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Top jockeys and stables rounding out preparations for Port Mourant horserace meet

Dec 06, 2011 KNews Sports Comments Off on Top jockeys and stables rounding out preparations for Port Mourant horserace meet

Over 75 horses entered Most of the top Jockeys in the country will be on show for the Port Mourant Turf Club Annual one day Pre Christmas Horses race meet set for this Sunday...

Candlelight protesters demonstrate outside GECOM chairman’s home

Dec 06, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Candlelight protesters demonstrate outside GECOM chairman’s home

Holding candles and singing hymns and Christmas songs, dozens of protesters held a noisy but peaceful vigil outside of the Durbana Square, Lamaha Gardens home of Elections Commission...

Family of slain taxi-driver questions delay in release of cell phone records

Dec 06, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Family of slain taxi-driver questions delay in release of cell phone records

……requests assistance from new administration Stanley Ramsammy, the foster brother of murdered New Amsterdam taxi driver, Trevor Kissoon, has said that the family is not anywhere...

Sophia man critical after falling from three-storey scaffold

Dec 06, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Sophia man critical after falling from three-storey scaffold

Doctors are battling desperately to save the life of a 24-year-old man who fell several feet to the ground from a scaffold yesterday afternoon. The man, Winston Martin, is in the...

GTUC implores diplomatic community to ensure freedoms and rights

Dec 06, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on GTUC implores diplomatic community to ensure freedoms and rights

The Guyana Trade Union Congress has issued a call to the diplomatic community to work with the people to ensure the freedoms and rights that they embrace and enjoy in their respective...

Guyana has National school of music

Dec 06, 2011 KNews News 3

Intended to be a bedrock of music development and an important component of the nation’s overall traditions, the Ministry of Culture, Youth and Sport recently launched the long...

Rainfall threatens Linden to Lethem Road again

Dec 06, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Rainfall threatens Linden to Lethem Road again

– Contractors pursue continuous maintenance Repair works along certain sections of the Linden to Lethem Road are being threatened by heavy rainfall in the hinterland...

Voters deserve better from GECOM – says social group

Dec 06, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Voters deserve better from GECOM – says social group

In sharp contrast with pre-election preparations, the Guyana Elections Commission’s woeful performance in counting less than half-a-million votes has drawn severe criticism from all...

Fake kidnapping put neighbours against each other

Dec 06, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Fake kidnapping put neighbours against each other

While police have maintained that they are continuing to investigate the “fake” kidnapping staged by a 21-year-old woman, some Essequibians, who have been affected by the...

M&CC staff to receive salaries by mid-December

Dec 06, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on M&CC staff to receive salaries by mid-December

Staff of the Mayor and City Council (M&CC) could breathe a sigh of relief as they are expected to be paid their salaries in time for the holidays. Throughout the year, the cash-strapped...

New Agriculture Minister to focus on GuySuCo

Dec 06, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on New Agriculture Minister to focus on GuySuCo

Moments after he was sworn in as the new Minister of Agriculture at State House, yesterday, Dr. Leslie Ramsammy has promised to place greater focus on the Guyana Sugar...

United Associates takes responsibility for paying security guards

Dec 06, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on United Associates takes responsibility for paying security guards

The security guards stationed at the Kuru Kururu Extension Centre have now been given something to smile about. They received outstanding payments, yesterday. Mr. Austil Ogle, General...

Investment in health yielding results – Health Ministry

Dec 06, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Investment in health yielding results – Health Ministry

The ageing of the world’s population, particularly developing countries, is a clear indicator of improving health. This notion has been asserted by the World Health...

Despite blood shortage Health Ministry targets 10,000 units

Dec 06, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Despite blood shortage Health Ministry targets 10,000 units

Although the Health Ministry’s National Blood Bank experienced some challenges in providing blood to hospitals throughout the year, Guyana is expected to achieve its target of...

Two remanded for Garden of Eden $1.5M robbery

Dec 06, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Two remanded for Garden of Eden $1.5M robbery

Two ‘friends’ were yesterday remanded to prison by Providence Magistrate Leslie Sobers on a charge of robbery under arms. The two men, Johnny Bailey, 20, and Lester King, 25,...

Teenaged Kokerite murder accused makes court appearance

Dec 06, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Teenaged Kokerite murder accused makes court appearance

Eighteen-year-old Morris Fredricks appeared at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court yesterday charged for the offence of murder. The youngster who hailed from the Henrietta Community, Anna...

Truck driver breaks down in tears after placed on $50,000 bail

Dec 06, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Truck driver breaks down in tears after placed on $50,000 bail

Colin Gramble broke down in tears yesterday after he was posted bail in the sum of $50,000 for the offence of simple larceny. The 55-year old of Lot 7 Cummings Lodge, East Coast...

Food vendor and customer go head to head over unpaid bill

Dec 06, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Food vendor and customer go head to head over unpaid bill

After crediting food worth $10,000 and asked to close the bill, Wayne Williams a 48-year-old security guard of Lot 81 Main Road Cummings Lodge reportedly punched the cook in the...

Lindener jailed for gun and ammo possession

Dec 06, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Lindener jailed for gun and ammo possession

… to answer 12 robbery under arms charges Kellon Mc Leod, a 21-year-old of Victory Valley, Wismar, Linden was yesterday remanded to jail. He had earlier pleaded guilty to a...

20 year old jailed after four-month stealing spree

Dec 06, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on 20 year old jailed after four-month stealing spree

A 20-year-old labourer continuously apologized to a handful of persons identified as victims of an August to November stealing spree. He faced eight different charges inclusive of...

Police nab suspect in Sussex Street shooting

Dec 06, 2011 KNews News Comments Off on Police nab suspect in Sussex Street shooting

Police have detained a 37-year-old deportee in connection with the attempted murder of a Sussex Street resident, three months ago. An official said that Jomo Odinga Mc Donald, also know as...

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