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Opening night dampened by crowd trouble as feature game abandoned

Oct 25, 2009 KNews Sports Comments Off on Opening night dampened by crowd trouble as feature game abandoned

3rd Annual NAMILCO Football Festival By Franklin Wilson What was turning out to be an exhilarating night of football on the opening day of the 3rd Annual 2009 NAMILCO Football Festival was dampened...

GECOM ready to roll out ID cards

Oct 25, 2009 KNews News Comments Off on GECOM ready to roll out ID cards

By Gary Eleazar The Guyana Elections Commissions was up to yesterday briefing the staffers who will be producing the new Identification Cards. This newspaper was afforded an exclusive tour of the...

Reepu in pickle

Oct 25, 2009 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Reepu in pickle

Jamaicans and Guyanese use to run to de States because dem believe that things easy. Dem family tell dem that once people get a job de sky is de limit. Now de Jamaicans running back home because dem...

Brothers knife man to death

Oct 25, 2009 KNews News Comments Off on Brothers knife man to death

Twenty-four-year-old Mervin “Jess” Boston was yesterday pronounced dead on arrival at the Georgetown Public Hospital, after he was stabbed more than a dozen times, allegedly by two...

A lasting handprint on Guyana’s landscape

Oct 25, 2009 KNews News Comments Off on A lasting handprint on Guyana’s landscape

Dr Yesu Persaud is a ‘Special Person’ “I love what I do. I like to see people develop themselves and help themselves. This is what life is all about. I am a student of philosophy. Money...

East Bank four-lane highway to extend to Diamond

Oct 25, 2009 KNews News Comments Off on East Bank four-lane highway to extend to Diamond

by Leonard Gildarie As the traffic situation on the East Bank Demerara worsens, Government has announced that it is looking at plans to extend the four-lane highway from Providence to Diamond. In the...

Bicycle taxi taking Wismar by storm

Oct 25, 2009 KNews News Comments Off on Bicycle taxi taking Wismar by storm

In the trying economic times, people are daily conjuring up creative ideas to earn their livelihood. And 35-year-old Seon Semple, of Christianburg, Wismar, classically fits the mould of enterprising...

Demolition hammer falls on Mon Repos

Oct 25, 2009 KNews News Comments Off on Demolition hammer falls on Mon Repos

By Fareeza Haniff Public Works Minister, Robeson Benn, is at it again. This time his hammer has fallen on residents in Mon Repos, East Coast Demerara, more particularly on the business community. It...

PNCR track record with rice industry dismal

Oct 25, 2009 KNews News Comments Off on PNCR track record with rice industry dismal

…as GRDB says it never attempted to protect farmers The Guyana Rice Development Board (GRDB) yesterday lambasted the Peoples National Congress Reform (PNCR) and to some extent the Alliance for...

Thieves hit New Amsterdam court again

Oct 25, 2009 knews News Comments Off on Thieves hit New Amsterdam court again

Thieves on Friday for the second time in a week broke and entered the New Amsterdam Magistrate’s court, this time carrying away a laptop computer. According to reports, the staff locked up around...

MRL pays $24M to farmers

Oct 25, 2009 knews News Comments Off on MRL pays $24M to farmers

Mahaicony Rice Mills Limited (MRL) has finally paid $24 million to farmers in Regions Five and Six. This is according to General Secretary of the Guyana Rice Producers Association (GRPA), Dharamkumar...

Essequibo Night deemed a success

Oct 25, 2009 knews News Comments Off on Essequibo Night deemed a success

The annual Essequibo Night 2009 event was officially declared open Friday night at the Anna Regina Community Centre Ground, after the ceremonial cutting of the ribbon by Prime Minister, Samuel Hinds....

ERC consults with hinterland women

Oct 25, 2009 knews News Comments Off on ERC consults with hinterland women

In an effort to empower women to make informed decisions and to be more involved in community development, the Ethnic Relations Commission (ERC) is continuing to implement various aspects of its 2009...

Police shoot drug suspect

Oct 25, 2009 knews News Comments Off on Police shoot drug suspect

A 27-year-old Kitty resident is nursing a gunshot wound to his right shoulder, which resulted from his alleged attack on a policeman. The incident occurred around 23:00 hours on Friday when Kevin...

GUYOIL forced to buy fuel from other terminals

Oct 25, 2009 knews News Comments Off on GUYOIL forced to buy fuel from other terminals

For almost one week now the Guyana Oil Company (GUYOIL) has been forced to procure fuel from other companies in order to meet the fuel needs of its customers. This newspaper was informed that GUYOIL...

Fugitive drug dealer terrorising Aranka backdam miners

Oct 25, 2009 knews News Comments Off on Fugitive drug dealer terrorising Aranka backdam miners

An Ann’s Grove, East Coast Demerara mining employee is urging the speedy arrest of a drug dealer whom he says is terrorising persons in the Aranka Backdam. Orvin Adams, one of the victims, is...

Reepu Daman Persaud should be disciplined – AFC

Oct 25, 2009 knews News Comments Off on Reepu Daman Persaud should be disciplined – AFC

“If it was anybody else making such an obviously out-of-line Party statement, he or she would already been hauled up for disciplinary proceedings by the General Secretary of the People’s...

‘Buxton Girl’ sustains second stabbing in two months

Oct 25, 2009 knews News Comments Off on ‘Buxton Girl’ sustains second stabbing in two months

Gavin Hersham, 22, of Number One Public Road was stabbed in the left side abdomen on Friday night at 7:15hrs. Last night he was a patient in the Male Surgical Ward at the Georgetown Public Hospital...

Selective participation, parliamentary boycott a disservice to constituents?

Oct 25, 2009 knews News Comments Off on Selective participation, parliamentary boycott a disservice to constituents?

By Gary Eleazar One arm of Guyana’s administration is the legislative branch which meets at the Parliament Building. When the President is not in the gathering it is referred to as the National...

Police officers sworn in as Justices of Peace

Oct 25, 2009 knews News Comments Off on Police officers sworn in as Justices of Peace

A number of senior police officers of the Police B Division were recently sworn in as Justices of the Peace in a new move by the administration to give more power to the police in cases of emergency....

LBI planting gang on strike

Oct 25, 2009 knews News Comments Off on LBI planting gang on strike

All does not seem to be going well at the La Bonne Intention Estate (LBI). In less than two weeks, sugar workers are once again engaged in strike action. This time, the workers in the planting gang...

Berbice bandits strike twice in one night

Oct 25, 2009 KNews News Comments Off on Berbice bandits strike twice in one night

Police in Berbice are being kept busy in the wake of two more robberies on Friday night. In the first robbery attack, two armed bandits attacked an elderly couple in their home at Letter Kenny,...

Legal irregularities frustrate land issue

Oct 25, 2009 KNews News Comments Off on Legal irregularities frustrate land issue

By Prakash Persaud I wish to express my disappointment with the sordidness being practised by some individuals whom we expect to display some degree of moral standings, but who instead contribute...

Facelift for the Cenotaph

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Visiting cricket team reaches out to local Orphanage

Oct 25, 2009 KNews News Comments Off on Visiting cricket team reaches out to local Orphanage

The Bless the Children Home yesterday received food and toiletries from the United Charges/US Cricket team. The orphanage was dedicated on September 27, last year, and is today the home for 17...

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The GRA is batting out of its crease

Peeping Tom… Kaieteur News- The Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) has once again demonstrated a perplexing propensity... more