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NBTS in dire need of all Blood types

Dec 31, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on NBTS in dire need of all Blood types

-despite conscious efforts to sustain stock The National Blood Transfusion Services (NBTS), the country’s national blood bank, is currently in dire need of blood. This is according to information...

2013 murder suspect nabbed in Georgetown

Dec 31, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on 2013 murder suspect nabbed in Georgetown

A man who beat one of his workers to death after he and another colleague allegedly stole a quantity of gold from his camp at Konawaruk Backdam, Potaro on January 19, 2013 was arrested in Georgetown...

CANU finds coke in Lethem-bound minibuses

Dec 31, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on CANU finds coke in Lethem-bound minibuses

Acting on a tip off, officers of the Customs Anti Narcotics Unit (CANU) yesterday carried out searches on several Route 94 buses (Lethem to Georgetown) at the Five Corner junction in Linden. They...

EXTENDING A HELPING HAND

Dec 31, 2016 KNews Editorial, Features / Columnists Comments Off on EXTENDING A HELPING HAND

At this time of the year, there is no shortage of goodwill in Guyana. Just turn the pages of this newspaper and one will see stories of people giving to the less fortunate, to the elderly and to...

Murder charge likely for Prison Warder on Tuesday

Dec 31, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Murder charge likely for Prison Warder on Tuesday

Prison warder, Sheldon Prince, an employee of the Mazaruni Prison is expected to be charged on Tuesday for the stabbing to death of his wife, of five years, Lonnette Nicholson-Prince, a Cosmetologist...

Iphone thief refused bail

Dec 31, 2016 KNews Court Stories, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Iphone thief refused bail

Twenty-seven-year-old Claude Bazilio, was refused bail when he appeared in the Fort Wellington Magistrate Court on Thursday, to answer a charge of simple larceny. On December 26, last, Jeremy...

Open letter to David Granger and Bharrat Jagdeo

Dec 31, 2016 KNews Letters 1

Dear Editor, This is an open letter to both President David Granger; and Leader of the Opposition, Bharrat Jagdeo. The present substantive holder of the office of Chief Justice is the Hon. Carl...

Former NICIL staff member rejects allegations

Dec 31, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on Former NICIL staff member rejects allegations

Dear Editor, It is with great wrath and consternation that I completely and unequivocally deny any and all allegations contained in a letter published in your letter column dated 30th December 2016,...

The convention is that the President must choose one from the list

Dec 31, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on The convention is that the President must choose one from the list

Dear Editor, Last week, the Leader of the Opposition submitted to the President, a list of six persons from which the President is entitled to choose one, in accordance with article 161 (2) of the...

TALK WITHOUT FOLLOW-UP ACTION IS DECEPTIVE

Dec 31, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on TALK WITHOUT FOLLOW-UP ACTION IS DECEPTIVE

Dear Editor, Looking back at the APNU+AFC 2015 manifesto, we now realize that Guyana’s greatest political deceiver has failed to fulfill his promises listed in the Manifesto. When last has the Head...

The police force cautions the media

Dec 31, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on The police force cautions the media

Dear Editor, The Guyana Police Force is responding to an article in one of the recent editions of the Guyana Chronicle newspaper under the caption “…YUPUKARI cocaine plane: ARMY, POLICE OFFICERS...

Minister Ramjattan says he will not compromise on the issue again

Dec 31, 2016 KNews Letters 1

Dear Editor, This comment supports the enforcement of the 2-am closing time for nightspots and other places of public entertainment. It takes issue, however, with the reluctance of the Minister of...

Sasenarine Singh does not have the moral right to criticize anyone

Dec 31, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on Sasenarine Singh does not have the moral right to criticize anyone

Dear Editor, Mr. Sasenarine Singh’s letter published in the Kaieteur News on Friday December 23, 2016 captioned: “Was Ogunseye one of those who betrayed Walter Rodney?” was his latest twisted...

President orders revocation of Red House lease to PPP officials

Dec 30, 2016 KNews News 1

-occupants told to remove by tomorrow —Site to house The National Trust of Guyana President David Granger yesterday ordered that the lease for the building known as The Red House to the Cheddi...

Gov’t eyes reduced trading role for Gold Board after $9B deficit

Dec 30, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Gov’t eyes reduced trading role for Gold Board after $9B deficit

– declarations expected to break record 700,000 ounces today Gold declarations are continuing their excellent run, expecting to surge pass an unprecedented 700,000 ounces declarations today...

PPP Prime Ministerial Candidate re-employed at Foreign Ministry

Dec 30, 2016 KNews News 2

The coalition government has regained the services of former People’s Progressive Party Civic Prime Ministerial candidate Elisabeth Harper within the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Vice-President...

Cabinet green-lights US$500M onshore oil facility at Berbice

Dec 30, 2016 KNews News 2

– Sovereign Wealth Fund, Petroleum Commission targeted for next year Government has green-lighted plans to build a US$500M onshore oil and gas facility at Crab Island, as the country moves to...

16-year-old charged with manslaughter in orphanage accident

Dec 30, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on 16-year-old charged with manslaughter in orphanage accident

The 16-year-old who was behind the wheels of the motor car when it slammed into a stump wall on Christmas Eve Day and killed eight-year-old Nina Blair in the compound of the Alpha Children’s Home,...

High-level meeting tomorrow on Wales Estate future

Dec 30, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on High-level meeting tomorrow on Wales Estate future

A high- level meeting will take place tomorrow to decide the way forward as it relates to the Wales sugar estate. This was disclosed yesterday by Minister of Agriculture, Noel Holder at the...

AG’s contentions about Red House lease rooted in ignorance of the law- Nandlall

Dec 30, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on AG’s contentions about Red House lease rooted in ignorance of the law- Nandlall

Attorney General, Basil Williams’s contention that the lease held by Cheddi Jagan Research Centre Incorporated (CJRCI) for use of the Red House is invalid, is extremely flawed and rooted in...

From 2000-2016…GuySuCo lost over 1.1 million man-days due to strikes – Holder

Dec 30, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on From 2000-2016…GuySuCo lost over 1.1 million man-days due to strikes – Holder

Amidst challenges being faced by the Guyana Sugar Corporation (GuySuCo) – which is seemingly on its knees – the Minister of Agriculture, Noel Holder, has identified another area which has for...

GGMC plugging $100M into UG to boost oil and gas training

Dec 30, 2016 KNews News 1

The Guyana Geology and Mines Commission (GGMC) has earmarked $100M for the University of Guyana (UG) over the next five years to improve training for technicians in the oil and gas sector. The issue...

Man gets hit in face for talking too much

Dec 30, 2016 KNews News 1

– Court hears Frank Farrell, yesterday, made an appearance before Magistrate Leslie Benjamin to answer to the charge of unlawful and malicious wounding. The charge read that on December 15,...

Five bodies to be exhumed as GPHC misplaces dead

Dec 30, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Five bodies to be exhumed as GPHC misplaces dead

In what is being described as a confusing and disturbing state of affairs, five bodies are to be exhumed after mortuary attendants at the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) mistakenly...

Georgetown Key Club raised $11.5M in aid of cancer treatment for children

Dec 30, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Georgetown Key Club raised $11.5M in aid of cancer treatment for children

The Georgetown International Academy Key Club on October 15, last, hosted a Childhood Cancer Awareness Walk under the theme: “Children walking for children –help us fight cancer NOW!” The walk...

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Development requires more than oil revenues

Peeping Tom… Kaieteur News- In one of the most impassioned pleas ever made, an evangelical Bishop Rev. Mariann Edgar... more