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Two Lindeners shot in late night confrontation with Joint Services

Aug 15, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Two Lindeners shot in late night confrontation with Joint Services

Up to press time last evening, two more Wismar residents were being treated for gunshot injuries at the Linden Hospital Complex, reportedly following a confrontation with ranks of the Joints Services...

Leaked NCN report says…Difficult to verify how much money was being made

Aug 15, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Leaked NCN report says…Difficult to verify how much money was being made

– ads aired, clients not billed A damning report into fraud allegations at the state-owned National Communications Network (NCN) has unearthed shocking details of how poorly kept records...

11 Lindeners charged with pelting police during protests

Aug 15, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on 11 Lindeners charged with pelting police during protests

– one remanded for empty 12-gauge cartridge Stemming from the upheaval in Linden, 10 men were yesterday charged for throwing missiles during protests in that mining town. Four men, Jamal...

Linden protests…Time to break the deadlock – Raphael Trotman

Aug 15, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Linden protests…Time to break the deadlock – Raphael Trotman

– Speaker calls for urgent ‘Third Party/Honest Broker’ to take over By Gary Eleazar The talks between the Region 10 Administration and Central Government through Office of the...

E. C. D four-lane extension… Contractor provides evidence to support claims

Aug 15, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on E. C. D four-lane extension… Contractor provides evidence to support claims

The controversy surrounding the termination of a contract for the extension of the East Coast Demerara road is intensifying with the contractor accusing the Ministry of Public Works of being...

Bandits grab $7M from clerks heading to bank

Aug 15, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Bandits grab $7M from clerks heading to bank

Investigations are ongoing into a daring robbery yesterday at McDoom in which bandits escaped with over $7M after sticking up two clerks. According to a company official from the Farm Supply...

Dem boys seh…De Rat cover gone and de light shining

Aug 15, 2012 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Dem boys seh…De Rat cover gone and de light shining

Nuff things happen since de Rat gone. He used to sit down pun some things like how Mother Hen use to sit down pun she egg and cover dem. Since he get pull off de only thing he lef behind is nuff...

Ramotar admits collusion among contractors, engineers

Aug 15, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Ramotar admits collusion among contractors, engineers

… debunks ‘corruption’ allegations as “great exaggeration” Some political circles have in recent days labeled the prolonged Linden fallout a diversionary tactic to shy away from the...

$10 year-old shot in face during Linden fracas$

10 year-old shot in face during Linden fracas

Aug 15, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on 10 year-old shot in face during Linden fracas

… Opposition Leader calls for resumption of negotiations The People’s National Congress Reform has come out in condemnation of the recent phase of the Joint Services operation in Linden...

$400M in roads, drains and water works for Peters Hall, Zeelugt

Aug 15, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on $400M in roads, drains and water works for Peters Hall, Zeelugt

Bids for contracts worth almost $400M, under the Ministry of Housing and Water, were yesterday opened at the National Procurement and Tender Administration Board (NPTAB) for the...

Popular contractor’s son is second person to die in Lima’s accident

Aug 15, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Popular contractor’s son is second person to die in Lima’s accident

Junior Ramroop, son of popular contractor, Roopan ‘Fowl Cock’ Ramoutar, yesterday died following Sunday’s fatal accident at Lima. He had sustained severe injuries to his face and had a broken...

Linden will never get back to normalcy – Region 10 Chairman

Aug 15, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Linden will never get back to normalcy – Region 10 Chairman

…as residents vow “no retreat, no surrender’ “Linden will never get back, post-18th July… things are not going to be normal for Mr. (Allan) Lewis’s children and the families of the...

Cops mum on probe into Linden shooting deaths

Aug 15, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Cops mum on probe into Linden shooting deaths

A shroud of mystery appears to surround the status of the investigation into the shooting deaths of Linden protesters Shemroy Bouyea, Ron Somerset and Allan Lewis. Almost a month has passed since the...

RETURN OF PUBLIC PROPERTY

Aug 15, 2012 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on RETURN OF PUBLIC PROPERTY

It seems that there is hardly anything that government does which does not attract immediate criticism. There is a legion of critics out there whose instinctive impulse is to oppose anything that...

Guyanese-born JFK plotter ordered hits on lawyers, witnesses

Aug 15, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Guyanese-born JFK plotter ordered hits on lawyers, witnesses

New York (Reuters) – A Guyanese man who planned to blow up John F. Kennedy Airport allegedly made numerous threats against lawyers and witnesses involved in the case and even attempted to order...

Police: City leads in murder rate for the year

Aug 15, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Police: City leads in murder rate for the year

The Police’s A Division (Georgetown/East Bank Demerara) has overtaken the interior and East Coast Demerara divisions as the murder capital of Guyana so far this year. Figures released by the...

Shot suspect in botched Thomas Street robbery still on life support

Aug 15, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Shot suspect in botched Thomas Street robbery still on life support

Five days after he was shot, 27-year-old Shane Hinds is still battling for his life in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) of the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC). Hinds, an alleged...

Berbice businesses want bigger venue for future expos

Aug 15, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Berbice businesses want bigger venue for future expos

Organizers have described the Eight Annual Berbice Exposition and Trade Fair held over the weekend at the Albion Sports Complex as a resounding success. The event was coordinated by the Central...

Arrangements in place to accommodate students of gutted One Mile Primary – Govt. official

Aug 15, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Arrangements in place to accommodate students of gutted One Mile Primary – Govt. official

A plan of action has been developed to accommodate the displaced faculty and students of the One Mile Primary School in Linden, Region 10, which was gutted by fire on Sunday. According to Chief...

One Mile Primary School fire…Lindeners furious as one suspect is released

Aug 15, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on One Mile Primary School fire…Lindeners furious as one suspect is released

An official close to the One Mile Primary School fire investigations has revealed that one of the suspects handed over to the police has been released from custody. This publication was told that the...

Region Seven’s Toshaos blasts treatment at Amerindian conference

Aug 15, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Region Seven’s Toshaos blasts treatment at Amerindian conference

Toshaos of Region 7 have expressed great displeasure over the conduct of proceedings arising out of the National Toshaos Council (NTC) Conference, which according to them has undermined their right...

A highly insulting editorial, fraught with inaccuracies

Aug 15, 2012 KNews Letters Comments Off on A highly insulting editorial, fraught with inaccuracies

Dear Editor, The Kaieteur News Editorial entitled “Hypocrisy in Education” (KN) Sunday, August 12, is highly insulting and fraught with inaccuracies. Unquestionably, the information provided for...

Lindeners on the frontline of a battle for Guyana’s future

Aug 15, 2012 KNews Letters Comments Off on Lindeners on the frontline of a battle for Guyana’s future

Dear Editor, I refer to the letter to the editor written by Sharma Solomon [SN 13th August, 2012 “There was a military operation to pre-empt a reasonable outcome to the dilemma in Linden”] It is...

Normal has to include justice and equality

Aug 15, 2012 KNews Letters Comments Off on Normal has to include justice and equality

Dear Editor, The Stabroek News of 14 August, 2012 reports that Ms. Gail Teixeira has indicated that “Government will not be engaging with issues in Linden until normalcy is restored’ It is the...

Does GPL supply the mining town with electricity? If not, leave it to Bosai

Aug 15, 2012 KNews Letters Comments Off on Does GPL supply the mining town with electricity? If not, leave it to Bosai

Dear Editor, The shooting deaths of three protestors by Police in the mining town struck me with a revolting sense of something gone terribly wrong in Guyana. How could this happen? Aren’t police...

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