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Mob attacks police at Windsor Forest

Apr 26, 2011 knews News Comments Off on Mob attacks police at Windsor Forest

* four civilians shot, three cops injured * vehicles damaged, 17 detained By Michael Jordan At least four civilians, including a US-based Guyanese were shot last night and three police ranks injured...

Guyanese held in Suriname drug bust

Apr 26, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Guyanese held in Suriname drug bust

The Surinamese police intercepted more than 21 kilograms of cocaine on Sunday and of the five suspects arrested one is a Guyanese. The authorities seized 20 packs with a gross weight of 21.280 kg of...

Local banks closer to introducing single debit card terminal

Apr 26, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Local banks closer to introducing single debit card terminal

Guyana’s move to reduce cash transactions is expected to clear a major hurdle within the next three months as local banks fast-track the introduction of a system to allow debits cards to use a...

Guyanese to head Kenya-based International Livestock Research Institute

Apr 26, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Guyanese to head Kenya-based International Livestock Research Institute

Jimmy Smith has been appointed the new director general designate of the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI), in Nairobi, Kenya. ILRI board chair Knut Hove made the announcement at the...

CPCE student crowned Miss Bartica Regatta 2011

Apr 26, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on CPCE student crowned Miss Bartica Regatta 2011

Last year she was a part of the audience and watched on as her younger sister, Annece Hicks, was crowned the Miss Regatta Queen 2010. This year 19-year-old Ava Hicks, a teacher in training at the...

Dem boys seh… Is de Easter giveaway

Apr 26, 2011 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Dem boys seh… Is de Easter giveaway

Everybody got dem own interest. Dem boys read how a judge in California uphold a decision that gay people got de right to marry. All dem gay celebrate till somebody find out that de judge heself gay....

Reporter fights off bandit

Apr 26, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Reporter fights off bandit

A bandit got more than he bargained for yesterday afternoon after he pounced on a Kaieteur News reporter yesterday afternoon. Some time after 17:00 hours Rabindra Rooplall was walking along High...

Orlando Thom could face two indictable charges this week

Apr 26, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Orlando Thom could face two indictable charges this week

Former national swimming champion turned gunman, Onan Orlando Thom, is likely to appear in court early this week on indictable charges that include abduction. Police have indicated that they are...

Cane cutter succumbs, lover discharged from ICU

Apr 26, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Cane cutter succumbs, lover discharged from ICU

Sheniza Mangru, 23, of East Canefield East Canje, Berbice was on Sunday morning discharged from the Intensive Care Unit of the New Amsterdam Public Hospital after being admitted with twelve stabs...

Development in Caribbean countries aimed at Millennium Development Goals

Apr 26, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Development in Caribbean countries aimed at Millennium Development Goals

By Rabindra Rooplall The demographic profile of the Region is changing with the decline in both mortality and birth rates. According to United Nations (UN) estimates, by 2050, over 30 percent of...

Takutu drilling fails to find commercial oil deposits

Apr 26, 2011 knews News Comments Off on Takutu drilling fails to find commercial oil deposits

– Groundstar eyes another well Guyana’s hope to find oil in the Region Nine area has been dashed, at least for a while, with the a Canadian drilling company not achieving commercial success...

Easter – the time of reawakening

Apr 26, 2011 knews News Comments Off on Easter – the time of reawakening

By Rev Cornell Moss Throughout the biblical tradition, those called by God to proclaim His message, addressed their hearers exactly where they were. In the prophetic narrative, the prophets and seers...

Easter, the mother of all Christian festivals

Apr 26, 2011 knews News Comments Off on Easter, the mother of all Christian festivals

Easter Sunday is the chief of all Christian festivals. It is the resurrection of Jesus Christ that brought Christianity to life. Easter is the greatest feast on the Christian calendar. It comes forty...

UG gets CDB grant

Apr 26, 2011 knews News Comments Off on UG gets CDB grant

Last month the Caribbean Development Bank approved a grant to Guyana equivalent to US$250,000 for the technical assistance funding for the University of Guyana (UG). The Bank disclosed that the...

Teen forges exams certificate as Ministry steps up truancy campaign

Apr 26, 2011 knews News Comments Off on Teen forges exams certificate as Ministry steps up truancy campaign

With the rate of unemployment among early school leavers skyrocketing, many opt to indulge in illegal activities. For them the hope of finding a decent job becomes more and more dim. Just last week,...

Prince Charming is new star of the track with another thumping win

Apr 26, 2011 knews Sports Comments Off on Prince Charming is new star of the track with another thumping win

By Samuel Whyte Prince Charming owned by the P and P Syndicate and running out of the Colin Elcock Stable showed that its recent victories in the horseracing circle was no fluke and that it is the...

Ezra Sue-Ho becomes first Macorp Open Men’s Singles winner

Apr 26, 2011 knews Sports Comments Off on Ezra Sue-Ho becomes first Macorp Open Men’s Singles winner

Ezra Sue-Ho etched his name in history as the first Macorp Open Men’s Singles winner as he outplayed number one seed Jeremy Miller to claim the title in front of a good crowd at the Pegasus Courts...

Wendell Meusa wins CCI Chess Tournament

Apr 26, 2011 knews Sports Comments Off on Wendell Meusa wins CCI Chess Tournament

– Suhai Feng is top Junior Wendell Meusa played unbeaten to win the first Caribbean Container Incorporated Chess Tournament based on the Progress tiebreaker system. Meusa secure five wins...

Moen Gafoor prevails as GASP stages Insurance Brokers Lien tourney

Apr 26, 2011 knews Sports Comments Off on Moen Gafoor prevails as GASP stages Insurance Brokers Lien tourney

Moen Gafoor retained a rich vein of form to register 5 points and a positive spread of 459 to inscribe his name on the Insurance Brokers Lien trophy when the Guyana Association of Scrabble Players...

Dave Young, Randy, Sean & Orin Belle are category champions

Apr 26, 2011 knews Sports Comments Off on Dave Young, Randy, Sean & Orin Belle are category champions

By Franklin Wilson in Bartica While the crowd was not as large as expected on a sunny and windy Easter Monday at the Golden Beach Circuit, Bartica, the 36th Annual Bartica Easter Regatta ended...

Kaieteur News reporter on Regional Radio team

Apr 26, 2011 knews Sports Comments Off on Kaieteur News reporter on Regional Radio team

Will broadcast remainder of the Pakistan series Kaieteur News’ Journalist Sean Devers has been selected on the Andrew Mason-led Line and Length Regional Radio broadcast team for the remainder of...

Brathwaite, Alleyne hit tons for Windies in U-19 Test against Aussies

Apr 26, 2011 knews Sports Comments Off on Brathwaite, Alleyne hit tons for Windies in U-19 Test against Aussies

Centuries from Kraigg Brathwaite and Anthony Alleyne gave West Indies Under-19s a 76-run first-innings lead in their three-day match against Australia Under-19s in Dubai. With only a day to play, a...

GCA U-15 cricket continues from tomorrow

Apr 26, 2011 knews Sports Comments Off on GCA U-15 cricket continues from tomorrow

The Brainstreet Under-15 Cricket Competition organized by the Georgetown Cricket Association (GCA) continues this week at various venues in the City. Five matches are scheduled for tomorrow while...

What public mischief is Rohee talking about?

Apr 26, 2011 knews Letters Comments Off on What public mischief is Rohee talking about?

Dear Editor, I respond to Kaieteur News article, dated 21st April 2011 in connection with the refugee case in Canada. Clement Rohee is attacking me unjustly. I never made any allegations against him,...

Neither the PPP nor the PNC succeeded in improving people’s lives

Apr 26, 2011 knews Letters Comments Off on Neither the PPP nor the PNC succeeded in improving people’s lives

Dear Editor, Having read the latest of Cheddi Jagan Jnr.’s increasingly frequent contributions to your letter columns (published Friday 22nd April), I was reminded of Ronald Regan’s simple...

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The stakes are high in Guyana’s democracy

Peeping Tom… Kaieteur News- In any vibrant democracy, the mechanisms that bind it together are those that mediate differences,... more