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4 years jail for 2011 road death

Feb 28, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on 4 years jail for 2011 road death

Gavin Barkoye was yesterday sentenced to four years eight months imprisonment for causing death by dangerous driving. He was found guilty by Magistrate Judy Latchman at the Georgetown Magistrates’...

Girl, 13, allegedly molested by senior police officer’s son

Feb 28, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Girl, 13, allegedly molested by senior police officer’s son

– but police yet to investigate, says mother A mother of three is concerned that justice has been denied her 13-year-old daughter since a man who reportedly molested the child is the son of a...

GPL workers on countrywide strike

Feb 28, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on GPL workers on countrywide strike

– power supply will continue – Dindyal Hundreds of Guyana Power and Light Company (GPL) employees represented by National Association of Agricultural, Commercial and Industrial...

Marriott investors confirmed, but still unnamed

Feb 28, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Marriott investors confirmed, but still unnamed

… only US$8M gap remains – Luncheon The government has secured the key investors needed to fund the Marriott Hotel Project, Dr Roger Luncheon said yesterday, but no details have been...

High Court finds missing juror in jail

Feb 28, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on High Court finds missing juror in jail

Patrick Persaud, the absent juror who failed to show up in the Berbice High court on Tuesday thus stalling the proceedings in Justice Brassington Reynolds’s court, was in jail. Justice Reynolds...

NDIA Auditor threatens legal action over gratuity payment

Feb 28, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on NDIA Auditor threatens legal action over gratuity payment

The National Drainage and Irrigation Authority (NDIA) could face legal action over its refusal to pay one of its Internal Auditors his gratuity in keeping with a mutually agreed contract. The...

Cash-strapped CGX owes Repsol US$15M

Feb 28, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Cash-strapped CGX owes Repsol US$15M

CGX Energy, faced with a debt of US$15M to Repsol Exploración S.A. for the drilling of a well offshore Georgetown last year, yesterday announced that it has entered an agreement with GMP Securities...

Dem boy seh… Happy living nah long life

Feb 28, 2013 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Dem boy seh… Happy living nah long life

Whenever Donald jump pun a plane and travel everybody know that is official business. But dem boys seh is not de business that people think. Is post dem other people posting he outside de country...

Tucville, Charlestown share lead heading into final phase of prelims

Feb 28, 2013 KNews Sports Comments Off on Tucville, Charlestown share lead heading into final phase of prelims

After a short break for the Mashramani celebrations, play in the Milo / Petra Organisation Under-20 Schools Football Competition resumes over the weekend with the final round of matches in the round...

Berbice GPL employees go on strike

Feb 28, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Berbice GPL employees go on strike

….residents fear blackouts Employees of the Guyana Power and Light Inc (GPL) began strike action yesterday across the country. The Berbice workers were among those on strike. The...

President to receive COI report today

Feb 28, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on President to receive COI report today

President Donald Ramotar is scheduled to receive a completed report of the Commission of Inquiry into the Linden shooting. Three people were shot to death ostensibly by the police last July. The...

PM confirms Sophia toddler died of drowning

Feb 28, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on PM confirms Sophia toddler died of drowning

A post mortem examination conducted yesterday on the body of one year-old Akeem Peters who was reportedly discovered lying head down in a bucket of water in his 192 Pike Street, North Sophia home,...

Linden’s final basketball team to surface today

Feb 28, 2013 KNews Sports Comments Off on Linden’s final basketball team to surface today

Linden’s final representative basketball team for the much-anticipated and long awaited clash against Georgetown Saturday night at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall will surface today after a meeting...

Govt. sees no need for Privileges Committee on Rohee

Feb 28, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Govt. sees no need for Privileges Committee on Rohee

The government says it sees no need for the Parliamentary Privileges Committee which was set up to determine if the National Assembly has the powers to sanction a Member and if those sanctions could...

Lifted Rohee gag… Action was constitutionally just and right – Trotman

Feb 28, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Lifted Rohee gag… Action was constitutionally just and right – Trotman

Speaker of the National Assembly, Raphael Trotman, is satisfied that in permitting Home Affairs Minister Clement Rohee to have his say in the House of Parliament, he did what was constitutionally...

Hope Canal not on schedule

Feb 28, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Hope Canal not on schedule

– $80M more for fuel, repairing machines The construction of the Hope/DochFour Canal the government is building to help drain water from the East Demerara Water Conservancy (EDWC) is...

N/A Multilateral students drink alcohol on school tour to GT

Feb 28, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on N/A Multilateral students drink alcohol on school tour to GT

… future tours suspended until further notice All school tours and field trips in Region Six have been suspended until further notice. This announcement was made by the Region Six...

US Ambassador visits with St Francis Community Developers

Feb 28, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on US Ambassador visits with St Francis Community Developers

By Samuel Whyte United States Ambassador to Guyana, Brent Hardt, on Monday, visited a number of community development projects underway in East Berbice. The visit to the region was organized by one...

Two charged with conspiracy in missing Guyanese case

Feb 28, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Two charged with conspiracy in missing Guyanese case

Cayman Island (CNS) – A 31-year-old man and a 29-year-old woman have been charged with conspiracy to pervert or defeat the course of justice, in connection with a missing person’s case....

TB in prisons a serious public health concern – Health Minister

Feb 28, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on TB in prisons a serious public health concern – Health Minister

As part of the efforts to promote health and human rights of prisoners, measures must be put in place to address the problem of overcrowding even as living conditions are improved. This is the...

GFF Super League – First round nears end

Feb 28, 2013 KNews Sports Comments Off on GFF Super League – First round nears end

matches set for Friday and Sunday Five matches are left to complete the first round of the Guyana Football Federation (GFF) 2012/2013 Super League which is interestingly poised. Current leaders...

Region Four Chairman lambastes Trotman over Rohee gag order ruling

Feb 28, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Region Four Chairman lambastes Trotman over Rohee gag order ruling

The Chairman of Guyana’s most populous region, Region Four (Demerara/Mahaica), Clement Corlette, has thrown his hat into the ring in the ongoing dispute surrounding the decision of the Speaker of...

GSA/Bounty Farm Mash handicap tournament underway

Feb 28, 2013 KNews Sports Comments Off on GSA/Bounty Farm Mash handicap tournament underway

The Guyana Squash Association (GSA) in collaboration with Bounty Farm and its number one corporate sponsor Digicel, served off the Bounty Farm Mash Handicap Tournament Tuesday night at the Georgetown...

Motorcyclist hospitalized

Feb 28, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Motorcyclist hospitalized

The 40-year-old motorcyclist who collided with a car in the vicinity of Bel Air, East Coast Demerara, at the Railway Embankment and Conversation Tree on Tuesday, is hospitalized in a critical...

Man accused of attempting to murder sibling

Feb 28, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Man accused of attempting to murder sibling

Osafo Yarde appeared before Magistrate Leron Daly at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court yesterday on an attempted murder charge. He was represented by Attorney at Law Dexter Todd, who asked the...

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The GRA is batting out of its crease

Peeping Tom… Kaieteur News- The Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) has once again demonstrated a perplexing propensity... more