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No third term for Jagdeo

Jun 27, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on No third term for Jagdeo

…as CCJ rules in favour of Presidential limit By Rehanna Ramsay A majority 6-1 ruling handed down by the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) is set to have far-reaching effects on the current and...

Jagdeo cannot be Prime Minister either – prominent attorney explains

Jun 27, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Jagdeo cannot be Prime Minister either – prominent attorney explains

By Abena Rockcliffe-Campbell Former President Bharrat Jagdeo cannot return to Government as Prime Minister. This became pellucid yesterday after prominent Attorney-at-Law Sanjeev J. Datadin explained...

A law was struck down because of personal ambitions – Barbadian Queens Counsel

Jun 27, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on A law was struck down because of personal ambitions – Barbadian Queens Counsel

Lawyers representing the Attorney General Chambers have blasted the abuse of the system which allowed a case to end up at the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ). The so-called ‘Third Term’ case,...

Burnt body behind temple… Bungling cops create confusion in court; furious magistrate delays reading charges

Jun 27, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Burnt body behind temple… Bungling cops create confusion in court; furious magistrate delays reading charges

Magistrate Rhondell Weever yesterday blasted police ranks for acting as if she was running a ‘cowboy court,’ after a series of errors by investigators forced her to postpone reading charges...

There should be no secrets in future Public-Private projects – Goolsarran

Jun 27, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on There should be no secrets in future Public-Private projects – Goolsarran

For the time being, the Government of Guyana has been praised by most for moving ahead with plans to construct a Demerara Bridge-crossing at Houston, Georgetown. But all those praises can go down the...

Deportee, wife get 40 years each for 2014 Boxing Day murder

Jun 27, 2018 KNews Court Stories, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Deportee, wife get 40 years each for 2014 Boxing Day murder

Thirty eight-year-old Vishwantie Ragnauth broke down in tears from the prisoners’ dock at the announcement of a 40-year jail sentence imposed on her for killing her uncle on Boxing Day of 2014....

Brothers die after cycle struck by bus

Jun 27, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Brothers die after cycle struck by bus

Two brothers were killed at around 11.20 hrs yesterday after being run over by a mini-bus while cycling on the Den Amstel Public Road, West Coast Demerara. Police identified the victims as Sherman...

De CCJ mek Jagdeo buss cry

Jun 27, 2018 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists Comments Off on De CCJ mek Jagdeo buss cry

De CCJ knock de wind out of Jagdeo. It mek he buss cry yesterday. He couldn’t breathe fuh couple hours. This was de same man who tell de world that he wasn’t interested in being president again....

Jagdeo insists on role in picking next PPP presidential candidate

Jun 27, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Jagdeo insists on role in picking next PPP presidential candidate

The ruling yesterday by the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) may have put paid to any aspirations that former President, Bharrat Jagdeo had to run again for the position of Head of State. However,...

Arson, attempted murder… Berbice pensioner on the run commits suicide

Jun 27, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Arson, attempted murder… Berbice pensioner on the run commits suicide

The 62-year-old man who police were on the hunt for after he attempted to murder his ex-wife and subsequently burnt her house down, was yesterday found hanging from a tree in Rose Hall Town. Dead is...

Windies v Sri Lanka 3rd Test … Sri Lanka level series with 4-day win

Jun 27, 2018 KNews Sports Comments Off on Windies v Sri Lanka 3rd Test … Sri Lanka level series with 4-day win

By Sean Devers in Barbados In association with Carib Beer, Noble House Seafoods, Vnet Communication’s & Bounty Farm On the back of an unfinished 63-run seventh wicket partnership between the...

Guyana plays Suriname tonight -Rose on the radar of College scouts; Belgrave injured

Jun 27, 2018 KNews Sports Comments Off on Guyana plays Suriname tonight -Rose on the radar of College scouts; Belgrave injured

By Calvin Chapman in Suriname compliments of Hopkinson Mining, Bounty Farm and Mohamed’s Enterprise A long basketball rivalry between neighbours Suriname and Guyana will be revived tonight at the...

Gainda confident of Tropical Spring-Guyana chances in NYSCL Independence Cup

Jun 27, 2018 KNews Sports Comments Off on Gainda confident of Tropical Spring-Guyana chances in NYSCL Independence Cup

Captain of the Tropical Spring-Guyana Masters team, Lalta Gainda, expressed confidence of his team doing well in the upcoming New York Softball Cricket League (NYSCL) twelfth annual Independence Cup...

Guyana observes day of mourning for murdered fishermen

Jun 27, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Guyana observes day of mourning for murdered fishermen

Relatives of the Guyanese fishermen who lost their lives in a coordinated attack late April and early May, on Monday observed the day of mourning as announced by the Government of Guyana. A number of...

DCC Youth Camp geared at indentifying talent

Jun 27, 2018 KNews Sports Comments Off on DCC Youth Camp geared at indentifying talent

By Zaheer Mohamed With the aim of unearthing new talent, the Demerara Cricket Club (DCC) yesterday launched a ten-day youth programme which is set for August at the Queenstown venue dubbed the...

Trial of gold miner allegedly found with illegal gun continues on July 16

Jun 27, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Trial of gold miner allegedly found with illegal gun continues on July 16

The trial of gold miner Carl Carter who is accused of being in possession of an illegal .38 pistol and four rounds of matching ammunition is scheduled to continue on July 16, before Senior Magistrate...

EBFA visit Hararuni with a view of formalising club – Grassroots session held

Jun 27, 2018 KNews Sports Comments Off on EBFA visit Hararuni with a view of formalising club – Grassroots session held

Yet another village club is set to make its debut as an affiliate of the East Bank Football Association (EBFA), this time, the village of Hararuni on the Linden Soesdyke Highway (LSH) is set to join...

GOA Cycling and Teach them young programme on the cards

Jun 27, 2018 KNews Sports Comments Off on GOA Cycling and Teach them young programme on the cards

National Cycling Coach Hassan Mohammed in collaboration with the Guyana Olympic Association (GOA) will host its annual youth Olympic Day Cycling meet on Saturday for the fifth year at the inner...

Bartica woman remanded on drug trafficking charge

Jun 27, 2018 KNews Court Stories, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Bartica woman remanded on drug trafficking charge

A 58-year-old woman who the court heard was on the police radar for quite some time, yesterday made an appearance in the Georgetown Magistrates’ Courts and was remanded, for allegedly trafficking...

Kcaysha Medas-King reclaims 400m title

Jun 27, 2018 KNews Sports Comments Off on Kcaysha Medas-King reclaims 400m title

On Sunday last in the most anticipated event of the day, the girls 400m 11-12 age group, with the big names from across the North East United States with names like Adilla Trim and Alissa Graham, all...

Ex-lover to go on trial for attempting to murder ‘child mother’

Jun 27, 2018 KNews Court Stories, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Ex-lover to go on trial for attempting to murder ‘child mother’

Forty-six-year-old Cleveland Williams was yesterday committed to stand trial at the High Court in Georgetown for attempting to kill his daughter’s mother, whom he said accidentally fell on a knife...

SARA to host ‘Lash It out’ Cricket match at DCC July 13

Jun 27, 2018 KNews Sports Comments Off on SARA to host ‘Lash It out’ Cricket match at DCC July 13

The State Assets Recovery Agency (SARA), an autonomous agency, was created through the State Assets Recovery Act of 2017, and passed in Parliament on April 13, 2017. The Act mandated SARA to recover,...

BEV workers to be assisted by govt

Jun 27, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on BEV workers to be assisted by govt

Workers recently laid off by BEV Enterprise, the seafood processing plant at Houston are to receive help from the government. Minister of Finance, Winston Jordan in a recent interview with...

New Bartica power plant online by October

Jun 27, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on New Bartica power plant online by October

The construction of a modern 3.5MW power station on the outskirts of Bartica is moving ahead and should be completed by late October. The estimated $660Million power station is being constructed at...

Budget 2019 Workshop… Minister puts financial officers to the test

Jun 27, 2018 KNews News Comments Off on Budget 2019 Workshop… Minister puts financial officers to the test

…calls on them to provide solutions to recurring sectoral problems By Kiana Wilburg Finance Minister Winston Jordan has often found that budget proposals submitted to the Ministry of Finance lead...

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The stakes are high in Guyana’s democracy

Peeping Tom… Kaieteur News- In any vibrant democracy, the mechanisms that bind it together are those that mediate differences,... more