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An Indonesian rat is terrorizing Demerara

May 20, 2011 knews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on An Indonesian rat is terrorizing Demerara

The public statement by GPL that a rat caused havoc with its system leading to widespread electricity disruptions in the county of Demerara was the joke of the entire country. Websites dealing with...

American, Canadian held on suspicion of terrorism, drugs

May 20, 2011 knews News Comments Off on American, Canadian held on suspicion of terrorism, drugs

By Latoya Giles An American man and a Guyana-born Canadian national have been arrested and are currently in police custody under the suspicion that they are linked to terrorist acts and drug...

Bandits nabbed by Soesdyke residents after high-speed chase

May 20, 2011 knews News Comments Off on Bandits nabbed by Soesdyke residents after high-speed chase

– cash, shotgun taken as grocery, customers robbed Heavily armed bandits last evening terrorised a Soesdyke businessman and his family, before making off with a significant amount of cash and a...

Govt. asks Parliament for additional $6.2B

May 20, 2011 knews News Comments Off on Govt. asks Parliament for additional $6.2B

– includes funding for Wartsila project, four-lane East Coast extension Government has moved to the National Assembly for an additional $6.2B to cover several projects including the 15.6mw...

Grocer, 70, murdered in Essequibo home

May 20, 2011 knews News Comments Off on Grocer, 70, murdered in Essequibo home

Popular grocer Victor Winston Warner was found battered and strangled in the bottom flat of his Richmond Village, Essequibo Coast home shortly after 03:00 hrs yesterday. The 70-year-old’s body was...

Another Olive Ridley rescued

May 20, 2011 knews News Comments Off on Another Olive Ridley rescued

An Olive Ridley sea turtle was yesterday rescued by a speedboat operator in the vicinity of the Vreed-en-Hoop stelling at the mooring point for vessels. The turtle was found with a fish hook in its...

Dem boys seh…Nobody tekking this prophecy serious

May 20, 2011 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Dem boys seh…Nobody tekking this prophecy serious

De world have people who believe anything. De Waterfalls Boss Man got a thing he does seh. “If you don’t stand up fuh something you gun fall fuh anything.” A man preach how de world gun end...

Tiger Bay resident identified as gunman

May 20, 2011 knews News Comments Off on Tiger Bay resident identified as gunman

Police believe that they have caught one of three gunmen who shot police sergeant Ransford Liverpool during a daring $2M heist at Avenue of the Repubilc last month. Kaieteur News understands that...

Windies eye 2-nil triumph against Pakistan

May 20, 2011 KNews Sports Comments Off on Windies eye 2-nil triumph against Pakistan

Seeking first back-to-back Test wins since 2002 When West Indies toured England in 1973, they had not won any of the 20 Tests they had played in seven years and after losing their inaugural ODI, a...

GT&T fast ball To be launched this evening

May 20, 2011 KNews Sports Comments Off on GT&T fast ball To be launched this evening

Football players’ nationwide gearing up for exhilarating c/ship Cricket, players, lovers and fans would agree that the GT&T initiative of a Ten10 softball cricket competition has taken Guyana...

Pompey arrives for President’s/Jefford Track and Field Classic

May 20, 2011 KNews Sports Comments Off on Pompey arrives for President’s/Jefford Track and Field Classic

Will compete in Guyana for first time in almost 20 years Guyana’s two-time Commonwealth Games medallist, United States-based, Aliann Pompey arrived in Guyana yesterday morning to compete at...

Stabroek Minibus Park relocation being mulled

May 20, 2011 knews News Comments Off on Stabroek Minibus Park relocation being mulled

Government is mulling the relocation of the Stabroek Minibus Park, which will see the creation of terminals at strategic locations. This was disclosed yesterday by Rabindranauth Chanderpaul, Chief...

World Bank Rep. lauds government’s commitment to education

May 20, 2011 knews News Comments Off on World Bank Rep. lauds government’s commitment to education

In the coming months and years there will be continued support directed towards reforming the delivery of teacher education programmes, which according to World Bank Representative Dr Chingboon Lee,...

Digicel Football Cup kicks off in Berbice today

May 20, 2011 KNews Sports Comments Off on Digicel Football Cup kicks off in Berbice today

7 teams to battle in 2-day KO Football starved Berbicians will have an opportunity to witness two nights of action when the Hearts of Oak Masters Football Club of New Amsterdam in collaboration with...

New measures approved to control movement of plants, animals and seeds

May 20, 2011 knews News Comments Off on New measures approved to control movement of plants, animals and seeds

The country’s lawmakers yesterday approved three key pieces of legislation that will among other things control the movement of animals and plants to and from Guyana, and regulate the production...

Fitness Express/Mr. Total Fitness Mania 2 set for June 18

May 20, 2011 KNews Sports Comments Off on Fitness Express/Mr. Total Fitness Mania 2 set for June 18

Over 30 to collide at Diamond Community Centre Members of the Total Fitness Gym are working feverishly towards having their bodies in pristine shape ahead of their Second annual in house competition...

Visually impaired participate in sensitisation workshop

May 20, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Visually impaired participate in sensitisation workshop

In observance of Blindness Awareness Month, the Guyana Society for the Blind and the Guyana Blind Cricket Association (GBSA) sponsored a sensitisation workshop on the Disability Act 2010. The event...

EU, Govt. negotiating 10th EDF financing conditions

May 20, 2011 knews News Comments Off on EU, Govt. negotiating 10th EDF financing conditions

The European Union (EU) is currently negotiating conditions of financing the 10th European Development Fund (EDF) with Government, says Christopher Ingelbrecht, Head of the Technical Section of the...

Eligible Referees for CONCACAF Gold Cup announced

May 20, 2011 KNews Sports Comments Off on Eligible Referees for CONCACAF Gold Cup announced

Guyanese Lancaster and Inniss included New York – Guyanese Referees Stanley Lancaster and Dion Inniss are among the list of 15 referees and 15 assistant referees eligible to officiate at the 2011...

Lennox Alleyne Looks Past, But Wary Of Kwesi Jones As Fight Night Draws Nigh

May 20, 2011 KNews Sports Comments Off on Lennox Alleyne Looks Past, But Wary Of Kwesi Jones As Fight Night Draws Nigh

By Michael Benjamin Despite the fact that Lennox ‘Pretty Boy’ Alleyne is preparing for a 12 round battle for the CABOFE middleweight title against Kwesi ‘Lightening Struck Assassin’ Jones,...

Rising sprint queen relishing opportunity to race Pompey

May 20, 2011 KNews Sports Comments Off on Rising sprint queen relishing opportunity to race Pompey

-Carto expresses confidence as well Rising sprint queen Neisa Allen speaking with Kaieteur Sport during a training session at the Police Sports Club yesterday said that she is relishing the...

Jagdeo says labour shortage likely in coming years

May 20, 2011 knews News Comments Off on Jagdeo says labour shortage likely in coming years

…disputes Skeldon factory is only fault to sugar problems By Leonard Gildarie Government has warned of a labour shortage, in the coming years, as several national projects come on stream. As a...

Stag & El Dorado Softball enter semi-final stage

May 20, 2011 KNews Sports Comments Off on Stag & El Dorado Softball enter semi-final stage

Finals set for Sunday at the GCC Defending champions Floodlights, Savage, Regal Seniors and Albion are through to the semifinals in the Stag Beer and El Dorado Rum nationwide softball cricket...

One can’t bully his or her way into governance when rejected by the voters

May 20, 2011 KNews Letters Comments Off on One can’t bully his or her way into governance when rejected by the voters

Dear Editor, In his column of May 6, Mr. Freddie Kissoon in “Ogunseye and Hinds: Remembering the past”, penned that these two gentlemen – Tacuma Ogunseye and Dr. David Hinds – fought...

An Indonesian rat is terrorizing Demerara

May 20, 2011 KNews Sports Comments Off on An Indonesian rat is terrorizing Demerara

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A question of timing and priorities

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