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Coast guards abduct, rob gold dealer’s employee

Aug 21, 2009 knews News Comments Off on Coast guards abduct, rob gold dealer’s employee

Perpetrator’s sister nabbed with $5.7M Victim missing, ranks detained Three ranks from the Guyana Defence Force Coast Guard were arrested yesterday afternoon following a brazen multi-million dollar...

Simels, Assistant found guilty

Aug 21, 2009 knews News Comments Off on Simels, Assistant found guilty

– to be sentenced November 20 Famed New York Lawyer, 62-year-old, Robert Simels who represented self-confessed drug dealer Guyanese Shaheed ‘Roger’ Khan was found guilty on 12 of the 13...

It’s Corbin vs Murray

Aug 21, 2009 knews News Comments Off on It’s Corbin vs Murray

…as Team Alexander, Reform component, Van West Charles throw weight behind Murray By Gary Eleazar Rumours were yesterday confirmed as fact when Dr Richard Van West Charles, the Reform component of...

‘Eyewitness’ fingers Coast Guard vessel in Essequibo River mishap

Aug 21, 2009 knews News Comments Off on ‘Eyewitness’ fingers Coast Guard vessel in Essequibo River mishap

– afraid to come forward with information Relatives of two men who perished in the boat mishap which occurred 10 days ago on the Essequibo River, are pleading with eyewitnesses to come forward...

Is sheer Monkey business

Aug 21, 2009 knews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Is sheer Monkey business

When you sensitive all kind of things does jump out at you. If a man laugh you feel he laughing at you and if a man just watch you when he walk past you feel he got you in he mind. Nuff people get...

Bandits nabbed after Linden restaurant robbery-booty missing

Aug 21, 2009 knews News Comments Off on Bandits nabbed after Linden restaurant robbery-booty missing

Public-spirited citizens turned the tables on three young bandits who carted off $500,000 from Dick’s Chinese Restaurant in Republic Avenue, Linden, early yesterday morning, after holding the...

Courts Pee Wee U 11 knock-out stage starts today @ Thirst Park

Aug 21, 2009 knews Sports Comments Off on Courts Pee Wee U 11 knock-out stage starts today @ Thirst Park

Battle for semi-final spots on It will be do or die for Under-11 teams when the knockout stage of the Courts Pee Wee competition organised by the Georgetown Football Association kicks off at the...

Black Out halts completion of Trix U-17 tournament

Aug 21, 2009 knews Sports Comments Off on Black Out halts completion of Trix U-17 tournament

An unwanted guest invaded and brought a premature end to proceedings on what should have been the final night of action in the inaugural Trix Under-17 football competition in the city on Wednesday...

City Hall receives ‘gag order’ on Inquiry Report

Aug 21, 2009 knews News Comments Off on City Hall receives ‘gag order’ on Inquiry Report

Although copies of the Commission of Inquiry Report have been handed over to the Mayor and Deputy Mayor of Georgetown, no comments have been forthcoming from the municipality. City Mayor Hamilton...

Suriname Embassy investigating suspected change in importation protocol

Aug 21, 2009 knews News Comments Off on Suriname Embassy investigating suspected change in importation protocol

The Suriname Embassy in Guyana has commenced its own investigation into recent disclosures that there has been a change in Suriname’s protocol as it relates to the importation of produce from...

Vigil outside State House

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The beginning of the end of the concept of the maximum leader

Aug 21, 2009 knews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on The beginning of the end of the concept of the maximum leader

The ongoing political competition taking place within the People’s National Congress Reform (PNCR) is good for the party and for the country. It is also not unique to the PNCR since similar events...

Flamingo oppose Conquerors, Camptown face Pele

Aug 21, 2009 knews Sports Comments Off on Flamingo oppose Conquerors, Camptown face Pele

The battle for supremacy in the 2009 Cellink Premier League, which is in its second and final round, continues tonight at the Tucville ground with another double header. Sunburst Camptown are down to...

Freedom of speech is a right not accorded to all Guyanese

Aug 21, 2009 knews Letters Comments Off on Freedom of speech is a right not accorded to all Guyanese

Dear Editor, I refer to Dr. Randy Persaud’s article titled “The PNCR Congress and a note to Mr. L. Lewis” (Guyana Chronicle, August 13, 2009). From the outset let me say Persaud’s right to...

Runaway teen accuses father of sexual molestation

Aug 21, 2009 knews News Comments Off on Runaway teen accuses father of sexual molestation

Police on the Essequibo Coast have detained a 40-year-old man after receiving information that he was sexually molesting his teenaged daughter. According to reports, the teen’s parent had reported...

Health Ministry arson suspect granted High Court bail

Aug 21, 2009 knews News Comments Off on Health Ministry arson suspect granted High Court bail

Ministry of Health arson suspect Keith Ferrier has been granted bail in the High Court in the sum of $350,000. Ferrier’s attorney Mortimer Coddett made the petition and it was subsequently...

The day Jagdeo dropped the ball

Aug 21, 2009 knews Letters Comments Off on The day Jagdeo dropped the ball

Dear Editor, With West Indies cricket facing perhaps its greatest crisis, the responsibility was given to Guyana’s President, Bharrat Jagdeo to resolve the issues and remove or narrow the gap...

3rd Annual Chubby U-13 Competition unveiled

Aug 21, 2009 knews News Comments Off on 3rd Annual Chubby U-13 Competition unveiled

Ten teams to vie for top honors, Uprising are defending champs By Franklin Wilson The Third Annual Chubby Under-13 Round Robin/Knockout competition sponsored by Guyana Beverages Inc. and organised by...

The PNCR as a party will always emerge the victor

Aug 21, 2009 knews Letters Comments Off on The PNCR as a party will always emerge the victor

Dear Editor, The People’ National Congress Reform (PNCR) 16th Biennial Congress scheduled to be held on Friday 21st August and Saturday 22nd August 2009 is likely to attract the usual national and...

Lumber truck topples after side-swiping bus

Aug 21, 2009 knews News Comments Off on Lumber truck topples after side-swiping bus

Passengers in a route 42 minibus were lucky to escape serious injury at around 05:35 hrs yesterday after a lumber truck side-swiped their vehicle before toppling over on the East Bank Demerara public...

Cops return former Chief Magistrate’s vehicle

Aug 21, 2009 knews News Comments Off on Cops return former Chief Magistrate’s vehicle

After almost three weeks, police have returned the vehicle that they had seized from Former Chief Magistrate Juliet Holder-Allen during their investigations into the Health Ministry fire. In a...

CCJ rules against Guyana, orders reinstatement of CET on cement

Aug 21, 2009 knews News Comments Off on CCJ rules against Guyana, orders reinstatement of CET on cement

By Gary Eleazar The Right Honourable Justice M. A. de la Bastide at the Caribbean Court of Justice yesterday ruled against Guyana in the case against the Trinidadian Cement Company and TCL Guyana...

North Sophia murder accused remanded

Aug 21, 2009 knews News Comments Off on North Sophia murder accused remanded

Romeo Andrews, who is accused of killing a North Sophia man on Sunday last, was yesterday remanded to prison, when he appeared before Magistrate Priya Beharry at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court....

Freddie was being extremely kind by suggesting McCoy be sent to Monkey Mountain

Aug 21, 2009 knews Letters Comments Off on Freddie was being extremely kind by suggesting McCoy be sent to Monkey Mountain

Dear Editor, I am sure that the Chairman of the Ethnic Relations Commission (ERC) can better expend his time and resources than to deal with the folly and lack of basic knowledge in Mr McCoy’s...

The highest paid teacher in New York City

Aug 21, 2009 knews Letters Comments Off on The highest paid teacher in New York City

Dear Editor, I refer to a letter by Vishu Bisram (Kaieteur News, August 19) in which he wrote; “I am happily employed as a teacher in NYC. I will be an idiot to leave a tenured teaching position...

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Hauls from Persaud and Farley highlight MVP Sports Girl’s U11 Football Tourney commencement

The PPP is in the grip of the bourgeoisie

…Peeping Tom Kaieteur news- The People’s Progressive Party Civic (PPP/C) stands at a crossroads. Once the vanguard... more