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Fiery administrative meeting links senior cops to drug dealers

Aug 14, 2011 KNews News 33

-two senior officers exposed By Dale Andrews Damning evidence of links between senior police officers and elements in the local illegal drug circuit surfaced last week during a high level...

Winning bid to be announced this week

Aug 14, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Winning bid to be announced this week

One Laptop Per Family Programme… Government is expected to give its no objections this week for a major contract to distribute 27,000 laptops to single parent households and other selected...

Disgraceful ……Animals starve to death in police pound, left to rot

Aug 14, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Disgraceful ……Animals starve to death in police pound, left to rot

By Dale Andrews Just who is really responsible for the upkeep of the animals in the police pound? This question arose when this newspaper observed several jackass carcasses in the pound...

Child dies every six minutes in Somalia famine

Aug 14, 2011 KNews News 6

A child is dying from starvation every six minutes in drought-hit Somalia, shocked aid workers revealed recently. It means that around 250 malnourished youngsters under five die each...

Spain’s 85-year-old Duchess gives away billions$$$ for love

Aug 14, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Spain’s 85-year-old Duchess gives away billions$$$ for love

Spain (www.time.com)- You can say one thing for the Duchess of Alba: she gets what she wants. When, decades ago, she fell in love with a freethinking, defrocked Jesuit — hardly a...

Marshall, Lion, Union Rep. and Life Deacon

Aug 14, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Marshall, Lion, Union Rep. and Life Deacon

Donald Thom is a ‘Special Person’ Pull Quote: “I must say that I have enjoyed life to the fullest. It has been eighty-five good years to date. I have played my little part in this...

Dem boys seh…. Milk choke some fat cat

Aug 14, 2011 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Dem boys seh…. Milk choke some fat cat

People seh that you don’t put cat fuh watch milk. De police force got nuff cat and dem same cat got to watch milk. De other day a man decide that he can push cocaine but he didn’t bargain fuh dem...

Guyanese aims to serve country through ‘Work, Calling & Human Dignity’

Aug 14, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Guyanese aims to serve country through ‘Work, Calling & Human Dignity’

Dr. Dale Dan, formerly of Garnett Street, Campbellville, is the daughter of Ramnarine and Bebe Nysha-Dan, both now deceased. Her father engineered the building of many of the roads...

Building your home? (Applying for permission to build in the city)

Aug 14, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Building your home? (Applying for permission to build in the city)

By Leonard Gildarie Last week, we spoke of how far you should build your home from the boundary or fence areas. An NDC official made it clear that homes, and we are speaking specifically of the ones...

National Trust donates $200,000 towards Mission Chapel restoration

Aug 14, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on National Trust donates $200,000 towards Mission Chapel restoration

The National Trust of Guyana recently donated $200,000 towards the rebuilding and preservation efforts of one of Guyana’s oldest churches, the Mission Chapel Congregational in New Amsterdam....

WHY ARE WE LOOKING BACKWARDS

Aug 14, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on WHY ARE WE LOOKING BACKWARDS

By Ralph Seeram The 1960’s were undoubtedly the darkest period in Guyanese history. The racial conflagration of the period resulted in arson, looting, murder and the displacement of...

CSEC overall pass rate drops in 2011

Aug 14, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on CSEC overall pass rate drops in 2011

… Mathematics still cause for concern On Thursday, last, results were released for the Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate (CSEC) Exams and the Caribbean Advanced Proficiency...

A major epidemic or concerted action of the people is needed to bring the authorities to their senses

Aug 14, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on A major epidemic or concerted action of the people is needed to bring the authorities to their senses

By Michael Benjamin Once again the garbage workers went on strike, forcing an unsightly mound of garbage all across the so called Garden City. Only this time some folks were prepared for them....

Students must not be debarred for non-payment of registration fees – Education Ministry

Aug 14, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Students must not be debarred for non-payment of registration fees – Education Ministry

Parents are being urged by the Education Ministry to report schools that are debarring their children because of non-payment of registration fees. The reports should be made to the...

Physically challenged persons can be assisted to vote – Disability Act 2010

Aug 14, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Physically challenged persons can be assisted to vote – Disability Act 2010

Physically challenged persons who are unable to vote independently would be allowed assistance by another person of their choice in voting at the National and Regional Elections,...

Kaieteur News highlights the rest of this year’s top CSEC performers

Aug 14, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Kaieteur News highlights the rest of this year’s top CSEC performers

Ajay Persaud– Sixteen year-old Ajay Persaud of St. Joseph’s High School secured a total of 12 Grades One at the Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate Examinations. Speaking with...

Substance found in Skeldon vehicle not cocaine – police

Aug 14, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Substance found in Skeldon vehicle not cocaine – police

Police yesterday admitted to having erroneously detained two men who they thought were in possession of a quantity of cocaine. A release had stated that at around 19:00 hrs on Friday, a police patrol...

Immigration TALK: Resolving Problems at the U.S. Port of Entry

Aug 14, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Immigration TALK: Resolving Problems at the U.S. Port of Entry

By: Attorney Gail S. Seeram Since 9/11, there has been heightening security at the airports and U.S. port of entries. Though many travelers feel safer at the airports and on airplanes, there are a...

Caribbean Airlines craft finally removed from crash site

Aug 14, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Caribbean Airlines craft finally removed from crash site

The Caribbean Airlines Limited plane that crashed at Guyana’s main port of entry, Cheddi Jagan International Airport (CJIA), on July 30, was yesterday removed at around 3:00 am from...

Woman seeks kidney donor

Aug 14, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Woman seeks kidney donor

By Trevona Weekes Zell Doodnauth, 48 of Grove, East Bank Demerara is seeking a kidney donor. The single parent mother of two has been diagnosed with kidney ailment nine years ago. Doodnauth stated...

GT&T BIKER FEST to rock National Park tonight

Aug 14, 2011 KNews Sports Comments Off on GT&T BIKER FEST to rock National Park tonight

Spine chilling Gravity defying events promised Dubbed the ‘Biggest Family Event’ in Guyana, the 6th BIKERS FEST Show is set for the National Park Tarmac today and fans are in for an...

It’s Bishoo against Pollard in Jam Zone Masters’ Cup t20 Final tonight

Aug 14, 2011 KNews Sports Comments Off on It’s Bishoo against Pollard in Jam Zone Masters’ Cup t20 Final tonight

Gayle in action in 3rd place play-off By Sean Devers A raucous crowd of close to 10,000 watched as Universal DVD Berbice Titians and the Gizmos & Gadgets Georgetown Pitbulls qualified for...

Central New Amsterdam Boxing Gym has new executive

Aug 14, 2011 KNews Sports Comments Off on Central New Amsterdam Boxing Gym has new executive

The Central New Amsterdam Boxing Gym out of New Amsterdam Berbice recently held elections for office bearers as a new executive body was put into place to run the affairs of the Gym. The gym,...

Bakewell Nationwide Male/Female Softball Begins August 28

Aug 14, 2011 KNews Sports Comments Off on Bakewell Nationwide Male/Female Softball Begins August 28

Flick Bowling is back Bakery giant, Bakewell of 5-9 Drive, Dr. Miller St., Triumph, East Coast Demerara has joined forces with the Guyana Floodlight Softball Cricket Association (GFSCA) in...

Boxers ink contracts in preparation for August ProAm affair

Aug 14, 2011 KNews Sports Comments Off on Boxers ink contracts in preparation for August ProAm affair

By Michael Benjamin It was just around 13:30hrs last Friday afternoon and the various boxers contracted to slug it out in the August Fight Night boxing card were in solemn, concentrated moods...

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Keevin Allicock – the next torchbearer for Guyanese professional boxing

Sometimes the best of leaders fail

Peeping Tom… Kaieteur News- Jimmy Carter’s presidency fell victim to global and domestic upheavals. His single term... more