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Apr 12, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on DDL launches $500,000 50-yr-old rum
Demerara Distillers Limited (DDL) launched its El Dorado Grand Special Reserve 50-year Old Rum at its Complex in Diamond, East Bank Demerara, last evening. The occasion saw participation from various...Apr 12, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Suicide is not about unhappy people
According to Guyana’s President, David Granger, unhappy people commit suicide. The President has publicly stated this on a number of occasions, seemingly giving the impression that this explains...Apr 12, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Police Reform…SMD Head says police ignored important advice
‘Unit has outlived its usefulness’ – Commissioner of Police Head of the Strategic Management Department (SMD) of the Guyana Police Force, Patrick Mentore, is alleging that the...Apr 12, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Administrator abandons porn site following media exposure
The operator for a local porn site, which has been tormenting young women around Guyana for months, has abandoned the website after being exposed in the media. As of now, the site, www.Guyanaporn.com...Apr 12, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on More funding to be plugged into Zika fight
—as preliminary studies substantiate links to troubling concerns to virus Preliminary studies have been completed and the consensus embraced by the World Health Organisation (WHO) is that some...Apr 12, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Illegal mining at Kaieteur National Park…Body of drowned cop recovered
The body of Special Constable, Akeem Hyles, who drowned during a Government operation to halt illegal mining around the Kaieteur National Park, last Friday, has been recovered. Kaieteur News was told...Apr 12, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Accusations of GECOM inaction in election impasse unfair- Chief Elections Officer
-Commission must await conclusion of legal proceedings Chief Elections Officer, Keith Lowenfield, is affirming that accusations made by the People’s Progressive Party (PPP) against Guyana Elections...Apr 12, 2016 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on David Granger should never let this moment disappear
There is no question in my mind that David Granger is the right man to be President of Guyana. There is no grey area in my analysis that David Granger is an immensely credible leader. There is no...Apr 12, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Prime Minister seeks follow up meeting to establish Night Courts
Prime Minister Moses Nagamootoo has requested a follow-up meeting with the Chancellor of the Judiciary, Justice Carl Singh, on the matter of the establishment of Night Courts. Night Courts have been...Apr 12, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Stalled 2015 promotions…GTU still opposed to TSC’s operation
—optimistic teachers will eventually reap full benefits Embracing measures to make irrelevant the operation of the Teaching Service Commission (TSC) may very well be the next move of the Guyana...Apr 12, 2016 KNews Court Stories, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Exporter gets four years for coke in Chinese sauce
-ordered to pay over $100M fine Four years was the jail sentence handed down by City Magistrate Judy Latchman to an exporter, who was found guilty yesterday of trafficking nearly 90 pounds of cocaine...Apr 12, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Govt. urges private guard services to respect employees
Private security services were urged by Minister within the Ministry of Social Protection Keith Scott to respect their employees irrespective of employment opportunities, and to provide ‘risk...Apr 12, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Guyoil, GEA inquiry report into alleged wrongdoings due next month
Minister of State, Joseph Harmon, yesterday met with the members of the Board of Inquiry, which was mandated to investigate the allegations of mismanagement and wrongdoing at the Guyana Oil Company...Apr 12, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Eminent Muslim scholar visits homeland
The Muslim community in Guyana is hosting prominent Sunni-Muslim Scholar, His Eminence Shaykh Faisal Hamid Abdur Razak. The well-respected Scholar, who hails from Brampton Canada, was born in Guyana....Apr 12, 2016 KNews Editorial, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Saving water for the dry times
The long dry spell appears to be abating but there is still no break. There have been the sporadic showers that have done little to increase the amount of water in the reservoirs. Agriculturally the...Apr 12, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Prison COI…Fire Officer recalls trauma, chaos
Compton Sparman, the commanding officer who led the fire combat operation against the violent fire that claimed the lives of 17 Camp Street prisoners testified before the Commission of Inquiry,...Apr 12, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on 29 Peace Corps officers join the ranks of American volunteers
The installation of 29 Peace Corps officers who would avail their services in the field of Health and Education for the next two years, was held at the Imam Bacchus and Sons ground, at Affiance,...Apr 12, 2016 KNews News Comments Off on Ombudsman’s NBS Report for National Assembly
Prime Minister Moses Nagamootoo has assured that the report of the Ombudsman into a complaint of injustice by a former top executive of the New Building Society (NBS) would be raised in the National...Apr 12, 2016 KNews Court Stories, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Blackberry, $440 land knife-toting bandit in jail
A 22-year-old man was sent to jail for four years by City Magistrate Judy Latchman, after he was found guilty by the court for the offence of robbery under-arms when he appeared in the Georgetown...Apr 12, 2016 KNews Court Stories, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on No bail for gun accused
A Guyhoc Park resident who police say was found with an unlicensed firearm and live rounds was yesterday remanded to prison after he appeared before Chief Magistrate Ann McLennan. Gilbert Oudkerk,...Apr 12, 2016 KNews Court Stories, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on ‘Tailor Man’ gets life for killing Mahaica farmer
A Mahaica farmer has been sentenced to life imprisonment after he was found guilty of murder. The sentence was handed down on Dhupaul Singh, 57, called Tailor Man of Helena Number Two Village,...Apr 12, 2016 KNews Court Stories, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Fisherman now faces murder charge
A fisherman who police say stabbed a man over a woman was yesterday remanded to prison after he appeared to answer a murder charge at the City Court. It is alleged that Michael Ridley, of 182 Garnett...Apr 12, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on Why is Royston King allowed to behave like this?
Dear Editor, I am a very private person, but I was motivated to do this piece by an article in the Kaieteur News by Frederick Kissoon titled, “Joe Harmon and my wife; the AFC and my...Apr 12, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on Plea for GTT to repair landline phone in Region 2
Dear Editor, The protracted delay by G.T T. to rectify faults that plague its land line service in my Region # 2 district is really disgusting and sickening when better needs to be done not as a...Apr 12, 2016 KNews Letters Comments Off on Divisions among the Hindus in the Stratspey temple
Dear Editor, Please permit me space in your newspaper to highlight an urgent matter which is of utmost importance to the residents of Strathspey and other areas who are devout Hindus of the...Jagdeo giving Exxon 102 cent to collect 2 cent.
Apr 25, 2024
By Rawle Toney Kaieteur Sports – The French Diplomatic Office in Guyana, in collaboration with the Guyana Olympic Association and UNICEF, hosted an exhibition on Tuesday evening at the...Kaieteur News – Dr. Bharrat Jagdeo, the General Secretary of the People’s Progressive Party, persists in offering... more
By Sir Ronald Sanders Waterfalls Magazine – On April 10, the Permanent Council of the Organization of American States... more
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