasions

Jun 07, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Audit finds…MMA breached its Act on several occasions

A Forensic Audit into the Mahaica Mahaicony Abary – Agricultural Development Authority (MMA-ADA), during the period – January 1, 2012 to May 31, 2015, has found that the Authority on several...

Bandits rob Liquor restaurant, cart off local rum and cash

Jun 07, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Bandits rob Liquor restaurant, cart off local rum and cash

Bandits on Sunday morning broke into a liquor restaurant of Edinburgh, East Bank Berbice. The occupants were not at home at the time of the incident. Manager of the restaurant, Kelly Datt, stated...

Association touting hemp cultivation as economic booster

Jun 07, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Association touting hemp cultivation as economic booster

Hemp has an income earning capacity that is five times more than rice. It is believed that half an acre of hemp could allow for a cultivator to earn a middle class income. These assertions were on...

Juvenile among three accused for sex with overseas volunteer

Jun 07, 2016 KNews Court Stories, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Juvenile among three accused for sex with overseas volunteer

Three men were yesterday remanded to prison by Magistrate Judy Latchman in the Georgetown Magistrates’ Courts. Seon Allicock, of Blueberry Hill, Linden; Anthony VanDembury of Wisroc, Linden and a...

Belmont farmer found with ganja in kitchen

Jun 07, 2016 KNews Court Stories, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Belmont farmer found with ganja in kitchen

Mahaica police yesterday nabbed a known drug dealer, Damchan Keeran, with a marijuana stash at his home. According to police officials, shortly after noon, yesterday, a team of officers from the...

Rape trial aborted

Jun 07, 2016 KNews Court Stories, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Rape trial aborted

The trial for rape against a Corentyne man has been aborted after reports of some irregularities. The trial of Mohamed Haifizullah Khan before Justice Brassington Reynolds and a mixed jury in the...

Duo accused of robbing Elite Mobile Cell phone store walks free

Jun 07, 2016 KNews Court Stories, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Duo accused of robbing Elite Mobile Cell phone store walks free

Weeks after he made death threats to a city Magistrate while brandishing a makeshift weapon and expressing frustration over an adjournment, Adam McDonald was finally given a reason to celebrate...

What the people want since independence

Jun 07, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on What the people want since independence

Dear Editor, The current injection in the public debate as to the appropriateness of our national motto brings into question whether some understand what a national motto is all about. It is...

This bullyism of the City Council must be confronted

Jun 07, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on This bullyism of the City Council must be confronted

Dear Editor, As a business owner I would like to express my dismay at the arbitrary imposition of a new fee/fine by the Georgetown City Council. Without publishing it in the official gazette, the...

Begging for attention and service from GTT

Jun 07, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on Begging for attention and service from GTT

Dear Editor, I seek your help to make public GTT disrespectful manner to its customers in Shirley Field-Ridley Square, Georgetown. We are without service since April 19, 2016 and have not received...

Pastor Jeffery’s account calls attention to troubling beliefs

Jun 07, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on Pastor Jeffery’s account calls attention to troubling beliefs

Dear Editor, Pastor Wendell Jeffery’s recall (letter in SN 1/6/2016) of his encounter, sometime in 2012, with PNCites was not surprising but still disturbing. According to Pastor Jeffrey, “…the...

Disappointed with the Coalition’s record so far

Jun 07, 2016 KNews Letters 1

Dear Editor, Now that the party is over (the 50th Independence Anniversary) the true COLOUR of the present Administration will be revealed for the Guyanese people to see. I open with this statement...

Facts about the GGDMA that need to be told

Jun 07, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on Facts about the GGDMA that need to be told

Dear Editor, Please permit me a place in your column to express my concerns in regards to the Thursday 2nd June 2016 edition of Miners’ World hosted by Mr. Tony Shields on Channel 11 NCN. Mr....

Security technology is too expensive

Jun 07, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on Security technology is too expensive

Dear Editor, Our crime situation continues to haunt us and many people are investing heavily to protect their properties and lives and technology to identify criminals using alarms and security...

Onika Charles must get NIS benefits

Jun 07, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on Onika Charles must get NIS benefits

Dear Editor, The case of Onika Luke, the 16 year old waitress who was shot while in the course of her duty at Lucky Star Chinese Restaurant at Better Hope, East Coast Demerara is an industrial...

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Farmer, 71, on bail for possession of illegal shotguns, ammo

Farmer, 71, on bail for possession of illegal shotguns, ammo

Out on bail for illegal gun and ammo possession charges, Frederick Singh Kaieteur News- A 71-year-old farmer was granted... more