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Breaking News: Guyana will not arrest Bouterse-President Jagdeo

Jan 25, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Breaking News: Guyana will not arrest Bouterse-President Jagdeo

“Get some other countries to do that.” Guyana’s President Bharat Jagdeo says that his country will not arrest Suriname’s Head of State Desi Bouterse whenever he visits the county. Jagdeo made...

Charges of corruption anger Government MPs

Jan 25, 2011 knews News Comments Off on Charges of corruption anger Government MPs

Speaker suspends Budget Debate as Gov’t MPs get rowdy The Speaker of the National Assembly was forced to temporarily suspend the 2011 budget debate last evening after Parliamentarians from the...

Budget debate opens with accusations of irresponsible spending, walk out

Jan 25, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Budget debate opens with accusations of irresponsible spending, walk out

The 2011 budget debates got underway yesterday and the Parliamentarians did not hesitate in engaging in a war of words causing the PNCR members to momentarily walk out of the National Assembly Labour...

Bandit shot in face, belly

Jan 25, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Bandit shot in face, belly

By Latoya Giles A man described as a well known criminal was battling for his life last night after a businessman shot him during a foiled robbery at the Serenity Bar, on Joseph Pollydore Street...

Police combing Moco Moco ganja field for murder weapon

Jan 25, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Police combing Moco Moco ganja field for murder weapon

… Brazilian shallow grave murder A team of detectives from the Criminal Investigations Department Headquarters will depart the city today for Lethem to assist in the investigation into the...

Body in septic tank… US citizen remanded for Detective’s murder

Jan 25, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Body in septic tank… US citizen remanded for Detective’s murder

Fifty-eight-year-old Desiree Jeffers who was arrested by police shortly after the battered body of her reputed husband was found in their septic tank on Thursday, has been remanded to prison. Jeffers...

Teacher videos self having sex with school girl

Jan 25, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Teacher videos self having sex with school girl

A large contingent of Berbice police, including Commander of ‘B’ Division Steven Merai, touched down at the Fort Wellington Secondary School West Coast Berbice and arrested 25-year-old Ronald...

Jarvis Small’s wife attempts to smuggle cell phone into prison

Jan 25, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Jarvis Small’s wife attempts to smuggle cell phone into prison

… Neesa Gopaul’s murder trial The police are expected to charge the wife of murder accused, Jarvis Small, who is currently on remand at the Georgetown Prisons for allegedly killing Queen’s...

Dem boys seh… Govt MPs mek Speaker run

Jan 25, 2011 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Dem boys seh… Govt MPs mek Speaker run

When you push a stick in ants nest is de whole crowd does come out and attack you. Ramjattan push a stick in ants nest last night and even de Speaker had to run. Ramjattan get up and talk bout...

Colin Jones’s alleged terror gang appeared for the first time together in court

Jan 25, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Colin Jones’s alleged terror gang appeared for the first time together in court

With a crammed courtroom and rigid police presence watch, Colin Jones, Randy Mars, Basil Morgan, Anthony Watson and Jahfar Sampson appeared well shackled before acting Chief Magistrate Priya Beharry...

Gov’t rakes in $467M from motor vehicle licences in 2010

Jan 25, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Gov’t rakes in $467M from motor vehicle licences in 2010

Motorists this year are expected to add more than half a billion dollars to the government coffers as they pay their 2011 licence fees to the Guyana Revenue Authority. Just last week Minister of...

Jagdeo to attend Arab American Summit in Peru

Jan 25, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Jagdeo to attend Arab American Summit in Peru

LIMA, Peru- President Alan Garcia said the Third Latin American and Arab Countries (ASPA) summit next month here will be an unprecedented step towards bridging two cultures and an excellent...

Digicel never received tax holidays in Guyana

Jan 25, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Digicel never received tax holidays in Guyana

Digicel has denied that it has ever received any form of tax holidays in Guyana. The mobile giant, one of the two authorised companies in Guyana for cellular services, yesterday made the assertions...

Man beaten, doused with gasoline and set afire

Jan 25, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Man beaten, doused with gasoline and set afire

Thirty-seven- year old Mark Gray, of Agricola is a patient at the Georgetown Public Hospital after he was beaten and set afire last Thursday. Gray, who sustained a broken right leg, injuries to the...

Hearing of appeal against GECOM to continue

Jan 25, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Hearing of appeal against GECOM to continue

The Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) through its lawyer, Senior Counsel Ashton Chase, has withdrawn a motion to strike out an appeal brought by another attorney at law Clifton Mortimer Llewellyn...

New Amsterdam municipality being mismanaged – says PPP spokesman

Jan 25, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on New Amsterdam municipality being mismanaged – says PPP spokesman

Information Liaison to the Office of the President and Community Relations Officer attached to the Region Six Administration, Faizal Jaffarally, says that the New Amsterdam municipality is being...

Repentant armed bag snatcher remanded

Jan 25, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Repentant armed bag snatcher remanded

While armed with a gun on January 21, Collis Collison, 18, and Mark Vaughn, 42, of 27 Dowding Street, Kitty, Georgetown, allegedly robbed Irene Arjune of a quantity of articles valued $693,000. They...

PNCR G/T town-hall forum attracts hundreds

Jan 25, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on PNCR G/T town-hall forum attracts hundreds

Four of the five nominees vying for the Presidential Candidacy of the People’s National Congress Reform on Saturday made their pitch at a packed auditorium at the St George’s Community High...

Mystery surrounds teen’s death at Madewini Creek

Jan 25, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Mystery surrounds teen’s death at Madewini Creek

Relatives of 17-year-old Vishaul Ram, called Ryan, of 1002 Diamond New Scheme are awaiting the findings of a post mortem examination to put to rest all speculation as to how he met his death. The...

Utter stupidity!

Jan 25, 2011 knews News Comments Off on Utter stupidity!

In the name of progress, the authorities in this country sometimes conduct inexplicable exercises and implement measures which defy all logic. One such action is the recent closure of the main...

The budget debate

Jan 25, 2011 knews Editorial Comments Off on The budget debate

The budget debates have begun and once more we are going to hear the criticisms as well as the positive aspects of the budget. We are going to hear of the slush fund for the ruling People’s...

Conquerors to battle Pele in Western Tigers Super 8 football final

Jan 25, 2011 knews Sports Comments Off on Conquerors to battle Pele in Western Tigers Super 8 football final

An exciting encounter is envisaged when Conquerors FC face off with Pele FC for championship honours when the finals of the Western Tigers Super 8 football tournament concludes at the Georgetown...

US-based Josiah-Tanner could be added to Cross Country team

Jan 25, 2011 knews Sports Comments Off on US-based Josiah-Tanner could be added to Cross Country team

By Edison Jefford United States-based distance athlete, Euleen Josiah-Tanner could be added to Guyana’s national Cross Country team as the Athletics Association of Guyana (AAG) continues to...

T&T travel to India US$62,500 richer after beating Hampshire in Caribbean T20 Final

Jan 25, 2011 knews Sports Comments Off on T&T travel to India US$62,500 richer after beating Hampshire in Caribbean T20 Final

By Sean Devers in Antigua In association with Digicel, Carib Beer, Leisure Inn, GSL, Queensway & Dave’s West Indian Imports (NY) A spine-tingling 28-ball 41 from Daren Bravo and an...

Boxers gear up for ProAm boxing card scheduled for this Friday

Jan 25, 2011 knews Sports Comments Off on Boxers gear up for ProAm boxing card scheduled for this Friday

Merely three days before the respective fighters grace the ring for this year’s inaugural ProAm boxing card at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall (CASH), President of the Guyana Boxing Board of Control...

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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