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OP approves US$583,375 payment for spy equipment Co.

Mar 29, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on OP approves US$583,375 payment for spy equipment Co.

The Office of the President has approved the payment of US$583,375 to a United States of America company reportedly for the provision of intelligence gathering equipment. The payment which was...

High profile criminals fight in jail

Mar 29, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on High profile criminals fight in jail

– Former Buxton gang member stabbed during prison brawl A prison brawl between two high profile inmates, yesterday, has left one of them seriously wounded .Kaieteur News understands that...

National swimmer turned gunman attacks relative at Old England

Mar 29, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on National swimmer turned gunman attacks relative at Old England

A Siberien (Old England) woman said she is now scared to death after a man unsuccessfully tried to break down the door to her home, and later shot out the windows to a vehicle that was parked in the...

Patients forced to share bed in GPHC

Mar 29, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Patients forced to share bed in GPHC

Patients and their relatives yesterday criticised the pathetic condition of the Male Surgical Ward at the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) where there seems to be not enough beds. Men...

Swindler nabbed in sting

Mar 29, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Swindler nabbed in sting

By Rabindra Rooplall After swindling countless young ladies of their monies by pretending to be in a position to hire them or land them a job in the city, the perpetrator known as “Troy” was...

Unattended lighted gas stove guts Stewartville home

Mar 29, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Unattended lighted gas stove guts Stewartville home

Three persons were left homeless after fire razed a wooden building at Stewartville Housing Scheme, West Coast Demerara after midday yesterday. According to one of the occupants of the home, Rohanie,...

Dem boys seh… Some people got plans fuh thiefing money

Mar 29, 2011 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Dem boys seh… Some people got plans fuh thiefing money

Dem boys know wha wrang wid de country. Everybody want lead and nobody don’t want follow. Everybody want sit down and give instructions and nobody don’t want wuk. That is why so many people...

Royston King for Town Clerk sparks heated Council debate

Mar 29, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Royston King for Town Clerk sparks heated Council debate

Failure on the part of Minister of Local Government, Kellawan Lall, to appoint Royston King as the substantive Town Clerk of the Georgetown Municipality was high on the agenda yesterday when the...

Businessman shoots masked bandit in yard

Mar 29, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Businessman shoots masked bandit in yard

After being roused by barking dogs, Sufyan Mohammed, 36, a businessman of 25 Bagotstown, East Bank Demerara was confronted by a masked knife-wielding thief in his yard. He subsequently shot the...

Bartica-Puruni road a death trap for vehicles

Mar 29, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Bartica-Puruni road a death trap for vehicles

…MMC commences repair works Mekdeci Machinery and Construction (MMC) yesterday began fixing impassable roads between Bartica and Puruni , even as miners and business persons complain of heavy...

Masked gunmen ‘clean out’ Corentyne supermarket

Mar 29, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Masked gunmen ‘clean out’ Corentyne supermarket

Three armed bandits on Sunday night almost cleaned out a Clifton Settlement, Corentyne, Berbice supermarket after cutting through the roof in one of the county’s major heists so far this year. The...

Regional Executive Officer to pay cost

Mar 29, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Regional Executive Officer to pay cost

… Dismissed Overseer saga The Region Six Democratic Council and its Regional Executive Officer, Badase Poonai, have so far failed to respond to court proceedings instituted in the Berbice High...

Teen disappears after leaving school

Mar 29, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Teen disappears after leaving school

Sixteen-year-old Dawn Stanton has been missing since Saturday and relatives are appealing for information about her whereabouts. Stanton, also known as ‘Tafo’, lives with her grandparents at Sand...

Key EPA committee meeting scheduled for June

Mar 29, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Key EPA committee meeting scheduled for June

The First Meeting of the CARIFORUM-EU Trade and Development Committee will be convened on June 9, next, in Barbados. This was revealed by the Adviser to the Secretary-General on the Implementation of...

Health sector boosted with I-TECH training – Dr Ramsaran

Mar 29, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Health sector boosted with I-TECH training – Dr Ramsaran

Professionals within the public health sector are better poised to serve patients having been exposed to training offered by the International Training and Education Centre for Health, Guyana...

Woman returns to court for killing lesbian lover

Mar 29, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Woman returns to court for killing lesbian lover

Tiffany Clarke, 19, the teen accused of killing her lesbian lover last month, was yesterday further remanded to prison after she made her second court appearance before Magistrate Priya Beharry....

Good Hope ferry operational but trucks at a disadvantage

Mar 29, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Good Hope ferry operational but trucks at a disadvantage

Despite, the new Good-Hope ferry stelling being put into operation recently, truck owners are dissatisfied with the new arrangements under which they are currently consigned to operate. Frustrated...

Police preparing report on Pakaraimas shooting death

Mar 29, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Police preparing report on Pakaraimas shooting death

– team returns from area Police are to prepare a report about their findings into February’s shooting death of Samson Jacob Aaron at Kurukubaru, Pakaraimas. Commander of E and F Division,...

CANU intercepts 11kg coke in mailbag at CJIA

Mar 29, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on CANU intercepts 11kg coke in mailbag at CJIA

Agents from the Customs Anti Narcotics Unit— CANU— have launched an intense probe into the discovery of 11 kilograms of cocaine in a mailbag at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport, Timehri....

Police nab drug smugglers at backtrack crossing

Mar 29, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Police nab drug smugglers at backtrack crossing

As police continue their battle against the drug traders who are using the backtrack route to Suriname, four more persons were held on Saturday after two were nabbed on Wednesday. According to...

Surinamese among two remanded on drug charge

Mar 29, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Surinamese among two remanded on drug charge

Two men, one of them a Surinamese national, were on Monday remanded to prison by Magistrate Krisendat Persaud when they appeared before him at the Springlands Magistrate’s court on the charge of...

Suspect held in Arangoy murder

Mar 29, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Suspect held in Arangoy murder

Following intensive investigations, police have detained a suspect in last Friday night’s stabbing death of a man in the Arangoy, Cuyuni River mining district, Region Seven. The dead man has been...

Classical presentation envisaged as ‘Oldies are Goldies’ returns

Mar 29, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Classical presentation envisaged as ‘Oldies are Goldies’ returns

They say time flies when one is enjoying himself and though it’s merely 12 months ago, it seems an eternity since Hector Stoute last staged ‘Oldies are Goldies,’ a show where Guyana’s best...

Missing deaf and dumb man located in Suriname

Mar 29, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Missing deaf and dumb man located in Suriname

Relatives of a deaf/mute who had gone missing have reported that he has since been found, thanks to information published in Kaieteur News. Paul Wilson, of 48 Plantain Walk, Triumph, East Coast...

Dylan Fields wins recorded shoot at Timehri

Mar 29, 2011 knews Sports Comments Off on Dylan Fields wins recorded shoot at Timehri

National Fullbore vice captain Dylan Fields won Sunday’s Recorded Shoot at the Timehri Rifle ranges dropping only two points out of a possible 105 points in sunny conditions with winds at times...

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Jagdeo’s idea of transparency

…Peeping Tom kaieteur News- Transparency, as conceived by Vice President Bharrat Jagdeo, seems to be a peculiar exercise... more