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Breaking News!!! Another woman killed

May 25, 2011 knews News Comments Off on Breaking News!!! Another woman killed

Within less than 24 hours yet another gruesome murder has been recorded, this time at Garden of Eden, East Bank Demerara. Around 09:00 hours today 38 year-old Susilla Latchman, called ‘Devika’ of...

Doctor’s wife found dead in pool of blood

May 25, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Doctor’s wife found dead in pool of blood

– head bashed in The wife of prominent physician, Dr. Ramsundar Doobay, was found bludgeoned to death at around 16:30 hrs yesterday in the bottom flat of the couple’s Echilibar Villas,...

Sleeping children perish in blaze

May 25, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Sleeping children perish in blaze

Two small children left at home alone perished at around 06:15 hrs yesterday in a fire that destroyed their family’s shack at Dazzell Housing Scheme, East Coast Demerara. Julius De Clou, six, and...

GuySuCo details US$12.5M expenditure on packaging plant

May 25, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on GuySuCo details US$12.5M expenditure on packaging plant

– invites KN, Chris Ram to conduct audit A Kaieteur News report which questioned the cost of the recently-commissioned US$12.5M sugar packaging plant at Enmore has come under attack from the...

REO refutes claim that toilet cost $11.7M

May 25, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on REO refutes claim that toilet cost $11.7M

– says money also spent on other projects Regional Executive Officer (REO) of Region Eight, Ishwar Dass, yesterday refuted the claim that the toilet which was on the front page of the KN...

Boy, 13, breaks neck while performing wrestling stunt

May 25, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Boy, 13, breaks neck while performing wrestling stunt

A 13-year-old student of Lower Corentyne Secondary School plunged to his death from a balcony after trying to imitate professional wrestlers on television. Cranston Bennett, of Liverpool Village,...

Nurse charged, fined for disorderly behaviour

May 25, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Nurse charged, fined for disorderly behaviour

Nurse Midwife Elizabeth Austin, 37, of Lot 1 Sandvoort Village, West Canje, Berbice, was on Monday fined $10,000 or an alternative of 20 days imprisonment by Magistrate Adela Nagamootoo when she...

$688M being spent on 1,300m of sea defence

May 25, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on $688M being spent on 1,300m of sea defence

A total of $688M is being spent to construct 1,300 metres sea defence infrastructure in Leguan, Region Three as well as Brahn and Abary in Region Five, says Geoffrey Vaughn, Chief River and Sea...

Rehman, Ajmal spin Pakistan to 196-run win as two-Test series ends 1-all

May 25, 2011 KNews Sports Comments Off on Rehman, Ajmal spin Pakistan to 196-run win as two-Test series ends 1-all

By Sean Devers in St Kitts In association with Digicel, Queensway & Leisure Inn In the sunshine of St Kitts the Pakistan spinners made merry on a last day pitch offering prodigious turn to level...

Alpha face Puerto Rico, Defence Force play Tempete FC today at Stadium

May 25, 2011 KNews Sports Comments Off on Alpha face Puerto Rico, Defence Force play Tempete FC today at Stadium

By Franklin Wilson All roads this evening leads to the Guyana national Stadium, Providence for what is anticipated to be two exciting semifinal games in the Caribbean Football Union Club Champions...

YBG launches NSBF extended version

May 25, 2011 KNews Sports Comments Off on YBG launches NSBF extended version

– conferences established across Guyana With Digicel Guyana, Banks DIH Limited and the National Sport Commission affirming their support once again this year, Youth Basketball Guyana (YBG) has...

Stephen ‘Valentino Rossi’ Vieira reigns supreme at Dover

May 25, 2011 KNews Sports Comments Off on Stephen ‘Valentino Rossi’ Vieira reigns supreme at Dover

Guyana’s Stephen ‘Valentino Rossi’ Vieira was in outstanding form as he raced to two first places and a second at the first leg of the Caribbean Motor racing Championship which was held on...

Courts provide corporate funds for ‘The Rampage’

May 25, 2011 KNews Sports Comments Off on Courts provide corporate funds for ‘The Rampage’

It will be 46 rounds of ‘don’t you dare miss it’ fistic fury when officials of the Guyana Boxing Board of Control (GBBC) stage a boxing card dubbed ‘The Rampage’ this Saturday May 28 at the...

FIBA Level I Coaching Clinic jumps off

May 25, 2011 KNews Sports Comments Off on FIBA Level I Coaching Clinic jumps off

– Yassin urges coaches to spread knowledge Former National Basketball Association (NBA) Assistant Coach, Tom Newell officially bounced off his weeklong FIBA Level I Coaching Clinic yesterday at...

Alpha officials attend CONCACAF Champions League conference

May 25, 2011 KNews Sports Comments Off on Alpha officials attend CONCACAF Champions League conference

Alpha Football Club officials Steve Ninvalle and Gavin Brown attended the CONCACAF Champions League Conference in Miami on Monday and Tuesday of this week ahead of this week’s CFU tournament’s...

Masters’ Independence Football starts tomorrow

May 25, 2011 KNews Sports Comments Off on Masters’ Independence Football starts tomorrow

The 45th Anniversary Masters Football Tournament Independence Cup commences tomorrow at the Georgetown Football Club (GFC) Ground where 12 teams will be launching their campaigns for cash prizes and...

COTED confab produces satisfactory results

May 25, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on COTED confab produces satisfactory results

Responding to calls for speedier action on matters related to Caricom integration, and for firm decisions on issues at hand, regional trade ministers ended their recent meeting with a number of...

GuySuCo moves to compensate dead man’s family

May 25, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on GuySuCo moves to compensate dead man’s family

The Guyana Sugar Corporation (GuySuCo) will be moving to compensate the family of factory worker, Jainarine ‘Derrick’ Singh, who died Monday after an explosion at the Enmore site. GuySuCo will...

President’s/Jefford Track Classic has evolved

May 25, 2011 KNews Sports Comments Off on President’s/Jefford Track Classic has evolved

By Rawle Welch Just as they had promised during the staging of the inaugural President’s /Jefford Track Classic to make this year’s edition bigger and better, Organisers of the event held true to...

GT&T continues its support of Alika Morgan

May 25, 2011 KNews Sports Comments Off on GT&T continues its support of Alika Morgan

The Guyana Telephone and Telegraph Company (GT&T) has continued its long-standing relationship with Alika Morgan, Guyana’s outstanding long-distance runner. It is an association that started...

GT&T, ACDA team up to launch outstanding Afro-Guyanese competition

May 25, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on GT&T, ACDA team up to launch outstanding Afro-Guyanese competition

The Guyana Telephone and Telegraph Company (GT&T) has teamed up with the African Cultural and Development Association (ACDA) to highlight outstanding Guyanese of African descent. During the next...

Concentration lapses almost cost us, lots of work to do – Hercules

May 25, 2011 KNews Sports Comments Off on Concentration lapses almost cost us, lots of work to do – Hercules

Head Coach of the ‘Golden Jaguars’ Collie Hercules was not too happy with the performance of his charges despite their two-game victory against Barbados in their two home games of a 4-game...

Fierce rivalry anticipated as GASP stages Independence Open competition

May 25, 2011 KNews Sports Comments Off on Fierce rivalry anticipated as GASP stages Independence Open competition

While the nation celebrates the 45th Independence Day in reverence, contemplating the strides made by this country during those years, top scrabble players would be vying for honours when the Guyana...

Region’s ICT officials meet in Grenada

May 25, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Region’s ICT officials meet in Grenada

Officials with responsibility for information and communication technology yesterday began a two-day meeting in Grenada to tackle a comprehensive agenda in preparation for a ministerial meeting on...

Mangrove Species Inventory Programme off to successful start

May 25, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Mangrove Species Inventory Programme off to successful start

The National Agriculture Research Institute (NARI) and the Guyana Forestry Commission (GFC) on July 26, last year, signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) which ensured that under the agreement,...

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Mental illness is real and a serious public health concern

Peeping Tom… Kaieteur News- Mental illness is a reality we often acknowledge in passing but seldom confront with the... more