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Dem boy seh… Surujbally got plans fuh Luncheon

Oct 21, 2010 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Dem boy seh… Surujbally got plans fuh Luncheon

All de time de Elections Commission been in existence people believe that was good people. But Wednesday, Luncheon decide that dem wicked and all because dem talk bout he order fuh dem to advertise...

GECOM commissioners ‘wicked’

Oct 21, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on GECOM commissioners ‘wicked’

– ads directive issued weeks ago – Luncheon Head of the Presidential Secretariat, Dr Roger Luncheon, yesterday lashed out at what he called wicked people including commissioners at the...

Guyana slides 20 places in press freedom report

Oct 21, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Guyana slides 20 places in press freedom report

– Radio monopoly, strained relations with Presidency cited After riding “high” last year, Guyana has dropped 20 places in the world rankings press freedom index released yesterday by the...

Grandmother detained for toddler’s death

Oct 21, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Grandmother detained for toddler’s death

Up to press time yesterday a woman was in police custody following the death of her 19 month-old grandson. Reports are that the toddler, Rolandzo Hunte, of 521 ‘A’ Field Sophia, was...

Robbery victim terrorized by detective

Oct 21, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Robbery victim terrorized by detective

Forty-nine-year-old Crisnauth Kassinauth of Third Street, Queenstown, Essequibo, was, on Saturday last, forcefully relieved of $350,000 while he was in the vicinity of Demico House. Kassinauth...

Relatives to collect body of dead Delta passenger

Oct 21, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Relatives to collect body of dead Delta passenger

Arrangements were being made yesterday morning for relatives to claim the body of the Guyanese national who took ill aboard a Delta Airline Flight and subsequently died on Tuesday in San Juan, Puerto...

Continuing Promise 2010 kicks off in Berbice with impressive ceremony

Oct 21, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Continuing Promise 2010 kicks off in Berbice with impressive ceremony

By Samuel Whyte The United States of America Continuing Promise 2010 to Guyana was officially launched yesterday with an official ceremony held in the compound of the New Amsterdam Hospital. Among...

N/A Hospital blamed for three maternal deaths within a month

Oct 21, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on N/A Hospital blamed for three maternal deaths within a month

A 21-year-old mother Yogita Bissham of Number 60 Village Corentyne, Berbice died while delivering a baby girl at the New Amsterdam Hospital late Tuesday night. According to her husband, Chandradatt...

Minibus operators thrown out of meeting with Home Affairs Minister

Oct 21, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Minibus operators thrown out of meeting with Home Affairs Minister

The route 50 minibus operators were thrown out of a meeting last Sunday. This meeting was being held at the Regional Administrative office in Berbice, with Minister Clement Rohee. Keith Alfred,...

Chateau Margot resident peeved at shoddy road construction

Oct 21, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Chateau Margot resident peeved at shoddy road construction

Rabindra Rooplall Residents of Chateau Margot, East Coast Demerara, are complaining about what they describe as a waste of taxpayers’ money. They say that the recent road construction in their...

Security Guard punches female patron

Oct 21, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Security Guard punches female patron

A 56-year-old security attached to the Red Dragon Night Club was yesterday placed on $75,000 bail after appearing before Magistrate Priya Beharry, at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court. It was...

Republic Bank trains 21 of its small business clients

Oct 21, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Republic Bank trains 21 of its small business clients

In what has been hailed as the first of its kind for the financial institution, Republic Bank (Guyana) Limited has chosen 21 of its clients for training. During the closing ceremony at its New Market...

Rohee assures farmers that cattle rustling is being addressed

Oct 21, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Rohee assures farmers that cattle rustling is being addressed

Minister of Home Affairs Clement Rohee has assured livestock farmers on the West Coast of Berbice that everything is being done to reduce cattle rustling in the area. The assurance was given during a...

Farmer’s murder PI gets underway

Oct 21, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Farmer’s murder PI gets underway

After four months, evidence into the death of Pomeroon Farmer, Victor Williams is being heard in court. The three murder accused, Frankie and Josephine Henry and Trevor Abrams a\k Rubba, made their...

Religious community to undergo domestic violence training

Oct 21, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Religious community to undergo domestic violence training

Head of the Presidential Secretariat, Dr. Roger Luncheon, has announced that President Bharrat Jagdeo will be delivering the feature address at the opening ceremony of a faith-based training session...

Literacy to be promoted with ‘Deal or No Deal’

Oct 21, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Literacy to be promoted with ‘Deal or No Deal’

A book sale with a difference is set to kick off tomorrow at the Georgetown Reading and Research Centre, Waterloo Street, as part of the continuing efforts to promote reading in the society....

All Guyana should pause and reflect on what this democracy is all about

Oct 21, 2010 knews Letters Comments Off on All Guyana should pause and reflect on what this democracy is all about

Dear Editor, The mid-term elections, slated for November 2nd 2010 in the United States of America (USA), and for which almost hysterical political campaigning is on the way, is a moment for pause,...

Be prepared for additional disruptions to electoral preparations

Oct 21, 2010 knews Letters Comments Off on Be prepared for additional disruptions to electoral preparations

Dear Editor, This latest statement from the Government signals that they are prepared to undermine the work of legally constituted independent bodies, compromise the electoral process, so that the...

The missing boxers are not like us

Oct 21, 2010 knews Letters Comments Off on The missing boxers are not like us

Dear Editor, It has been some time now since I have been highlighting sports and its ambassadors of Guyana via commentaries, and I will continue in doing so once time permits me to. The decision by...

No world leader invited to Cancun climate change summit

Oct 21, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on No world leader invited to Cancun climate change summit

By Neil Marks in Mexico City Mexico yesterday continued to play down any hype about the outcome of the UN Climate Summit in Cancun starting in late November, with a senior official saying no world...

Austin is not a member of the PNCR Central Executive

Oct 21, 2010 knews Letters Comments Off on Austin is not a member of the PNCR Central Executive

Dear Editor, In your newspaper of the 16th October on Mr. Winston Murray’s run for the nomination of presidential candidate your report inaccurately stated that Ronald Austin is a member of the...

20th COHSOD ends on high-note

Oct 21, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on 20th COHSOD ends on high-note

..as Dr Green defends entity’s track record By Gary Eleazar The 20th meeting of the CARICOM Council for Human and Social Development came to a close, yesterday, with all and sundry high with hopes...

The death penalty is one of the most contentious issues in these modern times

Oct 21, 2010 knews Letters Comments Off on The death penalty is one of the most contentious issues in these modern times

Dear Editor, A couple who son was recently slain held placards in Georgetown. The placards asked for hangings to be resumed in Guyana. It was an emotional plea from parents who lost their son to the...

Woman hangs self after mother dies

Oct 21, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Woman hangs self after mother dies

A Lusignan, East Coast Demerara woman made good on her promise to end her life whenever her mother passed away. Her family has been plunged into double mourning. The woman, Andranie Singh, 47, hanged...

Essequibo man robbed, terrorized by police rank

Oct 21, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Essequibo man robbed, terrorized by police rank

Forty-nine-year-old Crisnauth Kassinauth of Third Street, Queenstown, Essequibo, was, on Saturday last, forcefully relieved of $350,000 while he was in the vicinity of Demico House. Kassinauth...