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“Bitter” Property feud may have led to killing

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Police are questioning the son of auto dealer, Harry Persaud Ramsaywack, of “TransPacific Motor Spares” as they follow leads which suggest that a property feud was the motive behind Thursday...

Defective police vehicle crushes woman

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Sixty-eight-year-old Shantrinie Sookdeo, aka “Seerani” is now dead after a police vehicle slammed into her, smashing her lower body, as she was awaiting transportation to return home after...

Speeding car kills 61-yr-old Lindener

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An accident early yesterday morning involving a pedal cyclist and a car (wagon) PKK 3831 has left a 61-year-old Linden man dead, and his wife and family totally devastated. Dead is Carl Bentick, of...

Overloaded truck topples off Lethem Trail bridge … driver dies

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Thursday was apparently a ‘bad bridge’ day on the Lethem trail. Two accidents with large trucks occurred, one of them resulting in a fatality. The first and most serious incident occurred shortly...

Dem boys seh…De world forget we and people vex

Jul 02, 2011 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Dem boys seh…De world forget we and people vex

Is strange that people ignoring Guyana. Long time when dem other countries had dem function dem use to invite Guyana. De other day England had a royal wedding and dem ignore Guyana. No invitation...

Caricom Summit opens with tedious ceremony

Jul 02, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Caricom Summit opens with tedious ceremony

By Radha Motielall The 32nd annual conference of the Caricom Heads of Government got underway on Thursday with a marathon opening ceremony that lasted some five and a half hours. This tested the...

Laxman (72*) Dravid (55) give India victory hopes

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Tourists lead by 240 going into final day By Sean Devers in Barbados in association with Digicel, Carib Beer & Queensway Half-centuries from VVS Laxman (72*) and Raul Dravid (55) kept India on...

President’s College PTA lambastes school Board

Jul 02, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on President’s College PTA lambastes school Board

Yesterday the Board that manages President’s College came in for strong criticisms from some members of the Parent Teacher Association. According to a member of the PTA, Janet White, the body...

Teacher, student to be sanctioned-Education Ministry

Jul 02, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Teacher, student to be sanctioned-Education Ministry

Principal Education Officer (Georgetown), Marcel Hutson, recently met with parents of Charlestown Secondary School to discuss the way forward following the incident with the teacher and the student....

“It’s a Championship like none other”- Says Bowman

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– Stakeholders launch NSBF President of Youth Basketball Guyana (YBG), Chris Bowman told several schools, teachers, officials and enthusiasts yesterday that the National Schools Basketball...

Guyana sending full contingent to ALBA Games

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Guyana will field a full-fledged contingent to the upcoming Games of the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America (ALBA) that will be held during July 17-30 in Venezuela, the Ministry of...

Schools record improved NGSA performance over 2010

Jul 02, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Schools record improved NGSA performance over 2010

In the wake of the news of the country’s top performers, there is another story to be told. The top one percent as released by the Ministry of Education tells the story of the best 188 candidates....

Haiti wants an end to visa restrictions

Jul 02, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Haiti wants an end to visa restrictions

Haiti’s Prime Minister Michel Martelly on Friday participated in his first Caricom meeting with his fellow Caricom heads of Government and later noted that it was indeed an honour for him. But...

Regional Under 15 Tournament bowls off today

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St John’s, Antigua – The West Indies Cricket Board Regional Under 15 Tournament bowls off today in Trinidad with three matches at Guaracara Park, Gilbert Park and the National Cricket Centre. In...

Women and children under reported in the media

Jul 02, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Women and children under reported in the media

Gaulbert Sutherland of Stabroek News was yesterday announced the winner of the challenge posed by the Ministry of Labour, Human Services and Social Security last year for journalists to submit...

GFA executive to address football issues at specially convened forum

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Several pertinent issues relating to the development of football is scheduled to fall under focus when the executives of the Georgetown Football Association (GFA) convene for a special meeting in the...

Gayadin to defend Muneshwar’s Ltd Golf title

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The Annual Muneshwar Ltd. Golf tournament will be played today at the Lusignan golf Club with a most of the country’s leading players expected to participate. Last year’s winner Mike Gayadin is...

Porkknocker jailed for drug possession

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Christopher Tuesday, a porkknocker of Third Avenue, Bartica, and a father of six, the youngest being 15, was yesterday sentenced to three years’ ...

GRFU RESUMES DOMESTIC RUGBY COMPETITION

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Following the conclusion of the Finals of the NACRA Fifteens Championships, hosted by Guyana at the Providence Stadium, and won by Bermuda, 11-0, the Guyana Rugby Football Union (GRFU) will resume...

Patrick Hazlewood wins Chairman’s Diamond Award

Jul 02, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Patrick Hazlewood wins Chairman’s Diamond Award

… insurance coy holds AGM Patrick Hazlewood emerged as the sole Guyanese to cop the Chairman’s Diamond Award when the Demerara Mutual Life Assurance Society Group held its annual general meeting...

Nurses graduate as Psychiatric Patient Care Assistants

Jul 02, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Nurses graduate as Psychiatric Patient Care Assistants

The Psychiatric Patient Care programme in Guyana got a boost when 21 persons graduated recently as Psychiatric Patient Care Assistants in Berbice. The occasion was the first convocation ceremony of...

Woman remanded for allegedly setting miner alight

Jul 02, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Woman remanded for allegedly setting miner alight

Forty-year-old Karen Reece was yesterday remanded to prison on the charge of murder, when she made a court appearance before Magistrate Haymant Ramdani, at the Bartica Magistrate’s Court. It was...

Gov’t assists with flood relief in Baracara

Jul 02, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Gov’t assists with flood relief in Baracara

The government, in collaboration with the Civil Defense Commission (CDC), has distributed 130 food hampers to residents of Baracara, Tacuba and Icoram, located some 60 miles up the Berbice River. The...

North Soesdyke battle Combined United as championship reaches semifinal stage

Jul 02, 2011 knews Sports Comments Off on North Soesdyke battle Combined United as championship reaches semifinal stage

Cricketers along the East Bank corridor are gearing up for action when the executives of the East Bank Cricket Association (EBCA) stage the Neville Sarjoo 40 overs cricket championships at the...

MCYS, NSC Day of Inter action heads to Mahdia tomorrow

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The Ministry of Culture, Youth and Sport/National Sports Commission continues on its historic trail as it takes the Day of Inter action to yet another hinterland community – Mahdia in Region #8....

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Dolphin Secondary, East Ruimveldt seal Round-5 victories in Republic Bank U-18 Football League

A shameful abdication of leadership

…Peeping Tom Kaieteur News- The PPPC government has reached a new low in its spineless defense of the lopsided Production... more