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‘Barber shop’ company gets $300 MILLION computer contracts

Jul 21, 2011 KNews News 1

Digital Technology, the company which was handed two Government contracts valued at a $293 million to supply computers and related equipment to schools, has been found to have as its head office what...

Any delay will see Jagdeo Presidency go well into 2012 or beyond – AFC

Jul 21, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Any delay will see Jagdeo Presidency go well into 2012 or beyond – AFC

“We wish to remind the Guyanese public that the list of electors currently being prepared is designed to capture those persons who have attained the age of 18 years on or before September 30, 2011....

Road fatality figures jump by 8% over 2010 figures

Jul 21, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Road fatality figures jump by 8% over 2010 figures

Already for the year, 68 persons have lost their lives in road accidents from 62 accidents. For the same period last year there were 57 accidents resulting in 62 deaths. For this year six of the...

Police ranks to be interdicted for absenteeism in court

Jul 21, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Police ranks to be interdicted for absenteeism in court

Police ranks who repeatedly absent themselves from court without a valid reason will be interdicted from duty. The warning came from Commissioner of Police Henry Greene, during an address yesterday...

Police ranks ordered to get rid of minibus and hire cars

Jul 21, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Police ranks ordered to get rid of minibus and hire cars

If an order from within the Guyana Police force holds true, no police rank, whether junior or senior, should be involved in the minibus or hire car business unless they receive the consent of the...

Getting GECOM out of debt ‘a work in progress’ – Dr Luncheon

Jul 21, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Getting GECOM out of debt ‘a work in progress’ – Dr Luncheon

The Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) owes various contractors an estimated $40 million, but it seems a far way from paying off that debt, even as a new round of the Claims and Objections period...

Dem boys seh… Guyana promising

Jul 21, 2011 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Dem boys seh… Guyana promising

Guyana got lots of promise. Dem foreign people use to tell de whole world that since before World War Two. After de war dem same people use to talk how Guyana got much promise. Dem boys seh that dem...

PPP’s call to reopen registration is desperate – APNU

Jul 21, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on PPP’s call to reopen registration is desperate – APNU

Recently formed coalition, A Partnership for National Unity (APNU), views the call by the incumbent PPP/C to re-open the Claims and Objections period a desperate measure. GECOM, this week, voted by...

Police hunt molester of three-year-old

Jul 21, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Police hunt molester of three-year-old

Law enforcement officers in Region Two have launched an investigation into the arrest of a 33-year-old porter who reportedly sexually molested his three-year-old neice. Investigation revealed that on...

AFC calls for immediate revamp of licencing system

Jul 21, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on AFC calls for immediate revamp of licencing system

In light of the increasing frequency of road fatalities and accidents, the Alliance For Change (AFC) is calling for the immediate revamp of the licencing system in order to weed out those unsuitable...

Man upbraided for beating up family, douses schoolboy with acid

Jul 21, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Man upbraided for beating up family, douses schoolboy with acid

Kevin Joshua called “Joshua Singh” and “Topo”, 22, an unemployed man of 142 Victoria Street, Cumberland, East Canje, Berbice, was described as a bully. He was on Wednesday remanded to prison...

300 respond to Guyana Watch Berbice clinic

Jul 21, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on 300 respond to Guyana Watch Berbice clinic

The Guyana Watch Inc team took its medical mission to Region Six on Wednesday. The base was Tain Primary School in the Corentyne. Thousands of Guyanese have benefited from the US-based team over the...

Barbadian man gets 15 years for killing Guyanese wife

Jul 21, 2011 KNews News 4

Yesterday, less than a year after her death, Bibi Ifill’s murderer, Mark Ifill, was sentenced to 15 years in prison. The sentence was handed down in the Barbados Supreme Court. The tragic tale...

Amerindian leaders to discuss land rights, other concerns in Georgetown

Jul 21, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Amerindian leaders to discuss land rights, other concerns in Georgetown

Amerindian leaders from across the country are being brought to Georgetown next week and are slated to discuss vexing land rights issues and other concerns. Called Toshaos, the Amerindian leaders...

Missing Guyanese woman body found; adopted son charged with murder

Jul 21, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Missing Guyanese woman body found; adopted son charged with murder

PEMBROKE PINES, Fla. (WSVN) — Police have charged the adopted son of Guyana-born Realtor, Natalie Belmonte, with first-degree murder after police found what they believe is her body in a marsh near...

Abandoned properties concern Linden residents

Jul 21, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Abandoned properties concern Linden residents

Residents of Christianburg, particularly those persons residing in and around John and Alstrom Alleys, have expressed their concern about an abandoned, unfinished house, which is presently overgrown...

Men Affairs Bureau makes pact with Wakenaam males to stop brutality

Jul 21, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Men Affairs Bureau makes pact with Wakenaam males to stop brutality

… Domestic violence outreach By Rabindra Rooplall Many fathers, brothers, uncles and sons signed a declaration on Wakenaam Island yesterday to try their best to cease domestic violence under...

Woman loses two sons under different circumstances

Jul 21, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Woman loses two sons under different circumstances

After receiving the news of her eldest son being sentenced to life imprisonment by Justice Franklyn Holder, Dularie Sookdeo, whose son, Devanand Sookdeo, was murdered by his older brother, Jainte...

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Jul 21, 2011 knews News Comments Off on Readers, if you want us to continue this blog, please keep all comments neat and clean.

Police Force ready for elections

Jul 21, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Police Force ready for elections

The Guyana Police Force has started its preparations for the policing of this year’s General and Regional Elections. The elections are scheduled to be held in another few months and according to...

Another suicide

Jul 21, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Another suicide

A Henrietta family is mourning the loss, of a family member, who took his life last month. Devin Avinash Lall, 18, was discovered hanging from a beam in his aunt’s Drupattie house, by his cousin,...

WHO calls for ban on ‘unreliable’ TB blood tests

Jul 21, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on WHO calls for ban on ‘unreliable’ TB blood tests

Geneva (AFP) – The World Health Organisation warned, on Wednesday, that millions of blood tests conducted every year to diagnose tuberculosis are unreliable and putting patients’ lives in...

Overseas-based business says power of attorney fleeced him

Jul 21, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Overseas-based business says power of attorney fleeced him

Some time between April and May, an overseas-based Guyanese discovered that his relative had robbed his newly established store of brand name items worth US$50,000. Deryck Dowdhari, the owner of the...

Treason PI further adjourned

Jul 21, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Treason PI further adjourned

The preliminary inquiry into the treason charges against Major Bruce Munroe, his wife Carol-Ann, and former reserve officer Leonard Wharton, continued yesterday before acting Chief Magistrate Priya...

GWI commissions $104M Canefield well

Jul 21, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on GWI commissions $104M Canefield well

…residents displeased with water quality Guyana Water Inc commissioned a new $104M well station yesterday, at Canefield, East Canje Berbice. The new well will serve some 14,000 residents of...

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Dolphin Secondary, East Ruimveldt seal Round-5 victories in Republic Bank U-18 Football League

A shameful abdication of leadership

…Peeping Tom Kaieteur News- The PPPC government has reached a new low in its spineless defense of the lopsided Production... more