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Soldier dies after crashing into culvert

Jan 17, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Soldier dies after crashing into culvert

A 24-year-old soldier was killed on the spot at around 18:45 hrs yesterday after crashing his motorcycle at Stanleytown, West Bank Demerara. Reports state that Terrence McAllister, of Princes Street,...

Taxi driver dies after fight with friend

Jan 17, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Taxi driver dies after fight with friend

Police have detained a 40-year-old Anna Catherina, West Coast Demerara man following the death of a taxi driver at around 21:00 hrs last night. Kaieteur News understands that the victim, identified...

Private School owner swindles students’ CXC fees

Jan 17, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Private School owner swindles students’ CXC fees

Several parents who have children attending the College of Accountancy Business and Science Studies are beyond the point of frustration. They have paid thousands of dollars to the principal of the...

Cops seem clueless as unsolved murders pile up

Jan 17, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Cops seem clueless as unsolved murders pile up

– will the new laboratory help? A schoolboy sexually assaulted and strangled…a group of five gunned down in a car…a trainee teacher butchered and dumped on a deserted countryside...

Women held for Multi-million $$$ fraud at Lethem

Jan 17, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Women held for Multi-million $$$ fraud at Lethem

Two young women from the border community of Lethem are on their way to the city to face charges of embezzlement of more than $10M from their employer. The two women who are employed at a Guyoil fuel...

Dem boys she… Robeson got to clear de Mahaicony road

Jan 17, 2011 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Dem boys she… Robeson got to clear de Mahaicony road

These past few weeks Robeson was busy bulldozing things. And that is because he graduate from using de hammer. De man clear everything and he moving to clear more. Dem boys seh that he tackle Big...

Slain Linden businessman laid to rest

Jan 17, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Slain Linden businessman laid to rest

Enclosed in a white casket, slain Linden businessman Albert “Bolo” Joseph was yesterday interred at the Christianburg cemetery, after one of the largest, and most prestigious funeral ceremonies...

Today is budget day

Jan 17, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Today is budget day

…PNCR braces for political speeches Leader of the Peoples National Congress Robert Corbin says that in today’s presentation of the Budget he expects nothing different, adding that nothing the...

Some La Penitence Market vendors begin to move

Jan 17, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Some La Penitence Market vendors begin to move

Some La Penitence Market vendors began relocating their stalls yesterday within the market and on a demarcated section in Sussex Street. Kaieteur News observed workmen from the Ministry of Transport...

Rohee justifies $17M expenditure on Community Policing

Jan 17, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Rohee justifies $17M expenditure on Community Policing

Government’s expenditure of a whopping $17M on Community Policing last year is being justified by Home Affairs Minister Clement Rohee. This expenditure, he said, was to supplement the...

GBTI raising the bar at Lethem

Jan 17, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on GBTI raising the bar at Lethem

In keeping with its expansion drive, the Guyana Bank for Trade and Industry is increasing its asset base in the attractive location of Lethem near the Guyana/Brazil border. This follows the opening...

Father claims woman kidnapped his children

Jan 17, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Father claims woman kidnapped his children

Roopchandra Persaud, of Lusignan East Sideline Dam, East Coast Demerara is accusing a former paramour of abducting his children. Missing are Tulsie Persaud 11, and Vishaul Persaud 6, they both were...

Baby with hole in heart celebrates first birthday

Jan 17, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Baby with hole in heart celebrates first birthday

Yesterday was a day of rejoicing for the Jackson family of Supply Mahaica, as their youngest family member whom they were fearful would not have lived to see six months made it to his first birthday....

Wilson, Giddings, Forde, Morgan top Cross Country race

Jan 17, 2011 KNews Sports Comments Off on Wilson, Giddings, Forde, Morgan top Cross Country race

By Edison Jefford Region Nine’s, Doretta Wilson, Linden’s Nathanie Giddings and Georgetown’s Cleveland Forde and Alika Morgan emphatically topped the four categories of the National...

Taxi driver dies after fight with friend

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DEM BOYS SHE….ROBESON GOT TO CLEAR DE MAHAICONY ROAD

Jan 17, 2011 knews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on DEM BOYS SHE….ROBESON GOT TO CLEAR DE MAHAICONY ROAD

These past few weeks Robeson was busy bulldozing things. And that is because he graduate from using de hammer. De man clear everything and he moving to clear more. Dem boys seh that he tackle Big...

Junior Jaguars aiming for last CONCACAF finals berth

Jan 17, 2011 KNews Sports Comments Off on Junior Jaguars aiming for last CONCACAF finals berth

Leave for Suriname today; oppose Bermuda on Wednesday in 1st game By Franklin Wilson With 11 countries already booking their place in the CONCACAF Under-20 finals which will be contested in Guatemala...

U-20 footballers enlightened on HIV/AIDS at one-day seminar

Jan 17, 2011 KNews Sports Comments Off on U-20 footballers enlightened on HIV/AIDS at one-day seminar

As Guyana’s Under-20 football team prepares for its immediate football engagements in Suriname, the national governing body seized the opportunity to prepare the young ballweavers more holistically...

Macbethian waltz on necrophiliac waters: The Rohee candidacy

Jan 17, 2011 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on Macbethian waltz on necrophiliac waters: The Rohee candidacy

On reading that Clement Rohee was interested in contesting the PPP’s nomination, I penned a column with a long title (“Kafkaesque, Mephistophelean, Faustian theatre of the absurd.”) in which I...

HONEY, I’M HOME

Jan 17, 2011 KNews Features / Columnists, Tony Deyal column Comments Off on HONEY, I’M HOME

This year, 2011, is the Chinese year of the rabbit but if I didn’t know better I would think it is the year of the dog. Dog lovers would find nothing strange about that since, for them, every...

Education Ministry promotes ‘eating local’

Jan 17, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Education Ministry promotes ‘eating local’

There is need for Guyanese to embrace the notion of eating locally grown foods if Guyana is to remain successful as an agricultural driven country, said Education Minister Shaik Baksh. His comments...

Families’ input key to children’s education – DCEO

Jan 17, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Families’ input key to children’s education – DCEO

“Only a small portion of learning comes through what we formally think of as our education system. Where does the rest come from? It comes from the home,” asserted Deputy Chief Education Officer,...

Budget 2011

Jan 17, 2011 KNews Editorial Comments Off on Budget 2011

Today the Minister of Finance will deliver the budget for this year. It used to be that budgets were regarded not only to indicate how much government intended to spend on the country’s development...

THE NATIONAL LIBRARY NEEDS A BREATH OF FRESH AIR

Jan 17, 2011 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on THE NATIONAL LIBRARY NEEDS A BREATH OF FRESH AIR

One of the things I always look for whenever I enter into someone’s home for the first time is the presence of books. A bookshelf or better yet a study that has books is a good indicator that...

The needs and concerns of our youth must come to the forefront of the nation’s agenda

Jan 17, 2011 KNews Letters Comments Off on The needs and concerns of our youth must come to the forefront of the nation’s agenda

Dear Editor, We can all recognise the unsympathetic truth that Guyana has by and large failed its young people in the last 18 years. Many of us as youths are largely disappointed and disenchanted...

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Mental illness is real and a serious public health concern

Peeping Tom… Kaieteur News- Mental illness is a reality we often acknowledge in passing but seldom confront with the... more