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Missing GRA cashier returns $976,000, deposit book

Jan 07, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Missing GRA cashier returns $976,000, deposit book

– remains in hiding A cashier attached to the Guyana Revenue Authority Accounting Department remains in hiding after disappearing with close to a million dollars which was supposed to be...

Guyanese terrorist accused allegedly confesses to being mastermind

Jan 07, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Guyanese terrorist accused allegedly confesses to being mastermind

… US challenges attempts to suppress evidence Russell DeFreitas the Guyana-born US resident who has been implicated along with Abdel Nur, Kareem Ibrahim and Abdul Kadir in a terror plot to blow up...

DPP must prosecute those who misuse taxpayers’ money – Trotman

Jan 07, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on DPP must prosecute those who misuse taxpayers’ money – Trotman

The Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) must work in a self-activating or proactive mode and prosecute those responsible for the misuse of public funds which is essentially...

Postal workers stage protest at ERC

Jan 07, 2010 knews News Comments Off on Postal workers stage protest at ERC

Yesterday, the Ethnic Relations Commission (ERC) attracted a protest by casual employees recently released by the Guyana Post Office Corporation. The casuals numbering 149 were given termination...

Man shot during robbery

Jan 07, 2010 knews News Comments Off on Man shot during robbery

A man is now thanking God for life after he was shot once by bandits during a robbery around 19:45hrs last night at the corner of Camp Street and South Road, outside the Demerara Bank. Marlon...

Dem boys seh…Nuff people peeping

Jan 07, 2010 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Dem boys seh…Nuff people peeping

Monkey see, monkey do. That is wha happening in this country. If a li’l child deh in a house and he see he parents doing something then he or she gun do de same thing because dem think that dem...

Detained ranks to face charges

Jan 07, 2010 knews News Comments Off on Detained ranks to face charges

Charges are likely for three ranks who are implicated in the theft of $3.4M from the Police Finance Office, which is located in the compound of Police Headquarters, Eve Leary. The ranks, an Assistant...

$400 million for housing fund yet to be used

Jan 07, 2010 knews News Comments Off on $400 million for housing fund yet to be used

Ali to seek further $1.5 billion today The government will today ask the National Assembly to approve the sum of $1.5 billion to add to a revolving fund to help vulnerable groups build homes. The sum...

North West passengers stranded

Jan 07, 2010 knews News Comments Off on North West passengers stranded

Yesterday scores of passengers who were scheduled to leave the Transport and Harbour department wharf in Kingston, Georgetown, for the interior were left stranded after the vessel that were slated to...

GT&T’s submarine cable: Operations start today to bring cable to shore

Jan 07, 2010 knews News Comments Off on GT&T’s submarine cable: Operations start today to bring cable to shore

The long-awaited submarine cable linking Guyana to Suriname and the rest of the world, is expected to start its shore-end landing from today, according to the Guyana Telephone and Telegraph Company...

GRPA gets new Director

Jan 07, 2010 knews News Comments Off on GRPA gets new Director

– organisation’s reposition on the card The Guyana Responsible Parenthood Association yesterday introduced its new Executive Director, Mrs. Beverly Braithwaite-Chan. The press conference,...

Anna Catherina’s illegal shacks contributed to recent flooding

Jan 07, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Anna Catherina’s illegal shacks contributed to recent flooding

– Public Works Government says that the strengthening of its sea defenses is helping to prevent floods but illegal shacks at Anna Catherina, West Coast Demerara, has endangered families there....

Power Lifting set for best year ever in 2010

Jan 07, 2010 knews Sports Comments Off on Power Lifting set for best year ever in 2010

Hosting of 4th Annual Caribbean PL & Bench Press C/ships to be high point By Franklin Wilson Ever since assuming the Presidency of the Guyana Amateur Power Lifting Federation back in 2008, the...

Overseas-based mining company reshuffles management

Jan 07, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Overseas-based mining company reshuffles management

Guyana focused mineral explorer and developer, Sacre-Coeur Minerals (TSX-V: SMC)(“Sacre-Coeur”) said that it had reshuffled its board of directors to better reflect its intention to become a gold...

MMA relaxes irrigation rules

Jan 07, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on MMA relaxes irrigation rules

The Mahaica Mahaicony Abary/Agricultural Development Authority (MMA/ADA) is prepared to relax its restrictions on the use of irrigation pumps in some of its channels in order to help farmers...

Chattergoon returns to form with solid 95

Jan 07, 2010 knews Sports Comments Off on Chattergoon returns to form with solid 95

Fudadin (111*), Deonarine (63*) share unfinished century stand for nationals The left-handed pair of Assad Fudadin and Narsingh Deonarine shared in an unfinished 103-run 4th wicket stand after...

Kashif and Shanghai clears air on stadium mess

Jan 07, 2010 knews Sports Comments Off on Kashif and Shanghai clears air on stadium mess

The Kashif and Shanghai Organisation has cleared the air on the blotch on their impressive record of staging events, which happened on January 1 at the final of the 2009/2010 edition of the...

Essequibo police probe possible murder

Jan 07, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Essequibo police probe possible murder

Police on the Essequibo Coast are currently investigating what they suspect may be the first murder on the Coast for the year. Reports of the area are that 38-year-old Shanta Sancharie, of Anna...

Men chop each other over woman

Jan 07, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Men chop each other over woman

Two men who apparently shared a relationship with the same woman have landed themselves on the wrong side of the law. Lawrence George, 28, of 77 Robb Street, on December 30 last, allegedly wounded...

Golfers tee off 2010 with Dask Enterprise tourney Saturday

Jan 07, 2010 knews Sports Comments Off on Golfers tee off 2010 with Dask Enterprise tourney Saturday

Local golfers will have an early start to the 2010 season with the first tournament planned for this weekend at the Lusignan Golf Club, East Coast Demerara. Dask Enterprise of Carmichael Street,...

Cell phone snatcher gets one year in jail

Jan 07, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Cell phone snatcher gets one year in jail

-despite begging magistrate for mercy A youth who snatched a cell phone from a woman was yesterday sentenced to one year in prison by Acting Chief Magistrate Melissa Robertson. Joel Castang, 19, of...

West Indies and England in Umpires Exchange Programme

Jan 07, 2010 knews Sports Comments Off on West Indies and England in Umpires Exchange Programme

According to a release, the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) and the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) have agreed to an umpires’ exchange programme for 2010 which will see more international...

Decomposed body found in abandoned minibus

Jan 07, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Decomposed body found in abandoned minibus

The badly decomposed body of a 64-year-old man believed to be a destitute is lying in the Le Repentir Cemetery in the area that once housed the mortuary. The body of the man was identified as Leon...

Three charged for Albouystown murder

Jan 07, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Three charged for Albouystown murder

Acting Chief Magistrate Melissa Robertson yesterday remanded two of the three men charged with the murder of an Albouystown resident. The other was absent since he has not yet been arrested by the...

Surviving driver still free after Vreed-en-Hoop crash

Jan 07, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Surviving driver still free after Vreed-en-Hoop crash

– DPP has not received file The female driver of the pick up PLL 2473 who was involved in an accident at New Road, Vreed-en-Hoop, that claimed the life of Alwin Jordan, 54, on December 22,...