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Grenade kills one, injures 19

Jan 06, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Grenade kills one, injures 19

By Latoya Giles One person is dead and 19 are injured, including four-year-old boy, after a fragmented grenade exploded yesterday, in the Stabroek Market area in the shopping arcade that accommodates...

Authorities demolish Stabroek stalls

Jan 06, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Authorities demolish Stabroek stalls

– dead man might have been courier of grenade – Top Cop In the aftermath of the explosion in which one man died and 19 people were injured outside the Stabroek Market yesterday, law...

Dem boys seh… Is more hard guava season

Jan 06, 2011 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Dem boys seh… Is more hard guava season

When people seh that crowds is not a good thing nuff of dem boys does laugh. De other morning dem find out why. A man let off a grenade and de old, de young and de middle aged get hurt. Dem boys was...

Mystery fire damages Guyhoc apartment

Jan 06, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Mystery fire damages Guyhoc apartment

A mysterious fire around 14:30 hours yesterday shattered the New Year plans of a Walker Terrace, Guyhoc Park family. Although the blaze did not completely destroy the dwelling of the Davson family,...

Relatives concerned over man’s death at city hospital

Jan 06, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Relatives concerned over man’s death at city hospital

More questions than answers have surfaced following what relatives have deemed the untimely demise of 33-year-old Elton Samuel Todd of 9 Stelling Road, Rosignol, West Coast Berbice. Among the...

Stabroek News driver dies as car skids off East Bank Public Road

Jan 06, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Stabroek News driver dies as car skids off East Bank Public Road

– Fourth road fatality recorded in five days A father of four has now added to the rapidly growing country’s road fatally figure for 2011. Forty-nine year-old Owen Anthony Elliot a driver...

City Council concerned about deserted city properties

Jan 06, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on City Council concerned about deserted city properties

The Georgetown municipality is becoming increasingly concerned about the noticeable number of houses and empty lots that have apparently been deserted by their owners. This is according to Public...

Former Caricom Secretary General awarded the OCC

Jan 06, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Former Caricom Secretary General awarded the OCC

Prime Minister of Grenada the Honourable Tillman Thomas assumed the Chairmanship of the Caribbean Community on New Year’s Day replacing Bruce Golding, Prime Minister of Jamaica. In one of his first...

Kuwait funds $25M school building at Meten Meer Zorg

Jan 06, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Kuwait funds $25M school building at Meten Meer Zorg

A $25M school building funded by the Kuwait Zakaat House to the Central Islamic Organisation of Guyana (CIOG) was officially commissioned at the Meten-Meer-Zorg West Islamic Academy, West Coast...

Suspect surrenders, to face attempted murder charge today

Jan 06, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Suspect surrenders, to face attempted murder charge today

… Cutlass beating of teacher Rudolph London, the man who allegedly beat his reputed wife, Shaunell Warwick into a state of unconsciousness on New Year’s Day, is to be charged with...

Colin Jones’s lawyer repeats call for his client to be psychologically examine

Jan 06, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Colin Jones’s lawyer repeats call for his client to be psychologically examine

Still with massive police shield in and around the courtroom, alleged self-confessed murderer Colin Jones along with his younger brother Jahfar Simpson and Randy Mars made yet another court...

Suriname arrests Guyanese, seize guns, cars, millions

Jan 06, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Suriname arrests Guyanese, seize guns, cars, millions

Suriname authorities on Monday arrested four men, including a Guyanese businessman, breaking up what has been described as a major drug ring operation. The businessman has been identified as a former...

Lima man died of perforated heart

Jan 06, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Lima man died of perforated heart

Sixty-year-old Dennis Braithwaite, a/k Brown, or Barber Man, formerly of Georgetown and also of Lima Village, Essequibo Coast, died as a result of shock and hemorrhage, due to a stab wound to the...

UG students arrested for firecracker explosion on campus

Jan 06, 2011 knews News Comments Off on UG students arrested for firecracker explosion on campus

Two first-year University of Guyana (UG) Faculty of Technology students were yesterday arrested in connection with igniting a firecracker on the Turkeyen campus, which resulted in panic among those...

‘Slant Eye’ charged with New Year’s Day murder

Jan 06, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on ‘Slant Eye’ charged with New Year’s Day murder

Magistrate Adela Nagamootoo yesterday remanded Delroy James, called ‘Slant Eye’, 25, of Patrick Dam, Angoy’s Avenue when he appeared before her at the Reliance Magistrate’s Court charged with...

GuySuCo Corentyne employees get ICT centre

Jan 06, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on GuySuCo Corentyne employees get ICT centre

The Ministry of Agriculture, with support from President Bharrat Jagdeo, launched a Computer Skills Training Programme and Computer Centre at the Albion Sports Complex yesterday. The initiative is...

Residents accuse NDC Chairman of squatting

Jan 06, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Residents accuse NDC Chairman of squatting

Some residents of the Grove Diamond Housing Scheme are complaining that Chairman of the Neighbourhood Democratic Council, Omar Khan, is squatting. They have since written to President Bharrat Jagdeo,...

Man inflicts grievous bodily harm on sister

Jan 06, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Man inflicts grievous bodily harm on sister

Roy Cassias, of 228 East Ruimveldt Housing Scheme, appeared before acting Chief Magistrate Priya Beharry charged with inflicting grievous bodily harm on Zoe‘ Cassias, his sister. Roy who pleaded...

Forest exports in 2010 earn US$6M more than previous year

Jan 06, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Forest exports in 2010 earn US$6M more than previous year

Forest exports last year earned US$51M, some US$6M ($1.2B) more than 2009. this represented an increase of 13 per cent, the Ministry of Agriculture has announced. In a year in which Government was...

Gunmen rob parent at Tuschen Primary school

Jan 06, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Gunmen rob parent at Tuschen Primary school

-One suspect nabbed One man is currently in police custody assisting with investigations following an armed robbery committed on a parent at the Tuschen Primary School. Reports are that the incident...

No practice matches for Guyana team due to rain & unavailability of Stadium

Jan 06, 2011 knews Sports Comments Off on No practice matches for Guyana team due to rain & unavailability of Stadium

By Sean Devers Guyana will begin the defence of their Caribbean T20 cricket title on Monday against Jamaica in Antigua without the planned practice matches this week. The Ramnaresh Sarwan led team...

Dr. Blackman birthday 7-a-side football finals re-fixed for Saturday

Jan 06, 2011 knews Sports Comments Off on Dr. Blackman birthday 7-a-side football finals re-fixed for Saturday

Due to the inclement weather last weekend the finals of the Dr. Noel Blackman birthday 7-a-side football tournament will be played on Saturday at the Georgetown Football Club (GFC) Ground, Bourda....

Carl Greenidge lashes out at critics

Jan 06, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Carl Greenidge lashes out at critics

“…the harassment by this Government has been a constant and relentless feature of my life since 1992” “In light of what has taken place over the last few weeks, it is rather ironic that in my...

The indiscipline continues

Jan 06, 2011 knews Editorial Comments Off on The indiscipline continues

The year is a mere six days old and already there have been more accidents that one can imagine. The number of these accidents appears to be more for this period than for any similar period in recent...

AFC chides NCN for not airing party’s New Year’s message

Jan 06, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on AFC chides NCN for not airing party’s New Year’s message

The Alliance For Change yesterday condemned the political machinations of the National Communications Network’s (NCN) administration, as reflected in the recent decision taken not to air the...

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Uncertainty clouds Golden Jaguars’ Head Coach position as Barbados showdown approaches

Fingerprinting and Finger-Pointing

…Peeping Tom Kaieteur News- No one, not even the staunchest supporters of Guyana’s electoral process, would claim... more