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Guyana political games

Dec 04, 2010 knews Letters Comments Off on Guyana political games

Dear Editor, Credible unnamed sources have informed our correspondent that of the 90,000 people who have not collected their ID cards 70,000 seem to be Indo-Guyanese. This has made the PPP even more...

WikiLeaks – a test of freedom of information

Dec 04, 2010 knews Editorial Comments Off on WikiLeaks – a test of freedom of information

All over the world today, the news media are reporting on things exposed by an entity called WikiLeaks. This is a body or an entity that seems dedicated to exposing confidential information that...

The debacle of bitter sweet sugar…

Dec 04, 2010 knews Letters Comments Off on The debacle of bitter sweet sugar…

Dear Editor, Guyana’s sugar sector is in deep crisis. The workers in the sugar industry face an uncertain future with this present administration and this has fuelled the current state of affairs...

Arson accused Colin Jones jailed for eight years, refuses psychoanalysis

Dec 03, 2010 knews News Comments Off on Arson accused Colin Jones jailed for eight years, refuses psychoanalysis

…Still faces murder charges with accomplices By Latoya Giles With a heavy police presence yesterday at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court, escaped prisoner Colin Jones, called “Bunny”, was...

Brazilian diver perishes in Konawaruk River

Dec 03, 2010 knews News Comments Off on Brazilian diver perishes in Konawaruk River

– Guyanese family left penniless Yet another miner has lost his life in Guyana’s goldfields. This time it is 45-year old Brazilian Manoel Francisco Costa Filo, whose body was pulled from the...

Woman throws lighted kero stove on GPO employee

Dec 03, 2010 knews News Comments Off on Woman throws lighted kero stove on GPO employee

A female postal employee was battling for her life at the Mackenzie Hospital after an in-law threw a lighted kerosene stove on her. Ayana Noble, 23, of One Mile, Wismar, suffered second and third...

Thief shot near Linden Bus Park

Dec 03, 2010 knews News Comments Off on Thief shot near Linden Bus Park

A Plaisance resident ,was shot by police in the vicinity of Linden Bus Park last evening. According to an eyewitness, the man allegedly took an item from a vendor in the Stabroek Market and was later...

Dem boys seh…Uncle Freddie run from Eddie

Dec 03, 2010 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Dem boys seh…Uncle Freddie run from Eddie

People does run from rain; some does run from smoke but de smart ones does run from trouble. And when dem frighten dem does run more fast. Dem boys know Uncle Freddie long. When dem know he he mother...

Kashif and Shanghai duo clear the air on contentious issues

Dec 03, 2010 KNews Sports Comments Off on Kashif and Shanghai duo clear the air on contentious issues

By Michael Benjamin The raging dispute between the executives of several local football clubs and the administration of the Kashif and Shanghai football organization that had threatened to negatively...

GWI threatens more legal action against delinquent customers

Dec 03, 2010 knews News Comments Off on GWI threatens more legal action against delinquent customers

Guyana Water Incorporated (GWI) has taken legal action against delinquent customers, and dispatched warning letters to over 60 customers in Georgetown who continue to deprive the utility of payment...

Gilkes, Pyle, Ward to don gloves as ProAm boxing card promises to be exciting

Dec 03, 2010 KNews Sports Comments Off on Gilkes, Pyle, Ward to don gloves as ProAm boxing card promises to be exciting

The time for mouthing off is over and the boxers scheduled to participate in the 9th edition of the ProAm boxing extravaganza at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall will now have to put up or shut up. The...

Reggae Boyz blank Golden Jaguars 4-0; book semis place along with Guadeloupe

Dec 03, 2010 KNews Sports Comments Off on Reggae Boyz blank Golden Jaguars 4-0; book semis place along with Guadeloupe

Stade de Riviere Pilote, Martinique: Jamaica had already qualified as Group winners and as a result coach Theodore Whitmore made a number of changes to the line-up. With Guadeloupe winning the...

Malteenoes TT team confident of national haul

Dec 03, 2010 KNews Sports Comments Off on Malteenoes TT team confident of national haul

By Edison Jefford Malteenoes Table Tennis’ (TT) team is reeking confidence ahead of tomorrow’s commencement of the National Championships, while its premier player, Chelsea Edghill has confirmed...

17-year-old gets seven years for friend’s killing

Dec 03, 2010 knews News Comments Off on 17-year-old gets seven years for friend’s killing

Seventeen-year-old Stephen Julian called ‘Ring Neck’ of 64 Line Path Skeldon, Corentyne, was yesterday convicted of manslaughter and jailed for seven years by Justice Dawn Gregory-Barnes Jones,...

Royden Phill’s sees Canje Secondary to victory

Dec 03, 2010 KNews Sports Comments Off on Royden Phill’s sees Canje Secondary to victory

In the latest results from the Inter-school stage in the Berbice/Mahaicony Districts of the 2010 Ministry of Education/National Sports Commission/Guyana Cricket Board National Secondary School...

Murdered mother-in-law died from haemorrhage and shock

Dec 03, 2010 knews News Comments Off on Murdered mother-in-law died from haemorrhage and shock

A post mortem examination performed yesterday by Dr Vivekanand Brijmohan, on the remains of 49-year-old Jennifer Thomas, revealed that the woman died from haemorrhage and shock due to an incise wound...

General Marine Male and Female Softball Finals at Bourda switched to Sunday

Dec 03, 2010 KNews Sports Comments Off on General Marine Male and Female Softball Finals at Bourda switched to Sunday

The General Marine Male softball finals and the Female Semi-finals and Final will be played on Sunday December 5 instead of Saturday December 4 as was previously announced at the GCC Ground Bourda....

Security guard hits cleaner in face with baton

Dec 03, 2010 KNews News Comments Off on Security guard hits cleaner in face with baton

Police and officials from the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) are investigating an incident in which a male security guard struck a female janitorial employee in the face with a baton....

Sugar production “well below budgeted figures”

Dec 03, 2010 knews News Comments Off on Sugar production “well below budgeted figures”

…but Skeldon surpasses 2009 amount to date Guyana Sugar Corporation Inc. (GuySuCo) yesterday announced that the under-fire, new Skeldon factory has surpassed production figures of 2009. “This...

21st Kashif & Shanghai now a 20 team affair

Dec 03, 2010 KNews Sports Comments Off on 21st Kashif & Shanghai now a 20 team affair

Ann’s Grove and Netrockers added East Demerara’s Ann’s Grove United and Upper Demerara’s Netrockers have been added to the list of team competing in the 21st Kashif & Shanghai Football...

Regions Trade Ministers say goodbye to CARICOM boss

Dec 03, 2010 knews News Comments Off on Regions Trade Ministers say goodbye to CARICOM boss

Dr. Carrington: “There is no room for failure” By Leonard Gildarie Regional trade ministers yesterday bade farewell to Secretary General, Dr Edwin Carrington, in what has been hailed as his last...

Madhoo on winners row again

Dec 03, 2010 KNews Sports Comments Off on Madhoo on winners row again

Former national Open Singles champion Norman Madhoo was once again in a devastating mood after playing unbeaten to capture the Open Singles category, then teamed up with Anil Lachman to emerge...

THE NEW PERSON IN CARACAS

Dec 03, 2010 knews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on THE NEW PERSON IN CARACAS

One would have to presume that given the length of time that he has been a diplomat and given the portfolios that he has held, Ambassador Odeen Ishmael must be considered one of Guyana’s foremost...

Taffin Khan defeats Kriskal Persaud to capture title

Dec 03, 2010 KNews Sports Comments Off on Taffin Khan defeats Kriskal Persaud to capture title

Taffin Khan demonstrated grit and determination to defeat former National Chess Champion (2007-2008) Kriskal Persaud and duly won the Neal & Massy/Seven Seas National Chess Championship when the...

Wiki-d or Wise?

Dec 03, 2010 KNews Editorial Comments Off on Wiki-d or Wise?

WikiLeaks — the not-for-profit internet media organisation that says its goal is “to bring important news and information to the public” – is in the news again. This time it received over...

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GBBFF boss reflects on milestones and leadership transition

Democracy thrives on dissent and plurality

Peeping Tom… Kaieteur News- Vice President Bharrat Jagdeo, speaking at an event commemorating the death anniversary... more