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Bartica shuts down amidst protests

Feb 02, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Bartica shuts down amidst protests

– residents, businesses call for special committee to suspend work An estimated 3,000 persons, decked in yellow, took to the streets of Bartica yesterday shutting down that community to protest...

Two remanded for taxi driver’s murder

Feb 02, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Two remanded for taxi driver’s murder

Two men have been remanded to prison after being charged with the murder of 39-year-old, Bomeshwar Sukhdeo. The two, Balram Singh and Bharrat Narine, appeared at the Providence Magistrate’s...

Police hunt Berbice gang following robbery at Albion

Feb 02, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Police hunt Berbice gang following robbery at Albion

Police in Berbice are on the hunt for a gang who they believe is responsible for a spate of robberies on the Corentyne. The gang struck at Chesney Front, Albion, on Sunday night, robbing the...

Arsonist fails to torch Dorothy Bailey Municipal Health Centre

Feb 02, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Arsonist fails to torch Dorothy Bailey Municipal Health Centre

A security guard who reported for work on Sunday night discovered that a fire had been set in the lower flat of the Dorothy Bailey Municipal Health Centre on South Road. This newspaper was told that...

Sattaur’s absence from PAC lands GRA in ‘hot- water’

Feb 02, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Sattaur’s absence from PAC lands GRA in ‘hot- water’

The absence of the Commissioner General of the Guyana Revenue Authority, Khurshid Sattaur, during yesterday’s sitting of the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) drew the ire of that body as the five...

Dem boys seh… Bharrat says: Ya na gavarue Paruski

Feb 02, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Dem boys seh… Bharrat says: Ya na gavarue Paruski

Communities and institutions does recognise de great people who come from them. Eddy Grant is the best thing that Plaisance produce but Plaisance don’t have to pay to get Eddy fuh visit. De man...

Skeletal remains found in New Hope backlands

Feb 02, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Skeletal remains found in New Hope backlands

The skeletal remains believed to be that of 49-year-old Davenand Singh was yesterday found some one and a half mile down in the New Hope backlands, East Bank Demerara. The discovery was made by the...

GWI to pump water from East Demerara Water Conservancy

Feb 02, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on GWI to pump water from East Demerara Water Conservancy

Dry season cause depletion at Lamaha Canal The Guyana Water Incorporated, GWI, is advising that due to the prolonged dry season affecting many parts of the country, there has been a significant...

High tides hurt South E’bo

Feb 02, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on High tides hurt South E’bo

The lives of residents residing in villages comprising the southern (Cullen\Perseverance) half of the Essequibo Coast, were made uncomfortable, while others suffered major losses in cash crop. Many...

Sugar bonus arbitration on hold

Feb 02, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Sugar bonus arbitration on hold

– as workers contemplate five and half days pay offer Sugar workers are contemplating a five-and-half-day production bonus pay as negotiating teams put arbitration proceedings on hold. A senior...

Benschop evicted from Bartica hotel

Feb 02, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Benschop evicted from Bartica hotel

Last Saturday, social activist, Mark Benschop, was requested to leave the Platinum Hotel Inn whilst in Bartica, because of the owner’s fear of offending politicians. According to Benschop, after...

Jagdeo lands in Russia

Feb 02, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Jagdeo lands in Russia

President Bharrat Jagdeo winged out of Suriname to Russia Saturday after attending the special youth summit of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM). He told the Guyanese media in Suriname that he will...

Slain thief identified

Feb 02, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Slain thief identified

The man of mixed ethnicity who was killed last Sunday at Eping Avenue, Bel Air Park was identified by police as Kwesi D’Andrade of 17 ‘C’ Field Sophia. The man was shot when he...

Nefta McFarlane is top religious graduate

Feb 02, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Nefta McFarlane is top religious graduate

The Assemblies of God Church last Saturday afternoon graduated six of its members in West Berbice with Diplomas as Christian workers. The graduation or commencement exercises were held at the Glad...

Guyana’s Haiti Relief fund nets $258M

Feb 02, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Guyana’s Haiti Relief fund nets $258M

…and more than $45M in supplies The Guyana/Haiti relief efforts stand at $258M in cash at the banks and more than $45M in items donations. Yesterday, even as Guyana prepared to ship 11 more...

Foreign assistance needful to aid cemetery restoration – City Mayor

Feb 02, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Foreign assistance needful to aid cemetery restoration – City Mayor

Efforts to restore the Le Repentir Cemetery have ground to an indefinite halt and it is certainly not due to a lack of vision on the part of the municipality. At least, this is according to City...

Banks truck sparks multi-vehicle collision

Feb 02, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Banks truck sparks multi-vehicle collision

A Banks truck, GEE 6186, collided with a black Camry, PGG 8100, at the junction of Sheriff and Duncan Streets and left the driver of the car nursing serious wounds at the Georgetown Public Hospital...

Thief disarms policeman, then chops him

Feb 02, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Thief disarms policeman, then chops him

Rural Sergeant, Orin Belfield, is convinced that he could identify the lone attacker who has now left him with a deep chop to his right hand and another to his lower right face. Belfield also...

Private hospital foundation programme up for accreditation

Feb 02, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Private hospital foundation programme up for accreditation

Even as it seeks to get its Foundation Health Care Programme accredited, the Davis Memorial Hospital on Sunday churned out 12 graduates who have acquired basic knowledge to help boost the delivery of...

Guyana to use GIS to map housing areas

Feb 02, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Guyana to use GIS to map housing areas

…surveying, house lot identification will be enhanced By Leonard Gildarie Government is mulling the possibilities of using satellite imagery to speed up the processing of house lots and, once...

Missing car fare earns man three year’s jail

Feb 02, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Missing car fare earns man three year’s jail

A Rosignol, West Bank Berbice man who had drugs on his person did not cater for the taxi driver taking him to the police when he could not pay the fare. At the station, while booking him for the...

Gibson is new Windies head coach

Feb 02, 2010 knews Sports Comments Off on Gibson is new Windies head coach

Ottis Gibson has been named as the new West Indies head coach, the West Indies Cricket Board confirmed last evening. This comes after weekend media reports said the former West Indies fast bowler had...

Ravens untie Nets with heavy win

Feb 02, 2010 knews Sports Comments Off on Ravens untie Nets with heavy win

Melanie Patriots record first victory Ravens continued its record of heavy wins in the 2010 Georgetown Amateur Basketball Association (GABA) Open League Sunday night at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall...

20/20 Pro/Am boxing cards set for month end launching

Feb 02, 2010 knews Sports Comments Off on 20/20 Pro/Am boxing cards set for month end launching

By Michael Benjamin The changing formats of sports disciplines have created controversy in some quarters but nonetheless have brought new excitement to the sports arena. Despite the outcries by the...

RHT Gizmos & Gadgets defeat Young Warriors by 41 runs

Feb 02, 2010 knews Sports Comments Off on RHT Gizmos & Gadgets defeat Young Warriors by 41 runs

By Franklin Wilson A robust unbeaten half century by rising off spinning all-rounder and man-of-the match Troy Mathieson batting at No. 9 backed a telling spell of bowling from off spinner Dominic...

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The PPP has started the intimidation

Peeping Tom… Kaieteur News- In politics, as in life, what goes around comes around. The People’s Progressive Party/Civic... more