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Police sergeant shot

Apr 24, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Police sergeant shot

– in face, leg and abdomen – while foiling attack on cambio dealer’s wife Police sergeant Ransford Liverpool was battling for his life in the Georgetown Public Hospital yesterday, after...

Deportee leads police on high speed chase in cop’s stolen car

Apr 24, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Deportee leads police on high speed chase in cop’s stolen car

A young deportee from East La Penitence is lucky he is still alive after leading police on a high speed chase yesterday midday in a car that he had stolen from a policeman the previous night. The...

An officer and a gentleman

Apr 24, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on An officer and a gentleman

Compton Hartley Liverpool is a ‘Special Person’ Colonel Liverpool’s climb up the military ladder was phenomenal, starting with his appointment to the rank of Corporal in November 1965...

Dem boys seh…Thief from thief

Apr 24, 2011 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Dem boys seh…Thief from thief

De kites gun really fly because this time around people cost of living flying high. Dem boys seh that every time prices go up in this country, kites does soar to new heights. Minibus fares gone up...

Local contracting giants to undertake Hope Canal

Apr 24, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Local contracting giants to undertake Hope Canal

DIPCON, BK International and COURTNEY BENN Contracting Services are the three successful bidders for the Hope Canal Project. During the weekly Cabinet press briefings, Head of the Presidential...

Supenaam stelling back in operation after a one day lull

Apr 24, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Supenaam stelling back in operation after a one day lull

Officials at the previously abandoned Adventure Ferry Stelling said that operations at the Supenaam-Good Hope ferry stelling resumed yesterday. On Thursday mooring operations had to be swiftly...

Den Amstel woman joins Guyana’s club of centenarians

Apr 24, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Den Amstel woman joins Guyana’s club of centenarians

Today, Ursula Victoria Forbes of 22 North Half, Den Amstel, West Coast Demerara is a centenarian. She is popularly known as Mother Forbes and has maintained a marvelous vision for her age. Flocked by...

From the Diaspora … THE MESSENGER ALWAYS GETS THE BLAME

Apr 24, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on From the Diaspora … THE MESSENGER ALWAYS GETS THE BLAME

What a week it was for the media, especially Kaieteur News and Adam. First Adam got reprimanded by the son of the Attorney General Charles Ramson, then Kaieteur News get blame for carrying/not...

Dharm Shala celebrates 90 years of existence

Apr 24, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Dharm Shala celebrates 90 years of existence

By Rabindra Rooplall The Dharm Shala, the humanitarian charity which was founded by the late Pandit Ramsaroop Maraj, celebrated its 90th anniversary last Thursday. The Pandit was born on November 3,...

Security needed at N/A Amerindian Hostel, after bandit attack

Apr 24, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Security needed at N/A Amerindian Hostel, after bandit attack

The Amerindian Hostel in New Amsterdam provides boarding and lodging for Amerindians who live in the riverain and far-flung areas in the Berbice River, and even elsewhere. Currently, there are 16...

Ogle gas station fiasco… Sol refutes allegations of forced possession

Apr 24, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Ogle gas station fiasco… Sol refutes allegations of forced possession

Sol, the company that now owns the Shell franchise, has said that an article published in the April 21 edition of the Kaieteur News contains defamatory allegations against SOL. The article stemmed...

2500 students occupy state run dormitories

Apr 24, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on 2500 students occupy state run dormitories

– New dorms earmarked to increase access to secondary education The number of students residing in government funded dormitories will increase significantly in the next three years as plans to...

Immigration TALK: How to Extend your Visit in the United States?

Apr 24, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Immigration TALK: How to Extend your Visit in the United States?

By: Attorney Gail S. Seeram, [email protected] In certain situations, when you travel to the United States on a nonimmigrant visa, you may want to extend your stay. As a nonimmigrant, you are...

Camptown end drought with Mayor Cup trophy

Apr 24, 2011 KNews Sports Comments Off on Camptown end drought with Mayor Cup trophy

Eight years after winning their first Mayor’s Cup football title, Camptown FC turned in a determined effort to clinch this year’s edition, defeating Fruta Conquerors 2-0 when action in that...

Science and technology to accelerate national growth – Minister Baksh

Apr 24, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Science and technology to accelerate national growth – Minister Baksh

Students are being urged by Education Minister Shaik Baksh, to pursue careers in the field of Science and Technology as the areas that will accelerate national growth. Baksh, who was at the time...

Autism — the misunderstood malady

Apr 24, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Autism — the misunderstood malady

Imagine talking yourself blue in the face trying to make the natives of the strange country you’re in understand you … but you can’t because they don’t speak English and you don’t speak...

Plant shop suffers frequent robberies

Apr 24, 2011 knews News Comments Off on Plant shop suffers frequent robberies

As robberies and petty thefts become more frequent among locations in Georgetown, the Garden Land Nursery has now become the latest place where bandits seem to enjoy robbing. Last week, the Garden...

DDL Group records $1.14B profit

Apr 24, 2011 knews News Comments Off on DDL Group records $1.14B profit

…turnover and profit after tax increase by 10% The Demerara Distillers Limited Group (DDL) recorded an after taxation profit of $1.140 billion in 2010, marking a 10 percent increase over 2009....

Building your home? Think again! (Part Nine)

Apr 24, 2011 knews News Comments Off on Building your home? Think again! (Part Nine)

Some shocking things you may need to know … By Leonard Gildarie This week, based on questions asked by our readers, we will specifically be dealing with wiring your home. This is a critical element...

Stage set for biggest Bartica Regatta festivities ever

Apr 24, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Stage set for biggest Bartica Regatta festivities ever

For more than 50 years Barticians have been holding the annual Easter Regatta. And since then Guyanese from across the country have been traveling to the former mining community to associate with the...

Cigarettes from Guyana smuggled to US – report says

Apr 24, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Cigarettes from Guyana smuggled to US – report says

— dozens arrested in crackdown New York (MMD Newswire) – A three-month investigation led by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) into...

Health Minister sets ambitious target for NBTS

Apr 24, 2011 knews News Comments Off on Health Minister sets ambitious target for NBTS

With a collection of 2,000 units already for this year, the National Blood Transfusion Service (NBTS) seems to be poised to fulfill an ambitious target of 10,000 units by the end of this year....

The National Cane Farming Committee Act, 1965

Apr 24, 2011 knews Letters Comments Off on The National Cane Farming Committee Act, 1965

Dear Editor, The following is by no means intended to be a criticism, but more so a reminder to all the stakeholders involved in the cane farming component of the sugar industry, that there is...

Tributes continue to pour in for the late Shondel Samaroo

Apr 24, 2011 KNews Sports Comments Off on Tributes continue to pour in for the late Shondel Samaroo

– Night of remembrance planned for tomorrow night As tributes continue to pour in on the sudden passing of former national netball player and Coach Shondel Samaroo, the Executive and general...

Word formers battle in GASP Insurance Brokers Lien scrabble championships

Apr 24, 2011 KNews Sports Comments Off on Word formers battle in GASP Insurance Brokers Lien scrabble championships

Based on his hot form and extensive vocabulary, Moen Gafoor would start out as the favourite when the nation’s top scrabble players aspire for an opportunity to secure a lien on the Insurance...

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Brewley’s ‘glut’ inspires Hard Knocks to ExxonMobil Futsal Championship Finals

Traditional media is still king

…Peeping Tom Kaieteur News-Election campaigns are a battle for attention, persuasion, and votes. In this digital age,... more