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As moneychanger and daughter laid to rest…Detectives take suspect back to scene of killing, hunt for fifth man

Jul 11, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on As moneychanger and daughter laid to rest…Detectives take suspect back to scene of killing, hunt for fifth man

On the day that relatives and friends laid murdered moneychanger Aaron Latchman and his daughter Arianna to rest, detectives took one of the suspects back to the scene of last week Thursday’s...

Female cops from sex crime unit accused of covering up gang rapes

Jul 11, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Female cops from sex crime unit accused of covering up gang rapes

Even as it commemorates its 180th anniversary with music, parades and fireworks, the Guyana Police Force is bracing for a major scandal. A number of young women are accusing two policewomen from one...

Selection of GECOM’s chair… Opposition wants clarity, threatens pullout from engagements

Jul 11, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Selection of GECOM’s chair… Opposition wants clarity, threatens pullout from engagements

The Opposition has written Government asking for more clarity ahead of a third engagement today on the selection of a new chair for the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM). The Opposition made it...

Presidential Advisor, SARA Official register Pharmaceutical and other companies

Jul 11, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Presidential Advisor, SARA Official register Pharmaceutical and other companies

Special Assistant of the State Asset Recovery Agency (SARA), Eric Phillips and Presidential Advisor on the Environment, Gary Best, have established several companies, one of which is specifically...

Things open up and people seeing right through

Jul 11, 2019 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Things open up and people seeing right through

Ever since Soulja Bai tun president, he always pushing fuh transparency. He ain’t talking ‘bout people wearing see-through clothes or house wid sheer glass windows. He was talking ‘bout...

Prison Officer on ganja charge released on $100,000 bail

Jul 11, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Prison Officer on ganja charge released on $100,000 bail

A prison officer, who was remanded to prison on his first court appearance, was yesterday released on $100,000 bail. He is accused of smuggling marijuana into the Camp Street Prison. Twenty-year-old...

Over 900 jobs up for grabs in the public sector

Jul 11, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Over 900 jobs up for grabs in the public sector

The Public Service Commission has released its 2019 annual vacancy circular, and it reveals some 900-plus vacancies available across the country. In an interview with Kaieteur News, Minister of...

Health Ministry commissions $539M Kingston bond

Jul 11, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Health Ministry commissions $539M Kingston bond

The Ministry of Public Health yesterday commissioned a $539M drug storage bond at Kingston. Among those present at the occasion were Prime Minister Moses Nagamootoo, Minister of Public Health Volda...

Opposition asks CCJ to order election by Sept. 18 -maintains no need for House-to-House registration

Jul 11, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Opposition asks CCJ to order election by Sept. 18 -maintains no need for House-to-House registration

The Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) has maintained that it will be in a position to hold credible general and regional elections anytime after Christmas, December 25, when an Official List of...

The List has to come from the Leader of the Opposition

Jul 11, 2019 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on The List has to come from the Leader of the Opposition

The Carter-Price formula was incorporated, via a constitutional amendment, into Guyana’s Constitution. There is a logical reason why, in so doing, the drafters of that amendment used the double...

Dominican Republic expects to award several blocks in first oil licensing round

Jul 11, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Dominican Republic expects to award several blocks in first oil licensing round

HOUSTON (Reuters) – The Dominican Republic’s first oil licensing round will be a success if it awards more than two of the 14 blocks on offer this year, a government official said at an...

Young man ‘trips out’, attacks 79-year-old church brother

Jul 11, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Young man ‘trips out’, attacks 79-year-old church brother

The suspicions of several church brethren were affirmed yesterday when a young colleague suspected of having emotional issues, ‘tripped out’ and attacked a 79-year-old church brother....

Decomposed body found in Crabwood Creek trench

Jul 11, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Decomposed body found in Crabwood Creek trench

The decomposed body of a man was found floating in a trench at Crabwood Creek yesterday around 10:30hrs by a farmer. Kaieteur News understands that the police were alerted that the body of a male was...

West Berbice man freed of rape

Jul 11, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on West Berbice man freed of rape

A 29-year-old West Berbice man who was on trial on a charge of rape has been freed. Khemraj Persaud, called “Hot Dog Boy”, of Cotton Tree Village, West Coast Berbice, was on trial before Justice...

Police treating welder’s death as murder, several co-workers detained

Jul 11, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on Police treating welder’s death as murder, several co-workers detained

A previous report by this publication had stated that 34-year-old welder Yogindra Ramkarran was found decomposed at Pigeon Island; however, multiple police sources have confirmed that the man’s...

RFA-GBTI Annual U13 Finals Paiwomak Warriors FC crowned Champions

Jul 11, 2019 KNews Sports Comments Off on RFA-GBTI Annual U13 Finals Paiwomak Warriors FC crowned Champions

Paiwomak Warriors FC edged Tabatinga FC by a 3-2 margin following kicks from the penalty mark to be crowned champions of the Rupununi Football Association (RFA)/Guyana Bank For Trade and Industry...

Poor preparation the bugbear again for ‘Green Machine’ Team now turn to Pan American games in Peru

Jul 11, 2019 KNews Sports Comments Off on Poor preparation the bugbear again for ‘Green Machine’ Team now turn to Pan American games in Peru

The Guyana Rugby Football Federation (GRFU) held a customary press conference yesterday at the Guyana Olympic Association (GOA) to update the media on their performances at the just concluded the...

GPHC sees ‘Implanon’ implant as most effective for birth control

Jul 11, 2019 KNews News Comments Off on GPHC sees ‘Implanon’ implant as most effective for birth control

Officials at the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) are asserting that the Implanon birth control implant is the most effective of its kind. This of course was decided after a recent...

Hamilton Green 9-a-side Inter Ward Cup final fixed for Sunday at Den Amstel Dennis Edwards and Sparta Family sponsors’ day’s activity

Jul 11, 2019 KNews Sports Comments Off on Hamilton Green 9-a-side Inter Ward Cup final fixed for Sunday at Den Amstel Dennis Edwards and Sparta Family sponsors’ day’s activity

Dennis Edwards and the Sparta Family have taken a major role in sponsoring Sunday programme of the final day of competition in the Hamilton Green Inter Ward/Village 9-a-side Knockout Football...

Opposition asks CCJ to award court costs in successful appeals

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Morally Right. Legally wrong

…Peeping Tom Morally Right. Legally wrong Kaieteur News- The situation concerning the disputed parliamentary seat held... more