January 30, 2010 - Kaieteur News

Archives by Month:

Archives by Year:

Family feud leads to murder at Abary

Jan 30, 2010 knews News Comments Off on Family feud leads to murder at Abary

A long-standing family feud ended tragically with the brutal murder of 33-year-old Maxwell Watson, of Little Abary, East Coast Demerara last night. Watson was stabbed in the left side chest by his...

Mocha fire injures two children, destroys home

Jan 30, 2010 knews News Comments Off on Mocha fire injures two children, destroys home

(By Mondale Smith) A five-year-old lad who celebrated his birthday yesterday is among a family of six rendered homeless after fire destroyed their home at 137 Nelson Street, Mocha Arcadia. The...

Three to be charged with taxi driver’s murder

Jan 30, 2010 knews News Comments Off on Three to be charged with taxi driver’s murder

– alleged mastermind was victim’s friend Two Agricola men and a third from Grove, East Bank Demerara, are to be charged next week in connection with the murder of Bomeshwar Sukhdeo, called...

Judge halts order to grant bail to murder accused

Jan 30, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Judge halts order to grant bail to murder accused

By Latoya Giles Justice Diana Insanally yesterday granted a Conservatory Order suspending the execution of the order which Justice James Bovell-Drakes granted on Tuesday last. Justice Insanally...

McLean resigns from miners’ association

Jan 30, 2010 knews News Comments Off on McLean resigns from miners’ association

– govt. officials to meet Barticians today by Leonard Gildarie As a row in the gold and diamond mining industry deepens with threats to shutdown Bartica over a controversial six-month notice to...

<<>>Guyana is a strange place

Jan 30, 2010 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on <<>>Guyana is a strange place

Like Sam ain’t coming back. He lef to go to Cuba and people start fuh talk how he sick. But de man just gone to learn Spanish. He always want to talk de language but because he been gone, dem boys...

Wife of national poet Martin Carter is dead

Jan 30, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Wife of national poet Martin Carter is dead

The wife of national poet, the late Martin Carter is dead. A release from family members said that Mrs. Phyllis Carter died in Trinidad on Thursday night Funeral arrangements will be announced later....

Diamond Secondary School sets up computer laboratory

Jan 30, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Diamond Secondary School sets up computer laboratory

Diamond Secondary School is the first of several secondary schools to have benefited from a Canadian non-profit organisation with computer laboratories. At an official handing over yesterday, the...

St Margaret’s Primary School is 75

Jan 30, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on St Margaret’s Primary School is 75

Amidst boisterous chants of ‘St Margaret’s Primary School, 75 years old’ the children of Grades Four, Five and Six of that institution marched through the streets of Georgetown to round off one...

Mysterious unfolding at Bladen Hall Multilateral

Jan 30, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Mysterious unfolding at Bladen Hall Multilateral

Something mysterious is unfolding at the Bladen Hall Multilateral School. Several students have been affected to the point of having breathing problems. Others have reported feeling dazed. These...

Government mulls construction of $206M abattoir

Jan 30, 2010 knews News Comments Off on Government mulls construction of $206M abattoir

The government is discussing the construction a state-of-the-art facility where cattle can be prepared, in accordance with health safety regulations, for both local and overseas markets. Minister of...

GPL says 33% of production lost to theft, other issues

Jan 30, 2010 knews News Comments Off on GPL says 33% of production lost to theft, other issues

– plans installation of 12,000 new meters in 2010 By Leonard Gildarie Guyana Power and Light Inc. (GPL) has rolled an ambitious plan this year to change the face of its image even as the...

Baby dies, parents blame negligent doctors at GPHC

Jan 30, 2010 knews News Comments Off on Baby dies, parents blame negligent doctors at GPHC

The distraught parents of six month old, Shequeena Peters, are blaming the doctors at the Georgetown Public Hospital for their child’s death. According to Karen Jacob and Floyd Peters, their...

New Sewerage Pump Station commissioned

Jan 30, 2010 knews News Comments Off on New Sewerage Pump Station commissioned

The days of over flowing sewage in the capital city especially when it rains may soon be at an end. Yesterday, the first of 24 sewage pump stations valued at in excess of $170M was officially...

Jumo to Ring in Mash 2010 with weekly Soca Jamboree

Jan 30, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Jumo to Ring in Mash 2010 with weekly Soca Jamboree

This and every Saturday at C&S Sheriff Street Soca and Mash music lovers in Guyana are advised to head down to the C&S nightspot on Sheriff Street to be part of Jumo’s Mash Soca Jamboree....

GPHC to manage Kitty, Industry Health Centres

Jan 30, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on GPHC to manage Kitty, Industry Health Centres

The Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) will be taking over the management of the Kitty and Industry Health Centres during the course of this year. This was disclosed by GPHC’s Chief...

Guyanese author launches second novel

Jan 30, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Guyanese author launches second novel

Guyanese Author, Dr. Brenda Do Harris, will launch her second novel “Calabash Parkway” at the Sidewalk Cafe – today at 18.00 hrs. The programme will include a reading of extracts from the...

CRANDON SIBLINGS TAKE 1ST DAY HONOURS

Jan 30, 2010 knews Sports Comments Off on CRANDON SIBLINGS TAKE 1ST DAY HONOURS

CCC struggling at 24-3 replying to Guyana’s 271 By Sean Devers in Barbados In association with Carib Beer, Leisure Inn & Car Rental & Caribbean Airlines West Indies ODI player Royston...

Suspected thief nabbed in Saffon Street building

Jan 30, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Suspected thief nabbed in Saffon Street building

A man who claimed that he just slept in the building but could not say by what means he entered, will have a lot of explaining to do before a city Magistrate. The suspect was nabbed in the Traders...

EMOTIONAL SEND-OFF FOR JUNIOR SPRINT CHAMP

Jan 30, 2010 knews Sports Comments Off on EMOTIONAL SEND-OFF FOR JUNIOR SPRINT CHAMP

– hundreds bid farewell to Roxanna Rigby Hundreds of mourners turned out yesterday at Rosignol to bid farewell to the late national junior athlete, Roxanna Rigby, who was laid to rest at the...

National juniors benefit from Dr. Ian McDonald’s talk

Jan 30, 2010 knews Sports Comments Off on National juniors benefit from Dr. Ian McDonald’s talk

The national junior players selected by the Guyana Lawn Tennis Association (GLTA) to prepare for the upcoming preliminary rounds of the World Junior Championships all agreed that the motivating...

Former immigration officer accused of fraud

Jan 30, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Former immigration officer accused of fraud

A former Immigration Officer was yesterday placed on $70,000 by Acting Chief Magistrate Melissa Robertson, on a charge of forging one entry stamp in a Guyana passport for Edward Drakes. It was...

Grass track practice session on today

Jan 30, 2010 knews Sports Comments Off on Grass track practice session on today

Briefing will immediately follow The Dirt Bike riders that will vie for supremacy in the Championship Series will test-ride their bikes at the Mecca of Grass Track racing, the Ogle Community Centre...

Soca Monarch, Road March, Junior Calypso Monarch, HIV song competitions

Jan 30, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Soca Monarch, Road March, Junior Calypso Monarch, HIV song competitions

(By Mondale Smith) It’s no secret that Adrian Dutchin, the nation’s lone three-time Soca monarch is a member of the KKR Head Hunters group and while he has opted to not compete in 2010 Mashramani...

Pacesetters hold nerves to beat Macabees

Jan 30, 2010 knews Sports Comments Off on Pacesetters hold nerves to beat Macabees

Ravens easily tame Bounty Colts Courts Pacesetters rallied from being down double digits at the end of the first quarter of their Division III game against Macabees to beat the team that had opened...

12 NEXT

Mental illness is real and a serious public health concern

Peeping Tom… Kaieteur News- Mental illness is a reality we often acknowledge in passing but seldom confront with the... more