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Husband, 59, kills wife, 36

Apr 25, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Husband, 59, kills wife, 36

(By Mondale Smith and Rabindra Rooplall) Terrifying screams for help in the Herstelling, East Bank Demerara village rent the air about 10:30hrs yesterday. Seconds later, as blood spurted from her...

Citizen files lawsuit against ‘illegal spending’ of Lotto funds

Apr 25, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Citizen files lawsuit against ‘illegal spending’ of Lotto funds

Attorney General Charles Ramson, by way of a summons filed in the High Court by Attorneys-at-Law Miles Fitzpatrick and Christopher Ram on behalf of Political Activist Desmond Trotman, will have to...

Dem boys seh… Pray fuh dem Guyana

Apr 25, 2010 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Dem boys seh… Pray fuh dem Guyana

Now-a-days is sheer thiefing. This thiefing now tun a big word like corruption. Dem boys seh that when people talk bout corruption is thiefing dem mean. De big word is only to confuse de ordinary...

Aunty Gerty is 102 and still going

Apr 25, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Aunty Gerty is 102 and still going

Despite her frail condition, God has spared Muriel Dolphin’s life to see yet another year. Today marks the 102nd birth anniversary of the resident of Lot 244 Bourda Street, Lacytown, Georgetown,...

Nobel Prize winner lauds Jagdeo

Apr 25, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Nobel Prize winner lauds Jagdeo

Lord Nicholas Stern of the Grantham Institute for Climate Change and Environment of the London School of Economics has congratulated President Bharrat Jagdeo for receiving the 2010 Earth Champion...

Man shot by former work colleague

Apr 25, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Man shot by former work colleague

– Police suspect robbery was the motive, one arrested Police are currently investigating what some say might have been an attempted robbery that has left a 24-year-old man hospitalised with a...

Students blow whistle on cash for assignments

Apr 25, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Students blow whistle on cash for assignments

School launches probe as… By Leonard Gildarie In a case that seems to be the tip of the iceberg, the Head Teacher of an East Bank Demerara secondary school has initiated investigations into a...

Guyana Consulate facilitates speedy deportation from the US

Apr 25, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Guyana Consulate facilitates speedy deportation from the US

– says deportee A recent Guyanese deportee from the United States of America has lambasted the Guyana Consulate in New York for not doing enough to assist his countrymen to fight their removal...

British citizen on worldwide motorcycle tour

Apr 25, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on British citizen on worldwide motorcycle tour

A British citizen, David Kitson, 29, plans to motorcycle around the world. He has already passed through more than 20 countries. He started in his native England then continued to the Netherlands,...

Vagrant found dead

Apr 25, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Vagrant found dead

A vagrant identified only as Roy, was found dead under the Avinash Store on Saffon Street, Charlestown, Georgetown yesterday. The man was clad in a long black pants and long sleeve brown shirt with...

Sangeeta Persaud’s body exhumed

Apr 25, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Sangeeta Persaud’s body exhumed

By Latoya Giles and Jenelle Carter Foreign pathologist, Dr. Valery Alexandrov, a specialist in forensic and anatomic pathology, yesterday conducted a second post mortem, this time on the exhumed...

Authorities to debrief crew of ‘missing’ chopper

Apr 25, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Authorities to debrief crew of ‘missing’ chopper

Local aviation officials were expected to debrief the pilot and passengers of a Suriname-registered helicopter which went incommunicado Thursday evening for five hours while on a hinterland flight....

Teen killer of Guyanese-born girl appeals US conviction

Apr 25, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Teen killer of Guyanese-born girl appeals US conviction

Albany, New York-An attorney for Jermayne Timmons is appealing his conviction of depraved indifference murder in the death of 10-year-old Kathina Thomas. Thomas, whose family had arrived in Albany...

Board of Industrial Training Graduates 726 under NTPYE Apprenticeship Programme

Apr 25, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Board of Industrial Training Graduates 726 under NTPYE Apprenticeship Programme

Today will see the first in a series of graduations across the country as 726 participants in the last year’s Apprenticeship Programme under the National Training Programme for Youth Empowerment...

Guyana, Brazil to sign major agricultural agreement

Apr 25, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Guyana, Brazil to sign major agricultural agreement

– several Rupununi projects to be accelerated Guyana and Brazil are expected to sign a major agreement, tomorrow, that will accelerate cross border agricultural investments, especially in the...

Clarence was a true champion in spirit and in mind

Apr 25, 2010 knews Letters Comments Off on Clarence was a true champion in spirit and in mind

Dear Editor, I would like to echo the kind sentiments written about a good and valiant brother who died after a period of illness. Brother Clarence Ellis was indeed an indefatigable son of Guyana. He...

HUBBLE TURNS 20

Apr 25, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on HUBBLE TURNS 20

In the daily grind of life, it can be quite easy to forget that we are inhabitants of a vast universe; that we reside on the third smallest planet in a system of nine revolving around a medium sized...

The more you live the more you learn about people

Apr 25, 2010 knews Letters Comments Off on The more you live the more you learn about people

Dear Editor, I stopped writing letters in the press because there is a nauseating level of ignorant insensitivity that emanate from the pages of all the print media houses in Guyana as it relates to...

Final goodbyes said for retired Chief Justice Joaquim Gonsalves-Sabola

Apr 25, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Final goodbyes said for retired Chief Justice Joaquim Gonsalves-Sabola

As if it were a prince of real royal blood, the life of a Guyanese who made Bahamas his home proudly was laid to rest on Friday April 16, in statesmanship fashion. Tributes of honour and opulence...

Clarence Ellis has left a legacy

Apr 25, 2010 knews Letters Comments Off on Clarence Ellis has left a legacy

Dear Editor, It was quite touching to see Ravi Dev acknowledge the life of the recently departed Clarence Frederick Ellis. It was not surprising because Ravi has always had the courage to be honest....

Melanie residents clash with villager over fence around old bus shed

Apr 25, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Melanie residents clash with villager over fence around old bus shed

A villager’s move to erect a fence around an old bus shed and on what is Government’s reserve has several of his neighbours crying foul. Earlier this week, the Ministry of Public Works had...

Kamla is the most liked politician in T&T

Apr 25, 2010 knews Letters Comments Off on Kamla is the most liked politician in T&T

Dear Editor, According to NACTA’s latest survey in Trinidad, UNC and Opposition Leader, Kamla Persad-Bissessar is more liked than PNM Leader and Prime Minister Patrick Manning and COP Leader...

Trust building is a work in progress

Apr 25, 2010 knews Letters Comments Off on Trust building is a work in progress

Dear Editor, I wrote in 2004 the following: “…President Bharrat Jagdeo presented the PPP/C’s position on inclusive governance in 2003 at the State House. The paper came at a time when everybody...

Fighting Sexual Violence

Apr 25, 2010 knews Editorial Comments Off on Fighting Sexual Violence

The unanimous passing of the Sexual Offences Bill 2009 last Thursday night by the National Assembly is a landmark event for a host of reasons. Coming as it does in the wake of the latest high-profile...

First two Mayor’s Cup semi-finalists will be decided tonight at GFC

Apr 25, 2010 knews Sports Comments Off on First two Mayor’s Cup semi-finalists will be decided tonight at GFC

The first two semi-final places will be decided tonight at the Georgetown Football Club ground when action in the Annual Mayor’s Cup football championship continue at the venue starting at...

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Maloney Pacers set sights on FIBA 3×3 World Tour qualifiers in Guyana

America does not fight for free

Peeping Tom… Kaieteur News- Guyana must be wary of America. That much is clear. The United States has recently issued... more