October 2011

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Corentyne businessman shot, bullet lodged in left shoulder

Oct 06, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Corentyne businessman shot, bullet lodged in left shoulder

Two unmasked bandits shot Rajesh Kumar Nauth, 33, of Swamp Section, Rose Hall Town, Corentyne, in the left shoulder. The shooting occurred at 20:00 hrs. According to Nauth, who lives at...

Govt to start budgeting for post grad progs – Health Minister

Oct 06, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Govt to start budgeting for post grad progs – Health Minister

Government will from next year include in its national budget funding for post graduate programmes at the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC). At least this is according to Senior...

Janitorial worker placed on bail for malicious wounding

Oct 06, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Janitorial worker placed on bail for malicious wounding

Marlon Griffith, 34, an employee of the Universal Janitorial Services appeared yesterday before Magistrate Sueanna Lovell to answer the charge of unlawful and malicious wounding. The man was said to...

Two more American women nabbed with cocaine at CJIA

Oct 06, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Two more American women nabbed with cocaine at CJIA

Two American women failed to make it past the security checkpoint at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport, Timehri with an undisclosed amount of cocaine intended for the United States of...

Road Safety Council recommends stiffer penalties for traffic offenders

Oct 06, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Road Safety Council recommends stiffer penalties for traffic offenders

The almost daily occurrences of accidents on the roadways, some of which are fatal, have led the Guyana National Road Safety Council (GNRSC) to recommend that magistrates and judges adjudicate...

Hit and Run resulted in one critically injured

Oct 06, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Hit and Run resulted in one critically injured

Forty-year-old Oma Devi Persaud (Nadie), of 59 Annandale West, East Coast Demerara is now battling for her life at the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPHC) after she was hit and flung into the...

UN endorses CARICOM crime prevention plan

Oct 06, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on UN endorses CARICOM crime prevention plan

The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and other key stakeholders have endorsed the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Social Development and Crime Prevention Action Plan as one which has...

Region Seven police lack transportation – Regional Chairman

Oct 06, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Region Seven police lack transportation – Regional Chairman

The issue of security in Bartica and Region Seven as a whole is once again under the spotlight. This is as a result of the brazen attack on mining camps along the Puruni Landing and the Piari Landing...

Thieves hit spare parts dealer for $1.2M

Oct 06, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Thieves hit spare parts dealer for $1.2M

Romain Bacchus and her husband, Lawrence Sooknanan are $1.2 million poorer after some men broke into their parked vehicle. Bacchus said that they had traveled from their New Amsterdam business...

Woman accused of stealing $2.5M from ACB

Oct 06, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Woman accused of stealing $2.5M from ACB

A former employee of the Advisory Committee on Broadcasting (ACB) was on Tuesday brought to the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court for allegedly stealing from the company $2,545,415. Joy...

Man charged with slaughtering neighbour’s cow

Oct 06, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Man charged with slaughtering neighbour’s cow

A man who is said to be of unsound mind, and who is described by residents in Leguan as a mad man, is in police custody for the illegal slaughter of a cow at Leguan. According to reports, the man who...

Mon Repos Water Treatment Plant has problems

Oct 06, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Mon Repos Water Treatment Plant has problems

Customers served by the Mon Repos Water Treatment Plant, East Coast Demerara, are currently experiencing a disruption of their service or low water pressure due to operational...

Billboard collapses on parked car

Oct 06, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Billboard collapses on parked car

Hire car driver Sultan Mohamed is wondering who will compensate him after this billboard with a portrait of PPPC Presidential candidate Donald Ramotar came crashing down on his car near...

Winfer Garden Primary recognizes Year of African Descent

Oct 06, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Winfer Garden Primary recognizes Year of African Descent

Yesterday was designated World Teachers’ Day, an annual event that recognizes teachers all over Guyana and around the world. The day is also celebrated as it commemorates the 1966 signature...

Piari Landing attack…Bodies of bandit, hostage fished out of river

Oct 05, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Piari Landing attack…Bodies of bandit, hostage fished out of river

– three suspects captured An intensive operation by members of the Guyana Police Force has led to the capture of three suspects in last Sunday’s three-hour robbery blitz at...

Int’l press freedom body slams Sharma ban

Oct 05, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Int’l press freedom body slams Sharma ban

– Jagdeo says TV owner’s wife requested four months International press freedom watchdog ‘Reporters Without Borders’ has condemned the Bharrat Jagdeo government for what...

Ramotar’s independence to act won’t be infringed – Jagdeo

Oct 05, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Ramotar’s independence to act won’t be infringed – Jagdeo

President Bharrat Jagdeo says that his integral involvement in several key projects that will transition into the post-election period will not in any way hamper the People’s Progressive...

Jagdeo to announce election date within a week

Oct 05, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Jagdeo to announce election date within a week

…promises young, experienced PPP slate The Guyanese electorate will within a week know when they will go to the polls for Regional and General Elections. This is according to...

Man, 54, caught naked again having sex with mentally challenged 14-yr-old

Oct 05, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Man, 54, caught naked again having sex with mentally challenged 14-yr-old

Two months ago, he was caught with his pants down after sexually molesting a 14-year-old mentally challenged girl, yesterday the 54-year-old Enmore man was caught naked, committing a similar...

Insurance, contingency money jack up Hydro power cost — Jagdeo

Oct 05, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Insurance, contingency money jack up Hydro power cost — Jagdeo

President Bharrat Jagdeo in seeking to explain the perceived US$200M hike in the cost of the construction of the Amaila Falls Hydro Electric Project, says that the complete cost must...

Dem boys seh…Dem try fuh bribe de Waterfalls boss man

Oct 05, 2011 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Dem boys seh…Dem try fuh bribe de Waterfalls boss man

When dem boys talk bout de bad things other people does do dem does throw dirt. This thing didn’t got to be suh bad. Dem boys seh that a few years back when dem start fuh talk bout corruption some...

Trucking on a Sunday afternoon

Oct 05, 2011 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on Trucking on a Sunday afternoon

There isn’t anything illegal or improper if a political party hires private transport to truck its supporters from all over the country to attend a political rally. This is what the PPP did last...

‘Golden Jags’ treated to lunched at Roti Hut

Oct 05, 2011 KNews Sports Comments Off on ‘Golden Jags’ treated to lunched at Roti Hut

Wishes the team success on World Cup sojourn The Management and staff of Roti Hut, Albert Street and North Road yesterday hosted the ‘Golden Jaguars’ to lunch as a means of...

Briso promotions card at Princess Hotel taking shape

Oct 05, 2011 KNews Sports Comments Off on Briso promotions card at Princess Hotel taking shape

Dharry to appear as Ignite partners The December 7th professional boxing card fixed for the Princess International Hotel and Casino by Briso Promotions is taking shape with several loose ends...

Police hold 14-point lead over soldiers

Oct 05, 2011 KNews Sports Comments Off on Police hold 14-point lead over soldiers

Joint-Services Athletics Championships The Guyana Defence Force (GDF) would certainly be looking to re-invoke the old adage, which says that ‘the race is not for the swift, but...

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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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