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Joint Services corner elusive gang at Kwakwani

Jun 07, 2008 knews News Comments Off on Joint Services corner elusive gang at Kwakwani

…kill one, seize machine guns, shotguns, ammunition The Joint Services moved one step closer to bringing an end to the reign of a band of gunmen when they cornered a large gang in the vicinity of...

Manickchand challenges US to validate TIP report

Jun 07, 2008 knews News 1

“They have been invited to come and do an accurate survey…let’s find these hundreds of persons that they are talking about…We shall not manufacture charges against Guyanese citizens so as...

Police pick-up loses control at Airy Hall

Jun 07, 2008 knews News Comments Off on Police pick-up loses control at Airy Hall

-Six ranks injured At least six ranks of the Guyana Police Force were yesterday rushed to the Georgetown Public Hospital following an accident at Airy Hall, Mahaicony. Those injured are Sergeant...

GPL employee escapes death on power pole

Jun 07, 2008 knews News Comments Off on GPL employee escapes death on power pole

At just about 17:30 hours yesterday, a Guyana Power and Light (GPL) employee came into contact with high voltage power lines while he was attempting to fix a problem on one of the lamp posts on...

CARICOM preparing agenda for upcoming conference

Jun 07, 2008 knews News Comments Off on CARICOM preparing agenda for upcoming conference

The 22nd meeting of the CARICOM Council of Ministers yesterday commenced its meeting to prepare an agenda for the upcoming conference. According to CARICOM Secretary General, Edwin Carrington,...

Corbin on speaking ..duties in Canada

Jun 07, 2008 knews News 1

Opposition Leader and Leader of the People’s National Congress Reform (PNCR), Robert Corbin, left Guyana on Friday to address a Town Hall Meeting in Toronto, Canada, tomorrow, at the invitation of...

Orphans get textbooks from Islamic Foundation

Jun 07, 2008 knews News Comments Off on Orphans get textbooks from Islamic Foundation

Another donation was made to the Al-Madinah Islamic Academy, in Anna Regina, Essequibo Coast, on Thursday, and the recipients were eight male orphans who each received a number of text books. The...

Gunmen rob IPED mobile -drive off with $3M

Jun 07, 2008 knews News 1

The Institute of Private Enterprise Development (IPED) was yesterday struck a severe financial blow when bandits attacked and robbed a vehicle transporting some $3M from its South Road location to a...

GT&T maintains home-building collaboration with Habitat for Humanity

Jun 07, 2008 knews News Comments Off on GT&T maintains home-building collaboration with Habitat for Humanity

GT&T yesterday renewed its annual collaboration with the NGO, Habitat for Humanity, when the company presented a cheque for the amount of one million dollars as its contribution to assist in the...

Cellphone Shack broken into

Jun 07, 2008 knews News Comments Off on Cellphone Shack broken into

–$2M stolen in cell phones, laptops, flat screen monitors Employees of Cellphone Shack located on North Road, Bourda arrived at their workplace yesterday morning to find the structure broken...

Teacher remanded on sex assault charge

Jun 07, 2008 knews News 2

A teacher attached to the Charlestown Secondary School was remanded to prison, yesterday, on a charge of indecently assaulting a student. The accused, 32-year-old Gopaul Ramatulla, made his...

Education Ministry launches sign language training

Jun 07, 2008 knews News 1

The Ministry of Education, in partnership with the Guyana Community Based Rehabilitation Programme (GCBRP), on Wednesday began a sign language training project aimed at preparing the way for greater...

Kitty man beaten for stealing electrical cord

Jun 07, 2008 knews News Comments Off on Kitty man beaten for stealing electrical cord

The efforts of two police officers and the curiosity of several public-spirited citizens may have been instrumental in saving the life of a 33-year-old man who was severely beaten about his body and...

‘Nasty Man’ charged with buggery

Jun 07, 2008 knews News Comments Off on ‘Nasty Man’ charged with buggery

A 17-year-old murder accused and another man were yesterday remanded to prison after they were jointly charged with buggery. The duo Deon Braithwaite, 21, of X D’Urban Street, and Dellon Henry,...

‘Guyana Times’ hits the streets

Jun 07, 2008 knews News Comments Off on ‘Guyana Times’ hits the streets

– President gets testy at launching President Bharrat Jagdeo was at his caustic best Thursday evening at the launching of the newly established newspaper ‘Guyana Times’ when he launched an...

Man remanded for gunpoint robbery

Jun 07, 2008 knews News Comments Off on Man remanded for gunpoint robbery

Magistrate Hazel Octive-Hamilton yesterday remanded an 18-year-old man after he appeared before her on a charge of robbery under arms. The accused, Rolston Row, on June 2, while being armed with a...

Freddie Kissoon – Mr. Jagdeo will end his tenure not knowing this country

Jun 07, 2008 KNews Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on Freddie Kissoon – Mr. Jagdeo will end his tenure not knowing this country

There are things that each of us in this world know so that we can say; “I know this thing a little better than you.” I will now say to President Jagdeo that I know what the Guyanese people...

Mocha Access Road needs some attention

Jun 07, 2008 KNews Letters Comments Off on Mocha Access Road needs some attention

DEAR MR. EDITOR. The community of Mocha/Arcadia is situated on the East Bank of the Demerara River approximately five and a half miles from Georgetown and one and a half miles east of Ramsburg by the...

Food drives become imperative as investment forum gets underway

Jun 07, 2008 knews News Comments Off on Food drives become imperative as investment forum gets underway

With a mini-exhibition and some 150 participants, the Regional Agriculture Investment Forum began yesterday with Guyana’s President Bharrat Jagdeo urging governments to focus on action-oriented...

Peeping Tom – Time to End the Debate

Jun 07, 2008 KNews Peeping Tom Comments Off on Peeping Tom – Time to End the Debate

One race has ended in the United States of America. Senator Hillary Clinton is today expected to concede to Senator Barack Obama in the race for the Democratic Nomination for the Presidency of the...

The primitive approach to communication must cease

Jun 07, 2008 KNews Letters Comments Off on The primitive approach to communication must cease

DEAR EDITOR The University of Guyana Students’ Society (UGSS) is the body which attends to any student welfare and ensures that the UG Administration provides a safe studying/working environment...

Infrastructural improvement moving apace for Carifesta

Jun 07, 2008 knews News Comments Off on Infrastructural improvement moving apace for Carifesta

Even as the monetary cost of preparing sections of the country for Carifesta is being addressed, plans are moving apace to ensure that all is ready for Guyana’s hosting of the festival of arts in...

Kudos Minister Ramsammy !

Jun 07, 2008 KNews Letters 1

DEAR EDITOR, I am relieved that Minister of Health Dr Leslie Ramsammy has now spoken publicly about the connection between domestic violence, health and the economy. I would like to draw attention to...

Accused in UG student’s murder freed

Jun 07, 2008 knews News Comments Off on Accused in UG student’s murder freed

Steve Lovell, who was charged with murdering University of Guyana student, Dennis Edghill, yesterday walked out of the Sparendaam Magistrate’s Court a free man after the case against him was...

Schoolgirl stripped in class because of removable tattoo

Jun 07, 2008 knews News Comments Off on Schoolgirl stripped in class because of removable tattoo

…welfare department to investigate An outraged mother made her fury evident yesterday when she told the story of how her 14-year-old child was apparently stripped of her school uniform by teachers...