October 2011

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Five injured in head on collision

Oct 08, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Five injured in head on collision

Five persons are critical after the pickup in which they were travelling on Friday afternoon collided with a car. The accident victims are now patients at the Suddie Public Hospital....

Arianne McLean admitted to bar

Oct 08, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Arianne McLean admitted to bar

Arianne McLean gained the right to practice at the local Bar after she was presented before Chief Justice Ian Chang, yesterday afternoon. McLean, the daughter of Major General Norman McLean, recently...

Another city road under construction

Oct 08, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Another city road under construction

Within a week’s time, the Works Ministry will carry out trials to ascertain the bottlenecks commuters may encounter while traversing the newly constructed road along the Railway Embankment....

Monkey Mountain man jailed for 27 months

Oct 08, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Monkey Mountain man jailed for 27 months

A resident of Monkey Mountain was yesterday sentenced to 27 months after he pleaded guilty to two charges of threatening behaviour and one charge of assault causing actual bodily harm. Elmo King, who...

‘Bad man’ conductor gets bail for alleged assault and disorderly conduct over $20 change

Oct 08, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on ‘Bad man’ conductor gets bail for alleged assault and disorderly conduct over $20 change

The controversial transportation fee that has prolonged between Georgetown minibus operators and commuters has sparked a confrontation between a passenger and a conductor resulting in...

Systematic deprivation weakened opposition forces

Oct 08, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Systematic deprivation weakened opposition forces

…forced sale of VCT 28-Vieira Anthony Vieira, whose aired comments in relation to Bishop Juan Edghill spawned the four-month ban on CNS TV 6, yesterday appeared at A Partnership for National...

Construction of Haslington Market Tarmac attracts $19M bid

Oct 08, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Construction of Haslington Market Tarmac attracts $19M bid

The National Procurement and Tender Administration Board (NPTAB) on 19, August, 2011 received four bids for the construction of Haslington Market Tarmac. The Engineer’s Estimate is $18,890,763 and...

Luncheon called Mingo ‘friend and likely neighbour’

Oct 08, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Luncheon called Mingo ‘friend and likely neighbour’

…as mansions go up and silence continues on Pradoville 2 Head of the Presidential Secretariat, Dr Roger Luncheon, yesterday said that he had called Region Ten Chairman Mortimer Mingo as a...

Press Association calls for lifting of Sharma ban

Oct 08, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Press Association calls for lifting of Sharma ban

– government not budging The Guyana Press Association (GPA) yesterday joined media owners in calling for the lifting of the four-month ban placed on CNS TV Channel Six, but...

Presidential Debate announced, all but Ramotar onboard

Oct 08, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Presidential Debate announced, all but Ramotar onboard

Presidential Candidates of Guyana’s opposition parties have signed up for a presidential debate this November in the run up to general elections, but the ruling party’s candidate is yet to...

More than 200 newborn deaths recorded last year

Oct 08, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on More than 200 newborn deaths recorded last year

The deaths of some 250 babies under the age of five were recorded by the local health system last year. This represents an infant mortality rate of 20 per 1,000. However, this statistic has...

Security guard’s was a case of cat watching milk

Oct 08, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Security guard’s was a case of cat watching milk

It was a case of putting the cat to watch milk when Selwyn Evans, 31, of 11 Smythfield, New Amsterdam a security Guard attached to the Guyana Forestry Commission (GFC) was on Friday jailed for...

Albouystown youths torment pensioner

Oct 08, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Albouystown youths torment pensioner

…police refuse to help Desmond Pompey, a pensioner of Albouystown, says that for the past three years some youngsters in his neighbourhood have been destroying and stealing his belongings...

NAACIE confident in wage hike for GPL workers

Oct 08, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on NAACIE confident in wage hike for GPL workers

The National Association of Agricultural, Commercial and Industrial Employees (NAACIE) says that it is awaiting, with a great degree of confidence, the decisions of an Arbitration Tribunal....

Alleged kidnapper called on to lead defence

Oct 08, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Alleged kidnapper called on to lead defence

The prosecution is contending that there is not enough evidence to convict Ronald Marques, should the matter be heard in the High Court. Marques is one of the men fingered in a plot...

Mahaicony accident victims on road to recovery

Oct 08, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Mahaicony accident victims on road to recovery

Less than one week after the tragic accident at Airy Hall, Mahaicony, the survivors who were hospitalized at the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) are on the road to recovery....

Sophia residents says new treatment plant useless

Oct 08, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Sophia residents says new treatment plant useless

Although residents of Sophia in July saw the commissioning of a Water Treatment Plant, most persons are still fetching water from trenches and broken pipelines. Residents now say that...

Picture boy trial…Crime scene photos tendered in court

Oct 08, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Picture boy trial…Crime scene photos tendered in court

Photographs from the 2006 murder of businessman Chandrapaul Persaud, called ‘Kero Man’ of Non Pareil, East Coast Demerara, were tendered in court, yesterday as the murder trial continued before...

Handyman remanded over alleged computer theft

Oct 08, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Handyman remanded over alleged computer theft

A 40-year-old handyman employed at Nigel’s Supermarket was yesterday remanded after it was alleged that he broke and entered the C&N trading company building and stole one laptop and a WI- Max...

The world has no greater tragedy than Guyana

Oct 08, 2011 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on The world has no greater tragedy than Guyana

I stood as a young man and watched the total opposition unfolding against the rule of President Forbes Burnham. The individuals, groups and organizations were countless. Everything Burnham did was...

Guyana has more nurses and doctors than ever before, says Ramsammy

Oct 08, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Guyana has more nurses and doctors than ever before, says Ramsammy

Minister of Health, Dr Leslie Ramsammy, has said that Guyana has more doctors and nurses right now than at any other time in the country’s history. The Minister said that less than 90 registered...

Three more admitted to Bar

Oct 08, 2011 KNews News 2

Christel Patrice Lambert of 70 Anira Street, Queenstown and of Port Kaituma, North West District was admitted to the Guyana Bar on Thursday. Attorney-At-Law Mr. Nigel Hughes presented her...

Magistrate discharges fraud charges against McLean, Ramlal

Oct 08, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Magistrate discharges fraud charges against McLean, Ramlal

Former Major General of the Guyana Defence Force, Norman Mc Lean, and former Registrar of the High Court, Sita Ramlal had all forgery charge against them discharged on Thursday by Magistrate...

Food for the Poor makes multi-million-dollar distribution in Berbice

Oct 08, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Food for the Poor makes multi-million-dollar distribution in Berbice

Food for the Poor Incorporated (FFP) one of Guyana’s leading non-governmental organization and social service provider recently teamed up with another of Guyana’s leading charity...

BHS Board honours teachers

Oct 08, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on BHS Board honours teachers

The Headmistress and Staff of The Bishops’ High School were recognised for their sterling contribution to the general all-round development of its students on Wednesday, at a “petit...

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Hodge 140* puts West Indies in command

Nov 09, 2026

(Cricinfo) – Kavem Hodge dislodged Bangladesh from the driver’s seat with a career-best unbeaten 140 on the fourth day in Sylhet. The visitors went to stumps on 345 for 3, leading by 315...

A capital city beyond redemption?

Nov 08, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – Georgetown has become so dysfunctional, so hopelessly disorganised and so resistant to correction that one must ask whether the effort to save it is worth the trouble. The greatest mistake successive governments have made is not recognising that Georgetown should have long been...

A Divided World: A Commonwealth Opportunity

Nov 01, 2026

By Sir Ronald Sanders (Kaieteur News) – When Commonwealth leaders gather in Antigua and Barbuda from 1st to 4th November, they should address a question that reaches beyond their association: how can countries of different size, wealth and outlook sustain cooperation in a world increasingly...

The epitaph on Mr. Gavin Douglas’ tombstone should read: Murdered...

Nov 08, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – Another Guyanese dead, and in degraded fashion, at the hands of State agents. A State that now stands as a monument to how much the PPP Govt. has criminalized it. When not one alleged rogue cop, with blood in his eye, but four of them, can deliver blows on a man that’s...

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