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GECOM unearths multiple registrations

Sep 05, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on GECOM unearths multiple registrations

– Police called in The Guyana Elections Commission yesterday said that it has uncovered cases of multiple registrations during both phases of the Claims and...

Timehri residents still to get word on promised land titles

Sep 05, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Timehri residents still to get word on promised land titles

Residents of Timehri are hopeful that the issue of their land titles is addressed before the holding of general elections which are constitutionally due before year end. The...

Man gun butted over $5000 debt

Sep 05, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Man gun butted over $5000 debt

A drinking session which turned sour between two friends at the Mahaicony Village, East Coast Demerara (ECD), has resulted in one of the men now nursing head injuries after being...

Govt’s. disregard for D’Urban Park development plan spiteful

Sep 05, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Govt’s. disregard for D’Urban Park development plan spiteful

– Mayor Green In the heart of Georgetown lies a ‘pristine jungle’ that is commonly referred to as an ‘eye sore’. Having a bushy wild ‘green zone’ in the centre of the...

New Jersey Arya Samaj hands over house to Enmore family

Sep 05, 2011 KNews News 3

After years of dwelling under what can be described as deplorable conditions, Kamlawattie Harrilall and her family can now boast of being one of Guyana’s newest home owners....

Faster than a speeding bullet, the story of minibus travel

Sep 05, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Faster than a speeding bullet, the story of minibus travel

By Leon Suseran A passenger entering a minibus has so much to put up with these days. The story of minibus travel in Guyana is quite an interesting one that can fuel a discussion that can go on and...

GAIL Foundation hands over playground to N/A Orphanage

Sep 05, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on GAIL Foundation hands over playground to N/A Orphanage

Guyanese from the Diaspora, in collaboration with the GAIL Foundation on Friday last donated playground equipment to the Children of Promise Eden Orphanage at Smythfield, New...

President Jagdeo promises house lots to ‘Golden Jags’ if they win qualifying Group

Sep 05, 2011 KNews Sports Comments Off on President Jagdeo promises house lots to ‘Golden Jags’ if they win qualifying Group

Guyana’s National Football team, ‘Golden Jaguars’ are to receive house lots from the Government of Guyana once they advance to the next round of the FIFA World Cup Qualifiers. The continuation...

Muntaz Haniff wins EU Golf tournament

Sep 05, 2011 KNews Sports Comments Off on Muntaz Haniff wins EU Golf tournament

The inform Muntaz Haniff made it two in a row when he won the European Union (EU) Medal Play golf tournament for the second successive year Saturday at the Lusignan Golf Course, East Coast Demerara....

Dad of slain UG student dismisses robbery theory

Sep 05, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Dad of slain UG student dismisses robbery theory

As police continue investigations into the slaying of University of Guyana student Yiu Anthony Ting-A-Kee, the father of the murdered 21-year-old is even more convinced that the...

Region Three drivers suggest more undercover cops

Sep 05, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Region Three drivers suggest more undercover cops

– as Rohee calls for more involvement in road safety issues As part of the Government’s initiative of building safe communities, the Minister of Home Affairs Clement...

Forde, Morgan easily retain Neal & Massy 10k titles

Sep 05, 2011 KNews Sports Comments Off on Forde, Morgan easily retain Neal & Massy 10k titles

– barefooted Junior, Giddings upsets senior men The script was all too familiar for seasoned distance runners, Alika Morgan and Cleveland Forde yesterday morning at the Neal and Massy Group of...

Teachers, students of Annandale Secondary contract UTIs

Sep 05, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Teachers, students of Annandale Secondary contract UTIs

– improper washroom sanitation cited as contributing factor As schools throughout the country reopen today, teachers and students of the Annandale Secondary School, East...

Disqualified team fails in bid to get injunction to get back into game

Sep 05, 2011 KNews Sports Comments Off on Disqualified team fails in bid to get injunction to get back into game

By Latoya Giles Members of the “Bravados Cricket Team” on Saturday evening failed to get an interim injunction from the high court to overturn a decision to disqualify them from the 2011 T10...

Kaneville and Yarrowkabra top CPG Spelling Bee Competition

Sep 05, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Kaneville and Yarrowkabra top CPG Spelling Bee Competition

The final round of the Yarrowkabra Community Policing Group bi-annual Spelling Bee Competition concluded yesterday, with the Kaneville Development Group copping the top...

Leave the players out of the politics

Sep 05, 2011 KNews Sports Comments Off on Leave the players out of the politics

Says Sean Devers As a former Berbice senior cricketer who has experienced the honour of representing my country on the cricket field, it is with sadness that I watch Guyana’s demise. The problems...

Fort Ordnance!!!

Sep 05, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Fort Ordnance!!!

The workers who put up these signs were either only interested in money or do not know how to spell. Ironically the school which is just a stone’s throw away has the correct spelling...

Govt’s. disregard for D’Urban Park development plan spiteful

Sep 05, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Govt’s. disregard for D’Urban Park development plan spiteful

East Canje Lions Club installs new members

Sep 05, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on East Canje Lions Club installs new members

The East Canje Lions club recently installed a new board of management at a simple installation ceremony held recently at the Rose Hall Estate Training Centre. Those installed were President Madan...

MESSAGES FOR AMERINDIAN HERITAGE MONTH 2011

Sep 05, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on MESSAGES FOR AMERINDIAN HERITAGE MONTH 2011

A.P.N.U A Partnership For National Unity (A.P.N.U), on the occasion of Amerindian Heritage Month 2011, takes this opportunity to extend to all Indigenous brothers and sisters throughout Guyana a...

THE OLD AND THE NEW

Sep 05, 2011 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on THE OLD AND THE NEW

Membership has its privileges but friendship, especially the right friends in the rights places has its benefits, and in the case of Guyana, enormous benefits. You look around Guyana today and...

I found few truths in Dr Ramsammy’s letter and none of them is inconvenient

Sep 05, 2011 KNews Letters Comments Off on I found few truths in Dr Ramsammy’s letter and none of them is inconvenient

Dear Editor, I have read with some amazement yet another letter (KN dated August 30, 2011) penned by a Leslie Ramsammy, purporting to be a reasoned response to comments I made (A variant of the KN...

My message is all mine

Sep 05, 2011 KNews Letters Comments Off on My message is all mine

Dear Editor, Louis Kilkenny has that disease which afflicts many Guyanese (“There is no space for a party which substitutes political groundwork for laziness”, KN, August 24, 2011). In the...

Is this not the same form of begging whether it comes from Prime Ministers, Presidents or the people?

Sep 05, 2011 KNews Letters Comments Off on Is this not the same form of begging whether it comes from Prime Ministers, Presidents or the people?

Dear Editor, With reference to Freddie Kissoon’s article 04/09/2011 namely “The Guyanese people must demand President Jagdeo’s resignation now” in which the Jamaican PM stated that...

We are willing to work

Sep 05, 2011 KNews Letters Comments Off on We are willing to work

Dear Editor, It is with utmost urgency that I have to pen this letter because it is painful to know that the hundreds of Diamond Sugar Workers who were severed by the Sugar Corporation have to remain...

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Mental illness is real and a serious public health concern

Peeping Tom… Kaieteur News- Mental illness is a reality we often acknowledge in passing but seldom confront with the... more