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Wife takes off roof

Dec 24, 2009 KNews News Comments Off on Wife takes off roof

-family of ten affected One day before Christmas Day, a family is left to contemplate their next move after the roof of their house was ripped off. The incident stemmed from a dispute over the Lot 66...

GuySuCo not bankrupt–Persaud

Dec 24, 2009 KNews News Comments Off on GuySuCo not bankrupt–Persaud

The Guyana Sugar Corporation (GuySuCo) is not bankrupt in anyway, according to Agriculture Minister Robert Persaud. Persaud said that it is widely known that the company has been facing acute cash...

Dem boys seh…Dem pig must be using cologne

Dec 24, 2009 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Dem boys seh…Dem pig must be using cologne

Dem boys plan fuh start minding fowl from early next year. And dem talking bout yard fowl because dem can’t afford de layers. Feed expensive and getting more expensive every day. Yard fowl does...

Former dress maker reaches 103 not out

Dec 24, 2009 KNews News Comments Off on Former dress maker reaches 103 not out

(By Mondale Smith) In pursuit of long life many live by doctor’s orders but centenarian Millicent Sealy has additional recommendations. “Take daily glasses of cow heel broth, some soup at the...

Security guards accuse new employer of poor payment

Dec 24, 2009 KNews News Comments Off on Security guards accuse new employer of poor payment

Ever since the services of Strategic Security Services were taken over by the RK Security Services on November15, last, through an intervention by the government, security guards on the Essequibo...

Brazilian national remanded for possession of ammo

Dec 24, 2009 KNews News Comments Off on Brazilian national remanded for possession of ammo

A Brazilian national, who is unable to speak English, was yesterday remanded after making a court appearance before Magistrate Hazel Octive-Hamilton. Bernardo Costa Silva Filho, 31, of 105 Campbell...

Police beat, arrest man in North East La Penitence

Dec 24, 2009 KNews News Comments Off on Police beat, arrest man in North East La Penitence

Yesterday morning ranks from three patrol vehicles descended on a grey car and arrested the lone occupant after roughing him up. Eyewitnesses in North East la Penitence said that the man was dealt a...

Speedboats will need passenger manifest from January 1

Dec 24, 2009 KNews News Comments Off on Speedboats will need passenger manifest from January 1

Authorities have announced new requirements for speedboat from January 1, 2010. One of them is compulsory lifejackets. A notice by the Maritime Administration Department yesterday said that...

Kitty shooting victim released on $100,000 station bail

Dec 24, 2009 KNews News Comments Off on Kitty shooting victim released on $100,000 station bail

– has to report to the police station Mark Caesar, called “Li’l Mark” was released from police custody yesterday, after he posted $100,000 station bail. Caesar and his friend, Hewley...

Guyana gets $1.2B grant from China

Dec 24, 2009 KNews News Comments Off on Guyana gets $1.2B grant from China

Minister of Finance, Dr. Ashni Singh, and Chinese Ambassador to Guyana, Zhang Jungao, yesterday, signed an economic and technical cooperation agreement that will see Guyana benefiting from a grant...

Health Ministry unable to reach blood target

Dec 24, 2009 KNews News Comments Off on Health Ministry unable to reach blood target

The National Blood Transfusion Service (NBTS) will not be able to attain the 8,000 units of blood set by the Ministry of Health for this year. Minister of Health, Dr. Leslie Ramsammy, recently told...

West Dem residents suffers due to GPL

Dec 24, 2009 KNews News Comments Off on West Dem residents suffers due to GPL

Although two mobile generators are in operation on the West Coast of Demerara, residents are still experiencing a spate of power outages. This has been ongoing for two days in a row, and according to...

First Venezuela rice shipment finally sets sail

Dec 24, 2009 KNews News Comments Off on First Venezuela rice shipment finally sets sail

By Brushell Blackman After months of delay, the first shipment of paddy is poised to sail to Venezuela by tomorrow. Yesterday the media was invited to witness the loading of the ‘Pacific...

Opposition not being railroaded in Parliament – Ramotar

Dec 24, 2009 KNews News Comments Off on Opposition not being railroaded in Parliament – Ramotar

“There are lies, damn lies and statistics…the statistics don’t lie,” Trotman By Gary Eleazar General Secretary of the People’s Progressive Party, Donald Ramotar, says that contrary to the...

GAWU pickets Finance Ministry on retroactive tax waiver

Dec 24, 2009 KNews News Comments Off on GAWU pickets Finance Ministry on retroactive tax waiver

Two days before Christmas, the Guyana Agricultural and General Workers’ Union (GAWU) picketed the Ministry of Finance to up its demands for a waiver of income tax on a recently awarded three per...

Digicel confirms Kennard Memorial sponsorship

Dec 24, 2009 KNews Sports Comments Off on Digicel confirms Kennard Memorial sponsorship

Digicel confirmed its sponsorship of the race for two year-old local and West Indian bred horses for this Saturday’s Kennard’s Memorial Turf Club Race Meeting with the handing over of the...

Police refuse to return recovered money

Dec 24, 2009 KNews News Comments Off on Police refuse to return recovered money

A Tuschen, East Bank Essequibo businessman is at his wits end with police on West Coast Demerara after been given the royal run around to get back his money stolen from him during a robbery and...

Alpha Utd President angry over unfair ploys by K&S organizers

Dec 24, 2009 KNews Sports Comments Off on Alpha Utd President angry over unfair ploys by K&S organizers

Threatens to pull out of the championships President of the Alpha Football Club, Odinga Lumumba, is fuming over what he terms impartial and unfair practices by the organizers of the Kashif and...

Tobacco Standard still at GNBS, not at Tourism Ministry

Dec 24, 2009 KNews News Comments Off on Tobacco Standard still at GNBS, not at Tourism Ministry

The tobacco standard is not at the Ministry of Tourism, Industry and Commerce. Rather, it is still receiving the attention of the Guyana National Bureau of Standards (GNBS). This is according to the...

Rough country at Christmas

Dec 24, 2009 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on Rough country at Christmas

This writer comes in for libelous commentary quite often in the Chronicle, frequently in the Guyana Times and occasionally in the Mirror, the PPP’s newspaper. I know what my role as a commentator...

Rambarran seeks to try case in court of public opinion –Keith Burrowes

Dec 24, 2009 KNews News Comments Off on Rambarran seeks to try case in court of public opinion –Keith Burrowes

General Manager of the Guyana National Cooperative Bank (GNCB), Keith Burrowes, has responded to the claims by Wilfred Rambarran as it relates to the $10M cheque he handed over to that bank prior to...

Riverview man dies mysteriously in Demerara River

Dec 24, 2009 KNews News Comments Off on Riverview man dies mysteriously in Demerara River

Residents of the impoverished community aback of Riverview, Ruimveldt plan to pool their meager resources to facilitate a proper burial for a 22-year-old homeless man who perished in the Demerara...

Randy Persaud responds to Freddie Kissoon

Dec 24, 2009 KNews Letters Comments Off on Randy Persaud responds to Freddie Kissoon

Dear Editor, I respond to Frederick Kissoon’s, “The President’s advisors: Does this make sense” (Kaieteur News December 23, 2009). In what follows, I will address all of Freddie’s main...

K&S Boxing Day matches set for two venues

Dec 24, 2009 KNews Sports Comments Off on K&S Boxing Day matches set for two venues

Kashif and Shanghai Football quarter-final action on Boxing Day will now be played at two venues. The organizers have disclosed that Alpha United and Fruta Conquerors will clash at the GFC ground on...

FOR THE SAKE OF CLARITY

Dec 24, 2009 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on FOR THE SAKE OF CLARITY

The Peeper apologises for having confused one Mr. E. B. John with my column of last Sunday. I will try my utmost today, despite being in “high spirits” to clarify the central themes and arguments...

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The wait is over, all roads lead to KMTC for their Grand Boxing Day Horse race meet

Merry Christmas, Ya Filthy Animals!

Peeping Tom… Kaieteur News- Ah, Christmas—the season of goodwill, good cheer, and, let’s not forget, good riddance!... more