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Suspected wife-killer ‘Frenchie’ caught after eight yrs on the run

Jan 10, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Suspected wife-killer ‘Frenchie’ caught after eight yrs on the run

They’ve finally got him. After almost eight years on the run, alleged killer Charles Chapman, called ‘Frenchie’, will finally be placed behind bars for the March 12, 2009 murder of his reputed...

Nominees for GECOM chairperson…Granger asks for new list, Jagdeo to “respond” today

Jan 10, 2017 KNews News 1

The Office of the Leader of the Opposition was officially notified yesterday by President David Granger to submit a new list of nominees for the position of chairperson of the Guyana Elections...

Estate worker fatally stabbed after altercation

Jan 10, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Estate worker fatally stabbed after altercation

– police seek three suspects A 39-year-old Uitvlugt Estate worker was pronounced dead on arrival at the Leonora Cottage Hospital last evening after he was found near an Anna Catherina shop with...

Conflicting reports on shooting at night club

Jan 10, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Conflicting reports on shooting at night club

As management of Club Privilege at the Tower Hotel on Main Street, Georgetown, continues to deny that there was a shooting there last Sunday morning which resulted in two persons being hospitalized,...

Mother and unborn child die in West Coast Berbice accident

Jan 10, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Mother and unborn child die in West Coast Berbice accident

Donnis Higgins, a 25-year-old mother of one, and her unborn baby girl were killed in an accident yesterday morning at No 2 Village West Coast Berbice. According to information, Higgins of lot 103,...

GRA revamps to speed up container delivery time, reduce paperwork

Jan 10, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on GRA revamps to speed up container delivery time, reduce paperwork

With ongoing complaints about delays in clearing goods from the wharves, the Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) is moving to introduce what it says is a world-class data system that reduces processing...

Beaton to play for Guyana in Super50

Jan 10, 2017 KNews Sports Comments Off on Beaton to play for Guyana in Super50

Practice games set for tomorrow & Friday at Providence Essequibian fast bowler Ronsford Beaton has confirmed to Chairman of the Guyana Selectors Rayon Griffith that he will play for Guyana in...

Jagdeo, ee self, ain’t trust ee own GECOM list

Jan 10, 2017 KNews Dem Boys Seh, News Comments Off on Jagdeo, ee self, ain’t trust ee own GECOM list

De word trust is de most important single word after de Creatah. De world runs on trust and people life, marriages, and de whole idea of community depend on trust. Uncle Sam got de word trust pun its...

Ronaldo wins FIFA’s player of the year award

Jan 10, 2017 KNews Sports Comments Off on Ronaldo wins FIFA’s player of the year award

ZURICH (Reuters) Cristiano Ronaldo won FIFA’s player of the year award for the fourth time yesterday, beating his old rival Lionel Messi who was pulled out of the ceremony only a few hours earlier...

Haiti earns Gold Cup qualifying playoff spot

Jan 10, 2017 KNews Sports Comments Off on Haiti earns Gold Cup qualifying playoff spot

Couva, Trinidad & Tobago – Haiti (2W-0D-0L, 6 points) remained alive for a place in this year’s CONCACAF Gold Cup thanks to earning a 4-3 win after extra time over host Trinidad & Tobago...

‘Fly All Ways’ briefly returns to charter service

Jan 10, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on ‘Fly All Ways’ briefly returns to charter service

…as it reorganizes operations ‘Fly All Ways’ , a Suriname-registered air carrier, yesterday announced that it will be reorganizing its operations and destinations base, and as a result, the...

UWI T20 in T&T… Belligerent Singh powers DCC into tomorrow’s Q/finals

Jan 10, 2017 KNews Sports Comments Off on UWI T20 in T&T… Belligerent Singh powers DCC into tomorrow’s Q/finals

By Sean Devers A couple of belligerent unbeaten half-centuries by Gajanand Singh powered an exhausted DCC line-up of Guyana to tomorrow’s Quarter-Final of the University of the West Indies (UWI)...

After a year of hectic activity the GCF proudly thumps its ‘Chess’

Jan 10, 2017 KNews Sports Comments Off on After a year of hectic activity the GCF proudly thumps its ‘Chess’

By Michael Benjamin 2017 is merely 10 days old and even as the executives and affiliates of the many Associations/Federations revel in last year’s struggles and challenges, they are also reflecting...

GTTA commits to monthly competitions to improve domestic programme

Jan 10, 2017 KNews Sports Comments Off on GTTA commits to monthly competitions to improve domestic programme

-Season serves off next week with Novices’ Challenge The Guyana Table Tennis Association (GTTA) will serve off its 2017 calendar of activities with a Doubles, Novices and Fundamental Table Tennis...

Ariel, Superior Woods victorious

Jan 10, 2017 KNews Sports Comments Off on Ariel, Superior Woods victorious

Ariel and Superior Woods recorded victories in two softball matches played on Sunday at the Everest Cricket Club. Ariel defeated Rebel XI by four wickets in the first encounter. Batting first, Rebel...

Vagrant’s decomposed body found in abandoned YMCA building

Jan 10, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Vagrant’s decomposed body found in abandoned YMCA building

Undertakers yesterday struggled to remove the decomposed body of a vagrant from the top flat of the dilapidated Young Men’s Christian Association (YMCA) building in Albouystown, Georgetown. Wayne...

New Magistrate assigned to Carvil Duncan trial

Jan 10, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on New Magistrate assigned to Carvil Duncan trial

City Magistrate Fabayo Azore has been assigned by Chief Magistrate Ann McLennan to preside over the trial of Carvil Duncan in relation to the alleged theft of over $27,757,500 from the Guyana Power...

Ministry forges strategic partnership to fight NCDs

Jan 10, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Ministry forges strategic partnership to fight NCDs

Seventy percent of the Ministry of Public Health’s budget is expended on addressing Chronic Non-Communicable Diseases (NCDs). It is for this reason that the Ministry is touting as imperative, the...

‘Montrose Granny’ murder PI continues

Jan 10, 2017 KNews Court Stories, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on ‘Montrose Granny’ murder PI continues

The Preliminary Inquiry (PI) into the murder of Danrasie Ganesh, the elderly woman who was found dead on August 1, 2015 in her Montrose, East Coast Demerara home, continued yesterday before...

Magistrate to rule in ‘Six Head’ causing death trial

Jan 10, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Magistrate to rule in ‘Six Head’ causing death trial

Come February 2, Manx Powers, the porkknocker on trial for causing the death of popular boxer Andrew ‘Six Head’ Lewis by dangerous driving will know his fate. This announcement was made yesterday...

26 cases disposed of at October sessions of Criminal Assizes

Jan 10, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on 26 cases disposed of at October sessions of Criminal Assizes

Twenty-eight matters were disposed of in the last session of the Demerara Criminal Assizes. The Chambers of the Director of Public Prosecutions, (DPP) reported that the session officially ended with...

UN Women support CARICOM to address gender inequality

Jan 10, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on UN Women support CARICOM to address gender inequality

A Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) was signed yesterday between the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) and the United Nations Women to strengthen initiatives aimed at reducing gender inequality. The MOU...

Power in 2016; the deceptive mind

Jan 10, 2017 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on Power in 2016; the deceptive mind

From the opening of the doors of 2016 to its closing hours, I have been repeatedly asked a particular question – why has the APNU+AFC Government performed so raggedly, incompetently, insensitively...

Red House controversy…“I am not going to give up State property” – President Granger

Jan 10, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Red House controversy…“I am not going to give up State property” – President Granger

President David Granger says that efforts were made to have discussions with the Opposition over the Red House issue, however the party became disrespectful. The Head of State was at the time...

Guyana faces a constitutional crisis

Jan 10, 2017 KNews Peeping Tom Comments Off on Guyana faces a constitutional crisis

There are misguided souls who believe that it is right to correct a wrong by trampling on the law. They believe that it is just and right to remedy an unlawful act by stampeding the law. The rule of...

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A lesson from the bread lines of America

…Peeping Tom Kaieteur News- If the American elections of 2024 delivered any one lesson to the rest of the world, it... more