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Highest spring tides in decades create havoc countrywide

Sep 10, 2010 knews News Comments Off on Highest spring tides in decades create havoc countrywide

By Leonard Gildarie and Jenelle Carter Spring tides, said to be the highest in decades, left several communities under water for hours yesterday, and substantial damage. A number of villages around...

Wife abducts ‘sweet woman’

Sep 10, 2010 knews News Comments Off on Wife abducts ‘sweet woman’

Quick police action led to the arrest of a mother of four, who allegedly abducted a female acquaintance of her husband yesterday from the Guyana Telephone and Telegraph Company’s sub-office at 69...

Police detain uncle, woman

Sep 10, 2010 knews News Comments Off on Police detain uncle, woman

Police have detained an uncle of 28-year-old Dexter Gaspar, as well as a woman, as investigations intensified yesterday into the murder of the Hand-in-Hand Insurance supervisor. Kaieteur News...

Jeweller jailed for contempt

Sep 10, 2010 knews News Comments Off on Jeweller jailed for contempt

– collapses in prison A city businessman who was yesterday jailed for four days after he failed to turn up in court on contempt charges, suffered a heart attack and was taken to the hospital....

Angry West R/veldt residents force halt to demolition exercise

Sep 10, 2010 knews News Comments Off on Angry West R/veldt residents force halt to demolition exercise

– offer to clear canal for far less than contract cost Yesterday’s attempt to remove dwellers along the West Ruimveldt Front Road Reserve was met with fierce resistance, as residents blocked...

Dem boys seh…Guyana full of stupidness

Sep 10, 2010 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Dem boys seh…Guyana full of stupidness

Lateness is de normal thing in Guyana. People does set time fuh a meeting and tun up late. De other day, dem boys seh that dem get invite to a 10 o’clock function at de Amerindian Hostel in Princes...

Giftland Office Max/Fila muscles up GABBFF ahead of Seniors

Sep 10, 2010 KNews Sports Comments Off on Giftland Office Max/Fila muscles up GABBFF ahead of Seniors

Mr. & Ms. Guyana Oswin Jones & Alisha Fortune to defend titles With just a few days to go before the 2010 Guyana Amateur Body Building & Fitness Federation (GABBFF) Mr. & Ms. Guyana...

City Council closes Seiko Garden Restaurant

Sep 10, 2010 knews News Comments Off on City Council closes Seiko Garden Restaurant

– cites non-compliance with regulations The management of Seiko Garden Restaurant, located at Regent and Oronoque Streets in Georgetown, was yesterday ordered by the Mayor and City Council to...

E-Networks Inc. team up with ESPN C/bean to broadcast Airtel T20

Sep 10, 2010 KNews Sports Comments Off on E-Networks Inc. team up with ESPN C/bean to broadcast Airtel T20

Guyanese cricket lovers will have the opportunity to see the entire Airtel Champions League T20 Cricket Tournament which will be played in South Africa. Through the efforts of E-Networks Inc....

Man jailed, wife remanded on ganja charge

Sep 10, 2010 knews News Comments Off on Man jailed, wife remanded on ganja charge

Lloyd Atkinson and Gwendolyn Atkinson of Mabaruma, Barima/Waini, were yesterday sentenced and denied bail respectively, when they appeared before Acting Chief Magistrate Priya Beharry at the...

Vivian Harris set to redeem boxing career against formidable world rater

Sep 10, 2010 KNews Sports Comments Off on Vivian Harris set to redeem boxing career against formidable world rater

After a relatively long layoff, former World Boxing Association (WBA) junior/welterweight champion, Vivian Harris is scheduled to return to the ring for a career defining bout against world rater,...

Report: Venezuela not happy with Guyana’s new Maritime law

Sep 10, 2010 knews News Comments Off on Report: Venezuela not happy with Guyana’s new Maritime law

– will refuse it when enacted here Venezuelan officials have said that they stand ready to fight, via the diplomatic channels, a Maritime bill recently passed in Guyana which may affect that...

Batavia Warriors lifts championship as Essequibo Islands Ten10 softball ends

Sep 10, 2010 KNews Sports Comments Off on Batavia Warriors lifts championship as Essequibo Islands Ten10 softball ends

The weather was kind to the cricketers when the four winners of the respective zones clashed in the Essequibo Islands Ten10 soft ball cricket which continued in Region 2 Sunday last. The fans came...

Omar Shariff maintains lead

Sep 10, 2010 KNews Sports Comments Off on Omar Shariff maintains lead

Omar Shariff extended his score to 4 wins from as many games to maintain his lead when play in the DDL Topco Juices Chess Tournament resumed last Wednesday at the Keishar’s Sports Club, Hadfield...

Death row inmate in solitary confinement for record 138 days

Sep 10, 2010 knews News Comments Off on Death row inmate in solitary confinement for record 138 days

“He is properly located in the interest of security and discipline” – prison official Relatives of a death row inmate at the Georgetown Prison are appealing for an explanation from the...

Georgetown match skills with East Demerara on Sunday

Sep 10, 2010 KNews Sports Comments Off on Georgetown match skills with East Demerara on Sunday

Following the restart of the second and final round of the Guyana Football Federation Super League, the Female Inter Association 2nd round will get cracking on Sunday at the GFC Ground in the City....

Disgruntled ranks slam hierarchy for ‘partial treatment’

Sep 10, 2010 knews News Comments Off on Disgruntled ranks slam hierarchy for ‘partial treatment’

Following the recent recovery of a large quantity of pyrotechnics and ammunitions from the GDF Armory earlier in the week, and the subsequent detention of twenty Commissioned and 11 Senior Non...

Squatting remains major bugbear in G/town – King

Sep 10, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Squatting remains major bugbear in G/town – King

Squatters are responsible for 80 percent of garbage found in city canals, a development which according to Public Relations Officer within the Mayor and City Council of Georgetown, Royston King, has...

Health Ministry prepared to battle suicide

Sep 10, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Health Ministry prepared to battle suicide

– as Prevention Day is observed worldwide Today is World Suicide Prevention Day and Guyana will not be left out in commemorating this anniversary which is being observed under the theme “Many...

Guyana-born retired night club owner in court

Sep 10, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Guyana-born retired night club owner in court

– ‘Shot ex-wife in street in row over cash’ A retired night club owner shot his ex-wife in the head at point blank range with a gun that was concealed in a Tesco shopping bag, the Old...

Popular Chutney artiste in custody

Sep 10, 2010 knews News Comments Off on Popular Chutney artiste in custody

As police continue their probe into last Saturday night’s execution-style attack which left five dead including a toddler, a male individual has been taken into police custody. This newspaper was...

Tenelec 50 overs first division tourney bowls off on Sunday

Sep 10, 2010 KNews Sports Comments Off on Tenelec 50 overs first division tourney bowls off on Sunday

Competition in the Tenelec 50 overs first division tournament is set to bowl off on this Sunday as organisers, Berbice Cricket Board restarts playing following a major improvement in the weather. The...

The Southern Connection

Sep 10, 2010 KNews Editorial Comments Off on The Southern Connection

The proposal by President Bouterse of Suriname that we should construct a bridge to span the river that separates us – the Corentyne – while there are a host of outstanding issues between us,...

The people who want to rumble are bullies

Sep 10, 2010 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on The people who want to rumble are bullies

The nation was told that the Government will not tolerate citizens that seek to create divisions in the country with their commentaries and political activities. The Guyanese people were told the...

Eugene La Fleur to lead historic Berbice A team against Demerara U 23

Sep 10, 2010 KNews Sports Comments Off on Eugene La Fleur to lead historic Berbice A team against Demerara U 23

Former national Under-19 captain Eugene La Fleur has been appointed captain of the historic Berbice ‘A’ team that would be launched on Friday September 24 with a 50 overs match against a Demerara...

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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