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Missing soldier found dead

Nov 25, 2009 KNews News Comments Off on Missing soldier found dead

The body of 21102 Private Julian Marks, of Jaguar Company, 1 Infantry Battalion of the Guyana Defence Force was found yesterday at 10:17 hours by the GDF search team which included a member of the...

Man crushed at GWI

Nov 25, 2009 KNews News Comments Off on Man crushed at GWI

By Rabindra Rooplall and Mondale Smith A fatal industrial accident occurred yesterday at the Guyana Water Incorporated (GWI) Vlissengen Road compound. Shem Mercurius, 20, who was contracted by...

Lodge resident makes 100 in perfect health

Nov 25, 2009 knews News Comments Off on Lodge resident makes 100 in perfect health

(By Mondale Smith)Not many Guyanese can say that they have seen five generations to attain the age of 100. In most cases those who made it, do not have all their faculties intact. Yesterday,...

Passenger dies after car plunges into trench

Nov 25, 2009 knews News Comments Off on Passenger dies after car plunges into trench

In what was confirmed as a case of drunk driving, 24-year-old Satesh Parmanand, a foreman attached to the GuySuCo Rose Hall Estate, lost his life Monday night, when the car in which he was travelling...

Dem Boys seh Another contractor strike and run

Nov 25, 2009 knews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Dem Boys seh Another contractor strike and run

Dem boys seh that once you tender and you and de people who opening de tender is friend you is a contractor. Even if you can’t read a ruler, you is still a contractor. Dem boys seh that is so de...

Two more stalls collapse under Works Ministry hammer

Nov 25, 2009 KNews News Comments Off on Two more stalls collapse under Works Ministry hammer

The hammer of Minister Robeson Benn has fallen on two snackettes in Mocha/Providence, East Bank Demerara, yesterday. The two businesses were opened when the demolishing team arrived to carry out with...

Region Two gears for flooding

Nov 25, 2009 KNews News Comments Off on Region Two gears for flooding

The Region Two administration is preparing to minimise economic losses that result from seasonal flooding. It has embarked on a massive desiliting campaign in five housing schemes, which are...

Sugar workers at Skeldon pull punts

Nov 25, 2009 KNews News Comments Off on Sugar workers at Skeldon pull punts

Sugar workers at Skeldon Saturday pulled punts using ropes tied to their waist and shoulders, shocking factory workers, this past week. “It was like slavery,” said one factory worker who spoke...

Road safety executive urges setting up traffic hotline similar to 911

Nov 25, 2009 KNews News Comments Off on Road safety executive urges setting up traffic hotline similar to 911

President of the Enterprise Road Safety Association, Chanderpaul Persaud, is calling for the setting up of a Traffic Hotline similar to the 911 crime hotline, to aid in the apprehension of errant...

Minister chides Santa Mission Village in quibble over Toshao

Nov 25, 2009 KNews News Comments Off on Minister chides Santa Mission Village in quibble over Toshao

Minister of Amerindian Affairs, Pauline Sukhai has said that the village council in Santa Mission needs to get their act together and deal with other important issues occurring within their...

Expect dry weather, less rains until March

Nov 25, 2009 KNews News Comments Off on Expect dry weather, less rains until March

– Hydromet warns Local officials are predicting a continuation of the current dry El Nino weather at least for the next four months. According to Chief Hydrometeorological Officer (ag), Bhaleka...

NAMILCO donates seating to Agricola Primary School

Nov 25, 2009 KNews News Comments Off on NAMILCO donates seating to Agricola Primary School

The National Milling Company of Guyana (NAMILCO) earlier this week made a contribution of wooden stools to the St. Ann’s Primary School, Agricola, East Bank Demerara. In handing over the furniture...

Man accused of stripping 4X4

Nov 25, 2009 KNews News Comments Off on Man accused of stripping 4X4

A man who was allegedly caught by a police patrol with a windscreen and car battery in his possession was granted bail yesterday when he made his court appearance. Richard Edwards, of 121 Lamaha...

PM performed on murdered security guards

Nov 25, 2009 KNews News Comments Off on PM performed on murdered security guards

Post-mortem examinations performed on the bodies of the two security guards that were murdered on their jobs, confirmed what had been earlier reported that both men were severely beaten. According to...

WHAT’S WITH THE DIRT?

Nov 25, 2009 KNews News Comments Off on WHAT’S WITH THE DIRT?

This bus shed at the intersection of Diamond Housing Scheme has pedestrians wondering if the dirt is more important to shed rather than commuters.

Survey underway to track plantain disease

Nov 25, 2009 KNews News Comments Off on Survey underway to track plantain disease

Following complaints by plantain farmers in Rosenanti, Tuschen Backlands, East Bank Essequibo, about being affected by Sigatoka Disease that has taken over their farm, Kaieteur News has been informed...

US Embassy holds outreach sessions at several schools

Nov 25, 2009 KNews News Comments Off on US Embassy holds outreach sessions at several schools

For International Education Week… The United States Embassy in Georgetown has reached out to a number of secondary schools in Guyana as they observed International Educational Week (IEW), last...

Curtains come down on Mike’s Pharmacy Countrywide cricket tournament

Nov 25, 2009 knews Sports Comments Off on Curtains come down on Mike’s Pharmacy Countrywide cricket tournament

Several teams won their matches and were adjudged champions in their respective categories when the curtains came down on the countrywide cricket championships organized by the Softball Cricket...

L’Aventure wins MCYS /NSC Windball Tournament

Nov 25, 2009 knews Sports Comments Off on L’Aventure wins MCYS /NSC Windball Tournament

L’Aventure Secondary of Region #3 captured their first major title in Windball Cricket after scoring an upset win over nine times champions Covent Garden in the final of the Ministry of Culture,...

Ishak (146), Kamaludin (5 -20) spearhead Belvedere Superstar to win

Nov 25, 2009 knews Sports Comments Off on Ishak (146), Kamaludin (5 -20) spearhead Belvedere Superstar to win

Bheem Singh takes 7 -13 for No. 70 Lalman Arif Ishak of Belvedere Superstar became the latest centurion in the New Building Society (NBS) Berbice 2nd Division 40-Over Cricket Competition when he...

‘Lady Jaguars’ to take training to higher gear from December 4

Nov 25, 2009 knews Sports Comments Off on ‘Lady Jaguars’ to take training to higher gear from December 4

Squad trimmed from 48 to 26 following weekend trials As the time draws near for the upcoming female multi nation football tournament next month, the locally based Lady Jaguars will take their...

Thompson expresses thanks to all for a successful NAMILCO tourney

Nov 25, 2009 knews Sports Comments Off on Thompson expresses thanks to all for a successful NAMILCO tourney

Aiming to upgrade facilities with proceeds Acting President of the Fruta Conquerors Football Club (FCFC) Ivor Thompson is expressing gratitude to the National Milling Company of Guyana (NAMILCO), the...

An ill-prepared dossier of human rights abuses

Nov 25, 2009 knews Letters Comments Off on An ill-prepared dossier of human rights abuses

Dear Editor, An admission of preposterous dimension was contained in the ill-prepared dossier of human rights abuses, which was issued in the name of the combined opposition parties, the PNCR, AFC,...

GCB should probe unsportsmanlike conduct

Nov 25, 2009 knews Letters Comments Off on GCB should probe unsportsmanlike conduct

Dear Editor, I call on the Guyana Cricket Board (GCB) to immediately investigate the alleged unsportsmanlike conduct that took place during the 1st division match between New Line Cavaliers and the...

Don’t give the PPP basket to fetch water

Nov 25, 2009 knews Letters Comments Off on Don’t give the PPP basket to fetch water

Dear Editor, I was out of the country from 24th of October to the 15th of November, so when I returned I did some catching up on the local news and I learned of the three young women who apparently...

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Peeping Tom… Kaieteur News-If you had asked me ten years ago what I wanted for Guyana, I would have said a few things:... more