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Rohee seeks interdiction of divisional commander

Nov 03, 2009 KNews News Comments Off on Rohee seeks interdiction of divisional commander

… 14-year-old torture victim – criminal charges likely soon By Dale Andrews Home Affairs Minister, Clement Rohee is seeking the interdiction of the Divisional Commander of the...

Torture is the action of agents of a state gone rogue – Red Thread

Nov 03, 2009 KNews News Comments Off on Torture is the action of agents of a state gone rogue – Red Thread

The assurances of the Commissioner of Police ring as hollow now as the Chief-of-Staff’s declarations about the professionalism of the Coast Guard a few months ago when ranks brutally murdered a...

Partially decomposed body found on trail

Nov 03, 2009 KNews News Comments Off on Partially decomposed body found on trail

– victim may have been shot Police are seeking assistance to identify a badly decomposed body of a man that was found at around 14:00 hrs yesterday on a trail off the Soesdyke/Linden highway....

Cop arrested for having sex with 12-year-old girl

Nov 03, 2009 KNews News Comments Off on Cop arrested for having sex with 12-year-old girl

Even as more than 80 rogue cops have been interdicted from duty for various offences and several more may soon be for the torture of a 14-year-old, yet another police rank is in the spotlight for a...

Nude body fished out from Strathspey Canal

Nov 03, 2009 KNews News Comments Off on Nude body fished out from Strathspey Canal

The nude body of a Non Pareil man was pulled from a drainage canal near the Strathspey Pump Station on the East Coast of Demerara yesterday morning. The discovery was made by a pump attendant who was...

Relatives restricted from seeing tortured teen

Nov 03, 2009 KNews News Comments Off on Relatives restricted from seeing tortured teen

Hospital officials have placed restrictions on relatives who are visiting the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation’s Burns Unit to see the 14-year-old boy who was severely burned by police ranks....

Speeding minibus turns turtle on Norton Street

Nov 03, 2009 KNews News Comments Off on Speeding minibus turns turtle on Norton Street

Several persons were rushed to the Georgetown Public Hospital as a result of a crash on upper Norton Street yesterday afternoon. The accident involved a speeding minibus, which turned turtle several...

Dem boys seh… De police run off dem contractor

Nov 03, 2009 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Dem boys seh… De police run off dem contractor

Dem boys seh that things does happen in Guyana so fast that before one story done another one start up. Just de other day Robert of Agriculture was getting vex because dem boys was peeping at...

New charges for ex-Republic Bank tellers, carpenter

Nov 03, 2009 KNews News Comments Off on New charges for ex-Republic Bank tellers, carpenter

– each placed on $100,000 bail New charges were yesterday instituted against four male former Republic Bank employees, and a carpenter, when they appeared before Acting Chief Magistrate...

$400M intervention… Half-price fertilizers for rice farmers

Nov 03, 2009 KNews News Comments Off on $400M intervention… Half-price fertilizers for rice farmers

– $180M to be invested for 12 drying facilities By Leonard Gildarie Rice farmers, hard pressed by low world prices and high cost of input, will pay half-price for fertilizers in the coming...

Man’s throat slashed at Harbour Bridge

Nov 03, 2009 KNews News Comments Off on Man’s throat slashed at Harbour Bridge

A minibus driver is in a city hospital nursing a gash to his throat which he reportedly suffered at the hands of a taxi driver at the Demerara Harbour Bridge yesterday afternoon. According to a...

Catholics denounce torture of 14-year-old

Nov 03, 2009 KNews News Comments Off on Catholics denounce torture of 14-year-old

The Justice and Peace Commission of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Georgetown yesterday said it is deeply shocked and outraged at the recent disclosure of severe and barbaric cruelty meted out to...

Amnesty International contacts torture victim’s attorney

Nov 03, 2009 KNews News Comments Off on Amnesty International contacts torture victim’s attorney

Alliance For Change (AFC) co-leader and Attorney at law Khemraj Ramjattan has provided Amnesty International with details about the torture that was meted out by police ranks to a 14-year-old boy....

Help and Shelter, GPSU join condemnation of torture

Nov 03, 2009 KNews News Comments Off on Help and Shelter, GPSU join condemnation of torture

Help and Shelter and the Guyana Public Service Union (GPSU) have joined the list of organizations condemning the torture by Police of a 14-year-old boy. Help and Shelter said the allegations of...

GRA investigating illegal accounting system

Nov 03, 2009 KNews News Comments Off on GRA investigating illegal accounting system

– seizes records of several suspected businesses The Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) says that it is investigating several instances of businesses deliberately using a double accounting...

Corbin hands Police list of 455 unsolved murders

Nov 03, 2009 knews News Comments Off on Corbin hands Police list of 455 unsolved murders

Opposition leader Robert Corbin yesterday handed over to Police a list detailing the deaths of 455 persons after they asked him to tell them about deaths under self-confessed drug convict, Shaheed...

Taxi driver grazed by bullet while sleeping in car

Nov 03, 2009 knews News Comments Off on Taxi driver grazed by bullet while sleeping in car

A taxi driver cheated death last Sunday after a bullet shattered the back windscreen of his car and grazed his forehead. Martin Tyndall, 35, of 4 ‘A’ Shell Road, Kitty, said that it was around...

Three charged for ganja bust at John Fernandes wharf

Nov 03, 2009 KNews News Comments Off on Three charged for ganja bust at John Fernandes wharf

Three people who were held after a ganja shipment was busted on Saturday last at the John Fernandes wharf, yesterday made their court appearance before Magistrate Hazel Octive Hamilton. The three...

Rampant corruption uncovered at post offices

Nov 03, 2009 knews News Comments Off on Rampant corruption uncovered at post offices

– Botched attempts on safes at three facilities add to concerns By Fareeza Haniff A safe at the Grove Post Office on the East Bank Demerara was torched on Sunday night by person(s) who failed...

Benschop on self-bail

Nov 03, 2009 KNews News Comments Off on Benschop on self-bail

Social activist Mark Benschop was yesterday placed on self bail, after making an appearance before Acting Chief Magistrate Melissa Robertson, yesterday at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court....

Four Guyanese, Tonge, Barath in 15-man West Indies squad for Down Under

Nov 03, 2009 knews Sports Comments Off on Four Guyanese, Tonge, Barath in 15-man West Indies squad for Down Under

Chris Gayle has been reappointed West Indies captain for the upcoming tour of Australia later this month, marking the end of the contractual dispute between the striking players and the West Indies...

Golden Jaguars are inaugural Suriname Independence Cup Champs

Nov 03, 2009 knews Sports Comments Off on Golden Jaguars are inaugural Suriname Independence Cup Champs

Becomes first Guyanese side to win international tournament By Franklin Wilson in Suriname In association with Humphrey’s Bakery & Farm Products of Ketley Street, Charlestown A 57th minute...

Stag Beer EBFA Division one football League underway

Nov 03, 2009 knews Sports Comments Off on Stag Beer EBFA Division one football League underway

After a lengthy break of three years, the East Bank Football Association (EBFA) Division one Super League got underway last Sunday at Splashmin’s Fun Park ground with the official opening,...

Graham’s arrival creates excitement for big bikes

Nov 03, 2009 knews Sports Comments Off on Graham’s arrival creates excitement for big bikes

With a mere five days left to race day, the arrival of Canadian Kevin Graham in Guyana yesterday morning to participate in the Guyana Motor Racing & Sports Club International Meeting at the South...

‘Little Kenyan’ Cleveland Forde wins Suriname leg of South American 10k

Nov 03, 2009 knews Sports Comments Off on ‘Little Kenyan’ Cleveland Forde wins Suriname leg of South American 10k

Lionel D’Andrade claims 3rd; Alika Morgan 2nd among females By Franklin Wilson in Suriname In association with Humphrey’s Bakery & Farm Products, Ketley Street Charlestown Guyana’s...

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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