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Bartica Massacre accused bares his soul

Mar 24, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Bartica Massacre accused bares his soul

… implicates Fine Man, prison officer The men accused of murdering 12 people in Bartica on February 17, 2008, were yesterday committed to stand trial in the High Court, after Magistrate Fazil Azeez...

Corentyne Pastor accused of raping underaged girl

Mar 24, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Corentyne Pastor accused of raping underaged girl

A second form female of a Corentyne Secondary School was allegedly raped by her pastor, Lionel Seebarran. According to reports, the pastor, who is in his mid-thirties allegedly raped the girl in the...

Magistrate’s sacking places further burden on court

Mar 24, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Magistrate’s sacking places further burden on court

The sacking of Magistrate Omeyana Hamilton has now placed a further burden on the already heavily populated judicial system. The magistrate received her dismissal letter Tuesday morning, from the...

Late response to consumers’ complaints could cost GPL

Mar 24, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Late response to consumers’ complaints could cost GPL

Guyana Power and Light Company Incorporated (GPL) could be fined as much as $40,000 for failure to provide a service to consumers within a specified period. Chairman of the Public Utilities...

TRIPS failure at GRA affects clients

Mar 24, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on TRIPS failure at GRA affects clients

Hiccups with the Total Revenue Integrated Processing System (TRIPS) system at all locations of the Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) in the city caused frustration among clients who visited the entity...

Dem boys seh… Magistrate got to like speedboat

Mar 24, 2011 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Dem boys seh… Magistrate got to like speedboat

De rainy season exposing nuff shoddy wuk. Road collapsing and dem bridge developing hole. Is like if is sheer dry weather wuk dem contractor does do. But dem boys realize that is one easy way fuh dem...

Six men sodomise Corentyne secondary school student

Mar 24, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Six men sodomise Corentyne secondary school student

Six men reportedly gang raped a Form Two female student of the Corentyne area. The act allegedly took place last Friday at the Hooters Bar which is located at Port Mourant, Corentyne. According to...

15.6MW plants for GPL to arrive in May

Mar 24, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on 15.6MW plants for GPL to arrive in May

The Guyana Power and Light (GPL) has reported that works associated with the 15.6MW expansion of the new Kingston Power Plant are on track. The company says that on the second Friday this month...

New Spanish Envoy accredited by CARICOM

Mar 24, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on New Spanish Envoy accredited by CARICOM

Plenipotentiary Representative (Designate) of Spain to the Caribbean Community (CARICOM), Joaquin de Aristegui, was accepted by the Acting Secretary-General of CARICOM, Ambassador Lolita Applewhaite...

Property dispute lands woman in hospital

Mar 24, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Property dispute lands woman in hospital

– neighbour dealt her several blows during argument over passageway Diana Bowen, of Lot 11 Henry Street, Werk-en-Rust, is currently hospitalised at the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation...

PUC recovers $7.5M for consumers last year

Mar 24, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on PUC recovers $7.5M for consumers last year

A whopping total of $7.5M in credit was recovered for consumers last year from three utility companies through the unwavering effort of the Public Utilities Commission last year. A major chunk of...

Bare Roots flooded for past five weeks

Mar 24, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Bare Roots flooded for past five weeks

Residents of Bare Roots, an East Coast Demerara village, have been flooded since February 15. The village has a record of being very susceptible to flooding. Many school children have been staying...

Fitness Express pumps up GABBFF

Mar 24, 2011 knews Sports Comments Off on Fitness Express pumps up GABBFF

Category & Overall winners to receive hampers Ahead of their Annual Novices and Intermediate Championships which will be held on Sunday at the National Cultural Centre, the Guyana Amateur Body...

Wendell Meusa unbeaten in second DDL/Topco rapid chess tournament

Mar 24, 2011 knews Sports Comments Off on Wendell Meusa unbeaten in second DDL/Topco rapid chess tournament

– Anthony Drayton dominates the juniors Wendell Meusa showed his supremacy at rapid chess as he demolished all eight of his opponents in this year’s second DDL/TOPCO Juices Rapid Chess...

G Division Police host Domino competition

Mar 24, 2011 knews Sports Comments Off on G Division Police host Domino competition

In an effort to establish a closer relationship with members of the public, the membership of ‘G’ Division Policing Administration, hosted the first in a series of competitive Domino Competitions...

Chief witness testifies as PI commences

Mar 24, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Chief witness testifies as PI commences

With evident relief, Colin Jones, Randy Mars, Anthony Watson, Jahfar Sampson and Basil Morgan, who are facing multiple charges, ranging from attempted murders to setting alight of the Supreme Court,...

Linden Foundation continues unbeaten run

Mar 24, 2011 knews Sports Comments Off on Linden Foundation continues unbeaten run

Inaugural Champions Linden Foundation Secondary remained unbeaten in this year’s Edward ‘Screw’ Richmond Memorial Schools Football Competition after scoring a narrow 3-2 win over Christianburg...

Toddler survives fall from two-storey house

Mar 24, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Toddler survives fall from two-storey house

Doctors at the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) were fighting to save three-year-old Amanda Sankar who reportedly fell through the window of her two-storey home 23 David Rose Housing...

Rising Sun Pre Easter race meet set for Sunday April 17

Mar 24, 2011 knews Sports Comments Off on Rising Sun Pre Easter race meet set for Sunday April 17

By Samuel Whyte The Rising Sun Turf club, Arima Park West Coast Berbice will be abuzz of activities come Sunday April 17, that the date set by the organisers for that entities Pre Easter one day...

Man jailed for setting fire to villager’s vehicle

Mar 24, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Man jailed for setting fire to villager’s vehicle

A West Coast Berbice man will spend the next year in jail after he pleaded guilty to the charge of damage to property. Compton Mingo, 34, of Number Four village West Coast Berbice was handed the...

Ravens launch Inaugural KLM Basketball Championship

Mar 24, 2011 knews Sports Comments Off on Ravens launch Inaugural KLM Basketball Championship

– Event set for Saturday at Cliff Anderson Sports Hall Memories of Kevin Lawrence, the deceased former Ravens Basketball Club player, were rife at a formal launch of the Kevin Lawrence Memorial...

Three weeks after chopping incident, 70-year-old squatter not charged

Mar 24, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Three weeks after chopping incident, 70-year-old squatter not charged

…Police says file with DPP Close to three weeks after severing the arm of a man, 70-year-old squatter Milton Payne has not yet been charged. And residents are not too pleased with the situation....

Brazilians remanded for ganja possession

Mar 24, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Brazilians remanded for ganja possession

Two Brazilians, Evilayaro Costa Mangabeira, 19, and his brother, Evandro Costa Mangabeira, 15, yesterday appeared before acting Chief Magistrate Priya Beharry at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court...

Stephenson at CONSANAT Youth C/ships

Mar 24, 2011 knews Sports Comments Off on Stephenson at CONSANAT Youth C/ships

Jessica Stephenson, Guyana’s first representative at the CONSANAT Youth Championships 2011, Lime, Peru in eight (8) years began her quest to do her country and self proud yesterday morning when...

Government and businesses are not going to throw money into endless pit

Mar 24, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Government and businesses are not going to throw money into endless pit

– says UG Berbice campus head The Director of the University of Guyana Berbice Campus (UGBC), Professor Daizal Samad, says that the friction between the UG administration at Turkeyen and the...

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Cyberspace is becoming a dark place

Kaieteur News – The notion that cyberspace should exist in some fictional realm, free from the meddling hands of governments... more