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Police deserve a bigger incentive – Top cop

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– JSOG top man is Best Cop for 2008 – slain constable gets posthumous award for bravery Assistant Superintendent of Police, Lyndon Alves, a senior operative of the Joint Services...

Gibson was involved in theft of army weapons

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– Crime Chief Crime Chief Seelall Persaud said that there is enough evidence to suggest that there was a definite intricate link between gangs led by now dead Rondell ‘Fine Man’ Rawlins and...

Woman tells Magistrate ‘I beat him, smashed his windscreen’

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…after man gets involved in ‘husband and wife story’ “Your Worship, if I de had me razor with me it woulda be a murder, not an assault,” were the words of 53-year-old Sabina...

GT&T records $9B profit

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…pays $1.2B in advisory fees to parent company Guyana Telephone and Telegraph Company Limited has announced that it had made $9 billion profit in the last operating year 2007/2008. But, according...

Police accidentally shoots civilian

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A 50-year-old man was accidentally shot by a police rank attached at the Sparendaam Magistrate’s Court. Injured is Prince Carl of Jonestown, Mahaica Public Road. The incident occurred around...

UN Special Envoy says: Repeal buggery laws

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United Nations Secretary General Special Envoy for HIV/AIDS in the Caribbean, George A. O. Alleyne, believes that if the fight against HIV/AIDS is to be won the laws against buggery need to be...

Kaieteur News Christmas Party

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Comfort Sleep ‘gives back’ to society

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In an effort to give back to society, and as part of assisting the less fortunate and disabled, Comfort Sleep has embarked on a programme to assist the Ptolemy Reid Rehabilitation Centre and...

RUSAL parent company showing signs of financial collapse

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… new alumina refinery in Guyana may be scrapped as unaffordable – Asia Times Oleg Deripaska, until recently Russia’s richest oligarch, is currently showing small signs of financial...

Coast to get 80mm rainfall in coming days

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Demerara and Berbice can expect some 80mm of rainfall over the next four days. Yesterday, hydrometerological reports stated that in areas where an average of 1.5 inches of rainfall is usually...

M&CC to address littering problem with public forum

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The littering culture of citizens must cease if the Mayor and City Council (M&CC) of Georgetown is to effectively maintain the drainage system of the city. This is according to Public Relations...

Chief Justice finds AG violated freedom of expression in Region Ten

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Chief Justice (ag) Ian Chang has ruled that the constitutional right of the applicants as residents of Region Ten to freedom of expression under Article 146 of the Constitution was infringed or...

Fidelity Investments probe should go to Parliament – Ramjattan

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The Auditor General report on the Fidelity Investments probe should be sent to Parliament rather than to the President, Alliance for Change Chairman Khemraj Ramjattan said yesterday. In an interview...

Pomeroon farmers lose crops as a result of flooding

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Farmers on the east bank of the of the Pomeroon River in Region Two are currently counting their losses as a result of the flooding, and are calling on the Ministry of Agriculture to come to their...

Elderly man found dead in Bel Air home

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Police on Monday evening found the partly decomposed remains of a 72-year-old man in his Bel Air Park home. Reports are that Fr Malcolm Rodrigues found his cousin, Compton Rodrigues, lying between...

GPL power outages could lead to flood situation – City Official

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There is dire need for the Liliendaal drainage pump to be operated by a two-way supply of electricity since, according to Deputy City Engineer Lloyd Alleyne, should the supply of electricity be...

Man’s gets involved in ‘husband and wife story’ and suffers

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… woman admits to beating him, smashing his windscreen “Your Worship, if I de had me razor with me it woulda be a murder, not an assault,” were the words of 53-year-old Sabina Isaacs of Block...

Women fabricated gunpoint rape/robbery

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Police investigations indicate that two women from an East Bank Demerara community fabricated a story about being raped and robbed by a gun-toting masked intruder last Thursday. The women, who are...

Church’s Chicken debuts with K&S football

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Church’s Chicken has scored their first goal with the Kashif and Shanghai Football tournament when Director Gregory De Gannes handed over a cheque for an undisclosed amount yesterday at their main...

Defending champs Alpha face Cougars, Fruta Conquerors tackle Lethem

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By Franklin Wilson Defending champions Alpha ‘The Hammer’ United have recruited the services of Grenadian striker Kithson Bain to lead their quest as they seek to successfully defend their title...

IAST head detained with ammo in Trinidad

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Head of the Institute of Applied Science and Technology, Dr. Suresh Narine, was detained in Trinidad with 12 rounds of 9mm ammunition after departing Guyana on a Caribbean Airlines flight via the VIP...

Guyana receives US$7 million loan from CDB

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The Government of Guyana has received a total of US$7.5 million loan from the Caribbean Development Bank (CDB) to assist in enhancing access to technical and vocational education and training (TVET)....

Isle Be True thunders past field at Norman Singh horserace meet

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Mr. Chris Jagdeo’s Isle Be True returned with a bang to upstage its opponents in an impressive display of speed to win the feature B class event when the Norman Singh Turf club in collaboration...

REMAINING SILENT

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By Rawle Welch Renowned Trinidadian sports writer /cricket commentator Fazeer Mohamed’s recent article named ‘Crabs in a barrel’ which appeared in the Trinidad Express newspaper sometime last...

Sister claims that her brother threatened her with a cutlass

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Neil Alphonso, 46, of Lot 1 Water Street, Agricola, was placed on $15,000 bail after he pleaded not guilty before Acting Chief Magistrate Melissa Robertson. It is alleged that on December 4 at Water...

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Peeping Tom… Kaieteur News-It is peculiar the way the PPP/C government often finds itself staring down the barrel of... more