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Combined parliamentary opposition rejects outrageous statements – APNU

Oct 20, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Combined parliamentary opposition rejects outrageous statements – APNU

APNU says that the People’s Progressive Party’s chief whip Ms. Gail Teixeira comments on the Tenth Parliament were outrageous, untrue and a misrepresentation of the facts. The party was...

Stop posting dirty cops to interior as punishment – GGDMA official

Oct 20, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Stop posting dirty cops to interior as punishment – GGDMA official

Police officials should halt the practice of posting corrupt ranks to the interior as a form of punishment, a senior official from the Guyana Gold and Diamond Miners’ Association stated yesterday....

Schoolboy murder accused for High Court

Oct 20, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Schoolboy murder accused for High Court

Akeem Roberts who was indicted for the murder of Shane George earlier this year has been committed to stand trial in the next session of the Demerara Criminal assizes at the Supreme Court by...

CARICOM alarmed over high food import bill

Oct 20, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on CARICOM alarmed over high food import bill

-backs regional coordination to ramp up production Caribbean Week of Agriculture (CWA) was formally opened on Wednesday with a chorus of calls for coordinated efforts to firmly tackle the huge food...

Coleen Sparman is admitted to the Bar

Oct 20, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Coleen Sparman is admitted to the Bar

Coleen Kimberly Andrea Sparman was on Monday admitted to the local Bar to practise as an Attorney-at-law. She was admitted by Justice William Ramlal. The 25-year-old former Queen’s College student...

Cops killed in Paramakatoi…Bodies bore several gun shot wounds-Post Mortem reveals

Oct 20, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Cops killed in Paramakatoi…Bodies bore several gun shot wounds-Post Mortem reveals

Post mortem examinations done on the remains of Police Lance Corporal Marlon Letlow and Constable Leedon Aaron revealed that they both sustained multiple gunshot wounds. The post mortems were done...

Scores bid final farewell toVic Puran

Oct 20, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Scores bid final farewell toVic Puran

Attorney-at-Law Vic Puran was yesterday cremated at the Good Hope Crematorium following a funeral service at the Merriman’s Funeral Home and a viewing at his home. Dozens from the local legal arena...

La Parfaite Harmonie $29.5M multi- purpose centre useless

Oct 20, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on La Parfaite Harmonie $29.5M multi- purpose centre useless

– “ …they have not even put a security to look at that place,” resident The $29.5M multi-purpose centre at La Parfaite Harmonie, West Bank Demerara, which was set up to...

COI findings revealing says Cabinet Secretary

Oct 20, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on COI findings revealing says Cabinet Secretary

The Commission of Inquiry into the July 18, 2012, shootings, which left three Lindeners dead, has already proven to be very revealing. According to Cabinet Secretary, Dr. Roger Luncheon, “so far...

$20.8M misspent on water cannon- AFC

Oct 20, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on $20.8M misspent on water cannon- AFC

By Abena Rockcliffe In light of recent pirate attacks on Guyanese fishermen, the Alliance For Change has expressed concern about the lack of adequate protection offered to the persons who ply this...

Corriverton man alleges CPG ranks beat him in face

Oct 20, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Corriverton man alleges CPG ranks beat him in face

An altercation between Community Policing Group (CPG) ranks and the 27-year-old son of a popular Corriverton businessman resulted in the man sustaining an injury to his face. The young man is also...

Corpse mutilation at GPHC “embarrassing” – Health Minister

Oct 20, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Corpse mutilation at GPHC “embarrassing” – Health Minister

The recent corpse mutilation by rodents at the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) has been described as a “very embarrassing situation” by Minister of Health, Dr. Bheri Ramsaran. The...

Six armed teenage boys attacked students, one injured

Oct 20, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Six armed teenage boys attacked students, one injured

Chaos at L’ Aventure Secondary School… A gang of teenage boys armed with glass bottles, cutlasses and knives attacked the L’ Aventure Secondary School, Canal Number One, early...

U.S celebrity chef helps raise funds for DDL Foundation

Oct 20, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on U.S celebrity chef helps raise funds for DDL Foundation

U.S celebrity chef, Nilka Hendricks, has been roped in to help raise funds for the charity foundation set up by Demerara Distillers Limited (DDL). For the past three years, the Foundation has been...

Relatives of barmaid convinced she was murdered then thrown overboard

Oct 20, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Relatives of barmaid convinced she was murdered then thrown overboard

By Leon Suseran The family of a New Amsterdam bar maid, 33-year- old Roxanne Brewster, formerly of Lot 43 Stanleytown, is disturbed with the pace of the investigations into the woman’s mysterious...

Guyanese ‘birdman’, pleads guilty to smuggling ‘twa-twa’ to New York

Oct 20, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Guyanese ‘birdman’, pleads guilty to smuggling ‘twa-twa’ to New York

New York (New York Daily News) -The ‘Birdman’ of Guyana admitted Friday he had something up his sleeve when he tried to clear Customs at Kennedy Airport. Marlon Hariram claimed that the finches...

Betraying a pledge

Oct 20, 2012 KNews Editorial Comments Off on Betraying a pledge

The police are there to serve and to protect the people. They are the buffer between a stable society and anarchy because in every society there are the deviants. There are those who would...

Broadcasting stakeholders to benefit from TATT visit

Oct 20, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Broadcasting stakeholders to benefit from TATT visit

Stakeholders of the local broadcasting industry are expected to be the primary beneficiaries when a team from the Telecommunications Authority of Trinidad and Tobago (TATT) descends on these...

Mash 2013 launched with calls for more support

Oct 20, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Mash 2013 launched with calls for more support

Main Street was a buzz of activities yesterday as the Ministry of Culture, Youth and Sport launched Mashramani 2013. With a very visible police presence in the vicinity of the Culture...

Home Affairs Ministry employee on embezzlement charge

Oct 20, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Home Affairs Ministry employee on embezzlement charge

A Ministry of Home Affairs auctioneer and field auditor was yesterday placed before the court on an embezzlement charge and later released on $200,000 bail. Jermaine Hermanstein, 36, of 167...

Police reach out to Agricola

Oct 20, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Police reach out to Agricola

– Works on school compound to begin today – Form McDoom/ Agricola police youth club Despite the recent fall out between the Guyana Police Force and Agricola residents,...

ImmigrationTALK: Questions & Answers

Oct 20, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on ImmigrationTALK: Questions & Answers

By: Attorney Gail S. Seeram, Through this “Question & Answer” column, our goal is to answer your immigration questions. Many of you have questions on backlog time and eligibility – we...

Karrau murder accused makes court appearance

Oct 20, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Karrau murder accused makes court appearance

Twenty-eight-year-old goldminer, Eon La Cruz, of Mahdia, Region Eight, appeared in the Bartica Magistrate’s Court yesterday to have the indictable charge of murder read to him by presiding...

Vagrant charged

Oct 20, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Vagrant charged

Mohir Ramsawack, a homeless man appeared before Chief Magistrate Priya Sewnarine-Beharry at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court on a charge of simple larceny and pleaded not guilty. On October 2,...

Soesdyke children murder PI… Wife continues to testify

Oct 20, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Soesdyke children murder PI… Wife continues to testify

Yesterday the Preliminary Inquiry into the John Blanchard murder case continued at the Providence Magistrate’s Court. The matter is being heard by Magistrate Leslie Sobers. The wife of the...

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