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Arrest Warrant, Recovery of Asset Treaties at advanced stage of deliberations – Caricom SG

Feb 15, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Arrest Warrant, Recovery of Asset Treaties at advanced stage of deliberations – Caricom SG

The Caribbean Community (Caricom) is looking at a number of legal instruments formulated to enhance cooperation between member states in the fight against crime. Secretary-General (SG) of the...

5-yr-old CJIA access road project delayed by utility pole

Feb 15, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on 5-yr-old CJIA access road project delayed by utility pole

A Guyana Telephone and Telegraph (GTT) utility pole at the Timehri Police Station is delaying the completion of the Cheddi Jagan International Airport (CJIA) access road. The construction of this...

Police still to arrest, charge others over fraud at GMC

Feb 15, 2017 KNews Court Stories, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Police still to arrest, charge others over fraud at GMC

…as prosecutor seeks DPP’s advice on way forward Three months after Nizam Hassan, former General Manager (GM) at the Guyana Marketing Corporation (GMC) was charged along with Felecia De...

Former murder accused remanded on attempt murder charge

Feb 15, 2017 KNews Court Stories, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Former murder accused remanded on attempt murder charge

A gold miner who was previously charged for murder was yesterday remanded to prison on an attempt murder charge. Shawn Filiicene appeared before Chief Magistrate Ann McLennan in the Georgetown...

Linden Teen charged for robbing woman, attacking Police

Feb 15, 2017 KNews Court Stories, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Linden Teen charged for robbing woman, attacking Police

A teenager was remanded to prison on Monday when he appeared before Magistrate Ann McLennan in the Georgetown Magistrates’ Courts. On February 8, last, at Canvas City, Wismar Linden, while being...

Businessman accused of obtaining money for property under false pretence

Feb 15, 2017 KNews Court Stories, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Businessman accused of obtaining money for property under false pretence

A businessman appeared in a city court yesterday after he allegedly obtained money for a house and land from a woman by false pretence. The man, Harry Baptiste, a businessman, of Queenstown,...

My second open letter to President Granger

Feb 15, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on My second open letter to President Granger

Dear Editor, Thank you for publishing my first open letter to President Granger. This is my second. My missive follows: Dear President Granger, by now, any reasonable thinking person would expect...

Capital flight in progress; recession could come

Feb 15, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on Capital flight in progress; recession could come

Dear Editor, Since the Granger administration came to office, their economic policies have led to the systematic weakening of the system of respect for private property. The foreign exchange control...

An argument in favour of the parking meters

Feb 15, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on An argument in favour of the parking meters

Dear Editor, I am old enough to remember when there was a decision in the late 1940’s or early 1950’s to make a number of streets in the city of Georgetown one-way streets. There was a great...

ONE OF THE MOST CORRUPT DEALS IN GUYANA’S HISTORY

Feb 15, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on ONE OF THE MOST CORRUPT DEALS IN GUYANA’S HISTORY

Dear Editor, Given the expose, the parking meter contract must be revoked, a bi-partisan Commission of Inquiry instituted immediately and, based on its findings, relevant charges instituted. The...

Hardship when cases transferred from Suddie Court to Charity Court

Feb 15, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on Hardship when cases transferred from Suddie Court to Charity Court

Dear Editor, I would like you to publish this letter without the use of my name because I am the litigant .You can safely put my signature as “litigant.” Unnecessary inconvenience, hardship and...

I am asserting there is no such company in Bartica

Feb 15, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on I am asserting there is no such company in Bartica

Dear Editor, Mr. Sherwin Downer has again surfaced in the newspapers, this time claiming to be the spokesman for the ‘Bartica Chamber of Commerce and Industry or BCCI,’ pronouncing on mining...

Complaint against Good Hope/ Pomona NDC

Feb 15, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on Complaint against Good Hope/ Pomona NDC

Dear Editor, A shaky coconut tree trunk with the top portion already blown off in my neighbour’s yard remains ever so much risky to fall and damage my property at Aurora Village in Region 2. But...

They say President Granger doesn’t micromanage

Feb 15, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on They say President Granger doesn’t micromanage

Dear Editor, We the reading public are being told a lot of why there have been non-interference in the affairs of the municipality, especially in Georgetown and more precisely when it comes to the...

We need to report this lawyer for unbecoming conduct

Feb 15, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on We need to report this lawyer for unbecoming conduct

Dear Editor, I am writing to bring attention of the fraudulent practices of a certain lawyer practicing in Guyana. My parents and I have also been victim to what we believe was a deliberate attempt...

The management team at GuySuCo earns G$14.1M per month

Feb 15, 2017 KNews Letters Comments Off on The management team at GuySuCo earns G$14.1M per month

Dear Editor, GuySuCo dropped another bombshell on the nation. It announced that 1st crop for 2017 at Skeldon Estate will be suspended. The reason given by GuySuCo’s management is that Skeldon...

Court halts $4.6B GPL contract to Chinese firm

Feb 14, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Court halts $4.6B GPL contract to Chinese firm

The High Court has ordered the Guyana Power and Light Inc. (GPL) and Government to explain how a Chinese company ended up with a multi-billion-dollar contract to install more than 25,000 smart meters...

Trio burnt to death… Jilted man might have poisoned partner, daughter before torching house

Feb 14, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Trio burnt to death… Jilted man might have poisoned partner, daughter before torching house

Investigators are said to be looking at a theory which suggest that 34-year-old Leonard Pollard might have poisoned his estranged partner and one-year-old daughter before setting his house on fire at...

Smart City Solutions given the best deal in the world on parking meter – contract

Feb 14, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Smart City Solutions given the best deal in the world on parking meter – contract

In a response to an article published in the February 12, last, edition of Kaieteur News, Smart City Solutions has tried to discredit the factual reporting of this media entity. SCS in an official...

Zoning takes spotlight…Atlantic Gardens family battles Massy over noise

Feb 14, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Zoning takes spotlight…Atlantic Gardens family battles Massy over noise

As the new administration continues to grapple with decades-old problems of zoning in the country, at least one East Coast Demerara family is battling with a multi-national company over noise. The...

GPL battles two shutdowns within hours

Feb 14, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on GPL battles two shutdowns within hours

At approximately 19:58 hours Sunday evening, the Demerara Berbice Interconnected System experienced a shutdown, following a trip of a transformer at the Kingston Power Plant and feeders supplying...

Chief parking meter director, Kamua Cush, was jailed for grand larceny

Feb 14, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Chief parking meter director, Kamua Cush, was jailed for grand larceny

Days after he came under fire from the Guyanese public for his disparaging remarks, embattled parking meter advocate, Ifa Kamua Cush is once again facing the heat. This time, Cush who emerged on the...

Dataram’s wife walks free on passport felony charge

Feb 14, 2017 KNews Court Stories, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Dataram’s wife walks free on passport felony charge

Anjanie Boodnarine, 21 of Lot 79 Patentia Housing Scheme, West Bank Demerara, the reputed wife of self-confessed and convicted drug lord, Barry Dataram, yesterday walked free on a charge of...

De council people should go to jail

Feb 14, 2017 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on De council people should go to jail

When City Hall sign de Parking Meter deal dem didn’t sign it fuh benefit de people of Guyana. Dem sign it to benefit demself, dem children and dem grandchildren. De contract stink way past heaven....

B’dos International Beach Soccer Showcase…Jaguars end Tourney with 4-3 win over Antigua

Feb 14, 2017 KNews Sports Comments Off on B’dos International Beach Soccer Showcase…Jaguars end Tourney with 4-3 win over Antigua

By Sean Devers in Barbados On the back of a couple of goals from Jamal Haynes and goals from Jermaine Grandison and Skipper Deshawn Joseph, Guyana’s Golden Jaguars ended the three-night Barbados...

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This must not be our hour of humiliation

Peeping Tom… Kaieteur News- There are moments in the history of nations when fate lays before them a choice not of... more