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Sophia schoolboy among two shot in botched Mahaica burglary

Feb 09, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Sophia schoolboy among two shot in botched Mahaica burglary

He was supposed to be at home preparing for school the following day but instead, 17-year-old Junior Corbin of Sophia, and two associates went up to Good Hope, Mahaica, on the East Coast of Demerara,...

OP laptop purchases defy logic

Feb 09, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on OP laptop purchases defy logic

Government could have saved almost US$200 on each of the computers purchased by the Office of the President, as the series of the items is available at significantly lower prices. Any person making a...

DPP appeals murder acquittal

Feb 09, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on DPP appeals murder acquittal

By Latoya Giles For the second time since the passage of legislation the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) Shalimar Ali- Hack last evening moved to appeal the verdict of a jury, under the new...

Diamond roads attract $130M upgrade

Feb 09, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Diamond roads attract $130M upgrade

A representative of GuyCo Construction and General Services, as well as Romel Jagroop, yesterday inked contracts for the upgrade and repairs of the roads between First and Sixth Avenues in the new...

Engineer’s estimate for Canal#1 Bridge exceeds contractor’s bid by $31M

Feb 09, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Engineer’s estimate for Canal#1 Bridge exceeds contractor’s bid by $31M

The National Procurement and Tender Administration Board yesterday opened bids for the construction of roads, drains, structures and the installation of a Pure Water Distribution Network at Leonora....

Dem boys seh…A lawyer who gun wine like Kwame

Feb 09, 2011 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Dem boys seh…A lawyer who gun wine like Kwame

This thing to be president and run a country getting to people head. Some of dem getting suh desperate that dem cussing everybody. One of dem who is a lawyer meet a reporter and tell she some things...

GT&T continues association with the best

Feb 09, 2011 KNews Sports Comments Off on GT&T continues association with the best

– Parks misses out due to shoulder injury, Singh in Referring to the Company as the best network that associates only with the best, GT&T’s Chief Financial Officer Royston Rachpaul...

Blenheim United defeat Rebels in Joseph Memorial U-19 cricket

Feb 09, 2011 KNews Sports Comments Off on Blenheim United defeat Rebels in Joseph Memorial U-19 cricket

Blenheim United defeated Rebels by 77 runs in the Arthur Joseph Memorial U-19 cricket tournament in Leguan played recently. The former team batted first and amassed 217-5 from their allotted 25...

ECB name committees

Feb 09, 2011 KNews Sports Comments Off on ECB name committees

The Essequibo Cricket Board executives have named their respective committees at a meeting held recently at the Essequibo Island Secondary School in Wakenaam. The Competitions Committee, which is...

Simeon Hardy makes grand return to boxing ring in 12th ProAm card

Feb 09, 2011 KNews Sports Comments Off on Simeon Hardy makes grand return to boxing ring in 12th ProAm card

Simeon Hardy exited the ring in the 10th edition of the ProAm boxing card the unanimous victor after dishing out a licking to Troy Lewis. However, the celebrations were disrupted when the victorious...

Volleyball Fiesta for Shuffler’s Birthday hailed a success

Feb 09, 2011 KNews Sports Comments Off on Volleyball Fiesta for Shuffler’s Birthday hailed a success

GuySuCo Training Centre defeated Port Mourant Jaguars 17-15 to capture the ‘All Fours’ Volleyball Fiesta which was organised to celebrate the 72nd Birth Anniversary of President of the Federation...

RHT Metro Females defeat their Police counterparts

Feb 09, 2011 KNews Sports Comments Off on RHT Metro Females defeat their Police counterparts

West Indies female cricketer and captain of Rose Hall Town Metro team Shemaine Campbelle produced another brilliant all-round effort to lead her team to a thrilling one wicket win over the Police...

Corentyne football clubs summoned to general meeting with BFA

Feb 09, 2011 KNews Sports Comments Off on Corentyne football clubs summoned to general meeting with BFA

The Berbice Football Association has summoned a general meeting with a number of clubs located in Corentyne, Berbice. The meeting is set for tomorrow and will take place at the Area ‘H’ Ground...

Undue criticisms

Feb 09, 2011 KNews Sports Comments Off on Undue criticisms

By Edison Jefford In an event where marginal differences in reaction times could decide who stands on the podium and who does not, very little scope is left for mistakes. The 100m race is not only...

Corporate Guyana on board for Rising Sun horserace meet

Feb 09, 2011 KNews Sports Comments Off on Corporate Guyana on board for Rising Sun horserace meet

A number of sponsors have already come on board to be a part of the Rising Sun Turf club Pre Mashramani one day horserace meet slated for Sunday February 20 at the Club’s entity Arima Park, West...

Bomb scare at Patentia Primary

Feb 09, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Bomb scare at Patentia Primary

Recently, schools in the West Demerara district have been experiencing a number of bomb scares. Further, Patentia Primary school experienced two such occurrences in an eight-day span. This newspaper...

FORGET ABOUT THE Freedom of Information Act!

Feb 09, 2011 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on FORGET ABOUT THE Freedom of Information Act!

Guyana does not need a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA). Such an act will become another pretext for denying access to information, because FOI legislation inevitably has clauses allowing the...

Overseas-based Guyanese relieved of car, jewellery

Feb 09, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Overseas-based Guyanese relieved of car, jewellery

Seventy-six year-old UK-based Guyanese Alston Beresford, of 69 Palmarya Village East Coast Berbice, was on Monday relieved of his Toyota Marino motor car and a quantity of jewellery by two bandits,...

Cuban doctor recalled for alleged sexual assault

Feb 09, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Cuban doctor recalled for alleged sexual assault

Senior medical officials attached to both the Oscar Joseph and Suddie Public Hospitals have been forced to transfer a Cuban doctor after he reportedly fondled two teenagers who were at the time his...

Delta Airlines agent robbed at gunpoint

Feb 09, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Delta Airlines agent robbed at gunpoint

Forty-nine year-old overseas-based Guyanese Ray Williams must have felt that it was safe to park his car on Princes Street and talk to his girlfriend on Monday night. But two bandits reminded him of...

Youmun Nabi is February 16

Feb 09, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Youmun Nabi is February 16

According to a release from the Central Islamic Organisation of Guyana (CIOG), the Islamic month of Rabi-ul-Awwal in the Islamic Year 1432 A.H. commenced last Saturday, February 5. The release...

15 years & counting Farfan & Mendes continues sponsorship of RHTY&SC U-15 team

Feb 09, 2011 KNews Sports Comments Off on 15 years & counting Farfan & Mendes continues sponsorship of RHTY&SC U-15 team

The long outstanding and productive partnership between corporate entity Farfan & Mendes and the Rose Hall Town Youth & Sports Club was strengthened for another year on Thursday last when the...

No plans to reuse facility in near future

Feb 09, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on No plans to reuse facility in near future

Government Engineer Walter Willis has stated that there has been no direct discussion about the reuse of the soon to be closed Le Repentir dumpsite. Willis was at the time facilitating questions from...

Nursery school teacher’s reputed husband charged with murder

Feb 09, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Nursery school teacher’s reputed husband charged with murder

Rudolph London, whose reputed wife succumbed to injuries from a brutal cutlass beating, has now been charged with murder and is to appear in court today. A senior police official told Kaieteur News...

BCB & Tenelec Inc. USA ink $1.25M deal

Feb 09, 2011 KNews Sports Comments Off on BCB & Tenelec Inc. USA ink $1.25M deal

The Berbice Cricket Board (BCB) for the fourth successive year has obtained sponsorship for its Inter Club Two-Innings Under-15 and First Division 50-over tournaments from Tenelec Inc. of Maryland,...

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Jagdeo’s illogical rejection of the World Bank’s Commodity Market Outlook

…Peeping Tom (Jagdeo’s illogical rejection) Kaieteur News- Vice President Bharrat Jagdeo’s recent comments on the... more