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Gunmen flee empty-handed after shooting shopowner

Dec 14, 2010 knews News Comments Off on Gunmen flee empty-handed after shooting shopowner

A Surat Drive, Triumph, East Coast Demerara businessman is in a critical condition at the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation with a gunshot wound to the neck he sustained during a botched robbery...

GEB security disarmed, shot outside main office

Dec 14, 2010 knews News Comments Off on GEB security disarmed, shot outside main office

Keith McLean, 62, a GEB security guard for the past four years was shot in the left thigh while trying to defend his colleague who was relieved of a .38 revolver at the company’s new office at...

Victim delivers used condom to cops

Dec 14, 2010 knews News Comments Off on Victim delivers used condom to cops

The 21-year-old woman who alleged that she was raped at the Turkeyen Police Station has given investigators a condom that she claims a detective corporal used while sodomising her. Kaieteur News...

Man torches house, prevents neighbours’ intervention

Dec 14, 2010 knews News Comments Off on Man torches house, prevents neighbours’ intervention

A mentally ill man set his own house on fire last night in Brusche Dam, Buxton, and then chased neighbours with a cutlass when they tried to extinguish the blaze. The wooden one-storey house was...

Cops search husband’s septic tank for missing wife

Dec 14, 2010 knews News Comments Off on Cops search husband’s septic tank for missing wife

– Immigration checks suggest former B.K employee still in Guyana By Michael Jordan Police searched a septic tank at the home of Barbita Sarjou’s husband and also checked his house and two...

Two more remanded for murder, ‘terror attacks’

Dec 14, 2010 knews News Comments Off on Two more remanded for murder, ‘terror attacks’

Two more persons who are reportedly part of the “Terror Gang” yesterday appeared before Magistrate Priya Beharry to answer to charges of murder, attempted murder and discharging loaded firearm....

Dem boys seh… De police lock up Troy

Dec 14, 2010 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Dem boys seh… De police lock up Troy

Police pick up Troy last night and when dem boys ask why everybody start smile. Troy got nuff gold teeth in he mouth and de police looking fuh money to mek up de awards. All that didn’t mek sense...

Banks DIH exec gets top Canadian humanitarian award

Dec 14, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Banks DIH exec gets top Canadian humanitarian award

Bank DIH executive and Guyanese humanitarian activist, Shabir Hussain, has won this year’s Tikun Olam Award for Humanitarian Aid when the Canadian Jewish Humanitarian organisation, Ve’ahavta,...

Mother sends child to beg, court considers sentencing

Dec 14, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Mother sends child to beg, court considers sentencing

Thirty-year-old Noorjehan Ali, who appeared in court yesterday to answer to a charge of neglect of child, was granted $75,000 bail by acting Chief Magistrate Priya Beharry in the Georgetown...

Motorcycle disappears from R/veldt Police Station, two held

Dec 14, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Motorcycle disappears from R/veldt Police Station, two held

Who in their right mind would attempt to steal a motorcycle from a police station? Well, two men pulled off such a heist but thanks to surveillance cameras around the Ruimveldt Police Station, they...

Woman secures release of Brazilian husband’s body after 15 days

Dec 14, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Woman secures release of Brazilian husband’s body after 15 days

– may have exposed body smuggling racket The long wait is now over and after two weeks, the Guyanese wife of a Brazilian miner will now be able to bury him on local soil. Manoel Francisco Costa...

Cancun forest deal lacks details on financing

Dec 14, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Cancun forest deal lacks details on financing

The UN Climate Summit in Cancun, which ended last weekend, has agreed on a deal that would get rich countries to pay poor countries like Guyana to protect forests, but explicit details on where the...

Bandits terrorise Canje household

Dec 14, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Bandits terrorise Canje household

Bandits in Berbice resumed their activities early yesterday morning after a brief lull with the attack on a Gangaram, East Canje household, during which they discharged several rounds from their...

Prittipaul Investments to make public statement tomorrow

Dec 14, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Prittipaul Investments to make public statement tomorrow

… Trawler explosion While Prittipaul Singh Investment Inc. is complying with the recommendations of the trawler report, the company is disagreeing with several other aspects of the report; this...

Sugar, rice, cooking oil prices jump

Dec 14, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Sugar, rice, cooking oil prices jump

– GuySuCo denies sugar shortage The Guyana Sugar Corporation (GuySuCo) yesterday denied that the local market is suffering from a shortage of sugar. The Corporation said in a release yesterday,...

Less sound clashes for Boxing Day’s Main Big Lime

Dec 14, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Less sound clashes for Boxing Day’s Main Big Lime

As the holidays approach, the annual Main Big Lime which is set for December 26, will be starting at 14:00hrs and will continue until 23:00 hours. Thousands of persons are expected to attend....

Guyana and China sign significant grant Agreement

Dec 14, 2010 knews News Comments Off on Guyana and China sign significant grant Agreement

By Amar Panday The Government of Guyana and the People’s Republic of China yesterday signed a grant agreement to the tune of $50 million yuan or approximately US$8 million. At yesterday’s signing...

Bartica unveils monument to mass murder victims

Dec 14, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Bartica unveils monument to mass murder victims

Two years after the Bartica Massacre, which claimed 12 lives, the town commissioned the Monument of Hope” to honour those who died. The monument was blessed by Reverend Cornell Moss, in the...

Crippled Wakenaam resident seeks Minister’s intervention

Dec 14, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Crippled Wakenaam resident seeks Minister’s intervention

… after public assistance halted A Wakenaam resident is calling on Minister of Human Services and Social Security, Priya Manickchand to investigate why public assistance paid to him was cut off and...

Former blood bank employee alleges victimisation

Dec 14, 2010 knews News Comments Off on Former blood bank employee alleges victimisation

A former Blood Bank employee has accused her employers of a breach of the contract she signed with them. Grace Grant Andries said that she became employed with the Blood Bank from September last year...

Hinterland road forces community dislocation

Dec 14, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Hinterland road forces community dislocation

…parents rent homes for school children The main road leading to the Santa Rosa Secondary School in the Kumaka District, Region One has become increasingly deplorable over the last few months due...

People of African descent prepare for year of activities

Dec 14, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on People of African descent prepare for year of activities

The Region Ten organising Committee for the International Year for people of African descent, which will be commemorated next year, is optimistic about the positive role they will play in helping to...

Essequibo rice farmers lose millions to flooding

Dec 14, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Essequibo rice farmers lose millions to flooding

Rice farmers who occupy the Lima Housing Scheme area, on the Essequibo Coast, have suffered significant losses. Over the last month, an estimated 200 acres of rice lands continue to be submerged and...

Thieves use car jack to enter home

Dec 14, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Thieves use car jack to enter home

… but pensioners foil them A pensioner and his wife who foiled an attempted robbery at their home in Wajid Ali Street, Diamond East Bank Demerara yesterday, are furious at what they describe as a...

Dale Hing is Spads National Smallbore Champion

Dec 14, 2010 knews Sports Comments Off on Dale Hing is Spads National Smallbore Champion

The Guyana NRA Smallbore Year End Championship ended with Dale Hing edging former Champion Dr. Johan DaSilva into second place. Hing captured the Spads Inc. sponsored Year End Championships Trophy...

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Merry Christmas, Ya Filthy Animals!

Peeping Tom… Kaieteur News- Ah, Christmas—the season of goodwill, good cheer, and, let’s not forget, good riddance!... more