January 11, 2011 - Kaieteur News

Archives by Month:

Archives by Year:

Boat capsizes, woman feared dead

Jan 11, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Boat capsizes, woman feared dead

A family outing in the Essequibo River ended tragically on Sunday with the disappearance of 22-year-old Michelle Benjamin, who is feared dead. Benjamin, who was among a group of 10 persons travelling...

GPL defends decision not to buy cheaper Gensets

Jan 11, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on GPL defends decision not to buy cheaper Gensets

… would have had to still expend US$3.2M – Dindyal Chief Executive Officer of the Guyana Power and Light, Bharat Dindyal, yesterday defended the company’s decision not to accept the...

Man loses $3M from locked car

Jan 11, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Man loses $3M from locked car

At least one local bank is calling on customers to review their handling of large cash transactions following an alleged incident last week in which one overseas-based Guyanese said that he lost $3M...

Fire destroys Main Street building

Jan 11, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Fire destroys Main Street building

A fire of unknown origin early yesterday morning destroyed one of the oldest wooden buildings on Main Street, Georgetown. That building housed the Frandec Travel Service, LIAT Airlines Local, Dragon...

300,000 tonnes target set this year

Jan 11, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on 300,000 tonnes target set this year

… Sugar price hits world market high As the sugar industry gets ready to commence operations after a two-week ‘premature’ closure, officials say that a 300,000-tonne target has been set for...

Dem boys seh… Chinee got to save Guyana

Jan 11, 2011 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Dem boys seh… Chinee got to save Guyana

Things bad wid Guyana. Dem boys seh that when a country got to depend on a Chinee man fuh bat and tek dem out of trouble dem deh bad. Chinee good fuh fry rice and low mein. Dem save nuff people who...

Recent spate of violence not linked to elections – Jagdeo

Jan 11, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Recent spate of violence not linked to elections – Jagdeo

Head of State, Bharrat Jagdeo, yesterday told media operatives that he does not believe that the recent spate of seemly related attacks such as the arson attempts on the schools at Annandale and...

Govt. seeks to silence critics of Hope Canal Project

Jan 11, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Govt. seeks to silence critics of Hope Canal Project

After one controversial article too many, Minister of Agriculture Robert Persaud called a press conference yesterday to silence critics of the Hope Canal Project. The Minister spoke on a number of...

Deadly grenade blast victim remains ‘John Doe’

Jan 11, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Deadly grenade blast victim remains ‘John Doe’

The police seem to have reached yet another dead end as all of their efforts to identify the man who was killed in last Wednesday’s grenade explosion are being frustrated. Yet again relatives of...

Child Protection Agency takes custody of children, police detain parents

Jan 11, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Child Protection Agency takes custody of children, police detain parents

The Child Protection Agency of the Ministry of Human Services, with support from the Guyana Police Force swooped down on a house at Free and Easy Village, Wakenaam, on Sunday, and removed four...

Man found with cocaine during routine traffic arrest

Jan 11, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Man found with cocaine during routine traffic arrest

– plays “run and catch me” game with traffic ranks Last Thursday, a passenger of a route 42 minibus was apprehended at the Texaco Gas Station at Providence, East Bank Demerara, by ranks of...

Bartica residents concerned about overloaded boats

Jan 11, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Bartica residents concerned about overloaded boats

Residents of the interior gateway community of Bartica are appealing to the maritime authorities to step up monitoring of passengers boats serving the Bartica/Parika route to reduce the number of...

Cuban doctor depressed after surgical error

Jan 11, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Cuban doctor depressed after surgical error

An investigation has been launched by senior medical officials at the Suddie Public Hospital into the case of a surgical instrument being left in a woman. The authorities said that contrary to what...

GDF employee steals $4,585 from army

Jan 11, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on GDF employee steals $4,585 from army

Stacy Sampson 28, of El Dorado Village, West Coast Berbice, appeared before (ag) Chief Magistrate Priya Beharry yesterday at the Georgetown Magistrates’ to answer a charge of pilfering $4,585 from...

Georgetown Sewage System to get further US$10M upgrade

Jan 11, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Georgetown Sewage System to get further US$10M upgrade

More rehabilitation works will soon be undertaken by the Georgetown Sewage System as part of the continuous efforts of Guyana Water Incorporated (GWI) to improve the integrity of the system. This is...

‘Chiney’ surrenders to police

Jan 11, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on ‘Chiney’ surrenders to police

Popular Crabwood Creek businessman, Hareshnarine Sugrim, called ‘Chiney’ turned himself in to police in Berbice yesterday. His surrender came in the wake of a wanted bulletin for his arrest last...

Teacher concerned about impact of suicide on dead youth’s classmates

Jan 11, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Teacher concerned about impact of suicide on dead youth’s classmates

Concerned teacher and form master of 10-year-old Christopher Owen Bernard, a grade six student of St Paul’s Primary School who was found hanging, is calling on the Ministry of Human Services to...

Body which was found hanging identified by relatives

Jan 11, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Body which was found hanging identified by relatives

Relatives of the man who was found hanging on Saturday from a length of pink rope in an incomplete building on Hadfield Street, Georgetown, said that the victim was 50-year- old Edwin Ramlogan. His...

School thief awaits sentencing

Jan 11, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on School thief awaits sentencing

Jamal Evance, 19, of Charity, Essequibo, was yesterday remanded after he pleaded guilty to break and enter before acting Chief Magistrate Priya Beharry, at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court....

Dead man’s wife pleads for justice

Jan 11, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Dead man’s wife pleads for justice

Relatives of Ravindra Sookhoo who was killed last month at Diamond Housing Scheme is alleging that the police force is being lackadaisical in apprehending the perpetrator of the dastardly act....

Red Cross to hold blood drive today

Jan 11, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Red Cross to hold blood drive today

The Guyana Red Cross Society (GRSC) will be hosting its first blood drive for the New Year today at the Headquarters, Eve Leary, Kingston. The event is to begin from 12 noon to 5:30pm. According to...

Doctors forced to remove 17-year-old girl’s uterus

Jan 11, 2011 knews News Comments Off on Doctors forced to remove 17-year-old girl’s uterus

By Michael Jordan Doctors at the Georgetown Public Hospital were forced to remove the uterus of a 17-year-old girl after she almost bled to death because the hospital failed to have its operating...

WI T20 Results

Jan 11, 2011 knews Sports Comments Off on WI T20 Results

Guyana lost by 51 runs to Jamaica in their opening Caribbean T20 match at the Sir Vivian Richards stadium last night in Antigua. Royston Crandon took 3-21 as Jamaica were restricted to 115-7 off 20...

USA born midfielder Brandon Beresford joins U-20 squad

Jan 11, 2011 knews Sports Comments Off on USA born midfielder Brandon Beresford joins U-20 squad

Junior Jags beat Winners Connection 5-2 in warm up game United Sates born midfielder Brandon Beresford who made his senior International debut for Guyana against Guatemala on November 17, 2010 has...

D’Andrade, Morgan top 10km race in Suriname

Jan 11, 2011 knews Sports Comments Off on D’Andrade, Morgan top 10km race in Suriname

Lionel D’Andrade and Alika Morgan topped the male and female categories respectively Sunday morning when they competed in the Bigi Broki Waka 10km Road Race in Suriname to complete a clean...

12 NEXT

D-Up Basketball Academy Training camp brings Hoop Dreams to Life with Region 3 Jamboree

Bureaucracy gone bananas!

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