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Campbellvile Shooting… Dead Youth Was Main Target

May 16, 2008 KNews News Comments Off on Campbellvile Shooting… Dead Youth Was Main Target

-Cops Investigators are still baffled over last Wednesday night’s shooting in Campbellville that claimed the life of 21-year-old Arjune Narine Singh, and resulted in injuries to three other...

No approval for protest march…

May 16, 2008 KNews News Comments Off on No approval for protest march…

‘I’m walking to my chambers’ – Corbin Hundreds assembled at Mandela Avenue and Joseph Pollydore Street for a protest march and rally but when leader of the People’s National Congress

Man nabbed with friend’s gun at 3:00 a.m

May 16, 2008 KNews News Comments Off on Man nabbed with friend’s gun at 3:00 a.m

Police have detained a licenced firearm holder after he gave a fictitious explanation of how his shotgun ended up in the hands of another Rosignol, West Bank Berbice resident. The friend, too, was...

Berbice bridge a reality in September-BCCI

May 16, 2008 KNews News Comments Off on Berbice bridge a reality in September-BCCI

…tolls to be on par with current ferry charges By Leonard Gildarie The much-touted and long-awaited Berbice River Bridge is on schedule and should be open to traffic early September, according to...

112 not out! Oldest woman in South America

May 16, 2008 KNews News Comments Off on 112 not out! Oldest woman in South America

Today, Ms. Matilda Lewis will be 112 years old, making her the oldest living person in Guyana and in South America. She is only one of 76 people older than 110 years on the planet. But as the years...

Corbin’s bodyguard arrested for murder, robbery under arms

May 16, 2008 KNews News Comments Off on Corbin’s bodyguard arrested for murder, robbery under arms

“If there is evidence that I am in bed with criminals then they (police) should come and arrest me” – Corbin. Some time around 2:00hrs yesterday Cyrus Boyce, personal security detail...

The time has come for labour to once again be independent

May 16, 2008 KNews Letters Comments Off on The time has come for labour to once again be independent

Dear Editor, It is important that as the President of the GTUC I do not allow recent comments expressed in the media by various sectors of society to go unnoticed. To do so will be a failure on my...

Man axed to death over interest in friend’s wife

May 16, 2008 KNews News Comments Off on Man axed to death over interest in friend’s wife

A 29-year-old man who expressed a sexual interest in the wife of a friend who had earlier invited him to his home for a drink was chopped to death with an axe. Armanand Dhanraj was found lying in his...

Lindeners fully apprised of role for CARIFESTA X

May 16, 2008 KNews News Comments Off on Lindeners fully apprised of role for CARIFESTA X

Several officials and residents of Linden were yesterday given a detailed explanation of how to prepare for the Caribbean Festival of Arts (CARIFESTA) X and were also privileged to witness a sample...

Wismar mystery fire leaves eight homeless

May 16, 2008 KNews News Comments Off on Wismar mystery fire leaves eight homeless

Eight people were left homeless yesterday after a fire of unknown origin destroyed a two-storey house at around 19:00 hrs at Lot 153 Half Mile, Wismar. The building is the property of Volda Bonus,...

Dem boys seh – Don’t send de boss fuh buy nutten

May 16, 2008 KNews Dem Boys Seh Comments Off on Dem boys seh – Don’t send de boss fuh buy nutten

When a bug bite you, you does really scratch and of late, bug biting a lot of people. One bite Da Silva and he call a press conference. De whole issue was a li’l thing. Buddy sell he hotel and is...

Export licence row…

May 16, 2008 KNews News Comments Off on Export licence row…

Alesie likely to get mill, export licences shortly -Minister Persaud The Ministry of Agriculture has intervened in a row between the Ruimzeight Rice Processors Inc, a part of the Alesie Group, and...

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...

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Kissoon, Gaskin, Roopnaraine: More notes on race and class

Kaieteur News – David Hinds recently declared me a madman and wrote that I am compromised. Mark Benschop said the PPP... more

The PNC/R wants corn and husk

Kaieteur News – The PNC/R is in a domineering mode. After the recent elections of the party’s abbreviated Congress,... more