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Police announce major reshuffling

Nov 16, 2009 KNews News Comments Off on Police announce major reshuffling

– West Dem. gets new Commander, Merai heads to Berbice In the wake of the shocking revelations of the torture of a 14-year old boy at Vreed-en- Hoop, the Guyana Police Force has effected...

Jagdeo must not only understand CET for Rice, Sugar

Nov 16, 2009 KNews News Comments Off on Jagdeo must not only understand CET for Rice, Sugar

… TCL Group CEO calls it a classic case of wrong and strong By Gary Eleazar President Bharrat Jagdeo must not only understand the Common External Tariff (CET) established under the Treaty of...

Controversy erupts over govt. security contracts awards

Nov 16, 2009 KNews News Comments Off on Controversy erupts over govt. security contracts awards

Strategic Action Security Services has threatened legal action against the Government for a breach of contract, after Government announced the hiring of two other security companies to guard its...

Man’s body found in septic tank

Nov 16, 2009 KNews News Comments Off on Man’s body found in septic tank

…murder suspected The police are investigating the apparent murder of Ram Kanaya, 42 years of No.78 Village, Corriverton, Berbice. Kanaya’s body was found at about 11:00 hours yesterday in a...

Suspected fowl thief shot dead

Nov 16, 2009 KNews News Comments Off on Suspected fowl thief shot dead

A licensed firearm holder of Number 70 Village Corentyne is currently in police custody assisting with investigations into the shooting death of a man who was founding lurking in his yard. Reports...

Dem boys seh….Man get displace and is he fault

Nov 16, 2009 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Dem boys seh….Man get displace and is he fault

Was a time when man believe that he was king, that he was in control. He use to walk in de house and announce how is he wearing de pants and how is he bringing in de money. He use to puff up he chest...

Govt. rakes in considerably more money, spends less

Nov 16, 2009 KNews News Comments Off on Govt. rakes in considerably more money, spends less

Financial mid year report… The Finance Minister’s recently tabled 2009 mid-year report contains figures that suggest that the Government has raked in a considerably significant increase in...

Woman nabbed with cocaine at Takutu Bridge

Nov 16, 2009 KNews News Comments Off on Woman nabbed with cocaine at Takutu Bridge

The predictions of the Crime Chief Seelall Persaud seem to be becoming a reality sooner rather than later as over the past two weeks law enforcement agencies have made two significant drug busts at...

Albouystown man released, grilled about whereabouts of ‘General’

Nov 16, 2009 KNews News Comments Off on Albouystown man released, grilled about whereabouts of ‘General’

‘Terror’ probe… Police have released 22-year-old Albouystown resident, Muammar Jabbar, whom they were questioning in connection with the recent ‘terror’ attacks at two police stations...

Nine new prosecutors enter the courts

Nov 16, 2009 KNews News Comments Off on Nine new prosecutors enter the courts

“You have not arrived” – Top Cop tells new prosecutors The administration of justice by the Guyana Police Force has been significantly enhanced with the addition of nine newly trained police...

Diabetes treatment attracts $450M investment

Nov 16, 2009 KNews News Comments Off on Diabetes treatment attracts $450M investment

By Fareeza Haniff While approximately10, 000 new cases of diabetes are reported every year, with the majority occurring among women, the Ministry of Health has spent a total of $450 million for the...

Early morning accident leaves man hospitalised

Nov 16, 2009 KNews News Comments Off on Early morning accident leaves man hospitalised

An early morning accident yesterday has left an East Coast Demerara resident hospitalised nursing injuries to his neck and right hand. According to reports, Oswald Clarke, 56, of President’s...

Deo wins Digicel Classic 2009 Golf Tournament

Nov 16, 2009 KNews Sports Comments Off on Deo wins Digicel Classic 2009 Golf Tournament

-Sukhram finishes as best female player Vijay Deo, who started on a handicap 6 made a late burst on the final day to end the round with a low gross of 73 and a best net of 67 to cart off the...

Kaieteur News on the lookout for ‘scam’ ads

Nov 16, 2009 KNews News Comments Off on Kaieteur News on the lookout for ‘scam’ ads

“Penniless man seeking serious relationship…” “Fifty-five -year-old overseas businessman seeks serious relationship with woman 25-60 years.” “Company needs car to...

Guyana successfully defend Rugby Sevens crowns

Nov 16, 2009 KNews Sports Comments Off on Guyana successfully defend Rugby Sevens crowns

Guyana Men’s and Women’s Rugby teams successfully defended their Sevens crowns in Mexico yesterday after, as they did on opening day Saturday, played unbeaten to keep a stranglehold on regional...

Ulric Harris carts off inaugural Auto Tech Car Rental Scrabble championships

Nov 16, 2009 KNews Sports Comments Off on Ulric Harris carts off inaugural Auto Tech Car Rental Scrabble championships

McDonald leaves for World Championships By Michael Benjamin Ulric Harris returned to the winners’ row with a bang when the Guyana Association of Scrabble Players (GASP) staged a tournament...

Sales Department are Banks DIH football champs

Nov 16, 2009 KNews Sports Comments Off on Sales Department are Banks DIH football champs

Sales Department scored a 4-0 win over Soft Drink Plant to emerged winners of the Banks DIH Inter-Department football final played last Friday evening at Thirst Park. Andrew Forde scored a hat-trick...

Singh’s hat-trick & 61* leave NL Cavaliers in sight of historic win

Nov 16, 2009 KNews Sports Comments Off on Singh’s hat-trick & 61* leave NL Cavaliers in sight of historic win

MSC, GCC, GNIC register outright victories By Sean Devers West Bank Demerara side New Line Cavaliers (NLC) are 60 runs away from beating DCC in their own backyard in what would be a historic...

Crandons, Hicks back for Berbice final round match against Demerara

Nov 16, 2009 KNews Sports Comments Off on Crandons, Hicks back for Berbice final round match against Demerara

By Sean Devers While Test left-hander Sewnarine Chattergoon is still unavailable due to an ankle injury, the Crandon brothers (Esuan and Royston) and ‘Keeper Delbert Hicks are back in the...

Police intensify traffic campaign for Yuletide Season

Nov 16, 2009 KNews News Comments Off on Police intensify traffic campaign for Yuletide Season

NEW AMSTERDAM, BERBICE – Starting today, the eastern and western sections of Berbice are to witness heightened police traffic enforcement campaigns. This is in preparation for the Yuletide Season....

Legal Aid Clinic celebrates first anniversary

Nov 16, 2009 KNews News Comments Off on Legal Aid Clinic celebrates first anniversary

NEW AMSTERDAM, BERBICE – In excess of 600 Berbicians have received assistance from the Guyana Legal Aid Clinic in Region Six, since the organisation opened its door in October 2008. Heading the...

LCDS is just one of several gambles by Govt. in the last 17 years

Nov 16, 2009 KNews Letters Comments Off on LCDS is just one of several gambles by Govt. in the last 17 years

Dear Editor, In response to your editorial, “That low carbon strategy,” (November 14), I think the writer meant well when s/he opened with this line: “Guyana made its mark when it...

Too much suicides in Guyana

Nov 16, 2009 KNews Letters Comments Off on Too much suicides in Guyana

Dear Editor, The suicide rate in our little country Guyana with less than a million people is very high. Last week I read of a very brilliant young lady Aliya Balkan, who jumped off the Kaieteur...

Lodge residents complain about profanity

Nov 16, 2009 KNews Letters Comments Off on Lodge residents complain about profanity

Dear Editor, I would like to draw to the relevant authorities’ attention an ongoing disturbing trend taking place at a taxi service and a vulcanizing shop in Lodge. It seems the proprietor of...

Freddie Kissoon’s debunking of ‘The West on Trial’

Nov 16, 2009 KNews Letters Comments Off on Freddie Kissoon’s debunking of ‘The West on Trial’

Dear Editor, I refer to Frederick Kissoon’s article in Kaieteur News on November 14, entitled, “The blind man and the black cat: A short history of fascism in Guyana.” Short of saying...

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Shabazz’s termination remains just the tip of the iceberg

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