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Bandits snatch guns from security guards

Aug 20, 2010 knews News Comments Off on Bandits snatch guns from security guards

– Turn off cameras, sever telephone lines The police are currently investigating an armed robbery, which occurred at the Telcoms Solution at Industrial Site on the East Bank of Demerara...

Fugitive businessman transferred to maximum security prison in Brazil

Aug 20, 2010 knews News Comments Off on Fugitive businessman transferred to maximum security prison in Brazil

Businessman Euclid Da Silva, who was handed over to Brazilian authorities on Tuesday has been transferred to a maximum security prison on the Brazilian border with Colombia. Kaieteur News has learnt...

Courts (Guy) Country Manager to head Regional entity

Aug 20, 2010 knews News Comments Off on Courts (Guy) Country Manager to head Regional entity

Country Manager Courts Guyana Inc. Lester Alvis has been promoted to Managing Director of the OECS region for Courts Caribbean. This will be effective from September 1. The 45-year-old Alvis, who is...

Pollard in T&T’s team for ‘Grudge’ match at providence

Aug 20, 2010 KNews Sports Comments Off on Pollard in T&T’s team for ‘Grudge’ match at providence

Tickets go sale from Tuesday By Sean Devers Caribbean 20/20 champions Guyana will conclude their match practice for next month’s Champions League 20/20 cricket tournament in South Africa with...

WICB congratulates T&T women for triumph

Aug 20, 2010 KNews Sports Comments Off on WICB congratulates T&T women for triumph

President hails 50-over League as superb advertisement St John’s, Antigua – The West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) on yesterday congratulated the Trinidad and Tobago Women’s team for their...

Moses/Ward catchweight fight is headliner; Gilkes to face King in rematch

Aug 20, 2010 KNews Sports Comments Off on Moses/Ward catchweight fight is headliner; Gilkes to face King in rematch

The seventh edition of the monthly ProAm boxing extravaganza is scheduled to get underway on Friday August 27 next and fans visiting the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall (CASH) for the live action are...

Gaskin leaves for youth athletics programme

Aug 20, 2010 KNews Sports Comments Off on Gaskin leaves for youth athletics programme

– Coach to be trained in Argentina Head Coach of the Mercury Fast Lanners Track and Field Club, Christopher Gaskin departed the country yesterday for Argentina where he will complete a Youth...

South Africa

Aug 20, 2010 KNews Editorial Comments Off on South Africa

The euphoria of hosting a successful World Cup also brought international attention to conditions in South Africa, sixteen years after apartheid was abolished and free and fair elections ushered in...

The allegations of the former First Lady against President Jagdeo

Aug 20, 2010 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on The allegations of the former First Lady against President Jagdeo

Stella Ramsaroop who used to write a frequent column in this paper dropped off the radar a few years ago because of serious illness, as she explained. But Stella is back already. Her Wednesday piece...

US is Guyana’s top import source in past decade

Aug 20, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on US is Guyana’s top import source in past decade

The United States continues to remain one of Guyana’s most significant trading partners over the past decade according to that country’s Department of Commerce and the U.S. International Trade...

Having a ‘vested inherent interest’ is not enough Mr. Minister

Aug 20, 2010 KNews Letters Comments Off on Having a ‘vested inherent interest’ is not enough Mr. Minister

Dear Editor, I read with utter disbelieve, the response to questions posed to Minister of Transport and Hydraulics, Robeson Benn while speaking to media representatives at the OMAI Linden Wharf,...

THE JOINT OPPOSITION HAS LOST A CRUCIAL STAGE OF THE STRUGGLE

Aug 20, 2010 knews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on THE JOINT OPPOSITION HAS LOST A CRUCIAL STAGE OF THE STRUGGLE

The joint opposition and other civic forces have been dealt a serious blow by the Memorandum of Understanding signed between the government of Guyana and the United States Agency for International...

Silence is no longer golden

Aug 20, 2010 KNews Letters Comments Off on Silence is no longer golden

Dear Editor, The Swiss Inscription: Sprecfien ist silbern, Schweigen ist golden (Speech is silvern, Silence is golden) has not helped the Guyanese people. Corruption, malfeasance, wrongdoing of every...

We have sufficient information that this contractor is suitable – Minister Benn tells media

Aug 19, 2010 knews News Comments Off on We have sufficient information that this contractor is suitable – Minister Benn tells media

“I think we have sufficient information that this is a suitable contractor for the building of the road.” This was the response of a confident Minister of Transport and Hydraulics, Robeson Benn,...

Businessman may spend nine years in Brazilian jail

Aug 19, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Businessman may spend nine years in Brazilian jail

Businessman Euclid Da Silva may have to spend the next nine years in a Brazilian jail even as his wife vows to continue to challenge what she described as his unlawful expulsion from Guyana. Da Silva...

Skeleton staff prepares to grind harvested cane

Aug 19, 2010 knews News Comments Off on Skeleton staff prepares to grind harvested cane

By Leonard Gildarie In a bid to save over 650 punts of harvested cane, a skeleton staff at the new Skeldon sugar estate was last evening getting ready to operate the facilities, as factory workers...

Resident charged with manslaughter

Aug 19, 2010 knews News Comments Off on Resident charged with manslaughter

Annandale electrocution… An Annandale Railway Embankment resident is to face a manslaughter charge, which stems from last Sunday’s electrocution of eight-year-old Mark Anthony August. The...

Female rice farmers now in court

Aug 19, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Female rice farmers now in court

… More legal troubles for MRL Two farmers, both women, are among the latest to sue the Mahaicony Rice Limited (MRL) over outstanding payments. Loretta and Sarjudei Balkarran, both of Burma...

Dem Boys seh… Bharrat try to meet Fine Man

Aug 19, 2010 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Dem Boys seh… Bharrat try to meet Fine Man

There was a time when de government people use to run to seh something suh dem name could appear in de papers every day. Now, dem boys want to know if all of dem dumb. Dr Leslie always had something...

BK Int’l switches to automated concrete batching

Aug 19, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on BK Int’l switches to automated concrete batching

Automated batching of concrete is the latest addition to the already impressive resume of BK International. The company has in the last two days converted its ready-mix concrete batching plant from...

Suriname launches fiber optic cable

Aug 19, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Suriname launches fiber optic cable

– new collaborative initiatives being examined More than two weeks after Guyana officially launched its fibre optic cable, its partner in the venture, Suriname, on Monday, also commissioned its...

Gas station owner accused of obtaining fuel by false means

Aug 19, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Gas station owner accused of obtaining fuel by false means

Gas station owner Gangadin Shivdat, 38, of Windsor Forest West Coast Demerara was yesterday placed on $150,000 bail after being slapped with three counts of obtaining fuel by false means. The man...

Reports: Several camps closed as authorities raid

Aug 19, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Reports: Several camps closed as authorities raid

… Illegal mining at Omai backdam Authorities yesterday reportedly raided the Omai backdam in a crackdown to clear the area of illegal mining. While officials of the mining regulator, the Guyana...

Rights group clamours for corporal punishment consultations

Aug 19, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Rights group clamours for corporal punishment consultations

Rights group, SASOD, is clamouring for movement on government’s promised consultation on corporal punishment before it reports to the Human Rights Council. “We are letting the government know we...

Rural schools performed commendably at CAPE

Aug 19, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Rural schools performed commendably at CAPE

Schools outside of Georgetown offering the Caribbean Advanced Proficiency Examinations (CAPE) have recorded commendable improvements in students’ overall performance at this year’s sitting...

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Crowds, chaos and complaints

Peeping Tom… Kaieteur News- The folly of the cash grant distribution is a textbook case of what happens when a government,... more