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Witness protection programme collapses

Sep 30, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Witness protection programme collapses

… CN Sharma sexual assault trial After four months of achieving nothing the witness protection programme that accommodated the witnesses in the CN Sharma sexual molestation case has been...

CN Sharma never entered CHI

Sep 30, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on CN Sharma never entered CHI

– Dr Soni asserts “Mr Sharma at no point in time over the past week entered the Caribbean Heart Institute (CHI). How can I diagnose or even refer a patient if I have not seen the patient?”...

Youth gets three years for chopping off teacher’s arm

Sep 30, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Youth gets three years for chopping off teacher’s arm

The 21-year-old man who was found guilty of severing the hand of his former teacher and neighbour has been sentenced to three years in jail. The sentenced was imposed by Justice Brassington Reynolds...

Fire strikes GWI bond

Sep 30, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Fire strikes GWI bond

A fire of unknown origin swept through a bond at the La Bonne Intention Guyana Water Inc. facility last night destroying millions of dollars in piping materials and chemicals. Reports were that about...

Bomb scare halts Clico payout

Sep 30, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Bomb scare halts Clico payout

A bomb scare at Clico’s main office on Camp Street, yesterday forced the temporary suspension of services for about an hour. Kaieteur News understands that the switchboard operator received a call...

Dem boys seh… Somebody creating a market

Sep 30, 2010 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Dem boys seh… Somebody creating a market

Last night was problems fuh GWI. This is de company that does supply water fuh everybody. In de city, is GWI that used to provide de water fuh fight every fire. Last night was a most interesting...

Race on to complete booths as GUYEXPO opens today

Sep 30, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Race on to complete booths as GUYEXPO opens today

The National Exhibition Complex, Sophia, was a scene of mass confusion last evening as exhibitors struggled to complete booth preparations ahead of today’s opening of GuyExpo, the...

China mounts Shanghai photo exhibition

Sep 30, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on China mounts Shanghai photo exhibition

The People’s Republic of China yesterday launched a photo exhibition at the Guyana National Museum as part of the country’s 61st year anniversary of its founding. The photo exhibition is...

CARICOM looks to reform Treaty of Chaguaramas

Sep 30, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on CARICOM looks to reform Treaty of Chaguaramas

The almost four-decade old regional trade and integration bloc, CARICOM, is looking to reform its law book, the Treaty of Chaguaramas, for a second time in hopes of making it more responsive to the...

Delayed report on trawler explosion leave victims’ relatives frustrated

Sep 30, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Delayed report on trawler explosion leave victims’ relatives frustrated

Delay in releasing the highly anticipated report on the trawler explosion has forced the relatives of Orlon Munroe to come to the conclusion that the matter is being placed on the back burner. Orlon...

Death trap awaits commuters at Parfait Harmonie

Sep 30, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Death trap awaits commuters at Parfait Harmonie

The Bridge that links Canal Number One and Parfait Harmonie Housing Scheme, West Bank Demerara, is considered by residents a death trap. For months persons who use the bridge have been complaining...

City Hall monitors municipal markets

Sep 30, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on City Hall monitors municipal markets

– aims to ensure availability of wholesome foods In order to ensure that safe and wholesome foods reach citizens, the Food Hygiene Section and the Municipal Abattoir of the Mayor and City...

Police Complaints Authority visit Bartica next weekend

Sep 30, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Police Complaints Authority visit Bartica next weekend

Bartica residents who have complaints about the functioning of the police will get their chance in the coming days to air their views. Chairman of the Police Complaints Authority, former Chancellor...

WICB releases list of contracted players for 2010 – 2011

Sep 30, 2010 knews Sports Comments Off on WICB releases list of contracted players for 2010 – 2011

St John’s, Antigua – The West Indies Cricket Board has announced the list of players that have signed Central Retainer Contracts for the period October 1 2010 to September 30 2011. Shivnarine...

DDL sponsors senior Inter-County limited overs tournament

Sep 30, 2010 knews Sports Comments Off on DDL sponsors senior Inter-County limited overs tournament

Demerara Distillers Limited (DDL) yesterday handed over in excess of $2.5M to the Guyana Cricket Board (GCB) for the staging of its 2010 El-Dorado Inter-County 50-Over Round Robin Competition that...

‘Golden Jags’ to intensify preparations for Digicel Caribbean Cup

Sep 30, 2010 knews Sports Comments Off on ‘Golden Jags’ to intensify preparations for Digicel Caribbean Cup

By Franklin Wilson Following a creditable 1-1 draw against Trinidad and Tobago’s Soca Warriors on Sunday last at the Guyana National Stadium, Providence, Guyana’s ‘Golden...

Corentyne man committed to stand trial for murder

Sep 30, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Corentyne man committed to stand trial for murder

Wazim Bux, 30, of Kilcoy, Corentyne, who is on trial for murdering the husband of his ex-lover at Kilcoy, Corentyne on January 24, 2008, has been committed to stand trial in the next sitting of the...

Caribbean U-20 qualifying schedule set

Sep 30, 2010 knews Sports Comments Off on Caribbean U-20 qualifying schedule set

Guyana to host Group C October 6-10 at Providence Stadium Guyana, Jamaica, Grenada, and the U.S. Virgin Islands will face off in Group C of Caribbean qualifying for the CONCACAF Under-20...

Police protest disarms Defence Force

Sep 30, 2010 knews Sports Comments Off on Police protest disarms Defence Force

By Edison Jefford It was always a war in the making, just that the Guyana Police Force and Guyana Defence Force (GDF) never really accepted the fact that they both wanted sole dominance of the Joint...

Guyana’s human rights obligations vindicated in Geneva – Dr. Luncheon

Sep 30, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Guyana’s human rights obligations vindicated in Geneva – Dr. Luncheon

Guyana made significant progress in its submission to the United Nations Human Rights Council’s Universal Periodic Review (UPR), in Geneva Switzerland when its position took centre stage, said...

PROVIDING WITNESS PROTECTION IS NO EASY TASK

Sep 30, 2010 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on PROVIDING WITNESS PROTECTION IS NO EASY TASK

When you live in small societies such as Guyana, and you are in protective custody, it is never going to be easy. If you wish to remain safe and free from tampering, there must be restraints on free...

Liverpool heads Berbice points table

Sep 30, 2010 knews Sports Comments Off on Liverpool heads Berbice points table

Liverpool topped the points table in the Berbice leg of the Ministry of Culture Youth and Sport Inter Block Football championship following recent play. The most recent contest ended in a nil all...

GASP Junior Scrabble winners receive prizes

Sep 30, 2010 knews Sports Comments Off on GASP Junior Scrabble winners receive prizes

Following the successful staging of the Junior Scrabble tournament for players between the ages of 11-18 on Saturday August 21, the executive members of the Guyana Association of Scrabble Association...

Pet jaguar escapes, scares Lima residents

Sep 30, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Pet jaguar escapes, scares Lima residents

Residents in the environs of Lima, on the Essequibo Coast, got the scare of their lives when they were confronted by a Jaguar (Tiger Cat) Tuesday night. According to the police, the animal, which is...

Only substantial funding can optimise potential

Sep 30, 2010 knews Sports Comments Off on Only substantial funding can optimise potential

By Rawle Welch Guyana’s ‘Golden Jaguars’ 1-1 draw against Trinidad and Tobago’s ‘Soca Warriors’ was another clear demonstration of the huge potential that resides in our athletes. The...

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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