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‘Globe Yard’ blaze leaves at least six homeless

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…exposes countless illegal connections At least six persons are homeless after a fire of unknown origin broke out in a crowded tenement yard on Waterloo Street early yesterday afternoon. ‘Globe...

Officer and Constable had an inappropriate relationship – Top Cop

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Commissioner of Police Henry Greene yesterday described the relationship between the late Assistant Superintendent Ivelaw Murray and murdered constable Kelvin Shepherd was inappropriate. Speaking to...

Already behind schedule – Jagdeo

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The Amaila Falls road project, awarded to Synergy Holdings, has to start “now” to ensure financial closure is met by the end of the year for the substantive hydro power project, President Bharrat...

Jagdeo says Princess, Pegasus not good enough for tourism

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– Gov’t looking to seal investor in Marriott Project by year-end The government is putting scepticism aside and pushing ahead with plans to bring a Marriott branded hotel in Guyana, in...

Dem boys seh…Bharrat mouth twist

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Bharrat go till in Jamaica and announce that Princess and de Pegasus not good enough. He claim that if tourists got to come de country got to get a better hotel suh de government building Marriott....

AFC takes campaign to Essequibo Coast

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The opposition AFC community exercise over the weekend on the Essequibo Coast, culminated in a well attended fund raising dinner at Wongies, at Richmond. Senior party officials, including incoming...

St Joseph Mercy resident turn 105 today

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Today Mabel Albertha Connell is celebrating her 105th birthday. The woman who was born in Agricola, East Bank, has only one child and says here that the secret to long life is always to laugh at...

GRC received $1M from Bai Shan Lin International Forest Development Inc.

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THE Guyana Relief Council has received a $1M donation from Bai Shan Lin International Forest Development Inc. yesterday at the GRC head office. According to Administration Manager of Bai Shan Lin...

Nine-year-old diabetic captures national attention

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It was not easy for Eunice Benjamin to accept the fact that her nine-year-old daughter, Clemehana Moore, was a diabetic and would require a lifetime of treatment to ensure that she lives to become a...

Jagdeo assents to Leader of Opposition Benefits

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Some 61 days after the National Assembly gave its approval, Head of State Bharrat Jagdeo assented to the Leader of the Opposition (Benefits and Other Facilities) Act and has caused it to be published...

Miner bludgeoned to death by colleagues

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Police in the Interior have detained three persons following the beating to death of 54-year-old miner Alan Welch, at 14 Miles, Issano, around 06:30 hours on Tuesday. The three suspects are all part...

Jagdeo lashes out at Caribbean immigration officials

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… says his ex-wife also faced discriminatory, inhumane treatment President Bharrat Jagdeo says that while there have been improvements in the way Guyanese are treated at regional airports,...

Sir Ron Sanders among ten to cop Commonwealth eminent group award

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By Oscar Ramjeet Two eminent Caricom nationals were among ten who won the Commonwealth Eminent Persons Group Award. They are Guyanese Sir Ronald Sanders, International Consultant, writer and former...

Hampton athletes pay courtesy call on minister

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– Anthony calls for benchmark athletics event Most of the outstanding performers at the 2010 Hampton Track and Field Games in Trinidad and Tobago last weekend paid a courtesy call on the...

Raymond Ally confident ahead of July 18 Meet

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Group 2A champion Raymond Ally speaking with Kaieteur Sport about his chances of doing well at the Guyana Motor Racing & Sports Club upcoming Race Meet which is scheduled to be held on July 18,...

Modern Optical sponsors Sunday’s Inter Service pistol shoot

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Modern Optical of Middle Street, Cummingsburg will sponsor Sunday’s Inter Services Pistol shooting championship billed for the Timehri ranges. The team event organized by the Smallbore...

Lennox Allen confident of victory one week prior to clash with Latino fighter

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Lennox ‘Pretty Boy’ Allen is scheduled to return to the ring some six months after notching up a convincing victory over Puerto Rican Amador Aceveda at the Mid Hudson Civic Centre,...

Kwakwani has basketball nursery

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– Says Coach, Ann Gordon By Edison Jefford Following their emphatic success at the just-concluded National Schools’ Basketball Festival at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall, long-standing...

Caribbean cup to start August 18, Guyana host second round

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Caribbean qualifying for the CONCACAF Gold Cup will open August 18 in Antigua and Puerto Rico and finish with the Digicel Caribbean Championship final in Martinique on November 28, the CFU announced...

Jailbird gets three years

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A regular inmate of the Georgetown Prisons at Camp Street, asked Magistrate Faith Mc Gusty, on Tuesday, for a sentence of two or three years imprisonment . Lesley Conway, a\k, Pickle, told the...

Defendants losing battle over use of evidence

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As the trial of the two Guyanese involved in the alleged plot to blow up a fuel bunker at the John F Kennedy Airport continues, the defendants, namely Abdul Kadir and Russell De Freitas, have been...

Horseracing switches to Norman Singh Turf Club

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Horseracing action switches to the Norman Singh Memorial Turf Club (NSMTC) Silver Park No 6 West Coast Berbice where the authorities will bring off their first race meet of the year which is a Grand...

Registration for ECCB Academy to be done today at LBI Community Centre

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The East Coast Cricket Board will commence its 9th Cricket academy on July 12 and conclude on July 23 at the Chetram Singh Centre of Excellence LBI East Coast Demerara. Seventy-five participants...

Woman identified as Hadfield Street resident

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Three days after the mutilated remains of a woman was found on the Georgetown Seawall, relatives have turned up to identify the woman. Yesterday the woman was identified as 42-year-old Claudeen...

Citizens must use the courts to achieve democratic restoration in Guyana

Jul 08, 2010 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on Citizens must use the courts to achieve democratic restoration in Guyana

If the citizens of this country are going erase the ubiquity of state power before the next general elections, then the courts of this country offer unlimited possibility of doing so. I sat behind...

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Keevin Allicock – the next torchbearer for Guyanese professional boxing

Sometimes the best of leaders fail

Peeping Tom… Kaieteur News- Jimmy Carter’s presidency fell victim to global and domestic upheavals. His single term... more