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Substantial damages” for Samuels as Lawson settles defamation case

Apr 07, 2017 KNews Sports Comments Off on Substantial damages” for Samuels as Lawson settles defamation case

Kingston, Jamaica, CMC — West Indies batsman Marlon Samuels is set to receive “substantial damages” and a full public apology after succeeding in a defamation case against former Australian...

GCF launches Chess in Prison initiative

Apr 07, 2017 KNews Sports Comments Off on GCF launches Chess in Prison initiative

Less than one month after assuming the helm of the Guyana Chess Federation (GCF) and committing to viable initiatives towards the sport’s advancement, President, James Bond, paid a visit to the...

Ministry of Public Security does it again in Domino humdinger

Apr 07, 2017 KNews Sports Comments Off on Ministry of Public Security does it again in Domino humdinger

-Edge Officers in one-game win at ‘A’ Division Games Day The Ministry of Public Security won for a second consecutive week on Wednesday afternoon in a domino humdinger at the Police ‘A’...

RHT Pepsi Intermediate are Farouk Kudrath Memorial champions

Apr 07, 2017 KNews Sports Comments Off on RHT Pepsi Intermediate are Farouk Kudrath Memorial champions

Assists All-Rounder Sports Club Led by brilliant performances from the talented Kevlon Anderson and left arm spinner Keith Simpson, Rose Hall Town Pepsi Intermediate team easily defeated the...

Bosai Inter Department B’ball …General Services retain title with commanding 61-44 win over Mines

Apr 07, 2017 KNews Sports Comments Off on Bosai Inter Department B’ball …General Services retain title with commanding 61-44 win over Mines

General Services romped to their second straight title when they brushed aside Mines in the final of the BOSAI Minerals Group (Guyana) Inc. Inter Department basketball championship last Saturday...

Contract or pensionable service?

Apr 07, 2017 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on Contract or pensionable service?

Governments have two options when it comes to employing workers. The first is to hire them on contracts. The second way is to place them on the pensionable establishment. In the first case, workers...

Proposal for Credit Unions to provide low interest mortgages

Apr 07, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Proposal for Credit Unions to provide low interest mortgages

The Guyana Cooperative Credit Union League (GCCUL) plans to join with the Central Housing and Planning Authority (CH&PA) to facilitate low interest mortgages to its members for the purchasing of...

President should hold regular press conferences-GPA

Apr 07, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on President should hold regular press conferences-GPA

…has not held a press conference in over a year By Brushell Blackman It has been more than a year since Head of State David Granger has held a press conference outside of the fortnightly televised...

Father of 3 buckles after wife leaves home

Apr 07, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Father of 3 buckles after wife leaves home

Medical reports have confirmed that a West Berbice father of three, died after ingesting an agro chemical. Chaitram Mackhan, 51, of Plantation Ross, West Coast Berbice, is believed to have committed...

Ramsammy is a ramshorn that is ramentaceous

Apr 07, 2017 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on Ramsammy is a ramshorn that is ramentaceous

Open the papers and the consistent propaganda of this man stares you in the face as you read the letter pages. It is Leslie Ramsammy who writes a missive more than once a week. He is published in the...

MARAD grounds, suspends boat operator…after passengers seen sitting on roof

Apr 07, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on MARAD grounds, suspends boat operator…after passengers seen sitting on roof

The Maritime Administration Department has announced that it has grounded and suspended the operations of a speedboat that was plying the Parika/Bartica route over inappropriate operations. The move...

Region Five Exposition and Trade Fair set for next weekend

Apr 07, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Region Five Exposition and Trade Fair set for next weekend

The much anticipated Region Five (Mahaica/Berbice) Exposition and Fair, has been set to commence from April 15 at the Bath Settlement Community Centre Ground. The two-day event is part of the West...

Bees empty Skeldon Primary School

Apr 07, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Bees empty Skeldon Primary School

Teachers and pupils of Skeldon Primary School were forced to drop everything and rush out of the building after it was invaded by Africanised bees on Monday. According to reports, around 10:30 hrs,...

POPE FRANCIS EDICT ON CRIME

Apr 07, 2017 KNews Editorial, Features / Columnists Comments Off on POPE FRANCIS EDICT ON CRIME

Guyana is being run over by criminals which is being politicized by the opposition to gain political points. However, in the hope of finding lasting solutions to the problem, the opposition should...

Engineers Act should stipulate penalties – says veteran

Apr 07, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Engineers Act should stipulate penalties – says veteran

For years, engineers individually and collectively under the Guyana Association of Professional Engineers (GAPE) have expressed the need for an Act of parliament which will govern professional...

MAPM rejects Bulkan’s ‘renegotiation’ of parking meter contract

Apr 07, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on MAPM rejects Bulkan’s ‘renegotiation’ of parking meter contract

The Movement Against Parking Meters (MAPM) is against the position taken by Minister of Communities, Ronald Bulkan, that the three month suspension of the Georgetown Parking Meter by-laws is only to...

Money laundering risks… Collaboration between agencies needed to prevent chances for abuse –Goolsarran

Apr 07, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Money laundering risks… Collaboration between agencies needed to prevent chances for abuse –Goolsarran

Chartered Accountant, Anand Goolsarran, is of the firm impression that there is a need for greater collaboration among various agencies to ensure that car dealerships and real estate businesses are...

Guysuco moving from sugar to fish

Apr 07, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Guysuco moving from sugar to fish

…300 acre aquaculture farm on the cards As the cash strapped Guyana Sugar Corporation (Guysuco) looks to new ways to generate funds to ensure its sustenance fish farming is one of the avenues that...

Crabwood Creek murder PI nears end

Apr 07, 2017 KNews Court Stories, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Crabwood Creek murder PI nears end

Harinarine Lakhan was the watchman on duty at the sawmill the night, Berbice businessman, Shameer Ali Mursalin was allegedly murdered in his own front yard. The sawmill is located next door to...

Pork-knocker remanded for illegal ammo, cocaine

Apr 07, 2017 KNews Court Stories, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Pork-knocker remanded for illegal ammo, cocaine

Terrence Curry, 39, yesterday made an appearance in the Georgetown Magistrates’ Courts before Chief Magistrate Ann McLennan to answer to two charges. The charges against Curry alleged that on April...

Former murder accused on bail after beating vagrant with steel rod

Apr 07, 2017 KNews Court Stories, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Former murder accused on bail after beating vagrant with steel rod

Taijpaul Narine, 47, of Lot 202 Garnett Street, Newton, Georgetown, a former murder accused was yesterday released on bail after he was charged with felonious wounding for allegedly beating a vagrant...

PM meets beauty ambassadors

Apr 07, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on PM meets beauty ambassadors

Prime Minister Moses Nagamootoo met with the delegates for the upcoming Bartica Regatta Pageant 2017, yesterday at his office. He took the opportunity to urge the delegates to be bold and courageous...

Serving police constable slapped with two fraud charges

Apr 07, 2017 KNews Court Stories, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Serving police constable slapped with two fraud charges

A 42-year-old Police Constable was yesterday released on $30,000 bail by Chief Magistrate Ann McLennan in the Georgetown Magistrates’ Courts after being slapped with two fraud related charges....

Construction worker released on bail for defrauding woman

Apr 07, 2017 KNews Court Stories, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Construction worker released on bail for defrauding woman

A 33-year-old construction worker was on Wednesday released on bail after being indicted in the Georgetown Magistrates’ Courts before Chief Magistrate Ann McLennan for fraud. Claudius Peters of Lot...

“Duckman” to face judge and jury on attempted murder charge

Apr 07, 2017 KNews Court Stories, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on “Duckman” to face judge and jury on attempted murder charge

A man who has been described as a nuisance by the authorities has been committed to stand trial in the next sitting of the Berbice Criminal court on a charge of attempted murder. Michael Embrack,...

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Peeping Tom… Kaieteur News- Time, as the ancients knew, is a trickster. It slips through the fingers of kings and commoners... more