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Three paediatric heart surgeries successfully completed at CHI

Apr 12, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Three paediatric heart surgeries successfully completed at CHI

By Sharmain Cornette By afternoon yesterday, three young children had already undergone successful open heart operations and another was being prepared for surgery last night, all marking a historic...

Education Ministry repeatedly flouts Procurement Law

Apr 12, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Education Ministry repeatedly flouts Procurement Law

– millions involved The long awaited 2008 Auditor General Report which has pointed out a plethora of financial discrepancies as it relates to several Ministries and Budget agencies, has...

GPL ingenious wiring scares La Penitence family

Apr 12, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on GPL ingenious wiring scares La Penitence family

A North East La Penitence family is extremely perturbed at the manner in which the Guyana Power and Light Inc. has strung up a connection that traverses their property. The Wilson family who resides...

Cops trying to contact US based suspect

Apr 12, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Cops trying to contact US based suspect

Diamond hit-and-run death… Police are trying to contact an overseas-based Guyanese to ascertain whether he was involved in the hit-and-run accident in which Ramona Harris perished on Good Friday....

Berbician chopped to death

Apr 12, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Berbician chopped to death

…suspect in custody ANGOY’S AVENUE, NEW AMSTERDAM – A known drug addict in New Amsterdam was chopped to death at his home yesterday. The suspect is said to be a fellow ‘junkie’ who shared...

19-year-old killed in road accident

Apr 12, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on 19-year-old killed in road accident

– driver detained Nineteen-year-old, Ramesh Persaud, of Railway View, Meten-meer-Zorg, West Coast Demerara, yesterday morning succumbed to massive head injuries, hours after he was struck down...

Dem boys seh…..Protestors protesting de protest

Apr 12, 2010 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Dem boys seh…..Protestors protesting de protest

Imagine when de PNC used to protest de government people use to claim how dem is terrorist and how dem disrupting de national economy. One day de PNC go right in front Office of de President and...

Executed Mon Repos exporter owed $10M

Apr 12, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Executed Mon Repos exporter owed $10M

– businessmen still is custody Detectives have received reports that executed fish exporter, Rajendra Sonilall, owed a business associate $10M, and they are trying to ascertain if the debt is...

Judge’s notes disappear from Supreme Court

Apr 12, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Judge’s notes disappear from Supreme Court

State vs. Toucan Suites owner… Like the long manhunt for gunman Linden ‘Blackie’ London, the case of Toucan Suites owner, Norman Trotz, versus the State is taking several surprising twists...

Deonarine top-scores again as Windies beat Ireland by 31 runs

Apr 12, 2010 KNews Sports Comments Off on Deonarine top-scores again as Windies beat Ireland by 31 runs

Guyanese Narsingh Deonarine continued to impress at the International 20/20 level even as fellow countrymen Ramnaresh Sarwan and Shivnarine Chanderpaul again failed to fire as the West Indies beat...

Ministry of Finance has trouble keeping their own finances straight

Apr 12, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Ministry of Finance has trouble keeping their own finances straight

“A policy decision is required on the matter” is the only response of the Ministry to several of the irregularities highlighted by the Auditor General in the recently published Public Accounts...

200,000 to get uniforms in new school term

Apr 12, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on 200,000 to get uniforms in new school term

The Government intends to distribute 200,000 uniforms to Nursery, Primary and Secondary School children across the country, Head of the Presidential Secretariat Dr Roger Luncheon announced Thursday....

Santos, BK Western Tigers latest Mayor’s Cup winners

Apr 12, 2010 KNews Sports Comments Off on Santos, BK Western Tigers latest Mayor’s Cup winners

Tigers in vicious mode with 6-0 mauling of Den Amstel Santos and BK Western Tigers overcame their West Demerara opposition in last Saturday’s Mayor’s Cup football fixtures at the Georgetown...

Narayan blazes to another century after fire stops play at Malteenoes

Apr 12, 2010 KNews Sports Comments Off on Narayan blazes to another century after fire stops play at Malteenoes

By Sean Devers Cricket matches around the world have been stopped by rain, hail and even snow but yesterday at the Malteenoes ground a blazing fire which threatened the Tutorial High School in...

Alpha travels to T&T tomorrow for 3-way battle; face Jabloteh on Wednesday

Apr 12, 2010 KNews Sports Comments Off on Alpha travels to T&T tomorrow for 3-way battle; face Jabloteh on Wednesday

Leading Guyana club side Alpha ‘The Hammer’ United will leave tomorrow for Soca Land, Trinidad and Tobago where they will engage host Club San Juan Jabloteh and Puerto Rico’s River Plate in the...

Lady Jags to play host T&T, Barbados & St. Lucia in round 2

Apr 12, 2010 KNews Sports Comments Off on Lady Jags to play host T&T, Barbados & St. Lucia in round 2

Guyana’s Lady Jags who demolished the challenges of Suriname and St. Vincent & the Grenadines in the first round of the Caribbean Women’s Gold Cup qualifying competition will engage hosts...

GECOM denies corruption, calls for special audit

Apr 12, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on GECOM denies corruption, calls for special audit

…2008 AG Report indicates otherwise The Guyana Elections Commission in whole page advertisements has claimed to debunk allegations of corruption, eight days after this newspaper carried an article...

Lyght spearheads NL Cavaliers to victory in West Dem as DCC lose twice in a day

Apr 12, 2010 KNews Sports Comments Off on Lyght spearheads NL Cavaliers to victory in West Dem as DCC lose twice in a day

The senior players of the Demerara Cricket Club (DCC) including West Indies ‘A’ team Skipper Travis Dowlin, opted not to represent their team in the Georgetown Cricket Association (GCA) Digicel...

Collins becomes first ever C’bean Scrabble champion

Apr 12, 2010 KNews Sports Comments Off on Collins becomes first ever C’bean Scrabble champion

– Guyana end runner-up in Team Competition Guyana’s Frederick Collins became the first ever Caribbean Open Scrabble champion when he defeated a strong field at the recently staged Tri-Nations...

Alpha hammer Buxton 8-1; Milerock & Rosignol needle Camptown & Topp XX

Apr 12, 2010 KNews Sports Comments Off on Alpha hammer Buxton 8-1; Milerock & Rosignol needle Camptown & Topp XX

By Franklin Wilson When the Guyana Football Federation (GFF) National Super League sponsored by FIFA under the Win in CONCACAF with CONCACAF Project continued on Friday evening, defending...

Pre-Championship favorites, North survive early scare

Apr 12, 2010 KNews Sports Comments Off on Pre-Championship favorites, North survive early scare

– Albouystown separates itself in National Super Ward By Edison Jefford Championship teams are expected to separate themselves from minnows, which is what Albouystown/Charlestown did...

Alcohol main contributory factor to chronic diseases – Minister Ramsammy

Apr 12, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Alcohol main contributory factor to chronic diseases – Minister Ramsammy

— survey to detect correlation factors set for next month Alcohol abuse is one of the main risk factors for the development of chronic diseases in Guyana. And according to Minister of Health, Dr...

Republican boxer thrills audience as nat’l Novices boxing championships begins

Apr 12, 2010 KNews Sports Comments Off on Republican boxer thrills audience as nat’l Novices boxing championships begins

By Michael Benjamin Republican lightweight boxer, Nankumar Singh, who thrilled residents of Timerhi in an action packed encounter against Romario Clarke (GDF) on Easter Monday last, was once again...

Glasgow murder suspect still on the run

Apr 12, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Glasgow murder suspect still on the run

GLASGOW, BERBICE – Two weeks later and Rooplall Boodhoo, of Lot 1068 Glasgow New Housing Scheme is still on the run. The man is wanted for the murder of his reputed wife, 31-year old Lilowtee...

First crop favourable for rice farmers in Region Six

Apr 12, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on First crop favourable for rice farmers in Region Six

BENGAL FARM, CORENTYNE – Despite the El Niño situation, more rice lands are under cultivation in Region Six this year. For the first crop (spring crop), 48,600 acres of land was sown. This crop...

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The third parties will not survive this year’s elections

Peeping Tom… Kaieteur News- The fate of third parties in this year’s general and regional elections is as predictable... more