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Businesswoman’s body found with hands and feet bound

Jun 16, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Businesswoman’s body found with hands and feet bound

The murder of a peaceful and usually jovial 65-year-old resident of Albouystown has not only left many family members and friends in a state of grief but the suspicious features of the crime scene...

Govt., Opposition still trading blame as FATF review looms

Jun 16, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Govt., Opposition still trading blame as FATF review looms

…Granger believes executive readying for an election Guyana will come up for review by the Financial Action Taskforce (FATF) this week but there has been little progress in relation to the...

Govt. ignoring Motion to bring NICIL under parliamentary scrutiny – APNU

Jun 16, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Govt. ignoring Motion to bring NICIL under parliamentary scrutiny – APNU

The government has made clear that it does not intend to take heed of a two-year-old Motion which called for the National Industrial and Commercial Investments Limited (NICIL) to be brought under the...

Policeman accused of raping female colleague

Jun 16, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Policeman accused of raping female colleague

A Police Constable betrayed the trust of a female colleague when he had forced sex with her after offering her a drop in his car. The rank, who is reportedly stationed at the Number 10 Police...

Driver abandons car after killing security guard in hit and run accident

Jun 16, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Driver abandons car after killing security guard in hit and run accident

– later surrenders with lawyer The father’s day plans of an Annandale, East Coast Demarara family were shattered when the patriarch was found dead on the Courbane Park Public road early...

The perfect Father’s Day gift – a first time father shares his joy

Jun 16, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on The perfect Father’s Day gift – a first time father shares his joy

For 27-year-old Andrew Goodridge, the sound of a crying baby on the other end of the telephone line yesterday was the most beautiful and exciting moment in his life. Goodridge, who became a first...

Dem boys seh…Jagdeo flying more than some bird

Jun 16, 2014 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Dem boys seh…Jagdeo flying more than some bird

In some countries when World Cup football playing people does stop wukking. Guyana slightly different. De people don’t wuk most times and when football playing dem does give people wuk. Dem does...

Defending champs in action today as Digicel Schools Football commences

Jun 16, 2014 KNews Sports Comments Off on Defending champs in action today as Digicel Schools Football commences

– matches at Timehri and Min. of Education grounds Defending champions Christianburg/Wismar will be in action in one of three matches planned to kick-off the Fourth Digicel Schools Football...

Messi scores stunner in Argentina win

Jun 16, 2014 KNews Sports Comments Off on Messi scores stunner in Argentina win

BBC Sport – Lionel Messi scored a superb goal as Argentina began their World Cup campaign with a win over World Cup debutants Bosnia-Hercegovina. Argentina went ahead when Messi’s free-kick...

West Indies v New Zealand, 2nd Test, Port-of-Spain…Windies looking to rebound in T&T as Leon Johnson eyes Test debut

Jun 16, 2014 KNews Sports Comments Off on West Indies v New Zealand, 2nd Test, Port-of-Spain…Windies looking to rebound in T&T as Leon Johnson eyes Test debut

By Sean Devers in Trinidad In Association with Digicel, John Fernandez Ltd, Stag Beer, Cascadia Hotel New Zealand has never won any of their three Tests played in Trinidad between 1972 and 1985 but...

Castrol Father’s Day 55-Mile Cycle Road Race…Jeffrey defends title successfully; Arthur is new junior champ

Jun 16, 2014 KNews Sports Comments Off on Castrol Father’s Day 55-Mile Cycle Road Race…Jeffrey defends title successfully; Arthur is new junior champ

Team Cocoa’s capped a fine weekend of racing when Raynauth Jeffrey successfully defended his Castrol sponsored Father’s Day 55-Mile Cycle Raod Race senior title on the West Demerara yesterday...

Death of four-year-old at GPHC…Free health care could be costly – says grieving mother

Jun 16, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Death of four-year-old at GPHC…Free health care could be costly – says grieving mother

– as she calls for disciplinary action to be meted out now The cost of free health service could at times prove to be very costly. At least this is the conviction of Nathalie Caseley, who was...

GSCL Inc GS Telesha Ousman bowled over by Fiaz Yamin doorsa

Jun 16, 2014 KNews Sports Comments Off on GSCL Inc GS Telesha Ousman bowled over by Fiaz Yamin doorsa

Guyana Softball Cricket League Inc. General Secretary Telesha Ousman (right) was ‘bowled over by Fiaz Yamin’s doorsa’ when the pair got married last weekend. The couple tied the knot on...

Canje River residents forced to use contaminated discoloured water

Jun 16, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Canje River residents forced to use contaminated discoloured water

Despite assurances that residents in the Canje River areas would not be affected by contaminated water from rice farmers in the area, this has proven not to be so. Evidence of the contaminated and...

Cases of Child Labour underreported

Jun 16, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Cases of Child Labour underreported

– Labour Ministry re-affirms commitment to combat the problem Statistics show a decline in child labour. However, there are still 168 million children worldwide who are being forced to work; 85...

Special Organised Crime Unit to begin recruitment

Jun 16, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Special Organised Crime Unit to begin recruitment

– Dr. Luncheon The Guyana Government is closer to the establishment of the Special Organised Crime Unit (SOCU), which will primarily be dealing with the investigation of money laundering and other...

Itacha family robbed by men posing as Customs Officers

Jun 16, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Itacha family robbed by men posing as Customs Officers

A West Bank Berbice family remains fearful after a horrible encounter with three men who claimed to be Customs Officers attached to the Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) and who recently fleeced them of...

Search for Chikungunya virus in Amerindian Villages turns up dengue cases

Jun 16, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Search for Chikungunya virus in Amerindian Villages turns up dengue cases

Continued efforts to monitor the impact of the Chikungunya virus in the Berbice area recently, saw health officials rushing to the Amerindian villages of Siparuta and Orealla along the Corentyne...

THE BILLIONS THAT HAVE NOT BEEN REPAID

Jun 16, 2014 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on THE BILLIONS THAT HAVE NOT BEEN REPAID

There was once an official of the Guyana Cricket Board by the name of Rovin Stanley. One day, it was said, a proposal was made to him to support the nomination of a political prince to become the...

Police Wives Assoc. says it will not be bullied by the Force’s administration

Jun 16, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on Police Wives Assoc. says it will not be bullied by the Force’s administration

– members locked out from meeting place The administration of the Guyana Police Force has reportedly shot the door on the Police Wives Association (PWA), widening a rift that was brewing since...

GPL Customer Service is as lousy as the service they provide

Jun 16, 2014 KNews Letters Comments Off on GPL Customer Service is as lousy as the service they provide

Dear Editor, In previous letters, I have been critical of the management style of the Guyana Power & Light CEO, Bharat Dindyal, and have called for his removal from that position. Over the years,...

IN PRAISE OF OLDER WOMEN TOO

Jun 16, 2014 KNews Features / Columnists, Tony Deyal column Comments Off on IN PRAISE OF OLDER WOMEN TOO

About ten years ago, a calypso singer from Grenada, Tallpree, became popular in Trinidad because of a song in which he avows a preference for female senior citizens. Eschewing young women,...

President lauds China’s humanitarian assistance

Jun 16, 2014 KNews News Comments Off on President lauds China’s humanitarian assistance

– as 10th Chinese Medical Brigade leaves and 11th batch welcomed Humanitarian assistance has become a very important aspect of China’s assistance to developing countries, and the presence of that...

A MASQUERADE OF DELUSIONED CRUSADERS

Jun 16, 2014 KNews Letters Comments Off on A MASQUERADE OF DELUSIONED CRUSADERS

Dear Editor, Is it a mental problem to constantly indulge in fossilized repetitiveness in defiance of simple common sense? I wrote a letter in Kaieteur News on May 20. Questioning an Ad placed in...

Defend our faiths with gentleness and reverence

Jun 16, 2014 KNews Letters Comments Off on Defend our faiths with gentleness and reverence

Dear Editor, I humbly submit a response to the Swami Aksharananda letter dated 19th – 20th May, 2014 with reference to the Central Islamic Organization of Guyana (CIOG) press release on the...

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The President’s pipe dream

Kaieteur News – The effusive optimism of President Irfaan Ali in proclaiming Guyana as poised to become a major manufacturing... more