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Gunmen storm Corentyne house

Nov 20, 2009 knews News 1

– Overseas based Guyanese family robbed, cop shot in face while responding to call HAMPSHIRE VILLAGE, CORENTYNE – The daughter of a New Jersey-based Guyanese family vowed never to return to...

Attack on Magistrate forces temporary court closure

Nov 20, 2009 knews News Comments Off on Attack on Magistrate forces temporary court closure

– Colleagues renew call for improved security In the wake of Wednesday’s brazen attack on Magistrate Geeta Chandan-Edmond, her colleagues in the magistracy held an emergency meeting at the...

Bandit shot dead after robbing stall owners

Nov 20, 2009 knews News Comments Off on Bandit shot dead after robbing stall owners

An unidentified bandit was shot dead last night shortly after he and an accomplice robbed the owners of a stall in the East Ruimveldt Market. The bandit was pumped with bullets during a shootout with...

OP slams opposition dossier; List consists of living and missing persons

Nov 20, 2009 knews News Comments Off on OP slams opposition dossier; List consists of living and missing persons

In the face of the People’s National Congress Reform’s public call for the President to support the dossier prepared by the Joint Opposition Political Parties, the Office of the President has...

Education Minister engages head teachers on ways to improve schools’ performances

Nov 20, 2009 knews News Comments Off on Education Minister engages head teachers on ways to improve schools’ performances

By Sharmain Cornette The need for a comparative look at Guyana’s performance in the education sector against that of Caricom is crucial even as improvement efforts are being engaged locally. This...

WITH A CHILD’S HEART

Nov 20, 2009 knews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on WITH A CHILD’S HEART

Over the past weeks we have had some very troubling news concerning our women folk. One young woman reportedly jumped into the Kaieteur Gorge; another was said to have shot herself, while a third was...

TCL Group CEO defends CET on cement

Nov 20, 2009 knews News Comments Off on TCL Group CEO defends CET on cement

… says consolidation of manufacturing build economies of scale Chairman of the Trinidad Cement Limited (TCL) Group, Dr Rollin Bertrand, has joined former Barbados Prime Minister Owen Arthur, in...

Police complete investigation into teenager’s torture – DPP to advise

Nov 20, 2009 knews News Comments Off on Police complete investigation into teenager’s torture – DPP to advise

The Office of Professional Responsibility of the Guyana Police Force has completed its investigations into the torture of a 15-year-old boy who was being held by police for questioning into a murder...

First shipment still to leave

Nov 20, 2009 knews News Comments Off on First shipment still to leave

– aging vessels a concern to Venezuelans More than a month after Guyana and Venezuela inked a multi-million-dollar rice deal, there has not been any shipment made to the Spanish-speaking...

People really lucky in Guyana

Nov 20, 2009 knews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on People really lucky in Guyana

Guyana is really a lucky country. Everything bad does happen elsewhere except in Guyana. Dem boys seh that de Man above really sorry fuh this country. That is why this country don’t get earthquake,...

PSC expresses confidence in GECOM

Nov 20, 2009 knews News Comments Off on PSC expresses confidence in GECOM

Chairman of the Private Sector Commission (PSC) Gerry Gouveia has expressed confidence in the capacity and ability of the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) to honour its mandates. A meeting between...

PNCR blasts appointment of Merai as Commander

Nov 20, 2009 knews News Comments Off on PNCR blasts appointment of Merai as Commander

Shadow Home Affairs Minister of the Peoples National Congress Reform Deborah Backer yesterday, during the party’s weekly press briefing, blasted the Commissioner of Police Henry Greene as using the...

Caribbean Airline flies with K&S for 6th year

Nov 20, 2009 knews Sports Comments Off on Caribbean Airline flies with K&S for 6th year

Donate 2 airline tickets to North America Flying with trusted wings is how the Director of the Kashif and Shanghai Organisation terms their continued relationship with Caribbean Airlines. Yesterday,...

Pereira, Lalsa Jnr impress in latest Berbice action

Nov 20, 2009 knews Sports Comments Off on Pereira, Lalsa Jnr impress in latest Berbice action

The Ministry of Education/National Sports Commission & Guyana Cricket Board National Secondary School Under-15 Cricket Competitions are continuing at the inter-school stage in the Easy Berbice...

Mike’s Pharmacy Countrywide Softball Cricket

Nov 20, 2009 knews Sports Comments Off on Mike’s Pharmacy Countrywide Softball Cricket

Four finals set for GCC tomorrow from 13:00hrs ending under lights Die Hard XI of Essequibo and Rangers are scheduled to face off in a highly anticipated encounter when the final of the Mike’s...

Mayor’s birthday football extravaganza continues

Nov 20, 2009 knews Sports Comments Off on Mayor’s birthday football extravaganza continues

Football buffs are in for a real treat when action in the Mayor’s birth anniversary football tournament, organized by Lennox Arthur, in collaboration with the Mayor, Hamilton Green continues at the...

Top Cop promises more surveillance of lonely stretches of road

Nov 20, 2009 knews News Comments Off on Top Cop promises more surveillance of lonely stretches of road

Police Commissioner Henry Greene has assured that the police will be more vigilant in its surveillance of lonely stretches of roads. The assurance comes in the wake of the attack by bandits on...

Record participation anticipated as LGC launches Guyana Open

Nov 20, 2009 knews Sports Comments Off on Record participation anticipated as LGC launches Guyana Open

“Up to yesterday, we had about 75 registrations, and if those numbers are correct it would be a record number,” Troy Peters told the media yesterday when the Lusignan Golf Club (LGC) launched the...

What’s happening at Queen’s College?

Nov 20, 2009 knews Letters Comments Off on What’s happening at Queen’s College?

Dear Editor, For too long the staff at Queen’s college had to put up with the nonsense being perpetuated by the Board of Governors and most recent the Minister of Education. Prior to the...

WDFA Senior League kicks on with 4 games this weekend

Nov 20, 2009 knews Sports Comments Off on WDFA Senior League kicks on with 4 games this weekend

The West Demerara Football Association Senior League continues this weekend with matches tomorrow and Sunday at the Uitvlugt Community Centre ground. Seawall FC will face Young Warriors in...

Panthers get colourful sponsorship deal

Nov 20, 2009 knews Sports Comments Off on Panthers get colourful sponsorship deal

Colours Boutique endorses b/ball clubs By Edison Jefford Panthers Basketball Club landed a major sponsorship deal with Colours Boutique where a quantity of uniforms and other gear was handed over to...

2009 World Population Report unveiled

Nov 20, 2009 knews News Comments Off on 2009 World Population Report unveiled

By Brushell Blackman The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) in collaboration with the School of Earth and Environmental Sciences of the University of Guyana on Tuesday launched its 2009 State of...

Remembering Ohene Koama

Nov 20, 2009 knews Letters Comments Off on Remembering Ohene Koama

Dear Editor, Historians in writing Guyanese history will scant remember the ordinary people who have contributed to the making of our history. November 18th, 2009 marked the 30th anniversary since...

Either way, confession is good for the soul

Nov 20, 2009 knews Letters Comments Off on Either way, confession is good for the soul

Dear Editor, Having read Lin-Jay Harry-Voglezon’s letter, “African leadership in general is constrained by the psychology of wrongness”, (Kaieteur News 11/11/2009), I wonder if he knows he has...

A significant feat and an amazing achievement-Adonis

Nov 20, 2009 knews Sports Comments Off on A significant feat and an amazing achievement-Adonis

-World Sevens Tournament preparations to commence shortly By Rawle Welch “A significant feat and an amazing achievement,” was what President of the Guyana Rugby Football Union (GRFU) Noel Adonis...