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GTUC blasts state-sponsored violation of Bauxite industry

Mar 11, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on GTUC blasts state-sponsored violation of Bauxite industry

– Details litany of labour violations committed by BCGI In light of plans for President Donald Ramotar to visit the Upper Berbice River to commission the Kurubuku mines today, the Guyana Trades...

Health Ministry hopes to continue relationship with CHI – Minister

Mar 11, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Health Ministry hopes to continue relationship with CHI – Minister

Despite reported concerns about the future of the Caribbean Heart Institute (CHI), coupled with plans by the Ministry of Health to bring on board a number of overseas-based partners to aid the...

City Hall employee not paid for eight months after employment

Mar 11, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on City Hall employee not paid for eight months after employment

By Zena Henry Another City Hall staffer seems to be suffering in the face of the ongoing split between the Council’s executive and administrative arms. Twenty-year-old Nnesha Hinds has been...

BREAKING SAD NEWS

Mar 11, 2015 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on BREAKING SAD NEWS

One of the most difficult tasks that you can ever face is breaking sad news to others. There is no prescribed approach, for example, as to how you should inform someone that a loved one has died....

Gun-related crimes

Mar 11, 2015 KNews Editorial Comments Off on Gun-related crimes

“Our homicide rates are so much larger than other industrialized countries, by like a mile. Most of that is attributable to the easy, ready availability of firearms, particularly handguns. As long...

Jagdeo’s coolie remark and something I never told my lawyers in the libel trial

Mar 11, 2015 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on Jagdeo’s coolie remark and something I never told my lawyers in the libel trial

Bharrat Jagdeo descended to the base, to the lowest level of nasty instincts when he chose not to use the word “East Indian” but the term, “coolie” in his vile, perverted attempts to wipe up...

Rice husk-powered Gasifier tested at mill

Mar 11, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Rice husk-powered Gasifier tested at mill

…in keeping with LCDS As part of its continuing efforts to improve production and boost the rice industry, the Government has announced the launching of its first test run of a Gasifier, which...

Jagdeo/Kissoon libel case…Full Court grants more time for plaintiff to address defence amendment

Mar 11, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Jagdeo/Kissoon libel case…Full Court grants more time for plaintiff to address defence amendment

This month makes one year since Justice Brassington Reynolds granted the plaintiff in the Jadgeo/Kissoon libel case leave to appeal a ruling made in favour of the defence amending its case. This was...

“One Billion Rising” forum zeroes in on gender inequality

Mar 11, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on “One Billion Rising” forum zeroes in on gender inequality

Although global efforts are already quite visible as it relates to realising gender equality, the fact remains that gender inequality still exists, and has potential daunting impacts for a world in...

Suriname-based Guyanese arrested with coke in B’dos

Mar 11, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Suriname-based Guyanese arrested with coke in B’dos

Barbados (Nationnews) – A Guyanese man has been remanded to prison after pleading guilty to trafficking cocaine. According to police, Michael Roland Felix, who resides in Suriname, travelled to...

$70M bid tendered for two ‘mobile vehicles’

Mar 11, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on $70M bid tendered for two ‘mobile vehicles’

Under the Health Ministry, a lone bid was tendered for the supply and delivery of two mobile vehicles. The bid was opened yesterday at the National Procurement and Tender Administration Board...

West B’ce man on trial for rape of girl, 10

Mar 11, 2015 KNews Court Stories, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on West B’ce man on trial for rape of girl, 10

A 36-year-old man is on trial in the Berbice High Court on a charge of raping a 10-year-old girl four years ago. The man, Dennis Evans called ‘Die Die’, of Bath Settlement, West Coast Berbice,...

Zeeburg man dies in accident at Farm

Mar 11, 2015 KNews News Comments Off on Zeeburg man dies in accident at Farm

The police are investigating an accident which occurred on the East Bank Essequibo (EBE) Public Road in the vicinity of Farm last Monday which has left one man dead. The accident reportedly occurred...

Linden mechanic before court for stolen engine

Mar 11, 2015 KNews Court Stories, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Linden mechanic before court for stolen engine

A Linden man was yesterday placed on $100,000 bail yesterday when he appeared at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court. It is alleged that Derwin Freeman, a mechanic, stole one six-cylinder caterpillar...

$100,000 bail for miner on robbery charge

Mar 11, 2015 KNews Court Stories, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on $100,000 bail for miner on robbery charge

A gold miner made an appearance at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court yesterday to answer to a robbery charge. Kamal Khan of 171 Triumph, East Coast Demerara, pleaded not guilty to the charge...

Wife-killer pleads guilty to manslaughter

Mar 11, 2015 KNews Court Stories, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Wife-killer pleads guilty to manslaughter

More than four years after he was charged with the murder of his reputed wife, Rudolph London pleaded guilty yesterday to the lesser count of manslaughter when he appeared before Justice Franklyn...

Cocaine trafficker gets three years

Mar 11, 2015 KNews Court Stories, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Cocaine trafficker gets three years

City Magistrate Judy Latchman handed a drug trafficker a three-year sentence after he was found guilty of trafficking two grams of cocaine. Daro Peters, 41, chose to give an unsworn statement. He...

No bail for Linden serial robber

Mar 11, 2015 KNews Court Stories, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on No bail for Linden serial robber

A plumber was denied his pre-trial liberty when he appeared before Chief Magistrate Priya Sewnarine-Beharry charged with four counts of armed robbery. Winston Hinds, a plumber, of 58 Blueberry Hill,...

Alleged motorbike thief remanded

Mar 11, 2015 KNews Court Stories, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Alleged motorbike thief remanded

Chief Magistrate Priya Sewnarine-Beharry remanded an Albouystown man on Monday after it was alleged he robbed a man of his motorbike. Ershad Bacchus denied the charge which stated that on March 6, at...

The pain of forgetting the mistakes of the past

Mar 11, 2015 KNews Letters Comments Off on The pain of forgetting the mistakes of the past

Dear Editor, I am responding to a letter written by one Balwant Persaud if he exists. The reason I question that he exists is that no party would have such a person within its ranks making these...

The opposition saved Guyana millions

Mar 11, 2015 KNews Letters Comments Off on The opposition saved Guyana millions

Dear Editor, I am responding to a letter in the (March 9 edition) of the newspaper by Minister Robeson Benn. Without once pausing to establish that the PPP government was legal in 2011 after an...

Securing that crucial youth vote

Mar 11, 2015 KNews Letters Comments Off on Securing that crucial youth vote

Dear Editor, I write this letter in an attempt to generate public debate on how best to mobilize young voters, to participate in a big way, in the upcoming May 11th General and Regional Elections....

The truth about Crime under the PPP/C versus PNC

Mar 11, 2015 KNews Letters Comments Off on The truth about Crime under the PPP/C versus PNC

Dear Editor, As a young Guyanese professional, I am disheartened and somewhat insulted to read an article by three individuals who one might expect to engage in honest and unbiased debate. I refer to...

Donald Ramotar does not have a strategy to transform Guyana.

Mar 11, 2015 KNews Letters Comments Off on Donald Ramotar does not have a strategy to transform Guyana.

Dear Editor, In reality, politicians end up doing what their characters oblige them to do. The character of Donald Ramotar has always been one who is indecisive, lacks conviction and a world-class...

Venezuela’s sabre rattling

Mar 11, 2015 KNews Letters Comments Off on Venezuela’s sabre rattling

Dear Editor, Just weeks before our much anticipated general and regional elections- March 15, 2015- the Government of Venezuela is, once again, echoing an all too familiar sound of discontent, to...

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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