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Boat builder recalls his horrifying two-week ordeal with kidnappers

Jun 27, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Boat builder recalls his horrifying two-week ordeal with kidnappers

“Me beg them, ‘ow buddy, me get family and dey nah know wheh me gone’. Me beggin dem everyday, me praying and begging dem” Imagine being locked away on a trawler with no land in sight...

Festival of the Chariot delights Georgetown

Jun 27, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Festival of the Chariot delights Georgetown

Citizens of Georgetown and those in the city for various activities were treated to a colourful display by the Hare Krishna Movement yesterday. The parade was held under the theme “Parading for...

Unselfishly committed to the needy

Jun 27, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Unselfishly committed to the needy

Jimmy Bhojedat is a ‘Special Person’ “My advice to youths in any depressed situation is to not settle for less and always strive for better, because the opportunities are there to...

13-year-old in Sharma rape case, the only protected witness

Jun 27, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on 13-year-old in Sharma rape case, the only protected witness

…adults were only offered accommodation The mother and sisters of a 13-year-old girl at the centre of the carnal knowledge case involving Chandra Narine Sharma recently recanted their stories in an...

Dem boys seh….Bharrat Kissoon and Freddie Jagdeo

Jun 27, 2010 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Dem boys seh….Bharrat Kissoon and Freddie Jagdeo

Uncle Freddie does eat, sleep and dream Bharrat. Dem boys seh that things reach de stage wheh every time Uncle Freddie open he mouth he got to talk bout Bharrat. And he can’t seh nutten nice bout...

Child abuse higher in Georgetown

Jun 27, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Child abuse higher in Georgetown

Instances of child abuse are more rampant in Georgetown and in the mining town of Linden, the Social Services Statistical Bulletin for 2009 has shown. The Bulletin is produced by the Statistical...

Ex-GDF association commemorates second anniversary

Jun 27, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Ex-GDF association commemorates second anniversary

The Ex-Guyana Defense Force (GDF) Association is completing two years as an organisation. The association in a statement disclosed that its membership has just passed the 800 mark and the growth...

20-yr-old fined for sex with dead

Jun 27, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on 20-yr-old fined for sex with dead

A 20-year-old garbage collector in Berbice has pleaded guilty to performing an indecent act on a dead body after he allegedly exhumed the corpse of an elderly woman and had sex with it. Roopram...

Honey Sehgal – clearing mind and skin

Jun 27, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Honey Sehgal – clearing mind and skin

The Hari Mandir in Amritsar, Punjab, known popularly as the Golden Temple, is the holiest shrine in Sikhism. Although the building itself has great historical and architectural interest, it is the...

Improved attendance, heightened performances highlight fifth ProAm boxing card

Jun 27, 2010 KNews Sports Comments Off on Improved attendance, heightened performances highlight fifth ProAm boxing card

By Michael Benjamin Mandessa Moses thrilled a much-improved crowd with a classical boxing display of two-fisted punching that distinguished her apart from Margaret ‘Chico’ Walcott, earning her a...

Youth Ministry’s camps to commence in July

Jun 27, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Youth Ministry’s camps to commence in July

The Ministry of Culture, Youth and Sport will be hosting its annual summer camps for students for the August holidays. It is scheduled to commence on July 12 and conclude on August 27. The camps will...

The Importance of Play

Jun 27, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on The Importance of Play

By Marijke Huybrechts, Speech & Language Therapist, MoH/VSO If you think back to your childhood, some of your fondest childhood memories may include time spent engaging in play. And those simple...

“Cutting Styles” emerges from unlikely partnership

Jun 27, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on “Cutting Styles” emerges from unlikely partnership

The Ministry of Agriculture via the New Guyana Marketing Corporation will partner with Guyana Fashion Weekend today for an event which promises to showcase Guyana’s talent in the culinary arts,...

Bess becomes 2nd Berbician Test pacer, but Windies’ struggles continue

Jun 27, 2010 KNews Sports Comments Off on Bess becomes 2nd Berbician Test pacer, but Windies’ struggles continue

By Sean Devers In association with Caribbean Airlines South Africa were 46-2 replying to West Indies’ 231 after the opening day of the 3rd Digicel Test at the Kensington Oval here yesterday on...

Cops fail to find ‘Blacka’

Jun 27, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Cops fail to find ‘Blacka’

Despite intensive searches yesterday, ranks from Georgetown and Mahdia have failed to find the surviving gunman from last Monday’s Mowasi Landing shootout that left two people dead. The slain...

ACP-EU sign Second Revised Cotonou Agreement

Jun 27, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on ACP-EU sign Second Revised Cotonou Agreement

After more than a year of negotiations with the European Union, the African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) Group and the EU this week signed the second five-yearly review of the Cotonou Agreement in...

More cocaine intercepted at GPOC

Jun 27, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on More cocaine intercepted at GPOC

Despite the stringent measures in place, persons in the narcotic trade seem hell bent on trying to smuggle the illegal substance out of the country. On Friday, another person was caught at the...

The Crisis of Management in our Sugar Industry

Jun 27, 2010 knews News Comments Off on The Crisis of Management in our Sugar Industry

By R. O. Bostwick The Sugar Industry has always been of supreme importance to our national economy in many respects. Inter alia, it is the largest foreign exchange earner and the most significant...

Character assassination and the Internet

Jun 27, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Character assassination and the Internet

This week, I want to touch on a topic that I believe not only has relevance right now but is going to receive far greater focus in the upcoming months, in the lead up to the general elections to be...

Guyana Cultural Association calls for award nominations

Jun 27, 2010 knews News Comments Off on Guyana Cultural Association calls for award nominations

This year the Guyana Cultural association is attempting to honour a new cross section of Guyanese Society during its annual award exercise. Organisers of the event which forms a part of the Guyana...

Business Coalition on HIV/AIDs hands out awards

Jun 27, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Business Coalition on HIV/AIDs hands out awards

The Guyana Business Coalition on HIV/AIDS, Friday evening handed out awards to several companies for their outstanding work in seeking to eliminate HIV/AIDS and the stigma and discrimination against...

Patentia Secondary Head Teacher’s home broken into

Jun 27, 2010 knews News Comments Off on Patentia Secondary Head Teacher’s home broken into

No matter what comes her way, Gloria Gobin, the Head Teacher of Patentia Secondary School said she will not give up on her 31 years of teaching service. Ever since the shooting to death of one of her...

Historical body reviews history, politics, environment

Jun 27, 2010 knews News Comments Off on Historical body reviews history, politics, environment

History and the Environment was the theme yesterday as the Guyana Institute of Historical Research staged its third annual conference. Held at the National Library Conference Room, the four panel...

Scrap metal association not “scrapped”- founder says

Jun 27, 2010 knews News Comments Off on Scrap metal association not “scrapped”- founder says

A scrap metal dealer has denied that an association he helped to establish has been “scrapped”. As a matter of fact, says Percy Cole, former President of the Guyana Scrap Iron and Metal Dealers...

OUT OF CONTROL? WHAT ELSE COULD BE EXPECTED? (Part 7)

Jun 27, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on OUT OF CONTROL? WHAT ELSE COULD BE EXPECTED? (Part 7)

By Clarence O. Perry Used correctly, education will build for us a prosperous and democratic Guyanese nation. Used wrongly, it will continue to destroy us. There is so much more that can be...

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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