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Minibus Association wins challenge to route change

May 16, 2008 KNews News Comments Off on Minibus Association wins challenge to route change

The Guyana Public Transportation Association has succeeded in dissuading police officials from making key changes in its rerouting exercise. The Association had mounted a legal protest against a...

PNCR protests – a deliberate effort to intimidate police leadership

May 16, 2008 KNews News Comments Off on PNCR protests – a deliberate effort to intimidate police leadership

– Dr. Luncheon “The PNCR, recognising that security is a burning issue in Guyana, has obviously decided that street protests are a sure way of focusing Guyanese attention on security,”...

Timehri bus operators take to the streets

May 16, 2008 KNews News Comments Off on Timehri bus operators take to the streets

– angered over new route Angry minibus operators swarmed over Ramp Road just outside of Geddes Grant yesterday as they protested what they deemed an ‘illegal’ new bus route that is...

Guyana still awaits Venezuela’s river dredging offer

May 16, 2008 KNews News Comments Off on Guyana still awaits Venezuela’s river dredging offer

Guyana is still ‘waiting’ and ‘hoping’ that the Venezuelan Government would deliver on its offer to assist with the dredging of the Mahaicony, Mahaica and Abary Creeks, Minister of...

UK-based novelist Roy Heath dies at 82

May 16, 2008 KNews News Comments Off on UK-based novelist Roy Heath dies at 82

The Arts Forum, which offers an occasional page in our Sunday Edition, has expressed deep sadness at the news of the passing of Guyanese novelist, Roy A.K. Heath, in London on Wednesday last. Heath,...

Peeping Tom – ME NAH EAT BREAD

May 16, 2008 KNews Peeping Tom Comments Off on Peeping Tom – ME NAH EAT BREAD

I am not a bread man. The only time you will find me having bread is at Christmas time. Then I must have bread to soak in my pepperpot. Even then I do not buy my loaves from any bakery. I bake my own...

Man remanded for ‘smuggling’ ganja into prison

May 16, 2008 KNews News Comments Off on Man remanded for ‘smuggling’ ganja into prison

– fined $5,000 for violation with cigarettes A construction worker was yesterday remanded to prison after he was caught trying to smuggle 38 grams of marijuana and five packs of cigarettes into...

To be our brother’s keepers should be converted from rhetoric to action

May 16, 2008 KNews Letters Comments Off on To be our brother’s keepers should be converted from rhetoric to action

Dear Editor, For those who continue to dismiss the claim that there is, undoubtedly, rampant discrimination and victimization rippling through our Dear Land of Guyana, I only ask them to look at the...

Mason granted bail on abduction charge

May 16, 2008 KNews News Comments Off on Mason granted bail on abduction charge

Principal Magistrate Melissa Robertson-Ogle yesterday released Kirk Campbell, a mason, on $75,000 bail when he appeared before her at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court, on an abduction charge. It...

Blame the government – Making decisions in the best interest

May 16, 2008 KNews Peeping Tom Comments Off on Blame the government – Making decisions in the best interest

The government recently announced that it is prepared to do everything in its power to fight crime and to ensure that Guyana is a country in which people can live as normal citizens. One of the...

Fix this situation before a much larger one arises

May 16, 2008 KNews Letters Comments Off on Fix this situation before a much larger one arises

Dear Editor, I would like to make a small comment. I visited Guyana last week, 6– 13 of May, 2008, to attend a relative’s funeral in Berbice. After the funeral I stayed at some relatives on the...

Finance Minister joins global debt cancellation fast

May 16, 2008 KNews News Comments Off on Finance Minister joins global debt cancellation fast

Minister of Finance Dr. Ashni Singh will today be joining Archbishop Desmond Tutu and President Mkapa of Tanzania in a fast to focus on the need for debt cancellation for the world’s poorest...

Let those responsible be humiliated for this mess

May 16, 2008 KNews Letters Comments Off on Let those responsible be humiliated for this mess

I read with anger the Kaieteur News article about Globe Trust. Please allow me space in your newspaper to express my profound disappointment, dissatisfaction and disgust at the (previous) board of...

Order At Our Bus Parks

May 16, 2008 KNews Editorial Comments Off on Order At Our Bus Parks

The Minister of Transport and Hydraulics, Robeson Benn, is obviously a no-nonsense character. He has made it clear that there must be changes in the way in which our roadways are used. More recently,...

The Parrot Speaks – Somebody give Uncle Bob a phone nah

May 16, 2008 KNews Peeping Tom Comments Off on The Parrot Speaks – Somebody give Uncle Bob a phone nah

The Parrot continues to find amusement in the uncalled for, unjustified and unpatriotic protests organised by the folks at Palm Tree jungle. In the first place it is laughable that people are...

Square of the Revolution protest evaporates

May 16, 2008 KNews News Comments Off on Square of the Revolution protest evaporates

— operators fail to show The protest action by minibus operators planned for yesterday at the Square of the Revolution failed to materialise, with no sign of such a gathering at the designated...

Ganja under a brick…

May 16, 2008 KNews News Comments Off on Ganja under a brick…

Lindener gets 3 years for not ‘minding his own business’ Principal Magistrate Melissa Robertson-Ogle yesterday sentenced a Linden resident to three years imprisonment after he was charged with...

Freddie Kissoon – Oh, this country!

May 16, 2008 KNews Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on Freddie Kissoon – Oh, this country!

A police van turned up with personnel dressed in bullet-proof vests and big guns. Alongside the lawmen was a pick-up with GPL officials. No, it wasn’t a case of an enraged family that violently...

We have a progressive government, let’s support it

May 16, 2008 KNews Letters Comments Off on We have a progressive government, let’s support it

Dear Editor, Thanks to the PPP/C for restoring democracy in Guyana, so that they can be attacked on television and by illegal protestors; by the very regime that banned freedom of expressions, lest...

Cartoon – May 11th, 2008

May 15, 2008 KNews Cartoons Comments Off on Cartoon – May 11th, 2008

Youth executed, three wounded nearby

May 15, 2008 KNews News Comments Off on Youth executed, three wounded nearby

Shortly after 22:00 hours last night gunshots rang out at the junction of Drury Lane and Millington Street, sending people scurrying for cover. When it was over less than a minute later, Arjune...

Hope dwindles for Globe Trust bailout

May 15, 2008 KNews News Comments Off on Hope dwindles for Globe Trust bailout

…as Brazilian investor dawdles By Leonard Gildarie Account holders of the financially troubled Globe Trust and Investment Company Ltd (GTICL) will have to wait a while longer as the lone investor...

PCA chairman for Bartica this weekend

May 15, 2008 KNews News Comments Off on PCA chairman for Bartica this weekend

Chairman of the Police Complaints Authority (PCA), Justice Cecil Kennard will be in Bartica, Region Seven this weekend beginning tomorrow. His first engagement will be at 13:30 hours when he will...

PNCR denied use of Square of Revolution for rally

May 15, 2008 KNews News Comments Off on PNCR denied use of Square of Revolution for rally

“I will not retract my story on transferred police…in time the truth will be exposed,” Corbin. Whilst announcing his protest march and rally today, Opposition Leader Robert Corbin says that the...

Agricola man charged for Kitty murder

May 15, 2008 KNews News Comments Off on Agricola man charged for Kitty murder

An Agricola resident was yesterday charged for the murder of a man who went to his mother’s rescue during a robbery. The accused, Harold Troy Critchlow, made his appearance at the Georgetown...

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