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Jamzone Summer Break Weekend launched

Jul 23, 2009 KNews News Comments Off on Jamzone Summer Break Weekend launched

As has become a tourism/leisure tradition on the local shores, the stage is once again set for entertainment seekers to enjoy the Jamzone Summer Break. Three nights of music and a day of beach games...

Trial of ‘cop killer’ commences in Berbice

Jul 23, 2009 KNews News Comments Off on Trial of ‘cop killer’ commences in Berbice

The trial of Dorsette Mc Cammon, who is indicted for the murder of policeman, Micah Cort, finally commenced at the Berbice Assizes on Monday. The start of the trial was delayed on Thursday last, when...

Port Mourant Emancipation race meet set for August 2

Jul 23, 2009 knews Sports Comments Off on Port Mourant Emancipation race meet set for August 2

Over $3 million in cash and prizes are up for grabs, when the Port Mourant Turf Club (PMTC) stages its annual Emancipation seven-event, one-day horse race meet at its Track at Port Mourant...

Overtaking minibus turns turtle

Jul 23, 2009 KNews News Comments Off on Overtaking minibus turns turtle

…15 escape death Several minibus passengers are nursing injuries sustained when their minibus turned turtle on the Rupert Craig Highway yesterday. Among those who escaped injury were conductor...

Quarter-finalists decided; to battle on Sunday night @ CASH

Jul 23, 2009 knews Sports Comments Off on Quarter-finalists decided; to battle on Sunday night @ CASH

By Franklin Wilson BK International Western Tigers, Fruta Conquerors, Uprising and Santos booked the final four quarter-final spots, when group-of-16 action ended on Tuesday evening in the inaugural...

Security guard remanded for sex act with dog

Jul 23, 2009 KNews News Comments Off on Security guard remanded for sex act with dog

… Prosecution begs that court protects other dogs A 55-year-old security guard was yesterday remanded to prison after being refused bail on charges ranging from assaulting a peace officer and...

Campbell to lead Berbice in female GCB Inter County competition

Jul 23, 2009 knews Sports Comments Off on Campbell to lead Berbice in female GCB Inter County competition

National Under-19 Shemaine Campbell has been named captain of the Berbice senior female team that will represent the Ancient County in the Guyana Cricket Board/Inter County competition set to bowl...

Brentnol Woolford’s 4-7 propels Achievers into quarter-finals

Jul 23, 2009 knews Sports Comments Off on Brentnol Woolford’s 4-7 propels Achievers into quarter-finals

Off-spinner Brentnol Woolford grabbed 4-7 from 3 overs for Achievers who defeated Bath Development Centre by 7 wickets, when play in the Spready’s Bakery Under-19, 50-over cricket competition...

H1N1 fears, misinformation causing woes for WCD swine farmers

Jul 23, 2009 KNews News Comments Off on H1N1 fears, misinformation causing woes for WCD swine farmers

By Rustom Seegopaul Contrary to Minister of Agriculture Robert Persaud’s statements, that pork sales have stabilized, swine farmers have said that they are still suffering from the steadily...

Halt the brutality of citizens

Jul 23, 2009 knews Editorial Comments Off on Halt the brutality of citizens

Executive cruelty appears to know no bounds. Once more people are being picked up by people suspected to be soldiers and brutalised to within an inch of their life. The most recent victim is Troy...

The killer mosquito net

Jul 23, 2009 knews Letters Comments Off on The killer mosquito net

Dear Editor, Even with the presence of regular mosquito nets people complain that they are still bitten during their sleep at night. Visitors returning from Guyana often display their swollen,...

PM on children inconclusive

Jul 23, 2009 KNews News Comments Off on PM on children inconclusive

Post mortem examinations conducted on the remains of 11-year-old Samuel Boodhoo and five-year-old Krystal Boodhoo yesterday were inclusive, according to Government Pathologist, Dr Nehaul Singh. As a...

Global financial crisis threatens success at Copenhagen

Jul 23, 2009 KNews News Comments Off on Global financial crisis threatens success at Copenhagen

…Guyana’s alternative will be to resort to utilizing forest – Jagdeo By Gary Eleazar The success of having Guyana’s Low Carbon Development Strategy (LCDS) to include forest preservation...

Zeeburg killer confesses to butchering lover’s mom

Jul 23, 2009 KNews News Comments Off on Zeeburg killer confesses to butchering lover’s mom

– leads cops to murder weapon By Michael Jordan Detectives listened yesterday as a 22-year-old bus conductor calmly related how he vented his fury at being spurned by butchering his...

Ministry seeking to move agriculture forward

Jul 23, 2009 knews Letters Comments Off on Ministry seeking to move agriculture forward

Dear Editor, I am now convinced that you can never please human beings. It is very good to have vision and to have a sense of moral, ethical, spiritual and economical elevation, but I can remember my...

The struggle against climate change demands that all of us become involved

Jul 23, 2009 knews Letters Comments Off on The struggle against climate change demands that all of us become involved

Dear Editor, Over the past few decades, deforestation has received great currency and critical attention in international politics. In fact, it has become an emotive and divisive issue among...

City Hall to account for money spent from Govt funding

Jul 23, 2009 KNews News Comments Off on City Hall to account for money spent from Govt funding

Minister of Local Government and Regional Development, Kellawan Lall, has instructed officials of the Georgetown municipality to begin accounting for the monies entrusted to the entity to undertake...

Ramsaroop fails to grasp my points

Jul 23, 2009 knews Letters Comments Off on Ramsaroop fails to grasp my points

Dear Editor, I am glad to see that Gerhard Ramsaroop is agile in the letters column these last few days, since I always appreciate a good debate. However, it is sad that Ramsaroop is personalizing...

‘Sash’ Sawh murder accused takes turn for worse

Jul 23, 2009 KNews News Comments Off on ‘Sash’ Sawh murder accused takes turn for worse

Satyadeow Sawh murder accused, David Leander, called ‘Biscuit’, remained in a coma yesterday at the Georgetown Public Hospital and relatives say they are losing hope that he will recover....

More needs to be said about the daily sufferings of the Guyanese

Jul 23, 2009 knews Letters Comments Off on More needs to be said about the daily sufferings of the Guyanese

Dear Editor, Freddie Kissoon had no inkling of what I had to do to get my letters about the blackouts published in the daily newspapers. In replying to his column (Kaieteur News, 21-07-2009), my...

Instead of a swimming pool we are swimming in mediocrity

Jul 23, 2009 knews Letters Comments Off on Instead of a swimming pool we are swimming in mediocrity

Dear Editor, It is clear, and rather unfortunate, that Guyanese must, at least for the time being, bear the burden of poor, undemocratic governance, worsened by a number of leaders obsessed with the...

Chocolate, stones and other stories

Jul 23, 2009 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on Chocolate, stones and other stories

As an obsessive buyer of chocolate, particularly Cadbury’s, I was curious about the importer’s revelation in relation to a story of worm-infested Cadbury that was found in a store. Geddes Grant...

Man kills girlfriend’s mom

Jul 22, 2009 KNews News Comments Off on Man kills girlfriend’s mom

– wounds sister Enraged at repeated refusals to let him marry his lover, a 22-year-old minibus conductor hacked his prospective mother-in-law to death at around 22:30 hrs yesterday. Rajpattie...

$147 million awarded for two more pumps

Jul 22, 2009 KNews News Comments Off on $147 million awarded for two more pumps

Pumping the economy continues as… The Ministry of Agriculture, through the National Drainage and Irrigation Authority (NDIA), will see the rehabilitation and installation of drainage pumps at...

Wakenaam, Leguan sluices move from $45M to $66M

Jul 22, 2009 KNews News Comments Off on Wakenaam, Leguan sluices move from $45M to $66M

While concerns have been raised about value for money on several drainage and irrigation projects, yesterday the government signed three multi-million-dollar contracts between the contractors and the...