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Proposal submitted to supervise construction of E.B.D overpass, pedestrian crossings

Dec 07, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Proposal submitted to supervise construction of E.B.D overpass, pedestrian crossings

Government is fast-tracking plans to ease the traffic nightmare at several busy intersections along the East Bank of Demerara. The Ministry of Public Infrastructure earlier this year had revealed...

Man attempts to raid home with owner in bedroom

Dec 07, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Man attempts to raid home with owner in bedroom

A man, who identified himself as Vijay Singh attempted to rob a Camp Street, Georgetown house while the owner was in his bedroom. According to information, the man entered through an open door and...

21 more deportees arrive from US

Dec 07, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on 21 more deportees arrive from US

Almost two dozen Guyanese deportees arrived from the United States of America (USA) around 15:00 hrs yesterday, having served lengthy jail sentences for various offences. Kaieteur News understands...

Elimination of Gender Based Violence campaign

Dec 07, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Elimination of Gender Based Violence campaign

On Friday, November 25, 2016, Guyana joined with the rest of the world in observance of International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women under the theme “Orange the World: Promoting...

Bartica Massacre trial…Accused recalls joining partner on gun toting trip to Bartica

Dec 07, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Bartica Massacre trial…Accused recalls joining partner on gun toting trip to Bartica

The Caution Statement, (CS) taken from murder accused, Dennis Williams, was yesterday admitted into evidence before Justice Roxanne George and a mixed 12-member jury. Williams, called “Anaconda,”...

UG to know int’l accreditation fate by July 2017

Dec 07, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on UG to know int’l accreditation fate by July 2017

Plans for a new Health Sciences Faculty, improved clinical and lecture facilities and other amenities for medical students are among the factors that have been taken into consideration as the...

Budget jitters!

Dec 07, 2016 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on Budget jitters!

The market is sending signals which cannot be ignored. The rise in both the buying and selling rates for the US dollar indicates that less money is being sold to the cambios and there is greater...

Police debunk claims that Lindener was bludgeoned

Dec 07, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Police debunk claims that Lindener was bludgeoned

Commander of ‘E’ Division, Farouk Karim-Baksh has rubbished reports by some Christianburg residents that one of their own was attacked and bludgeoned in his house. According to the commander, the...

Educator Kwame Apata passes

Dec 07, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Educator Kwame Apata passes

Guyanese educator, political activist and former UG lecturer, Kwame Apata died yesterday in his adopted homeland of Suriname. Apata belonged to a generation of young African Guyanese men who came...

Blairmont sugar worker charged with raping villager, 67

Dec 07, 2016 KNews Court Stories, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Blairmont sugar worker charged with raping villager, 67

A 36-year-old man accused of raping a 67-year-old woman, was placed on $200,000 bail, when he appeared before Magistrate Rhondel Weever, yesterday, in the Blairmont Magistrate Court, West Bank...

Brazilian charged with murder of man found in pit

Dec 07, 2016 KNews Court Stories, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Brazilian charged with murder of man found in pit

Brazilian National Makael Jackson DaSilva was yesterday remanded to prison for the murder of Ked Lewis, whose body was found with multiple injuries in a pit at Dukwari Backdam, Cuyuni River last week...

Woman charged for threatening language

Dec 07, 2016 KNews Court Stories, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Woman charged for threatening language

Leonie Thurton on Monday appeared in the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court before Magistrate Madan Kissoon to answer to the charge of assault. The charge read that on November 23, last, at Second...

Father of one remanded

Dec 07, 2016 KNews Court Stories, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Father of one remanded

Tyrone Kennedy was yesterday remanded to prison after he appeared before Magistrate Madan Kissoon in the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court. The charge read that on November 25 at Georgetown, he had in...

APNU has not removed itself from the PNC’s past

Dec 07, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on APNU has not removed itself from the PNC’s past

Dear Editor, When the APNU/AFC coalition was on the campaign trail soliciting votes they made it clear that they were not a reincarnation of the despotic PNC, which created such hardship and...

Dr. Leslie Ramsammy says the drug shortage is scandalous

Dec 07, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on Dr. Leslie Ramsammy says the drug shortage is scandalous

Dear Editor, In spite of the billions allocated for medicines and medical supplies in the 2017 budget, there is little hope that shortages of medicines and medical supplies will be reduced in the...

Moses Nagamootoo and Clive Thomas betrayed sugar workers

Dec 07, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on Moses Nagamootoo and Clive Thomas betrayed sugar workers

Dear Editor, The sugar industry continues to be one of the most important industries in Guyana. It supports more than 15,000 jobs and $22 billion in taxable compensation to workers. The sugar...

Dangerous trucks on the Linden highway

Dec 07, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on Dangerous trucks on the Linden highway

Dear Editor, I’m making a case here yet again for a real threatening and frightening situation with regards to logs/timber transportation on the Linden/Soesdyke Highway. With the current road...

Attempts to discredit the National Accreditation Council

Dec 07, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on Attempts to discredit the National Accreditation Council

Dear Editor, Quite recently Guyana has once again been associated with notoriety by virtue of an article by Andrea Fernandes and subsequent articles in the little known online paper: Guyana Guardian,...

Activism against gender-based violence continues

Dec 07, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on Activism against gender-based violence continues

Dear Editor, This is the second of our letters to mark the 16 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence. While we acknowledge improvements made by the Guyana Police Force to address and reduce...

The football scandal in Britain

Dec 07, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on The football scandal in Britain

Dear Editor, When I read the letter in Kaieteur News by the Rev. Gideon about the London football scandal, with mention of “the Christian theology and teachings of Jesus Christ”, I thought ‘how...

Comments on a suicide in a police station

Dec 07, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on Comments on a suicide in a police station

Dear Editor, It has become blatantly apparent that no one is safe in Guyana even from his/her own self. The recent death of teenager Maurice Sumner who was found hanging in his cell at the Mackenzie...

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No immigrant should feel safe in America today

Peeping Tom… Kaieteur News- There was a time when an illegal immigrant in America could live in the shadows with some... more