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These children need your help

Jun 19, 2009 knews News Comments Off on These children need your help

The publisher of this newspaper, Glenn Lall, after seeing the dilemma of the four children of Mary Sandy, decided to help with the burial of the woman. Mary Sandy died tragically by accident leaving...

Sophia man shot in neck

Jun 19, 2009 knews News Comments Off on Sophia man shot in neck

Doctors at the Georgetown Public Hospital were last night treating a ‘B’ Field, Sophia man who was rushed to the institution at around 22:00 hrs with a gunshot wound to the back of the neck. The...

Freedom of Information legislation: President’s self appointed two-month deadline up today

Jun 19, 2009 knews News Comments Off on Freedom of Information legislation: President’s self appointed two-month deadline up today

Alliance for Change leader, Raphael Trotman, yesterday lashed out at recent comments by the General Secretary of the People’s Progressive Party, Donald Ramotar, who said that the government was...

Ministerial Task Force rejects US TIP report

Jun 19, 2009 knews News Comments Off on Ministerial Task Force rejects US TIP report

The Ministerial Task Force on Trafficking in Persons (TIP) has said that it firmly rejects the United States State Department’s labelling of Guyana as a “Tier Two Watch List Country”. The Task...

Stanford arrested

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– Disgraced financier accused of running massive Ponzi scheme (CBS/AP) Billionaire financier R. Allen Stanford was arrested last night by FBI agents at his sister’s house in Stafford,...

Excise tax on gasoline reduced by 60 percent

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Minister of Finance, Dr Ashni Singh, has announced that the government has reduced the excise tax on gasoline and dieseline. According to the Minister, the tax on gasoline has been reduced from 50...

Bank account looted after customer loses ATM card

Jun 19, 2009 knews News Comments Off on Bank account looted after customer loses ATM card

Thirty-seven year-old pharmacists, Ramkarran Ram, discovered his debit card missing on Monday night and on Tuesday morning when he went to report it to the bank he got the shock of his life. He...

Obeah woman, three others arrested

Jun 19, 2009 knews News Comments Off on Obeah woman, three others arrested

…chant, sing sonkeys at police station Police on the East Coast of Demerara have arrested four women in connection with a spiritual ritual that went horribly wrong and resulted in a Buxton man...

Courts sponsors S&S Promotions boxing card

Jun 19, 2009 knews News Comments Off on Courts sponsors S&S Promotions boxing card

Yesterday, Courts Guyana Inc. handed over a sizeable cheque and championship belt to S&S Promotions as the company’s form of sponsorship for the boxing card named “The Final Execution”. The...

Legal Tangle

Jun 19, 2009 knews News Comments Off on Legal Tangle

Humorist George Ade finished his speech at a dinner party and sat down. The Chairman, a well-known lawyer, shoved his hands deep into his trouser pockets and laughingly enquired of those present,...

Security meeting to recommence in July

Jun 19, 2009 knews News Comments Off on Security meeting to recommence in July

The meeting between the British and Guyana Governments to resolve the issues surrounding the Security Sector Reform Action Plan is expected to take place in July. Head of the Presidential...

Solider jailed for wounding paramour

Jun 19, 2009 knews News Comments Off on Solider jailed for wounding paramour

Lindany Phillips, 23, the Guyana Defence Force rank who stabbed her boyfriend, Carl Ally, last week, was yesterday jailed for two years after she pleaded guilty to a charge of unlawful wounding....

Creary to lead U-19s in TCL contest

Jun 19, 2009 knews Sports Comments Off on Creary to lead U-19s in TCL contest

The Jamaica Cricket Association (JCA) has named an 18-member squad to contest the TCL Group West Indies Under-19 Championship, which will be held in Jamaica from July 9 through August 5. The team,...

Teacher heads to jail on demanding charge

Jun 19, 2009 knews News Comments Off on Teacher heads to jail on demanding charge

Acting Chief Magistrate Melissa Robertson, at the Georgetown Magistrates Court, yesterday remanded a city teacher, who allegedly lured a 16-year-old student from a city school into a hotel last week,...

GTTA sets sight on Caribbean team titles

Jun 19, 2009 knews Sports Comments Off on GTTA sets sight on Caribbean team titles

– identifies team By Edison Jefford Guyana is yearning to win the Caribbean Senior Table Tennis Championships’ team titles and as a result, the best team from a previous shortlist of...

Health Ministry battles increased malaria cases

Jun 19, 2009 knews News Comments Off on Health Ministry battles increased malaria cases

Minister of Health, Dr. Leslie Ramsammy ,has said that his Ministry will not win the fight against malaria. He said that health workers are currently battling to keep the number of cases from...

Linden gets Legal Aid clinic

Jun 19, 2009 knews News Comments Off on Linden gets Legal Aid clinic

Minister of Human Services and Social Security, Priya Manickchand, will launch today, the Linden Branch of the Guyana Legal Aid Clinic. Coastal dwellers, Berbicians and Essequibians, are already...

Covent Gardens returns to tournament

Jun 19, 2009 knews Sports Comments Off on Covent Gardens returns to tournament

By Sean Devers In 2002 Covent Gardens Secondary became the first Guyanese school to participate in the prestigious Sir Garfield Sobers International schools cricket tournament in Barbados. However,...

Driver in Providence fatal accident heading to court

Jun 19, 2009 knews News Comments Off on Driver in Providence fatal accident heading to court

Police are to charge the driver implicated in Wednesday’s fatal accident at Providence, East Bank Demerara, in which 25-year-old Mary Sandy was killed. A police source said that the driver,...

Guyana women set to impress in Turks & Caicos Football Festival

Jun 19, 2009 knews Sports Comments Off on Guyana women set to impress in Turks & Caicos Football Festival

The North American contingent of the Guyana Under-20 National team arrived Wednesday in Providenciales, Turks and Caicos ready to participate in the Football Festival, joining the contingent from...

Missing US man: Relatives dissatisfied with police search

Jun 19, 2009 knews News Comments Off on Missing US man: Relatives dissatisfied with police search

Some relatives of missing American, Kwame Rumel Jobronewet said yesterday that they are dissatisfied with efforts by the local police to find the 67-year-old man, who vanished seven days ago. They...

Tigers collide with Lions Sunday

Jun 19, 2009 knews Sports Comments Off on Tigers collide with Lions Sunday

Come Sunday, football fans, for the first time will be able to witness live ‘a fight between a lion and a tiger’, when the Ministry of Culture, Youth and Sport Victoria Inter Block football final...

Mobile phone found in cell of Lusignan massacre accused

Jun 19, 2009 knews News Comments Off on Mobile phone found in cell of Lusignan massacre accused

– four other phones, ‘jukas’, cigarette lighters unearthed in prison raid Police officials are said to be preparing further charges against one of the accused in the Lusignan massacre,...

Police inaction with breathalyzer unacceptable – PNCR

Jun 19, 2009 knews News Comments Off on Police inaction with breathalyzer unacceptable – PNCR

It is wholly unacceptable for law enforcement officers to not be au fait with the very laws that they are obligated to enforce. This is according to Shadow Home Affairs Minister, Deborah Backer, who...

Terrence Sugrim likely to be charged again

Jun 19, 2009 knews News Comments Off on Terrence Sugrim likely to be charged again

– lawyer seeks order to prohibit hearing Gun and ammunition charges are again likely for Terrence Sugrim, who only had a similar matter discharged last month at the Wales Magistrate’s Court....