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Kraigg Brathwaite in Windies 13 man squad for 2nd Digicel Test

May 19, 2011 KNews Sports Comments Off on Kraigg Brathwaite in Windies 13 man squad for 2nd Digicel Test

Basseterre, St Kitts – Eighteen year old Barbadian opener Kraigg Brathwaite has been named in the West Indies squad for the Second Digicel Test against Pakistan at Warner Park starting today....

Breaking News!! American held on suspicion of terrorism

May 19, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Breaking News!! American held on suspicion of terrorism

– Also linked to Drug trafficking An American man, said to be the financial advisor to Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan, has been arrested at a local hotel in Georgetown. A senior police...

Amaila Falls Hydro Project… Controversy surrounds Sithe Global licence

May 19, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Amaila Falls Hydro Project… Controversy surrounds Sithe Global licence

Controversy surrounds the licence Sithe Global says was handed to it by Synergy Holdings, the original developer of the US$700 million Amaila Falls Hydro Electricity Project. Yesterday, Head of the...

Shot trunker says … ‘I was cleaning my face in the side view mirror’

May 19, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Shot trunker says … ‘I was cleaning my face in the side view mirror’

The 44-year-old man who was shot on Tuesday by an employee of the Perreira Mining Company has denied allegations that he was attempting to break into anyone’s vehicle. Ali Stevens, of...

Rat in Wartsila engine shuts power to several Demerara wards

May 19, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Rat in Wartsila engine shuts power to several Demerara wards

A rat is being blamed for a major disruption that shut down several parts of Demerara shortly after midnight on Tuesday. Several areas, including sections of West Demerara, reported being without...

GAWU welcomes resolution of Diamond Severance Pay dispute

May 19, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on GAWU welcomes resolution of Diamond Severance Pay dispute

…to withdraw lawsuit The Guyana Agricultural and General Workers Union (GAWU) and its almost 375 members of the recently closed Diamond Estate yesterday said they are delighted that the 17-month...

Guyanese murder accused on bail caught shoplifting in US

May 19, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Guyanese murder accused on bail caught shoplifting in US

Pennsylvania (PA), US (lime.patch.com)- A murder accused, said to be a Guyanese, who was on bail, was arrested last week Wednesday after he allegedly shoplifted merchandise using special bags that...

Dem boys seh… Fip didn’t have to go to court fuh US$15M

May 19, 2011 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Dem boys seh… Fip didn’t have to go to court fuh US$15M

Henry de Yellow gone home from hospital. De doctors seh that he can’t stay there any more because too many people trying to get in and de security can’t cope wid de crowd. When de man get...

AFC accuses GPL of denying some West Berbice residents the right to electricity

May 19, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on AFC accuses GPL of denying some West Berbice residents the right to electricity

The Alliance for Change is charging that Guyana Power and Light company is denying some 100 residents of Third Street, Number 30 Village, West Coast Berbice, their ‘right’ to the supply of...

Top Cop discharged from hospital

May 19, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Top Cop discharged from hospital

…Performed some duties from hospital bed Commissioner of Police, Henry Greene, was yesterday released from a private city hospital, but there is no word from official sources of the nature of his...

Sale of motor vehicle licences fraught with challenges

May 19, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Sale of motor vehicle licences fraught with challenges

It would seem that the operation of the Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) Licence Revenue Office is fraught with technological challenges. These become especially evident when the time comes to procure...

Showers and intermittent rain to be expected along the coast – Hydromet

May 19, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Showers and intermittent rain to be expected along the coast – Hydromet

Over the last 12 hours Guyana’s weather has been influenced by the entrance of a Tropical Wave which is moving westward, according to the Hydrometerological department. The tropical wave had...

$128.9M primary school for Grove – Dr. Luncheon

May 19, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on $128.9M primary school for Grove – Dr. Luncheon

The construction of the Diamond Primary School is billed at $128.8M and it is set to be constructed in Grove, East Bank Demerara, Head of the Presidential Secretariat, Dr. Roger Luncheon said...

BILL COTTON/REFORM… BILL GOES SHOPPING..FOR QUALITY (and don’t find it)

May 19, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on BILL COTTON/REFORM… BILL GOES SHOPPING..FOR QUALITY (and don’t find it)

It was Citizen Kane who suggested to Bill in the Flatshop Cambio. So Bill went to sample Guyana Stores. What an experience. A Bad One. Bill has been into East German and Russian stores with more...

IDB to hold first forum on base of pyramid in C’bean

May 19, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on IDB to hold first forum on base of pyramid in C’bean

In June, the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) will hold its first ever forum on innovative business models designed to unleash the potential of the 360 million people who make up the social and...

GTI gears for 60th anniversary

May 19, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on GTI gears for 60th anniversary

As the Guyana Technical Institute gears up to celebrate its 60th Anniversary, the school yesterday held a curtain raiser in an effort to sensitise the public about what the institute is doing....

Alpha face PR Islanders; Defence Force play Tempete FC @ Providence

May 19, 2011 knews Sports Comments Off on Alpha face PR Islanders; Defence Force play Tempete FC @ Providence

By Franklin Wilson Local football powerhouse Alpha ‘The Hammer’ United are in the tapering phase of preparations for the biggest challenge in the club’s history yet; they are set to...

Windies in the sights of Big Bash teams

May 19, 2011 knews Sports Comments Off on Windies in the sights of Big Bash teams

Australia’s newly manufactured Twenty20 teams will make extensive raids on West Indies cricket as the only readily available source of international talent for next summer’s expanded Big...

ECCB/Rockaway Auto, Bicycle Sales & Sound System cricket continues

May 19, 2011 knews Sports Comments Off on ECCB/Rockaway Auto, Bicycle Sales & Sound System cricket continues

Play in the East Coast Cricket Board, Rockaway Auto, Bicycle Sales and Sound System Premier and Super League cricket competitions continue this weekend with several matches on Sunday. Starting at...

Schoolgirl survives three-vehicle accident at Vergenoegen

May 19, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Schoolgirl survives three-vehicle accident at Vergenoegen

With the heavy rainfall yesterday on the East Bank of Essequibo, drivers were proceeding with extra caution. However; this could not prevent a three-vehicle accident which occurred at Vergenoegen,...

Local women’s group to represent Guyana Regionally

May 19, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Local women’s group to represent Guyana Regionally

The Pomeroon Women’s Agro Processors Association (PWAPA) will be representing Guyana at a Regional Contest for Rural Innovative Projects in Barbados this June. The local women’s group was...

Chess players gear up for FIDE rated independence tournament

May 19, 2011 knews Sports Comments Off on Chess players gear up for FIDE rated independence tournament

Affiliates of the Guyana Chess Federation will commemorate the Independence anniversary with a FIDE rated tournament, this Saturday May 21 at the KEI-SHAR’S Sports Club, 1 Hadfield St....

Essequibo Assizes open

May 19, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Essequibo Assizes open

The May session of the Essequibo Assizes opened with a parade featuring ranks from ‘G’ Division. Justice Franklin Holder took the salute. The parade, which was witnessed, by pre-school children...

Mix Up are Clash of the Sawakis dominos champs

May 19, 2011 knews Sports Comments Off on Mix Up are Clash of the Sawakis dominos champs

Eon James is MVP Mix Up Dominos Club have proven that they are the best in the game when they carted off the top place in the Clash of the Sawakis Domino competition held at Rockies Brazilian Sports...

Formidable Guyana team leaves for CMRC in Jamaica

May 19, 2011 knews Sports Comments Off on Formidable Guyana team leaves for CMRC in Jamaica

– Jeffrey relishing battle with Summerbell and Gore A formidable Guyana contingent including drivers and riders left the country yesterday to participate in the first leg of the Caribbean Motor...