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Conservancy level rises

Mar 16, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Conservancy level rises

– Waters being released into Mahaica Creek Authorities yesterday started pumping excess water in the East Demerara Water Conservancy (EDWC) into the Mahaica Creek area after levels rose...

Ranks extorted money from Surinamese courier

Mar 16, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Ranks extorted money from Surinamese courier

– senior police official Investigations into the movement of a large quantity of US currency through the Corentyne by a Surinamese national have taken a new twist, with local police probing...

Students taken to Police Station

Mar 16, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Students taken to Police Station

…after teacher’s phone goes missing Sixteen students of the Saint Winefride’s Secondary School on Garnett Street, Newtown, were yesterday taken into police custody for over four hours after...

Guyana-born banker jailed, to repay US$3.6M

Mar 16, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Guyana-born banker jailed, to repay US$3.6M

A former Bank of New York manager has been jailed for 37 months and ordered to repay over US$3.6M in restitution costs after recently being convicted on fraud charges. According to a US Attorney,...

Dem boys seh…Put back de people money

Mar 16, 2011 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Dem boys seh…Put back de people money

When dem people protest in Egypt and dem topple Mubarak was big celebration. But Mubarak didn’t celebrate when dem banks tek back de money he tek from dem same people. He family try fuh lef de...

Unhygenic conditions affect G/T Nursing School

Mar 16, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Unhygenic conditions affect G/T Nursing School

– plumbing problems identified as cause Classes at the Georgetown School of Nursing were suspended sometime after 11:00 hours yesterday owing to the unhygienic condition of the facility, a...

Renowned Guyanese surgeon on medical outreach at GPHC

Mar 16, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Renowned Guyanese surgeon on medical outreach at GPHC

Internationally renowned Guyana-born, Dr. Kishan Narine, is currently visiting the country on an outreach of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada (CGAGS) with support from the Libin...

City drainage system being hampered by fishing boats

Mar 16, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on City drainage system being hampered by fishing boats

– Royston King Flooding after a period of rainfall has become the norm in the city of Georgetown, given the fact that the drainage system only caters to one and a half inches of precipitation...

PPP expresses GECOM concerns

Mar 16, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on PPP expresses GECOM concerns

The People’s Progressive Party yesterday said that it is very concerned at the fact that it is drawing close to the period of “Claims and Objections” but the Commission is not meeting, due to...

USAID to close Guyana Mission in 2012

Mar 16, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on USAID to close Guyana Mission in 2012

The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) has announced plans to close its Mission in Guyana in Fiscal Year 2012. According to a statement from the body, this move is part of its...

Guyanese Bell on target for Queen’s Park

Mar 16, 2011 KNews Sports Comments Off on Guyanese Bell on target for Queen’s Park

Guyanese international Jerazeno Bell, who now plays for Queen’s Park, Nicholas Camacho and Sean Lee Quay all found the target in a 3-1 beating of Notre Dame in their T&T Hockey Board Men’s...

Guyanese Cornelius, Willaims hammer tons in T&T cricket

Mar 16, 2011 KNews Sports Comments Off on Guyanese Cornelius, Willaims hammer tons in T&T cricket

Former Guyana under-19 captain Troy Cornelius scored a well compiled 106 with 12 fours and a six for Central Sports against Mahendra Nagamootoo’s Moosai Sports, while former Guyana youth batsman...

Two games end by default in latest UG Inter-Faculty basketball

Mar 16, 2011 KNews Sports Comments Off on Two games end by default in latest UG Inter-Faculty basketball

The few basketball fans that turned up at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall (CASH) yesterday afternoon to witness the two matches in the University of Guyana Inter-Faculty basketball tournament, left...

Raj Singh’s DCB to launch Inter-Association youth tourneys

Mar 16, 2011 KNews Sports Comments Off on Raj Singh’s DCB to launch Inter-Association youth tourneys

– wants GCA & ECCB players to be involved By Sean Devers While neither of the two feuding factions has been officially recognised as the Demerara Cricket Board (DCB), the Raj Singh led...

Eastman and Jones to battle for local Light Heavyweight title

Mar 16, 2011 KNews Sports Comments Off on Eastman and Jones to battle for local Light Heavyweight title

Organizers of the monthly ProAm boxing cards were forced to effect a change to this month end’s bout between local light/heavyweight pugilist, Kwesi Jones and his Barbadian based Guyanese...

ECCB supports Bissoondyal Singh for GCB President

Mar 16, 2011 KNews Sports Comments Off on ECCB supports Bissoondyal Singh for GCB President

Since the furore at the Guyana Cricket Board (GCB) came to light there have been numerous letters in the press and conversations at social gathering about the state of our cricket in Guyana and with...

Powerlifters still struggling for funds

Mar 16, 2011 KNews Sports Comments Off on Powerlifters still struggling for funds

GAPF boss believes athletes can capture best lifter titles in all classes With Friday being the deadline to book their tickets for next week’s 5th IPF/NAPF Caribbean Powerlifting Championships to...

School burglar jailed

Mar 16, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on School burglar jailed

After being remanded for several weeks, charged with break and enter, Milton Smith was yesterday jailed for nine months. When he was brought by lawmen for the first hearing he pleaded guilty, and a...

Motilall offers to take media on site of Amaila Falls road project

Mar 16, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Motilall offers to take media on site of Amaila Falls road project

Chief Executive Officer of Synergy Holdings Inc., Makeswar ‘Fip’ Motilall, says that he is currently in consultation with the subject Ministry to seek a way to have media operatives travel to the...

Digicel lends helping hand to Buxton Youth Developers

Mar 16, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Digicel lends helping hand to Buxton Youth Developers

By Rawle Welch Digicel became the latest entity to add their support to the Buxton Youth Developers Programme after presenting Patron of the organisation Lenox Shuffler with a cheque worth $225,000...

Stabroek News editorial, an endorsement of Granger?

Mar 16, 2011 KNews Letters Comments Off on Stabroek News editorial, an endorsement of Granger?

Dear Editor, The Stabroek News (SN) editorial of Sunday 13 March 2011 titled “Babu John Address” reveals much of the biases of SN written as it is, by an “old timer”. Could this be an...

Justifying that end to prescriptive rights

Mar 16, 2011 KNews Letters Comments Off on Justifying that end to prescriptive rights

Dear Editor, I wish to respond to a letter published in the Kaieteur News on 12th March, 2011, written by Harry Ramessar under the caption, “another nail in the Coffin of the working class”. The...

Mini flare-up forces evacuation at QC

Mar 16, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Mini flare-up forces evacuation at QC

Approximately 700 students at Queen’s College were forced to evacuate their school premises yesterday morning, as a result of a fire of electrical origin. About 10:05 hrs, smoke was seen emanating...

Is President Jagdeo Guyana’s Nero?

Mar 16, 2011 KNews Letters Comments Off on Is President Jagdeo Guyana’s Nero?

Dear Editor, It is often said that history repeats itself, Consider the life of the infamous man born “Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbus” later known as “Nero Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus”...

Curiouser and Curiouser!

Mar 16, 2011 KNews Features / Columnists, Stella Says Comments Off on Curiouser and Curiouser!

Sometimes, in regard to writing on political and social issues in Guyana, I feel like I am watching the Disney movie, Alice in Wonderland. Alice said if she had a world of her own, “…everything...

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Reliance Hustlers delighted for Youth Programme support from First Lady

Teen arrested over uncle’s murder after sharing burial plan with relative

Kaieteur News- A teenager of Tabatinga, Lethem, Central Rupununi, Region Nine was arrested for murder on Friday after he... more