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Teams gear up for DCB Female Mini League

Jul 10, 2009 KNews Sports Comments Off on Teams gear up for DCB Female Mini League

The Demerara Cricket Board (DCB) has identified three teams of female cricketers to participate in the DCB Female Mini League, scheduled to get underway at the Police Sports Club Ground, Eve Leary on...

Residents of senior citizens’ home beat intruder

Jul 10, 2009 knews News Comments Off on Residents of senior citizens’ home beat intruder

Just days after one of their colleagues was sexually molested, inmates of the Holy Family Senior Citizens’ Home on Vlissengen Road awoke yesterday morning to the sight of a male intruder sleeping...

New Amsterdam maintain lead

Jul 10, 2009 KNews Sports Comments Off on New Amsterdam maintain lead

Defending champions New Amsterdam United (NAU) were held to a 1-1 draw in their feature clash against Pistons United as play in the Berbice Football Association (BFA) / Coca Cola Senior League...

Nine-year-old takes poison under questionable circumstances

Jul 10, 2009 KNews News Comments Off on Nine-year-old takes poison under questionable circumstances

A Reliance family’s final hope for the survival of their nine-year-old relative is centered on God. This nine-year-old had consumed a poisonous substance last Sunday at her grandmother’s home in...

Driver charged for death of fiancée’s sister

Jul 10, 2009 KNews News Comments Off on Driver charged for death of fiancée’s sister

Police have charged a 25-year-old man in connection with Monday night’s accident at Grove, East Bank Demerara, which claimed the life of Onika Holder, his fiancée’s 15-year-old sister....

Michael Jackson was the greatest entertainer of all time

Jul 10, 2009 KNews Letters Comments Off on Michael Jackson was the greatest entertainer of all time

Dear Editor, For my generation and indeed, for the generations following mine, and as a matter of fact, in a thousand years, the world will always remember, listen to, and record the music of...

No need for quarantine at this time – Dr Luncheon

Jul 10, 2009 knews News Comments Off on No need for quarantine at this time – Dr Luncheon

It is difficult to suspect a Swine Flu case and this needs to be taken into consideration by the Ministry of Health, according to Head of the Presidential Secretariat, Dr. Roger Luncheon. The Cabinet...

WICB statement regarding meeting with WIPA

Jul 10, 2009 KNews Sports Comments Off on WICB statement regarding meeting with WIPA

Following is the full text of a statement issued by the WICB regarding their meeting with WIPA yesterday in Trinidad and Tobago. The West Indies Cricket Board’s (WICB) Negotiating Team met...

Guyana honours commitment to Indian hospital

Jul 10, 2009 knews News Comments Off on Guyana honours commitment to Indian hospital

The Ministry of Health has honoured its commitment by meeting the outstanding payments to the Frontier Lifeline Hospital in Chennai, India, where ten children and two adults from Guyana were detained...

Woman snatches cell phone, claims ownership

Jul 10, 2009 KNews News Comments Off on Woman snatches cell phone, claims ownership

An 18-year-old was yesterday charged with resisting arrest, after she allegedly stole a cellular phone, claiming it to be hers. Rinna Pollard, of 15 South Cummings Lodge, yesterday appeared before...

Don’t thief, govt. hates competition

Jul 10, 2009 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Don’t thief, govt. hates competition

It is written in all the religious books that people should not thief. In de Koran, when people thief dem does get dem hand cut off. If you right-handed dem does cut off de left hand. If you...

Regular thief opts for jail after stealing from church

Jul 10, 2009 KNews News Comments Off on Regular thief opts for jail after stealing from church

A minibus tout yesterday appeared before the courts on the charge of simple larceny. When faced with the choice of posting bail in the sum of $25,000 or going to jail for 18 months, he settled for...

HBF corrects Walker’s letter

Jul 10, 2009 KNews Sports Comments Off on HBF corrects Walker’s letter

Partick Haynes of the Haynes Basketball Foundation (HBF) has informed Kaieteur Sport that contrary to Charwayne Walker’s letter in yesterday’s edition, Guyana did not trounce the British...

Words cannot describe these people?

Jul 10, 2009 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on Words cannot describe these people?

One of the essential rules of psychology and definitely of life that the PPP Government will never see even until the day that party disappears is that if a human being or a group of closely knitted...

Character assassination and President Jagdeo’s antics

Jul 10, 2009 KNews Letters Comments Off on Character assassination and President Jagdeo’s antics

Dear Editor, It is obvious that the message of the AFC, especially about the massive corruption of the Jagdeo Administration, is sinking in and biting our President deep. Instead of measuring up and...

Manhood and Violence

Jul 10, 2009 KNews Editorial Comments Off on Manhood and Violence

Violence against women by men in our society continues unabated: molestations, beatings, rapes, maiming and murders of women of all ages, social strata and races are now practically daily staples of...

Ex-husband captured, implicates dead woman’s spouse

Jul 09, 2009 KNews News Comments Off on Ex-husband captured, implicates dead woman’s spouse

… Alpha Guest House owner killing After more than 18 months of painstaking investigation, the police appear to have finally cracked the case involving the murder of Alpha Guest House...

PNCR to investigate sale of Govt. shares at GT&T

Jul 09, 2009 KNews News Comments Off on PNCR to investigate sale of Govt. shares at GT&T

Leader of the People’s National Congress Reform (PNCR), Robert Corbin, is questioning the rational behind the government’s decision to sell its 20 per cent shares in the Guyana Telephone...

Health Minister being treated for heart condition

Jul 09, 2009 KNews News Comments Off on Health Minister being treated for heart condition

Minister of Health, Dr. Leslie Ramsammy, is currently in New York undergoing a general check up by his doctor, after he complained of feeling unwell.His condition developed in Guyana. Kaieteur News...

Police ranks forbidden from taking away vehicle documents

Jul 09, 2009 KNews News Comments Off on Police ranks forbidden from taking away vehicle documents

– unnecessary detention of motor vehicles not condoned The Guyana Police Force has asserted that no vehicle document or driver’s licence should be taken and kept by any rank as a means of...

Teen doses parents with sleeping pills, lands in jail

Jul 09, 2009 KNews News Comments Off on Teen doses parents with sleeping pills, lands in jail

A 19-year-old who set out to fake her own abduction by giving her parents sleeping tablets was yesterday remanded to prison by Acting Chief Magistrate Melissa Robertson, at the Georgetown...

Sexual Offences Legislation for House today

Jul 09, 2009 KNews News Comments Off on Sexual Offences Legislation for House today

Human Services and Social Security Minister Priya Manickchand yesterday confirmed that the long awaited Sexual Offences Bill would be tabled in the National Assembly today. The Legislation had been...

US fugitive, Ghalee Khan, charged again for cocaine

Jul 09, 2009 KNews News Comments Off on US fugitive, Ghalee Khan, charged again for cocaine

Local promoter Ghalee Khan, 31, of Lot 498 Cane View South Ruimveldt Park, was yesterday remanded to prison by Magistrate Hazel Octive-Hamilton, at the Georgetown Magistrates Court. It was alleged...

Trade Union rights are violated in Guyana – ITUC Report

Jul 09, 2009 KNews News Comments Off on Trade Union rights are violated in Guyana – ITUC Report

A new report by the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) on core labour standards in Guyana, published to coincide with the World Trade Organisation (WTO) review of its trade policies, has...

Aunty Mabel celebrates 104 years

Jul 09, 2009 KNews News Comments Off on Aunty Mabel celebrates 104 years

— plans to go on for another 100 years Her hair was styled to perfection and her nails sported the cutest baby pink nail polish, all features that accentuated the fact that Mabel Connell, a...