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Presidential Guard called in on Kaieteur News reporter

Jul 27, 2011 knews News Comments Off on Presidential Guard called in on Kaieteur News reporter

– GPA calls action outlandish and despicable The Office of the President summoned a member of the Presidential Guard into a press briefing today in which Kaieteur New reporter...

Minister Baksh lied

Jul 27, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Minister Baksh lied

– Education Ministry approved $223M computer contract On Monday, the Ministry of Education issued the following statement. “The National Procurement and Tender Administration Board is the...

‘I will be a ‘Yes Man’ to save TV station – – Chandra Narine Sharma

Jul 27, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on ‘I will be a ‘Yes Man’ to save TV station – – Chandra Narine Sharma

Embattled television station owner, Chandra Narine Sharma, says that he is prepared to pull his popular, 20-year-old “Voice of the People” programme off the air, amidst continued pressure from...

Eight Presidential Guards, masked men invade and damage sand-loading facility

Jul 27, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Eight Presidential Guards, masked men invade and damage sand-loading facility

Eight members of the Presidential Guard and four civilians were arrested early yesterday morning as police probe the deliberate destruction of facilities at an East Bank Demerara sand-loading...

Doctor on rape charge on $400,000 bail

Jul 27, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Doctor on rape charge on $400,000 bail

Convicted sex felon Dr. Vishwamintra Persaud was yesterday released on bail in the Berbice High Court on the charge involving his alleged rape of a 13-year-old female cousin. Persaud, who was on...

Ahmad expected to confess by Friday

Jul 27, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Ahmad expected to confess by Friday

US mortgage fraud investigation… – put up five buildings for US$2.5M bail Federal Agents in the United States have expressed quiet optimism that Guyanese businessman Ed Ahmad will confess to...

Mother of three killed in hit-and-run

Jul 27, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Mother of three killed in hit-and-run

Police were last night searching for a hit-and-run driver who killed a mother of three and left a teenage girl with broken limbs after hitting them down near Crane, West Coast Demerara. Sources...

Dem boys seh…Woman forget de missing commandment

Jul 27, 2011 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Dem boys seh…Woman forget de missing commandment

A child does tun out to be wha he parents train he to do. When dem tun adult dem and got to fend fuh demself, dem does tek directions from dem boss or from de leaders of de land. De people who...

Overwhelming requests to adopt infant

Jul 27, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Overwhelming requests to adopt infant

Newborn on Merriman’s Mall… The Child Care and Protection Agency says they have been overwhelmed with responses by the public for the adoption of the infant who was abandoned on the Merriman’s...

Children escape as Parika home collapses

Jul 27, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Children escape as Parika home collapses

Three children escaped serious injury yesterday after their Parika backdam home came crashing down, shortly before dawn. Their mother, 31-year-old Quandasi Kingston is now calling for assistance as...

Dem boys seh…Woman forget de missing commandment

Jul 27, 2011 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Dem boys seh…Woman forget de missing commandment

A child does tun out to be wha he parents train he to do. When dem tun adult dem and got to fend fuh demself, dem does tek directions from dem boss or from de leaders of de land. De people who...

Bandits hit Sophia family and contracting company

Jul 27, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Bandits hit Sophia family and contracting company

Up to press time police ranks were trying to locate a Kitty resident who reportedly orchestrated a robbery in the Sophia community on Monday night. Kaieteur News was told that home maker Dianne...

Mid-city garbage pile-up causes concern

Jul 27, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Mid-city garbage pile-up causes concern

In Wellington Street, between Charlotte Street and South Road, there is an almost unmanageable heap of garbage piled up on a daily basis. This, according to residents of the mid-city area, would...

US Professor urges media to be more pluralistic

Jul 27, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on US Professor urges media to be more pluralistic

American Professor David Lublin, who is currently visiting Guyana as a guest speaker for the American Embassy’s series on “Democracy and the Role of Free, Fair, and Transparent Elections in the...

Cowards hide behind anonymity

Jul 27, 2011 KNews Letters Comments Off on Cowards hide behind anonymity

DEAR EDITOR, We are in the rapidly changing age of technology as proven in the changes of the forms of communication that we are utilizing at present. We used to express our views in the form of...

Troubling events are occurring

Jul 27, 2011 KNews Letters Comments Off on Troubling events are occurring

DEAR EDITOR, It is time for the Guyanese people to rise and take note of what is happening to their rights of free expression and the public right to be informed. Recent events are troubling, and...

Man arrested in connection with Five Star robbery

Jul 27, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Man arrested in connection with Five Star robbery

On Monday, Police arrested a man whom they believed was linked to last week Monday’s robbery at Five Star Backdam, North West District, which left one man nursing a gunshot injury. Reports are that...

When a policeman disregarded his appearance

Jul 27, 2011 KNews Letters Comments Off on When a policeman disregarded his appearance

Dear Editor, It was the 18th of July, 2011 shortly after 19:00 hrs 7pm. I was sitting outside the Accident and Emergency Unit of the Georgetown Public Hospital, with a friend because her son was...

Third party insurance for speedboats to be mandatory – Maritime Official

Jul 27, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Third party insurance for speedboats to be mandatory – Maritime Official

Passengers who lost their luggage and valuables during Sunday’s speedboat mishap along the Parika to Supenaam route are unlikely to be compensated. According to Stephen Thomas, Director Maritime...

Transportation woes for West Demerara folk

Jul 27, 2011 KNews Letters Comments Off on Transportation woes for West Demerara folk

Dear Editor I’m writing to highlight the plight of the people living on West Bank Demerara who depend on the route 31 minibuses (Wales to Georgetown) to get to and from work. It has now become a...

The death of a church heralds much worse, or does it?

Jul 27, 2011 KNews Letters Comments Off on The death of a church heralds much worse, or does it?

Dear Editor, As an outsider looking in at the literal tearing down of a place of worship, the St Barnabas Church in Georgetown, I am extremely appalled at this situation to say the least. Churches,...

Some like it hot

Jul 27, 2011 KNews Editorial Comments Off on Some like it hot

The U.N.’s Framework Conference on Climate Change held two weeks of negotiations in Bonn, Germany last month, to plan the agenda for the major climate summit in Durban, South Africa, at the end...

FRIENDLIER LAWS ARE NEEDED

Jul 27, 2011 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on FRIENDLIER LAWS ARE NEEDED

Forty years ago, there was a good chance that if a traffic cop stopped you on the road for some minor infraction, there was a seventy-five per cent chance that he would give you a friendly warning...

Kudos for the AFC

Jul 27, 2011 KNews Letters Comments Off on Kudos for the AFC

Dear Editor, The debate and influence pedaling measures are out in full measure of who is winning the battle for the minds of the rational Guyanese voter in the forthcoming General and Regional...

Access to Info Bill will create re-vamped version of GINA – GHRA

Jul 27, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Access to Info Bill will create re-vamped version of GINA – GHRA

Several weeks ago the Access to Information Bill No. 10 of 2011, was tabled in the National Assembly. That Bill is now in the Special Select Committee phase where the comments of concerned and...

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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