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Nand Persaud to build rice mill in Cuba

Sep 21, 2017 KNews News 2

Spanish team here to finalise first shipment in 40 years Nand Persaud and Company Limited, producers of Karibee rice brand, is planning to build a rice milling plant in Cuba free zone. The company...

Diamond to Ogle road critical to reduce congestion on new Demerara River bridge – feasibility study

Sep 21, 2017 KNews News 2

A key report on a new crossing for the Demerara River has pointed to the importance of constructing a new road connecting Diamond, East Bank Demerara to Ogle, East Coast Demerara, as a means to ease...

Venezuela’s claims a threat to Caribbean’s zone of peace – Granger to UN assembly

Sep 21, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Venezuela’s claims a threat to Caribbean’s zone of peace – Granger to UN assembly

President David Granger told the United Nations General Assembly, Venezuela remains a threat to peace in the Caribbean. The President’s address to the UNGA, in New York where world leaders...

Guyanese man who almost beheaded wife with kitchen knife jailed for 21 years

Sep 21, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Guyanese man who almost beheaded wife with kitchen knife jailed for 21 years

QUEENS — A man who attacked his wife last December on a Richmond Hill Street, almost decapitating her with a kitchen knife, has been sentenced to 21 years in prison, prosecutors said Wednesday....

Two detained after lad, 13, goes missing

Sep 21, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Two detained after lad, 13, goes missing

A 13-year-old Overwinning Primary School student of Brother’s Village, East Bank Berbice went missing on Sunday. The lad, Leonard Archibald, reportedly left home with his sisters for a birthday...

Body of fisherman discovered in shallow drain

Sep 21, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Body of fisherman discovered in shallow drain

– Driver nabbed after mirror with registration number found at scene A 61-year-old fisherman was killed in a hit and run accident somet ime around 04:00 hrs yesterday on the Meten-Meer-Zorg,...

Caretaker jailed for damaging Minister Harmon’s property

Sep 21, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Caretaker jailed for damaging Minister Harmon’s property

A man who claimed to be mentally unstable was yesterday sentenced to six months imprisonment for damaging Minister of State, Joseph Harmon’s building. Samuel Green, 36, of Lot 99 Guyhoc, Georgetown...

Mad man play steel band pun Li’l Joe glass window

Sep 21, 2017 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists, News 1

Old people see cheapness nah good. You does end up paying nuff more fuh cheapness. Li’l Joe coulda hire a security guard service because he use to mek nuff money when he use to practise law. He...

Jagdeo urges senior cops to petition court over COI findings

Sep 21, 2017 KNews News 1

Opposition Leader Bharrat Jagdeo is of the opinion that the recently concluded Commission of Inquiry (COI) into the alleged plot to assassinate President David Granger was nothing but a witch-hunt....

Talks with ExxonMobil on Natural gas for electricity, another example of ‘plantain chip vision’- Jagdeo

Sep 21, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Talks with ExxonMobil on Natural gas for electricity, another example of ‘plantain chip vision’- Jagdeo

By Abena Rockcliffe-Campbell The idiom “don’t put the cart before the horse” is a stark reminder of the statements made by Opposition Leader, Bharrat Jagdeo, when he spoke of the current...

Six armed robbery charges for bandit who shot ex-cop’s daughter and colleague

Sep 21, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Six armed robbery charges for bandit who shot ex-cop’s daughter and colleague

The gunman, who allegedly shot the daughter of former Deputy Commissioner of Police, George Vyphuis, and her colleague during a two hour spree on Tuesday, is to face six charges of armed robbery. In...

Cabinet approved $809M for NDIA… GNIC to supply $329M dredge; new pump stations for Buxton, Three Friends

Sep 21, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Cabinet approved $809M for NDIA… GNIC to supply $329M dredge; new pump stations for Buxton, Three Friends

Over $809M has been approved for the National Drainage and Irrigation Authority (NDIA) to execute critical drainage works. Among those projects, farmers and residents of Region Two will soon benefit...

14 indigenous persons recognised for contributions to Guyana’s development

Sep 21, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on 14 indigenous persons recognised for contributions to Guyana’s development

The Ministry of Indigenous Peoples’ Affairs, on Monday, honoured 14 outstanding indigenous persons who have made significant contributions to Guyana’s development. The individuals who were drawn...

US report: Guyana does not have comprehensive policy to tackle child labour

Sep 21, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on US report: Guyana does not have comprehensive policy to tackle child labour

Guyana’s fight to eradicate child labour is gaining ground but much more needs to be done, according to a new Child Labour Report by the US Department of Labor. Yesterday, Sandra Zuniga, Eco...

Army rank robbed, car hijacked

Sep 21, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Army rank robbed, car hijacked

A Guyana Defence Force Lance Corporal is alleging that he was the victim of a carjacking at 20:00 hrs last Friday at Providence, East Bank Demerara. Corporal Pernell Gordon, who resides at First...

Back to North West: Barima sails again

Sep 21, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Back to North West: Barima sails again

Until a new ferry, being funded by India is commissioned, Region One residents will have to depend on rehabilitated MV Barima to serve the route. The vessel set sail on Tuesday afternoon for the...

CANU issues bulletin for ‘Rani’

Sep 21, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on CANU issues bulletin for ‘Rani’

The Customs Anti narcotics Unit (CANU) has issued a wanted bulletin for Ron Reid, also known as ‘Rani.’ A release gave Reid’s last known address as Lot 42 Fourth Street, Alberttown,...

Linden PNCR Office undergoing massive rehabilitation to the tune of some $7.8M

Sep 21, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Linden PNCR Office undergoing massive rehabilitation to the tune of some $7.8M

The PNCR’s Region 10 Office is currently undergoing massive rehabilitative works to the tune of some $7.8M. The works are scheduled to be completed in time for the party’s sixtieth...

Several Lindeners secure house lots, others to be re-located

Sep 21, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Several Lindeners secure house lots, others to be re-located

Scores of Linden residents including civil servants, farmers and housewives on Tuesday flocked the Housing Department in Linden to meet with Minister within the Ministry of Housing Valerie...

Residents share concerns over relocation of squatters to Mocha

Sep 21, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on Residents share concerns over relocation of squatters to Mocha

Residents of Mocha have shared similar concerns as the representatives of the Neighbourhood Democratic Council, (NDC) over the proposal by the Central Housing and Planning Authority, (CH&PA) to...

Windies aiming to take England out of natural game

Sep 21, 2017 KNews Sports Comments Off on Windies aiming to take England out of natural game

NOTTINGHAM, England, CMC – Seamer Kesrick Williams has underscored the importance of taking England out of their natural game as West Indies look to square the five-match series in the second...

16-yr-old remanded for murder

Sep 21, 2017 KNews News Comments Off on 16-yr-old remanded for murder

Almost a year after he allegedly stabbed a man to death during a drunken brawl, a 16-year-old boy appeared before Chief Magistrate Ann McLennan charged with murder. The teenager was not required to...

NAMILCO moving beyond sports to empower greatest resource

Sep 21, 2017 KNews Sports Comments Off on NAMILCO moving beyond sports to empower greatest resource

Partners with Miss Guyana Vena Mookram in Fitness Park venture A household name in Guyana when it come to the promotion of sports and empowerment of the nations sportsmen and women, the National...

Vera’s Finally looking to put its stamp on President’s Cup Horserace Meet

Sep 21, 2017 KNews Sports Comments Off on Vera’s Finally looking to put its stamp on President’s Cup Horserace Meet

The Rising Sun Turf Club is the venue to be on October 1st when the President’s Cup Horserace Meet is staged starting at 1:00pm. A keenly contested day of horseracing is expected as many of...

GMRSC’s Caribbean Invasion; 2nd Class champion Shawn Persaud out to retain title

Sep 21, 2017 KNews Sports Comments Off on GMRSC’s Caribbean Invasion; 2nd Class champion Shawn Persaud out to retain title

The Guyana Motor Racing & Sports Club’s (GMRSC), Caribbean Invasion International Drag Race meet, which will see drivers from at least four countries going head to head at the South Dakota...

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A flawed interpretation of international law

Peeping Tom… Kaieteur News – The assertion that “under international law, Venezuela is responsible for... more