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Stabroek News website in the clear – Google

Jun 30, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Stabroek News website in the clear – Google

Re-printed from Stabroek News Internet search giant Google says that the Stabroek News website has not hosted malicious software over the last 90 days and that it “is not currently listed as...

Police rescue sexually abused handicapped child

Jun 30, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Police rescue sexually abused handicapped child

– man, 62, arrested She was just six years old when she was rescued from a shack on the West Coast of Demerara, while suffering severe physical abuse, now she is 13, and the police and the...

World Bank not interested in tit-for-tat with Guyana Govt.

Jun 30, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on World Bank not interested in tit-for-tat with Guyana Govt.

– Valentini It would be inappropriate and as such the World Bank will not get into any tit-for-tat with the Government of Guyana. This was the response by the entity’s representative to...

Abdel Nur pleads guilty to lesser charge

Jun 30, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Abdel Nur pleads guilty to lesser charge

JFK terror plot… One of the four accused in an alleged terror plot targeting a popular landmark in the United States yesterday pleaded guilty in a Brooklyn Federal Court. Guyanese Abdel Nur, who...

Health Minister defends $100M disappearance

Jun 30, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Health Minister defends $100M disappearance

The Ministry of Health, in a statement signed by Minister Dr. Leslie Ramsammy, has rejected a headline in last Tuesday’s edition of Kaieteur News “$100M disappears, no paper trail found”,...

Dem boys seh…Kwame planning fuh Edghill

Jun 30, 2010 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Dem boys seh…Kwame planning fuh Edghill

Guyana got nuff law. One law fuh poor people, one fuh rich people, one fuh government people and one fuh everybody else. Dem have a special law fuh Fip and Brassy. Imagine that people plan and mess...

Another murder accused granted bail in High Court

Jun 30, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Another murder accused granted bail in High Court

Yet another significant ruling was yesterday made by Justice Roxanne George-Wiltshire when she granted bail to murder accused Dilip “Peppie” Lambert. The ruling came days after a jury was unable...

Police still awaiting DPP’s response on fatal hit-and-run

Jun 30, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Police still awaiting DPP’s response on fatal hit-and-run

– three weeks after sending file Some three weeks after sending a file to the office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP), police are still awaiting advice on the case involving the...

Former TUF Chairman passes on

Jun 30, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Former TUF Chairman passes on

Former Chairman of The United Force (TUF), Fred Fredericks, has died, says leader of the party, Manzoor Nadir. In a statement, Nadir noted that Fredericks was instrumental in gaining recognition for...

Oldest Berbice studio hosts World Camera Day exhibition

Jun 30, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Oldest Berbice studio hosts World Camera Day exhibition

NEW AMSTERDAM, BERBICE – The pioneers of photography in Berbice, the Rambarrans, proprietors of the oldest photo studio in Ancient County, and perhaps one of the oldest in these parts of the...

West Indies crushed by 7 wickets as S/Africa win series 2-0

Jun 30, 2010 KNews Sports Comments Off on West Indies crushed by 7 wickets as S/Africa win series 2-0

By Sean Devers in Barbados In association with Caribbean Airlines Despite a fiery burst from fast bowler Kemar Roach, South Africa inflected a crushing 7-wicket win over the West Indies on the...

Moen Gafoor survives close encounters to register second win

Jun 30, 2010 KNews Sports Comments Off on Moen Gafoor survives close encounters to register second win

Moen Gafoor survived two close games to Michael Benjamin and Yvonne Murray to register wins by spreads of 18 and 16 respectively, eventually chalking up 6 games and a positive spread of 352 to cart...

Competitive action as Grove Inter-Block football continues

Jun 30, 2010 KNews Sports Comments Off on Competitive action as Grove Inter-Block football continues

Several teams registered victories when the Grove Inter-Block football knockout competition got underway at the Grove Playfield Sunday June 27 last. In the inaugural game of the evening grove North...

They deserve to be there

Jun 30, 2010 KNews Sports Comments Off on They deserve to be there

– another team made to suffer By Rawle Welch The news that Guyana ‘Lady Jaguars’ will not be competing at the CAC Games scheduled to be held in Puerto Rico next month must have dealt a...

Horrendous treatment by Cuba FA will not deter Lady Jags

Jun 30, 2010 KNews Sports Comments Off on Horrendous treatment by Cuba FA will not deter Lady Jags

Return game set for Saturday @ GCC “The Lady Jags all want to make their country even prouder of their accomplishments, and are all committed to getting to the Gold Cup Finals.” Despite...

Preparations for 2011 junior season to start in September – BCB

Jun 30, 2010 KNews Sports Comments Off on Preparations for 2011 junior season to start in September – BCB

The 2011 Guyana Cricket Board season for Junior Cricket does not start until next March when the Inter-county Under-15 tournament would be played but the Berbice Cricket Board would start its...

GFF withdraws from CAC Games

Jun 30, 2010 KNews Sports Comments Off on GFF withdraws from CAC Games

Executives of the Guyana Football Federation (GFF) at a recent Emergency Meeting decided to withdraw its Senior National Women’s Team from participating in the July 2010 CAC Games in Puerto Rico....

NSC/Ministry of Sport Inter Village Knockout b/ball off to bright start

Jun 30, 2010 KNews Sports Comments Off on NSC/Ministry of Sport Inter Village Knockout b/ball off to bright start

Grove defeated Herstelling 56-51 when action in the National Sports Commission/Ministry of Culture Youth and Sports sponsored Inter Village Knockout basketball competition got underway at the...

G-20: “You’re on your own”

Jun 30, 2010 KNews Editorial Comments Off on G-20: “You’re on your own”

The G-8 group of industrial nations met last week in Canada, followed by the expanded G-20 grouping that has recognised the new global economic realities and roped in the largest developing...

Two hospitalised after car plunges into Le Ressouvenir canal

Jun 30, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Two hospitalised after car plunges into Le Ressouvenir canal

Two persons, a man and a woman, are now hospitalised after sustaining injuries when the car in which they were travelling plunged into a trench on the railway embankment in the vicinity of Le...

Stakeholders to meet on Friday

Jun 30, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Stakeholders to meet on Friday

Stakeholders are expected to meet with officials on Friday to determine what is causing a shortage of chicken and eggs on the local market. The dwindling supply is obviously compounding the problem...

Judge orders mental examination for murder accused

Jun 30, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Judge orders mental examination for murder accused

Justice Roxanne George-Wiltshire yesterday ordered that an independent mental examination should be conducted on murder accused Kenrick Heywood, to determine whether or not he is capable to stand...

M&CC considers waste disposal programme

Jun 30, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on M&CC considers waste disposal programme

No further payments have been made available by the Mayor and City Council of Georgetown (M&CC) to waste disposal contractors in order to have them resume garbage collection in the city. However,...

Hit-and-run taxi driver remanded

Jun 30, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Hit-and-run taxi driver remanded

– after turning self in A 26-year-old taxi driver who fled the scene after hitting down a couple near Little Diamond, East Bank Demerara, was remanded to prison yesterday after turning himself...

Lightning-fast internet is here!

Jun 30, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Lightning-fast internet is here!

– First phase of GT&T’s DSL upgrades kicks in By Leonard Gildarie Just “e-magine” what it would be like to download a movie in one hour or view in real-time, while you are in the US,...

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Renuka, Mandhana consign West Indies to record loss

Chilling reminders that we are not safe

Peeping Tom… Kaieteur News- Georgetown was plunged into shock and terror last week after two heinous incidents laid... more