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Parliament’s special committee to investigate drugs purchases in detail

Jan 22, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Parliament’s special committee to investigate drugs purchases in detail

… APNU alarmed by Ministers’ cover-up of $90M storage payments Parliament’s largest Opposition group, A Partnership For National Unity (APNU) says it will be asking a special committee...

Poor accounting… MPs threaten to stop $3M subvention to NDCs until compliance

Jan 22, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Poor accounting… MPs threaten to stop $3M subvention to NDCs until compliance

By Leonard Gildarie A poor state of record-keeping at Neighbourhood Democratic Councils (NDCs) has both Government and opposition parties hopping mad. Parliamentarians of the ruling People’s...

Govt. to use police to enforce use of market tarmacs

Jan 22, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Govt. to use police to enforce use of market tarmacs

The Ministry of Local Government and Regional Development is set to aggressively pursue relocation of roadside vendors this year to market tarmacs that were constructed and handed over last year....

Constabulary officer stabbed, foils break and enter attempt

Jan 22, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Constabulary officer stabbed, foils break and enter attempt

A City Constabulary officer is counting his lucky stars after being wounded by bandits who attempted to break into a Bourda Market stall early yesterday morning. Constable Samuel Scotland is in a...

Dem boys seh … Bar Bee hiding he face from he own TV

Jan 22, 2013 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Dem boys seh … Bar Bee hiding he face from he own TV

Bar Bee really hiding. He busy defending how he had a right to sell drugs. He call dem reporter who wukking wid he TV station and he newspaper fuh tell he side of de story of how to rob de Ministry...

Post mortem confirms Berbice wife killer drank poison

Jan 22, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Post mortem confirms Berbice wife killer drank poison

A post mortem examination performed on the body of New Amsterdam, Berbice wife killer, Narendra Thakoor, has confirmed that the man did drink poison after hacking 28-year-old Bhanmattie Bacchus to...

Conflicting address lands man in jail

Jan 22, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Conflicting address lands man in jail

A 20-year-old man was yesterday denied bail because he could not provide the court with a fixed address. Devon Baptiste faced Magistrate Allan Wilson at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court on a...

Change of Sports e-mail

Jan 22, 2013 KNews Sports Comments Off on Change of Sports e-mail

Our sports email has been compromised, so we have had to get a new one. Please send all sports related correspondence to: [email protected]. Thanks.

Berbice health care workers urged to deliver quality healthcare

Jan 22, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Berbice health care workers urged to deliver quality healthcare

By Leon Suseran Health care workers in Berbice are being urged to deliver quality healthcare as if their salaries depended on it. The call was made by Chairman of the Berbice Regional Health...

Privileges Committee meeting aborted

Jan 22, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Privileges Committee meeting aborted

– Dr Vindhya Persaud replaces Rohee The first meeting of the Parliamentary Privileges Committee set up to determine if the National Assembly has the power to prevent a member from...

Cotton Tree Murder trial … Kaieteur News article led to capture of murder accused court told

Jan 22, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Cotton Tree Murder trial … Kaieteur News article led to capture of murder accused court told

An article appearing in the Kaieteur News back in December 2009 concerning a missing person (school girl ) led to the capture of a murder accused and his school girl lover in Lethem after they had...

Demerara, President’s XI take 2nd day honours

Jan 22, 2013 KNews Sports Comments Off on Demerara, President’s XI take 2nd day honours

Chandrika, Barrington hit half centuries, Latcha takes 5 By Zaheer Mohamed Half centuries by Rajendra Chandrika and Shemroy Barrington gave Demerara the upper hand against GT&T Berbice, while...

Sawmillers want unrealistic LCDS quotas on logging removed

Jan 22, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Sawmillers want unrealistic LCDS quotas on logging removed

Local sawmillers are saying that while they agree that Government’s Low Carbon Development Strategy(LCDS) is something desirable, the implementation has had some negative impacts on their ...

Jamaican Consultants conduct training for Criminal and Civil Justice Committees

Jan 22, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Jamaican Consultants conduct training for Criminal and Civil Justice Committees

The Modernisation of the Justice Administration System (MJAS) Project yesterday held a training session for representatives of justice sector institutions on the establishment of Criminal and Civil...

GECOM begins Fourth Continuous Registration Cycle

Jan 22, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on GECOM begins Fourth Continuous Registration Cycle

In keeping with the National Registration Act, the fourth cycle of Continuous Registration kicked into motion yesterday. The Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) said anyone who will be 14 years or...

Cousins in court over “break in” allegation

Jan 22, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Cousins in court over “break in” allegation

Leon Sealey took his 24-year-old cousin to court after he accused him of breaking into his home and stealing some $590,000 worth of cash and jewelry. The accused, Quincy Williams pleaded not guilty...

Two plead guilty in new High Court murder cases

Jan 22, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Two plead guilty in new High Court murder cases

Two murder accused pleaded guilty to the lesser count of manslaughter when their trials were called up at the High Court yesterday. Kevin Waterman who is charged with the murder of Eleanor Jones, and...

Measures needed to improve health, education for the deaf

Jan 22, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Measures needed to improve health, education for the deaf

In the quest to put an end to discrimination levelled against persons who are deaf, there are a number of measures that must be put in place. This is according to deaf advocate, Pastor Lawrence...

Nightspot shooter remanded to prison

Jan 22, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Nightspot shooter remanded to prison

Ryan Busby appeared before Magistrate Allan Wilson yesterday in relation to a shooting outside a city nightspot early Sunday morning. Busby has been charged with unlawful possession of firearms and...

Lionel D’Andrade defends T&T Int’l Half Marathon title

Jan 22, 2013 KNews Sports Comments Off on Lionel D’Andrade defends T&T Int’l Half Marathon title

Guyana’s Lionel D’Andrade is on a roll early in his 2013 season after defending his Trinidad and Tobago International Half Marathon title on Sunday. D’Andrade had also won the Suriname 10km...

SAG welcomes acquisition of new pilot launch

Jan 22, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on SAG welcomes acquisition of new pilot launch

The Shipping Association of Guyana has hailed the acquisition of a new pilot launch by the Maritime Administration Department (MARAD). The Association saw it as a very welcome upgrade of the...

Police investigate death of taxi driver, passenger

Jan 22, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Police investigate death of taxi driver, passenger

A taxi driver for over a decade, 33-year-old Sarfraz Ali called “Anaconda” left his Lot 14 Sarah Johanna, East Bank Demerara home and never returned to his two children and pregnant wife Sunday...

Thirteen Guyanese on 2013 FIFA Referees List

Jan 22, 2013 KNews Sports Comments Off on Thirteen Guyanese on 2013 FIFA Referees List

Sherwin Moore & Deon Feassal are first timers Guyana’s Referees continues to hold their own in the football world with a total of thirteen (13) making the 2013 FIFA International List. Among...

Central New Amsterdam squeeze into final

Jan 22, 2013 KNews Sports Comments Off on Central New Amsterdam squeeze into final

Touted as the two better teams in the competition, there had to be one winner when Central New Amsterdam faced Smythfield, as the semifinal clash lived up to its pre-match hype with Central Boys...

Bandits beat businesswoman after robbery

Jan 22, 2013 KNews News Comments Off on Bandits beat businesswoman after robbery

Up to press time last evening doctors at the Balwant Singh Hospital were still performing surgery on businesswoman Seelochanie Budhoo of Hanam Street, Ruimzeight, West Coast Demerara. Budhoo was...

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CWI Cricket West Indies suspends Alzarri Joseph for two matches

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