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Gunmen abandon car after robbery

Oct 16, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Gunmen abandon car after robbery

Up to press time last evening police were scouring the lower East Coast Demerara area for three gunmen who fled and left their get-away car after carrying out a daring robbery on a city businessman....

Winston Murray throws hat in PNC/R ring

Oct 16, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Winston Murray throws hat in PNC/R ring

The race for the presidential nominee of the main opposition People’s National Congress/Reform (PNC/R) has intensified with former party chairman Winston Murray announcing his candidacy. He made...

Tortured teen misses court again

Oct 16, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Tortured teen misses court again

Deonarine Rafick, Nouravie Wilfred and Twyon Thomas, the teen whose privates were allegedly set alight last year by three police ranks, again failed to appear in court. The case against the ranks who...

Export earnings on sugar dip, VAT receipts soar

Oct 16, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Export earnings on sugar dip, VAT receipts soar

The sugar industry which has long been a bedrock of Guyana’s economy has performed dismally this year with export earnings dropping by 21 per cent as compared to the previous period. This is...

East Canje men remanded for raping boy, 14

Oct 16, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on East Canje men remanded for raping boy, 14

…as new Sexual Offences Act swings into action Two men, Clifton Ramnarine, called ‘Dougla’, 35, a labourer of Goed Bananen Land, and Najendra Isbarran, 28, called ‘Boyo’, of Betsy Ground,...

Barama closure will hurt export earnings

Oct 16, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Barama closure will hurt export earnings

– workers will be paid, government assures By Leonard Gildarie News of the closure of Guyana’s premier plywood production line continued to reverberate across the country yesterday with...

Cop shot during exchange with gunmen, two arrested

Oct 16, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Cop shot during exchange with gunmen, two arrested

Police corporal Emrit Winter is currently listed as stable at the Georgetown Public Hospital after he was shot in the hip while trying to apprehend three gunmen following a robbery in Port Kaituma....

Dem boy seh… Kwame want a boys’ school

Oct 16, 2010 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Dem boy seh… Kwame want a boys’ school

Kwame in China. How he get out or how he travel is a secret because nobody didn’t mek an announcement. When dem boys hear that he gone dem ask why he gone especially since Bharrat is de one who...

Suspected Plaisance arsonist back in police custody

Oct 16, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Suspected Plaisance arsonist back in police custody

A mentally challenged Plaisance woman who allegedly set fire to her two-storey house on Thursday night is back in police custody. The woman, Denise Munroe, who had disappeared shortly after the fire...

Dr Anthony promises innovations for Mash 2011

Oct 16, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Dr Anthony promises innovations for Mash 2011

The Ministry of Culture, Youth and Sport yesterday launched Mashramani 2011, promising several innovations to make the Republic anniversary festival one that is unique and different. The Mash theme...

Guyana backs Bourne to head Caribbean Development Bank

Oct 16, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Guyana backs Bourne to head Caribbean Development Bank

Former Governor of the Central Bank of Barbados, Winston Cox, is among three candidates seeking to lead the Caribbean Development Bank (CDB) for the next five years. Cox, who stepped down in June as...

Owners of Upper Level Barber Shop deny drug accused

Oct 16, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Owners of Upper Level Barber Shop deny drug accused

Kaieteur News recently highlighted another U.S. arrest of “three more Guyanese drug traffickers”. The “traffickers” were indentified as Rondel Hernandez, David Norton and Ulric Anderson. This...

People’s Partnership stages protest outside Parliament

Oct 16, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on People’s Partnership stages protest outside Parliament

A group from the People’s Partnership, including politician and Chairman of Vision Guyana, Peter Ramsaroop, yesterday, staged a picketing exercise at the opening of the Parliament after the recess....

Nine years later … 3,000 Globe Trust depositors to receive deposits

Oct 16, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Nine years later … 3,000 Globe Trust depositors to receive deposits

By Leonard Gildarie More than nine years after authorities seized the operations of Globe Trust and Investments Company Limited (GTICL), there is light at the end of the tunnel for depositors with...

Toy gun and cutlass wielding bandits rob shopkeeper

Oct 16, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Toy gun and cutlass wielding bandits rob shopkeeper

Three masked bandits armed with a toy gun and two cutlasses on Tuesday robbed shop keeper Patricia Bess, 54, of Mai Mai Dam, Angoy’s Avenue in New Amsterdam. According to reports, around 20:00 hrs...

CPCE zeros in on inclusive education

Oct 16, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on CPCE zeros in on inclusive education

– celebrates Education Month 2010 In recognition of the fact that there is a global demand for an improvement in the delivery of education, the Cyril Potter College of Education (CPCE)...

Cops beat their own in Plaisance crackdown

Oct 16, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Cops beat their own in Plaisance crackdown

A young Detective Constable certainly found out how civilians feel after they have been brutalized by ranks of the Guyana Police Force. The Constable was among several persons who were brutally...

Mother of five slapped with fraud charge

Oct 16, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Mother of five slapped with fraud charge

Appearing before Magistrate Hazel Octive-Hamilton, yesterday, at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court was Evelyn Moore, 45, of 128 Cummingsburg, Georgetown, who was charged with fraudulent conversion....

High gold prices put diamonds on backburner

Oct 16, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on High gold prices put diamonds on backburner

Gold production showed an increase of 8.1 percent at the half year and the budget projection of four percent increase for the whole year is maintained. The price factor was the catalyst driving...

Jagdeo congratulates Chilean Government for miners rescue

Oct 16, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Jagdeo congratulates Chilean Government for miners rescue

Yesterday, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs extended congratulations to Sebastian Pinera, President of the Republic of Chile. This congratulatory message came from Bharrat Jagdeo, President of the...

Wakenaam man fears for daughter’s life following attack by ‘drug addict’

Oct 16, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Wakenaam man fears for daughter’s life following attack by ‘drug addict’

A Wakenaam man fears for the life of his 12-year-old daughter and that of his family after what he considered no action against a man who attempted to attack his daughter. Hemray Chowtie, of Ridge,...

‘Golden Jaguars’book place in round two – defeat Netherlands Antilles 3-2;

Oct 16, 2010 KNews Sports Comments Off on ‘Golden Jaguars’book place in round two – defeat Netherlands Antilles 3-2;

By Franklin Wilson in Suriname with the compliments of Digicel Even exchanges highlighted the opening 10 minutes as both teams strived to get the adrenalin flowing but it was the Golden Jaguars who...

Men caught with stolen sheep in car

Oct 16, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Men caught with stolen sheep in car

Police in Berbice have been commended for their diligent work in cracking a sheep thieving gang. They arrested two men in a car and these have since been placed before the court. According to reports...

Pompey gains CWG silver medal

Oct 16, 2010 KNews Sports Comments Off on Pompey gains CWG silver medal

– second placed Abugan fails dope test New Delhi, (Press Trust of India) Doping continued to dog the Commonwealth Games (CWG) as Nigerian athlete Folashade Abugan was yesterday stripped of...

Guyana squeeze past HPC by 3 runs

Oct 16, 2010 KNews Sports Comments Off on Guyana squeeze past HPC by 3 runs

…Despite fifties from Chandrika (51) & Powell (72) By Sean Devers in Jamaica In association with Mike’s Pharmacy, Jamaica Pegasus & Raphael’s reality The result in yesterday...

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A lesson from the bread lines of America

…Peeping Tom Kaieteur News- If the American elections of 2024 delivered any one lesson to the rest of the world, it... more