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Accident 10 miles off Port G/T leaves Mexican sailor dead

Aug 10, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Accident 10 miles off Port G/T leaves Mexican sailor dead

Up to late last night local maritime personnel were responding to reports of an incident on a foreign registered vessel, which left one person dead and another seriously injured. This newspaper...

PPP postpones congress to focus on general elections

Aug 10, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on PPP postpones congress to focus on general elections

The People’s Progressive Party (PPP) has decided to postpone holding its 30th Congress, constitutionally due this year, to concentrate on the upcoming general elections. The forum is where the...

“Merundoi” pulled from airwaves

Aug 10, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on “Merundoi” pulled from airwaves

– NCN says decision temporary The National Communications Network (NCN) has pulled the radio serial drama “Merundoi” from the airwaves. When contacted last night, Head of the Merundoi unit,...

Beatings, sexual abuse of mentally challenged teen angers villagers

Aug 10, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Beatings, sexual abuse of mentally challenged teen angers villagers

The violent beatings and alleged sexual abuse of a mentally challenged 18-year-old girl has angered a Berbice village with residents calling for authorities to ensure that she is protected. Back in...

USAID gives Electoral Assistance Bureau $44M grant

Aug 10, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on USAID gives Electoral Assistance Bureau $44M grant

Keeping an eye on elections… In the hopes of seeing yet another free, fair and non-violent election here in Guyana, the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) yesterday...

8 foreign firms among 11 bidders

Aug 10, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on 8 foreign firms among 11 bidders

Laptop project re-tender… Eight overseas companies are among 11 firms that have submitted bids for the initial supply of 27,000 laptops for government’s One Laptop Per Family (OLPF)...

Dem boys seh …. De big man talking a skundle a bunt

Aug 10, 2011 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Dem boys seh …. De big man talking a skundle a bunt

Crooks deh all about. Some people believe that de only thief was dem who use to tek de government contract and do bad wuk. De Waterfalls paper skin up nuff of dem and get in trouble. But fuh all de...

Logger killed by falling tree

Aug 10, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Logger killed by falling tree

Thirty-year-old Ernan Amsterdam, a logger and wood cutter of Barakara, Canje River, was on Monday killed when a tree he was cutting along with two relatives fell, and broke another tree which...

Gunmen invade Harbour Bridge Mall

Aug 10, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Gunmen invade Harbour Bridge Mall

Two gunmen entered the Harbour Bridge Mall around 22:00 hrs (10:00pm) on Thursday, last, and assaulted two guards on duty while enquiring the whereabouts of businessman Anthony Snow....

One-hand bandit jailed for stealing cell phone

Aug 10, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on One-hand bandit jailed for stealing cell phone

Magistrate Hazel Octave Hamilton yesterday jailed a man accused of stealing a cell phone, after he pleaded guilty to the charge when it was read to him in the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court....

Chinese National remanded on assault charge

Aug 10, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Chinese National remanded on assault charge

A Chinese national was yesterday accused of committing the offence of assault causing actual bodily harm and was remanded to prison by Magistrate Hazel Octave Hamilton. When Song Chang Chun called...

Robbery accused duo granted bail

Aug 10, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Robbery accused duo granted bail

Collis King and Shaka Chase, who were charged with the offences of robbery under arms and assault, were each granted bail to the tune of $300,000 when they appeared Monday before Magistrate Hazel...

APNU blames PPP/C for underdevelopment of Upper Mazaruni

Aug 10, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on APNU blames PPP/C for underdevelopment of Upper Mazaruni

Presidential candidate for A Party for National Unity (APNU), retired brigadier David Granger, is blaming the People’s Progressive Party/Civic (PPP/C) for the present underdeveloped state of...

Berbice man freed of cop killing sues businessman

Aug 10, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Berbice man freed of cop killing sues businessman

A man who was freed on a murder charge after he was alleged to have shot and killed a policeman on February 11, 2007, during a show in New Amsterdam, and was allegedly shot by a businessman at the...

Agri ministry inks CDN$5M food security research project

Aug 10, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Agri ministry inks CDN$5M food security research project

In an effort to increase food production, improve nutrition, and achieve a reduction in the food import bill within the Caribbean, Guyana, like other countries is moving purposefully in a...

Lukewarm response to Blood Bank’s call

Aug 10, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Lukewarm response to Blood Bank’s call

Days after the urgent situation at the Blood Bank where supplies were exhausted, the crisis has begun to ease, even though the need for more donors is still vital. Minister of Health, Dr. Leslie...

Ganja stolen from police station reportedly sold to city dealer

Aug 10, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Ganja stolen from police station reportedly sold to city dealer

– case report with DPP Accusations are flying left and right between police ranks at Linden over who was behind the recent theft of over two pounds of compressed marijuana from the...

Good Hope, Lusignan residents unhappy with “shabby work” on bridge

Aug 10, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Good Hope, Lusignan residents unhappy with “shabby work” on bridge

Residents in the Good Hope and Lusignan Villages, East Coast Demerara are still unhappy with the contractor(s) responsible for the construction of their only access bridge within the two...

2004 Enterprise murder trial continues

Aug 10, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on 2004 Enterprise murder trial continues

The Voir Dire (trial within a trial) for the two men accused of killing Enterprise, East Coast Demerara resident Davechand Appanna continued yesterday before Justice Winston Patterson. On trial for...

Red Thread leads volunteer effort in Linden

Aug 10, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Red Thread leads volunteer effort in Linden

The Red Thread Youth Network in collaboration with the Victory Temple Seventh Day Adventist Pathfinders and a group of young volunteers from the mining Town yesterday repainted three pedestrian...

Gardening competition to kick start Education Month activities

Aug 10, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Gardening competition to kick start Education Month activities

Activities for Education Month 2011 will get started with the launching of a schools’ gardening competition on September 1, followed by a students’ rally from the Parade Ground to...

Digicel supports national Karate team

Aug 10, 2011 KNews Sports Comments Off on Digicel supports national Karate team

Digicel Guyana Inc. yesterday added Karate for the second consecutive year to its growing list of support for local sports when it offered support for a ten-member Guyana team that will compete at...

Milo Under-23 Football Tournament launched

Aug 10, 2011 KNews Sports Comments Off on Milo Under-23 Football Tournament launched

-commences next Thursday Brand Manager of Nestle Selwyn Bobb during the launching of the Annual Milo Round Robin Knockout Under-23 Football Tournament which was conducted yesterday in the Boardroom...

T&T begin defence with win against Guyana

Aug 10, 2011 KNews Sports Comments Off on T&T begin defence with win against Guyana

Regional U-19 One-Day cricket (1st round) Defending Champions Trinidad and Tobago defeated host Guyana by 26 runs yesterday at Bourda in the opening round of this year’s Regional under-19 one-day...

Windward Islands beat Leewards by 56 runs

Aug 10, 2011 KNews Sports Comments Off on Windward Islands beat Leewards by 56 runs

The Leeward Islands made 146 all out in 38.1 overs replying to the Windward Islands total of 202 to hand the latter victory at Demerara Cricket Club yesterday when the first round of the Regional...

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