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GECOM ‘on track’ for elections this year

Mar 17, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on GECOM ‘on track’ for elections this year

Preparations are “on track” for this year’s general elections, according to Dr Steve Surujbally, Chairman of the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM). Dr Surujbally’s declaration came...

1,200 acres rice lost

Mar 17, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on 1,200 acres rice lost

EDWC halts release of water into Mahaica Creek By Leonard Gildarie Authorities were expected to stop releasing waters into the Mahaica Creek from the East Demerara Water Conservancy (EDWC) yesterday...

Russian mining company claims all-terrain amphibious vehicle at GNSC

Mar 17, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Russian mining company claims all-terrain amphibious vehicle at GNSC

After a report on what appeared to be an amoured vehicle parked on top of several containers at the Guyana National Shipping Corporation Limited (GNSC) on Lombard Street, a Russian company, Major...

Cop shoots man while acting as private enforcer

Mar 17, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Cop shoots man while acting as private enforcer

An Inspector of the Guyana Police Force is currently under close arrest after he shot and wounded a man while acting as an enforcer for a businessman. The inspector, who is attached to the Tactical...

Stepfather kills child while dousing mother with gasoline

Mar 17, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Stepfather kills child while dousing mother with gasoline

A Guyanese, Lante Johnson, threw gasoline and set his lover and her child alight in Suriname Tuesday. The child, Wiresh Dihal succumbed to the severe burns at the Intensive Care Unit of the...

Brazil sends elite police squad to border

Mar 17, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Brazil sends elite police squad to border

– targeting smuggling of drugs, weapons BRASILIA, Brazil (AP) — Brazil says it will deploy an elite police force along its borders with nine countries to curb the smuggling of drugs and...

Dem boys seh… Is a jackass parade

Mar 17, 2011 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Dem boys seh… Is a jackass parade

When Papa Cheddi come to power he had a problem wid people who was getting big salary. He call it super salary. He knock off a man from de electricity company because de man was wukking fuh $142,000...

Dubious characters photograph AFC MP’s home

Mar 17, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Dubious characters photograph AFC MP’s home

The Alliance for Change yesterday denounced, “in the strongest possible terms”, the suspicious movements outside the office of AFC parliamentarian David Patterson. The party described the people...

Unrest at New Amsterdam Prison

Mar 17, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Unrest at New Amsterdam Prison

An unrest at the New Amsterdam penal complex on Tuesday some time around min-morning resulted from a senior officer changing certain rules which prisoners were not accustom to. Kaieteur News was made...

PPP statement on GECOM another ‘red herring’ – Corbin

Mar 17, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on PPP statement on GECOM another ‘red herring’ – Corbin

The recent pronouncement by the People’s Progressive Party (PPP) as it relates to the work of the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) has been dismissed as another ‘red herring’ by that party...

Pouderoyen residents peeved over flood situation

Mar 17, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Pouderoyen residents peeved over flood situation

The need for immediate measures to be implemented to address a flooding situation affecting residents in the Pouderoyen area was high on the agenda when the Best/Klien/Pouderoyen Neighbourhood...

Bakewell, govt. in partnership to open soup kitchen

Mar 17, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Bakewell, govt. in partnership to open soup kitchen

Government and the makers of Bakewell bread are collaborating to construct a soup kitchen capable of catering for over 2,500 persons daily. The building is currently under construction on Brickdam,...

Homeless woman seeks help to rebuild house

Mar 17, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Homeless woman seeks help to rebuild house

Sixty-one year old Savitri Ramdeen whose Albouystown house collapsed on March 1, last, is appealing to the public for assistance so that she could build a small structure which she can once again...

Berbice police forms two youth clubs in community outreach drive

Mar 17, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Berbice police forms two youth clubs in community outreach drive

The Berbice ‘B’ Division of the Guyana Police Force and more so the Central Police station continue with its community outreach initiative with the formation of two youth clubs in the division as...

Kitty Masjid brothers united at last

Mar 17, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Kitty Masjid brothers united at last

Following months of animosity, the brothers of the Kitty Masjid have finally come together and have decided on a Shurah form of governance. Shurah is an Islamic form of governance which is similar to...

UGBC presents scholarships

Mar 17, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on UGBC presents scholarships

The University of Guyana Berbice Campus (UGBC) presented scholarships to two students on Wednesday. The students, Pulmattie Rabinchand and Naveta Narain, received their checks from Director of UGBC,...

Post mortem confirms homicide

Mar 17, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Post mortem confirms homicide

A post mortem examination conducted on the remains on Friendship, East Bank Demerara contractor, Carlos Persaud, 31, has revealed that he died from shock and haemorrhage due to gunshot wounds. The...

D&I worker chopped, robbed

Mar 17, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on D&I worker chopped, robbed

Kenrick Shamlall of Tuschen, East Bank Essequibo, was dealt multiple chops around his body on his worksite at De Kinderen Sideline Dam. West Coast Demerara, yesterday. The man was taken to the...

Medical team looks after 650 persons; delivers $50M in dental care

Mar 17, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Medical team looks after 650 persons; delivers $50M in dental care

A medical team comprising 27 dentists from Michigan and Texas recently conducted a dental mission in the Berbice area. The programme was arranged and organised by the Asociation of Bible Churches...

AFC says may sue negligent authorities for Region 5 cash crop farmers

Mar 17, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on AFC says may sue negligent authorities for Region 5 cash crop farmers

Alliance for Change (AFC) presidential candidate, Khemraj Ramjattan, says that the AFC will consider suing the relevant authorities in Region Five for flooding in several West Berbice farming areas...

Injunction granted against Interim Management of ATGWU

Mar 17, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Injunction granted against Interim Management of ATGWU

After six years in the High Court contesting the purported Interim Management Committee of the Amalgamated Transport and General Workers Union (ATGWU), Godfrey Whyte, the President of the Union, was...

Straker, Ageday, James, Byass frontrunners for CARIFTA Games team

Mar 17, 2011 knews Sports Comments Off on Straker, Ageday, James, Byass frontrunners for CARIFTA Games team

By Edison Jefford The Athletics Association of Guyana (AAG) has a strong idea of those track athletes who will be included on its 2011 CARITA Games team following last weekend’s rain-hit...

Vigilante murder trial closed for submissions

Mar 17, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Vigilante murder trial closed for submissions

– defendants give unsworn statement The defence and the prosecution are expected to deliver there closing arguments today as the murder trial for Jainarine Persaud, 42, and Andy Jagmohan, 26,...

Mentore claims he had to do present GCA’s job

Mar 17, 2011 knews Sports Comments Off on Mentore claims he had to do present GCA’s job

Former President of the Georgetown Cricket Association (GCA) Alfred Mentore says he had to perform the job of collecting sponsorship funds which should have been the responsibility of the present GCA...

L’Aventure among semi-finalists

Mar 17, 2011 knews Sports Comments Off on L’Aventure among semi-finalists

Girls Division- L’ Aventure sounded an ominous warning to their rivals when they upset favourites Friendship to advance to the semi-finals of the 19th Annual Easter Term Schools Windball Cricket...

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The Opposition is engaged in self-sabotage

Peeping Tom… Kaieteur News- You know, I never thought I’d see the day when elections in Guyana would become something... more