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Street protesters target Kashif and Shanghai games for boycott

Dec 10, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Street protesters target Kashif and Shanghai games for boycott

Retired Police Commissioner Winston Felix and other high ranking retirees from the Joint Services were among the hundreds of APNU supporters who marched through Georgetown yesterday in a continued...

US reaches out to local judiciary

Dec 10, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on US reaches out to local judiciary

…donates material on conflict resolution Access to justice is a human rights issue and mediation, as a form of Alternative Dispute Resolution, is a means to resolve certain types of civil...

Open doors Centre eyes staffing assistance from Education Ministry

Dec 10, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Open doors Centre eyes staffing assistance from Education Ministry

With the introduction of Continuous Vocational Education and Training (CVET), Manager of the Open Doors Centre, Mr. Arthur Lewis, is eyeing the support of the Ministry of...

No shortage of chicken, eggs on local market for Christmas season

Dec 10, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on No shortage of chicken, eggs on local market for Christmas season

With local chicken producers increasing their production to satisfy local markets, the availability and price of chicken and eggs have been stabilized since October. As such, there will be no...

Ministerial appointments to ensure continuity

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The makeup of the recently announced Cabinet of Ministers was to ensure continuity despite a number of shakeups within the Ministries, a Government official said yesterday. The moves, some of...

Sacked Overseer saga …Government throws in the towel promises to pay

Dec 10, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Sacked Overseer saga …Government throws in the towel promises to pay

The government, through the Ministry of Local Government, the Region Six Democratic Council and its Regional Executive Officer, Badase Poonai, has decided to throw in the towel in the case...

APNU protestors face court for illegal march

Dec 10, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on APNU protestors face court for illegal march

– to return in New Year Magistrate Sueanna Lovell’s court Two was crammed yesterday as about one dozen people identified as participants in a protest rally held at Square of the...

Mike Correia elected Chairman of Ogle Airport, ASL on Board again

Dec 10, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Mike Correia elected Chairman of Ogle Airport, ASL on Board again

Ogle Airport Inc. (OAI) has elected a new Board of Directors with the new Chairman now, Michael Correia Jnr. According to a statement released by the company which manages the facility at...

GTU takes AIDS programme to Wakenaam

Dec 10, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on GTU takes AIDS programme to Wakenaam

The HIV section of the Guyana Teachers’ Union took its World AIDS Day exercise to Wakenaam on Thursday. At 18:30 hours there was a torchlight parade from the Wakenaam Cottage...

Agriculture Ministers visit Essequibo

Dec 10, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Agriculture Ministers visit Essequibo

Newly appointed Ministers, Dr Leslie Ramsammy and his assistant, former Region Two Democratic Council Chairman, Ali Baksh, recently met with farmers on the Essequibo Coast. The meeting was...

New charter gets Cabinet green light to fly Guyana/New York

Dec 10, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on New charter gets Cabinet green light to fly Guyana/New York

Guyana’s newly-appointed Cabinet of Ministers has approved a new public charter flight to be operated between Guyana and New York. EZjet Air Services has offices in Guyana and Florida,...

Human Rights Day comes amidst protests

Dec 10, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Human Rights Day comes amidst protests

Tomorrow is Human Rights Day in celebration of basic freedoms. According to the Guyana Human Rights Association (GHRA), the continuous practice of ‘ethnic politics’ in Guyana has...

Sharma, associates returns to court on obstructing charge

Dec 10, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Sharma, associates returns to court on obstructing charge

Chandra Narine Sharma faced the court once again to hear the date for the commencement of his trial into the alleged obstructing the course of justice charge held against him. By...

Presidential candidate released on bail for assault

Dec 10, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Presidential candidate released on bail for assault

Bagotstown business man and one Presidential Candidate for the Fundamental Support Group, Anthony Snow, was yesterday placed on $300,000 on a charge of inflicting grievous bodily...

More than 400 disabled women benefit from craft training

Dec 10, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on More than 400 disabled women benefit from craft training

The Embassy of Venezuela and the Venezuela Institute in collaboration with the Women with Power Organization held its eighth graduation ceremony where over 400 women and...

Conductor’s argument over passengers gets violent

Dec 10, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Conductor’s argument over passengers gets violent

Fight broke out on the route 42 bus park Wednesday night after two minibus conductors began to argue over passengers. Eyewitnesses said that the argument which lasted for approximately three...

18 charities, school dropouts get Gafoor’s donation

Dec 10, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on 18 charities, school dropouts get Gafoor’s donation

Eighteen charitable organizations across Guyana were the beneficiaries of cash donation made by Gafoors on Wednesday at Cara Lodge, Georgetown. The donation is an annual...

Republic Banks steps up for New Amsterdam development centre

Dec 10, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Republic Banks steps up for New Amsterdam development centre

In an effort to spread Christmas cheers and as part of its community outreach programme under its Power to Make a Difference in Communities programme, Republic Bank New Amsterdam Branch...

Motorcyclist succumbs hours after accident at Agricola

Dec 10, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Motorcyclist succumbs hours after accident at Agricola

Orlando Williams, 25, of Lot 9 Exora Eccles, East Bank Demerara, succumbed at the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation just hours after he was involved in an accident around...

21 year old charged for illegal firearm

Dec 10, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on 21 year old charged for illegal firearm

Columbus Joseph, 21, of Jumbie Creek, Potaro was yesterday remanded to jail after it was alleged that he had a gun in his possession without being the holder of a firearm license. Joseph,...

Man cries, sister faints in court

Dec 10, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Man cries, sister faints in court

…as robbery suspect gets remanded Telling the court that he was ill after returning from the interior and that he was not guilty of the offence read against him, Allan Philadelphia later...

Woman seeks to block Magistrate from hearing her matters

Dec 10, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Woman seeks to block Magistrate from hearing her matters

Fraud accused Simone King also known as Dianne De Nobrega, through her attorney Paul Fung-A-Fat, has filed a Writ of Prohibition in the High Court intended to have Magistrate...

Fisherman allegedly makes merry with woman’s articles

Dec 10, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Fisherman allegedly makes merry with woman’s articles

Christopher Gomes, a 39-year-old fisherman, who later pleaded not guilty to the charge of break and enter and larceny, has been remanded. Gomes of 26 Hill Street, Albouystown, was...

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Peeping Tom Kaieteur News- The government stands like a beleaguered captain at the helm of a storm-tossed ship, finds itself... more