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More soldiers caught in criminal activities

Dec 08, 2009 KNews News Comments Off on More soldiers caught in criminal activities

– one confesses to being part of Madewini shootout – Lance Corporal held in Essequibo robbery Just when it was thought that criminal elements in the Guyana Defence Force had been weeded...

Remigrant perishes in late night blaze

Dec 08, 2009 KNews News Comments Off on Remigrant perishes in late night blaze

– Two houses destroyed, three homeless By Mondale Smith A remigrant perished Sunday night when fire destroyed his 31 Second Street, Success Housing Scheme, East Coast Demerara home. Dead is...

Porkknocker’s body retrieved

Dec 08, 2009 KNews News Comments Off on Porkknocker’s body retrieved

… Kaieteur Falls mishap A team comprising soldiers, colleagues and relatives of 46-year-old Michael Leslie, the porkknocker who was swept over the edge of Kaieteur Falls on November 29, last,...

Dem boys seh… Cane cutters tun masquerade dancers

Dec 08, 2009 KNews News Comments Off on Dem boys seh… Cane cutters tun masquerade dancers

Is Christmas and things ain’t looking bright. Dem boys seh that money dry up because people hardly buying. Imagine even de shoplifters getting problem because how dem can walk out a store wid...

GuySuCo seeking in excess of $30B from sale of land – CEO

Dec 08, 2009 KNews News Comments Off on GuySuCo seeking in excess of $30B from sale of land – CEO

…as company makes $300M payout By Gary Eleazar The Guyana Sugar Corporation (GuySuCo) after failing to meet its stipulated pay date, did not renege on its subsequent commitment, and yesterday...

Three held after Corriverton robbery

Dec 08, 2009 KNews News Comments Off on Three held after Corriverton robbery

Three men are in police custody assisting with investigations into a Sunday night robbery at Princetown, Corriverton, Berbice. The robbery occurred at around 19:45 hours, during which businessman...

‘Wan wan dutty build dam’

Dec 08, 2009 KNews News Comments Off on ‘Wan wan dutty build dam’

– Climate Change boss tells Summit opening By Neil Marks in Copenhagen The Executive Secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), Yvo de Boer, plucked out of...

US$25M request outside realms of the law – Corbin

Dec 08, 2009 KNews News Comments Off on US$25M request outside realms of the law – Corbin

On Sunday, leader of the People’s National Congress Reform and Parliamentary Opposition leader Robert Corbin said that the majority of the requested US$25M by Finance Minister Dr Ashni Singh...

Guyana closes in on Colombian rice market

Dec 08, 2009 KNews News Comments Off on Guyana closes in on Colombian rice market

By Brushell Blackman The rice industry which has been experiencing less than favourable times may receive a shot in the arm with what appears to be Guyana’s securing of a Columbian rice market....

Dem boys seh… Cane cutters tun masquerade dancers

Dec 08, 2009 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Dem boys seh… Cane cutters tun masquerade dancers

Is Christmas and things ain’t looking bright. Dem boys seh that money dry up because people hardly buying. Imagine even de shoplifters getting problem because how dem can walk out a store wid...

Porkknocker switched from drug addict to decent worker

Dec 08, 2009 KNews News Comments Off on Porkknocker switched from drug addict to decent worker

Second Kaieteur Falls death… “He used to “smoke” (use drugs). He had a bad patch in life, but when we went up the mountains to look for gold, he changed his life around. He was at the end, an...

Govt launches US$22M Citizens’ Security Prog.

Dec 08, 2009 KNews News Comments Off on Govt launches US$22M Citizens’ Security Prog.

By Brushell Blackman Months after the planned billion-dollar British Department For International Development (DFID) Security Sector Reform Action Plan (SSRAP) fell through, the government of Guyana...

Digicel’s Merry Mansion in NA

Dec 08, 2009 KNews News Comments Off on Digicel’s Merry Mansion in NA

NEW AMSTERDAM, BERBICE – Berbicians were given the opportunity to search and find cash for Christmas last week when Digicel took the Merry Mansion Game Show to the Ancient County. The venue was the...

West Berbician succumbs with bullet in his spine

Dec 08, 2009 KNews News Comments Off on West Berbician succumbs with bullet in his spine

… Four years after being shot by a cop For four years, Anthone Moriah sat in his wheelchair hoping that someday the cop that shot him would be brought to justice. But he never lived to see that...

AFC attracts another economist

Dec 08, 2009 KNews News Comments Off on AFC attracts another economist

The Alliance For Change (AFC) yesterday announced that it has added another prominent economist to its team, Dr. Tarron Khemraj. Dr Khemraj will be serving on the AFC’s Economic Council and will...

GPHC receives more support from China

Dec 08, 2009 KNews News Comments Off on GPHC receives more support from China

The Chinese government yesterday donated some $12M worth of medical instruments to the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation. The items were provided by the Ministry of Health P.R. China and the...

8-year-old still hospitalised

Dec 08, 2009 KNews News Comments Off on 8-year-old still hospitalised

… Canal Number One accident Jasmine Ardin, the 8-year-old victim of an accident at Canal Number One, West Bank Demerara, on November 30, last, is still on life support and in an unconscious...

Cop charged for attempted rape, remanded

Dec 08, 2009 KNews News Comments Off on Cop charged for attempted rape, remanded

A now ex-police lance corporal was yesterday refused bail when he made a court appearance after it was alleged that he attempted to rape a teenage girl. It was also alleged that he indecently...

Focus on quality of audits

Dec 08, 2009 KNews News Comments Off on Focus on quality of audits

… Regional accountants, auditors gather in Guyana A high-level number of government accountants across the region are working to produce a manual that will ensure a standard quality of audits....

Ministry of Health, Chinese Govt commission new dorm for doctors

Dec 08, 2009 KNews News Comments Off on Ministry of Health, Chinese Govt commission new dorm for doctors

The Ministry of Health in collaboration with the People’s Republic of China yesterday commissioned a spanking new dormitory for Chinese doctors who are stationed here. The building is situated...

New NGO to assist less fortunate

Dec 08, 2009 KNews News Comments Off on New NGO to assist less fortunate

“I started this foundation to honour the memory of my grandmother. She always gave to the poor and needy”. Those were the words American-based Guyanese Collette Medas-Forbes on the launching of a...

SILWFC demands promised wage increase

Dec 08, 2009 knews News Comments Off on SILWFC demands promised wage increase

– Labour Ministry picketed, Nadir flays GAWU for illegal action By Leonard Gildarie In what appears to be an emerging spate of industrial action to hit Guyana in recent times, workers of the...

Twenty Five Hundred students to witness K&S semis

Dec 08, 2009 knews Sports Comments Off on Twenty Five Hundred students to witness K&S semis

– Bakewell/Min. of Education collaboration Leading bakery Bakewell has for the second year made it possible for thousands of students to witness Guyana’s Premier knock-out football...

PS Steve Ninvalle tipped as new Amateur Boxing head

Dec 08, 2009 knews Sports Comments Off on PS Steve Ninvalle tipped as new Amateur Boxing head

By Michael Benjamin Boxing coaches and other stakeholders of the beleaguered Guyana Amateur Boxing Association (GABA) will convene this afternoon at the Olympic House, High Street Georgetown, to...

Yamaha Caribs Women play unbeaten

Dec 08, 2009 knews Sports Comments Off on Yamaha Caribs Women play unbeaten

Yamaha Caribs females played unbeaten over the weekend at the Trinidad and Tobago Football Union Sevens Championships which was played, at the Queen’s Park Savannah. The Guyanese women first...

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A false panacea for electoral integrity

…Peeping Tom kaieteur News – Advocates for fingerprint verification in Guyana’s elections herald it as... more