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Govt. backs out of forensic audit challenge

Jun 14, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Govt. backs out of forensic audit challenge

… says Auditor General refused approval The government has backed down from its own challenge for chartered accountant Christopher Ram and Kaieteur News to conduct a forensic audit into the...

Overseas-based Guyanese perishes in Bloomfield conflagration

Jun 14, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Overseas-based Guyanese perishes in Bloomfield conflagration

Morgan Jagai, 63, an overseas-based Guyanese on Monday became the second person to die by fire within a week in Berbice when his two-storey wood and concrete house went up in flames at his...

C.N. Sharma, wife meet with President

Jun 14, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on C.N. Sharma, wife meet with President

Television station owner Chandra Narine Sharma and his wife, Savitri Singh, met with President Bharrat Jagdeo, yesterday, to offer a “suitable explanation” for his broadcast of a commentary by...

Officer-in-Charge placed under close arrest, relieved of duties

Jun 14, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Officer-in-Charge placed under close arrest, relieved of duties

… New Amsterdam prisons escape The prison administration is set to reshuffle its senior officers following the recent escape of four inmates from the New Amsterdam Prison, prison sources...

Batavia drug bust… Four of five suspects charged, other remains hospitalised

Jun 14, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Batavia drug bust… Four of five suspects charged, other remains hospitalised

By Latoya Giles Four of the five persons caught in last Thursday’s drug bust at Batavia in the Cuyuni River were yesterday arraigned at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court. The four men,...

Sophia murder suspect surrenders

Jun 14, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Sophia murder suspect surrenders

A Sophia teenager wanted by police after reportedly stabbing his friend last week during a quarrel over cell phone credit, yesterday turned himself over to police, in the company of relatives and two...

Dem boys seh… Rob-Bert and Bim Bim bluffing

Jun 14, 2011 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Dem boys seh… Rob-Bert and Bim Bim bluffing

Long time people use to bluff bad. Some people use to let off squibs to mek people believe that dem got deadly weapon. That is bluff. When people playing poker and dem have a bad hand dem does bluff...

Plans on stream for new access road to Timehri Airport

Jun 14, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Plans on stream for new access road to Timehri Airport

– Ministry awaits Cabinet’s approval for multi-million- dollar project Almost a week ago the Ministry of Public Works accepted bids for the construction of a new access road to the Cheddi...

Diamond cane-cutters to receive severance today

Jun 14, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Diamond cane-cutters to receive severance today

A total of 381 workers from the Diamond Estate are to be paid their severance today at the Diamond Secondary School, says Komal Chand, President of the Guyana Agricultural and General Workers Union...

Escape of prisoner to Suriname… Cops question senior rank of New Amsterdam constabulary

Jun 14, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Escape of prisoner to Suriname… Cops question senior rank of New Amsterdam constabulary

Police have detained a senior rank of the New Amsterdam Constabulary as investigations continue into the recent escape of prisoner Krishna Paul Doerga. Kaieteur News understands that the rank, an...

Taxi driver drives off with passenger’s bag with $$$

Jun 14, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Taxi driver drives off with passenger’s bag with $$$

– abandons vehicle minutes later In a strange twist of events, a taxi driver deliberately drove off with his passenger’s bag containing a significant sum of cash. The victim, Jermaine...

Taxi driver barely survives armed robbery

Jun 14, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Taxi driver barely survives armed robbery

Thirty-year-old taxi driver Ron VanSertima had what can only be called a lucky escape Sunday night. The father of two, who was still hospitalised yesterday afternoon, recounted how a normal pick up...

Wakapao residents may not be allowed to vote

Jun 14, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Wakapao residents may not be allowed to vote

Many residents within the Amerindian community of Wakapoa, in the Lower Pomeroon River, recently expressed concern at not being in receipt of birth certificates. As a result they do not have an...

Man has sex with home alone first form lover

Jun 14, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Man has sex with home alone first form lover

Amdat Persaud, 20, a labourer of Lot 26 King Street, Williamsburg, Corentyne was remanded by Magistrate Fabio Azore when he appeared before her at the Albion Magistrate’s Court on a charge of rape....

Another fishing vessel attacked on high sea

Jun 14, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Another fishing vessel attacked on high sea

A crew of six is thankful to be alive. Its members were attacked on the high seas off the North West District. Owner of the vessel, Dhanaram Kadiwall, said that pirates attacked his boat the...

15-year-old school dropout a victim of poverty

Jun 14, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on 15-year-old school dropout a victim of poverty

Delene Thomas, 15, of Wakapoa, should be in school, but due to a prevailing financial crisis currently facing her family, she has had to drop out of school to assist her mother. There are five other...

Young writer launches money book

Jun 14, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Young writer launches money book

There were far more children than adults in the audience and a balance across the age divide on the programme as Sharryn Dawson’s Money Basics for Kids: Financial Literacy for Children was launched...

Bold new AIDS targets set for 2015

Jun 14, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Bold new AIDS targets set for 2015

NEW YORK/GENEVA, —The Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) has welcomed the bold new targets set by world leaders at the United Nations General Assembly High Level Meeting on AIDS...

Guyanese teen’s death being ruled as drug overdose

Jun 14, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Guyanese teen’s death being ruled as drug overdose

Midland, US (www.mlive.com) — Midland police officials are continuing their investigation into the death of a 19-year-old Guyanese-born man. Lt. Gregory H. Kramer said police believe Alvin Persaud...

Relatives dissatisfied with “sloppy investigation” into taxi driver’s murder

Jun 14, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Relatives dissatisfied with “sloppy investigation” into taxi driver’s murder

… N/A Taxi driver murder The relatives of former J&N Taxi Driver in New Amsterdam, Trevor Kissoon, want the law enforcement officials to stop the ‘pussyfooting’ and get to the bottom of...

Garden of Eden miner died of punctured spleen and kidney

Jun 14, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Garden of Eden miner died of punctured spleen and kidney

The Garden of Eden miner, 22-year-old Vernon Ronaldo, who was stabbed to death by a friend at a house at Garden of Eden died as a result of a perforated spleen and kidney. This is according to a post...

Overzealous cop shoots at construction workers

Jun 14, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Overzealous cop shoots at construction workers

Police are investigating an incident involving one of its ranks who probably thought that he was doing a good when he opened fire on two construction workers whom he apparently mistook for bandits....

WPA remembers Walter Rodney 31 years later

Jun 14, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on WPA remembers Walter Rodney 31 years later

Thirty-one years after Walter Rodney was assassinated “there is nothing here (in Guyana) that he fought for, says Andaiye, Member of the Friends of the Walter Rodney Commemoration Committee. Walter...

Maintenance works ongoing at Pirara, Meritizero

Jun 14, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Maintenance works ongoing at Pirara, Meritizero

Maintenance works are currently being executed at Pirara and Meritizero on the Linden to Lethem Road, says Minister of Transport and Hydraulics, Robeson Benn. Owing to continuous rainfall in the...

Warring, listless Council leaves GT broke, messy

Jun 14, 2011 knews News Comments Off on Warring, listless Council leaves GT broke, messy

Many workers still without May salaries A laminated photo of St Vincent and the Grenadines hangs on the beautiful lacquered walls in Council Chambers of City Hall. You would think someone has...

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West Indies ride on Greaves’ 115 to exert dominance over Bangladesh

The business class also funds undemocratic parties

…Peeping Tom Kaieteur News- There’s a peculiar phenomenon in Guyana, a sort of cyclical ritual, where members of... more