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Old Fort ‘A’, GCC ‘A’, Hikers ‘A’ among winners

Jul 25, 2009 knews Sports Comments Off on Old Fort ‘A’, GCC ‘A’, Hikers ‘A’ among winners

Defending champions Old Fort ‘A’ continued their rich form with a 16-8 drubbing of Degenerates as play in this year’s Noble House Goals Galore Indoor Hockey Championships which continued on...

Man charged with murdering mom

Jul 25, 2009 KNews News Comments Off on Man charged with murdering mom

Ravindra Siew, 33, of Enterprise, East Coast Demerara, was remanded to prison yesterday after being charged with the beating to death of his 55-year-old mother. He appeared before Magistrate Sherdel...

Bill Express backs K&S/RBC Linden cycling fiesta

Jul 25, 2009 knews Sports Comments Off on Bill Express backs K&S/RBC Linden cycling fiesta

Amelia’s Ward to come alive on August 9 By Franklin Wilson Bill Express, an arm of the internationally renowned Western Union, has thrown its weight behind the organisers of a cycling Fiesta set...

The Leonora axe murders

Jul 25, 2009 knews Features / Columnists, Murder and Mystery Comments Off on The Leonora axe murders

-he lured his family into the house, and slaughtered them one by one… This is part horror story, part ghost story, and now that I have your attention, let me tell you some of what happened at Lot...

M&CC withholds NIS, PAYE to pay salaries – Personnel Officer reveals

Jul 25, 2009 KNews News Comments Off on M&CC withholds NIS, PAYE to pay salaries – Personnel Officer reveals

In order to ensure that all staffers are paid their salaries, the Treasury Department of the Mayor and City Council of Georgetown has been delaying the payment of employees’ monthly NIS and credit...

Port Mourant Hospital gets $1M incinerator

Jul 25, 2009 KNews News Comments Off on Port Mourant Hospital gets $1M incinerator

As part of the Guyana Safer Injection Project (GSIP), aimed at preventing the medical transmission of HIV by reducing unsafe and inappropriate injections in Guyana, Berbice may now be able to better...

Packed itinerary as GASP stages interactive session, Open Championships

Jul 25, 2009 knews Sports Comments Off on Packed itinerary as GASP stages interactive session, Open Championships

The Guyana Association of Scrabble Players (GASP) hosts its third interactive session this morning, at the Old Guyana National Service Sports Complex, Carifesta Avenue, starting at 09:30hrs. To date,...

Teams for today’s Digicel’s ‘D’ Bimmer Flex T20 announced

Jul 25, 2009 knews Sports Comments Off on Teams for today’s Digicel’s ‘D’ Bimmer Flex T20 announced

All four teams to contest the Wildfire Productions-organised Digicel’s ‘D’ Bimmer Flex Promotions T20 Cricket Competition have announced their squads to participate in the one-day activity...

Drug trafficker convicted six years after bust

Jul 25, 2009 KNews News Comments Off on Drug trafficker convicted six years after bust

Chabilal Hardiyal was yesterday found guilty of trafficking in narcotics, six years after he was caught with cocaine at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport. Hardiyal will now have to spend the...

Williams leads Demerara to five-wicket win

Jul 25, 2009 knews Sports Comments Off on Williams leads Demerara to five-wicket win

Prudence Williams devastated Berbice with her off-spin bowling then participated in the partnership that led Demerara to a five-wicket win when the senior female Inter-County Limited Overs cricket...

Pistol, shotgun found in Kitty house

Jul 25, 2009 KNews News Comments Off on Pistol, shotgun found in Kitty house

Police are questioning a man after finding two unlicensed firearm in a Kitty house. A release said that during the search around 06:00hrs yesterday, police unearthed a 9mm pistol with seven rounds...

Work on $5M tennis facility to restart after rainy season

Jul 25, 2009 knews Sports Comments Off on Work on $5M tennis facility to restart after rainy season

Director of Sport Neil Kumar speaking with the media yesterday at the National Sports Commission Head Office disclosed that the long-delayed work to complete the tennis facility at the Non Pariel...

Cop’s shoulder dislocated after assault

Jul 25, 2009 KNews News Comments Off on Cop’s shoulder dislocated after assault

A female Sergeant of police is nursing a fractured shoulder after she was allegedly dragged down the stairs of the Brickdam Traffic Office on Thursday by an irate minibus driver. Sergeant Cheryl...

No society advances without its history

Jul 25, 2009 knews Letters Comments Off on No society advances without its history

DEAR EDITOR, In his letter to the press (Guyana needs a new group of thinkers, SN July 18), Mr. Rakesh Rampertab, among other things, accuses me of being disrespectful and “imperial” for ignoring...

A great proportion of remittances do not remain within our economy

Jul 25, 2009 knews Letters Comments Off on A great proportion of remittances do not remain within our economy

DEAR EDITOR, Ms. Daly’s (Kaieteur News 23rd July) continual missing the boat on the remittances (the transfer of money by a foreign worker to his home country) debate is fine with me. It allows me...

Food for the Poor endows Health Ministry

Jul 25, 2009 KNews News Comments Off on Food for the Poor endows Health Ministry

As plans are being streamlined to reconstruct the recently gutted Ministry of Health, the governmental organisation came in for some much needed endowment on Thursday. Items including desks, chairs,...

One of Guyana’s most famous football victory

Jul 25, 2009 KNews Sports Comments Off on One of Guyana’s most famous football victory

Dear Editor, On June 20, 1984 Guyana National Football Team under the captaincy of Gordon ‘Ultimate Warrior’ Braithwaite contested a historical match against the Indian National Football Team....

Mother, boss remanded over ganja bust

Jul 25, 2009 KNews News Comments Off on Mother, boss remanded over ganja bust

A 47-year-old mother and her employer were yesterday remanded by Magistrate Hazel Octive-Hamilton, at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court. Donnette Awer, 47, of Lot 22 Kalicharran Sand Road,...

Looking forward to a professional investigation by SOUTHCOM

Jul 25, 2009 knews Letters Comments Off on Looking forward to a professional investigation by SOUTHCOM

DEAR EDITOR, I have been, over the past few days, mulling over in my mind possible motives for the alleged senseless destruction of the Ministry of Health via firebombing. While a number of possible...

Four arrested, five more wanted for questioning–Police Commissioner

Jul 25, 2009 KNews News Comments Off on Four arrested, five more wanted for questioning–Police Commissioner

As investigations to establish who set the Ministry of Health on fire continue, the Guyana Fire Service and the police crime scene experts have completed their checks of the site and the buildings...

Make legislative provisions for deaf persons

Jul 25, 2009 knews Letters Comments Off on Make legislative provisions for deaf persons

DEAR EDITOR, I am appealing to the Parliamentary Select Committee on the Sexual Offences legislation to make provisions for deaf persons. This is necessary because deaf youngsters are said to be more...

Greaves back in winners’ row, McCually and Perez also shine

Jul 25, 2009 KNews Sports Comments Off on Greaves back in winners’ row, McCually and Perez also shine

Alonzo Greaves returned to podium form when he captured the top spot in the Smalta sponsored ‘Teach Them Young’ cycling meet, the first for the 33rd annual coaching clinic run by the National...

Murder accused threatens magistrate and prosecutor

Jul 25, 2009 KNews News Comments Off on Murder accused threatens magistrate and prosecutor

The Georgetown Magistrates’ Court turned chaotic yesterday morning after murder accused, Randel Bacchus, created a ruckus in the courtyard. Bacchus openly threatened Magistrate Nigel Hawke and...

THE CXC: A FORWARD STEP FOR THE CARIBBEAN

Jul 25, 2009 knews Editorial Comments Off on THE CXC: A FORWARD STEP FOR THE CARIBBEAN

Forty years ago, the Americans landed on the moon in what was described in scientific terms as one small step for man and one giant leap for mankind. Thirty years ago, regional educators launched an...

Aleida Guevara and an everlasting hypocrisy

Jul 25, 2009 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on Aleida Guevara and an everlasting hypocrisy

I have always felt that many, if not all, of the journalists to have interviewed Fidel Castro and his higher subordinates since he became a dictator in the mid-eighties lacked a deep familiarity with...

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No immigrant should feel safe in America today

Peeping Tom… Kaieteur News- There was a time when an illegal immigrant in America could live in the shadows with some... more