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Breaking News!!! Headmistress dies in Homestretch Avenue bus crash

Jul 18, 2011 knews News Comments Off on Breaking News!!! Headmistress dies in Homestretch Avenue bus crash

Coretta Benjamin, 40, the headmistress of J.E. Burnham Primary School, died in horrific bus crash this evening on Homestretch Avenue. She was heading home. Four children, Renisha Benjamin and Prazel...

Policeman killed while investigating accident

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A police officer from the Tactical Service Unit (TSU) was run over by a truck driver at Bartica yesterday morning while investigating an earlier accident at the scene where he met his death. Dead...

Man brutally chopped by stepfather

Jul 18, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Man brutally chopped by stepfather

By Trevona Weekes An alarming sound of screams brought neighbours out of their homes at about 09:30hrs yesterday in the Mocha Housing Scheme. They were in total shock when a 61-year-old man and his...

Dying child gave horror story of sexual abuse

Jul 18, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Dying child gave horror story of sexual abuse

– but alleged molester still walks free It was just a few weeks ago that a dying nine-year-old girl alleged that a relative had molested her and three other siblings, and a community is up in...

Ten murders in 17 days

Jul 18, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Ten murders in 17 days

July is turning out to be a particularly violent month. Ten people, including two children, have been murdered within a 17-day span. All of the deaths are believed to have been triggered by disputes....

Dem boys seh…Government must do de due diligence

Jul 18, 2011 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Dem boys seh…Government must do de due diligence

In school dem teacher does check out which pupil can write exams, not dem exams dem does write to pass from one class to another, but dem exams that outside people does mark. When people join de army...

Guyana Medical Watch visits Essequibo

Jul 18, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Guyana Medical Watch visits Essequibo

As part of their annual humanitarian outreach programme, the non-Government organisation, the Guyana Watch Inc. has extended their services to the county of Essequibo. The team which comprised twelve...

Families tussle over baby following teen mom’s death

Jul 18, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Families tussle over baby following teen mom’s death

– case still before Medical Council The Guyana Medical Council is still investigating the death of Joanne Peters, the 17-year-old who died at the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation in March...

Food production output needed to avert crisis

Jul 18, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Food production output needed to avert crisis

Food prices have soared to record heights and are projected to increase further in the coming decade, pushing millions of people into hunger and fueling political unrest around the world, Worldwatch...

Bartica Top Grade Six performer rewarded

Jul 18, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Bartica Top Grade Six performer rewarded

Bartica’s top performer at this year’s Grade Six Assessment was recently rewarded for her efforts. Eleven year old Shania Wilson of St. Anthony’s Primary School secured a place at St....

Pensioner critical after Durban Street accident

Jul 18, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Pensioner critical after Durban Street accident

Sixty-two year old Eustace Rodrigues was battling for his life yesterday in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) of the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) after being struck by a car on Durban...

Russian businesses interested in investing in Guyana – GCCI

Jul 18, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Russian businesses interested in investing in Guyana – GCCI

– areas of exploration are gold mining, Linden-Lethem road modernization, development of hydropower and aquaculture sectors among others Russian businesses have expressed an interest in...

Clinical Sciences building at a GPHC rehabilitated

Jul 18, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Clinical Sciences building at a GPHC rehabilitated

Young doctors on their internship and medical students of the University of Guyana Medical School will now be able to take classes or just relax between rounds in their newly renovated facility. The...

Redjet gets access to fly into Trinidad

Jul 18, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Redjet gets access to fly into Trinidad

After several months of uncertainty, regional air carrier Barbadian low-cost airline REDjet has been given the green light to fly into Trinidad and Tobago. Sources close to the REDjet have confirmed...

St. Barnabas holds final service

Jul 18, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on St. Barnabas holds final service

Emotional moment for churchgoers as… The St Barnabas Church yesterday held its Thanksgiving Service and deconsecration ceremony, just weeks after the building was reportedly sold for a whopping...

Family pleads with cops to probe slaughter of dog

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An East Coast Demerara family is calling on the police to investigate the heinous manner in which a group of neighbours killed their family pet. Shalini Singh and Pradeep Lall, of Lot 45 Dasrath...

CDC’s crucial in ensuring community projects implemented

Jul 18, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on CDC’s crucial in ensuring community projects implemented

– Finance Minister Minister of Finance Ashni Singh and Minister of Agriculture Robert Persaud yesterday joined members of the Community Development Council (CDC) of Region Four at its Annual...

GTI crowned inaugural champs

Jul 18, 2011 KNews Sports Comments Off on GTI crowned inaugural champs

– NATI claim third place Clearly the more superior team both tactically and technically GTI saved the best for last as they easily defeated Christianburg / Wismar 5-3 in the final to become the...

Mocha Arcadia All Stars are East Bank champs

Jul 18, 2011 KNews Sports Comments Off on Mocha Arcadia All Stars are East Bank champs

By Franklin Wilson Mocha Arcadia All Stars emerged as the best GT&T FastBall team on the East Bank of Demerara when they turned back the challenge of home team Grove in the Zone final yesterday...

Ogle-Thomas leads from the front as Demerara take 4th female cricket title

Jul 18, 2011 KNews Sports Comments Off on Ogle-Thomas leads from the front as Demerara take 4th female cricket title

Berbice were stupendous in the field and their bowlers were impressive but they depend almost exclusively on their dynamic 18-year-old Skipper Shamaine Campbelle with the bat. Once she suffered a...

Guyana hunt 13th three-day title as Regional U-19 cricket begins here today

Jul 18, 2011 KNews Sports Comments Off on Guyana hunt 13th three-day title as Regional U-19 cricket begins here today

By Sean Devers The 2011 Regional under-19 three-day cricket tournament commences today in Guyana with three matches and host Guyana, the competition’s most successful team, hunt their 13th title...

Guyana names team for CBC Championships

Jul 18, 2011 KNews Sports Comments Off on Guyana names team for CBC Championships

-Trinidad-based, Ifill omitted By Edison Jefford Guyana has named its representative team for the upcoming Caribbean Basketball Confederation (CBC) Championships in keeping with yesterday’s...

Hikers Juniors for three week stint with Queen’s Park

Jul 18, 2011 KNews Sports Comments Off on Hikers Juniors for three week stint with Queen’s Park

The Hikers Hockey Club, junior development programme realized one of it’s main goals last week, when it partnered with Queen’s Park Hockey Club of Trinidad & Tobago to enable two of it’s...

Rice sector achieves record export earnings in 2010 – GRDB

Jul 18, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Rice sector achieves record export earnings in 2010 – GRDB

Despite being what officials have termed a “year of many challenges”, 2010 still ended with the rice industry setting record figures in exports and earnings. At the end of 2010, the production in...

Accused offers $1M to dead girl’s family

Jul 18, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Accused offers $1M to dead girl’s family

Mahendra ‘Bangat’ Ramanan, 36, of Number Two Village, West Coast Berbice re-appeared before Magistrate Adela Nagamootoo at the New Amsterdam Magistrate’s Court last Monday. He was facing three...

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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