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Silence is sometimes a defence

Feb 08, 2011 knews Editorial Comments Off on Silence is sometimes a defence

There is an interesting thing about some people. When they are caught out in deception they then seek to suggest that they were misunderstood or that their remarks were deliberately distorted....

Office of the President now admits to laptop purchases

Feb 08, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Office of the President now admits to laptop purchases

… Laptop flip-flop 2 The Office of the President, in its continued attempt to accuse Kaieteur News of distortion regarding laptop purchases, has once again flip-flopped on information that it...

FOI Legislation… PM fails to honour agreement to Parliament

Feb 08, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on FOI Legislation… PM fails to honour agreement to Parliament

Prime Minister Samuel Hinds has failed to maintain a declaration to the Speaker of the National Assembly Ralph Ramkarran as well as to Opposition Leader, Robert Corbin, and Leader of the Alliance For...

Kaieteur News is winning calypso

Feb 08, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Kaieteur News is winning calypso

Last Wednesday 10-year-old Daniel Fanfare, of the Coomacka Primary School went on a public stage for the first time, to sing calypso. But Daniel said he was not nervous–he was confident. He had...

Tender to be advertised for the closing of Le Repentir dump site

Feb 08, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Tender to be advertised for the closing of Le Repentir dump site

The final closing of the Le Repentir dumpsite will take longer than expected as the work will now have to be tendered out. This is according to Government Engineer, Walter Willis, who met with...

Mechanic killed in smash-up

Feb 08, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Mechanic killed in smash-up

…he worked on dead drag racer’s vehicle Less than 24 hours later yet another road fatality has been recorded bringing the figure to an alarming 17 deaths resulting from 17 accidents this year....

Guyanese feared dead as two drown in T&T mishap

Feb 08, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Guyanese feared dead as two drown in T&T mishap

AN EARLY morning lime aboard a pirogue off Indian Bay in Chaguaramas ended in tragedy early Sunday morning when the pirogue overturned and two persons drowned while another is missing and feared...

Dem boys seh… Me nah wuk at de big Affice

Feb 08, 2011 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Dem boys seh… Me nah wuk at de big Affice

Children does lie when dem know that dem gun get licks. Big people different. Dem does lie when dem know that jail door a wait fuh dem. Some of dem does get confronted by de truth and dem does...

Drag racing victims drowned

Feb 08, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Drag racing victims drowned

– alcohol consumption detected during post mortem Post mortems performed yesterday on drag-racing champion, Raymond Ally, and Jermaine Frank confirmed that the friends died from drowning after...

Anna Regina vendors protest 14% hike in stall rentals

Feb 08, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Anna Regina vendors protest 14% hike in stall rentals

Irate vendors are questioning the implementation of the decision, taken by councillors of the Anna Regina Town Council, to increase stall rentals by 14 per cent. Vendors who said that the rate is...

Magistrate finds Prosecutor lying to court

Feb 08, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Magistrate finds Prosecutor lying to court

The question of the Guyana Police Force really having the interest of serving justice to society at large is repeatedly asked. Those who were fortunate in the Chief Magistrate’s Court, last week,...

Bandits snatch $2.6M after trailing victim from bank

Feb 08, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Bandits snatch $2.6M after trailing victim from bank

Despite the many arrangements put in place to protect bank customers, bandits continue to wreak havoc by tracking them and robbing them of millions of dollars, using the most ingenuous ways. The...

Repairs commence on Cyril Potter College’s roof

Feb 08, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Repairs commence on Cyril Potter College’s roof

One day after high winds destroyed the roof of the building that houses the library of the Cyril Potter College of Education; the Education Ministry in a statement yesterday said that substandard...

Farmers could get $5,000 per bag paddy in coming crop

Feb 08, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Farmers could get $5,000 per bag paddy in coming crop

– Agri Ministry Rice price is expected to climb, at least for farmers, in the coming crop, as the U.S. planted less than it did since 1989, just as global demand surpasses production for the...

City Hall examines measures to combat climate change

Feb 08, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on City Hall examines measures to combat climate change

With the effects of climate change bearing down on a global scale, City Hall has been seriously contemplating measures to safeguard Georgetown against the potential effects of the environmental...

CANU declines to prosecute drug accused

Feb 08, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on CANU declines to prosecute drug accused

Sibby Sancho, of 215 David Street, Kitty, Georgetown, dropped her face into her hands in excitement after acting Chief Magistrate Priya Beharry informed her that the Customs Anti Narcotics Unite...

Taxi driver severely burnt one day after birthday

Feb 08, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Taxi driver severely burnt one day after birthday

Forty-six-year-old Andrew Sultan of 14 Jamoon Drive Meadow Brook, is now a patient at the Georgetown Public Hospital Burns Care unit. He sustained severe burns to his entire upper left side whilst...

Cop’s lost weapon still not recovered

Feb 08, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Cop’s lost weapon still not recovered

A week after a policeman lost his weapon, investigators are still trying to figure out how it happened. The policeman claimed that he was riding his motorcycle on patrol duties when he fell off and...

Shot bandit appears in court

Feb 08, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Shot bandit appears in court

Robin Akeem Holder appeared at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court yesterday to answer to four charges ranging from robbery under arms to unlawful possession of gun and ammunition. Holder was...

Health Ministry to direct $100M to cancer medicines

Feb 08, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Health Ministry to direct $100M to cancer medicines

The procurement of cancer medicines is expected to attract $100M this year, representing a massive endowment towards the fight against cancer which has for the past 10 years received nothing from the...

Little kids take on big issues at Mash competition

Feb 08, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Little kids take on big issues at Mash competition

They might be in nursery school, only now taking steps towards learning to read and write, but those in the Mashramani dramatic poetry competition yesterday showed that they could take on big issues...

‘Lunch bag’ thief caught by police patrol

Feb 08, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on ‘Lunch bag’ thief caught by police patrol

A man is currently in police custody after he attacked a sales clerk who was about to enter his place of employment, Narine’s Trading, Regent Road, Bourda, yesterday morning. According to reports,...

Witch hunt is over, wanted man surrenders

Feb 08, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Witch hunt is over, wanted man surrenders

Wanted man Clifton Ramcharran, called Witch, 38, of Number Two Village East Canje, Berbice who escaped from the New Amsterdam Magistrate’s court last Monday is back in custody. The man who is a...

Dismissed Overseer High Court Matter… Defendants a no-show

Feb 08, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Dismissed Overseer High Court Matter… Defendants a no-show

The defendants in the High Court matter with dismissed East Canje Overseer, Godfrey Evans, did not show up at the New Amsterdam High Court last Friday. Justice Roxanne George- Wiltshire had given...

Kuru Kuru man gets four years for marijuana cultivating

Feb 08, 2011 knews News Comments Off on Kuru Kuru man gets four years for marijuana cultivating

After leaving his home at Kuru Kuru College area yesterday morning, little did Derick Persaud know that he would not be returning there until the next four years. Persaud was found guilty by acting...