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Fleeing gunmen can survive for 30 days without food

Jun 13, 2008 knews News 4

– medical expert While the security forces are optimistic that the fleeing bandits may not be able to survive for too long without food in the rough jungle up the Berbice River near Kwakwani,...

PPP mulls alliance with PNCR to confront GECOM

Jun 13, 2008 knews News 1

People’s Progressive Party (PPP) General Secretary, Donald Ramotar, says that his party is not ruling out the possibility of a collaborative front with the People’s National Congress Reform...

Roger Khan must face the consequences

Jun 13, 2008 knews News 3

– President Bharrat Jagdeo Guyana’s President, Bharrat Jagdeo is adamant that accused drug baron Shaheed “Roger” Khan should face the might of the law if he is found guilty. Jagdeo...

Int’l flights for Ogle Airport in August

Jun 13, 2008 knews News 2

– Fire tender from Korea handed over to facility The donation of a fire tender by the Korean Government through the CARICOM Secretariat, to the Ogle Airport, has moved the entity closer to...

Unusually high winds cause havoc in West Coast

Jun 13, 2008 knews News Comments Off on Unusually high winds cause havoc in West Coast

Unusually high winds caused havoc yesterday afternoon on West Coast Demerara as one house was blown over and the roof removed from another in two separate villages. In Anna Catherina, an abandoned...

Petrol dealers seek ways to cushion fuel price hike

Jun 13, 2008 knews News 1

Local petrol dealers yesterday pledged their commitment to work with the Commerce Ministry to ensure that consumers are not taken advantage of because of high fuel prices. This was announced...

GuySuCo, PNCR clash over sugar importation claims

Jun 13, 2008 knews News Comments Off on GuySuCo, PNCR clash over sugar importation claims

The Guyana Sugar Corporation (GuySuCo) is denying claims by the People’s National Congress Reform (PNCR) that it is importing brown sugar. Yesterday, the PNCR in a statement said that it has...

Cinema Caretaker murder trial…Accused said that he acted in self defence

Jun 13, 2008 knews News Comments Off on Cinema Caretaker murder trial…Accused said that he acted in self defence

Murder accused, Gerald James, who was accused of killing a cinema caretaker almost five years ago, insisted that he was acting in self defence when the man met his death. James, 33, nicknamed...

Youth group wins UNICEF award

Jun 13, 2008 knews News Comments Off on Youth group wins UNICEF award

Youth Media Guyana (YMG) yesterday received the UNICEF “Traces Communication Award” for best innovation for excellent work produced via their Youth News Bulletin. The first annual...

25 homes built for relocated Mahaica Creek residents

Jun 13, 2008 knews News Comments Off on 25 homes built for relocated Mahaica Creek residents

Guyana has already begun to see the benefits of the recently-concluded Regional Agriculture Investment forum as one investor confirmed its presence in Guyana with the establishment of a state of the...

Security agencies team up to battle crime at CJIA

Jun 13, 2008 knews News 1

Security at the country’s main airport is tightening. On Wednesday, an agreement with the key agencies was signed that will see greater collaboration and monthly meetings to deal with loopholes at...

Rice millers warned of delinquent payments to farmers

Jun 13, 2008 knews News Comments Off on Rice millers warned of delinquent payments to farmers

Government has warned that it will go after rice millers who are delinquent in paying farmers. According to the Ministry of Agriculture, it has received reports of farmers receiving rubber cheques...

Upcoming Inter/Intra Community Dialogue…Concerted confidence building required

Jun 13, 2008 knews News Comments Off on Upcoming Inter/Intra Community Dialogue…Concerted confidence building required

– ERC Chairman The Ethnic Relations Commission (ERC) is aware of the complexities regarding racial tension in Guyana, and is of the view there is need for concerted confidence building, Chairman of...

PPP not worried about the party image and Roger Khan’s revelations

Jun 13, 2008 knews News 3

– Ramotar The People’s Progressive Party (PPP) nor any of its members has never had any contact with the now infamous Shaheed ‘Roger’ Khan, hence it has no concerns that utterances by his...

Embassy officials visit critically injured housewife

Jun 13, 2008 knews News 1

– assisting with medical bills Officials from the US Embassy, on Thursday, visited 22-year-old Shonette Williams, the Guyanese housewife who was critically injured on Tuesday night after she...

Police constable fined for unlicenced driving

Jun 13, 2008 knews News Comments Off on Police constable fined for unlicenced driving

Ray Hinds, a police constable attached to the Tactical Services Unit, was yesterday fined a total of $45,000 after he pleaded guilty to being an unlicensed driver and to a breach of insurance. Hinds,...

Bogus currency lands man in court

Jun 13, 2008 knews News Comments Off on Bogus currency lands man in court

Victor Richards, a 25-year-old labourer, was on Thursday granted bail after answering three charges in connection to the possession and usage of forged currency notes. It was alleged that on June 9,...

Overseas based guests victims of latest robbery

Jun 13, 2008 knews News 1

Bandits on the East Bank of Essequibo escaped with cash, jewellery and other items in a rare robbery attack on a minibus driver and his overseas-based guests, on Thursday. The attack, which was...

NO WAY OUT!

Jun 13, 2008 knews Editorial Comments Off on NO WAY OUT!

The country waits with bated breath for the outcome of the manhunt for the men who recently managed to elude a Joint Services dragnet at Christmas Falls. So concerned are the citizens that there have...

Only an honest, thorough investigation will truly ventilate this issue

Jun 13, 2008 knews Letters 3

DEAR EDITOR, The Guyana leg of the Roger Khan saga will not end until the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth sets all PPP and government officials free via the process of elimination. A...

A new Chapter of GOPIO is launched

Jun 13, 2008 knews Letters Comments Off on A new Chapter of GOPIO is launched

DEAR EDITOR, I write to applaud Guyanese settled in the Bronx and Upstate New York who have come together to form a Chapter of the Global Organisation of People of Indian Origin (GOPIO). There are...

The greatest contradiction of all times

Jun 13, 2008 knews Letters 1

DEAR EDITOR, I was shocked to read the headlines in the newspapers (12-06-08) where the Guyana Bar Association criticised Minister Clement Rohee for commenting on the granting of bail by the Chief...

Truth checking should proceed from top to bottom

Jun 13, 2008 knews Letters Comments Off on Truth checking should proceed from top to bottom

DEAR EDITOR, I am impressed by the Honourable Mayor of Georgetown’s assertion that he is willing to take a lie detector test, providing there is fairness and balance in terms of its administration,...

Blame the government – The focus is on protection for the family

Jun 13, 2008 knews Features / Columnists Comments Off on Blame the government – The focus is on protection for the family

The incidence of sexual abuse, both in the schools and in the home, is cause for concern. Too many of the young people, particularly the girls, are becoming victims of sexual abuse and this should...

THE HARD TIMES NEWSPAPER

Jun 13, 2008 knews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on THE HARD TIMES NEWSPAPER

Most of you would have had an experience of having to take a mint or a chewing gum or a sweet in lieu of a $5 or a $10 “change”. I have had that experience numerous times. Often, if the sum is...