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These four men brought bitterness, misery and impoverishment

Dec 30, 2011 KNews Letters Comments Off on These four men brought bitterness, misery and impoverishment

Dear Mr. Editor, From the presidencies of Mr. C. B Jagan to Mr. B. Jagdeo, the PPP had numerous opportunities to change the Burnhamite constitution. Every PPP President has exercised...

Electrocution of five-year-old…GPL completes preliminary investigation

Dec 30, 2011 KNews News 12

-victim’s family contacts attorney The Guyana Power and Light Inc. (GPL) has completed a preliminary investigation into the circumstances surrounding Wednesday’s electrocution of five-year-old...

Parked Toyota Allion vanishes

Dec 30, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Parked Toyota Allion vanishes

The owner of a grey Toyota Allion is seeking the help of the public to locate his car, which vanished mysteriously while it was left locked and parked in Robb Street yesterday. Jevon...

TCL local market demands grow by 30 %

Dec 30, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on TCL local market demands grow by 30 %

With the current infrastructure boom Trinidad Cement Limited (TCL) Guyana Incorporated (TGI) has seen a 30 percent growth in demand over the last year. Today, because of that growth TCL...

OMAI Boneyard miners protest GGMC

Dec 30, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on OMAI Boneyard miners protest GGMC

-Miners will not be granted a third extension – GGMC Head Yesterday, a group of miners who have been operating in the OMAI area at a place called Boneyard, protested the office of the...

Corentyne girl, 15 runs off with teenage lover

Dec 30, 2011 KNews News 11

A 15- year- old Fourth Form student of the Tagore Secondary School on the Corentyne ran away from home on Christmas Eve day for the second time this year, presumably with her 18- year- old...

Underage Corentyne found in secret brothel hours after going missing

Dec 30, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Underage Corentyne found in secret brothel hours after going missing

A family on the Upper Corentyne area is perturbed at the actions of three girls (two of whom are underaged) which resulted in the girls being taken by three men to a house in the back of the village...

Kitty Public Road fire… Investigators looking for possible arson suspect

Dec 30, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Kitty Public Road fire… Investigators looking for possible arson suspect

Investigators are yet to determine what actually caused the blaze at Public Road Kitty on Christmas Eve Morning. Kaieteur News was told that investigators from the Guyana Fire Service...

Education CEO urges speedy implementation of policies

Dec 30, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Education CEO urges speedy implementation of policies

“There is an overriding recognition now that our students in our schools, every single one of them, have to be at the forefront of all of our initiatives and at a greater level than they have ever...

Residents differ on demolition of old psychiatric hospital

Dec 30, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Residents differ on demolition of old psychiatric hospital

The two historic buildings which stands tall in front of the new National Psychiatric Hospital, located in Fort Canje, Berbice, has now become the main source of spreading stigma about the...

Germany releasing $1.3B for Kaieteur Park, Shell Beach protection

Dec 30, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Germany releasing $1.3B for Kaieteur Park, Shell Beach protection

-regulatory body will also be established Guyana’s move to declare several areas as protected zones is paying off with Germany yesterday announcing its intentions to release 5M Euros ($1.3B) to...

Post Offices will not become obsolete – PRO

Dec 30, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Post Offices will not become obsolete – PRO

Over the years persons have shied away from using the traditional post office method of sending mails. The increase availability and convenience of internet (e-mails), instant messaging...

Police call on piracy victims to identify recovered items

Dec 30, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Police call on piracy victims to identify recovered items

Police are calling on victims of piracy attacks to come forward and identify several items which were recovered in an ongoing operation following the recent attacks on the Corentyne River. The...

300 million children exploited as child labourers-WHO

Dec 30, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on 300 million children exploited as child labourers-WHO

International Labour Organization (ILO) survey has revealed some shocking statistics, with an estimated 300 million children being exploited regularly in the form of child labour. To...

Corentyne man jailed in absence

Dec 30, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Corentyne man jailed in absence

Sohan Busjit, 20, of Liverpool Village, Corentyne will have to spend the next 18 months in jail, if he is caught. He was found guilty by magistrate Fabio Azore at the Whim...

Sophia murder accused remanded until next year

Dec 30, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Sophia murder accused remanded until next year

Twenty- one year old Michael Persaud, who is accused of murdering his reputed wife, was yesterday remanded to jail when he appeared before Magistrate Hazel Octive-Hamilton. The man, who...

61-year-old jail for three years for falsely selling property

Dec 30, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on 61-year-old jail for three years for falsely selling property

A Kuru Kururu man who pocketed $6M for selling a Subryanville home belonging to somebody else has been jailed for three years. Sixty-one year old Ray Ferriera appeared before Magistrate...

Faulty GPL wire electrocutes boy 5

Dec 29, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Faulty GPL wire electrocutes boy 5

Tragedy struck yesterday evening, shattering the New Year’s plans of a Craig, East Bank Demerara family following the electrocution of a five-year-old boy. Antuane Lovelle was pronounced dead at...

Two tins of milk cost woman $100,000

Dec 29, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Two tins of milk cost woman $100,000

– magistrate tells shoplifter – I remember you An East La Penitence woman, known for her shoplifting exploits, was yesterday fined $100,000 for stealing two tins of milk...

The present, the future and the return to the theme of the past

Dec 29, 2011 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on The present, the future and the return to the theme of the past

Citizens do not pay the same attention to the media at the end of year holiday season as they do during the year. I guess that is only natural. So during the Christmas fever, the PPP issued a...

Guyana needs a rail service

Dec 29, 2011 KNews Editorial 11

Not yet ten years ago, there was talk that Guyana would resurrect the railroad along coastal Guyana. Indeed, this country had the first railway on the South American continent. We scrapped it when...

SOME MEDIA PRACTITIONERS CANNOT CHANGE

Dec 29, 2011 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on SOME MEDIA PRACTITIONERS CANNOT CHANGE

One of the lame excuses that defenders of private media bias like to make is that this bias is a natural reaction to the state media partisanship. This is another way of saying that because...

Dem boys seh…Bar Rat can’t sleep

Dec 29, 2011 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Dem boys seh…Bar Rat can’t sleep

Night mek fuh sleep but some people can’t sleep. That does happen when people frighten or when dem got children who sick or when dem got stress. Mitta Sharma couldn’t sleep because he had nuff...

Our President is off to a great start

Dec 29, 2011 KNews Letters Comments Off on Our President is off to a great start

Dear Editor, For those who were led to believe that Donald Ramotar could not win the Presidency, they were wrong. For those who believed that he would govern in the shadow of former...

A very fertile field for sidebar comment

Dec 29, 2011 KNews Letters Comments Off on A very fertile field for sidebar comment

Dear Editor, I am informed that sports journalists do not always write on the conduct and outcomes of the particular sport of their interest. On occasions they present to their readers...

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What Guyanese leaders can learn from Donald Trump

Peeping Tom… Kaieteur News-There is little dispute that Donald Trump knows how to make an entrance. He does so without... more