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Way clear for FIU, CANU to share information on drug crimes

Jan 23, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Way clear for FIU, CANU to share information on drug crimes

– arrangement will allow for parallel investigations The way is clear for two major crime agencies to collaborate on sharing information on drug crimes. A Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) was...

Oil and Corruption… Guyana can push for Audit Office to check officials’ emails – University of Houston Instructor

Jan 23, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Oil and Corruption… Guyana can push for Audit Office to check officials’ emails – University of Houston Instructor

While corruption is not unique to the oil sector, there are numerous examples around the world which prove that it is without question, one of the most tempting avenues for secret deals and...

Years later… Guyana still awaits oil depletion Policy

Jan 23, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Years later… Guyana still awaits oil depletion Policy

It was in early 2016 that talks emerged about the need for Guyana to have a depletion policy which allows the leaders of the day to determine how fast or slow the oil and gas resources must be...

Granger wants to cut jail sentences and increase magistrates

Jan 23, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Granger wants to cut jail sentences and increase magistrates

Government is contemplating more magistrates and is pushing for less custodial sentences as part of the wider improvement of the judiciary. The disclosures were made yesterday as President David...

Modernised Grove/Diamond Magistrates Court commissioned

Jan 23, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Modernised Grove/Diamond Magistrates Court commissioned

– features recording apparatus, domestic violence unit It was a grand occasion as the ribbon, placed at the entrance to the new Diamond/Grove Magistrates’ Courts, was cut during the...

PSC seeks to enhance elections Code of Conduct

Jan 23, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on PSC seeks to enhance elections Code of Conduct

In light of several controversial statements made by politicians on the campaign trail to the March 2, 2020 polls, the Private Sector Commission (PSC) has proposed the implementation of a new code of...

Sophia man who killed wife, slept beside her, jailed for 15 ½ years

Jan 23, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Sophia man who killed wife, slept beside her, jailed for 15 ½ years

A North Sophia, Greater Georgetown man who strangled his 19-year-old reputed wife then slept right beside her was yesterday sentenced to 15 years and six months’ imprisonment for the crime. The...

Slap costs “Big Man” 5 months in jail

Jan 23, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Slap costs “Big Man” 5 months in jail

A 53-year-old vendor was yesterday jailed for slapping a woman that he claimed came too close to his face. The defendant, Wayne Johnson, appeared in the Georgetown Magistrates’ Courts before...

Crane man makes court appearance for stabbing wife to death

Jan 23, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Crane man makes court appearance for stabbing wife to death

A Crane, West Coast Demerara Construction worker was on Tuesday remanded to prison for brutally stabbing his wife eight times while she slept just one week ago. Natram Lall was not required to plead...

Dis time nah lang time

Jan 23, 2020 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Dis time nah lang time

A man appear in court because he kill he wife. Dis same man try to dodge de court suh he drink a poison. He drink a poison dat does kill ants suh dem boys want to know if he think he is ants. Anodda...

GTU’s concerns over salary increase finally addressed

Jan 23, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on GTU’s concerns over salary increase finally addressed

– confident other matters getting needed attention By the time a new government takes office and a fresh budget is passed, some public school teachers should become eligible for a two percent...

Police hunt for second brother in murder of Kaneville labourer

Jan 23, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Police hunt for second brother in murder of Kaneville labourer

Investigators are on the hunt for a second suspect fingered in the murder of a 50-year-old Kaneville labourer, Mark Burkett, whose battered body was found in a clump of bushes on an unoccupied house...

New Magistrates’ Courts for Bartica, Mahdia

Jan 23, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on New Magistrates’ Courts for Bartica, Mahdia

According to Chancellor of the Judiciary, Justice Yonette Cummings-Edwards, two towns will soon see new Magistrates’ Courts in as early as two months time. Speaking at the commissioning of the new...

Three in custody as cops await DPP’s advice on newspaper vendor’s murder

Jan 23, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Three in custody as cops await DPP’s advice on newspaper vendor’s murder

Three youths are likely to know today whether they will be charged for murdering Queenstown, Essequibo newspaper vendor, Shawn Mannilall. An official said that police are awaiting word from the...

Manslaughter accused walks free

Jan 23, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Manslaughter accused walks free

Justice Sandra Kurtzious yesterday upheld a no-case submission which led to two men being freed of a manslaughter indictment. The men, Lennox Baharally, 36, and Rondell Edwards, 22, both of Region...

Four to be charged with murder of East Coast Pensioner

Jan 23, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Four to be charged with murder of East Coast Pensioner

Four men who were arrested for the brutal beating of a 72-year-old Strathspey, East Coast Demerara pensioner, will today be slapped with murder charges. A senior police official confirmed this...

Murder accused sprints out of court after being freed

Jan 23, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Murder accused sprints out of court after being freed

The man who was on trial in the Berbice High Court for the April 2015 killing of a Jamaican national up the Berbice River, raced out of the court after the murder charge against him was dismissed and...

Joint Services prepare for elections

Jan 23, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Joint Services prepare for elections

Members of the Joint Services on Tuesday participated in one of several training activities in preparation for General and Regional Elections scheduled for March 2, 2020. In these army released...

Second teacher, parent in court for fight at school

Jan 23, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Second teacher, parent in court for fight at school

Almost two months after two women were involved in a fight at a public primary school, Charmain Mendonca, 42, of 330 Grove Housing Scheme, and Yolanda Jackson, 28, a teacher, yesterday appeared in...

Berbice rice crop crisis… Corentyne farmers descend on RDC, demands solutions to water shortage

Jan 23, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Berbice rice crop crisis… Corentyne farmers descend on RDC, demands solutions to water shortage

Several rice farmers on Tuesday converged at the Region Six Democratic Council to express concerns over the current issue of the limited supply of water in the Black Bush Polder and 52-74 areas. The...

GPHC joins Social Protection to investigate abuse of the elderly by relatives

Jan 23, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on GPHC joins Social Protection to investigate abuse of the elderly by relatives

The Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) will now be collaborating with the Ministry of Social Protection to investigate cases of elderly patients complaining of being abused by their...

Housing Minister files libel suit against Jagdeo, Guyana Times

Jan 23, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Housing Minister files libel suit against Jagdeo, Guyana Times

Junior Minister of Communities with the responsibility for Housing, Annette Ferguson, has filed a lawsuit against Opposition Leader, Bharrat Jagdeo, and the Guyana Times claiming in excess of $10 M...

No lawlessness for elections

Jan 23, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on No lawlessness for elections

– Granger tells visiting US congressional team President David Granger, yesterday afternoon, met members of the United States (US) Congress at the Ministry of the Presidency. The visiting...

Mother of one drives home in new Nissan Juke from GTT

Jan 23, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Mother of one drives home in new Nissan Juke from GTT

– Car a wish come through After a five-week long run of GTT’s + Size Christmas promotion in December 2019, mother of one, Stacia Rose emerged as the winner of the promotion copping the grand...

Guyana launches strategic plan to tackle HIV/AIDS

Jan 23, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Guyana launches strategic plan to tackle HIV/AIDS

– aims at eliminating disease by 2030 The National AIDS Programme Secretariat (NAPS) under the Ministry of Public Health, along with the Pan-American Health Organization/ World Health...

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CWI Cricket West Indies suspends Alzarri Joseph for two matches

A lesson from the bread lines of America

…Peeping Tom Kaieteur News- If the American elections of 2024 delivered any one lesson to the rest of the world, it... more