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‘Snitch’ arrested

Aug 24, 2009 KNews News Comments Off on ‘Snitch’ arrested

$17M river heist… A man who investigators believe provided information to the three Guyana Defence Force Coast Guard ranks who robbed and killed 23-year old Dweive Kant Ramdass has been...

Booty was handed over to car at roadblock

Aug 24, 2009 KNews News Comments Off on Booty was handed over to car at roadblock

– arrested driver Evidence has emerged that police ranks at a roadblock on the West Demerara had siphoned off cash recovered from the Essequibo River heist into a car that was summoned on the...

GDF refutes Coast Guard’s alleged link to Lindo Creek

Aug 24, 2009 KNews News Comments Off on GDF refutes Coast Guard’s alleged link to Lindo Creek

– Kaieteur News stands by video interview The Coast Guard rank under arrest for the murder of Dweive Kant Ramdass, was never involved in JSOG operations in the Lindo creek area, according to a...

Corbin should have properly verified his own list

Aug 24, 2009 KNews News Comments Off on Corbin should have properly verified his own list

– Donald Ramotar General Secretary of the Peoples Progressive Party, Donald Ramotar, in an invited comment yesterday said that re-elected People’s national congress reform leader, Robert...

President’s decision to buy Computers is ludicrous

Aug 24, 2009 KNews News Comments Off on President’s decision to buy Computers is ludicrous

…why not use the dividends instead and keep revenue flow – AFC Govt. sale of shares at GT&T… Alliance for Change Chairman, Khemraj Ramjattan, lashed out at the recent comments by...

River heist victim died from drowning

Aug 24, 2009 KNews News Comments Off on River heist victim died from drowning

– postmortem A post mortem conducted yesterday on 23-year old, Dweive Kant Ramdass, revealed that he died from asphyxiation due to drowning. The post mortem was done yesterday morning at the...

Crossing the threshold to commit crime is reprehensible and shocking – Army Chief

Aug 24, 2009 KNews News Comments Off on Crossing the threshold to commit crime is reprehensible and shocking – Army Chief

– The law will deal with them A heinous crime that should be punished to the full extent of the law is how Army Chief Commodore Gary Best described the act of the three ranks who brazenly...

Father of missing fisherman suspects fowl play

Aug 24, 2009 KNews News Comments Off on Father of missing fisherman suspects fowl play

On January 23rd 2007 three fishermen sailed some 40 miles out into the Atlantic Ocean on what was to have been, at most, a routine three week fishing trip; they never returned. Mahadeo Ramdeo, 24;...

Corrupt Coast Guards took our money, goods

Aug 24, 2009 KNews News Comments Off on Corrupt Coast Guards took our money, goods

Essequibo farmers, boat operators say… By Latoya Giles Boat operators and farmers who traverse the Essequibo River are calling the recent arrest for murder of three Coast Guards as a long-awaited...

‘Cammy’ Ramsaroop elected PNCR Chairman

Aug 24, 2009 KNews News Comments Off on ‘Cammy’ Ramsaroop elected PNCR Chairman

Despite all the talk of unity at the opening of the 16th Biennial Congress of the Peoples National Congress Reform, the division within the party was on full display during the plenary session on...

Enterprise Road Safety Group prepares for new school term

Aug 24, 2009 KNews News Comments Off on Enterprise Road Safety Group prepares for new school term

In an effort to make the roads in their community safer, members of the Enterprise Road Safety Group on the East Coast of Demerara have erected several speed humps to curtail reckless driving. With...

US Citizen vanishes after cocaine find at CJIA

Aug 24, 2009 KNews News Comments Off on US Citizen vanishes after cocaine find at CJIA

Ranks from the Police Narcotics Branch are seeking the public’s assistance to locate a citizen of the United States who fled the Cheddi Jagan International Airport Timehri leaving her hand luggage...

Suriname re-opens ‘Backtrack’ crossing

Aug 24, 2009 KNews News Comments Off on Suriname re-opens ‘Backtrack’ crossing

– agri and other exports to resume The Surinamese authorities have agreed to re-open the ‘backtrack’ border crossing as of today, allowing once more the flow of people, goods and certified...

Authorities breached Prison Act

Aug 24, 2009 KNews News Comments Off on Authorities breached Prison Act

Death at Camp Street Prison… The Ministry of Home Affairs says it is disturbed over the death of prisoner, Nave Beharry, who was discovered in his cell, at around 07.00 hrs, on Friday last at the...

Wakenaam farmer hit hard by spontaneous combustion

Aug 24, 2009 KNews News Comments Off on Wakenaam farmer hit hard by spontaneous combustion

A Wakenaam resident who cultivates a farm at Hamburg Island (Tiger Island) has suffered almost one million dollars in losses due to a fire, believed to have been caused by spontaneous combustion, and...

Essequibo farmers receive payments from MRL

Aug 24, 2009 KNews News Comments Off on Essequibo farmers receive payments from MRL

Some farmers in Essequibo have reported that they have begun receiving monies owed to them by the Mahaicony Rice Mills Limited (MRL). This is according to General Secretary of the Guyana Rice...

Republic Bank opens new Anna Regina branch

Aug 24, 2009 KNews News Comments Off on Republic Bank opens new Anna Regina branch

The newly constructed $348million building which now houses the Republic Bank, Essequibo branch, was officially opened with at its Anna Regina location with a simple ceremony. Prime minister, Samuel...

Troubles seem never ending for Parika vendors

Aug 24, 2009 KNews News Comments Off on Troubles seem never ending for Parika vendors

The troubles faced by vendors operating alongside the Parika Mini-Bus Park seem to be never ending, since they were again ordered to move in three days or face ‘stall demolition’ by their...

T&T are Regional Women’s cricket champions

Aug 24, 2009 KNews Sports Comments Off on T&T are Regional Women’s cricket champions

Dethrone Jamaica with 4-wicket win, dominate individual awards By Sean Devers After every win they sing ‘run for cover…small ship stay in the harbour’ and yesterday, in the final of the...

Over 500 riders turn out for ‘The Big Ride’

Aug 24, 2009 KNews Sports Comments Off on Over 500 riders turn out for ‘The Big Ride’

Campbellville cops two of six prizes at largest gathering ever By Franklin Wilson ‘The Big Ride’ organised by the Ministry of Culture Youth and Sports/Ministry of Health and Guyana Cycling...

Conquerors are inaugural Trix U-17 Champions

Aug 24, 2009 KNews Sports Comments Off on Conquerors are inaugural Trix U-17 Champions

Alleyne’s double propels them to 4-0 win over Camptown Fruta Conquerors continues their excellent vein of form at the junior level when they brushed aside arch rivals Sunburst Camptown 4-0 to...

Bloomerz, St Ignatius claim respective male and female titles

Aug 24, 2009 KNews Sports Comments Off on Bloomerz, St Ignatius claim respective male and female titles

Bloomerz females and St Ignatius males captured the Ministry of Culture Youth and Sports Inter-Block Volleyball titles yesterday at St Ignatius following a weekend of intense action in Region 9. The...

D’Andrade returns to local cricket with classy 75

Aug 24, 2009 KNews Sports Comments Off on D’Andrade returns to local cricket with classy 75

As 4 teams register 1st round victories Twenty-three year-old former Guyana Under-19 batsman Anthony D’Andrade stroked a classy 75 for Bermine on Saturday on his return to local cricket as action...

Dyna’s Bravados win Guyana Softball and Windball Cricket Association title

Aug 24, 2009 KNews Sports Comments Off on Dyna’s Bravados win Guyana Softball and Windball Cricket Association title

A fine around performance by Eon Gilkes piloted Dyna’s Bravados to victory over Hillfoot Strikers in the Guyana Softball and Windball Cricket Association (GS&WCA) sponsored 15-15 Tapeball...

Garraway (5-15) Benn (4-5) star in East Bank E’bo victory

Aug 24, 2009 KNews Sports Comments Off on Garraway (5-15) Benn (4-5) star in East Bank E’bo victory

National pacer Trevon Garraway took 5-15 and Essequibo medium pacer Trevor Benn captured 4-5 as East Bank Essequibo defeated Leguan by 33 runs as the Essequibo Busta 50 overs Cricket Festival...

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The stakes are high in Guyana’s democracy

Peeping Tom… Kaieteur News- In any vibrant democracy, the mechanisms that bind it together are those that mediate differences,... more