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Overstepping the bounds of protocol

Dec 15, 2010 KNews Letters Comments Off on Overstepping the bounds of protocol

Dear Editor, In the government-owned and controlled newspaper of 4/12/10, Mr Jagdeo was reported as making the astonishing statement that Chinese nationals would be given three-year work permits and...

‘Gun in barrel’ accused remanded

Dec 15, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on ‘Gun in barrel’ accused remanded

Sixty-nine year-old Compton Paul of New Amsterdam, Berbice, appeared before acting Chief Magistrate Priya Beharry, yesterday, at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court, to answer to the charge of...

THIS IS CRAZINESS!

Dec 15, 2010 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on THIS IS CRAZINESS!

Any person can leave Guyana with up to US$9,999 and not have to inform anyone that this sum is in their possession. Yet if someone sends you a US$100 for the holidays, you now are required under some...

Hindu College employs teachers of all religions and races

Dec 15, 2010 KNews Letters Comments Off on Hindu College employs teachers of all religions and races

Dear Editor As the first Principal of the Hindu College when it was founded by Swami Purnanand Ji in 1957, I find the insinuation (reportedly made by Mr. Jeremiah Mohabir) that only Hindus were/are...

The Climate Agreement and us

Dec 15, 2010 KNews Editorial Comments Off on The Climate Agreement and us

Even though the dust hasn’t quite settled over President Jagdeo’s intemperate outburst at the UNFCCC Conference of Parties (COP 16) at Cancun, as a country that is affected at several levels by...

Please help the GT&T pensioners, President Jagdeo

Dec 15, 2010 KNews Letters Comments Off on Please help the GT&T pensioners, President Jagdeo

Dear Sir, I was delighted, and must give some kudos, to His Excellency President Bharrat Jagdeo for the way in which he handled the Barama workers’ plight after they were let go by the Company...

Instal the cameras to thwart the bandits

Dec 15, 2010 KNews Letters Comments Off on Instal the cameras to thwart the bandits

Dear Editor, Regarding “Gunmen flee empty-handed after shooting shop owner” (KN Dec 14), the holiday season is a time when bandits, choke and robs, and pickpockets are more actively plying their...

‘Duck’ remanded to prison

Dec 15, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on ‘Duck’ remanded to prison

Court regular Bhojnarine Ramkissoon called ‘Duck’ of East Canje, Berbice, will have to spend Christmas and New Year’s behind bars after he was remanded to prison, by Magistrate Omeyana Hamilton...

Juvenile quartet on wounding charge

Dec 15, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Juvenile quartet on wounding charge

Four juveniles appeared before acting Chief Magistrate Priya Beharry, yesterday, at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court, to answer to a charge of unlawful wounding. It is alleged that on Thursday,...

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....

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A flawed interpretation of international law

Peeping Tom… Kaieteur News – The assertion that “under international law, Venezuela is responsible for... more