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Cop driving gang’s getaway car…Ramjattan vows tougher scrutiny of recruits to weed out corrupt ranks

Jan 06, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Cop driving gang’s getaway car…Ramjattan vows tougher scrutiny of recruits to weed out corrupt ranks

– concerned that individuals bent on criminality are ‘hiding’ behind their uniforms It may soon be easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for a corrupt recruit to enter...

Young couple found dead in Aracari Hotel room

Jan 06, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Young couple found dead in Aracari Hotel room

Employees at the Aracari Resort yesterday found the bodies of a young couple in a locked bedroom at the Versailles, West Bank Demerara hotel. According to reports received, the bodies were discovered...

Botched restaurant robbery… CID ranks take detained cop and accomplices back to crime scene

Jan 06, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Botched restaurant robbery… CID ranks take detained cop and accomplices back to crime scene

Detectives yesterday took the police constable and his alleged gang members back to the scene of Friday’s botched robbery at Tuschen, East Bank Essequibo yesterday. Sources close to the...

No one has a right to think for me

Jan 06, 2020 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on No one has a right to think for me

People have a right to think for themselves. The Creator gave every person a brain and a mind to decide for themselves. Every person should be free to listen to all sides of an issue and then to make...

GPHC psychiatric nurses to receive continuous training

Jan 06, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on GPHC psychiatric nurses to receive continuous training

Nurses attached to the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) Psychiatric ward will now be undergoing continuous training to ensure they are always prepared to deal with all patients. This is...

Albion Community Centre through to Ramnaresh Sarwan Under-17 cricket final

Jan 06, 2020 KNews Sports Comments Off on Albion Community Centre through to Ramnaresh Sarwan Under-17 cricket final

Albion Community Center Cricket Club continued their good showing on the cricket field from last year when they defeated Port Mourant Community Centre by 8 wickets to advance to the final of the...

BCB U15 cricket tournament Albion Community Centre U15 cricket team whip Port Mourant Community Centre

Jan 06, 2020 KNews Sports Comments Off on BCB U15 cricket tournament Albion Community Centre U15 cricket team whip Port Mourant Community Centre

Albion Community Center U15 cricket team whipped Port Mourant Community Center in their latest game of the Mike’s Pharmacy Under-15 cricket competition organised by the Berbice Cricket Board (BCB)...

Canje Knights, Rose Hall Town Jammers to collide for Nigel Hinds Berbice Basketball title

Jan 06, 2020 KNews Sports Comments Off on Canje Knights, Rose Hall Town Jammers to collide for Nigel Hinds Berbice Basketball title

The Nigel Hinds Financial Services sponsored Berbice Basketball Association Mecca Classic continued on Saturday last at the New Amsterdam Basketball Court with Rose Hall Town Jammers and Canje...

The Guyana Mixed Marital Arts Karate Association resumes training

Jan 06, 2020 KNews Sports Comments Off on The Guyana Mixed Marital Arts Karate Association resumes training

The Guyana Mixed Martial Karate Association resumed their classes at the Iron Fist Marital Arts Academy Located at the New/Diamond Grove Primary School this past week. Master Lloyd Ramnarine along...

The Tropical Woods and Wood Products inaugural golf tourney William Walker, Shanella London are Flight champions in LGC 2020 kick-off tournament

Jan 06, 2020 KNews Sports Comments Off on The Tropical Woods and Wood Products inaugural golf tourney William Walker, Shanella London are Flight champions in LGC 2020 kick-off tournament

In convincing fashion, after weeks of strong play, Oasis Cafe’s William Walker turned in his best performance to win The Tropical Woods and Wood Products (Pandit Lumberyard) inaugural tourney...

Guyana Open Golf Champ Persaud confident of doing well at higher levels

Jan 06, 2020 KNews Sports Comments Off on Guyana Open Golf Champ Persaud confident of doing well at higher levels

By Zaheer Mohamed Ten-time Guyana Open Golf Champion Avinash Persaud said he is confident of doing well at higher levels. Speaking with Kaieteur Sport yesterday, Persaud stated that after competing...

CH&PA to regularize 173 squatting areas

Jan 06, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on CH&PA to regularize 173 squatting areas

—24000 house lots to be made legal The Central Housing and Planning Authority (CH&PA) is moving to complete the regularisation of 173 squatting areas throughout Guyana. The CH&PA revealed...

GUYANESE HORROR FICTION KAMARANG…The Bush Dai Dai takes a Child

Jan 06, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on GUYANESE HORROR FICTION KAMARANG…The Bush Dai Dai takes a Child

By Michael Jordan The cops came about an hour after Sealey entered the Jaguar’s Den. He was sitting by the bar, watching Alvin Benn sweep several beetles and cigarette butts into a spade....

Paradise storm back to clip Monederlust to GT Beer/Candy Boss 8-a-side football title -Curtland Richmond is MVP

Jan 06, 2020 KNews Sports Comments Off on Paradise storm back to clip Monederlust to GT Beer/Candy Boss 8-a-side football title -Curtland Richmond is MVP

A second half double from Jamal Cambridge guided Paradise Football Club (PFC) to a come from behind 3-2 win over Monedderlust in the final of the GT Beer sponsored Candy Boss Antics 8-a-side football...

No significant decrease in murders since crime wave

Jan 06, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on No significant decrease in murders since crime wave

· 1,128 murders recorded within the last nine years; 46 less than crime wave period · Murder rate was at all time high in 2003 with 206 cases · For 17 consecutive years since 2002, murder rate...

Robbery, whiskey smuggling, rape, murder…Cases expose worrying levels of criminality in Joint Services

Jan 06, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Robbery, whiskey smuggling, rape, murder…Cases expose worrying levels of criminality in Joint Services

By Shikema Dey ‘To serve and protect’ is their mandate but over the years, on multiple occasions, Guyana has seen rogue elements of force disregard this pledge and fall into the ‘criminal’...

Widow who lost home to fire appeals for help to rebuild

Jan 06, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Widow who lost home to fire appeals for help to rebuild

The pain of losing a home is difficult to endure, says 53-year-old Dularie Lall of Mahaicony, East Coast Demerara. After the death of her husband, Mrs. Lall was left to raise six children on her own....

Guyanese-born US command chief uses tragedy that shaped his life to help AMC airmen

Jan 06, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Guyanese-born US command chief uses tragedy that shaped his life to help AMC airmen

When Terrence Greene was growing up in his family’s tiny village in Guyana, there were a lot of things about his story that didn’t add up. He didn’t look like his brothers and sisters. He...

Blind pensioner found dead in apartment

Jan 06, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Blind pensioner found dead in apartment

The decomposed body of 82-year-old Evan Williams was found in her one bedroom apartment at lot 1414 Norton Street, Wortmanville, yesterday afternoon. The discovery was made by a neighbour and friend...

Campaign season is on and so is civilization’s fault line

Jan 06, 2020 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on Campaign season is on and so is civilization’s fault line

Do you know as recent as Friday and Saturday, I was accosted by ordinary folks, ordinary working class people showing vexation about my politics. I guess both related to my Friday column in which I...

Let this early incident be the last

Jan 06, 2020 KNews Editorial, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Let this early incident be the last

On Sunday, this publication went to the pains of sharing that it will be intensely vigilant and highly intolerant of campaign escapades by any political entity. In fact, it is beyond campaign...

Stop using youth as political props!

Jan 06, 2020 KNews Letters Comments Off on Stop using youth as political props!

DEAR EDITOR, The year is 2020. We are now roughly seven weeks from what is coined ‘the Mother of all Elections’ and none of the two major political parties have actually outlined a concrete plan...

Death of outbound passenger on flight

Jan 06, 2020 KNews Letters Comments Off on Death of outbound passenger on flight

DEAR EDITOR, I would like for your newspaper to do an expose on the death of the outbound passenger who passed away yesterday morning at the airport. The airport had no defibrillator nor staff...

Some impressions of Mabaruma Sub-Region

Jan 06, 2020 KNews Letters Comments Off on Some impressions of Mabaruma Sub-Region

DEAR EDITOR, There are some news items related to the Mabaruma Sub-Region in two of the daily papers. One article carried a report from Minister Patterson in regard to the Solar Panel at Mabaruma....

A nightmare for the residents

Jan 06, 2020 KNews Letters Comments Off on A nightmare for the residents

DEAR EDITOR, The Hosororo -Kumaka road remains a nightmare for the residents. It brings out anger and frustration at the Regional Administration. It is not surprising that the residents of Hosororo...

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The PPPC does not practice political inclusion

…Peeping Tom Kaieteur News- The People’s Progressive Party/Civic (PPPC) has mastered the art of political rhetoric.... more