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Man kills wife, hangs self

Jan 04, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Man kills wife, hangs self

– sends relatives ominous text message By Leonard Gildarie A Tuschen man who only returned from Trinidad last Thursday, hanged himself last night after murdering his estranged common-law wife...

Jealous ‘child-father’ attacks woman’s lover

Jan 04, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Jealous ‘child-father’ attacks woman’s lover

…drags wounded victim out of ambulance, chops him again Ivelaw Archer, a 59-year-old man of 45 Half Mile, Wismar, Linden, yesterday found out to his dismay that a hospitable nature can sometimes...

Businessman, wife identify gunman

Jan 04, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Businessman, wife identify gunman

… Robbery Murder at Stanleytown The prime suspect who was arrested hours after a robbery murder at the Mars Gas station at 45 Stanleytown New Amsterdam, has been positively identified. An...

Thieves use cutting torch to rob Mahaica Post Office

Jan 04, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Thieves use cutting torch to rob Mahaica Post Office

Pensioners were unable to collect their pensions at the Mahaica Post Office yesterday after the safe in the entity was burglarised by ‘blow torch carrying bandits’. According to reports, thieves...

Gunman shoots, robs Linden businessman

Jan 04, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Gunman shoots, robs Linden businessman

Prominent Linden Businessman, Albert Joseph, well known as Bolo, owner of Bolo’s Variety and Furniture Store on Sunflower Street in Wismar, was yesterday afternoon shot in the abdomen and left...

Dem boys seh… Nuff people dance done

Jan 04, 2011 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Dem boys seh… Nuff people dance done

Is madness. De year just start and nuff people dead already and some barely miss death. A man build a house fuh a woman who beg he fuh leh she child father live inside. De man agree but things get...

Greenidge joins PNCR Pres. race

Jan 04, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Greenidge joins PNCR Pres. race

says ‘lawlessness’ in Guyana allows ‘economic predators’ Former Finance Minister Carl Greenidge, who has lost his job as a lead negotiator with the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) after a...

CJIA declares highest ever revenues in 2010

Jan 04, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on CJIA declares highest ever revenues in 2010

– self check-in terminals to be introduced shortly Guyana’s main port of entry, the Cheddi Jagan International Airport (CJIA), has announced its highest revenue year in 2010 with $635M earned...

$3.4 M disappears from Police finance

Jan 04, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on $3.4 M disappears from Police finance

… Monies ready to be paid to pensioners- Henry Greene Pensioners who were made to wait almost one year to uplift their monies from the Police Finance Office can now do so because the money has been...

Cops leaving no stone unturned to locate Barbita Sarjou – Assistant Commissioner Vyphuis

Jan 04, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Cops leaving no stone unturned to locate Barbita Sarjou – Assistant Commissioner Vyphuis

… Two months on and still missing It is now two months since 28-year-old Barbita Sarjou disappeared under mysterious circumstances, but Assistant Police Commissioner George Vyphuis says that...

Guyana-owned airlines cannot fly directly to US

Jan 04, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Guyana-owned airlines cannot fly directly to US

… more training, legislation, regulation overhaul required first At least two airlines are hoping to fly directly to the US but Guyana-owned craft does not yet meet the requirements. According to...

City Hall halts seasonal pavement vending

Jan 04, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on City Hall halts seasonal pavement vending

Seasonal vending has officially been halted by the Mayor and City Council of Georgetown which has instructed the start of an intense campaign to ward-off all vending activities on the city pavements....

New meeting set for Thursday, but union worries

Jan 04, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on New meeting set for Thursday, but union worries

… RUSAL’s no-show A new meeting that authorities hope will bring some resolution to the year-long stand-off between Russian owned, RUSAL’s Bauxite Company of Guyana Inc. (BCGI), is expected...

Investigators trying to establish motives

Jan 04, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Investigators trying to establish motives

… Arson attempts at East Coast Dem. schools Police on East Coast Demerara are working feverishly to determine the motive for the attempted arson on two schools in the district on the second day...

Berbice records its first road fatality on Sunday

Jan 04, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Berbice records its first road fatality on Sunday

Berbice recorded it first road fatality just two days into the new year when the life of Rajkumar Basdeo, called Roy, 47, of 25 Line Path Skeldon, Corentyne, was snuffed out by an alleged speeding...

$220M small farmers’ credit programme kick-started

Jan 04, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on $220M small farmers’ credit programme kick-started

By Leonard Gildarie A $220M credit programme targeting small farmers countrywide was launched yesterday as Government unveiled plans to revamp an industry even further with more training and...

Guyanese is first Antiguan road death

Jan 04, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Guyanese is first Antiguan road death

Antigua-The police have released details of an early morning incident on New Year’s Day that resulted in the death of a 60-year-old Guyanese man. According to information received, the first road...

Self-confessed sex worker granted bail for robbery

Jan 04, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Self-confessed sex worker granted bail for robbery

Acting Chief Magistrate Priya Beharry yesterday granted bail to Sean Persaud who was charged with the offence of robbery. It is alleged that on December 30, last, along King Street, Georgetown,...

Teddies hampers distributed at hospitals on New Year’s Day

Jan 04, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Teddies hampers distributed at hospitals on New Year’s Day

This year, Teddies representatives along with the Teddies Mascot, delivered more than 50 hampers to babies in hospitals in Georgetown, among them, the bouncing bundles of joy who were born on New...

Burial spots overwhelmed at Le Repentir

Jan 04, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Burial spots overwhelmed at Le Repentir

As if the growing piles of garbage is not enough, people must now contend with another situation that has raised its head in the cemetery. Recently this newspaper was told that burial spots in the Le...

Bartica miners gear for new association, to hold elections Thursday

Jan 04, 2011 knews News Comments Off on Bartica miners gear for new association, to hold elections Thursday

An independent mining association is set to hold elections, Thursday, in Bartica with key members of the Guyana Gold and Diamond Miners Association (GGDMA) expected to vie for leadership positions....

Police question burnt miner

Jan 04, 2011 knews News Comments Off on Police question burnt miner

Ranks from the E and F Division yesterday visited the 74-year-old miner who was burned in the face on Friday in the Mahdia Backdam, by bandits who claimed that they were looking for employment. Felix...

Police still to make arrests in highway murder

Jan 04, 2011 knews News Comments Off on Police still to make arrests in highway murder

– Several persons questioned The police seem to have reached a dead end regarding the gruesome murder of Parika taxi driver, Leyton Garraway, of Lot 203 Old Road, Parika, East Bank Essequibo....

Shot watch vendor succumbs

Jan 04, 2011 knews News Comments Off on Shot watch vendor succumbs

Paul Samaroo, 32, of Goedverwagting, East Coast Demerara, a watch vendor who was shot by bandits in his yard on December 16, 2010, succumbed yesterday in the wee hours of the morning at the High...

Silhouettes of dictatorship in 2010 in Guyana

Jan 04, 2011 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on Silhouettes of dictatorship in 2010 in Guyana

I had little respect, if any, for Janet Jagan when she was alive. When she died, the next day I wrote on this page that she was the last of the global fascists from the early 20th century. In my...

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…Peeping Tom kaieteur News- Every morning, the government wakes up, stretches its arms, and spends one billion dollars... more