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Two Guyanese found dead in Trinidad apartment

Feb 19, 2010 knews News Comments Off on Two Guyanese found dead in Trinidad apartment

Murder/suicide suspected By Mondale Smith and Jenelle Carter Trinidad police are investigating the death of two Guyanese nationals following the discovery of their bodies in an apartment. Dead are...

Guyoil supplies water instead of asphalt to Eccles NDC

Feb 19, 2010 knews News Comments Off on Guyoil supplies water instead of asphalt to Eccles NDC

The Eccles/Ramsburg Neighbourhood Democratic Council paid $48,000 for a road building material named CRS2. This is water-based asphalt that binds stone and gravel on the road surface. Instead, the...

Police hunt Pastor who sexually molested stepdaughter

Feb 19, 2010 knews News Comments Off on Police hunt Pastor who sexually molested stepdaughter

Police at Mahaica on the East Coast of Demerara are on the hunt for a pastor of a Unity church who disappeared after his stepdaughter revealed that he had sexually molested her. The child, who is now...

Dry spell could hit agri sector for over $3.5B

Feb 19, 2010 knews News Comments Off on Dry spell could hit agri sector for over $3.5B

– Farmers want effective management and distribution of water President Bharrat Jagdeo says Guyanese must prepare to make “sacrifices” as the government struggles to irrigate rice and sugar...

Brutality now envelops Guyana Police Force – Backer

Feb 19, 2010 knews News Comments Off on Brutality now envelops Guyana Police Force – Backer

…unwillingness to have proper drug interdictions The administration yesterday came in for severe criticism yesterday for its inability to reorient the Guyana Police Force to a service, when Shadow...

Dem boys seh… Guyana is a graveyard fuh some people

Feb 19, 2010 knews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Dem boys seh… Guyana is a graveyard fuh some people

First was Roger Khan, then was Simels, now is Kerik. But before that dem have de local things. News does come out of de prisons like how water does pass through pipe. Dem boys seh that de boss man...

Kerik gets 4 years in prison

Feb 19, 2010 knews News Comments Off on Kerik gets 4 years in prison

WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. (AP) – Former New York City police Commissioner Bernard Kerik, who was hailed as a hero after the September 11 terror attacks and nearly became chief of Homeland Security, was...

Police now seek provisional warrant

Feb 19, 2010 knews News Comments Off on Police now seek provisional warrant

Barry Dataram’s arrest, according to his lawyers, seems to be a classic case of the cart before the horse. Yesterday, Crime Chief Seelall Persaud moved to the Magistrates’ Court to seek a...

Deviant behaviour in our schools

Feb 19, 2010 knews News Comments Off on Deviant behaviour in our schools

– Education Sector Strategic Plan must make accommodation By Rawle Welch The earlier pronouncements by the Minister of Education Shaik Baksh of the Government’s intention to improve the...

Cops to charge stabbed schoolboy, alleged attacker

Feb 19, 2010 knews News Comments Off on Cops to charge stabbed schoolboy, alleged attacker

– victim’s mother outraged The mother of the Tutorial High School student who was recently stabbed and struck on the head says she is outraged that her son is now apparently being made a...

Warders saw mentally ill prisoner clubbing inmate

Feb 19, 2010 knews News Comments Off on Warders saw mentally ill prisoner clubbing inmate

– say they can’t identify Blackman’s killers Two prison warders have stated that they witnessed mentally ill ex-cop Solomon Blackman inflict some of the blows which claimed the life of...

$847M cable an unnecessary investment by Govt. – Norton

Feb 19, 2010 knews News Comments Off on $847M cable an unnecessary investment by Govt. – Norton

Shadow Foreign Affairs Aubrey Norton yesterday lambasted the government for the planned investment of in excess of $800M for a fibre optic cable from Brazil, adding that it is a waste of money and...

Sound thrashing for man who tries to sell stolen items

Feb 19, 2010 knews News Comments Off on Sound thrashing for man who tries to sell stolen items

A man was yesterday morning soundly beaten after he attempted to sell articles which had been stolen from a vendor’s home the night before. The vendor, Keisha Mc Farlane, who sells food at the...

Policeman is Best Graduating Student in Officers’ Course

Feb 19, 2010 knews News Comments Off on Policeman is Best Graduating Student in Officers’ Course

Police Cadet Officer John Barker copped the Best Graduating Student prize from a field of 32 Ensigns at the conclusion of the Standard Officers’ Course Number 42. Barker edged out Woman Second...

Santos book last De Sinco Trading U19 semi final spot

Feb 19, 2010 KNews Sports Comments Off on Santos book last De Sinco Trading U19 semi final spot

Santos FC pulled out all the stops to turn back the challenge of Alpha United by the odd goal in three in extra time to take the final semi final spot in the 2009 De Sinco Trading sponsored...

Commodore Gary Best back at helm of GNRA

Feb 19, 2010 KNews Sports Comments Off on Commodore Gary Best back at helm of GNRA

Club house/indoor range & refurbishing of Timehri Ranges priorities for 2010 Commodore Gary Best was returned unopposed as President of the Guyana National Rifle Association (GNRA) for another...

Khalil sparks first upset of tournament, wins for Wiltshire, Arjoon, Fung-A-Fat, Fraser

Feb 19, 2010 KNews Sports Comments Off on Khalil sparks first upset of tournament, wins for Wiltshire, Arjoon, Fung-A-Fat, Fraser

Day Two of the annual Toucan Industries Inc. Squash Skill Level Tournament saw some exciting matches being contested. One of those was the clash between Victoria Arjoon and Steven Xavier, who both...

UN climate chief to resign

Feb 19, 2010 knews News Comments Off on UN climate chief to resign

The United Nations climate chief Yvo de Boer announced yesterday he was resigning from the job, just two months after climate change talks he spearheaded in Copenhagen failed to come up with a...

Minister, GLTA discuss Tennis Centre

Feb 19, 2010 KNews Sports Comments Off on Minister, GLTA discuss Tennis Centre

Following a letter dated February 1, 2010 from the President of the GLTA, Dr. Frank Anthony, Minister of Culture, Youth and Sport, met with a delegation from the GLTA on Friday February 12th, to...

TIME TO SAY GOODBYE TO THE CIVIC

Feb 19, 2010 knews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on TIME TO SAY GOODBYE TO THE CIVIC

There has never been a grouping known as the Civic. But there has always been an alliance called the PPP/Civic. And there has not been, it seems, until now any confusion or contradiction between the...

Alpha, Tigers, Topp XX & GDF in GFF/K&S Haiti benefit games

Feb 19, 2010 KNews Sports Comments Off on Alpha, Tigers, Topp XX & GDF in GFF/K&S Haiti benefit games

By Franklin Wilson Come this Sunday at the once World Famous GCC ground Bourda, four of Guyana’s leading football clubs will be locked in keen battles as they combine efforts to raise funds for the...

Queen’s Baton relay for the XIX Commonwealth Games culminates at UG Tarmac

Feb 19, 2010 KNews Sports Comments Off on Queen’s Baton relay for the XIX Commonwealth Games culminates at UG Tarmac

Athletes from the University of Guyana will join others from other local clubs for the Guyana leg of the Queen’s Baton relay for the XIX Commonwealth Games ending at the UG Tarmac on February 26...

Country’s top horses entered in feature race

Feb 19, 2010 KNews Sports Comments Off on Country’s top horses entered in feature race

Winner of the $1 million first prize at last year’s Kennard Memorial Horse Race Meeting Annie’s Playmate has been listed among a star-studded field entered for the ‘C’ & Lower feature...

Serious health risk at Meten Meer Zorg Primary

Feb 19, 2010 KNews Letters Comments Off on Serious health risk at Meten Meer Zorg Primary

Dear Editor, While the government parliamentarians shout about the billions in the budget and skillfully avoid the question of the benefits derived by citizens relative to spending, our children...

Cops to appear in court today on bribery charges

Feb 19, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Cops to appear in court today on bribery charges

Two detectives who were nabbed with marked cash that was supposed to constitute a bribe are expected to appear in court today. Police Commissioner Henry Greene yesterday confirmed that the police had...