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The Caribbean’s Unfriendly Skies

Jul 13, 2011 KNews Editorial Comments Off on The Caribbean’s Unfriendly Skies

Who would deny that we need a low-cost airline in the region? From the earliest days of Caribbean aviation, it was always practically cheaper to fly to London than to one of our Caricom neighbours....

Six nabbed after multi-million $$$ robbery

Jul 13, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Six nabbed after multi-million $$$ robbery

– gun, ammo recovered By Latoya Giles Police have detained ex-policeman Sean Hinds and five other men in connection with a brazen multi-million-dollar robbery yesterday at the Bel Air Gardens...

Sailors rescued from burning trawler

Jul 13, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Sailors rescued from burning trawler

Three sailors were rescued from a fiery death when their trawler ‘Atlantic Star’ burst into flames on the Essequibo River near the island of Leguan yesterday afternoon. The men were rescued by a...

Dem boys seh…De jail waiting fuh some of dem

Jul 13, 2011 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Dem boys seh…De jail waiting fuh some of dem

A man lef he truck outside de police station fuh go to court to pay a traffic fine. He walk wid $2 million but he only had to pay de court $7,500. Dem boys seh that when he come out de court he find...

Young reveller found with skull bashed in outside wedding house

Jul 13, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Young reveller found with skull bashed in outside wedding house

Seventeen-year-old Ravindra Persaud was having a good time at a wedding house on Monday night until he disappeared when he left to go outside, probably to pass some urine. Nine hours later, his...

FAO appoints new fisheries officer for Caribbean region

Jul 13, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on FAO appoints new fisheries officer for Caribbean region

The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) Sub-Regional Office for the Caribbean is working to increase its involvement in fisheries in the Caribbean and be more responsive to the needs of the...

Education Ministry reaches out to special students

Jul 13, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Education Ministry reaches out to special students

The HIV/AIDS Unit within the Education Ministry recently donated a quantity of stationery and hygiene kits to students of Sophia Special School and the David Rose School for the Handicapped. The...

Ansa Mc Al employees on bail over alleged $3M theft

Jul 13, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Ansa Mc Al employees on bail over alleged $3M theft

Two employees, a Warehouse Supervisor and a Driver/Salesman of Ansa Mc Al Guyana Limited’s New Amsterdam Branch were yesterday granted bail to the tune of $250,000 each by Magistrate Adela...

Corentyne labourer remanded on attempted murder charge

Jul 13, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Corentyne labourer remanded on attempted murder charge

Edward Kester Apollo, 47, a labourer, of Lonsdale, East Bank Berbice, was yesterday remanded to prison by Magistrate Adela Nagamootoo when he appeared before her at the New Amsterdam magistrate’s...

Defending champs remain on course to retain overall title

Jul 13, 2011 KNews Sports Comments Off on Defending champs remain on course to retain overall title

Defending champions Guyana remained on course to retain the overall title after both the Boys and Girls teams continued their fine run at this year’s Digicel Caribbean Area Squash Association...

Gold thief beaten, tied up and left to die

Jul 13, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Gold thief beaten, tied up and left to die

A team of police investigators has been dispatched to the gold mining area of 14-mile Issano to probe yet another murder in Guyana’s interior. The team was dispatched yesterday following reports on...

NATI inflict 7-1 drubbing over Orealla

Jul 13, 2011 KNews Sports Comments Off on NATI inflict 7-1 drubbing over Orealla

– moves into national quarter-finals By Rawle Welch New Amsterdam Technical Institute (NATI) led by a six-goal effort from striker Devon James erased the lofty ambitions of Orealla Secondary...

West Side All Stars & Squatters ‘The Gunners’ Utd into West Dem semis

Jul 13, 2011 KNews Sports Comments Off on West Side All Stars & Squatters ‘The Gunners’ Utd into West Dem semis

By Franklin Wilson Squatters ‘The Gunners’ United and West Side All Stars have booked the final two semifinals spots in the West Demerara zone of the GT&T FastBall knock-out football...

GLTA/P&P Tennis Camp launched amidst the rain

Jul 13, 2011 KNews Sports Comments Off on GLTA/P&P Tennis Camp launched amidst the rain

Amidst a cold morning, Varsha Panday, daughter of Bish Panday, Managing Director of P&P Insurance Brokers expressed her joy to partner with the Guyana Tennis Association to host the 2011 version...

Ifill ready for Bahamas

Jul 13, 2011 KNews Sports Comments Off on Ifill ready for Bahamas

Andrew Ifill has undoubtedly become one of Guyana’s most accomplished basketball players and yesterday the 31 year-old declared that he is ready to represent Guyana at the July 23–29 Caribbean...

UK-based Jaguars to play Tooting & Mitcham United August 16

Jul 13, 2011 KNews Sports Comments Off on UK-based Jaguars to play Tooting & Mitcham United August 16

By Franklin Wilson Through diligent work by their Technical staff, the United Kingdom based ‘Golden Jaguars’ will take on Ryman Premier League Club ‘Tooting and Mitcham United’ first team in...

It’s Guyana versus Barbados as organizers unveil 17th ProAm boxing card

Jul 13, 2011 KNews Sports Comments Off on It’s Guyana versus Barbados as organizers unveil 17th ProAm boxing card

The July edition of the Friday Night Fights has boiled down to a Guyana versus Barbados affair after St Lucian, Joseph Christopher, initially scheduled to fight Anthony Augustin, has indicated that...

KARES T10 TAPEBALL TOURNAMENT BOWLS OFF WITH A BANG

Jul 13, 2011 KNews Sports Comments Off on KARES T10 TAPEBALL TOURNAMENT BOWLS OFF WITH A BANG

The Tapeball fever continued after the Opening Ceremony on July 3 at GCC Ground, Bourda, where the opening matches of the Kares T10 Tapeball Tournament were played on July 9. Highly entertaining...

Veteran scorer Ron Legall resigns from GCB functions

Jul 13, 2011 KNews Sports Comments Off on Veteran scorer Ron Legall resigns from GCB functions

Veteran official book-scorer, statistician and secretary of the Cricket Development Committee of the Guyana Cricket Board, Ron Legall, has called it a day with the GCB citing a number of...

Man accused of beating 80-yr-old with hammer remanded

Jul 13, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Man accused of beating 80-yr-old with hammer remanded

The man accused of beating a senior citizen with a hammer, was yesterday remanded on a charge of attempted murder. He was not required to plea to the indictavle charge. When the accused, 34-year-old...

Keep striving for your dreams

Jul 13, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Keep striving for your dreams

– QC valedictorian tells Class of 2011 “Challenges are what make life interesting; overcoming them is what makes it meaningful. Success is not built on success. It’s built on failure....

Keeping basketball out of the rubble

Jul 13, 2011 KNews Sports Comments Off on Keeping basketball out of the rubble

By Edison Jefford The national basketball federation likes to say that it is as strong as its sub-associations whenever it is questioned on performance. If that is true, based on the performance of...

New tobacco legislation should be revised – Demtoco

Jul 13, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on New tobacco legislation should be revised – Demtoco

Managing Director of Demerara Tobacco Company Limited (DEMTOCO), Chandradat Chintamani, in an invited comment, has stated that there needs to be a review of the soon to be implemented tobacco...

East Coast teams battle for honours in three team domino competition

Jul 13, 2011 KNews Sports Comments Off on East Coast teams battle for honours in three team domino competition

The three top domino teams along the East Coast corridor, ex-GDF, Machine and Shem, will battle for honours when the Black Stallion Football Club hosts a three team domino competition this evening...

Durban Park Lions Club receives donation

Jul 13, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Durban Park Lions Club receives donation

“We serve” is the international motto for the Lions Club and indeed, “serve” they do. Yesterday the Lions Club of Durban Park was presented with twenty white canes from the Kayamaggi Lions...

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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