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Guyana hands over UNASUR’s Chairmanship to Paraguay

Nov 05, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Guyana hands over UNASUR’s Chairmanship to Paraguay

Guyana has formally handed over the Pro Tempore Chairmanship of the Union of South American Nations (UNASUR) to the Republic of Paraguay. During a forum last Saturday at the Fifth...

Training crucial to professional midwifery services

Nov 05, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Training crucial to professional midwifery services

Strengthened midwifery services will only be derived through training which is key and critical to personal development and innovation. Even though, they are linked to infrastructural...

Old students give back to Queen’s College

Nov 05, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Old students give back to Queen’s College

Some overseas-based Guyanese and former students of Queen’s College yesterday donated items worth US$30,000 to the school. This will benefit the school library and in turn assist present and...

Food for the Poor creates new Amerindian village

Nov 05, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Food for the Poor creates new Amerindian village

Fifty families residing in the Amerindian community of Tapakuma, on the Essequibo Coast, are the beneficiaries of another 50 homes donated by Food For the Poor. The village adopted the name...

‘Hot-iron Mom’ released on $30,000 bail

Nov 05, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on ‘Hot-iron Mom’ released on $30,000 bail

The Sophia woman who allegedly burnt the penis and buttocks of her six year-old son was yesterday placed on $30,000 bail after she made an initial court appearance at the Sparendaam Magistrate’s...

GTI attracts scores at Open Day event

Nov 05, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on GTI attracts scores at Open Day event

Government Technical Institute (GTI) which provides an atmosphere that encourages learning, and promotes the personal development of each student through the medium of applied...

20 Guyanese graduate with UWI’s Master of Science

Nov 05, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on 20 Guyanese graduate with UWI’s Master of Science

Some 20 Guyanese who read for a Master of Science Degree in Global Studies at the University of West Indies (UWI) are set to be honoured during a special ceremony next week. According to a release...

Assault, damage to property forces reputed husband to post bail $50,000

Nov 05, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Assault, damage to property forces reputed husband to post bail $50,000

Cortney Wilson was yesterday asked to post bail in the sum of $50,000 after it was alleged that he assaulted his reputed wife causing her actual bodily harm and destroying her property....

Four remanded following 41.856 kg cocaine possession

Nov 05, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Four remanded following 41.856 kg cocaine possession

Salim Bacchus, of Line Path, Skeldon, Corentyne, Berbice; Narayan Jaibandhan, of Lot 11 Gordon Street Kitty; Gary Belgrave, of , Section C Turkeyen, East Coast Demeara, and Leo...

St Cuthbert Mission resident killed in accident

Nov 05, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on St Cuthbert Mission resident killed in accident

A 24-year-old man is dead, following yet another vehicular accident in Guyana’s hinterland. Dead is Bonavena Kattow, of St Cuthbert’s Mission. According to reports reaching Kaieteur News,...

Guilty plea lands grocery thief six months in lock ups

Nov 05, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Guilty plea lands grocery thief six months in lock ups

A man charged with break and enter and larceny was yesterday ordered to spend six months in jail after he pleaded guilty. On November 1, he broke into the business place of Shondel...

Robb St, ‘granny execution’…Three more charged with murder

Nov 04, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Robb St, ‘granny execution’…Three more charged with murder

Three more persons have been arraigned for the execution-style killing of 72-year-old Robb Street resident, Clementine Fiedtkou-Parris, on June 30, last. Orin Hinds, 35, of Burnham Boulevard,...

Jagdeo’s pension plan ‘rattled my soul’ – Moses Nagamootoo

Nov 04, 2011 KNews News 26

“To my utter shame and regret I voted for it, because I was required to do so as a PPP MP.” The tension between the People’s Progressive Party/Civic (PPP/C) and its former...

M&CC cuts down hazardous trees in East La Penitence

Nov 04, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on M&CC cuts down hazardous trees in East La Penitence

…four days after child’s death Four days after heavy winds caused a tree to crash down on a house and kill a five-year-old girl, workers from the Mayor and City Council yesterday removed other...

‘Picture Boy’ murder case….Retrial ordered after hung jury

Nov 04, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on ‘Picture Boy’ murder case….Retrial ordered after hung jury

After several hours of summing up and deliberations, a mixed jury failed to fail to reach a verdict in the case of Cyon Collier called ‘Picture Boy’, who is accused of killing Non Pareil...

CANU nabs seven during 40-kg cocaine bust

Nov 04, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on CANU nabs seven during 40-kg cocaine bust

Ranks from the Customs Anti-Narcotics Unit (CANU), supported by the Berbice Anti Smuggling Squad (BASS) made a 40-kilo cocaine bust between Wednesday night and yesterday. They also arrested...

8 percent increase for public servants

Nov 04, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on 8 percent increase for public servants

With three weeks left before elections days and two months before the end of the year, outgoing President Bharrat Jagdeo yesterday approved an 8% (eight percent) across the board increase for public...

Guyana, one of the most primitive countries in the world

Nov 04, 2011 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon 14

In which country in the year 2011, with all the international laws on human rights that nations have signed up, a remand prisoner (please note not a convicted felon) cries out in the middle of the...

Dem boys seh…Ohh Pee beware, the bun lady is here

Nov 04, 2011 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Dem boys seh…Ohh Pee beware, the bun lady is here

A lady and a man bun two children because somebody ketch dem doing wotlessness. If was dolly house, one was playing de mommy. Well dem boys seh that while de man running, de woman got to get release....

Development Models

Nov 04, 2011 KNews Editorial Comments Off on Development Models

There is a lot of talk of “development” by the parties on the hustings. What is the background to this holy grail we are looking for? Development practice is not new. Ironically, it dates back to...

TWO PLACES UP

Nov 04, 2011 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on TWO PLACES UP

Guyana has moved two places up the human development index and no doubt the government is hoping that with continued growth in the economy, and the major projects that they have lined up that...

Misinformation will abound

Nov 04, 2011 KNews Letters Comments Off on Misinformation will abound

Dear Editor, As we draw closer to Election Day the PPP/C will increase its fear mongering. We will be told that the military, under any government but theirs, will arm bandits to attack us. We...

Sex for driver’s licence

Nov 04, 2011 KNews Letters Comments Off on Sex for driver’s licence

Dear Editor It is with a sense of utter disgust that I am writing this letter with the sole purpose of drawing your attention to the endless harassment that the citizens of Essequibo,...

Nagamootoo’s quest for power was rooted in popular support within the PPP

Nov 04, 2011 KNews Letters Comments Off on Nagamootoo’s quest for power was rooted in popular support within the PPP

Dear Editor, Janet Jagan made a terrible mistake when she selected Bharrat Jagdeo ahead of Moses Nagamootoo for President. It was an autocratic decision from a woman familiar with autocracy....

Release the power of youth

Nov 04, 2011 KNews Letters Comments Off on Release the power of youth

Dear Editor, Which of the three main contesting parties, PPP/C, APNU and AFC in the upcoming National and Regional elections has the bulk of support is a matter of speculation in these days of...

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National Table Tennis duo Shemar Britton, Chelsea Edghill to represent Guyana at prestigious Panam Table Tennis Cup

Mashramani must break from the shackles of imitation

Peeping Tom… Kaieteur News- Mashramani, heralded as Guyana’s grand national celebration, is often presented as a... more