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Bartica cops in police brutality probe

Nov 04, 2009 knews News Comments Off on Bartica cops in police brutality probe

A top police official has confirmed that two ranks at the Bartica Police Station are being investigated for allegedly beating a 28-year-old man while interrogating him about a stolen computer. Cedric...

Get one thing straight about that tortured boy!

Nov 04, 2009 knews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on Get one thing straight about that tortured boy!

Get one thing straight about that 14-year-old boy who was tortured – if this newspaper didn’t expose the heinous crime, the political bosses would have covered it up. They have obfuscated more...

Just who are they trying to fool?

Nov 04, 2009 knews Letters Comments Off on Just who are they trying to fool?

Dear Editor, I protest the torture of my fellow citizens and in particular of this 14-year-old boy by brutes and bullies who masquerade as police. I protest this barbaric Government that allows...

KAIETEUR NEWS STANDS TALL

Nov 04, 2009 knews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on KAIETEUR NEWS STANDS TALL

Just before Kaieteur News published that graphic photograph of police torture, there were signs that the newspaper was once again coming under attack. Quite a few nasty commentaries were being...

The PPP/C will never support or sanction torture

Nov 04, 2009 knews Letters Comments Off on The PPP/C will never support or sanction torture

Dear Editor, It seems that some police officers and ranks need to be reminded in no uncertain terms, that they cannot break the law to uphold the law and that, they are not above the law. I do...

Health Ministry to review drug-testing capability

Nov 04, 2009 knews News Comments Off on Health Ministry to review drug-testing capability

The Ministry of Health will soon clamp down on private health institutions in the country to ensure that all the medicines they have are effectively tested. At his last press conference, Minister of...

‘Torture’ cops to appear in court

Nov 04, 2009 knews News Comments Off on ‘Torture’ cops to appear in court

Two ranks are expected to appear in court to answer charges for badly beating the 14-year-old prisoner at the Leonora Police Station last week. Reports reaching this newspaper state that the Director...

Rice Interventions

Nov 04, 2009 knews Editorial Comments Off on Rice Interventions

Reacting to the depressed prices being offered to rice farmers for their paddy in the current crop, the government had announced that it would deploy $400 million to assist farmers. Simultaneously...

Torture incident creates a defining moment for civil society

Nov 04, 2009 knews Letters Comments Off on Torture incident creates a defining moment for civil society

Dear Editor, Recent revelations of the barbaric torture of a child by ranks of the Guyana Police Force (GPF) have had a chilling and devastating effect on the minds of most Guyanese, yet there...

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...

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