October 2012

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Bakewell owner dies, laid to rest

Oct 11, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Bakewell owner dies, laid to rest

Scores of persons from all walks of life yesterday turned out to say farewell to prominent businessman, 52-year-old Naeem Nasir, who was laid to rest at a Muslim burial ground in Crane Village, West...

Wanted bulletin issued for Magistrates’ Court staff

Oct 11, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Wanted bulletin issued for Magistrates’ Court staff

The police have issued a wanted bulletin for a 22-year-old employee of the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court. The woman is wanted for questioning in connection with an alleged $5M heist. Tiffany...

Residents fault works along Casaurina Drive

Oct 11, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Residents fault works along Casaurina Drive

Rehabilitative works on Casaurina Drive are in progress but many persons have voiced their concerns about the drain currently under construction. They feel that it is too close to the thoroughfare....

Antigua plane crash…It was grandmother’s first plane flight

Oct 11, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Antigua plane crash…It was grandmother’s first plane flight

It was her first air trip from Guyana. She was on her way to see her hospitalised, pregnant daughter who lives in Monsterrat, an island in the Caribbean. But hours after leaving her Berbice...

Man charged for stealing friend’s Blackberry

Oct 11, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Man charged for stealing friend’s Blackberry

A man who admitted to stealing his friend’s $140,000 Blackberry cellular phone was yesterday placed before the court on a larceny charge. Anthony Samuels pleaded guilty to stealing Shawn Jones’s...

Are we to live in filth and risk the health and lives of our residents?

Oct 11, 2012 KNews Letters Comments Off on Are we to live in filth and risk the health and lives of our residents?

Dear Editor, Very few will disagree that the lack of reliable garbage disposal service in Georgetown has not taken a toll on citizens and residents in an around the nation’s capital. The...

Mc Doom man burns wife with iron

Oct 11, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Mc Doom man burns wife with iron

A 29-year-old seaman was yesterday denied bail when he faced Chief Magistrate (Ag) Priya Sewnarine-Beharry accused of burning his reputed wife with a “hot iron” following a disagreement about...

APNU’s “A good life for all Guyanese” is just another broken promise

Oct 11, 2012 KNews Letters Comments Off on APNU’s “A good life for all Guyanese” is just another broken promise

DEAR EDITOR, The APNU Manifesto labeled “A Good Life for all Guyanese” has become a dead document, since today, the Majority Leader in Parliament has failed to bring that document to life...

Corporal Punishment: The Big Picture

Oct 11, 2012 KNews Letters Comments Off on Corporal Punishment: The Big Picture

Dear Editor, I’ve just read an article in your letter pages (KN, Oct.10) by one B. Shivdas entitled “The contradictions of Corporal Punishment.”I really don’t think the writer has...

The significance of October 5

Oct 11, 2012 KNews Letters Comments Off on The significance of October 5

Dear Editor, October 5, 2012, marked 20 years since that historic day when democracy was returned to Guyana after some twenty-eight years of undemocratic and dictatorial rule. Guyanese under...

Two drop dead on E’bo Coast

Oct 11, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Two drop dead on E’bo Coast

Thakeram Dularie, a/k “Dutch”, formerly of Lima Village, Essequibo Coast, died while on duty Tuesday night, at the Caricom Rice Mills Complex, at Anna Regina. One of his brothers, “Tanka”,...

Suffering a lack of public accountability

Oct 11, 2012 KNews Editorial Comments Off on Suffering a lack of public accountability

Former Auditor General Anand Goolsarran has written a book that examines the issue of public accountability. Indeed in Guyana public accountability is an issue with all the charges of...

Breaking News…Ed Ahmad pleads guilty…Faces 10-year minimum jail term, fines totaling US$42.5M

Oct 10, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Breaking News…Ed Ahmad pleads guilty…Faces 10-year minimum jail term, fines totaling US$42.5M

By Vivian Williams in New York Appearing visibly shaken, with his voice breaking at times, Ed Ahmad was biting back tears, as he cut his loss and entered a guilty plea in the United States...

Opposition’s performance in Parliament disappointing

Oct 10, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Opposition’s performance in Parliament disappointing

– tabled only 1 of 21 bills – Chartered Accountant Christopher Ram The performance of the Opposition in the National Assembly is coming under fire, with questions being asked...

President Ramotar renews promise to modernize Guyana

Oct 10, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on President Ramotar renews promise to modernize Guyana

…as PPP/C celebrates 20 years in power By Rehanna Ramsay “Twenty years ago today (yesterday) Comrade Cheddi Jagan was sworn in as Guyana’s first democratically elected President. It was the...

Perpetual acting appointments dangerous

Oct 10, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Perpetual acting appointments dangerous

– former Auditor General says at book launch A call was made for improving public accountability under Transparency Institute’s umbrella when former Auditor General, Dr. Anand Goolsarran,...

Police secure extension of ranks’ detention

Oct 10, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Police secure extension of ranks’ detention

Dameon Belgrave fatal shooting… – compensation to victim’s relatives to be considered The Guyana Police Force has secured the approval of the High Court to continue...

Rodrigues turns self in

Oct 10, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Rodrigues turns self in

Businessman Ricardo Ignatius Rodrigues called ‘Fat Man’ spent last night in police custody after turning himself in yesterday, accompanied by his lawyer, mere hours after a wanted...

Dem boys seh…Leslie got to pump fuh Rob Earth

Oct 10, 2012 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Dem boys seh…Leslie got to pump fuh Rob Earth

Rob Earth is a man who don’t like see money. He sit in Cabinet and hear that dem got money fuh dig drain. Right away he create a condition. He claim how dem got El Nino and he got to spend $700...

“Humble, determined” Sophia resident admitted to the Bar

Oct 10, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on “Humble, determined” Sophia resident admitted to the Bar

She has been described as “determined, humble, true to her roots and one who has never tried to conceal where she came from” and these admirable characteristics of Sophia resident,...

Jamaican marksmen take first day honours, Guyanese within striking range

Oct 10, 2012 KNews Sports Comments Off on Jamaican marksmen take first day honours, Guyanese within striking range

West Indies Full Bore Shooting C’ships 2012 – Timehri Ranges Jamaica’s marksmen, John Nelson and David Rickman turned in commendable performances to amass 116 points with 10 V Bulls and 116...

Four Guyanese teens killed in horrific car crash in New York

Oct 10, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Four Guyanese teens killed in horrific car crash in New York

(New York Daily News) – Four Guyanese teenagers were killed Monday when the car in which they were travelling — driven by a 17-year-old with only a learner’s permit — sped...

Support for a Peter D’Aguiar School of Business

Oct 10, 2012 KNews Letters Comments Off on Support for a Peter D’Aguiar School of Business

Dear Editor, I endorse the view expressed by Mr. Harry Hergash (KN Oct 6) that the contributions made by Mr. Peter D’Aguiar, the deceased founder and leader of the capitalist United Force party,...

Importance of Science in hazard mitigation being highlighted at CAS forum

Oct 10, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Importance of Science in hazard mitigation being highlighted at CAS forum

A three-day workshop aimed at amplifying the importance of science in the Caribbean society commenced Monday at the National Centre for Educational Resource Development (NCERD). Some 25 local science...

Jairam wins Region 3 Draughts tourney

Oct 10, 2012 KNews Sports Comments Off on Jairam wins Region 3 Draughts tourney

Jairam amassed 18 points to win the Region 3 Draughts competition which was contested last Sunday at Haroon’s Place, Pourderoyen, West Bank Demerara. L. Wilson took the second place with 15 points...

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High-scoring draw gives West Indies rare series win

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Cricinfo – After 1408 runs and 28 wickets, and even some rain delays over five days, the result that had long been telegraphed finally came to pass as Sri Lanka and West Indies played out a...

The Corentyne Bridge

Jul 08, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – Neville Bissember’s op-ed, posted on Kiskadee Warch, provides a fairly concise historical account of the Guyana-Suriname territorial controversy. But it ultimately advances a flawed premise by implying, in the title, that meaningful cooperation, particularly on the...

The Beacon of Freedom Seen Across Oceans: Reflections on 250 Years of...

Jul 05, 2026

By Sir Ronald Sanders (Kaieteur News) – Two hundred and fifty years ago, in the sweltering heat of a Philadelphia summer, a small group of men did something without precedent in modern history. They gathered, argued, deliberated, and then signed their names to a declaration that was a...

Pres. Ali’s farm, fish, fowl, and foals

Jul 08, 2026

Hard Truths by GHK Lall (Kaieteur News) – The disclosures pinpointed monumental asset accumulations with Pres Ali’s name immovably affixed. He has acknowledged that the farm property is his. A great start. So also, all the inanimate structures, and all the thriving, exotic, life forms,...

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