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Former SWAT head challenges special leave decision by Felix

Jun 17, 2018 KNews News 0

Former head of the police Special Weapons and Tactics (SWAT) unit, Motie Dookie, is challenging a decision to send him on special leave in the public’s interest earlier this year. The Deputy...

Danger lessens following Diamond eruption

Jun 17, 2018 KNews News 0

The Civil Defence Commission (CDC), a number of other agencies and public spirited citizens have started a cleanup at the natural gas explosion site at Diamond on the East Bank Demerara. The...

What you should know about Sickle Cell trait

Jun 17, 2018 KNews News 0

BY ROBERT FRASER R.N, B.S “The cure for poverty is not money but knowledge” – Sir Arthur Lewis (West Indian Nobel Laureate) World Sickle Cell Day would be observed this week: What is Sickle...

B Division Police boost tremendous success in fight against crime

Jun 17, 2018 KNews News 0

– Murder, robbery down, crime decrease by 41% The police in B Division (Berbice) led by Assistant Commissioner Lyndon Alves are boasting of tremendous success in their fight against crime and...

High Court rules Magistrate to continue hearing extradition proceedings for US murder suspect

Jun 17, 2018 KNews Court Stories, Features / Columnists, News 0

The High Court has invested Principal Magistrate Sherlock Isaacs-Marcus with the authority to continue hearing extradition proceedings for Troy Thomas, who is wanted in the US for second degree...

GNBS on-board with Consultancy to Enhance Local Furniture Industry

Jun 17, 2018 KNews Features / Columnists, Standards in Focus 0

For a number of years, the GNBS has been monitoring the labelling of furniture manufactured locally under its Standards Compliance Programme. Monitoring is being done to ensure compliance with the...

Weak GDP performance for 2017 is cause for serious reflection by Govt. – Goolsarran

Jun 13, 2018 KNews News 0

By Kiana Wilburg Former Auditor General Anand Goolsarran believes that the 2.1 percent growth rate for the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) in 2017 is a cause for grave concern and warrants reflection by...

Cocaine, ganja, satellite phone seized in major CANU operation

Jun 13, 2018 KNews Court Stories, Features / Columnists, News 0

– Five charged Anti-narcotics ranks believe that they have dented a major drug smuggling ring that routed coke through the Pomeroon, Region Two area. In a bust last Wednesday in the Parika...

ExxonMobil commemorates Liza Phase One Development Project

Jun 13, 2018 KNews ExxonMobil, News 0

Several government officials, members of the Diplomatic Corps and other invited guests gathered at the Cara Lodge Courtyard last evening to commemorate the Liza Phase One Development Project which...

Guyanese Marva Langevine to receive Queen’s Young Leaders Award

Jun 13, 2018 KNews News 0

Queen Elizabeth II will present Guyanese Marva Langevine with a Queen’s Young Leaders Award at a special ceremony at Buckingham Palace in London, on Tuesday, June 26. The Awards recognise the work...

She’s 105 and wants “to live to see a million”

Jun 13, 2018 KNews News 0

Doris Clastina Fordyce, a mother of five (one deceased) celebrated her 105th birth anniversary yesterday, and with her to celebrate were her four remaining children (all daughters), grandchildren...

Couple denies fatally stabbing relative at Skull City

Jun 13, 2018 KNews Court Stories, Features / Columnists, News 0

Vishwantie Ragnauth, who is on trial for allegedly killing her uncle Sunil Ramsundar on Boxing Day of 2014, has denied committing the crime. Ragnauth, formerly of Skull City, Patentia, West Bank...

‘Nasty Man’ for trial today over Warlock murder

Jun 13, 2018 KNews Court Stories, Features / Columnists, News 0

Having been charged and freed for murder when he was just a teenager, the now 26-year-old Delon Henry, popularly known as ‘Nasty Man’, is expected to go on trial this morning for the September...

Without appropriate rules and adequate oversight…Sovereign Wealth Funds no guarantee for prosperity, Analyst warns

Jun 11, 2018 KNews News 0

By Kiana Wilburg Governments are often open to creating Sovereign Wealth Funds (SWF) with the intention of squirreling away excess money made on their natural resources. This money can help to...

Govt. commits to “fully transparent process” on all Public Private Partnership projects

Jun 11, 2018 KNews News 0

By Kiana Wilburg Government has expressed its commitment to “a fully transparent process” on all Public Private Partnerships (PPP) projects. The APNU+AFC administration made this known in its...

Ramotar slams Govt. on fuel price hike

Jun 11, 2018 KNews News 0

The coalition Government has been accused of abandoning policies that would help to cushion the effects of rising fuel prices on businesses and households. Former President Donald Ramotar pointed...

RDC halts rent deduction for nurses, teachers in Govt. houses

Jun 11, 2018 KNews News 0

– cites overflowing septic tanks, other ‘atrocious’ conditions The atrocious condition of many of the houses occupied by teachers and nurses in Region Ten has led Chairman Rennis Morian to...

Cop detained for allegedly battering wife, hitting victim’s sister with spade

Jun 11, 2018 KNews News 0

– reportedly only ‘warned’ before when complaints made Even as police seek to address complaints about their response to domestic violence, one of their colleagues is being accused of wife...

Future of Guyana Prize in jeopardy?

Jun 11, 2018 KNews News 0

– Minister Norton says he has reports that organization “not being run as it should” The future of Guyana’s most prestigious literary award, the Guyana Prize for Literature, may...

Prisoner beaten unconscious on Independence Day succumbs

Jun 11, 2018 KNews News 0

Shawn Thom, the 22-year-old prisoner, who was found in an unconscious state in the Camp Street Prison on Independence Day, has died. Thom succumbed yesterday at the Georgetown Public Hospital, where...

PPP to up its game in Oil and Gas Sectoral meetings – Jagdeo

Jun 11, 2018 KNews News 0

“They are clever people. It is just that they are not specialists in the areas.” That is a bit of what Opposition Leader, Bharrat Jagdeo had to say when faced with questions about the level of...

Police find guns, ammo at Potaro

Jun 11, 2018 KNews News 0

Police have recovered a shotgun, a handgun and ammunition under a shed at Wild Lang Mission, Potaro. A release said that the ranks, acting on intelligence, on Saturday found a single- barrel 12...

Guyanese American television host roots inducted into ‘Wall of Fame’

Jun 11, 2018 KNews News 0

Guyanese American television host Joy-Ann Reid has been inducted into the “Wall of Fame” of the Washington-based Institute of Caribbean Studies (ICS) . Reid is also a political analyst,...

Over 300 Pomeroon residents benefit from two-day medical outreach

Jun 11, 2018 KNews News 0

More than 300 residents from various settlements within the Pomeroon, recently benefitted from a medical outreach, which was collaborated between the Trevor Daniel’s Enterprise and the Ministry of...

Guyana at 52: Attica and Ithaca

Jun 11, 2018 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon 0

One of the most memorable scenes I have seen in a movie is Al Pacino in “Dog Day Afternoon” in which he robbed a bank and couldn’t get out because the police had him surrounded. He came out of...

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The plural noun, “gonads” have been used historically, traditionally, journalistically and in common parlance to mean... more

Crime at Stabroek Square

It may be difficult to believe but one of the most dangerous places to be in Guyana is also the busiest. Stabroek Square... more