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Linden residents who were injured during “unrest” testify for compensation

Jan 29, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Linden residents who were injured during “unrest” testify for compensation

By Latoya Giles The Linden Commission of Inquiry has started again. This time the commissioners are taking evidence from persons who are seeking compensation for the injuries they sustained as a...

Chinese child assault case deferred

Jan 29, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Chinese child assault case deferred

– Plaintiff’s representative absent The case against the two Chinese nationals accused of assaulting an 11-year-old girl was yesterday postponed until February 8. The adjournment came after...

Second Preliminary inquiry into hairdresser murder continues

Jan 29, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Second Preliminary inquiry into hairdresser murder continues

By Romila Boodram The second Preliminary Inquiry into the murder of hairdresser Bibi Rafeena Saymar, who was 23-years-old at the time of her death, is continuing before Magistrate Sherdel...

High court trial for rape accused

Jan 29, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on High court trial for rape accused

Nandram Nandan, 39, a mechanic from Lot 70 D Field, North Sophia has been committed to stand trial in the High court. Nandan is facing a carnal knowledge charge after it was alleged that he...

Is this deliberate hypocrisy, or is it that our leaders genuinely don’t understand?

Jan 29, 2013 KNews Letters Comments Off on Is this deliberate hypocrisy, or is it that our leaders genuinely don’t understand?

DEAR EDITOR Congratulations for your editorial article “Culture Karma” on the 18th January 2013. You have touched many important points of which our leaders ought to take note. But...

The majority prefer men with horsepower than men on top of the horse

Jan 29, 2013 KNews Letters Comments Off on The majority prefer men with horsepower than men on top of the horse

Dear Editor, Mr. Lionel Lowe (KN Jun 27) penned that he would always recommend that people take the man on horseback (meaning PNC) over the men with the horsepower (meaning PPP) to...

We need to create a reading revolution

Jan 29, 2013 KNews Letters Comments Off on We need to create a reading revolution

DEAR EDITOR, It took me a long time to come up with the courage to express these thoughts about an essential pursuit that I am convinced will genuinely make this nation develop, mature,...

A pathetic display from a government that enjoys excessive executive powers

Jan 29, 2013 KNews Letters Comments Off on A pathetic display from a government that enjoys excessive executive powers

Dear Editor, The PPP does not seem to have a sense of time and place, nor does it seem to understand the serious implications of its actions. Walking out of Parliament is a pathetic and...

Speaker Trotman’s dress code and his barricades

Jan 29, 2013 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on Speaker Trotman’s dress code and his barricades

On Friday afternoon, while at the Kaieteur News offices, I received a call from the current chairman of the People’s Parliament, Leonard Craig, that he was being prevented from entering the...

Ganja-smoking soldiers accused of robbing mining camps

Jan 28, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Ganja-smoking soldiers accused of robbing mining camps

– local miner vows to file complaint with Chief of Staff Brazilians working in Guyana’s interior have long been the shakedown target of some unscrupulous local law enforcement...

Execution in hotel yard…Cops seek to enhance video of killer’s face

Jan 28, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Execution in hotel yard…Cops seek to enhance video of killer’s face

Police are trying to get a closer look at the gunman who stalked, chased and then killed Intaz Roopnarine last Thursday. A senior official told Kaieteur News yesterday that police have sought...

Farmer crushed by tractor

Jan 28, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Farmer crushed by tractor

A 58-year-old farmer was crushed to death at around 07:30 hrs yesterday after falling from a tractor that was travelling near Friendship, on the East Bank Demerara, Public Road. The...

‘Murder for hire’ case collapses…Husband accused of paying man to kill wife freed

Jan 28, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on ‘Murder for hire’ case collapses…Husband accused of paying man to kill wife freed

– court orders new P.I for alleged hit-man By Michael Jordan The case against a Canada-based Guyanese accused of hiring a hit man to kill his reputed wife has collapsed, with...

Dem boys seh…Jagdeo and Bar Bee scared

Jan 28, 2013 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Dem boys seh…Jagdeo and Bar Bee scared

Ever since de Waterfalls paper begin fuh talk bout corruption Jagdeo and Bar Bee start fuh get frighten. Dem try all kind of things fuh shut up de paper because dem believe that once dem get de...

Rohee to extend security plan to private sector and diplomatic community

Jan 28, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Rohee to extend security plan to private sector and diplomatic community

By Zena Henry Minister of Home Affairs Clement Rohee has indicated his intention to meet with members of the private sector and the diplomatic community to discuss in detail, plans...

GCB holds election amidst legal cloud

Jan 28, 2013 KNews Sports Comments Off on GCB holds election amidst legal cloud

Attorney General cites disrespect of laws by some persons The Guyana Cricket Board yesterday held its elections at the Georgetown Cricket Club (GCC) Pavilion, Bourda, which was observed by the West...

Drubahadur elected President of GCB

Jan 28, 2013 KNews Sports Comments Off on Drubahadur elected President of GCB

By Zaheer Mohamed Drubahadur was elected president of the Guyana Cricket Board when the body held its Biannual General Meeting and elections yesterday at the Georgetown Cricket Club, Bourda. The...

Guyana Prize Committee hosts workshops for writers

Jan 28, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Guyana Prize Committee hosts workshops for writers

– seeks entries for 2012 awards The Guyana Prize Committee and the University of Guyana are continuing a series of workshops aimed at helping aspiring local writers to improve...

Bauxite sector makes ambitious projections for 2013

Jan 28, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Bauxite sector makes ambitious projections for 2013

– amid calls to ensure communities benefit A review of the bauxite sector, to chart the course for continuous expansion saw the two bauxite companies, Bosai and Rusal outlining...

Enterprising and Independent Women: Cosmetologist Fnita Small is one shrewd businesswoman

Jan 28, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Enterprising and Independent Women: Cosmetologist Fnita Small is one shrewd businesswoman

Even as a young girl, Fnita Small loved to style her own hair and that of her friends. Then she used to do it for free- it was just a hobby. But it didn’t take Fnita long to decide that that was...

Merundoi takes war on gender based violence to schools

Jan 28, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Merundoi takes war on gender based violence to schools

The Ministry of Human Services and Merundoi Incorporated have taken the fight against gender based violence to several city schools in an attempt to ‘nip the problem in the bud’....

CELAC-EU summit addresses new strategic partnership

Jan 28, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on CELAC-EU summit addresses new strategic partnership

Heads of Government in Latin America and the Caribbean met behind closed doors in Santiago, Chile a few hours after host President Sebastián Piñera Echenique called for a new strategic partnership...

Graduate school managers urged to put training into practice

Jan 28, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Graduate school managers urged to put training into practice

Fifty- eight teachers in the Berbice area, last Friday, graduated through the National Centre for Education Resource Development (NCERD’s) sixth Education Management Course...

Police ranks flee bee invasion at Golden Grove

Jan 28, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Police ranks flee bee invasion at Golden Grove

Ranks at the Golden Grove Police Station were forced to spend the entire Saturday night in the station compound after the building was overtaken by a large swarm of bees. Kaieteur News understands...

Families of missing seniors seek end to mystery

Jan 28, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Families of missing seniors seek end to mystery

Almost three months after her mother mysteriously vanished from the Barnwell North Mocha East Bank Demerara area, Claudette Pancham said that relatives have not given up hope. On...

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Guyanese boxers shine at T&T National Boxing Championships

A warning to President Ali on U.S. Overtures

Peeping Tom… Kaieteur News- It remains unknown what President Ali told the U.S. Secretary of State during their recent... more