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Government owes GECOM millions

Sep 25, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Government owes GECOM millions

Government is yet to pay millions of dollars owed to the Guyana Elections Commission—GECOM —for contractual services that were procured by the entity in preparations for Local Government...

Soesdyke/Linden Highway death trap

Sep 25, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Soesdyke/Linden Highway death trap

Neglect is leading to the further destruction of the Soesdyke/Linden Highway in the vicinity of Yarrowcabra. The area by the Pump Road in the vicinity of Skylark, a tourist resort that once existed...

Bauxite Union threatens to halt export shipments

Sep 25, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Bauxite Union threatens to halt export shipments

….cites stalled wages negotiations The Guyana Bauxite and General Workers Union (GB&GWU) has issued a five-day ultimatum to Oldendorff Carrier that it would proceed on industrial action if the...

Hans Barrow suffers bandits attack in Republic Park

Sep 25, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Hans Barrow suffers bandits attack in Republic Park

Two gun toting bandits gained access to the home of Managing Director of Insurance Brokers Guyana Limited, Hans Barrow, last evening, and relieved him of jewellery and his Blackberry cellular phone....

Dem Boys Seh… Robeson meet he meter

Sep 25, 2010 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Dem Boys Seh… Robeson meet he meter

Gun ain’t you mattie. Robeson is a man who tell de world that he ain’t frighten nobody and once dem deh pun de reserve he will come to dem wid he hammer. And he bruck up nuff things. People cry...

PNCR wants probe extended to GNCB

Sep 25, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on PNCR wants probe extended to GNCB

… PPP cohorts pillaged the bank – Carberry “When will (President Bharrat Jagdeo) authorise a full independent investigation of the apparent mismanagement, malfeasance and downright...

Associate detained for insurance supervisor’s murder

Sep 25, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Associate detained for insurance supervisor’s murder

Police have detained a suspect in connection with the murder of Hand In Hand Insurance supervisor, Dexter Gaspar, some two weeks after his bound and stabbed remains were found in his North Ruimveldt...

Jagdeo spearheads panel discussion

Sep 25, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Jagdeo spearheads panel discussion

President Bharrat Jagdeo, was part of the five-member panel discussing ‘Investing in the world’s forests’, at the Clinton Global Initiative meeting, in New York on Thursday . The other...

Guyana to Host CXC Students’ Forum

Sep 25, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Guyana to Host CXC Students’ Forum

Utilising Information Technology the Caribbean Examinations Council (CXC) in conjunction with the Ministry of Education in Guyana will host a Students’ Forum on Wednesday in Guyana. The forum...

Countries rush to acquire Africanised bees to maintain food security

Sep 25, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Countries rush to acquire Africanised bees to maintain food security

“If all the bees were to die, mankind only have four more years to live on the earth,” according to apiarist, Linden Stewart. According to him it has been deduced that bees are one of the major...

Cops using CSI-style techniques to solve bank employee’s murder

Sep 25, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Cops using CSI-style techniques to solve bank employee’s murder

– fabric under car to be tested for bloodstains Ranks from the Police Forensic Laboratory will employ techniques similar to their fictional counterparts in the popular CSI television series in...

Duo remanded for Cummings Lodge robbery

Sep 25, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Duo remanded for Cummings Lodge robbery

The two men who were caught on Wednesday hiding in a trench at Cummings Lodge after they attacked and robbed a family in the area, have been remanded to prison. The two men, Devon Marks and Kelvin...

Man remanded to prison for “knife point” robbery

Sep 25, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Man remanded to prison for “knife point” robbery

Magistrate Priya Beharry on Thursday denied bail to a man accused of relieving two persons of articles valuing over $300,000. The man, Stephen Piggott, while armed with a knife, is accused of robbing...

MRL inks draft agreement for second rice crop through GRDB

Sep 25, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on MRL inks draft agreement for second rice crop through GRDB

The Guyana Rice Development Board (GRDB) has partnered with Mahaicony Rice Limited (MRL) in a draft agreement that could bring some relief to rice farmers in Regions Two and Six. Signed on Wednesday,...

Week of activities planned to address challenges of the deaf

Sep 25, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Week of activities planned to address challenges of the deaf

A week-long list of activities has been planned to observe Deaf Awareness Week and organizers hope these will help to address challenges facing the deaf in Guyana. The week begins tomorrow. There are...

Security guard pulled from Sophia trench

Sep 25, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Security guard pulled from Sophia trench

Residents of 13th Field, ‘B’ Field Sophia on Thursday stumbled upon the body of 45-year-old Mark Anthony Johnson. According to reports the man’s body was found face down in the trench leading...

Gold hits US$1,300 an ounce

Sep 25, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Gold hits US$1,300 an ounce

– GGDMA urges miners to sell more gold As the gold price hits US$1,300 an ounce, the Guyana Gold and Diamond Miners Association (GGDMA) is calling on miners throughout Guyana to increase their...

GRCS certifies First Aid Trainees in Bartica

Sep 25, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on GRCS certifies First Aid Trainees in Bartica

The Guyana Red Cross Society certified 21 residents of Bartica and surrounding areas, resulting in an increased number of persons in Region Seven, now certified in Red Cross Standard First Aid. The...

Celebrity basketball returns under Roc Nation

Sep 25, 2010 knews Sports Comments Off on Celebrity basketball returns under Roc Nation

By Edison Jefford It was huge earlier this year and now it proposes to be even bigger with new entertainment group Roc Nation planning to rock the Cliff Anderson Sport Hall on October 9 with a night...

Health Ministry launched debating competition

Sep 25, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Health Ministry launched debating competition

– Aims at raising awareness on dangers of tobacco and alcohol With the aim of sensitising in-school youths to the dangers associated with the use of tobacco and alcohol, the Ministry of...

Driver caught, minibus found at Enmore mechanic shop

Sep 25, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Driver caught, minibus found at Enmore mechanic shop

Police yesterday went to a mechanic shop at Enmore, East Coast Demerara and found a minibus believed to have been involved in the accident that killed Buxtonian, Biko Edwards.. This newspaper was...

BCB contributes financially to West Indies female players

Sep 25, 2010 knews Sports Comments Off on BCB contributes financially to West Indies female players

“The Berbice Cricket Board is proud of each one of you and we are confident that you would make your family, Berbice, Guyana and the West Indies proud. The facts that the three female Berbicians...

“Guyanese Girls Gone Wild’ video prompts gun seizure

Sep 25, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on “Guyanese Girls Gone Wild’ video prompts gun seizure

The manager of Joseph’s Record Bar, Shabbir Baksh, is one step closer to receiving his firearm along with its licence to legally use it given that the Chief Justice (ag) Ian Chang and Justice Rishi...

Fuel truck driver dies after Mahdia fire

Sep 25, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Fuel truck driver dies after Mahdia fire

After battling for his life for the past 24 days, 24-year-old Gopaul Basmattie succumbed to complications after he was severely burnt in a fire that broke out at Boodhoo’s General Store, Mahdia,...

Scorpions have won the battle

Sep 25, 2010 knews Sports Comments Off on Scorpions have won the battle

– but can they win the war? Beepat’s Scorpions will go into tonight’s initial Division III game of the Pepsi Street Series with much confidence after dropping only one game to Melanie...

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Chilling reminders that we are not safe

Peeping Tom… Kaieteur News- Georgetown was plunged into shock and terror last week after two heinous incidents laid... more